The best-selling female singer during the 1950s, Patti Page in many ways defined the decade of earnest, novelty-ridden adult pop with throwaway hits like "The Doggie in the Window" and "I Went to Your Wedding." 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, Oklahoma, 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 small-group 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 more successes, Page gained her first million-seller in 1950 for "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming," which cashed in on the novelty effect of overdubbing (the added touch came with listing it as "the Patti Page Quartet"). Also in 1950, "All My Love" became her first number one hit and spent several weeks at the top. That same year produced the biggest hit of her career, "The Tennessee Waltz." Notched at number one for months, it eventually became one of the best-selling singles of all time and prompted no less than six Top 40 covers during the following year.

During 1952-53, Patti Page scored two more huge hits, with "I Went to Your Wedding" and "The Doggie in the Window," both of which spent more than two months at number one.

She gained her own television program, The Patti Page Show, in 1955 and moved into full-lengths with In the Land of Hi Fi and Manhattan Towers. Page also proved more resilient to the rise of rock & roll than most of her contemporaries, hitting big in 1956 with "Allegheny Moon" and "Old Cape Cod" the next year. Indeed, she kept reaching the charts (if only in moderate placings) throughout the '60s, paced by the Top Ten theme to the film Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte in 1965. Though she stopped recording for the most part in 1968, she continued performing into the '90s.

Fly Me To The Moon / The Good Life / Love Letters / Can’t Get Used To Losing You / Call Me Irresponsible / Say Wonderful Things / If And When / Days of Wine and Roses / I Wanna Be Around / Moon River / The End of the World / Our Day Will Come

1987 – THE EAST SIDE /  THE WEST SIDE (cd)

I Fall in Love Too Easily / Down in the Depths / Detour Ahead / Lost in a Fog / The Wrong Kind of Guy / I Stayed Too Long at the Fair / Who Cares What People Say / I’m The Girl / Wait Till You see Him / No Moon at All / I’m Glad There Is You (In the world of ordinary people)–

Nice Work If You Can Get It / I Never Knew (I could love anybody likeI’m loving you) / (I’m Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over

1999 – PATTI PAGE # 1 (mc)

With My Eyes Wide Open / All My Love / The Tennessee Waltz / Would I Love You / Mockin’ Bird Hill / Mister and Mississippi / Detour / I Went To Your Wedding / The Doggie In The Window  / Changing Partners  / Cross Over The Bridge / Let Me Go Lover / Allegheny Moon / Old Cape Cod / Left Right Out of Your Heart

2003 – READY, SET GO with Patti Page

What Every Woman Knows / I’ve Got Some Forgetting To Do / Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man / The First Time I Kissed You / There’s a Man in My Life / Twelve O’Clock Flight / Ready Set Go  / Give Me Time / Tomorrow Night  / My Sweet Adair / It Started All Over Again / All My Love Belongs To You  / Say Something Sweet To Your Sweetheart (with Vic Damone) / Bonus Track: Patti Page and Vic Damone Interview / So In Love / You Was (with Vic Damone) / Yes, Yes, Yes (with Vic Damone) / My Dream Is Yours / Just One Way To Say I Love You / Dear Hearts and Gentle People / I’m Gonna Peper All My Wall with Love Letters / Sentimental Music / I Love You Because / One Sweet letter / Love, Where Are Uou Now / My Jelous Heart