| Folk Song Favorites | ||||
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| Released | 1951 | |||
| Recorded | April – June 1951 [1] | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Producer | Jack Rael | |||
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Folk Song Favorites is an album by American singer Patti Page. It was released as a 10" long-playing record by Mercury Records, as catalog number MG-25101. [3] Orchestral accompaniment was directed by Jack Rael.
The album was reissued with 4 additional songs in 1955 as Romance on the Range . [4]
| Track number | Title | Songwriter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | "Down in the Valley" | Traditional |
| A2 | "Leanin' on the Old Top Rail" | Charles & Nick Kenny |
| A3 | "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" | Bob Nolan |
| A4 | "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" | Patsy Montana |
| B1 | "Detour" | Paul Westmoreland |
| B2 | "The Prisoner's Song" | Guy Massey |
| B3 | "Who's Gonna Shoe My Pretty Little Feet?" | Clara Ann Fowler / Jack Rael |
| B4 | "San Antonio Rose” | Bob Wills |
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Clara Ann Fowler, better known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer. Primarily known for pop and country music, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s, selling over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She was often introduced as "the Singin' Rage, Miss Patti Page". New York WNEW disc-jockey William B. Williams introduced her as "A Page in my life called Patti".
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The albums discography of American singer Patti Page contains 47 studio albums, 40 compilation albums, two live albums, three video albums, one box set and has made four album appearances. Page's self-titled debut studio album was released in 1950 and featured several of her charting singles from the previous two years. Mercury Records released all of Page's albums during the fifties decade. Many of the album were centered around themes, such as 1951's Folk Song Favorites and Christmas with Patti Page. Only some of her studio albums featured her popular singles, such as 1952's Tennessee Waltz. Instead, her singles were collected on a series of compilations such as 1955's Page 1 – A Collection of Her Most Famous Songs. Three more of these compilations appeared. The 1956 concept studio album, Manhattan Tower, was Page's first to make any album chart. It reached number 18 on the Billboard 200. Several more studio albums appeared on Mercury through 1959.
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