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Kay Starr sings at 1987 Convention. IUPUI's Kiwanis International Collection. Near the end of her career, Starr recorded with Count Basie and Tony Bennett, performed with Frank Sinatra and Bob Wills, was a regular on The Danny Thomas Show , and toured with the stage production of Annie Get Your Gun .
Kay Starr. Katherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016), known as Kay Starr, was an American singer. She was popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Rock And Roll Waltz". Starr died on November 3, 2016 at her home in Beverly ...
STARR, KAY (1922–2016). Born Katherine LaVerne Starks in Dougherty, Oklahoma, on July 21, 1922, to Harry and Annie Starks, Kay Starr was an important mid-twentieth-century vocalist. When she was three, her family relocated to Dallas, Texas, where at the age of nine she won a local radio contest. Starr was given her own fifteen-minute radio ...
Nov 3, 2016 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 172180556. Source citation. Singer. A popular and jazz vocalist, she scored a gold single on the American Billboard Charts with Rock and Roll Waltz (1956). Born Catherine Laverne Starks, her father was of Native American descent, her mother was of an Irish background. During her early youth, her family moved to Dallas ...
