Kathy Barr

 Artist: Kathy Barr

LP: Follow Me

Song: "Bye Bye Blackbird"

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Song: "I Know He's Mine"

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Introducing Kathy Barr...and a fond farewell to this lovely volcano of tenderness while we're at it. This is one of my favorite kinds of records to find—one where the liner notes wax on effusively about what an incredible new discovery is being presenting to the public...but nowadays the name of their sensational new superstar is completely unfamiliar to just about anybody at all. 

 

Often, as is the case here with Kathy Barr, the record is very good, or excellent even, and there seems to be no reason besides dumb bad luck and a fickle American public that the singer didn't skyrocket to the stars alongside famous others of their time. This 1957 LP is the only solo recording by Ms. Barr from the 1950s; she did appear again with Giorgio Tozzi the following year to present highlights from THE DESERT SONG, and then popped out one more solo LP in 1964 before leaving her music career behind to focus on raising a family. Kathy Barr died in 2008 in Hollywood... Florida. She was 79 years old.

 

[ Kathy Barr: June 4, 1929 — June 21, 2008 ]