Friday, January 4, 2013

Patti Page: The Oklahoma Thrush With 'The Tennessee Waltz'

Singer Patti Page, who died on New Year's Day, was a regular performer at John Ascuaga's Nugget over the years, and casino owner John Ascuaga remembered her fondly. “She sold out every show she played here,” Ascuaga said. “There was such aPatti Page, the genre-crossing songstress who became the biggest-selling female artist of the 1950s thanks to a string of now-classic songs, passed away on January 1. She was 85 years old.Unforgettable songs like "Tennessee Waltz" and "(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window" made Patti Page the best-selling female singer of the 1950s and a star who would spend much of the rest of her life traveling the world. When unspecified healthPage, best known for her huge 1950 hit Tennessee Waltz, was 85.Patti Page, the apple-cheeked, honey-voiced alto whose sentimental, soothing, sometimes silly hits like “Tennessee Waltz,” “Old Cape Cod” and “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window” made her one of the most successful pop singers of the 1950s, died
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