Shortly after Rubye Rose Blevins, later known as Patsy Montana, connected with the Prairie Ramblers in the early 1930s—the band that would back her on most of her hit recordings, and became regulars with her on the National Barn Dance show on WLS-AM in Chicago—she needed a stage name. Half of her new moniker would come […]
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