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Kay Starr
12+ albums
jazzfemale vocalistsswing50soldies
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Kay Starr (Katherine Laverne Starks, July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016) was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 1950s. Kay Starr was successful in every field of music she tried, jazz, country and pop. But her roots were in jazz, Billie Holiday, considered by many the greatest jazz singer of all time, called Starr "the only white woman who could sing the blues." She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Rock And Roll Waltz". Kay Starr was born on a reservation in Dougherty, Oklahoma. Her father, Harry, was a full-blooded Iroquois Indian; her mother, Annie, was of mixed Irish and American Indian heritage. When her father got a job installing water sprinkler systems, the family moved to Dallas, Texas. While her father worked for the Automatic Sprinkler Company, her mother raised chickens, and Kay used to sing to the chickens in the coop. As a result of the fact that her aunt, Nora, was impressed by her singing, she began to sing at the age of seven on a Dallas radio station, WRR, first in a talent competition where she finished third one week and won every week thereafter, then with her own weekly fifteen minute show. She sang pop and "hillbilly" songs with a piano accompaniment. By the age of ten, she was making $3 a night, a lot of money in the Depression days. As a result of her father's changing jobs, her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and she continu
top songs
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(Everybody's Waitin' For) the Man With the Bag
166,7022(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag - Remastered 1996
87,4673So Tired
64,6964Wheel of Fortune
52,3765The Man With the Bag
28,4036Side by Side
27,8627I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (STUHR Remix)
27,4258) The Man in the Bag
20,8729Baby, Won't You Please Come Home - Remastered 2002
20,73110C'est Magnifique - Remastered
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