Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song \”Come On-a My House\”, followed by other pop numbers. She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Her career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction.
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Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song \”Come On-a My House\”, which was followed by other pop numbers. She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Her career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Clooney did television commercials for Coronet brand paper towels, during which she sang a memorable jingle that goes, ‘Extra value is what you get when you buy Coronet’ In the early 1980’s, Jim Belushi parodied Clooney and sang a duet with Wild Man Fischer on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. In 1954, she starred, along with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Vera-Ellen, in the movie White Christmas. On November 21, 1957, she appeared on The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, a frequent entry in the \”Top 20\” and featuring a musical group called \”The Top Twenty\”.
In 1960, she and Crosby co- starred in a 20-minute CBS radio program aired before the midday news each weekday. She starred, in 1956, in a half-hour syndicated television musical-variety show The Rose Mary Clooney Show. She sang with Tony Pastor’s big band until 1949, making her last recording with the band in May of that year and her first as a solo artist a month later, still for Columbia. In 1950–51, she was a regular on the radio and television versions of \”Songs For Sale\” on CBS. She recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in theEarly 1950s on Faye Emerson’s Wonderful Town series on CBS, Clooney also did several guest appearances on the Arthur Godfrey radio show, when it was sponsored by Lipton Tea. They did duets as he played his ukulele, and other times she would sing one of her latest hits. This was in contrast to most of her generation of singers, who had stopped recording long ago.
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