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She found success with her third single ("Confess" b/w "Twelve O'Clock Flight"). The arrangement of "Confess" was meant to use a backing chorus, but Mercury would not pay for one since Page had not yet produced a charting single, so if she wanted additional singers she would have to hire them at her own expense. Instead, her manager Jack Rael decided to try an experiment. [[Bill Putnam]], an engineer for Mercury Records, was able to overdub Page's voice by syncing the two master discs together--tape recording was not in use yet and this technique was difficult to pull off.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.oregonlive.com/celebrity-news/2013/01/singer_patti_page_dies_at_85.html | title=Singer Patti Page dies at 85 | date=January 3, 2013 }}</ref><ref name=contemporary>{{cite web |url=http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/page-patti-biography |title=Contemporary musicians – Patti Page biography| work=Contemporary Musicians |publisher=End Notes.com |access-date=July 23, 2008}}</ref> Thus, Page became the first pop artist to harmonize her own vocals on a recording. This gimmick got
"Confess" to #12 on the
In 1950, Page had her first million-selling single "[[With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming]]", another song where she harmonized her vocals. Because she was overdubbing her vocals, Page's name had to be listed on the recording credits as a group. According to one early 1950s chart, Page was credited as the Patti Page Quartet. In mid-1950, Page's single "[[All My Love (Bolero)]]" became her first #1 on the Billboard<ref name=allmusic/> spending five weeks there. That same year, she also had her first top-10 hit with "[[I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine]]", as well as the top-25 single "[[Back in Your Own Backyard]]". With this success, Page earned the privilege of releasing her first LP, the self-titled "Patti Page" which opened with "Confess" and included other of her singles from this period. She also released a Christmas album in 1951; this was reissued five years later with updated cover art on a 12" LP with a few new tracks to fill the run time out.
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The success of "Bolero" however was quickly eclipsed by what soon became Page's signature song. "Tennessee Waltz" was written in 1946 by Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart, and was recorded in 1947 by [[Pee Wee King]] and His Golden West Cowboys. Their original version made the country charts in 1948. The song was also a hit for [[Cowboy Copas]] around the same time. Page was introduced to the song by record producer [[Jerry Wexler]], who suggested that she cover a recent R&B version by the [[Erskine Hawkins]] Orchestra. Page liked the song, and she recorded and released it as a single.
"Tennessee Waltz" became a blockbuster hit by complete accident--it was the B-side to "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus" which Mercury had intended to promote during the 1950 holiday season. The label intentionally put "Tennessee Waltz" on the disc to avoid drawing attention away from a planned Christmas hit, as they considered the song a throwaway with no hitmaking potential. To everyone's complete surprise, it went on to spent five weeks at #1 during December 1950-January 1951, while "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus" failed to chart at all and was quickly forgotten. "Tennessee Waltz" also became Page's second single to appear on the country charts, becoming her biggest hit there, reaching number two. The song later became one of the best-selling records of its era, selling 7 million copies in the early 1950s. "Tennessee Waltz" remains the biggest commercial success for the overdubbing technique, pioneered by producer [[Mitch Miller]], which enabled Page to harmonize with herself.<ref name=contemporary/> "Tennessee Waltz" was the last song to sell one million copies of sheet music. The song was covered by several other singers during the next few months
The song was featured in the 1970 film ''[[Zabriskie Point (film)|Zabriskie Point]]'' and in the 1983 film ''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]''.<ref name=Patti>{{cite web |url=http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/patti.html |title=Patti Page – The Singing Rage |publisher=Earthlink.com |access-date=July 23, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016081908/http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/patti.html |archive-date=October 16, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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===Adult contemporary and country music: 1966–1982===
Before releasing "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte", Page signed with [[Columbia Records]], where she remained until the end of the decade. She released a few studio albums for Columbia in the 1960s. In 1961, her singles began to chart on the [[Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks]] chart. Many of these singles became hits, peaking in the top 20, including cover versions of "[[You Can't Be True, Dear]]", "[[Gentle on My Mind (song)|Gentle on My Mind]]", and "[[Little Green Apples]]" (the last being her final appearance on the Billboard). Page, who as an Oklahoma native was well-acquainted with country music, recorded many country songs over the years. Some of these were recorded for Columbia and were released as adult contemporary singles, including [[David Houston (singer)|David Houston's]] "[[Almost Persuaded (song)|Almost Persuaded]]" and [[Tammy Wynette]]'s "[[Stand by Your Man]]". With Page's viability on the pop charts diminishing as she got older and with a radically changed cultural climate in America during the late 1960s, she decided to focus solely on country recordings. In 1970 she left Columbia and came back to Mercury. In 1973, she returned to working with her former record producer [[Shelby Singleton]].<ref name=oldies/>
Working for Mercury, Columbia, and Epic in the 1970s, Page recorded a series of country singles, beginning with 1970's "I Wish I Had a Mommy Like You", which became a top-25 hit, followed by "Give Him Love", which had similar success. In 1971, she released the country music album ''I'd Rather Be Sorry'' for Mercury records. In 1973, a duet with country singer [[Tom T. Hall]] titled "Hello, We're Lonely" was a top-20 hit, reaching number 14 on the [[Hot Country Songs|''Billboard'' country chart]].
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