Friday, September 17, 2010

This is a first!

Commenter Polly, who dropped me a line in the comments section of this week's Happy Feet Friday selection (which features Slim Gaillard), informs us that her aunt, Wini Beatty, actually performed with Gaillard back in the 40's!

I was hoping I could find a video on YouTube featuring Ms. Beatty, but unfortunately I couldn't. Here's a brief bio.

Thanks, Polly, for coming by!

2 comments:

Polly said...

Wow, thanks for the link to the bio about my Aunt. I've never seen it before. I've looked on YouTube, too, for any video of her, but no luck. She was good friends with Bobby Troup and Page Cavanaugh, and I think she performed with them, so sometimes I'll browse through their videos to see if she's in them. Nothing so far, but it's a great way to kill some time. Boy there were and are a lot of wonderful jazz musicians.

I became a fan of yours through Tim Blair, and always enjoy your comments and your blog.

Paco said...

Polly: Thank you! I searched Amazon and found some CDs with the recordings you mentioned. I'm going to get hold of them.