Patti Page, one of the most successful pop stars of the '50s - famed for hits such as "Tennessee Waltz" and "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" - died on Tuesday in Encinitas, Calif., the New York Times reports. She was 85. Seacrest VIllage Retirement Communities, where she lived, confirmed her death to the Times on Wednesday. Page's songs sold millions - "Tennessee Waltz" spent months atop the pop, country and R&B charts and sold a total of 10 million copies - but her singing style and sentimental hits, though favored by the public, did not always receive critical praise.
- 1/2/2013
- PEOPLE.com
Patti Page, the legendary pop singer whose musical success spawned several television series of her own in the 1950s, has died. Page passed away on New Year’s Day in Encinitas, CA, at age 85. She had more than 100 chart hits during her decades-long career, including such pop classics as “(How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window”, “Old Cape Cod” and “Tennessee Waltz”. She was a regular on several music and variety shows during television’s Golden Age, including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Steve Allen Show. Those led to a Patti Page special on ABC, and later to consecutive series of her own on all three major networks; she was nominated for an Emmy in 1959 for ABC’s Patti Page Show. She also starred in Scott Music Hall Presents Patti Page, a summer replacement series on NBC that gave birth to the twice-weekly syndicated Oldsmobile Presents — Patti Page.
- 1/2/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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