Patti Page
Patti Page ( born November 8, 1927 in Claremore, Oklahoma; † January 1, 2013 in Encinitas, California; actually Clara Ann Fowler ) was an American country and pop singer, who in 1951 with the hit Tennessee Waltz their greatest success had. She is the most successful singer of the 1950s in the United States sold more than 100 million records.
Ann Fowler was born into a family with many children. She was born in Claremore, Oklahoma ( other sources give Muskogee ), grew up in Tulsa and sang in the church choir. With two sisters, she later appeared under the name of Fowler Sisters. Mid-1940s, she worked for the radio station KTUL. As the singer -sponsored by the Page Milk Company radio show, which was called Patti Page, left the station, Ann Fowler took over the role and the name that kept them from then on. The band leader Jack Rael she discovered the radio and became their manager. In 1947 she received a recording contract from Mercury Records. A year later she performed with jazz musicians Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Wardell Gray and Stan Hasselgård and had to Confess by George David Weiss and Bennie Benjamin their first Top 20 hit. Since they had to pay the production itself and could afford no background singers, several were superimposed by their eingesungene votes. This Patti Page was the first to introduce overdubbing into pop music.
Career
After further success, including the number -one hit All My Love, she succeeded in 1950 with Tennessee Waltz, the fourth million-seller. Pee Wee King had recently with the book written by him in collaboration with Redd Stewart song a country hit. Patti Page made the crossover into the pop market. Tennessee Waltz stayed 13 weeks at number one and became one of the biggest hits of the 1950s. A total of more than ten million records have been sold by the song.
In the following years she was often represented in the pop charts. With ( How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window she could place once again topped 1953. Other big hits were Go On with the Wedding ( 1956), Allegheny Moon (1956 ), Old Cape Cod (1957 ), Left Right out of Your Heart (1958), Go On Home (1952) and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (1965 ). In 1958 she had her own television show, Patti Page Show. In 1960, she appeared as an actress in the film Elmer Gantry in appearance.
From the late 1960s eased their rankings in the pop charts. They moved to country music, where she was able to record a few years mean hits. Your last chart success came in 1981 with No Aces. In 1997, Page occasion of its 50th anniversary in the music business a concert at New York's Carnegie Hall. For the CD Patti Page Live at Carnegie Hall - the 50th Anniversary Concert, she was awarded a Grammy.
Patti Page stepped up in 2012 with musical performances publicly. She died on New Year's Day 2013 in Encinitas at the age of 85 years. Shortly before her death, she was scheduled for a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which is conferred posthumously.
Discography
Patti Page released forty albums and more than a hundred singles.
Top Ten singles:
- I Do not Care If the Sun Do not Shine ( 1950)
- All My Love ( Bolero ) ( 1950)
- Tennessee Waltz ( 1950)
- Would I Love You ( Love You, Love You ) ( 1951)
- Mockin 'Bird Hill ( 1951)
- Mister and Mississippi ( 1951)
- Detour (1951 )
- And So to Sleep Again ( 1951)
- Come What May (1952 )
- Once in a While (1952 )
- I Went to Your Wedding ( 1952)
- You Belong to Me ( 1952)
- Why Do not You Believe Me (1952 )
- ( How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window (1953 )
- Butterflies ( 1953)
- Changing Partners ( 1953)
- Cross Over the Bridge (1954 )
- Steam Heat ( 1954)
- What a Dream (1954 )
- Let Me Go, Lover! (1954)
- Allegheny Moon (1956)
- Old Cape Cod (1957 )
- Left Right out of Your Heart (Hi Lee Hi Lo Hi Lup Up Up ) ( 1958)
- Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1965)
Albums ( selection):
- Christmas With Patti Page (1955 )
- Just a Closer Walk with Thee ( 1956)
- I'd Rather Be Sorry (1971 )