Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don`t understand. As for [today`s] pop stars, I never had the occasion to listen. I never felt it warranted my attention." "What I like about singing is that, for me, it`s a substitute for the psychiatrist`s couch. I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. Each song, you`re telling a story and acting."
"I kept singing. Your voice dries up if you don`t use it. And I can still do it. I stopped smoking 30 years ago, and if I were still smoking, believe me, I would not be singing."
Trivia
Has a street named after her in Claremore, Oklahoma, where she was born. Highway 20 running up to Oologah which is the birthplace of Will Rogers is also known as Patti Page Blvd.
Is mentioned by name in the lyrics of Bruce Johnston`s "Disney Girls" from the Beach Boys` album "Surf`s Up" (1971).
You can hear her gentle remark to "Go, Hank!" when legendary guitarist Hank Garland played a dazzling solo on her Nashville recording of `Just Because".
Played and recorded with legendary Nashville session guitar player Hank Garland.
In spite of the British invasion, she made a "top 10" record in 1965 with the title song for Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), the "grand guignol" chiller starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland. She performed the nominated song on the broadcast of The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965) (TV).
Played Carnegie Hall for the first time on May 31, 1997. Captured on CD, "Patti Page Live at Carnegie Hall - the 50th Anniversary Concert" earned the singer her first Grammy Award.
Adopted two children, Kathleen and Danny, during her marriage to Hollywood choreographer Charles O`Curran, who was best known for staging the dance numbers of many of Elvis Presley`s early films. She moved her children to Rancho Santa Fe, California following their divorce.
In 1957, she was deemed favorite female vocalist in the first nationwide audience poll taken on Dick Clark`s "Bandstand" (1952).
Recorded more than 100 albums and 160 singles (84 of which made Billboard`s "top 40") and has three certified gold albums and fifteen gold singles.
Patti and her second husband have temporary guardianship over two of her daughter`s young children.
Known for her silky voice and almost chaste style, Patti shrugged and said that`s what people wanted from her.
Performed on radio station KTUL in Tulsa, Okla., as part of Al Clauser and His Oklahoma Outlaws (using her birth name, Fowler); also peforming on the show was a singer billed as "Patti Page" for the Page Milk Co. When that performer left, Fowler took her place and name.
One of 11 children.
Best known for her 1951 million-selling country and pop smash "The Tennessee Waltz."
Received the Women`s International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1991.
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