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Birthdays on the Tube, 8-15 November
by Peter CulshawSaturday, 7 November 2009

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8 November, 1927: Patti Page was the Madonna of her time, selling over 100 million records. "The Tennessee Waltz" was her biggest hit, being number one in the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Jerry Springer picked the song last week as one of his Desert Island Discs.

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8 November, 1944: Twenty years after Patti Page, women singers were looking a bit different. Bonnie Bramlett here sings "Getting to know you so well" with husband Delaney in 1970.

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9 November, 1959: Thomas Quasthoff, 50 this week, has forged a major reputation as a classical singer but he also has a jazzy side as seen here in an improvisation with Bobby McFerrin, who is still trying to live down "Don't worry, be happy" at a jazz festival in Vienna in 1980.

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8 November, 1980: Classical guitarist Ana Vidovic performing Isaac Albeniz's Asturias at the New York Guitar Festival's third biennial Guitar Marathon at the 92nd Street Y's Kaufman Auditorium in 2006.

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14 November, 1927: A more mature style of classical guitar. Narciso Yepes plays an extract from Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.

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10 November, 1941: Kyu Sakamoto's most popular song, "Ue o muite arukō" ("I look up when I walk") was popular in Japan and the United States. Released by Capitol Records in the US as "Sukiyaki", it topped the Billboard pop charts in the United States for three weeks in 1963 - to date the only song sung entirely in Japanese to do so.

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