How much is that doggie?

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

Patti Page, the “Singing Rage” who stumbled across Tennessee Waltz and made it one of the best-selling recordings ever, has died. She was 85.

Page died on New Year’s Day in Encinitas, California, according to publicist Schatzi Hageman.

Page was the top-selling female singer of the 1950s with more than 100 million records sold. Her most enduring songs remain Tennessee Waltz, one of two songs the state of Tennessee has officially adopted, and How Much Is That Doggie in the Window.

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15 Responses to How much is that doggie?

stackja

#688339, posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:06 pm

The “Singing Rage” of my childhood. That ages me!
Louis Hissink

#688356, posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:35 pm

Sinc, stop it, I am ageing as I type this!

Mind you I also suddenly realised I have not had to publish an Obituary in AIG News for a while – I wonder if geological deaths are correlated with the peaks and troughs of the business cycle? (Don’t count academics, only industry types).

Logic is sound of course – geology enrolments in Uni always peak at the end of the business cycle. Those who survive the previous cycle to then make hay, or ore during the next would then cluster statistically.

Might be an interesting honours thesis for someone.
Gab

#688364, posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:40 pm

Geologists never die. They just rock on.
Tom

#688365, posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:40 pm

I love Tennessee, having lived there briefly and, since one of the magic moments in my life was listening to Patsy Cline’s Crazy on the car CD on a narrow country road one moonlit summer night beneath the state’s famous tall tree canopy driving between Leiper’s Folk and Nashville, may I recommend this.
Rossini

#688377, posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:48 pm

A lovely lady at the “SOC” Club in Bentleigh East
Sings How Much Is That Doggie in the Window almost every fortnight at the Karaoke venue.
Tom

#688380, posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:52 pm

Woops. Leiper’s Fork – a pretty little village that’s the home of, among other things, the world’s most famous Dodge Charger, the General Lee (Dukes of Hazzard).
Rafe

#688382, posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:56 pm

Ah the Fifties!

You just had to be there…

Ritchie Benaud, Davo, Slasher Mackay…Wally Grout, Lou Richards, Ted Whitten…
Louis Hissink

#688384, posted on January 3, 2013 at 10:00 pm

Rafe,

And Oi bee cee ennouncers who could talk proper like James Dibble.
Leigh Lowe

#688386, posted on January 3, 2013 at 10:12 pm

If Bert and Pattie had been stricter with the lad when he was younger, he wouldn’t be in this pickle today.
Verandah

#688522, posted on January 4, 2013 at 3:47 am

I was born in ’52.
I quite clearly remember being on my mother’s knees being rocked by her tapping feet listening to this song on the radio.
Mike of Marion

#688546, posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:18 am

Ah, circa 1960 – an FJ ute with battleship grey paint, when petrol was about 1s/11d a gallon. When you could have a civil discussion with a traffic cop about being a dill and not getting booked.

Memories …
hzhousewife

#688643, posted on January 4, 2013 at 10:35 am

Ahhhh, memories of Dad singing in the cowshed, Doggie, Wolverton Mountain, Let the Sun Shine in etc etc ….. (born ’51). Poor ol dad couldn’t quite get his head around “Rock Around the Clock”, but we kids were busting to launch into the 60′s !
Viva

#688806, posted on January 4, 2013 at 1:17 pm

The first song I remember

Put another nickel in
in the Nickelodeon
all I want is having you
and music music music

Tempus fugit
Scott

#688912, posted on January 4, 2013 at 3:30 pm

And today, we have Pink and Lady Gaga.

We’re definitely devolving.
Jessie

#689535, posted on January 5, 2013 at 3:27 am

Wonderful clip, my favourite, thank you Tom.
And SD for posting news.

Patsy Cline, another wonderful singer sadly lost.