'Musiquiz' will jog memories of songs from the 1950s Sep 20, 2008
We'll be going back to the era of Kay Starr, Rosemary Clooney, Patti Page, Don Cornell, Mario Lanza, and many others from the pre-rock 'n' roll years, when music really was music with lyrics you could actually understand. See how many of these classic "oldies" you remember. (NJ.com -- Times)
Kolb: The Tennessee Waltz Aug 21, 2008
Then, from my ballroom days, I remembered that, at the beginning of every waltz class, the teacher would start with Patti Page s recording of The Tennessee Waltz. . (Somerville Journal, MA)
Jerry Wexler, record producer, dies Aug 16, 2008
In 1950, while he was still at Billboard, he encountered the young singer Patti Page and hummed for her a 1947 song he liked, "The Tennessee Waltz." Her subsequent recording of it sold three million copies in eight months. A few years later he was a partner at Atlantic, presiding over the 1954 recording session of Ray Charles's breakout hit, "I Got a Woman." He said later that the best thing he had done for Charles was to let him do as he pleased. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Former classmates catch up, reminisce at 55th reunion Aug 15, 2008
My Papa") and Patti Page ("How Much is That Doggie in the Window. ") According to Ames resident Chuck Benson, who organized the Class of '53's 55th reunion Tuesday and Wednesday, the Spirit yearbook listed a graduating class of 132, and the class president was Bill Duffy. "This year, out of the surviving 90 graduates, we expect 48 of them to be here," said Benson. The two-day affair began with a banquet Tuesday evening at the Ames Holiday Inn, where some of the graduates were staying. The final... (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
Top 50s Pop Music Groups, Singers a... Aug 6, 2008
Patti Page ; 7 hits with 3 in top 10 (average in top 11) ... The Doggie In The Window (Patti Page) number 4 from 1953. (Suite101.com)
Wistful memories of music and TV Jul 26, 2008
We started the decade of the '50s listening to the "predictable" music of Perry Como, Joni James, Rosemary Clooney, Patti Page and Nat "King" Cole, and other easy-listening music. The decade ended with the noisy, primitive sounds of songs like "Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop," and other "cool" sounds sung by a screaming Little Richard, a rau cous Bill Haley, a hop-scotching Jerry Lee Lewis and an incredible performer named Presley with amazing rubber hips who went on to become a musical legend. (NJ.com -- Times)
Jo Stafford; singer gained fame with WWII soldiers and in '50s Jul 18, 2008
Asked at the time whether she might consider the sort of comeback that had worked for such contemporaries as Rosemary Clooney and Patti Page, her response was to the point. She no longer sang, she said, "for the same reason that Lana Turner is not posing in bathing suits anymore.". (Boston Globe)
Back to the park Jun 28, 2008
Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Fisher, Patti Page, The Platters, The Four Aces are no longer in the musical lexicon of pop culture. In a very humble and austere way, I have tried to keep that music alive with what I call my "computer orchestra.". (NJ.com -- Times)
It's still ROCK N' ROLL to me Jun 6, 2008
So I took this old Patti Page song, 'Tennessee Waltz,' and turned it into a rock 'n' roll song," Comstock says. Thanks to the twist of turning the classic country waltz into a rock song, Comstock's version ended up being one of his biggest hits. With a number of popular records under his belt, Comstock and his band headed down to New York City, and began knocking on doors. "We met with Herb Abrams, who was one of the original founders of Atlantic Records, with whom he had just split. He wasn't a... (Ithaca Times, NY)
Looking Back May 2, 2008
" Jim, Von, Terry and Margaret said that they did while Gary T., Susie, Teresa and Danny said we have to work harder today. The question of the week is "What do you think of Patti Page. " Teresa and Terry say "she's Okay," Kris and Danny like her very much. Sixth Grade: This week we will interview Gloria Zook. Some of her favorites are: color, red; make of car, Ford; TV program, Ozzie and Harriet; pastime, reading and listening to the radio; ambition, secretary; food, French fried; sport,... (Kalona News, IA)
Letters for April 4, 2008 Apr 5, 2008
Patti Page was a singer at that time ---- I have always considered her the best singer of all time ... While in the coffee room, who should I spy but Patti Page, my favorite singer of all time ... I went to her and said, "You're either Patti Page or her twin sister." We talked briefly and I reminded her of her singing at Westover Air Force Base 58 years ago. (North County Times)
Music greats and their estates sue Universal over royalties Feb 17, 2008
The plaintiffs include Patti Page, and the estates of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Woody Herman, Les Brown, Benny Goodman and the Mills Brothers. The lawsuit, filed late Thursday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, says Universal Music and one of its subsidiaries have pervasively and systematically breached agreements with the artists by using accounting tricks since at least 1998. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
More celebrity news Feb 16, 2008
