Patti Page

10 CD box set that includes fourteen of the best (and rarest) original Christmas jazz albums from Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Ramsey Lewis, Till Brönner and Stan Kenton. Plus jazz-inflected albums by June Christy, Patti Page, Johnny Mathis, Charles Brown and many more.

With this box, we give a detailed overview of the most successful female popartists of the 50's. The first box of this series was dedicated to the "Rock `N`Roll Girls" whereas this box focuses on the "Ladies Of Pop Music". 160 of the 200 songs of this 10-CD-Set entered the charts, 29 songs, even hit #1. All great female voices of this era can be heard here: Doris Day, Connie Francis,Rosemary Clooney, Brenda Lee, Jo Stafford, Marilyn Monroe, Kay Starr, TeresaBrewer, Patti Page, Ruth Brown, Lavern Baker, Alma Cogan, Petula Clark, just to name a few.

Mercury Records was founded in 1945 and originally only signed black artists. By 1962, the year of our compilation, they had recruited a host of new artists of all hues which made Mercury the dominant force in jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll and pop in the US. These artists included Little Richard, Dolly Parton, George Jones, Jivin' Gene, Clyde McPhatter, Charles Aznavour, Quincy Jones, Patti Page, Ray Stevens and many more.