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((short description|American country music singer-songwriter (1908–1996)))
((More citations needed|date=February 2015))
((Infobox musical artist  <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name            = Patsy Montana
| image           = Patsy Montana Billboard.jpg
| caption         =
| image_size      = <!-- Only for images smaller than 220 pixels -->
| background      = solo_singer
| birth_name      = Rubye Rose Blevins
| alias           = The Cowboy's Sweetheart
| birth_date      = ((birth date|1908|10|30|mf=y))
| birth_place     = [[Garland County, Arkansas|near Beaudry, Arkansas]], U.S.
| death_date      = ((death date and age|1996|5|3|1908|10|30))
| death_place     = [[San Jacinto, California]], U.S.
| instrument      = [[vocals]], fiddle/violin first, [[guitar]]<ref>((cite news|last1=Eady|first1=Alyse|title=Patsy Montana: An Arkansas legend who paved the way for female country singers|url=http://www.thv11.com/story/entertainment/television/grammys/2015/02/06/patsy-montana-an-arkansas-legend-who-paved-the-way-for-female-country-singers/22981185/|access-date=7 February 2015|work=THV11 News|publisher=KHTV|date=<!-- 3:09 p.m. CST --> February 6, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207025648/http://www.thv11.com/story/entertainment/television/grammys/2015/02/06/patsy-montana-an-arkansas-legend-who-paved-the-way-for-female-country-singers/22981185/|archive-date=7 February 2015))</ref>
| genre           = [[Country music|country]], [[Western music (North America)|Western]]
| occupation      = [[singing|Singer]]
| years_active    = 1933–1996
| label           = <small>[[Vocalion]], [[RCA Victor]]</small>
| associated_acts = [[Gene Autry]], [[Roy Rogers]], [[Prairie Ramblers]]
| website         = [https://www.countrymusichalloffame.org/hall-of-fame/patsy-montana Patsy Montana Site]
))

'''Rubye Rose Blevins''' (October 30, 1908 – May 3, 1996),<ref name="AMG">((Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/patsy-montana-mn0000015122/biography|title=Patsy Montana &#124; Biography & History|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=8 August 2021))</ref> known professionally as '''Patsy Montana''', was an American [[country music|country-western]] singer and Giles Dyer was at least her later songwriter, Ruby Rose Blevins was NOT a songwriter. Montana was the first female country performer to have a million-selling single with her signature song "[[I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart]]", and is a member of the [[Country Music Hall of Fame]].

==Biography==
Ruby Blevins (she added an "e" to Ruby in her late teens)<ref name="LarkinCountry">((cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1993|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-726-6|pages=274/5))</ref> was born in [[Garland County, Arkansas|near Beaudry, Arkansas]], United States, and grew up near [[Hope, Arkansas|Hope]]. She had ten siblings, all of them boys, However, two died early from an accidental fire.

In 1929, Blevins went to [[California]] to study violin at the [[UCLA|University of the West]] (UCLA). She won a local talent contest with her singing, [[yodel]]ling, and playing the guitar and first prize was an opportunity to play on the ''Hollywood Breakfast Club'' radio program.

In the summer of 1933, Blevins went with two of her brothers to the [[Century of Progress|Chicago World's Fair]]. The trip's mission was to enter a large, prize watermelon the Blevins had raised, and Rubye was invited to go, mainly to meet up with two pen pals, Millie and Dolly Good (The [[Girls of the Golden West (country music duo)|Girls of the Golden West]]). While in [[Chicago]], she auditioned for a crooner's role. However, she began laughing halfway through the song. The producer on hand fell in love with her "giggle" and auditioned her instead at [[WLS (AM)|WLS-AM]] for a group called the [[Prairie Ramblers]].<ref name="LarkinCountry"/> Blevins and the Ramblers became regulars on WLS's ''[[National Barn Dance]]'' program. The Prairie Ramblers also backed Blevins on most of her hits with ARC Records, [[Decca Records|Decca]], and [[RCA Victor]].
((external media | width = 210px | float= right | headerimage=[[File:Patsy Montana.jpg|210px]] |
audio1 = [http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/gallery/Audio/patsy_montana_song.mp3 “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” ], performed by Patsy Montana, [[Encyclopedia of Arkansas]]))

