En route , and unbeknownst to the couple , Loretta 's first single , " I 'm a Honky Tonk Girl , " hits the charts based on radio and jukebox plays , and earns her a spot on the Grand Ole Opry . In the summer of 1961 , after 17 straight weekly performances on the Opry , she is invited to sing at Ernest Tubb Record Shop 's Midnite Jamboree after her performance that night . Country superstar Patsy Cline , one of Loretta 's idols , who had recently been hospitalized from a near-fatal car wreck , inspires Loretta to dedicate Patsy 's newest hit " I Fall to Pieces " to the singer herself as a musical get-well card . Cline listens to the broadcast that night from her hospital room and sends her husband Charlie Dick to Ernest Tubb Record Shop to fetch Loretta so the two can meet . A close friendship with Cline follows , which abruptly was ended by Cline 's death in a plane crash on March 5 , 1963
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