Today is the birthday of Ruth Etting, “The Sweetheart of Song”. My bio of her (here) is too brutal, I think, but after all it’s all a matter of taste. She sings wonderfully, she merely represents a sea change. In the 1930 Vitaphone clip below she performs “If I Could be With You (One Hour [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:45AM on November 23, 2011