A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.
I always wanted to be a band singer, and of course it was the total end of the big band, but I got the last job. It was a very lucky break.
I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools.
I fell in love. Absolutely. He was already on the show. He was singing all over New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. I fell for him.
I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.
I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.
I knew every standard ever written.
I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.
I made a lot of records. All over the world. We played theaters that were venues.
I was in Las Vegas playing at the original El Rancho Vegas, with Joe E. Louis, who took me there as a supporting act. And he came to see me.
I was not invited. I had to audition. They said, How many solos do you know? Actually, they wanted somebody tall and blond.
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It was a very ad-lib show. The musicians were all great jazz musicians. Very little music. Usually, there was just an ending and perhaps a beginning.
It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.
Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.
My voice right now, hey, listen. I don't know how long it's going to last.
Now we have an audience that is so very eclectic. Big, tremendous fans.
Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.
So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.
Steve has the most unbelievable range for a man that I've ever heard.
The Brill building, though, was, like, where everybody met. That was Tin Pan Alley.
The one I think has been the most important aspect is that Steve and I have never, ever had in-depth conversations.
There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much.
There was one year that I was on the road.
We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.
We never rehearsed.
We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.
We were such a great unit. Terrific.
We were with Frank as part of his very last tour.
When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.
You know, Steve, Irving Berlin wrote the song you sang for me on our very first date.
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