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...second show they're all slightly tight. The third show they're loaded." She went from there to the Paramount Theater and later a 26-week contract alternating with Perry Como on radio's Chesterfield Supper Club. Soon she was rated the most-listened-to female vocalist and was the most frequently photographed sweater girl in radio. Her recording of Symphony sold 500,000 records. Her 1945 income: $125,000. She now tops all popular girl singers but velvet-voiced, $250,000-a-year Dinah Shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Girlish Voice | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...stage: a bread box in front of a Philadelphia store. Even then, her voice was hoarse, her hair stringy, her teeth protruding. But the Olney neighborhood liked her. By the time she was 17 she was singing in a Camden, N.J. nightclub, where she earned, as combination hatcheck-girl, vocalist and electrician, about $85 a week. The turning-point in her career came when she met a handsome, liquid-eyed insurance broker named Frank Kinsella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ugly Duckling | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...orchestras will play at the 1948 Jubilee, scheduled to run from 8 to 12 o'clock on May 26. George Greggory's band, including ten pieces and a vocalist, will supply music for dancers in the Kirkland dining hall, while Baron Hugo's sextet is to play for couples in the common room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUBILEE HIRES 2 ORCHESTRAS | 4/27/1945 | See Source »

George Trudeau and his orchestra will play in the hall which will be decorated in a naval motif. The House Committee has announced with pride that the services of a female vocalist have been accured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admiral Gygax Attends Navy Dance Tonight | 1/26/1945 | See Source »

Enrico Caruso Jr., 39, sometime playboy, onetime cinema bit-player, vocalist, who resembles his late, great tenor father in name only, announced that he would begin singing for his supper soon in Buffalo and Detroit nightclubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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