Patti Page, 'Tennessee Waltz' singer, dies at 85

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Patti Page Dies at 85; Music Legend of 1950s Due Lifetime Grammy Honors

Page, who lived at an Encinitas nursing home, sang "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?"

By Ken Stone



Funeral services were pending Wednesday for singer Patti Page, a music legend best known for The Tennessee Waltz.

Page died at an Encinitas nursing home Tuesday at age 85, according to NBC7/39 and Seacrest Village Retirement Communities, where she lived. The New York Times quoted Page on her enduring nice-girl image:

    In 1988, when she was 60, she told The Times: “I’m sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don’t think I’ve stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn’t mean to.”

She had been set to receive a lifetime achievement honor at the Grammy Awards next monthâ€"as was longtime Encinitas resident Ravi Shankar, an Indian sitar virtuoso who died Dec. 11, just one day before it was announced he would be recognized at the Grammys in February.

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