caption website death_date death_place years_active birth_place label article_title voice_type name background birth_date instrument genre image origin birth_name occupation
page in the 1950s -lsb- http://www.misspattipage.com/ misspattipage.com -rsb- 1 january 2013 encinitas , california , united states 1946 -- 2012 claremore , oklahoma , united states mercury , columbia , epic , avco , plantation patti page
 contralto patti page solo_singer 8 november 1927 vocals traditional pop , country patti page.jpg tulsa , oklahoma , united states clara ann fowler singer
patti page

clara ann fowler -lrb- november 8 , 1927 -- january 1 , 2013 -rrb- , known by her professional name patti page , was an american singer of traditional pop music .
she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s , selling over 100 million records during a six decade long career .
she was often introduced as `` the singin ' rage , miss patti page '' .
new york wnew disc-jockey william b. williams introduced her as `` a page in my life called patti '' .
page signed with mercury records in 1947 , and became their first successful female artist , starting with 1948 's `` confess '' .
in 1950 , she had her first million-selling single `` with my eyes wide open , i 'm dreaming '' , and would eventually have 14 additional million-selling singles between 1950 and 1965 .
page 's signature song , `` tennessee waltz '' , was one of the biggest-selling singles of the 20th century , and is recognized today as one of the official songs of the state of tennessee .
it spent 13 weeks atop the `` billboard magazine 's best-sellers list '' in 1950 .
page had three additional no. 1 hit singles between 1950 and 1953 , `` all my love -lrb- bolero -rrb- '' , `` i went to your wedding '' , and '' -lrb- how much is that -rrb- doggie in the window '' .
unlike most pop music singers , page blended country music styles into many of her most popular songs .
as a result of this crossover appeal , many of page 's singles appeared on the `` billboard '' country chart .
towards the 1970s , she shifted her career towards country music and began having greater success on its charts , ending up one of the few vocalists to have made them in five separate decades .
with the rise of rock and roll in the second half of the 1950s , traditional pop music began to wane .
page was among a small number of traditional pop music singers able to sustain success , continuing to have major hits into the mid-1960s with `` old cape cod '' , `` allegheny moon '' , `` a poor man 's roses -lrb- or a rich man 's gold -rrb- '' , and `` hush , hush , sweet charlotte '' .
in 1997 , patti page was inducted into the oklahoma music hall of fame .
she was posthumously honored with the lifetime achievement grammy award in 2013 .