The plaintiffs are Patti Page, Tony Martin, Dick Hyman, Richard Hayman, and Kitty Kallen, and the estates of Basie, Goodman, Vaughan, Woody Herman, Les Brown, the Mills Brothers, the Harmonicats' Jerry Murad, gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Frankie Laine. (AP). (Boston Globe)
Simple Plan, The Puppini Sisters have new CDs Feb 16, 2008
The latters good fun, but the albums highlight might be Old Cape Cod, the dreamy Patti Page hit that Groove Armada memorably sampled in At the River. Sound like a gimmick. (MSNBC -- Music)
Music Greats Sue for Back Royalties Feb 16, 2008
The plaintiffs include Patti Page, and the estates of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Woody Herman, Les Brown, Benny Goodman and the Mills Brothers. Top Technology ce stories. (ABC News -- Wire)
By golly, they did it (1/31) Feb 2, 2008
At the Ryman, Nash Street impressed a judges' panel that included Autumn House, the senior director of ACapitol Records, Carole Ann Mobley, senior director of ASonyBMG of Nashville, and one of America's best-loved artists, Patti Page. Charlie Louvin. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
The Taffetas Take Keokuk County on a Fifties Musical Journey Jan 25, 2008
"This was the Fifties where girls admired their mothers, wrote in their diaries, kept autograph dogs and listened to girl acts like the Chiffons, The McGuire Sisters, Connie Francis, Patti Page and The Chordettes on their record players." said Paul Pierce, the Springer Theatricals producer. "Their favorite look was cashmere and silk - not leather and denim." The Taffetas, written by Rick Lewis, revolves around the lovely young Taffeta sisters - Kaye, Donna, Peggy and Cheryl - who are in New York... (Sigourney News Review, IA)
RV venues permanent 'major players' for big stage names Jan 9, 2008
Art Thomason The Arizona Republic Jan. 8, 2008 06:08 PM. Mary Ann Tuttle waited in line four hours to buy tickets to the Smothers Brothers concert later this month. (AZCentral -- Business)
Jack White, Patti Page share a 'Conquest' -- and a vision Jan 2, 2008
Jack White, Patti Page share a 'Conquest' and a vision - USATODAY.com ... Earned her stripes: Patti Page had several hits in the 1950s ... Jack White, Patti Page share a 'Conquest' and a vision. (USA Today -- Life)
Oklahoma celebrates 100 years Nov 13, 2007
Oklahoma has been the birthplace of many other famous entertainers and actors, including James Garner, Ron Howard, Chuck Norris, Roger Miller, Patti Page, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Leon Russell, Toby Keith and new country superstar Carrie Underwood. Two novelists who won Pulitzer prizes were born in Oklahoma Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, and N. Scott Momaday, the state s centennial poet laureate, who was honored for the 1969 novel, House Made of Dawn. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Furnace Room Lullaby Nov 10, 2007
Get to know this album and you will start mentioning the sainted names of Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells and Patti Page. Get to love this album and you will be searching out other Neko Case works. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
rocks the Tabernacle Nov 8, 2007
Singer Patti Page is 80. Singer Bonnie Raitt is 58. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Stars align in Dowagiac for unforgettable show Nov 6, 2007
Besides helping set the foundations for the band departments at Lake Michigan College and Lake Michigan Catholic Schools, he also performed with Benny Goodman, Patti Page and Vic Damone. Bean played trumpet with the big bands of Stan Kenton, Harry James and Count Basie in the 1950s and performed with Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Nat "King" Cole, Tony Bennett and Mel Torme in the '60s. (Dowagiac News, MI)
"Control" Oct 11, 2007
In the upstate New York city I grew up in, in the late 1970s, there was a radio station that played what it called "the music of your life." The fact that I can't for the life of me remember what kind of music this station played -- Old Patti Page songs. All Creedence, all the time. (Salon)
In memoriam: Masters of avant-garde cinema Aug 5, 2007
He went on to work for MGM in Hollywood, making Zabriskie Point (1968) which was infused with the counterculture/psychedelic feeling of the times, and had a soundtrack provided by Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, The Youngbloods, John Fahey and The Kaleidescope, plus a song from Patti Page. In this film Antonioni's interest in composition -- the use of vast and empty spaces to dwarf the human beings and emphasize their confusion and alienation -- was evident, as it was filmed in Death Valley, an... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Sticky, icky Goodness Jun 28, 2007
(Oddly, his cover of the Patti Page number Conquest in which an ingnue tames a lady-killer may be the most optimistic love story on the album. Which is fine. (LA Weekly)
Aural Pleasure Jun 27, 2007
And the less said about the grating cover of Patti Page s Conquest, the better. You seem to forget just how this all started, Jack sings on Effect and Cause. (San Antonio Current, TX)
5. Memphis radio's rock and roll revolution Jun 25, 2007
Not many FM stations were playing rock because most considered the band a medium for Frank Sinatra, Patti Page and orchestral sounds. After a couple of transition years, FM 100 picked up momentum as they moved to a free form format, leaning on longer cuts from 331/3 vinyl albums. (The Commercial Appeal, TN)
The White Stripes - Icky Thump Jun 22, 2007
