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She was born Katherine Laverne Starks on a reservation in Dougherty, Oklahoma. Her father, Harry, was a full-blooded Iroquois Indian; her mother, Annie, was of mixed Irish and American Indian heritage. When her father got a job installing water sprinkler systems, the family moved to Dallas, Texas. While her father worked for the Automatic Sprinkler Company, her mother raised chickens, and Kay used to sing to the chickens in the coop. As a result of the fact that her aunt, Nora, was impressed by her singing, she began to sing at the age of seven on a Dallas radio station, WRR, first in a talent competition where she finished third one week and won every week thereafter, then with her own weekly fifteen minute show. She sang pop and “hillbilly” songs with a piano accompaniment. By the age of ten, she was making $3 a night, a lot of money in the Depression days.
As a result of her father’s changing jobs, her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and she continued performing on the radio, singing “Western swing music,” still mostly a mix of country and pop. It was while she was on the Memphis radio station WMPS that, as a result of misspellings in her fan mail, she and her parents decided to give her the name “Kay Starr”. At the age of fifte...
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Top 10 Kay Starr Songs
Wheel of Fortune
Rock and Roll Waltz
It Had to Be You
(Everybody's Waitin' for) the Man With the Bag
Side By Side
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Comes A-Long A-Love
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (STUHR Remix)
"It’s A Good Day"
Changing Partners
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The Ultimate Collection
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Kay Starr: the Best of The Standard Transcriptions
The Magic Of Kay Starr
I Cry By Night
Jazz Singer/Fabulous Favourites
I've Got To Sing 1944-1948
Capitol Collectors Series
Forever Gold - Wheel Of Fortune
For You
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