Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz: Nashville Classics

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:50
Size: 112,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:54) 1. Mister And Mississippi
(2:58) 2. Tennessee Waltz
(2:20) 3. Old Cape Cod
(3:27) 4. No Aces
(2:34) 5. Almost In Love With You Again
(3:23) 6. On The Inside
(2:25) 7. Go On Home
(2:29) 8. You Belong To Me
(3:15) 9. Every Time You Touch Me
(2:42) 10. My Man Friday
(2:37) 11. Mockingbird Hill
(2:23) 12. How Much Is That Doggie In The Window
(2:13) 13. A Poor Man's Roses
(3:01) 14. Croce Di Oro
(1:56) 15. Come What May
(2:45) 16. Changing Partners
(2:32) 17. Why Don't You Believe Me
(2:48) 18. Cross Over The Bridge

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 Claremore, 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 and 1953, 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 Tower.

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. Patti Page died on January 1, 2013, at a retirement community in Encinitas, California, at the age of 85. By John Bush https://www.allmusic.com/artist/patti-page-mn0000747506/biography

Tennessee Waltz: Nashville Classics

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Patti Page - The Patti Page Collection: The Mercury Years, Vol. 2

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1991
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:07
Size: 123,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:27)  1. (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
(2:54)  2. This Is My Song
(2:57)  3. Changing Partners
(2:33)  4. Cross over the Bridge
(2:17)  5. Steam Heat
(2:45)  6. I Cried
(2:52)  7. What a Dream
(2:42)  8. The Mama Doll Song
(2:25)  9. Let Me Go Lover
(2:55) 10. Go on With the Wedding
(2:52) 11. Allegheny Moon
(2:52) 12. Mama from the Train
(2:30) 13. A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)
(2:36) 14. Old Cape Cod
(2:42) 15. I'll Remember Today
(2:20) 16. Left Right Out of Your Heart
(2:34) 17. One of Us (Will Weep Tonight)
(2:36) 18. Mom and Dad's Waltz
(2:05) 19. Most People Get Married
(1:57) 20. The Boys' Night Out
(1:08) 21. Patti Page Radio Spots

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 1952-1953, 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 Tower. 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. Patti Page died on January 1, 2013, at a retirement community in Encinitas, California, at the age of 85. ~ John Bush https://www.allmusic.com/artist/patti-page-mn0000747506/biography

The Patti Page Collection: The Mercury Years, Vol. 2

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Patti Page - Golden Hits

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1960
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:45
Size: 80,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:00)  1. Tennessee Waltz
(2:55)  2. Changing Partners
(2:34)  3. Cross Over The Bridge
(2:38)  4. Old Cape Cod
(2:59)  5. Mockin' Bird Hill
(2:29)  6. (How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window
(2:48)  7. Detour
(2:47)  8. Why Don't You Believe Me?
(3:11)  9. Mister And Mississippi
(2:53) 10. Allegheny Moon
(3:11) 11. With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming
(3:14) 12. I Went To Your Wedding

Patti Page's first (and for many years her only) hits collection was this ten-track release, which contained nine of her Top Five singles, including the chart-toppers "Tennessee Waltz," "Mockin' Bird Hill," "(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window," and "I Went To Your Wedding." In addition to being a short album, even for the LP era, it failed to contain Page's first number one, "All My Love," and such biggies as "Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)" and "And So to Sleep Again," but it did feature "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming," a song Page had released twice without quite getting into the Top Ten with it. So, the selection was not perfect, but Mercury kept the album in print for decades, since it did feature Page's best-known material at a reasonable price. ~ William Ruhlmann https://www.allmusic.com/album/golden-hits-mw0000312367

Golden Hits

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Patti Page - The Patti Page Collection: The Mercury Years Vol. 1

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:23
Size: 129.1 MB
Styles: Vocal
Year: 1991
Art: Front

