YouTube – Kay Starr – If You Love Me, Really Love Me (1954)
THE LIVES OF DEAD JAZZ SINGERS
Kay Starr
born…………………………………………..father Iroquois
…………………………………………………mother Cherokee, Choctaw and Irish
discovered………………………………….in a coop
…………………..serenading…………chickens
offered…………a radio program…………..15 minutes 3 times per week
…………..paid……………………..chicken feed
toured………………the mid-west
………..Canada……………………….with her mother
……….who posed……………………as her sister
worked into………..exhaustion
………………………..pneumonia
6 months…………..without singing……………..without speaking
in the despair………of silence
a new voice was born.
………………..
b. Katherine Laverne Starks in 1922. Later changed her name to Starr. Father was Native. Mother was mixed. Some Irish. Her mother raised chickens. Kay serenaded them in their coop. What a sweet voice she has. Chickens laid a lot of eggs. Everything came out so smooth. Her aunt arranged for her to sing on a Dallas radio station. A little kid and that big mike. She soon had her own show. Moved to Tennessee. At 15 she was singing with the Joe Venuti orchestra. Became a star. Her voice warbling across the airways in the mid-west. Moved to different bands. Retired for a year. Nodes on her vocal cords. Lost her voice. Did not speak or sing for six months. Sang with her hands. Returned with a deeper huskier voice. They called it her Trademark.
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