Patti Page

Patti Page was born Clara Ann Fowler in Oklahoma in 1927. She began her professional singing career at KTUL, a Tulsa radio station. Since the program was sponsored by Page Milk, she adopted the moniker Patti Page, and it stuck.

Patti toured the US in the late 1940s with Jimmy Joy, and notably sang with the Benny Goodman band in Chicago.

In 1950 she recorded "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming", her first platinum-selling record.

Patti was the best-selling female vocalist of the 1950s, and was wildly popular all through the 1960s.

In 1951 her rendition of "The Tennessee Waltz" became the biggest hit of her career. It was #1 on the Billboard charts and stayed there for 30 weeks; over the years it would sell 10 million copies.

In 1957, she was deemed favorite female vocalist in the first nationwide audience poll taken on Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1952).

Appears as one of the passengers in a boat in the 1961 Elvis Presley film, Blue Hawaii (1961), which was choreographed by her then-husband, Charles O'Curran.

She got national exposure on TV shows, appearing on such top-rated television programs as The Dean Martin Show (1965).

In 1968 she recorded what some consider her signature song, "Have a Little Faith and Love Will Come to You. " Patti continued to thrill fans for decades.

Is mentioned, by name, in the lyrics of Bruce Johnston's "Disney Girls", from The Beach Boys' album, "Surf's Up" (1971).

Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1991.

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.