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BIG BAND JUMP Box 52252 Atlanta, GA 30355-0252 BIG BAND JUMP Presorted Standard Box 52252 U. S. Postage Atlanta, GA 30355-0252 PAID Atlanta, GA Permit No. 3259 I t i l i BAIVI! JIMP Rosemary Clooney assesses celebrities Kay Starr talks about her hits Marian McPartland’s SIDELIGHT Margaret Whiting coming up on BBJ BIG BAND JIMP NEWSLETTER VOLUME 117 BIG BAND JUMP NEWSLETTER JULY-AUGUST 2008 INTERVIEWS - ROSEMARY in tandem with her sister Betty, and then by herself. The CLOONEY & KAY STARR Clooney Sisters auditioned at WLW in Cincinnati sing­ ing STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT, resulting in a job singing for the station on a regular basis. The The singers were a vital part of the Big Band Era, sisters sang both as a team and individually for Tony and many of them became stars on their own after Pastor with one sideman recalling how shy Betty was, that time. Later subscribers have asked that we while Rosemary exuded confidence. The first question review some of those earlier singer conversa­ was about the Tony Pastor days. tions leading to this series of excerpts of key performers. Early in 2007 we published the first RC: That was a time Betty and I left the very place of these retrospective female vocalist interviews, I’m visiting now, Augusta, twenty miles away recalling Helen O ’Connell who was such a vital from where l was born in Kentucky. There were part of the Era. Our once-in-a-while recollec­ wonderful memories traveling with my sister. We tions in this issue concentrate on two singers who learned a lot together. She was the closest relationship are recalled more for their later individual star­ I had in my whole life. She was everything to me. She dom than for their Big Band connections. was my partner with music and she was the person I told every secret to. She was my inspiration for everything Rosemary Clooney - The Background good I’ve done in my life and I love my sister better than anybody. It was six years ago when our attempts to interview Tony Pastor was a wonderful Rosemary Clooney were musician and a wonderful singer, halted when she was ad­ and gave me my first really big mitted to a hospital to have break. He let me record with the a lung removed. Our band, and that was the way I got friend, veteran announcer the Columbia Records contract BillMillerhad interviewed and that was a big, big part of my her in late 2001 and was life. kind to let us use parts of his conversation with her. BBJ: Did you record any It turned out to be one of thing you were the last Clooney inter­ ashamed of? views, for she died on June 29, 2002 following RC: I think a lot of the complications of the lung tunes I did with Mitch operation. The interview Miller. After COME ON-A MY took place in Maysville, HOUSE was a hit, then I could Kentucky where Rose­ do something I wanted to do, but mary was to appear at it was difficult. PEACHTREE her third annual music STREET, the first record 1 did festival. with Sinatra, was a bad song but Young Rosemary that was his idea because he pub­ Rosemary Clooney had lished it. I can’t even blame Mitch been performing professionally sincethelate ‘40s, first for that. Mitch was responsible for the hits I had in the VOLUME 117 BIG BAND JUMP NEWSLETTER JULY-AUGUST 2008 ‘50s. It was an amazing time and you couldn’t find fault stood the songs and he loved tham and paid attention to with him because he was very determined to have his the words and always gave support where the singer own way. You can’t get away from the fact he had needed it. He knew my top note and he would have success, so you can argue with it but when it comes to seven brass under it before he would put it on the page. the final conclusion, it’s working, so back off. He was such a special person. BBJ: You’ve worked with some many greats. Kay Starr - The Background Would you give us your impression of some of them? Bing Crosby, for example. Kay Starr had been a Big Band singer with Joe Venuti and Charlie Barnet and for a short time with Glenn RC: Bing Crosby was a wonderful singer and to be Miller. The comments from Kay Starr came from an able to say I was a friend of Bing Crosby is interview by Richard Grudens, author of several celeb­ wonderful. I can’t believe it’s true. His daughter said rity books, and took place in Huntington, New York. She the most wonderful thing in a book when she was asked had been singing professionally since she was nine years to comment about Bing’s friends. She said, “My father old. The first question had to do with her radio appear­ had a lot of men friends and one woman friend, and that ances at that age. was Rosemary Clooney.” Coming from Mary Frances that was a big compliment because those kids knew me. KS: It was WRR at the Melba Theater in Dallas, It was a lovely experience being with Bing. I’m Texas, and it was for no pay. Then much later honored. I went with Joe Venuti and was with him every summer from when I was fourteen until I was sixteen....then BBJ: Bob Hope. briefly with Glenn Miller while Marion Hutton was sick. RC: Bob Hope is one of the joys of my life. I’m so BBJ: We read you had voice trouble when close to Bob and Delores. I you were with the Barnet band. have a story to tell you. It’s about his daughter Linda, who I did. After singing for three years with handles al I of the Hope Enter­ Charlie and singing over George prises and is very, very good Siravo’s arrangements, it ruined my voice at everything she does. She’s temporarily. A lot of people said it made me talking to Bob about a sensi­ have a different sound. The keys didn ’ t change tive subject, asking where he so I myself don’t know. It took a year to wanted to be buried; in Los recover and I started singing with just piano and Angeles or Palm Springs or they let me add bass after many weeks, then Arlington. He looked at his drams with no sticks, just brushes, for more daughter for a moment and weeks. It took me all that time before I was said, “Surprise me.” Ed. able to sing again with a full-blown band. I had Note: The ‘surprise’ turned to learn everything all over again like having to out to be the San Fernando walk from a crawl. Mission Cemetery. BBJ: Were the heavy Barnet sounds responsible? BBJ: Nelson Riddle. KS: Partially, because I think that ignorance is bliss. RC: Nelson Riddle was a wonderful friend person­ Charlie would say, “So your throat’s bad. Sing ally and possibly the best arranger I ever anyway.” Like an idiot I listened to him. I sang over, worked with. He loved working with singers... .witness around and under colds the whole time I was with the everything he did with Frank Sinatra. He really under­ Barnet band. As long as I could sing at all, Charlie 2 VOLUME 117 BIG BAND JUMP NEWSLETTER JULY-AUGUST 2008 wanted me out KS: I like the one the people like there singing and best. They would say to me, I listened to him “Don’t you ever get tired of doing and was always WHEEL OF FORTUNE?” Sometimes there but then fi­ I think I’m tired of it and I think maybe nally I developed people are tired of it, but what happens a sort of pneu­ is, every time I start to sing it, they smile monia and was and you can just feel the memories on the verge of starting. You can’t deny that’s what it’s throat polyps. all about. I’m a sort of frontier BBJ: How many copies of WHEEL woman....I don’t OF FORTUNE sold? get sick easily or stay sick very KS: I don’t have any idea....but long and it was overfive million. not my nature to faint, but I did for BBJ: You going to keep working? the first and only time in my life. KS: Long as anybody will hire me, Kay Starr I’ll sing. I’m not hard to get. BBJ: You were All you have to do is invite me and I’ll show up! only fifteen when the Miller re­ On July 21s', shortly after you receive this cordings were issue, Kay Starr will be 86. made. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR KS: I wanted to Letters to BIG BAND JUMP or the BBJ NEWSLET­ make those TER may be sent to the address below or e-mailed recordings so badly to [email protected]. When you e-mail, that I sang above please give your name and address. All letters are my key. Marion answered, but the volume of mail sometimes de­ (Hutton) sang one- lays a timely response. and-a-half octaves higher than I and, BBJ NEWSLETTER again, ignorance is Box 52252 bliss. I wanted to Atlanta, GA 30355 make those record­ ings and I didn’t Charlie Barnet The published letters have been edited for know what key they space considerations, but the meaning has been were in.
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