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Betty Clooney
Elizabeth Ann Clooney (April 12, 1931 – August 5, 1976) was an American singer, TV presenter and pioneer who briefly rose to fame in the 1950s with her sister Rosemary Clooney. She led a very short solo career, with songs like "Kiki" and "You're All I See". She married actor and musician Pupi Campo in 1955, and they had four children.
Elizabeth Ann Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky. She was the second of three children, her older sister was Rosemary Clooney, her younger brother was Nicholas Joseph Clooney, and her nephew was actor George Clooney.[citation needed]
Her father was a house painter with a drinking problem.
Rosemary and Betty Clooney were a close sister act and sang together. The family lived in Cincinnati in the early 1940s, where the girls continued to vocalize. In 1945, the sisters won a spot on Cincinnati's WLW Radio Station as singers. One day they were heard by Tony Pastor (bandleader). The bandleader originally hesitated to hire both sisters but soon relented, and so The Clooney Sisters hit the road with the Pastor band. They appeared in a movie short with the Pastor Orchestra in 1947. The Clooney Sisters recorded a number of songs for Columbia with the Tony Pastor Band like "The Secretary Song", "I'm My Own Grandpa", and "If I Had a Million Dollars".
In 1950 Clooney performed in Cincinnati on television station WLWT. Not only was she a featured singer on the station's main program (called The 50-50 Club and broadcast on TV as well as radio), she also hosted her own shows called Teen Canteen and Boy Meets Girl.[citation needed]
Betty also pursued a brief solo career, signing with R&B label King Records, releasing several singles including "Sisters" and "Kiki".
In the early 1950s, she was featured on the 15-minute weekday radio program The Three Suns With Betty Clooney on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
A nightclub career followed, including appearances at the Starlight Roof at the Waldorf Astoria, New York. A 1954 review of her performance at The Black Orchid in Chicago, Illinois, commented, "Betty Clooney, a much more vibrant and projecting personality than her sister, Rosemary, opened here to an audience that fell immediately to her contagious charm."
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Betty Clooney
Elizabeth Ann Clooney (April 12, 1931 – August 5, 1976) was an American singer, TV presenter and pioneer who briefly rose to fame in the 1950s with her sister Rosemary Clooney. She led a very short solo career, with songs like "Kiki" and "You're All I See". She married actor and musician Pupi Campo in 1955, and they had four children.
Elizabeth Ann Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky. She was the second of three children, her older sister was Rosemary Clooney, her younger brother was Nicholas Joseph Clooney, and her nephew was actor George Clooney.[citation needed]
Her father was a house painter with a drinking problem.
Rosemary and Betty Clooney were a close sister act and sang together. The family lived in Cincinnati in the early 1940s, where the girls continued to vocalize. In 1945, the sisters won a spot on Cincinnati's WLW Radio Station as singers. One day they were heard by Tony Pastor (bandleader). The bandleader originally hesitated to hire both sisters but soon relented, and so The Clooney Sisters hit the road with the Pastor band. They appeared in a movie short with the Pastor Orchestra in 1947. The Clooney Sisters recorded a number of songs for Columbia with the Tony Pastor Band like "The Secretary Song", "I'm My Own Grandpa", and "If I Had a Million Dollars".
In 1950 Clooney performed in Cincinnati on television station WLWT. Not only was she a featured singer on the station's main program (called The 50-50 Club and broadcast on TV as well as radio), she also hosted her own shows called Teen Canteen and Boy Meets Girl.[citation needed]
Betty also pursued a brief solo career, signing with R&B label King Records, releasing several singles including "Sisters" and "Kiki".
In the early 1950s, she was featured on the 15-minute weekday radio program The Three Suns With Betty Clooney on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
A nightclub career followed, including appearances at the Starlight Roof at the Waldorf Astoria, New York. A 1954 review of her performance at The Black Orchid in Chicago, Illinois, commented, "Betty Clooney, a much more vibrant and projecting personality than her sister, Rosemary, opened here to an audience that fell immediately to her contagious charm."