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Thanks
to REAL
GONE MUSIC
- Many of Patti's '60s Recordings With the passing of Patti Page on New Year's Day of this year - just weeks before she was schedule to receive the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award - America lost one of its most distinctive and distinguished musical voices, the #1-selling female artis of the '50s and a remarkably versatile singer equally at home in the pop and country genres. Virtiaully all Page retrospectives have concentrated on her '50s recordings for the Mercury label, but she had a very successful second act to her career while recording during the '60s for the Columbia label, where she scored a dozen chart hits.
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Now,
to honor her singular talent and enduring recording
legacy, Real Gone Music is training its collector's
eye on Patti Page's Columbia recordings with two essential
anthologies. The first, The Complete Columbia Singles
1962-1970, includes all 51 single sides (plus a
bonus track) she released on the Columbia label, featuring
all 12 of the aforementioned hits and many impossible-to-find
non-album tracks previously only available on 45 rpm
vinyl. The second, From Nashville to L.A. - The Lost
Columbia Masters serves up a full 24 previously
unreleased tracks including a number of country-flavored
tracks she recorded in Nashville. Both packages are
annoted by lifelong Page fan and friend Alan Eicher,
and include plenty of photos, including some from the
family's private archive, with remastering at Sony's
own Battery Studios. Any admirer of Patti Page is gong
to flip over these packages!
