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And she can write, too! | Girl Singer: An Autobiography | Rosemary Clooney, Joan Barthel

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	• Girl Singer: An Autobiography Rosemary Clooney, Joan Barthel Broadway, 2001 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great book!

Rosemary Clooney was one resillient lady. From her broken-home childhood, her singing glory days, her difficult (if not impossible) marriage to Jose Ferrer, her substance abuse problems, and then final happiness with her old sweetheart are covered in unvarnished, no-nonsense prose. I really liked this book, and could not put it down.

Rosie, you wrote a great book--and, I miss you!

Rosemary Clooney

I appreciated how frank Rosemary Clooney was about her breakdown, and how she pulled herself together afterwards. I'm always interested in turning points, and this was a significant one for her, leading to a sane, normal, intelligent life.

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And she can write, too!

We lost a tremendous talent and treasure this past summer with the death of Rosemary Clooney. I am so glad that I read this book before her death, because I felt as if I got to know her. Ms. Clooney told her story, from her tulmultous childhood, to her heyday as a "girl singer" and recording star, and to her breakdown in the late 1960s. In the last 10 years, she was known more as George's aunt than her own talent. This book solidified for me that she was a great talent, and a very interesting person. Nothing is glossed over.

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Sunday in the park with George's Aunt

Rosemary Clooney's life wasn't all a picnic in the Park. Her autobiography is straightforward - like herself, it is not grandiose, but it is no shrinking violet, either. While reading this book, I also got "Songs from the Girl Singer: a musical autobiography " a 2 CD set. Like Girranimals, the similarly titled companion pieces have the same picture on the front so that the purchaser will know that they go together. Buy `em both, they won't disappoint!

Her life and music are all here - without gloss or pretension. And from her debut with sister Betty, with a local Cincinnati big band, to her meteoric rise to solo national celebrity for "Come On-a My House," a song she never really liked, to sing with Bing in "White Christmas," to the ascension of Rock & Roll (which, she said at the time "wiped out music as we know it,") to her resultant (?) breakdown and triumphant "comeback," to her introduction to a new TV viewing generation as the Coronet Paper Towel lady, to her appearance with nephew George Clooney on ER, Rosemary never learned to read music!

More pictures (including one of the Great Dane, Cuddles,) would have been nice, but the set is a treat. Get it! God Bless You, Rosemary. 5/23/28 - 6/30/2002

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Excellent!!

This book was absolutely remarkable! Anyone interested in Rosemary Clooney should read it. I read this book for a history project and I could not stop talking about it! This book is one of the few that have really ever had a major effect on me. Rosemary's life is like a fairytale: tough beginnings, with a heavenly ending. The book did an excellent job in explaining everything that happened in her life. It was also made better because it was an autobiography. I love it and highly recommend it!

In Girl Singer, Rosemary Clooney, with the warmth and humor that distinguishes her singing, describes her transformation from a schoolgirl in kneesocks to one of the most beloved singers of the twentieth century. