Kitty Kallen

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. In 2000, the techno-dance group "Stars on 54 (Amber)" remade "If You Could Read My Mind" with a slight 'dance' beat to the background. She became a popular artist on radio, film, and night clubs, but lost her voice at the height of her career. In 1968, Canadian rockers "The Guess Who" wrote a tune about Lightfoot entitled "Lightfoot", which includes references to Lightfoot's songs. 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. Gordon Lightfoot is also a member of the Order of Ontario, the highest award in the province of Ontario. After a short stay with Bobby Sherwood, she joined the Jimmy Dorsey band, replacing Helen O'Connell. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986, the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2001, and in May 2003 was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest honour.

(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. Lightfoot has received 15 Juno Awards and been nominated for 5 Grammy Awards. 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. He later returned to the music business with the album Harmony and an appearance on Canadian Idol. 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. Fall 2002, Lightfoot suffered a near-fatal abdominal hemorrhage, which caused him to go into a comatose state for a short period of time. Later, when neighborhood people came to congratulate her father, he realized that her story was true. In June of 1974, his single, "Sundown", went to No.1 on the American charts.

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. He is one of the first Canadian popular singers who achieved real stardom in his own country instead of moving to the United States. Born in Philadelphia, she won an amateur contest as a child doing imitations of some singers of the day. In 1966, he released his debut album, Lightfoot. 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". He returned to Canada by the 1960s and performed in coffee houses on the Toronto folk scene. "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old" (1944) (with the Jimmy Dorsey band). He moved to Los Angeles, California during the 1950s where he studied at Hollywood's Westlake College of Music.

"Our Lady Of Fatima" (1950) (with Richard Hayes and Jimmy Carroll's orchestra). Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. "My Coloring Book" (1963) (her last hit). (O.C., C.M.), O.ont. (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian folk singer, composer and lyricist. "Little Things Mean A Lot" (1954) (her biggest hit). Gordon Meredith Lightfoot C.C. "Kiss Me Sweet" (1949) (with Mitch Miller). 9, 2004.