 It was a "Golden Celebration" marking a luminous career that has spanned six decades. An American icon walked onto the Carnegie Hall stage with the first of eight standing ovations that punctuated her debut performance at this hallowed venue. Fans from several generations paid homage to "That Singing Rage, Miss Patti Page." In fitting tribute, Mercury Records concurrently released a retrospective CD box set of 80 songs culled from her more than 100 albums and 160 singles (84 of which made Billboard's Top 40). Patti's three gold albums and fifteen gold singles include such big hits as "Old Cape Cod", "Allegheny Moon" and "Doggie In The Window." Her biggest hit, "Tennessee Waltz," sold over ten million copies and is the largest selling single by a female artist. As one writer put it, "It is abundantly clear that 'The Singing Rage' is a true godmother of contemporary pop." (With more than 100 million record sales to date) "It seems impossible that Patti Page could be anything other than the biggest-selling female singer of all time." Since the 60"s Patti has made Nashville her recording base and leaned more and more on her "country" roots in Oklahoma. Other country hits have included "You Can't Be True Dear," "The Same Old You," "Gentle On My Mind," "Little Green Apples," My Man Friday," "Hello, We're Lonely" (with Tom T. Hall) and she teamed with George Jones on the Epic recording "You Never Looked That Good When You Were Mine" featured on the Top 10 Album Wine Colored Roses. Patti's talents have brought success in other mediums as well. As the only musical performer in history to have her own weekly series on all three networks. NBC aired "The Scott Music Hall" twice weekly. CBS presented Patti in a fifteen minute show, followed by a lavish one-hour weekly show called The Big Record, and ABC followed with The Patti Page Show. In 1980 Patti was honored with the prestigious Pioneer Award from the Academy of Country Music for her major contributions as the first artist to perfect the multiple-voice technique as well as the first major cross-over artist to popularize country music to the general public. She was one of the original inductees on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame". In 1983 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame". Recently she was inducted into the newly formed "Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame", and has received her star on the "Country Walk of Fame" in Nashville.
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