Kay Starr Backing Tracks

Kay Starr Backing Tracks – Ain’t Nobody’s Business … Rock N Roll Waltz … Side By Side … Wheel Of Fortune …

Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, “Wheel of Fortune” and “Rock And Roll Waltz.

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At the age of 4 she began taking piano and dance lessons which continued into her teenage years. She also studied classical piano and voice.

As a youngster she was encouraged to enter a local talent contest at which she won a prize for singing and operating a yo-yo simultaneously. After winning several more contests a radio station gave her a 15-minute radio programme of her own.

After several years touring as female vocalist with many big bands in the early 1940’s she was able to strike out on her own later in that decade.

Over the next few years she carved a very successful career as a cross over solo recording artist. She had a string of hits , including “The Rock and Roll Waltz,” “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” and “Wheel of Fortune.” In the mid-1950s, she had a series of crossover hits that appealed to both pop and country audiences, including “The Man with the Bag” and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”

In the late 1950s, her career began to decline, and she left the music business for a time. She made a comeback in the early 1970s with the release of the album Kay Starr Today. She continued to perform and record sporadically over the next few decades, but she never regained the level of success she had enjoyed in the 1950s.

Kay Starr was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2006. She died on November 3, 2016, at the age of 94.