[Vintage-Audio] Re Anita Kerr Question

[Robert Nickels]

W8DBF D.B. Fischer wrote:

> The Anita Kerr Singers? The Anita Kerr Quartet? Different groups with 
> Anita Kerr heading them up or the same group by another name?

Hi Duane,

I did a little digging for reasons known to you - and found that the 
original Anita Kerr group was 5 voices, back in 1949 when she first went 
to Nashville and sang backup for Ernest Tubb, Red Foley and Eddy Arnold 
among others.   Then Jim Reeves hired her group for his WSM radio show 
and that led to an appearance on Arthur Godfreys "Talent Scouts" (that's 
K4LIB for us hams!) The group became synonymous with the "Countrypolitan 
  sound" that put Nashville on the musical map.

According to http://www.spaceagepop.com/kerr.htm  the Kerr Singers and 
the Jordanaires played on 1/3 of the records produced in Nashville and 
she not only became good friends with Chet Atkins (aka W4CGP "Certified 
Guitar Player") but also lived just across the street from him!

And to answer your question, by then, Kerr's quartet had come to consist 
of herself as soprano, Dottie Dillard (alto), Louis Nunn (baritone), and 
Gil Wright (tenor).  But the quartet also recorded under other names - 
as the Little Dippers they hit the top 40 with "Forever", and as "Anita 
and the So and Sos" - "Joey Baby".   And they were part of the Living 
Voices recordings on RCA's budget label, Camden.  She later reformed the 
Anita Kerr Singers at Warner Brothers, adding more voices, and recorded 
with Rod McEuen's very popular poetry albums as the "San Sebastian 
Strings".

The one common factor Duane, is the very talented triple-threat Anita 
Kerr - producer, arranger, and performer!

73, Bob W9RAN