Post by zimmerman on Jan 3, 2013 17:40:36 GMT -8
Last Tuesday we lost one of the giants of 1950's traditional pop music, the Singing Rage, Miss Patti Page, born Clara Ann Fowler in Oklahoma. Her career took off in a major way when she signed with Mercury Records in the late-1940's. With Music Director Jack Rael acting as her manager, it was slow going with her first few hits, including "Confess" and "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming", her first million seller, before she broke big with "Tennessee Waltz." Several consecutive hits followed: "Cross Over the Bridge", "I Went To Your Wedding", "Mocking Bird Hill", "Change Partners", and these two classics:
"Allegheny Moon" #2 in 1956:
"Old Cape Cod" #3 in 1957:
It was also during this time that she hosted her own hour-long TV series on ABC television, and new music director Vic Scheon steered her more into Sinatra Big Band territory, two of the albums that prove that point is "Let's Get Away From It All" and "I'll Remember April."
In the early-1960's, Patti shifted her base of recording activties to Nashville, and under the direction of Shelby Singleton, she began scoring pop-country crossover hits like "Moms and Dad's Waltz","One of Us (Will Weep Tonight)" and "Broken Heart and A Pillow Filled With Tears."Her last Mercury chart entry, a cover of Fats Domino's "Im Walkin'" barely scraped the Bubbling Under chart in Billboard.
It was at this time that Patti left Mercury because she thought it was too singles oriented, and moved over to Columbia, wherein she made albums like Say Wonderful Things, Today My Way, Gentle On My Mind, Honey Come Back, Love After Midnight, and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, the title track from a Bette Davis movie that gave Patti her last top ten hit in 1965. A few years later in 1968, she recorded an amazing song, "Music and Memories."
by the early-1970's, Patti returned to Country music and Mercury Records, wherin she scored hits in that genre like "Give Him Love", "I'd Rather Be Sorry", and "Make Me Your Kind of Woman"
By the early-1980's, Patti became a fixture on the oldies circuit, sang and re-recorded her big hits for Plantation Records, and in 1998, scored her first Grammy for a live album she recorded at Carnegie Hall. She made appearances on PBS pledge specials and was still touring until just a few months ago when she passed away last Tuesday at 85, five weeks before she was to receive a lifetime Achievement Award at this years Grammy Awards that she was planning to attend.
RIP Patti Page, one of my all-time favorite female vocalists
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"Allegheny Moon" #2 in 1956:
"Old Cape Cod" #3 in 1957:
It was also during this time that she hosted her own hour-long TV series on ABC television, and new music director Vic Scheon steered her more into Sinatra Big Band territory, two of the albums that prove that point is "Let's Get Away From It All" and "I'll Remember April."
In the early-1960's, Patti shifted her base of recording activties to Nashville, and under the direction of Shelby Singleton, she began scoring pop-country crossover hits like "Moms and Dad's Waltz","One of Us (Will Weep Tonight)" and "Broken Heart and A Pillow Filled With Tears."Her last Mercury chart entry, a cover of Fats Domino's "Im Walkin'" barely scraped the Bubbling Under chart in Billboard.
It was at this time that Patti left Mercury because she thought it was too singles oriented, and moved over to Columbia, wherein she made albums like Say Wonderful Things, Today My Way, Gentle On My Mind, Honey Come Back, Love After Midnight, and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, the title track from a Bette Davis movie that gave Patti her last top ten hit in 1965. A few years later in 1968, she recorded an amazing song, "Music and Memories."
by the early-1970's, Patti returned to Country music and Mercury Records, wherin she scored hits in that genre like "Give Him Love", "I'd Rather Be Sorry", and "Make Me Your Kind of Woman"
By the early-1980's, Patti became a fixture on the oldies circuit, sang and re-recorded her big hits for Plantation Records, and in 1998, scored her first Grammy for a live album she recorded at Carnegie Hall. She made appearances on PBS pledge specials and was still touring until just a few months ago when she passed away last Tuesday at 85, five weeks before she was to receive a lifetime Achievement Award at this years Grammy Awards that she was planning to attend.
RIP Patti Page, one of my all-time favorite female vocalists
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