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Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), known by her professional name Patti Page, was an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and sold over 100 million records. Her nickname was "The Singin' Rage" (a phrase commonly followed by "Miss Patti Page"). Page signed with Mercury Records in 1947, and became their first successful female artist, starting with 1948's "Confess". In 1950, she had her first million-selling single "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming", and would eventually have 14 additional million-selling singles between 1950 and 1965. Page's signature song, "Tennessee Waltz", recorded in 1950, was one of the biggest-selling singles of the 20th century, and is also one of the nine official state songs of Tennessee. "Tennessee Waltz" spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard magazine's Best-Sellers List in 1950. Page had three additional No. 1 hit singles between 1950 and 1953, with "All My Love (Bolero)", "I Went to Your Wedding", and "(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window". Unlike most pop music singers, Page blended the styles of country music into many of her most popular songs. By doing this, many of Page's singles also made the Billboard Country Chart. Towards the 1970s, Page shifted her career towards country music, and she began charting on the country charts, up until 1982. Page is one of the few vocalists who have made the country charts in five separate decades. When rock and roll music became popular during the second half of the 1950s, traditional pop music was becoming less popular. Page was one of the few traditional pop music singers who was able to sustain her success, continuing to have major hits into the mid-1960s with "Old Cape Cod", "Allegheny Moon", "A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)", and "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte". In 1997, Patti Page was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. She will be posthumously honored with the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 2013.


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Album Review

Patti Page: Patti Page with Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra

Read "Patti Page with Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra" reviewed by Samuel Chell


The Classic Jazz Calendar 2010, with photographs by Chuck Stewart--a full-page devoted to each of 12 jazz greats--includes a striking photo of Patti Page, representing the month of May. While her inclusion may strike many as unexceptional, for jazz followers who remember the best-selling female singer of the 1950s, her name would seem a problematic fit. Yet she is the only vocalist and female among the chosen dozen (which includes Wayne Shorter, James Moody, Jimmy Cobb, Red Garland, and Grant ...

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Recording

Patti Page: Land of Hi-Fi

Patti Page: Land of Hi-Fi

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

On Monday and Tuesday, May 7 and 8, 1956, singer Patti Page was in Holloywood recording a jazz-pop album arranged by Pete Rugolo with a crowd of the finest jazz studio musicians in town. Produced by Bob Shad for EmArcy, Mercury Records' jazz subsidiary, Patti Page in the Land of Hi-Fi was most likely recorded in the ground-floor studios at the newly opened cylindrical Capitol Tower. Signed by Mercury in 1947, Page had 42 hits between 1948 and '54. In ...

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Patti Page and Nat Cole

Patti Page and Nat Cole

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

On October 29, 1958, singer Patti Page hosted Nat King Cole and Gene Krupa as well as Illinois Jacquet, her musical director Rocky Cole and other musicians on ABC's The Patti Page Oldsmobile Show, which featured the swinging Vic Schoen Orchestra. Shows like this take me back to when I was a very little kid, being parked at my grandmother's house in the Bronx as my parents went out on a Saturday night. My grandmother hadn't a clue what they ...

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Isabel Rose Compared to Ann-Margret, Patti Page on 'Swingin' from the Hip'

Isabel Rose Compared to Ann-Margret, Patti Page on 'Swingin' from the Hip'

Source: Seth Cohen PR

“As overachievers go, Isabel Rose makes Oprah look like a slacker"--JAZZTIMES “She goes stiletto-to-stiletto with Ann-Margret" “Her playlist is remarkably wide-ranging, extending from early Gershwin through Tin Pan Alley, postwar Broadway and '60s pop to post-disco power rock" Notable Jazz and Broadway Outlets Show Early Support for Upcoming Album Isabel Rose's jazz/pop/swing/Cabaret hybrid 'Swingin' From the Hip' won't be released until this Fall, but the upbeat album has already generated notable support in recent weeks, via multiple appearances on radio ...

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Music Industry

Cape Cod Honors Singer Patti Page with Her Own Street

Cape Cod Honors Singer Patti Page with Her Own Street

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts

Jazz and popular singer Patti Page, whose rendition of the song, Old Cape Cod, was a hit in 1957, now has a street officially named after her on Cape Cod.The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Barnstable unveiled the Patti Page Way sign at Shoot Flying Hill in Centerville, Cape Cod on February 26, which was also officially declared Patti Page Day on the Cape.Ms. Page attended the ceremony and was ...

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Street on Cape Cod Renamed for Patti Page

Street on Cape Cod Renamed for Patti Page

Source: All About Jazz

Patti Page Way named on 'Old Cape Cod'

Thanks to the lyrics of her 1950s hit song, Patti Page knew about Cape Cods winding roads before she even visited the area. In a ceremony today, one of those roads was named after her. Naturally, I was honored, said Page, 82, by phone. I was really thrilled that they were going to do this for me here. Page recorded Old Cape Cod in 1957. Although she had not yet been to ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Patti Page with Pete...

Fresh Sound Records
2010

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In The Land Of Hi-Fi

Canyon International
1999

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The Uncollected Patti...

Canyon International
1986

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The East Side The...

Canyon International
1984

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Golden Hits

Canyon International
1981

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Gentle On My Mind

Canyon International
1968

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