Bonnie Baker

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Bonnie Baker (née Evelyn Underhill or Nelson, 1917-1990) was an American singer of jazz and popular music and was best known as Wee Bonnie Baker from 1936 to 1990.

"Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!," She recorded with the Orrin Tucker Orchestra in 1939, was her biggest hit.

Early life

She was born in Orange, Texas, and her family gave her birth name as Evelyn Underhill at the time of her death, although other sources give it as Evelyn Nelson. She attended both Galveston and Houston. She was a day student at Mount de Sales Academy in Macon, Georgia, which at the time was a Roman Catholic boarding school for girls.

Personal life and death

Baker was married four times:

She died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the age of 73.

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Career

She then moved to Houston, where she performed in nightclubs. After Louis Armstrong suggested that Tucker recruit her, she joined Orrin Tucker's band as a singer in 1936. Due to her height, about 4-foot 11 inches, Tucker gave her the stage name "Wee" Bonnie Baker. She had only local fame before joining Tucker's orchestra, but not until she appeared in the Palmer House in Chicago in 1939, when she began to flourish in the South and Pacific Coasts.

On a version of the 1917 hit "Oh Johnny, Oh!," her girlish voice, described as "like a tiny silver bell, soft but tonally true," was used. "Abe Olman and Ed Rose's book "" is a book about Abe Olman and Ed Rose. In Los Angeles, it was recorded with the Orrin Tucker Orchestra on August 20, 1939. It was first published on Columbia Records in 1940, at no., when it became very popular in 1940. On the Billboard pop chart, there are two versions, one on the chart for 14 weeks and the other selling 1.5 million copies. Orrin Tucker's biggest hit was also. "You'd Be Surprised," "Billy," "Would Ja Mind" was also a hit. "Especially for You."

Bonnie Baker, a retired actress from the Tucker orchestra, officially adopted her stage name Bonnie Baker in Circuit Court, Chicago, Illinois, on October 9, 1943. She then continued on a solo career, appearing on the radio show Your Hit Parade regularly. She has also performed with other bands. "That's All Folks!," she recorded in 1948 as a duet with Mel Blanc as Porky Pig. In the 1950s, she also portrayed the cartoon character Chilly Willy. On Warner Bros. Records in 1956, she released Oh Johnny!, with orchestra conducted by Wilbur Hatch. She continued to perform in clubs with her husband Bill Gailey, who appeared as Billy Rogers; the two often performed with Chuck Cabot and His Orchestra, after moving to Florida in 1958.

After suffering a heart attack in 1965, she stopped performing. She was a switchboard operator at a Ft. Lauderdale medical center in 1976.

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