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...Queen of the West" who rode across both big and little screens in two TV shows and nearly 40 films alongside celluloid cowboy husband Roy Rogers; in Apple Valley, California. A single, teenage mother in Uvalde, Texas, Evans worked as a stenographer before launching a career as a radio singer and songwriter who would win a place in the all-time hit parade with the king of cowboy songs, Happy Trails...
David Gray was flying blind. The English singer-songwriter was on a plane last year, 10,000 m in the air, on his way to another gig in another city-part of a dizzying 12-month tour-when he realized that he had no idea, as he says now, "where the bloody hell I was or where I was going." He checked the time on his watch, but that was broken too. "I thought, ?Well that's absolutely the way my bloody life is going.' One day I'm in Zimbabwe and the next I'm on the North Pole...
...rock 'n' roll spectrum," Gray nearly gave up before deciding to turn his life-and career-around. "It had become a little claustrophobic to sit there with a guitar with the weight of all my failings on me," he says. "I was sick of being the angsty singer-songwriter. I wanted to enjoy the music...
...talking pictures - we can't think of another - who hadn't previously been paid to talk. Most of the other imports to Hollywood had honed their verbal skills on the Broadway or vaudeville stage; reading dialogue was nothing new to them. Crosby had read only lyrics: he was a singer, part of Paul Whiteman's trio The Rhythm Boys. Who could even guess that, when the group broke up in 1930, Bing would be successful as a solo singer, let alone as a movie idol...
...Crosby style full-born in "I Surrender, Dear" (1931), the first of nine short films he would make for producer Mack Sennett. Already he is cast as himself, sort of: "Bing Crosby." Already he is the famous singer all the girls adore. Already he plays pranks on the unwary and has a comedy abettor, an ur-Hope wise guy played by Arthur Stone. Somehow, though, he made the prankishness look like the inevitable spillover of a frat-house exuberance...