Such new instrumentation still doesnt prepare for the shocking conquistador take on the old Patti Page chestnut, Conquest. Echoing Jacks recent penchant for mariachi threads, and expanding on that flamenco figure from White Blood Cells I Think I Smell a Rat, he trades piercing trills with a trumpet; its easily the most bombastic, jaw-clenching White Stripes song to date. (Paste Magazine)
* CD reviews Jun 21, 2007
(Little Cream Soda is the closest they've gotten to metal; the album's only song not written by White, Conquest, copped off a Patti Page record, is chest-beating kitsch. The setup's the same, the colors richer. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Modern rock at its best Jun 21, 2007
Jack White of the White Stripes channels diverse influences from Patti Page to Led Zeppelin on the band's new CD, Icky Thump ... There's some odd Latin trumpet on Conquest that evokes a ramped-up rock 'n' roll bullfight, but the song is a re-make of an old Patti Page mariachi tune, which suddenly, somehow, makes the aggressive fighting sound make sense. (Vancouver Sun)
Stuck in the Middle With the Stripes Jun 20, 2007
But perhaps the most representative song on "Icky Thump" is the group's cover of "Conquest," originally sung by Patti Page in the 1950s and re-imagined by the Stripes as a Spaghetti Western send-up, with crackling mariachi trumpets, a yelping title-card of a refrain, and tumbleweed rolling through the background. The kitschy success of the song serves mostly to point out the ordinary nature (by the Stripes' standards, that is) of the group's originals this time around. (New York Sun)
Full Story from Daily Texan Jun 20, 2007
An entirely unexpected Patti Page cover, the surprisingly-epic-at-three-minutes "Conquest" recounts a sordid story of tangled sexual conquests. The vocals are appropriately overwrought and operatic for such a seedy tale, and the fanfares are paired with a trumpeter for a faux-mariachi sound. (U-Wire.com)
'Thump' it up Jun 17, 2007
The other oddity here is "Conquest," a slice of spaghetti-western kitsch sung by Patti Page in the 1950s and recast by the White Stripes as a deranged collision between speed-metal guitar and mariachi trumpet. Let's call it thrash-flamenco, and note that Jack's musical imagination is as sharp as it is skewed. (Boston Globe)
* Black, white and red all over Jun 11, 2007
Most surprising is a bombastic version of Conquest, a Patti Page song from the early 1950s, complete with mariachi horns. "I'd been wanting to cover that forever," Jack White said, "and the themes of this album seemed to keep pointing to this idea of role reversals and 'who's using who,' which are exactly the topics that song is about.". (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Lakes of the North concert June 16: Jazz Trio to perform Jun 9, 2007
Owner of the Fire Fly Club in Ann Arbor, Susan Chastain has been performing since the age of 3, singing along with Patti Page records on the jukebox at her mother s club in Oklawaha, Fla. In her rich alto voice, she sings an array of classical and obscure tunes from The Great American Songbook. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
HOT DISH: Country Music's Race to the Finish Apr 10, 2007
More News Pushing 80, Patti Page still sings like an angel. She was in Nashville recently to rerecord her 1950 smash, "Tennessee Waltz," with U.S Sen. (VHI.com -- CMT.com Music News)
More of this story Mar 29, 2007
The 1950s were full of TV shows like "I Love Lucy" and "The Brady Bunch," musical artists such as Elvis Presley and Patti Page and the clothing consisted of poodle skirts and leather jackets. First National Bank will be bringing back all the festivities of the 50s Saturday night when they host a Relay for Life Soc Hop fundraiser. (Atmore Advance, AL)
Geator with the Heater Mar 3, 2007
Mr. Blavat ticks off names like Sammy Davis Jr. and Patti Page, just a couple of folks he met in the "green room." This introduction to the music business led him to a position on the road with Danny and the Juniors and Chuck Berry. In fact, he met so many performers that it seemed natural for the enthusiastic young man to host his own radio show. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Local Grammy notes from A to Z Feb 10, 2007
Patti Page: A Solana Beach resident since 1990, Page won for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance (1998) with Live at Carnegie Hall. Sandi Patti: A Crawford High alum who moved to Indiana in 1979, this Christian music singer won four Best Gospel Performance Grammys (1983, 1985, 1986, 1990) and shared 1986's Best Gospel Duo prize with Deniece Williams. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Singing new life into old songs Feb 5, 2007
Among the stand-outs is You Belong to Me, recorded by Jo Stafford, Patsy Cline and Patti Page, among others. (An interesting anecdotal gloss to the song, as Maggart explained, is that the words and music were written by a woman, Chilton Price, although two better-known and better-connected men, Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King, were listed as co-writers. (Globe and Mail)
Filling in for Robert Jr. -- almost Jan 9, 2007
I traded The Singing Rage Miss Patti Page for Big Mama Thornton and never thought twice. I discovered that one of the things that moved me most was found among the beautifully bent notes heard when a guitar sings the blues. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Arts)
