Kenneth Irwin - Ruth Etting: Americas Forgotten Sweetheart
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Ruth Etting (1897-1978) was among the most important performers of the early 20th century. Her influence extends from the Broadway stage to radio and film, and her successes included more than 60 popular recordings, such as her 1928 rendition of Love Meor Leave Me, which was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005. Although her story was brought to the screen in the classic 1955 film of the same title with Doris Day and James Cagney, no serious treatment of her life has been written until now. In Ruth Etting: Americas Forgotten Sweetheart, authors Kenneth Irwin and Charles O. Lloyd provide the first full-length biography of this ground-breaking artist. This book recounts Ettings early years as a radio performer who quickly attained national celebrity, her recording career as Sweetheart of Columbia Records, and her innovative work in film. The authors detail Ettings unhappy marriage to her husband manager, Martin (Moe The Gimp) Snyder, her second marriage to pianist...
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Both authors express their gratitude to people without whose help, encouragement, and information this book could not have been written.
Kenneth Irwin thanks John and Violet Alderman, Professor John Moran, Janelle Moran, David Candlin, Ruth Nichols, Beth Klosterman, Rudy Horn, Jim Bedoian, and Susan Messerli.
Charles O. Lloyd thanks his wife, Faye, and the Rogues: Laura Bentley, Marie Manilla, Paul Martin, Mary Sansom, and John Van Kirk; also David Duke, Lynn Mayfield, Janet Clifford, David Candlin, and Michael OHara Stevens.
Kenneth Irwin earned a B.A. in history at Northeastern Illinois University, where he became interested in early talking pictures and jazz recordings of the 1920s. Ultimately he focused his enthusiasm for this period on Ruth Ettings career and devoted almost fifteen years of his life to visiting her performance venues and houses she lived in, interviewing family members, friends, and performers who knew her, and researching her pioneering career in show business. He has published on her film career in the journal Classic Images and wrote liner notes for a rerelease of her recordings by Take Two Records. Born in 1955, he has spent his entire life in Chicago, where he works in information technology services.
Charles O. Lloyd earned his Ph.D. in classics at Indiana University in 1976. He taught at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, for thirty-five years and published on the ancient Greek polis, Euripides, and Vergil as well as on how to teach Latin and writing. His lifelong interest has been American popular music, and for the past twenty-five years he has played improvisational piano at receptions and parties throughout the Huntington area. His interest in Ruth Etting began when he heard her voice on a Columbia rerelease in the late 1960s. His research led him to visit her hometown and to begin interviewing her friends. He met Kenneth Irwin in 2001, and they began a collaboration that led to this book, in which Lloyds interests in writing, research, American popular music, and Ruth Etting all come together. He is now writing a historical novel on Ancient Sparta.
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From David City to Chicago
You hear music every place you go. Its in the supermarkets... in buses... its on everything. Music means nothing anymore. I remember back in Nebraska, we had a little lake, where they had Chautauquas. They put up a big tent. And everybody came! The farmers came. They brought their bedding. They brought stoves. They camped down there. To hear music was a wonderful thing. To hear it live. Well, of course, they had it no other way. It was really a wonderful thing. Now you hear it all the time. Youre not even conscious of it playing. You dont even listen any more. And its too bad.
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