Patti Page 1927 - 2013 : A Farewell

[Borderstone]

(Songs with no number didn't hit top 40,according to Billboard Book Of Top 40 hits.)


1948
"Confess" #12
"Say Something Sweet" #23

1949
"So in Love" #13
"Money, Marbles, and Chalk" #27
"I'll Keep the Lovelight Burning" #26

1950
"With My Eyes Wide Open,I'm Dreaming"#11
"I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine" #8
"All My Love (Bolero)"#1
"Back in Your Own Backyard" #23
"Tennessee Waltz" #1

1951
"Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)" #4
"Mockin' Bird Hill" #2
"Down the Trail of Achin' Hearts" #17
"Ever True, Evermore" #24
"Mister and Mississippi" #8
"These Things I Offer You" #26
"Detour" #5
"And So to Sleep Again" #4

1952
"Come What May" #9
"Retreat" #22
"Whispering Winds" #16
"Once In a While" #9
"I Went to Your Wedding" #1
"You Belong to Me" #4
"Why Don't You Believe Me" #4
"Conquest" #18

1953
"(How Much Is That) Doggie In the Window" #1
"My Jealous Eyes" #17
"Now That I'm in Love" #18
"Oo! What You Do to Me" #16
"Butterflies" #10
"This is My Song" #20
"Father,"Father" #21
"Milwaukee Polka" #23
"Changing Partners" #3

1954
"Cross Over the Bridge" #2
"My Restless Lover" #21
"Steam Heat" #8
"What a Dream" #10
"I Cried" #13
"The Mama Doll Song" #20
"I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango" #30
"Let Me Go Lover" #8

1955
"Croce di Oro" (Cross Of Gold) #16
"Piddily Patter Patter" -

1956
"Go on With the Wedding" #11
"My First Formal Gown" -
"Too Young to Go Steady" -
"Allegheny Moon" #2
"The Strangest Romance" -
"Mama From The Train" #11

1957
"Repeat After Me" -
"A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)" #14
"The Wall" -
"Old Cape Cod" #3
"Wondering" #12
"I'll Remember Today" #23

1958
"Belonging to Someone" #13
"Another Time, Another Place" #20
"Left Right Out of Your Heart (Hi Lee Hi Lo Hi Lup Up Up)" #9
"Fibbin'" #39
"Trust in Me" -

1959
"Walls Have Ears" -
"With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming" -
"Goodbye, Charlie"
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1960
"The Sound of Music" -
"Two Thousand, Two Hundred, Twenty-Three Miles" -
"One of Us (Will Weep Tonight)" #31
"I Wish I'd Never Been Born" -


1961
"Don't Read the Letter" -
"A City Girl Stole My Country Boy" -
"Mom and Dad's Waltz" -
"You'll Answer to Me" -
"A Broken Heart and a Pillow Filled with Tears" -
"Go on Home" -

1962
"Most People Get Married "#27
"The Boys' Night Out" -

1963
"I'm Walkin" -
"Pretty Boy Lonely" -
"Just a Simple Meldoy" -
"Say Wonderful Things" -

1964
"I Adore You" -

1965
"Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte" #8 (Last top 40 hit)
"You Can't Be True, Dear"
"Ribbons and Roses"

1966
"Custody"
"Till You Come Back To Me"
"In This Day and Age"
"Almost Persuaded"
"Music and Memories"

1967
"Walkin' - Just Walkin'"
"Same Old You"
"All The Time
"Happy Birthday,Jesus"

1968
"Gentle On My Mind"
"Little Green Apples"
"Stand by Your Man"

1969
"The Love Song"

1970
"I Wish I Had a Mommy Like You"

1971
"Give Him Love"
"Make Me Your Kind of Woman"
"I'd Rather Be Sorry"
"Think Again"
"Woman Left Lonely"

1973
"Hello, We're Lonely" (w/ Tom T. Hall)
"I Can't Sit Still"

1974
"Someone Came to See Me"
"I May Not Be Lovin' You"

1975
"Less Than the Song"

1981
"No Aces"
"A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)" (re-recording)
"On the Inside"

1982 "My Man Friday" #80

[Borderstone]

I just read on Billboard.com that she passed on yesterday,01/01/2013,at the age of 85. (She turned 85 just in this past November.)

No doubt one can only accentuate the positive when talking about her songs and her accomplishments as a recording artist. She had her first hit at age 21 with "Confess" in 1948 but really took off after "Tennessee Waltz" grabbed an incredibel amount of national success for her.

If there's any song that can make one weepy,especialy after a break up,that's certainly one of them,if not "the" one.

Between '48 and '55 all but one hit made the top 40. Even with rock & roll coming in that year,she still made the top 40,intermittedly until her final hit "Hush,Hush Sweet Charlotte" in 1965,reaching #8. A good way to end a top 40 run.

She still made the charts and her last Hot 100 hit was in 1982.... "My Man Friday" #80. Like most acts back then who stopped having pop hits,she made a good turn on the country charts.

I was glad to have collected her top 40 hits and to have seen her perform on 2004's "My Music special on PBS." Where she sang Tennessee Waltz and Old Cape Cod.



In tribute,I give to you folks all of her charted singles from Billboard.


RIP Patti Page,a class act with a classic voice. The kind we may not hear again in popular music.

[Cathy]

Mom used to sing her songs. She was an incredibly talented singer and performer. RIP Patti.

[fezo]

She had the number 1 song the day I was born! Tennessee Waltz. January 10, 1951