Patti Page

Best known for her 1951 million-selling country and pop smash "The Tennessee Waltz."

In 1957, she was deemed favorite female vocalist in the first nationwide audience poll taken on Dick Clark's "Bandstand" (1952).

Appears as one of the passengers in a boat in the 1961 Elvis Presley film "Blue Hawaii," which was choreographed by her then-husband Charles O'Curran.

In spite of the British invasion, she made a "top 10" record in 1965 with the title song for Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), the "grand guignol" chiller starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland. She performed the nominated song on the broadcast of The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965) (TV).

Is mentioned by name in the lyrics of Bruce Johnston's "Disney Girls" from the Beach Boys' album "Surf's Up" (1971).

Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1991.

Played Carnegie Hall for the first time on May 31, 1997. Captured on CD, "Patti Page Live at Carnegie Hall - the 50th Anniversary Concert" earned the singer her first Grammy Award.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6760 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.