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Show Famous Singer Tells Origin of Crooning mJl jj.jm jAXicjmT JE jit a lov-ir, Julf' a won - d'rin lov-cr . De Leath Describes De-scribes Accidental Start of New Style Singing i?l0lCit-Croonin- ac" us & rpnator' Vaughn astho' u amous radio star, Result of a lucky accident PWnfj vf' before the micro-totleran?.ee micro-totleran?.ee ? PLerfectly adjusted-Plains adjusted-Plains T f he huma" voice," prano's w,ss de Leath, "a so-ttred so-ttred a dpi . notes often shat- ach, Lpa ,,el- Tubes cost $110 insert he seco"ds it took to TdPdmsne meant inter" 1CeItriLt0- ?vo!d th!s annov-i "ote. i ? S?f n a nev 'fice that V!ty nodulation of WinnisWlthin the micr" SwS? made' y Public rl hlt th the Pprlatim J.ev rote their, u'Cn tand lmitative croon-1 I ere- 'LI SprmS UP every-Snd every-Snd ,mf?y of the most1 a "You're Just a' Lover," are written .with the crooner definitely in mind. Miss de Leath has been singing . as long as she has been talking. She made her musical debut at three in an amateur minstrel show in her native town, Mount Pulaski, Illinois. Miss de Leath is known as the original radio girl because in January, 1920, before the first regularly scheduled broadcast ot a radio program was mace from Station KDKA, Pittsburgh, her voice was heard on the air in broadcast from a stuffy httle "wireless room" atop a New YorK skvscrsper. , . , Her "radio public" on that day was made up of a handful of radio enthusiasts, owners of crys tal sots and amateur experiment rrs in wireless. Her voice , as it -me through the headphones was blurred and marred b7 whistles and static, but her first broadcast was considered a success so mucn so that she kept on her p ogiams and added an accordion player as TTday'she probably has the IargestayfonowinPg of any wonian on 'the air and it . not "nusual for her to be the soloist with eixty-piece orchestra. |