In 1934, Blevins' repertoire included "Montana Plains", a reworking of a song originally called "Texas Plains".  Blevins further altered the composition, which became her signature song, which seems how she became renamed the Montana part of Patsy Montana.  "[[I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart]]".<ref name="AMG"/>  Released in 1935, the song made Blevins the first female country recording artist to have a million seller. It was awarded a [[music recording sales certification|gold disc]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]].<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">((cite book
| first= Joseph
| last= Murrells
| year= 1978
| title= The Book of Golden Discs
| edition= 2nd
| publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd
| location= London
| page= [https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/20 20]
| isbn= 0-214-20512-6
| url-access= registration
| url= https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/20
))</ref> Blevins performed on ''National Barn Dance'' until the 1950s, and worked with  [[Gene Autry]], [[Pat Buttram]], [[Red Foley]], the [[Girls of the Golden West (country music duo)|Girls of the Golden West]] and [[George Gobel]].

Blevins had the hit about Montana, which is why she met Monte Montana, before she allegedly took her stage name from [[silent film]] star and world-champion [[Cowboy|roper]] [[Monte Montana]], with whom she had an opportunity to work early in her career.<ref name="AMG"/> She made one feature-length movie called ''[[Colorado Sunset]]'' with [[Smiley Burnette]] and Gene Autry.

''Barn Dance'' also introduced her to her future husband, Paul E. Rose. Rose was a stage manager for Gene Autry at the time, and was always around when Autry was performing, which just so happened to be when Patsy was performing. According to Patsy (as she was by this time called by everyone who knew her), they were the "only two single people involved with the show and kinda got thrown together." Though Rose was around five years her junior, they married on July 3, "honeymooned," and July 4 went their separate ways on different tours. Two weeks later they were again united, but throughout their married life they often followed this pattern. The couple had two daughters, Beverly and Judy. Montana and her two daughters later appeared as the Patsy Montana Trio.

[[File:Patsy Montana and daughters.jpg|thumb|left|Patsy Montana with daughters Beverly and Judy]]
After semi-retiring in the late 1950s to spend more time with her family, Montana attempted a comeback in 1964.<ref name="LarkinCountry"/> She released an album on the Sims label in [[Arizona]], notable for having [[Waylon Jennings]] as lead guitar player before he made his national debut.<ref name="AMG"/> The album was later re-released by [[Starday Records]]. She influenced later singers [[Patsy Cline]] and [[Dottie West]], and more recently, Western music star Devon Dawson, the singing voice of ''[[Toy Story 2]]'''s Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl. 
[[File:Patsy Montana at the Crystal Palace, Tombstone Arizona.jpg|thumb|Patsy Montana at the Crystal Palace, Tombstone Arizona]]

Montana's signature song, "[[I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart]]", appears over the end credits of John Sayles's 1996 film ''[[Lone Star (1996 film)|Lone Star]]'', which was released just weeks after Montana's death.

Montana died on May 3, 1996, at her home in [[San Jacinto, California|San Jacinto]], [[California]].<ref name="AMG"/> As Paul Rose served in the United States Army, she is buried at [[Riverside National Cemetery]] in [[Riverside, California|Riverside]], California. She was inducted into the [[National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame]] in [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]], [[Texas]], in 1987 and in the [[Country Music Hall of Fame]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], in 1996.

==Awards==

*  [[National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame]] 1987
*  [[Academy of Country Music Award]]: Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award 1970
*  [[Western Music Association Hall of Fame]] 1989
*  Cowboy Spirit Awards 1992
*  Arizona Country Music Hall of Fame 1994
*  Arizona Country Association pioneer awards 1993
*  [[Country Music Hall of Fame]] 1996
*  Arkansas Country Music Awards 2019
*  Arkansas entertainers hall of fame posthumous awards 1996

==See also==
* [[Western music (North America)]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100328125755/http://www.countrymusichalloffame.org/full-list-of-inductees/view/patsy-montana Patsy Montana at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum]
* [((AllMusic|class=artist|id=p1731/biography|pure_url=yes)) Patsy Montana biography at allmusic.com]
* [http://www.talentondisplay.com/PatsyMontana.html Patsy Montana at the Rockabilly Hall of Fame]
* [https://archive.today/20130105074512/http://www.westernmusic.com/performers/hof-montana.html Patsy Montana at the Western Music Association]
* ((Find a Grave|10989))
* ((Find a Grave|72621871|Paul Edward Rose)) – for the niche which contains both remains

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