still a very popular genre...

this is the way i like to hear it.
"During the 1930s Patsy Montana drew crowds of over 100,000 before the term "Superstar" had been coined. The fans adored her, yet her per- sonal safety was never in question. Her self-penned "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" hit the Top Ten on Billboard's Pop Chart. Western music had no chart of its own, and the term "Country Music" had not yet been invented. The song sold over a million records before Gold Records were presented for such achievement. She was the first non-pop female artist to sell a million records, and she did it on the Pop Charts when it was quite rare for a female artist to even record solo.
No economic crisis, war or new genre of music ever stopped her career. She survived the Roaring '20s, the Great Depre~sion of the 1930s, the 1940s war years, rock and roll of the 1950s, folk music in the 1960s, and the nos- talgic 1970s, and she began to see a revival in her western music in the 1980s. During the 1990s Patsy Montana began to realize a new fame as a new generation of fans discovered her work-especially her famous song, "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart." Recorded by Suzy Bogguss, the Dixie Chicks and LeAnn Rimes, the song has sold over eight million records in less than a decade.
Even the youngest artists continue to find magic in the song, which may well be one of the most recorded songs of all time. This despite the fact that it is a gender specific song, which reduces by fifty percent the number of artists choosing to record it. In addition, those remaining who might select the song to record must be able to yodel."