Patti Page - Let Me Go Lover.mpg
BackPatti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler on November 8, 1927 in Claremore (some sources give Muskogee), Oklahoma) is one of the best-known female singers in traditional pop music. She is the best-selling female artist of the 1950s and was among the first to cross over from country music to pop. Her recording career spans the years 1947 to 1981. Page continues to perform live and was billed as "The Singing Rage, Miss Patti Page". Fowler became a featured singer on a 15-minute radio program on radio station KTUL, Tulsa, Oklahoma at age 18. The program was sponsored by the Page Milk Company; thus, young Clara Ann Fowler became Patti Page on the air. In 1946, Jack Rael, a saxophone player and band manager, came to Tulsa to do a one-nighter. He turned on the radio, and heard the musical program with the 18-year-old featured vocalist. He liked what he heard, and asked her to join the Jimmy Joy band, which Rael managed. Eventually, both left the band, and Rael became Patti's personal manager and leader of the backup orchestra for many of her recordings. In 1947, Page recorded a song called "Confess" which had a portion requiring one singer to answer another. (The other hit version involved a duet of Doris Day and Buddy Clark.) Because of a low budget, a second singer could not be hired, so Jack Rael suggested that Page sing the second part as well. The novelty of her doing two voices on one record possibly contributed to the song becoming a Top 20 hit for her. At the time, most record companies had a director of Artists and Repertory (the "A&R man"), who tightly controlled all the choices of artist-song assignments, and Mercury Records' A&R man was Mitch Miller, who became famous later on as the A&R man who brought Columbia Records into a dominant position in pop music in the early 1950s). After recording "Confess", Page (or Rael, or both) liked the multiple-voice idea so much, that she asked to do an entire song as a quartet. Miller was skeptical, until Page recorded a four-bar song demo in four different voices, and played the sample for Miller. Reluctantly, Miller permitted it, and the song, "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" became another big hit for Page, her first to sell a million. Although both Mary Ford and Jane Turzy became known for it, Page was actually the first singer to record multiple tracks on the same song ("Confess")[6]. On some of the records, she was billed as "Vocal by Patti Page, Patti Page, and Patti Page," and in at least one case ("With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming"), she was billed on the single as "The Patti Page Quartet." Page's first number one hit was "All My Love". It was based on Maurice Ravel's "Bolero". "All My Love" was #1 for five weeks in 1950. Her biggest hit was "The Tennessee Waltz", which was also released in 1950. "The Tennessee Waltz" was #1 for thirteen weeks in 1950 and eventually sold more than 6,000,000 copies, making it the biggest charted Billboard hit of the entire decade. Page had a huge hit in 1953, "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?", a novelty song written by Bob Merrill, adapted from a well-known Victorian music hall song. Page recorded it in 1952, and it made #1 on the Billboard and Cash Box charts in 1953. To say that it was a major hit would be a tremendous understatement; it was almost constantly on the radio at that time. Perhaps Page's best and certainly her most melodic release was the wistful "Old Cape Cod," which reached #3 on the Billboard charts in the heart of rock and roll's first great year, 1957. In 1963, Page left Mercury Records for Columbia Records. While at Columbia, she scored her most recent Top 10 pop hit in 1965 with the title song from the Bette Davis film Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Page returned to Mercury in 1971, but went back to the Columbia again in 1973, recording for their Epic Records subsidiary.
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