She wasn’t called “The Singing Rage” for nothing. And 57 years after the “raging” began in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on a little known radio show on which she was the featured singer, Patti Page remains an icon, a beloved singer who changed the face of pop music and the way it was recorded. Her accomplishments in music and television remain unparalleled even today.

In the course of her remarkable recording career, Patti Page has sold approximately 100 million plus records, making her one of the biggest, if not the biggest selling female recording artist in history. She has 15 certified gold records and her recording of “Tennessee Waltz,” at ten million sold, remains, the biggest selling single ever recorded by a female artist. She has charted a staggering 111 hits on pop, country and r&b charts (“Tennessee Waltz” was # 1 concurrently on all three charts), a feat no other artist in recording history can claim! And, she is the unrecognized (till now) pioneer in the field of overdubbing, of multiple voice techniques – a ground breaking, innovative endeavor that began with her first Top Twenty hit, “Confess,” in 1948. Additionally, it was Patti Page who took country music out of the country and onto the pop charts with such million record sellers as “Mockin’ Bird Hill,” “ I Went To Your Wedding,” and, of course, the legendary “Tennessee Waltz” to become the first artist to crossover musical genres. And she is the only singer – male or female – to have had shows bearing her name on all three major television networks.

The success of ‘Tennessee Waltz” catapulted Patti into major stardom. She followed up her mega-hit with two other #1 million record sellers, “Mockingbird Hill” and “Would I Love You, Love You, Love You.” By 1952, Patti Page was on her way to becoming the decade’s best selling female singer, and its most popular. A repeated winner of Billboard and Cashbox Magazine awards as America’s favorite female vocalist, in 1957, Patti was crowned American Bandstand’s favorite female vocalist in its first nationwide audience poll.

The Southern silk of Patti’s voice, combined with her telegenic high cheek-boned beauty, made her an integral part of the golden age of television. Her appearances were many, and she was a frequent guest star on the Milton Berle, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Ed Sullivan, Garry Moore, Jackie Gleason and Bob Hope shows. She also starred frequently on the prestigious Bell Telephone Hour, the Colgate Comedy Hour and the Steve Allen Show. A musical “Special” on ABC found her co-starring with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, most notable for the trio singing “I’ve Got Tears In My Ears Crying Over You.”

Patti’s popularity was such that she was signed by NBC Television to star in “Scott Music Hall Presents Patti Page,” a summer replacement series that gave birth to the twice-weekly syndicated “Oldsmobile Presents…Patti Page.” The success of that modest enterprise, and the dominance of Patti on the hit lists with such other multi-million record sellers as "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window,” “Cross Over the Bridge,” “I Went To Your Wedding, “ "Changing Partners” and “Allegheny Moon,” brought Patti to CBS-TV and the big budgeted weekly extravaganza, “The Big Record.” When that concluded its run, ABC-TV brought Patti to its studios for “The Patti Page Show,” thus making her the only performer to have shows bearing her name on all three major television networks.

In addition to performing concerts throughout the country, she and her husband maintain a thriving business in New Hampshire producing maple syrup and pancake mixes packaged under the name of Patti Page Pure Maple Products. The Food Network recently featured the products in a special episode of "Celebrity Food Finds." She has also recently been featured in The New York Times, Biography Magazine, Guidepost Magazine, Senior Living Magazine and Mature Living Magazine.

Patti Page is still one of today's most treasured artists. By any standard hers has been an extraordinary life; one the barefoot, Clara Ann Fowler of Claremore, Oklahoma, could never have anticipated or conceived - but which the Singing Rage, Miss Patti Page has so brilliantly and yet so modestly achieved.

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