A Prominent Singer Today Pass away
Today : Patti Page, the best-selling female singer of the 1950s, famous for his version of the Tennessee Waltz, died at the age of 85.
Her publicist Schatzi Hageman said that she died in New Year's Day in Encinitas, California.
Page created a distinctive sound for the music industry in 1947, imposing her own voice when she did not have enough money to hire a back-up singers for one, admit it.
She went on to get 15 gold records and three gold albums with 24 songs in the top 10, including four that reached number one.
She was supposed to take part in a special ceremony on February 9 in Los Angeles, where she was to receive long-service Grammy Award from The Recording Academy.
Page was popular in pop music and country, and became the first female singer to have a television in all three major U.S. networks, including Show Patti Page on ABC.
"I was a kid from Oklahoma, who never wanted to be a singer, but was told that I could sing," she said in an interview in 1999. "And like a snowball."
She signed to Mercury Records and has sold over 100 million records.
In 1999, after 51 years of performing, Page won her first Grammy for traditional pop vocal concert at Carnegie Hall - 50th Anniversary Concert.
Tennessee Waltz, its best-selling records, it was an accident.
Because Christmas is approaching, Mercury wanted page to record boogie woogie Santa Claus in 1950.
Tennessee Waltz was placed on the B-side of Christmas songs.
"Mercury wanted to concentrate on Christmas songs, and they do not want anything with great credit on the other hand," Page said. "They do not want any disc jockeys to include an entry for Christmas. Name of this great Christmas song Boogie Woogie Santa Claus, and no one ever heard of him."
Tennessee Waltz was the first pop tunes that have become a hit country.
Waltz was in the charts for 30 weeks, 12 of them in the top 10, and eventually sold over 10 million copies, second only to Bing Crosby's White Christmas at the time.
Paige other hits included (How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window and Bird Hill Mockin.
Page survived her son, Daniel O'Curran, daughter Kathleen Ginn and sister Peggy Layton.
Today : Patti Page, the best-selling female singer of the 1950s, famous for his version of the Tennessee Waltz, died at the age of 85.
Her publicist Schatzi Hageman said that she died in New Year's Day in Encinitas, California.
Page created a distinctive sound for the music industry in 1947, imposing her own voice when she did not have enough money to hire a back-up singers for one, admit it.
She went on to get 15 gold records and three gold albums with 24 songs in the top 10, including four that reached number one.
She was supposed to take part in a special ceremony on February 9 in Los Angeles, where she was to receive long-service Grammy Award from The Recording Academy.
Page was popular in pop music and country, and became the first female singer to have a television in all three major U.S. networks, including Show Patti Page on ABC.
"I was a kid from Oklahoma, who never wanted to be a singer, but was told that I could sing," she said in an interview in 1999. "And like a snowball."
She signed to Mercury Records and has sold over 100 million records.
In 1999, after 51 years of performing, Page won her first Grammy for traditional pop vocal concert at Carnegie Hall - 50th Anniversary Concert.
Tennessee Waltz, its best-selling records, it was an accident.
Because Christmas is approaching, Mercury wanted page to record boogie woogie Santa Claus in 1950.
Tennessee Waltz was placed on the B-side of Christmas songs.
"Mercury wanted to concentrate on Christmas songs, and they do not want anything with great credit on the other hand," Page said. "They do not want any disc jockeys to include an entry for Christmas. Name of this great Christmas song Boogie Woogie Santa Claus, and no one ever heard of him."
Tennessee Waltz was the first pop tunes that have become a hit country.
Waltz was in the charts for 30 weeks, 12 of them in the top 10, and eventually sold over 10 million copies, second only to Bing Crosby's White Christmas at the time.
Paige other hits included (How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window and Bird Hill Mockin.
Page survived her son, Daniel O'Curran, daughter Kathleen Ginn and sister Peggy Layton.
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