Word: patty
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frankie Laine Time (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS). A new musical show. Guests: Duke Ellington, Patti Page...
...optimistic whispers could be heard through the seasonal uproar: Sponsor Oldsmobile promised to deliver no advertising messages during Singer Patti Page's Christmas show, while Manhattan's station WINS and New Jersey's WPAT went even further: they banned all commercials on Christmas...
...Hubert Parry's Job"; the closing lines are marked by a note of extreme sorrow: " He might have let Job alone . . . for, patient as we both are, there are limits to human endurance." Deadly insults march in disguise as compliments, as when Shaw wrote of Soprano Adelina Patti, after she had enjoyed 35 years of enormous popularity: "It is my firm belief that Patti is capable of becoming a great singer." Battle Lines. Shaw's criticisms are, almost to a word, a joy to read, even when the personalities are beyond memory. One reason: musical battle lines were...
Mama Doll Song (Patti Page; Mercury). Mother instinct takes over, with bosomy Patti lovingly imitating the cry of a mechanical doll in waltz tempo, all undisturbed by Freudian implications. Bestseller-bound...
...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...