[2:46] 1. Confess
[3:10] 2. With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming
[2:40] 3. I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
[3:12] 4. All My Love
[2:25] 5. Back In Your Own Backyard
[3:01] 6. Tennessee Waltz
[2:58] 7. Would I Love You
[2:56] 8. Mockin' Bird Hill
[2:52] 9. Down The Trail Of Achin' Hearts (Single Version)
[2:30] 10. Evertrue Evermore
[3:10] 11. Mister And Mississippi
[2:47] 12. Detour
[2:54] 13. And So To Sleep Again
[2:09] 14. Come What May
[2:45] 15. Whispering Winds
[2:45] 16. Once In A While
[3:14] 17. I Went To Your Wedding
[2:47] 18. You Belong To Me
[2:44] 19. Why Don't You Believe Me
[2:27] 20. Conquest

When Mercury Records finally got around to compiling a Patti Page's hits for the CD era (the ten-track LP Golden Hits had been in print since 1960), the label opted to create two separate volumes, one containing the singer's early hits, the other her later ones. While fans might have preferred a single-disc greatest hits album containing all of her biggest singles, the two-volume approach allowed Mercury to bring back into print many of Page's lesser hits of the 1950s. The first volume, a 20-track collection, includes most of the 26 chart entries she achieved between 1948 and 1952. All 13 Top Ten hits from the period are included, among them the chart-toppers "All My Love," "The Tennessee Waltz," "Mockin' Bird Hill," and "I Went to Your Wedding." Below the Top Ten, however, compiler Ron Furmanek has made judgment calls so that, for example, "So In Love," which made the Top 20, is not here, while "Evertrue Evermore" is, which only made the Top 30. This is a solid collection which contains some excellent material that, despite its popularity, rarely gets onto compilations, such as Page's recording of "I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine," later cut by Elvis Presley. But fans wanting any of her hits from after 1952, starting with "The Doggie in the Window," will have to invest in the second volume as well. ~William Ruhlmann

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Various - The Music Of Henry Mancini

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:59
Size: 100.7 MB
Styles: Stage & Screen
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[2:44] 1. Andy Williams - Moon River
[2:11] 2. Johnny Mathis - The Sweetheart Tree
[3:20] 3. Lola Albright - Dreamsville
[3:11] 4. Bobby Hackett - Theme From Peter Gunn
[1:59] 5. Buddy Greco - It Had Better Be Tonight (Meglio Sta Sera)
[2:53] 6. Andy Williams - Dear Heart
[2:52] 7. Don Costa And His Orchestra - Baby Elephant Walk
[2:53] 8. Charlie Byrd - Two For The Road
[2:50] 9. Patti Page - Days Of Wine And Roses
[3:19] 10. Johnny Mathis - Whistling Away The Dark
[2:30] 11. Andy Williams - Charade
[2:43] 12. Ray Conniff - Nbc Mystery Movie Theme
[2:32] 13. Bobby Hackett - Theme From Mr. Lucky
[2:14] 14. Henry Mancini - Natasha's Theme
[2:48] 15. Johnny Mathis - Darling Lili
[2:53] 16. Andy Williams - In The Arms Of Love

If the recognition of one's peers is the true measure of success, then few men are as successful as composer, arranger, and conductor Henry Mancini. In a career that spanned 40 years, writing for film and television, Mancini won four Oscars and twenty Grammys, the all-time record for a pop artist. For 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's alone, Mancini won five Grammys and two Oscars. Breakfast at Tiffany's includes the classic "Moon River" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer), arguably one of the finest pop songs of the last 50 years. At last count, there were over 1,000 recordings of it. His other notable songs include "Dear Heart," "Days of Wine and Roses" (one Oscar, two Grammys), and "Charade," the last two with lyrics by Mercer. He also had a number one record and won a Grammy for Nino Rota's "Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet." Among his other notable film scores are The Pink Panther (three Grammys), Hatari! (one Grammy), Victor/Victoria (an Oscar), Two for the Road, Wait Until Dark, and 10. His television themes include "Peter Gunn" (two Grammys, recorded by many rock artists), "Mr. Lucky" (two Grammys), "Newhart," "Remington Steele," and The Thorn Birds television mini-series.

