Y'all Come

 

Patti with Al Clauser & His Oklahoma Outlaws

Patti Page’s tremendous singing talent was discovered early. When the lead singer at local radio station KTUL came down with laryngitis, Patti jumped at the chance, auditioned and won the job. From her freshman year through her graduation in 1945, Patti Page would ride the bus from Daniel Webster High School downtown to KTUL, which was located on the top floors of Tulsa’s National Bank Building, record her show at 3:30 in the afternoon and then hit the downtown Tulsa clubs, such as the Benglair Club and Casa Loma Ballroom, where she would lend her vocals to acts from Al Clauser and His Oklahomans to Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. It was during her years at KTUL that Patti officially changed her name from Clara Ann Flower to Patti Page, a moniker inspired by the Page Milk Company, one of the program’s sponsors.    ...read more...

Here is  "Y'all come", a Mercury-Wing sampler album published in 1965.

 1 -Y'all Come
2 - I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
3 - Let Me Go Lover
4 - No One To Cry To
5 - A Poor Man's Roses (Or A Rich Man's Gold)
6 - Mom And Dad's Waltz
7 - The Old Spinning Wheel
8 - Mississippi Mud
9 - South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way)
10 - Let Me Call You Sweetheart

 What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch. I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. Each song, you're telling a story and acting.