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Kitty Kallen

Kitty Kallen (born Genevieve Agostinello on May 25, 1922) was an American popular singer, who sang with a number of big bands in the 1940s, coming back in the 1950s to score her biggest hit, 1954's "Little Things Mean A Lot".

Born in Philadelphia, she won an amateur contest as a child doing imitations of some singers of the day. When she brought her prize (a camera) home, her father refused to believe her and thought she had stolen the camera, so he punished her severely. Later, when neighborhood people came to congratulate her father, he realized that her story was true. Subsequently she sang (while still a child) on The Children's Hour, a radio program sponsored by Horn & Hardart, a firm which had a chain of cafeterias in New York and Philadelphia. As a pre-teen she had her own program on Philadelphia's WCAU, and soon she sang as a vocalist with the big bands of Jan Savitt in 1936, Artie Shaw in 1938, and Jack Teagarden in 1940. (While with the Savitt band, she briefly was a roommate of Dinah Shore.) She married Clint Garvin, who played clarinet in Teagarden's band, and when Teagarden fired Garvin, she left as well. After a short stay with Bobby Sherwood, she joined the Jimmy Dorsey band, replacing Helen O'Connell. Though only a teen-ager at the time, she was the vocalist for one of Dorsey's big hits, "Besame Mucho." Most of her singing assignments were in duets with Bob Eberly, and when Eberly left to go into the service toward the end of 1943, she joined Harry James' band.

She became a popular artist on radio, film, and night clubs, but lost her voice at the height of her career. She eventually made a comeback, with the 1954 hit "Little Things Mean a Lot" (voted the most popular record) and Kitty was voted most popular female singer in Billboard and Variety polls.

Hit recordings

  • "The Aba Daba Honeymoon" (1951) (with Richard Hayes) (better known version done by Debbie Reynolds)
  • "Are You Looking For A Sweetheart?" (1953)
  • "Besame Mucho" (1944) (with Bob Eberly and the Jimmy Dorsey band)
  • "Go On With The Wedding" (1955) (with Georgie Shaw) (better known version done by Patti Page)
  • "If I Give My Heart To You" (1959) (better known versions done in 1954 by Denise Lor and Doris Day)
  • "I'm Beginning To See The Light" (1945) (with the Harry James band)
  • "In The Chapel In The Moonlight" (1954)
  • "It's Been A Long Long Time" (1945) (with the Harry James band)
  • "I Want You All To Myself" (1954)
  • "Juke Box Annie" (1950) (with Harry Geller's orchestra)
  • "Kiss Me Sweet" (1949) (with Mitch Miller)
  • "Little Things Mean A Lot" (1954) (her biggest hit)
  • "My Coloring Book" (1963) (her last hit)
  • "Our Lady Of Fatima" (1950) (with Richard Hayes and Jimmy Carroll's orchestra)
  • "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old" (1944) (with the Jimmy Dorsey band)

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"Our Lady Of Fatima" (1950) (with Richard Hayes and Jimmy Carroll's orchestra). The first single, "I Don't Give a ****" featuring Mystikal and Krayzie Bone, became another dancefloor filler. "My Coloring Book" (1963) (her last hit). In 2002, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz released their breakthrough album Kings of Crunk. "Little Things Mean A Lot" (1954) (her biggest hit). "Bia Bia" the single from the album featuring Ludacris, Too Short, and Chyna Whyte became a hit in clubs throughout the US and also made the top twenty downloads on MP3.com. "Kiss Me Sweet" (1949) (with Mitch Miller). Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz returned in 2001 with Put Your Hood Up.

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"Are You Looking For A Sweetheart?" (1953). Lil Jon graduated in 1988 from Atlanta's Douglass High School. "The Aba Daba Honeymoon" (1951) (with Richard Hayes) (better known version done by Debbie Reynolds). His group, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, is one of the subgenre's most notable acts. He is best known as a pioneer of the subgenre of hip hop known as "crunk", a combination of elements of Southern hip hop and bass music. Lil Jon (born Jonathan Smith in 1970 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an African-American hip hop performer and record producer.

2005 "What U Gon' Do" #22 US, #38 UK (double A-side with Roll Call in the UK). Usher and Ludacris) #3 US. 2004 "Lovers and Friends" (feat. Lil Jon and Twista) #7 US.

2004 "Let's Go" (Trick Daddy feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris) #1 US, #1 UK. 2004 "Yeah!" (Usher feat. 2004 "Get Low" #2 US.

Crunk Juice (2004). Part II (2003 CD and DVD combination). Kings of Crunk (2002). Put Yo Hood Up (2001).

Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album (1997).