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50s Pop Vocal Jiver - B & A-Side Everest Records 9-19302 (1959)
Dolly Dawn (born: Theresa Maria Stabile, February 3, 1916 in Newark, New Jersey - die: December 11, 2002 ) was an American big band singer.
Her parents were Italian immigrants,
the jazz saxophonist Dick Stabile was a cousin.
As Billie Starr, she appeared weekly on a local radio show.
In 1935 she replaced Loretta Lee as vocalist with George Hall's orchestra, she was given the name Dolly Dawn by Harriet Mencken, a writer for the New York Journal-American.
She and the band broadcast six days a week from the Grill Room of the Taft Hotel in New York via CBS Radio, and became very popular.
Her most successful song with the band was "You're a Sweetheart", released in 1938.
On July 4, 1941, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, George Hall officially turned the band over to her, and became her manager; the band was renamed "Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol".
From 1942 she continued without the band, whose members were drafted during the Second World War.
She appeared in clubs and dance halls and in other engagements throughout the US, and continued to record into the 1950s.
Ella Fitzgerald said that she was an influence on her own singing.
On February 4, 1998, Dolly Dawn was inducted into the Big Band Hall of Fame in West Palm Beach, Florida.
She did not marry, she said her music was her husband and children.
She died in 2002 aged 86, at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey.
50s Pop Vocal Jiver - B & A-Side Everest Records 9-19302 (1959)
Dolly Dawn (born: Theresa Maria Stabile, February 3, 1916 in Newark, New Jersey - die: December 11, 2002 ) was an American big band singer.
Her parents were Italian immigrants,
the jazz saxophonist Dick Stabile was a cousin.
As Billie Starr, she appeared weekly on a local radio show.
In 1935 she replaced Loretta Lee as vocalist with George Hall's orchestra, she was given the name Dolly Dawn by Harriet Mencken, a writer for the New York Journal-American.
She and the band broadcast six days a week from the Grill Room of the Taft Hotel in New York via CBS Radio, and became very popular.
Her most successful song with the band was "You're a Sweetheart", released in 1938.
On July 4, 1941, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, George Hall officially turned the band over to her, and became her manager; the band was renamed "Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol".
From 1942 she continued without the band, whose members were drafted during the Second World War.
She appeared in clubs and dance halls and in other engagements throughout the US, and continued to record into the 1950s.
Ella Fitzgerald said that she was an influence on her own singing.
On February 4, 1998, Dolly Dawn was inducted into the Big Band Hall of Fame in West Palm Beach, Florida.
She did not marry, she said her music was her husband and children.
She died in 2002 aged 86, at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey.
