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...dance and sing on street corners. I never did anything real wrong, but I landed in juvenile hall sometimes." At eleven she played Mae West in a school theatrical, and began doing well on amateur nights in Detroit theaters. At 14, she became a vocalist for a band of high-school boys. At 15, tired of waiting to be discovered, she packed off with some musicians to dazzle Manhattan, which refused to be dazzled. Somebody gave her the fare to get home. After that, Betty, just past her first year in high school, went to school no more...
Lopez decided that his vocalist, whom he had first billed as Betty Jane, deserved a new name. A firm believer in numerology, he let the numbers lead him to "Hutton." "I tried to get a vibration that would make her a lot of money," he says. "It was a five-eight vibration. After that she did fine." By the time the band played Billy Rose's Casa Mañana, Betty had whipped her own vibrations into enough of a frenzy to dazzle Manhattan at last-and to make Rose caution her not to "tear down my theater...
Margaret took to the road as vocalist with a dance band, soon learned that "it doesn't matter how sweet you sing, you're lost if you don't feel the beat and send it into your audience." In addition to the beat, she picked up her own silky, just-between-us-two way with a song. "You have to sing it to one person," she says. "The listener has to feel, 'Why, she's singing...
Even when Monroe records (There I've Said It Again, Ballerina, et al.) began selling like hot cakes (5,000,000 in 1948) and his name began to climb toward the top of popularity polls for the country's most popular male vocalist and bandleader, he still kept up his barnstorming. (He still averages 200 one-night stands, covers 50,000 miles a year.) A small-town boy himself, he was never too busy to launch local Community Chest or Christmas Seal drives...
...Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Drummer Cozy Cole, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Bass Fiddler Arvell Shaw, plus Vocalist Velma Middleton...