[78-L] Patsy Montana's "Million Seller"

[Peter Schow]

Tony Russell's perspective:

   "One of the most frequently cited statistics in country music
    history is that Patsy Montana was the first female singer to
    make a record that sold a million.  The record was "I Wanna
    Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart," and seventy years later it is as
    much a part of musical mythology of the Old West as Gene
    Autrey's "Back in the Saddle Again" or the Sons of the Pioneers'
    "Tumbling Tumbleweeds."  In fact there is no hard evidence that
    it did reach the magic total, and the scrupulous historian
    should probably conclude that it did not.  Let's just say
    that "Sweetheart" was a very big hit and leave it at that."

--
Country Music Originals:  The Legends and the Lost by Tony Russell
(2007).