'Flipside: The Patti Page Story' Bifurcates Its Subject
Patti Page should have written an autobiography, and not just because her small-town American origins and rapid rise to the top of show business make a sweet and inspiring story. Her career heyday in the early 1950s provides the perfect centerpiece for an examination of that relatively brief post–big band, pre-rock era in the country’s musical progression. But unless Page, now 85, writes that book, this b…