Mancini's heyday was the early '60s, when his score for Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) yielded the Oscar-winning hit single "Moon River," which instantly became a pop standard. The following year, he wrote the music for Days of Wine and Roses, which also won an Oscar for its title song. Throughout the next three decades, he continued to be one of the most successful film composers in the world, as well as a popular concert conductor. He continued working until his death in 1994; just prior to his demise, he was writing the score for the musical adaption of Victor/Victoria.

What kept Mancini's work fresh was his ability to write in almost any style imaginable and his successful experimentations with unusual sounds and instruments. In his 1989 memoir Did They Mention the Music?, Mancini's co-author Gene Lees wrote that "More than any other person, he Americanized film scoring, and in time even European film composers followed in his path," and that Mancini wrote scores that "contained almost as many fully developed song melodies as a Broadway musical." Had he not remained true to his first love, film scoring, Mancini would have more than likely made as large an impact on the Broadway stage as he made on the silver screen. ~Kenneth M. Cassidy

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Patti Page - In The Land Of Hi-Fi

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 27:47
Size: 63.6 MB
Styles: Jazz/Pop
Year: 1956/1999
Art: Front

[1:43] 1. Nevertheless
[2:20] 2. Out Of Nowhere
[2:45] 3. The Lady Is A Tramp
[2:55] 4. The Thrill Is Gone
[2:43] 5. A Foggy Day
[2:23] 6. Mountain Greenery
[1:35] 7. I've Got My Eyes On You
[1:35] 8. My Kind Of Love
[2:39] 9. I Didn't Know About You
[1:39] 10. My Sin
[1:23] 11. Taking A Chance On Love
[2:28] 12. Love For Sale
[1:34] 13. I've Got My Eyes On You (Alternative Take)

High Fidelity Magazine once ran a piece on why Patti Page would never be considered a great American popular singer. But "In The Land of Hi-Fi" and her other two jazz albums demonstrate she was, indeed, much more than a lady who could turn out hit records as fast as you could turn out pancakes. With June Christy's arranger, Pete Rugolo, overseeing the orchestrations, Patti Page turns out to be a nimble, persuasive, inventive and witty artist who can navigate the most tricky musical map. This album is warm, entertaining, surprising and short (barely a half hour) and certainly has stood the test of time. If you'd never heard "Doggie In The Window" you'd think this is one of the great jazz singers. By the way, the musicians who worked on these dates were surprised to find Patti Page a very hip lady, extremely pleasant to work with and very up on what she needed to do here--plus she wore eyeglasses and smoked! ~Jim Andrews

In The Land Of Hi-Fi

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Patti Page - Best Of Patti Page

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:30
Size: 76.7 MB
Styles: Vocal
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[3:01] 1. Tennessee Waltz
[2:56] 2. Mockin' Bird Hill
[3:08] 3. Mister And Mississippi
[2:45] 4. Detour
[3:13] 5. I Went To Your Wedding
[2:44] 6. Why Don't You Believe Me
[2:26] 7. (How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window
[2:55] 8. Changing Partners
[2:31] 9. Cross Over The Bridge
[2:21] 10. Let Me Go Lover!
[2:50] 11. Allegheny Moon
[2:35] 12. Old Cape Cod

Has there ever been a more angelic voice for light pop and country music than Pattie Page? I doubt it; always pleasant, but with an occasional tone of heartbreak in her voice, Page is electric in ways that more animated performers will never be. "Mister and Mississippi" is one of the songs that makes one yearn for the days of great songwriting--it's recording is quite scratchy but it is nonetheless a keeper. "Tennessee Waltz" is the original mutli-tracked version and it lacks a bit of the poignancy of Page's solo versions (as performed on stage) but it is an interesting version of the tune nonetheless. "Changing Partners" is one of Page's most beautiful contributions to the art of song performance, and it is not the version used of late in Paul Thomas Anderson's film "The Master" (which was not performed by Page), but the recording here is my favorite. Overall, if you want a great collection of early Page songs with decent sound, this is a good one. This has very good quality in its selection of songs. ~Leslie Karen Rigsbey

Best Of Patti Page

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