ABSTRACT
Consciously or not, most artists reach a point of no return: can’t go home again; can’t go back to the local clubs; can’t marry the boy or girl down the street. The only way is forward. For Patti Page, that realization came early. It came before her first hit, even before her first record. She was a nightclub singer in Chicago when her manager persuaded the local press to take some notice of her. In one of those first interviews, Patti said, perhaps as much to herself as to the interviewer, “I can’t ever settle for Tulsa again.”
