Ruth Wallis - Senorita What's Her Name (1940)
Ruth Wallis sings "Senorita What's Her Name" on De Luxe 1111.
Ruth Wallis was born in Brooklyn on January 5, 1920.
The young Wallis was a student of piano, voice, and dance. She began her career by singing with bands, one of which belonged to Isham Jones.
She became a nightclub vocalist. In 1941 she sang at New York City's Hotel Forrest.
Wallis began her career singing jazz and cabaret standards, but gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s for her suggestive songs.
One hit was "Dear Mr. Godfrey," a song about his public firing of Julius La Rosa.
She sang with a studio orchestra and often took on an accent for songs about characters from other countries.
She married Hy Pastman.
Ruth Wallis sang lyrics that were considered suggestive, naughty, and risqué. These satirical songs were full of saucy innuendoes and double entendres.
Wallis wrote her own material, including one song that sold 250,000 copies and became her theme--"The Dinghy Song." It tells of a sailor who possessed "the cutest little dinghy in the Navy."
She recorded her first song in 1948 for well-known labels but soon established her own in Linden, New Jersey. The company was the Wallis Original Record Corporation.
Wallis recorded into the '60s and released a pair of live albums, one each on Mercury and King.
Wallis died on December 22, 2007, in South Killingly, Connecticut. She had Alzheimer's disease.
Ruth Wallis was born in Brooklyn on January 5, 1920.
The young Wallis was a student of piano, voice, and dance. She began her career by singing with bands, one of which belonged to Isham Jones.
She became a nightclub vocalist. In 1941 she sang at New York City's Hotel Forrest.
Wallis began her career singing jazz and cabaret standards, but gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s for her suggestive songs.
One hit was "Dear Mr. Godfrey," a song about his public firing of Julius La Rosa.
She sang with a studio orchestra and often took on an accent for songs about characters from other countries.
She married Hy Pastman.
Ruth Wallis sang lyrics that were considered suggestive, naughty, and risqué. These satirical songs were full of saucy innuendoes and double entendres.
Wallis wrote her own material, including one song that sold 250,000 copies and became her theme--"The Dinghy Song." It tells of a sailor who possessed "the cutest little dinghy in the Navy."
She recorded her first song in 1948 for well-known labels but soon established her own in Linden, New Jersey. The company was the Wallis Original Record Corporation.
Wallis recorded into the '60s and released a pair of live albums, one each on Mercury and King.
Wallis died on December 22, 2007, in South Killingly, Connecticut. She had Alzheimer's disease.
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