Volume 183: Six Pages of Patti on 78

Let's finish the first half of the year by turning up the speed. Let’s make it a 78 RPM Sunday.

What better voice to do that with than one who sold over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She topped the Hot 100 FOUR times and had several songs in the top 10 and 20 over the years. In fact, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s.

She was also an early pioneer of a specific recording technique.

So, get ready to hear the woman often introduced as the Singin’ Rage in Volume 183: Six Pages of Patti on 78.

00:00 - Season's Show Intro
00:51 - Episode Introduction
01:46 - Little Crazy Quilt
04:19 - First Break: Why I chose these records for this episode and a M*A*S*H connection
05:49 - Cabaret
08:44 - Second Break: More information about the records, marketplace value and what condition my dad's shellac is in.
10:11 - Whispering
12:31 - Third Break: Patti Page Bio 
16:18 - Hocus Pocus
18:26 - Fourth Break: this episode's Interesting Side Note.
20:23 - Let Me Go, Lover
22:45 - Quick Extra break to introduce bonus cut
23:16 - Doodle Doo Do
25:43 - Sixth Break: Final Words
27:02 - Keep Me in Mind
29:18 - Close

Credits and copyrights

Little Crazy Quilt
Jack Rael And His Orchestra
Written-By – Hal David and Leon Carr
Released in 1955

Cabaret
Written by Al Russell - Joel Cowan
Recorded 24 April 1949 New York City - with an Orchestra Conducted by Mitch Miller.

Whispering
written by Vincent Rose, Richard Coburn, John Schonberger, Malvin Schonberger
Recorded 24 April 1949 New York City - with an Orchestra Conducted by Mitch Miller.

Hocus Pocus
from Mercury 70511 78 rpm
with Jack Rael and his orchestra - arranged by Joe Reisman
Music by David Saxon - Lyrics by Norman Gimbel

Let Me Go, Lover
Written by Jenny Lou Carson - Al Hill, which is a Pseudonym for Kay Twomey - Fred Wise - Ben Weisman
Recorded Circa October 1954

Doodle Doo Do
Ken Griffin on Organ
Jerry Wayne on Vocals
written by Art Kassel, Mel Stitzel
Released March 1948

Keep Me in Mind
This early Bacharach song was co-written with Jack Wolf and published by Famous Music. Both the different composer, Zing-Wexler, and publisher names credited on the label were erroneously referring to a different song with the same title.
Released in 1955

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.