Word: pattiness
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...week, but maybe it's worth listening again for the girl-new talent." He played a few bars of a nondescript song by a pleasant, commonplace voice. "The girl, that's all there is to it," said someone over the noise. "Doesn't she sound like Patti Page?" said another. "Yeah, maybe too much." After a chorus Rolontz lifted the needle. Music Editor Joe Martin (formerly London Records' advertising manager) looked around the room. "O.K.? Put it in the book-as a talent pick." Gary Kramer (the philosophy student) jotted it down...
...Margutta enjoyed its golden age in the 19th century. Then the hill villages of Anticoli and Saracinesco, which have traditionally supplied artist models to the capital, still sent their handsomest daughters to Margutta studios. Fashionable painters gave parties at which young artists sipped champagne with Adelina Patti, Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. Wagner was so fascinated with Via Margutta that he considered settling down there. The Marguttiani, appalled at having their peace disturbed by "a German who writes futuristic music," were relieved when the composer abandoned the idea...
Butterflies (Patti Page; Mercury). The Doggie-in-the-Window girl turns up with more animals; this time they apparently appear in her own interior whenever she thinks of her true love. She tells about them to the tune of another simpleminded, bestseller-bound waltz...
Sandor sings in a surprisingly pleasant baritone, and his style is as good as that of most popular balladeers. In the cut-throat music world, nobody but Szabo expects his record to be a Patti Page-style bestseller. But he carries a satchelful wherever he goes, has personally sold 500 copies...
...tell whether the tune goes up or down, but I can't tell how far"). She disdains such long-hair affectations as warming up her voice ("What have I got to warm up?"). But in common with the new postwar generation of ballad vendors, including such contemporaries as Patti Page (Mercury), Peggy Lee (Decca), Joni James (M-G-M), Jo Stafford and Doris Day (both Columbia), Rosemary knows how to put a song across...