Word: vocalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night Dunham showed up with a girl who could sing. He had met Barbara Leacock, Wellesley '51, on a blind date. The good-looking brunette had a voice that pleased Dunham's fellow musicians and she became a featured vocalist on the band's College engagements during the following year. They put on two concerts in the Lowell House Junior Common Room and broadcast Monday nights...
...dance and sing on street corners. I never did anything real wrong, but I landed in juvenile hall sometimes." At eleven she played Mae West in a school theatrical, and began doing well on amateur nights in Detroit theaters. At 14, she became a vocalist for a band of high-school boys. At 15, tired of waiting to be discovered, she packed off with some musicians to dazzle Manhattan, which refused to be dazzled. Somebody gave her the fare to get home. After that, Betty, just past her first year in high school, went to school no more...
Lopez decided that his vocalist, whom he had first billed as Betty Jane, deserved a new name. A firm believer in numerology, he let the numbers lead him to "Hutton." "I tried to get a vibration that would make her a lot of money," he says. "It was a five-eight vibration. After that she did fine." By the time the band played Billy Rose's Casa Mañana, Betty had whipped her own vibrations into enough of a frenzy to dazzle Manhattan at last-and to make Rose caution her not to "tear down my theater...
Margaret took to the road as vocalist with a dance band, soon learned that "it doesn't matter how sweet you sing, you're lost if you don't feel the beat and send it into your audience." In addition to the beat, she picked up her own silky, just-between-us-two way with a song. "You have to sing it to one person," she says. "The listener has to feel, 'Why, she's singing...