[78-L] 58 years of Cab, beat that

[Koen Kamphuijs & Gusta Harderwijk]

Seventy years in music business: Alberta Hunter, though not all the 
time.  She started in the lowest of Chicago clubs in 1914 but soon 
rose to fame with a five-year job in the Dreamland ballroom and a 
European tour. In 1954, at the age of 58 she decided to quit music 
business and started a course in a nursing school with a falsified 
highschool diploma and a falsified age (some 15 years off).  In 1977 
when she was 83, the nursing home where she worked sent her off for 
retirement and simple because she couldn't be inactive, she resumed 
her music career until her death aged 89.  See 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLoPKQZRjOQ to see this 87 year old 
lady singing some great double entendre blues.  And good.

Koen Kamphuijs

The Legends of the Rocking Dutchman: http://www.koenkamphuijs.nl/radio
A weekly radio show on the R&B of the forties and fifties


At 10:06 1-9-2013, you wrote:
>From: Dave Burnham <burnhamd at rogers.com>
> > Is Kitty Kallen still recording?  db
>
>No.  Although Kitty Kallen is still alive, her last recordings were 1964
>and she continued singing till 1967 till she was felled by blood clots,
>according to one of her closest friends, my YesterdayUSA.com
>broadcasting partner Walden Hughes.
>
>Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>On 2013-08-31, at 3:49 PM, David Weiner <djwein at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Carol Canning made her first 78 in 1941 and is still going strong at 92.
> > Singers Kay Starr and Kitty Kallen both first recorded in in 1939 and are
> > still at it, as is Bea Wain, who cut her first disc in 1934.
> >
> > Dave Weiner
> >
> > On 8/31/13 3:27 PM, "Erwin Kluwer" <ekluwer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Mark Reizen Performed from at least from1921 to1985 (64 years)
> >>
> >> Ralph Stanley has been on stage from1946 until now: almost 68 years
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Don Chichester <dnjchi78 at live.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> That would do it.
> >>>
> >>> Don
> >>>
> >>>> From: soundthink at live.com
> >>>> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:36:47 -0500
> >>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> >>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] 58 years of Cab, beat that
> >>>>
> >>>> Tony Martin was still performing until he died recently.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cary
> >>>>
> >>>> On Aug 31, 2013, at 1:34 PM, "Joe Scott" <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Cab Calloway made a recording of "St. James Infirmary" in 1988 for
> >>> Telarc that imo was as good as his '30s stuff. Who else sang in peak
> >>> form
> >>> over a recording career lasting at least about 58 years? I love Bob
> >>> Dylan's
> >>> "Early Roman Kings" and I'm rooting for him to sing well (okay, some of
> >>> the
> >>> time, granted) until at least 2019.
> >>>>> Joseph Scott
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