LOL at this ragtime slop, sounded like it was aimed at people's grandparents. I mean, it was Mitch Miller after all. If I was 15 back then I would have probably preferred Little Richard too.
>>129473449>Corey was born as Norma Speranza in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1935, the daughter of an Italian coal miner. Her singing talents were recognized at an early age.she was hot, but she looked so similar to Eydie Gorme that one wonders if the family hadn't been Sephardic Jews who converted to Christianity at some point
Ragtime is based asfuck you pleb
>>129473586>Corey sent a demo recording to CBS in 1953 and Mitch Miller was instantly impressed. He called her and asked her to come to the label's New York City studio for an audition and quickly signed her.> She met MLB third baseman Don Hoak in 1960. They married a year later and had a daughter. Hoak played on several teams for a decade before retiring in 1964. He passed away only a few years later at age 42 when a car thief stole his brother-in-law's vehicle in suburban Pittsburgh. Hoak got into his own car and chased after the thief, but was stricken with a heart attack behind the wheel. He managed to pull over to the side of the road and then collapsed. Hoak died on the way to the hospital, leaving Jill a widow at only 34. "I never cursed," she recalled. "When I was a kid my older sister would wash my mouth out with soap if I said a bad word. But that day I uttered every bad word there was. When they took Don into the emergency room I was shouting expletives so much that a nurse had to tell me to stop since it was disturbing the other patients."
Enough about Mitch Miller!
>>129473746Maybe that was why he turned down Connie Francis, too similar to Jill Corey. Then again, Francis ended up being 10x the star+ATM machine for her label that this chick was.
>>129473746that generation had an abnormal rate of heart attacks in relatively young men and there are several theories as to why that was
>>129473828leaded gasoline fumes
>>129473586no boobs
>>129473828War stress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPqLuUsJIpICorey's debut single from '53 was some Christfag shit. She recorded 40 different singles but apparently only five actually charted including the OP one. However the Billboard only went up to 30 places until 1958 so it's possible some were missed.
>>129473449>>129473586kind of fascinating how she was born the same year as Elvis but felt like part of an earlier era of music altogether
>>129475509like labelmate Mindy Carson. a lot of records but few of them actually got airplay.
>>129473449amazing how major hits like this can be dropped into a black hole and you'd never know they existed from the playlist they run at your neighborhood retro 50s diner
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/name-some-40s-and-50s-female-singers-that-are-lesser-known.336319/Some of these people don't really qualify as "obscure" by my book.
>>129475635Carson (although not mentioned there) and the Fontane Sisters might count because they retired after their hitmaking days were done and didn't continue to perform or remain in the public light.
>>129473449this song somehow reminds me of Melanie - Brand New Key
https://desuarchive.org/mu/search/text/%22jill%20corey%22/Ms. Corey is mentioned all of five times in the archive and her death in '21 was also not acknowledged on /mu/.
