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Patti Page
Clara Ann Fowler, better known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer. Primarily known for pop and country music, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s, selling over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She was often introduced as "the Singin' Rage, Miss Patti Page". New York WNEW disc-jockey William B. Williams introduce…
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entertainment · American country-pop singer (1927–2013) · singer · singer-songwriter · recording artist · musician · also Patti Page, Clara Ann Fowler, Page
Born 8 November 1927 · Died 1 January 2013 · Q175759
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2026· 1 entry
2020· 1 entry
Released album “This Can’t Be Love”.
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2013).
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At the Seacrest Village Retirement Community in Encinitas, California, at the age of 85; she had been suffering from heart and lung disease
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Died 2013-01-01.
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Sings Country and Western Golden Hits”.
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2011· 1 entry
Former baseball player and front-office executive Eddie Robinson claims he dated Page before her second marriage
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2005· 1 entry
Performed a series of engagements at a theatre in Branson, Missouri, starting on September 12
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2004· 1 entry
Appeared on the PBS Special Magic Moments: The Best of 50s Pop and sang "Tennessee Waltz" and "Old Cape Cod"
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “Child of Mine”.
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Patti Page”.
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Released album “Today My Way / Honey Come Back”.
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “Sweet Sounds of Christmas”.
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2001· 1 entry
Bob Baines, the mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, declared the day "Patti Page Day" in the town
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “Cocktail Hour”.
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Released the album Brand New Tennessee Waltz
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Released album “Brand New Tennessee Waltz”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte / Gentle On My Mind”.
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Vic Schoen reunited with Page to record a CD for a Chinese label
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1998· 3 entries
A sample of Patti Page's recording of "Old Cape Cod" formed the basis of Groove Armada's UK hit "At the River"
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Released album “Patti Page Sings America's Favorite Hymns”.
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The album Live at Carnegie Hall: The 50th Anniversary Concert was released
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997).
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Patti Page was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame
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Released album “A Golden Celebration”.
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Released album “Golden Greats”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Her Greatest Hits and Finest Performances”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Songs”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Dreaming”.
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Released album “Christmas”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “A Touch of Country”.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “The Mercury Years, Volume 1”.
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Released album “The Mercury Years, Volume 2”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Patti Page's Greatest Hits”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “16 Most Requested Songs”.
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1988· 1 entry
Page appeared at the Ballroom in New York, marking the first time that she had performed there in nearly 20 years
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Queens of Country Music”.
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1986· 3 entries
Page and arranger Vic Schoen reunited for a stage show in Las Vegas
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Released album “The Uncollected Patti Page With Lou Stein’s Music”.
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Released album “Best Loved Favorites”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Special Thoughts”.
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1981· 2 entries
Titled "No Aces", followed by a series of minor country hits
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Released album “Aces”.
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1974· 1 entry
And 1975, she released singles for Avco Records, including "I May Not Be Lovin' You" and a cover of Hoyt Axton's "Less Than The Song", both of which were minor country hits
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1973· 2 entries
Page returned to Columbia Records' affiliate Epic Records
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Returned to working with her former record producer Shelby Singleton
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Jazz Vocal Custom 20”.
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1971· 3 entries
Released the country music album I'd Rather Be Sorry for Mercury records
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Released album “I’d Rather Be Sorry”.
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Released album “Green Green Grass of Home”.
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1970· 4 entries
Released album “Stand By Your Man”.
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Released album “Honey Come Back”.
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Left Columbia and came back to Mercury
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Released album “Jazz Vocal Standards”.
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1969· 2 entries
Released album “Patti Page’s Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Love Letters”.
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Gentle On My Mind”.
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Today My Way”.
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1966· 3 entries
Released album “Patti Page Sings America’s Favorite Hymns”.
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Released album “Patti Page de Luxe”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1965· 3 entries
Released album “Y’all Come”.
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Released album “Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte”.
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Released album “Christmas With Patti Page”.
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1964· 3 entries
Released album “Blue Dream Street”.
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Released album “The Nearness of You”.
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Released album “Love After Midnight”.
