Word: kappelhoff
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...abandoned serious composing and now sees himself as "a latter-day alchemist, compounding dross voices with banal notes to produce gold." Novelist Ishlon insists that Anna Lou Schreckengost is no one in particular. She could be an approximation of Cincinnati's Doris Kappelhoff, who-with 1946-3 Sentimental Journey-made famous her new name, Doris Day. But coincidence falls closer to Norma Jean Speran:a, a teenager from a small town in western Pennsylvania who came to the attention of Columbia A. & R. Man Mitch Miller ii 1953, when an ambitious disk jockey sent him a tape. Norma Jean...
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