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In February 1940, Dinah Shore became a featured vocalist on the NBC Radio program The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, a showcase for traditional dixieland and blues songs. In her prime debut for “the music of the Three Bs, Barrelhouse, Boogie-woogie and the Blues”, she was introduced as “Mademoiselle Dinah ‘Diva’ Shore, who [...]

Every little bit of income helped his widowed mother, as the Arnolds lost their family farm to foreclosure and became sharecroppers after his father’s death in 1929. By the time Arnold turned 17, he was singing part-time on radio and at venues in and around Jackson, Tenn., where he worked for an area funeral parlor. [...]