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Only a small slice of the world was listening the day a big-boned girl named Clara Anne Fowler stepped up to sing on Tulsa's KTUL. The program was a hillbilly affair sponsored by the Page Milk Co. Its sales-conscious title: "Meet Patti Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl from Oklahoma | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...large has yet to hear of the Page Milk Co., but since those dairyish days four years ago, only the deaf and the dead have escaped hearing the big, plain, healthy voice of "Patti Page." Three of her records, Tennessee Waltz, Would 1 Love You and Mockin' Bird Hill, are among the top eleven on the hit parade; since its release last fall, her Tennessee Waltz has sold some 2,300,000 copies-a feat which has won her a gold medal with a diamond in it from grateful Mercury Records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl from Oklahoma | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Whoops & Whistles. Last week Patti was proving her drawing power in the nation's capital. When the master of ceremonies introduced her ("the singing rage, Miss Patti Page"), Washington's big Capitol Theater rocked with wolf cries, whistles and cheers. In the wings, pretty, 23-year-old Patti, radiant in an orchid-colored strapless gown, sidetracked her gum back in her jaw, took a deep breath, switched on a neon smile and glided onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl from Oklahoma | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...usual, that was all it took to get Patti's audience in her lap. Part of the act: "I always try to smile at a woman in the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Girl from Oklahoma | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Mockin' Bird Hi!l (Patti Page; Mercury). Patti-duetting with Patti, thanks to the marvels of modern electronics-cooks up another waltz, country-style, for customers not yet fed to the teeth with Tennessee Waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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