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1963· 3 entries
Released album “The Singing Rage Patti Page”.
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Released album “Golden Hits, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Say Wonderful Things”.
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1962· 2 entries
Released album “Patti Sings Golden Hits of the Boys”.
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Released album “Go On Home”.
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1961· 3 entries
Released album “Romance in Rhythm”.
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Her singles began to chart on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart
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Released album “Patti Page Sings Country and Western Golden Hits”.
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1960· 3 entries
Released album “Golden Hits”.
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Released album “Patti Page Sings and Stars in “Elmer Gantry””.
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Released album “Just a Closer Walk With Thee”.
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1959· 5 entries
Released album “Indiscretion”.
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Released album “I’ll Remember April”.
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Released album “On Camera…Patti Page…Favorites From TV”.
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Page recorded the title song from the musical The Sound of Music for Mercury Records on the same day that the musical opened on Broadway
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Released album “3 Little Words... Miss Patti Page”.
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1958· 4 entries
Released album “Let’s Get Away From It All”.
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Released album “The West Side”.
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Released album “The East Side / The West Side”.
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Released album “I’ve Heard That Song Before”.
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1957· 8 entries
Released album “Page 1: A Collection of Her Most Famous Songs”.
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Released album “The Waltz Queen”.
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Released album “Patti Sings 123”.
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Released album “Page 2: A Collection of Her Most Famous Songs”.
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Released album “Page 3: A Collection of Her Most Famous Songs”.
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Released album “This Is My Song”.
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Had major hits with "A Poor Man's Roses (or a Rich Man's Gold)" (recorded the same year by Patsy Cline) and the top-five hit "Old Cape Cod"
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Released album “The East Side”.
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1956· 7 entries
Released album “You Go to My Head”.
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Released album “In the Land of Hi-Fi”.
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Vic Schoen became Patti Page's musical director, producing her on a long string of hits that included "Mama from the Train", "Allegheny Moon", "Old Cape Cod", "Belonging to Someone", and "Left Right Out of Your Heart"
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Released album “Page 4: A Collection of Her Most Famous Songs”.
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Including the number-two "Allegheny Moon"
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Released album “Music for Two in Love”.
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Released album “Manhattan Tower”.
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1955· 5 entries
Released album “Romance on the Range”.
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Released album “Just Patti”.
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Page had one chart single: "Croce di Oro"
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Released album “…And I Thought About You”.
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Released album “The Voices of Patti Page”.
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1954· 4 entries
Released album “So Many Memories”.
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Released album “Song Souvenir”.
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Page had more chart hits, including "Cross Over the Bridge", which again overdubbed Page's vocals and peaked at number two
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Released album “Patti’s Songs”.
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1953· 2 entries
The novelty tune "(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window
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Released album “Patti Page Sings Songs for Romance”.
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1952· 2 entries
Released album “Tennessee Waltz”.
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Page had a third number-one hit with "I Went to Your Wedding", which spent two months at number one
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1951· 4 entries
Released album “The Immortal Music From Show Boat”.
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Starting with "Mister and Mississippi", which peaked at number eight; "And So to Sleep Again"; and "Detour", which had been recorded and made famous by Spade Cooley, Foy Willing, and Elton Britt
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Page covered "Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)", which had been a hit for Doris Day
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Released album “Folk Song Favorites”.
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1950· 4 entries
Page had her first million-selling single "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming", another song where she harmonized her vocals
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Released album “Patti Page”.
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Had her first million-selling single "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming", and eventually had 14 additional million-selling singles between 1950 and 1965
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Produced most of Page's music
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1947· 1 entry
And became their first successful female artist, starting with 1948's "Confess"
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1946· 2 entries
Jack Rael, a saxophone player and manager of the Jimmy Joy Band, came to Tulsa for a one-night stand
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By Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart, and was recorded in 1947 by Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys
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1927· 2 entries
In Claremore, Oklahoma (some sources give Muskogee, Oklahoma) into a large and poor family of 11 children (3 boys and 8 girls)
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Born 1927-11-08.
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