Patti Page Red Sails In The Sunset

The bestselling female singer during the 1950s, Patti Page in many ways defined the decade of earnest, noveltyridden adult pop with throwaway hits like The Doggie in the Window and I Went to Your By singing a wide range of popular material and her own share of novelty fluff, she proved easily susceptible to the fall of classic adult pop but remained a chart force into the mid 60s. Born Clara Ann Fowler in Muskogee, OK, she began singing professionally at a radio station in Tulsa and took weekend gigs on the side. (After being billed as Patti Page for a program sponsored by Page Milk, she decided to take the name even after leaving. ) Page toured the country with a band led by Jimmy Joy and ended up in Chicago by 1947, where she sang in a smallgroup outing by Benny Goodman and gained a recording contract with Mercury. Her first hit, Confess, came that same year and made her the first pop artist to overdub harmony vocals onto her own lead. After a few