Patti Page
The best-selling female singer during the 1950s, Patti Page in many ways defined the decade of earnest, novelty-ridden adult pop with throwaway hits like "The Doggie in the Window" and "I Went to Your Wedding." By singing a wide range of popular material and her own share of novelty fluff, she proved easily susceptible to the fall of classic adult pop but remained a chart force into the mid-'60s.
Born Clara Ann Fowler in Claremore, Oklahoma, she began singing professionally at a radio station in Tulsa and took weekend gigs on the side. (After being billed as Patti Page for a program sponsored by Page Milk, she decided to take the name even after leaving.) Page toured the country with a band led by Jimmy Joy and ended up in Chicago by 1947, where she sang in a small-group outing by Benny Goodman and gained a recording contract with Mercury. Her first hit, "Confess," came that same year and made her the first pop artist to overdub harmony vocals onto her own lead. After a few more successes, Page gained her first million-seller in 1950 for "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming," which cashed in on the novelty effect of overdubbing (the added touch came with listing it as "the Patti Page Quartet"). Also in 1950, "All My Love" became her first number one hit and spent several weeks at the top. That same year produced the biggest hit of her career, "The Tennessee Waltz." Notched at number one for months, it eventually became one of the best-selling singles of all time and prompted no less than six Top 40 covers during the following year.
During 1952 and 1953, Page scored two more huge hits with "I Went to Your Wedding" and "The Doggie in the Window," both of which spent more than two months at number one. She gained her own television program, The Patti Page Show, in 1955 and moved into full-lengths with In the Land of Hi Fi and Manhattan Tower. Page also proved more resilient to the rise of rock & roll than most of her contemporaries, hitting big in 1956 with "Allegheny Moon" and "Old Cape Cod" the next year. Indeed, she kept reaching the charts (if only in moderate placings) throughout the '60s, paced by the Top Ten theme to the film Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte in 1965. Though she stopped recording for the most part in 1968, she continued performing into the '90s. Patti Page died on January 1, 2013, at a retirement community in Encinitas, California, at the age of 85.
© John Bush /TiVo
Similar artists
-
You Belong To Me
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Dazzling Dames on 7 Nov 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
All Time Christmas Greats + Bonus Tracks
Christmas Music - Released by Play Digital on 5 Nov 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Patti Page - The Greatest Hits Collection
Pop - Released by Music Manager on 17 Apr 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Car Radio Sounds
Pop - Released by The Most Wanted Hits_2020 on 10 Sep 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Patti Page At Her Best
International Pop - Released by StreamWorld Entertainment Classics on 19 Oct 1982
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
-
Love Time Edition
Pop - Released by First to the End again on 26 Feb 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
On Santa's List
Christmas Music - Released by Reminisce Music on 13 Dec 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Remastered Hits Vol. 3 (All Tracks Remastered)
Pop - Released by jjjedizionimusicali on 30 Jul 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Old Fishers Fantasies
Jazz - Released by the new lokk music on 13 Nov 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vocal Masters: The Glory Of Love
Pop - Released by Carinco AG on 29 Dec 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sings Country and Western Golden Hits
Jazz - Released by Sepia on 10 Sep 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Don't Forget Your Mother
Jazz - Released by Your Mother on 18 Apr 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Jeopardy
Country - Released by Beach View Records on 21 Jul 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
-
Christmas With: Patty Page
Christmas Music - Released by Wind & Broomfield Records on 12 Jun 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
-
The Beautiful Voice of Patti Page, Vol. 2
Pop - Released by Shami Media Group 3 on 20 Jan 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Christmas with Patti Page
Christmas Music - Released by Old Stars on 1 Jan 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Tennessee Waltz
Country - Released by Immortal Legends Records on 21 Nov 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Jazz - Released by Black Sheep Music on 25 Apr 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo