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Kathy Barr
Birth nameMarilyn Sultana Aboulafia
Born(1929-06-04)June 4, 1929
New York State, U.S.
DiedJune 21, 2008(2008-06-21) (aged 79)
Hollywood, Florida
GenresPop, jazz, opera
OccupationVocalist
LabelsRCA Victor
Spouses
Milton L. Schwartz
(m. 1954; ann. 1956)
Irwin M. Glickman
(m. 1966)

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Kathy Barr (born Marilyn Sultana Aboulafia; June 4, 1929 – June 21, 2008) was an American vocalist who performed and recorded popular music, jazz, musical theater, and operettas. Barr flourished during the 1950s in nightclubs, television, and radio.[1] She was acclaimed for her soprano range and ability to sing pop, jazz, and classical.

Personal life

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Barr was born Marilyn Sultana Aboulafia to parents of Turkish and Spanish ancestry — her father had immigrated from Turkey.

Barr married Chicago nightclub owner Milton L. Schwartz[2] around April 1954.[3] The marriage was annulled in 1956.[citation needed]

In 1958, she legally changed her name to Kathy Barr.[4]

In 1958, she legally changed her to Kathy Barrister (according to prabook)

In 1965, when she married Irwin M. Glickman (1930–2011), she ended the commercial aspect of her musical career and devoted herself to her family.[citation needed] She and Irwin had a daughter, Sylvia B. Glickman (born 1966).[citation needed]

Glickman graduated in 1947 from DeWitt Clinton High School, the largest high school in American.

  • Chico Enterprise (The) (September 20, 1908). "The DwWitt Clinton High School ...". Vol. 79, no. 128. p. 8 (col. 2, middle) – via Newspapers.com.

Vocal range

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Vocal range context: Most people can hit three to four octaves. Mariah Carey has a range of five and one-half octaves, as exhibited in her 1994 hit, "All I Want for Christmas Is You." Prince, some speculated, may have sung notes across six octaves. The "Star Spangled Banner," considered difficult to sing, covers an octave and a half.

  • Washington Post; Somasundaram, Praveena (December 1, 2022). "Mariah Carey's Vocal Range Is Better Than Most Humans'. Bats Surpass It". ISSN 2641-9599
    1. Via blog. ProQuest 2743827933 (US Newsstream database)

Selected discography

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Popular

Discography

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Albums

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Label Cat No. Released Album
Artist(s)
Side A Side B Notes
RCA Victor
LPM–1562
November
1957[5]
Follow Me
––––––––––––––––––––
Kathy Barr
Jerry Fielding
(arranger & conductor)
  1. "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (audio)
  2. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (audio)
  3. "Cuddle up a Little Closer" (audio)
  4. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (audio)
  5. "I'm Just Wild About Harry" (audio)
  6. "Give Me Something to Remember You By" (audio)
    ––––––––––––––––––––
    Mx runout H2 PP5757 – 1S I A1
  1. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (audio)
  2. "Love Is Here to Stay" (audio)
  3. "Day In, Day Out" (audio)
  4. "Fine and Dandy" (audio)
  5. "I Know He's Mine" (audio)
  6. "Follow Me" (audio)
    ––––––––––––––––––––
    Mx runout H2 PP-5758 – 1S I B1
George T. Simon
(sleeve notes)
Sid Kuller
(sleeve notes)
––––––––––––––––––––
OCLC 12875997 (all editions)
RCA Victor
RCA
LSO–1000
LOP–1000
SF–5005
EPA–4168
CPS–141
1958

Selections From
The Desert Song

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Giorgio Tozzi as The Red Shadow
Kathy Barr as Margo
Peter Palmer (1931–2021)
(supporting role)
Eugene Morgan
( Eugene Byron Morgan; 1909–1974)
(supporting role)
Warren Galjour
( Warren Joseph Galjour; 1917–2009)
(supporting role)
With Male Chorus and Orchestra
A. Lehman Engel
(1910–1982)[6]
(conductor)
  1. "Prelude and Opening Chorus" (audio)
  2. "The Riff Song" (audio)
  3. "O' Pretty Maid of France" (audio)
  4. "Why Did We Marry Soldiers?" (audio)
  5. "French Military Marching Song" (audio)
  6. "Romance" (audio)
  7. "Then You Will Know" (audio)
  8. "I Want a Kiss" (audio)
  9. "The Desert Song" (audio)
    ––––––––––––––––––––
    Mx label H2PP–7449
  1. "Finale" – Act I (audio)
  2. "Opening Chorus" ("My Little Castagnette") – Act II (audio)
  3. "Eastern and Western Love" (audio)
  4. "The Sabre Song" (audio)
  5. "Finale" – Act II (audio)
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    Mx label H2PP–7450
Leonard Louis Levinson
(1904–1974)
(sleeve notes)
"Beautiful young Kathy Barr is the Margot of our production."
Victor Kalin
( Victor Benson Kalin; 1919–1991)
(illustration)
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OCLC 5857234 (all editions)
Äva Records
A–48
1964

Do It Again
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Kathy Barr
Jerry Fielding
(arranger & conductor)
  1. "Just Squeeze Me" (audio)
  2. "Should I" (audio)
  3. "Do It Again" (audio)
  4. "My Sugar Is So Refined" (audio)
  5. "How Come You Do Me Like You Do" (audio)
  6. "The Desert Song" (audio)
    ––––––––––––––––––––
    Mx label HPS–285
  1. "How Little We Know" (audio)
  2. "It All Depends On You" (audio)
  3. "All Of You" (audio)
  4. "You're Driving Me Crazy" (audio)
  5. "Don'cha Go Way Mad" (audio)
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    Mx label HPS–286
Peter Whorf Graphics[a]
( Peter Lee Whorf; 1931–1995)
(design)
Wally Heider
(1922–1989)
(engineer)
Leslie Carr
(liner notes)
(illustration)
Linda Bartlett
(photography)
Recorded at
United Recording Corp.
Hollywood, California
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OCLC 796372591 (all editions)

Singles

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Label Cat No. Released Artist(s) Side A Side B Notes
RCA Victor
RCA
45–7036
10373
1957
Kathy Barr
With Orchestra
Directed by
Jerry Fielding
"Welcome Mat" (audio)[7]
(©1957)
By Jerry Fielding
––––––––––––––––––––
Mx label H2PW–5447
"A Slip of the Lip"
(©1957)[8]
By Walter Kent &
Tom Walton
(words & music)
––––––––––––––––––––
Mx label H2PW–5446
George T. Simon
(sleeve notes)
Sid Kuller
(sleeve notes)
––––––––––––––––––––
OCLC 1116161307 (all editions)
RCA
EPA–4168
1958

Selections From
The Desert Song

––––––––––––––––––––
Giorgio Tozzi as The Red Shadow
Kathy Barr as Margo
Peter Palmer (1931–2021)
(supporting role)
Eugene Morgan
( Eugene Byron Morgan; 1909–1974)
(supporting role)
Warren Galjour
( Warren Joseph Galjour; 1917–2009)
(supporting role)
With Male Chorus and Orchestra
A. Lehman Engel
(1910–1982)[6]
(conductor)
  1. "The Riff Song" (audio)
  2. "The Desert Song" (audio)
    ––––––––––––––––––––
    Mx label H 2 PH–7856
  1. "Romance" (audio)
  2. "One Alone"
    ––––––––––––––––––––
    Mx label H 2 PH–7857
Leonard Louis Levinson
(1904–1974)
(sleeve notes)
"Beautiful young Kathy Barr is the Margot of our production."
Victor Kalin
( Victor Benson Kalin; 1919–1991)
(illustration)
––––––––––––––––––––
OCLC 5857234 (all editions)


Armed Forces Radio

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  • Old → "Kathy Barr." The Magic of Music (aired May 2, 1958). Radio transcription disc. Program 42. Series: END-570. Prog. Time 25:00. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service (AFRTS). {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |DUPLICATE-type= ignored (help)
    The program hosted, Lt. Bob Osterberg ( Robert Pierce Osterberg) interviewed Kathy Barr and featured tracks from her new album, Follow Me. Osterberg was, among other things, the host and Emmy nominagted TV show, Dress Blues, launched in 1957, airing Sunday afternoons from 1 to 1:30. The show featured "The Marine Corp Four." It was produced by CBS TV affiliate on station KNXT-TV in Los Angeles.


Peter A. Gowland (1916–2010), cover photographer
Dress Blues
Composer -pianist Walter Gross, saxophone player Sonny Criss and "The Four Most," (aka the "Marine Corp Four") a singing group are special guests with host Lt. Bob Osterberg.
Marine Corps musical-variety show. Bob Osterberg emcees.
a popular radio and TV show of the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, in connection with the El Toro Marine Air Station, broadcast from Los Angels.



Presenting from Hollywood
Hosted by Bob Osterburg, El Toro Marine Air Station. Originally broadcast in the Mutual Broadcasting System.


  • Times-News (The) (October 25, 1959). "Was Announcer for Marine Players" – "Marine, T.F. Man, Looking Forward to Reunion as Band Plays Here Today". Vol. 41, no. 193. Twin Falls, Idaho. p. 26.
    1. Via Newspapers.com.
    2. Via Internet Archive. Free access icon



    Via:
    1. Legacy.com. (ID: 16422651) Free access icon.
    2. Newspapers.com.
    3. ProQuest (US Newsstream).
    4. ProQuest (US Newsstream).



  • Old Radio Times (The) (September–October 2009). "OTRR Acquires New Episodes & Upgraded Sound Encodes for July/Aug". → "Magic of Music". "Kathy Barr" ("The Official Publication of the Old-Time Radio Researchers"). No. 45. p. 23. OCLC 763181778.
    1. Via OTRR blog (PDF). Free access icon
    2. Via Internet Archive. Free access icon



Discovery of Kathy Barr

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Barr, before the age of 17, was discovered and signed to an MGM contract by Louis B. Mayer, himself, following a private audition in the New York studio of Mayer's old friend, Hungarian Professor of Music, Robert J. Korst (1885–1969). But she left Hollywood after a year to tour Europe with an American company under the auspices of impresario Edwin Lester (1895–1990).

