[Dixielandjazz] R.I.P. Georgia Carroll Kyser (Los Angeles Times)

[Harry Callaghan]

Interestingly, while I haven't heard the name Kay Kyser in some time,
yesterday was the birthdate of Merwyn Bogue, who under the name Ish
Kabibble, along with Ginny Simms. recorded "Three Little Fishes" with
Kyser's orchestra in 1939

Who among us can ever forget those memorable lyrics, "boop boop dittem
dattem whattem chu"?

And the people who bought the record that year were no doubt ridiculing the
lyrics to "Sh-Boom" in 1954.

Tides
HC

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:

> Georgia Carroll Kyser Dies at 91; Model, Actress Sang with Husband's Big
> Band
> Los Angeles Times, January 20, 2011
> Georgia Carroll Kyser, a fashion model in the 1930s and '40s who became an
> actress
> and a singer with her husband Kay Kyser's big band, died Friday in Chapel
> Hill, N.C.
> She was 91. The cause was not revealed.
> Born Nov. 18, 1919, in Blooming Grove, Texas, Georgia Carroll began
> singing, dancing
> and acting as a child. She became a part-time fashion model at the Neiman
> Marcus
> department store in Dallas and at 16 posed for "The Spirit of the
> Centennial" statue
> at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition at the state fair grounds in
> Dallas.
> A year later, she signed with the John Robert Powers modeling agency in New
> York
> and soon posed for the cover of Redbook. She was featured on the covers of
> Vogue,
> Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines and was photographed
> by Edward
> Steichen and Horst P. Horst.
> She moved to Hollywood in 1941 and signed a contract with Warner Bros.
> Two years later she became a vocalist for Kay Kyser, the bandleader for a
> weekly
> radio show dubbed the "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge." She appeared in
> 14 films,
> including "Around the World" and "Carolina Blues" with Kay Kyser.
> In 1944, during a break from USO shows entertaining troops, the couple
> married in
> Las Vegas.
> Within a few years Georgia left show business to raise a family, and Kay
> gave up
> his weekly TV television program. They moved from Beverly Hills to Chapel
> Hill, where
> Kay became a Christian Science practitioner and Georgia became a homemaker.
> She also became interested in historic preservation and advocating for the
> arts.
> She earned a bachelor's degree in studio art at the University of North
> Carolina
> at Chapel Hill in 1970. A few years later she co-founded the Chapel Hill
> Preservation
> Society.
> In 1982 her husband became president of the Christian Science Church
> worldwide. He
> died in 1985. Survivors include two daughters and five grandchildren.
>
>
> --Bob Ringwald
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