Unforgettable songs like "Tennessee Waltz" and "(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window" made Patti Page the best-selling female singer of the 1950s and a star who would spend much of the rest of her ...

The old Patti Page song How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? takes on a different meaning in a country where dogs are sold not only to guard a sweetheart, as the song goes, or as a friend. Only last ...

“Patti Page.” That perkily generic name virtually screams Early ’50s, when sweet girls were attired in organdy dresses and spotless reputations, and when demure female vocalists sang of doggies in the ...