Kathy Barr was brought to the attention of RCA Records by Mario Lanza. (cite AFRTS article here)

→ September 1957: Ruthie Shapiro, record promosh, inked to represent Kathy Barr, new RCA recording artist, ex coloratura soprano turned pop.


    1. World Radio History (PDF) – via WorldRadioHistory.com, a site maintained by David Frackelton Gleason (born 1946), Cleveland. Free access icon



  • Cash Box (The) (September 21, 1957). "Through the Coin Chute New England Nibbles". Vol. 19, no. 1. p. 68. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
    1. Via World Radio History (PDF) – via WorldRadioHistory.com, a site maintained by David Frackelton Gleason (born 1946), Cleveland. Free access icon




    1. Via World Radio History (PDF) – via WorldRadioHistory.com, a site maintained by David Frackelton Gleason (born 1946), Cleveland. Free access icon
    2. Via Internet Archive. (Council on Library and Information Resources with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, College of William & Mary. Free access icon


  • Mize, John Townsen Hinton (1910–1977), ed. (1951) [1927]. International Who Is Who in Music (5th [mid-century] ed.). Chicago: Laurence M. Fine; Who Is Who in Music, Inc.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link) LCCN 29-7618; OCLC 4201889 (all editions).


Album reviews

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Club performances

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  • Latin Quarter, Miami Beach, opened in 1940 by Lou Walters, father of Barbara Walters, and E.M. Loew ( Elias Moses Loew; 1897–1984), a major theater operator, but often assumed to be related to Marcus Loew, an even bigger theater operator. They weren't even distantly related.
    1. Chavanne, Julius Chavanne (1917–1997), Wakefield, Massachusetts (March–April 1989). "Letters to the Editor". 31 (2): 6. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)


  • Directory of Directors in the City of New York (15th ed.). 1916–1917. p. 437.
    1. Via Google Books. (Harvard Library). Free access icon
    2. Via HathiTrust. (Harvard Library). Free access icon

Musical theater roles

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Aboulafia means m doggerel Sanskrit, Son of the Lord[10]


San Francisco Civic Light Opera
Broadway
Winter Garden Theatre, New York


Australia touring production
Tivoli circuit, Melbourne: Opened May 28, 1948, at the Tivoli Theater, Melbourne[11]
At the age of 19, Barr was elevated to the role of Marinka after being the understudy for Kathryn Grayson[12]


Selected audio

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Giorgio Tozzi & Barr, vocals
RCA Victor (1958)

References

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  1. ^ Kathy Barr Sings Anything from Gospel to Blues; She Gives God Credit for Voice, by Dick Kleiner, syndicated through Newspaper Enterprise Association, The Leader Herald Gloversville, New York, December 17, 1957, pg. 12
  2. ^ "Kathy Barr," Blue Sounds. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
  3. ^ "Big Name Hunter", by Earl Wilson, Syracuse Herald Journal December 17, 1953, col. 3, 3 to last paragraph.
  4. ^ "Musical Barr", The Chronicle-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio), April 14, 1958.
  5. ^ Cash Box, November 9, 1957, p. 32.
  6. ^ a b Claghorn, 1973, p. 142.
  7. ^ "Welcome Mat," 1957, p. 1228.
  8. ^ "A Slip of the Lip," 1957, p. 1444.
  9. ^ Old Radio Times, September-October, 2009, p. 23.
  10. ^ Oakland Tribune, June 12, 1950, p. 27.
  11. ^ "Operetta Opens at Tivoli" The Argus, May 29, 1948, pg. 3, col. 1
  12. ^ "Tivoli Stage Shows to be Filmed Here", The Argus, April 5, 1948, pg. 3, cols. 1–3 (bottom)
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Sample citation

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  • The Gentleman's Directory. New York: (privately published). 1870.
    1. Re-Print → The Gentleman's Directory. New York Historical Society; Applewood Books. 2013 [1870]. ISBN 978-1-4290-9809-0, 1-4290-9809-0; OCLC 864505653 (all editions).

Bibliography

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Annotations

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  1. ^ Peter Whorf ( Peter Lee Whorf; 1931–1995) Richard Whorf was one of three sons of the actor, Richard Whorf.

Notes

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References

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  • Toss → (circular reference) "Kathy Barr". Retrieved June 6, 2022.



Genealogical references



Copyrights
  • Catalogue of Copyright Entries. "Third Series." "Music".
    1. Vol. 11, Part 5, No. 2. July–December 1957. "A Slip of the Lip". © Mayfair Music Corp.; 19 July 1957; Class E (musical composition) Unpublished [EU]485831. p. 1444 – via Internet Archive (University of Michigan Library). Free access icon
    2. Vol. 11, Part 5, No. 2. July–December 1957. "I Wouldn’t Let You Wipe Your Feet off on My Nice Clean Welcome Mat". © Arpege Music Co.; 30 August 1957; Class E (musical composition) Unpublished [EU]490815. p. 1228 – via Internet Archive (University of Michigan Library). Free access icon
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