Word: babbo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Joni James (real name: Joan Carmella Babbo), 26, tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) jukebox thrush (Your Cheatin' Heart); and Anthony Acquaviva, 30, her manager; in Manhattan...
Four years ago, Joan Carmella Babbo graduated from Chicago's Bowen High School. Then she went to college for four years-but not to the academic kind. College for her was a succession of spotlighted floors where she learned to belt out popular songs...
...beer halls she learned how to use her voice, but she kept her unsophisticated manner. "Everybody in their life goes through different romantic phases," she decided. "All you have t do is remember real living, and put it into the song." By last winter, 22-year-old Joanie Babbo-known as Joni James-had graduated to a place among the top recording songbirds in the U.S. Three of her hits nestled simultaneously on bestseller lists: Why Don't You Believe Me?, Have You Heard? and Your Cheatin' Heart...