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Dick died in his sleep on Sunday, the family said in a
posting on the official Patsy Cline Facebook page, calling it a
"sad day for those of you who have been so supportive of Mom's
legacy over the years."
Cline was killed in a March 5, 1963, plane crash and Dick
devoted most of his time to keeping alive the memory of the
singer who gave a pop edge to country music with songs like
“Crazy” and “Sweet Dreams.”
Dick helped keep Cline’s profile high by attending events where
she was honored and also worked hard to protect her image and
promote her music.
He was instrumental in reissues of his wife's music as well as
in the posthumous release of some previously undiscovered
recordings.
"It was ‘63 that she was killed in that crash, and she was a
huge star at the time. But she’s still popular worldwide now,"
Country Music Hall of Fame singer and guitarist Mac Wiseman, 90,
a close friend of the couple said on Monday of Dick's work.
"Sweet Dreams" became the title of a 1985 film that in part
focused in part on a turbulent relationship between Cline and
her husband. Dick maintained it was a good movie but that it was
pretty much fiction.
"He and Patsy didn’t always agree on everything, but she loved
him. And vice versa," said Wiseman, who had weekly phone
conversations with Dick and met with him frequently.
After Cline's death, Dick kept busy in the Nashville music
industry, working with the late singer Red Sovine and other acts
at Starday Records, for which he was national promotions man.
Cline and Dick had two children and he had a son after he
remarried.
(Editing By Jill Serjeant and Alan Crosby)
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