The Independent - London, May 23rd, 1996
Patsy Montana, "The Yodelling Cowgirl", was the first female singer in country-music history to cut a million-selling record.
Accompanied by the Prairie Ramblers, she entered ARC's Chicago studio on 16 August 1935 and, with the label's British-born talent scout "Uncle" Art Satherley at the helm, recorded her self-penned "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart". A superb showcase for her supple, fluid yodelling, it proved one of the biggest hillbilly hits of the Thirties.
Five years earlier, Rubye Blevins, as she was then still known, had arrived in Los Angeles with one of her 10 brothers, in the...
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