| Show singer tells origin of cloonin nf vaughn de dc leath describes accidental start of new style singing new york city crooning Croon ae ne to its originator maullin de leath the famous radio star a as the result of a lucky accident s I 1 in the early days of radio I 1 broadcasting road casting before the microphone had been perfectly adjusted to gon th the ranee of the t ph human voice explains ns banfe mils 11 as de leath a soprano 8 high notes often shattered a delicate tube in the transmitting s panel anel tubes cost 0 toot tach ach ann and the second seconds it took to insert beert a new one meant inter erupted programs rams in or kr ler to avoid this annoy once nce I 1 tried singing with a new pote a throaty modulation of voice that kept within the micro phones range the new etyle style of singing mude an instantaneous hit bit with tie tle radio public they wrote their approbation and imitative croon ir began ta U spring up every ge re now many of the roost most loved and valuable songs of the pay ay such as an youre just a lover aro are written with the thoa crooner definitely in mind miss de do leath has been its long as she the haa been talking bhe made her musical debut at three in an amateur minstrel show in her native town mount pulaski Pula aki illinois miss da do leath ii Is known cs as tho the 0 original radio cirl girt because in jancart Ja january 0 1920 0 before the arst regularly nuarT scheduled aled broadcast of a radio dio tins as made from station dogram pittsburgh her voice was heard beard on the air in a broadcast from a stuffy little wireless wi rele room atop a new york skyscraper her er radio on that day was made up of a handful of of radio enthusiasts owners of crys tal sets and amateur experimenters n in wireless her voice as it came come through agh the headphones we was blurred and marred by whistle and static but her first broadcast was considered a success so much si so that she kept on her programs program 1 and added an accordion player as accompanist today she the probably has the largest following follo winf of any bomani woman on the air and it t is not unusual for her to be the soloist with a itty sixty piece orchestra tra |
