LIVING LEGEND OF THE MONTH Cont'd from Part 1
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JOHNNY CARSON and pert thrush JILL COREY are all set for General
Foods' fall series of The Johnny Carson Show, which starts
Thursday, October 6, at 10:00 p.m. New York time over CBS television.
Besides Carson, Jill is the only regular member of the show's cast.
Jill, just 34, was left alone to provide for daughter Clare, then four years old, ironically the same age Jill was when she lost her own mother. Ever perceptive and resourceful, Jill knew well that a singer in the classic traditions would find little opportunity in the 1970’s world of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Neither was it likely that she would ever again become the fixture on television that she was for most of the decade of the 1950’s. But there was still musical theater, and there was cabaret. Those were the roads Jill would choose for her second career, and ultimately they would lead to her sold-out one-woman show at Carnegie Hall on October 20, 1989. As for the milestones along the way during the twenty-year journey, the critics’ reviews which follow speak eloquently of her many triumphs.
Photo: Cover of the recently released CD “Jill Corey’s Little Girl Blue.”
Just released by the AUDIOPHONIC Rare Music Division is a new two-CD set, Little Girl Blue, featuring the delightful Jill Corey. Singing professionally starting at age 14, she signed with Columbia Records at 17 and debuted on national television as lead singer on the Dave Garroway Show just two days following her eighteenth birthday. The meteoric rise of one of the great singing stars of the 50’s is chronicled in this two-CD set of beloved standards, including I’m Just a Little Girl, the Trolley Song and, of course, the title tune, which Miss Corey sang on her many syndicated radio programs throughout the decade. The CD set is currently available from World Records or through 69th Avenue Recording (info@69avenue.com) and soon from other outlets featuring classic reissues. Much more on Jill Corey and her career can be found at her website, www.jillcorey.drw.net. Data supplied by Mr. Albert J. Kopec.
