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QUEEN OF SWING / CONtINUED FROM PAGE 48 Partially due to her connections and The term ‘great’ is often overused, but,
help, the Musicaladers launched full on for Mildred Bailey, no other word does
Although most people don’t recall into the California music industry, and Bing her justice.
her name, the songs Bailey made famous Crosby’s history from that point forward is After her four-year gig with the Paul
still ring true—like “Rockin’Chair,” well known. Whiteman band, she went on to record
“All of Me,” “Thanks for the Memories,” “I was so lucky in knowing the great with such well-known artists as the
and more. jazz and blues singer, Mildred Bailey, so Dorsey Brothers and Benny Goodman. She
One name everyone remembers is Bing early in life,” Crosby once said. “I learned also sang on radio with the likes of George
Crosby. Few people know that much of his a lot from her. She made records, which Jesse and later sang at New York clubs.
early success was due to his friendship are still vocal classics, and she taught In 1944 CBS gave her a show of her
with Bailey. me much about singing and interpreting own, which ended in 1945.
For a period, Crosby was living in popular songs.” It was just six years later that she died
Spokane, Wash. Bailey had been living Crosby and Bailey’s brother Al intro- of heart failure in a New York hospital.
there at the time as well. He came to duced her to bandleader Paul Whiteman, who In 1994 the U.S. Postal Service issued a
know Bailey and her brothers, who were fronted what was likely the most popular stamp in Bailey’s honor, further indicat-
musicians in their own right, playing orchestra of the day. Whiteman put Mildred ing her prominence in the musical world
piano and sax. Her brothers eventually Bailey under contract to sing with his orches- over many years.
joined forces with Crosby, who played tra, which she did through the fall of 1932. Keefe still continues her efforts to have
drums at the time, to form a unit called This was all in the early stages of the Bailey’s name listed in the nation’s Jazz
the Musicaladers. Swing Era, about the time that such names Hall of Fame at the Lincoln Center of the
Meanwhile, Bailey moved to Los Angeles, as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday started Performing Arts.
Calif., to pursue her music career. She popping up. The name Mildred Bailey deserves
encouraged Crosby and her brothers to join In 1944, Time Magazine ran a review of recognition nationally and, perhaps even
her. They did, staying with her until they her show in New York saying, “she is just more so, throughout her own home state.
could afford an apartment of their own. about the greatest songbird in the U.S.” MSN
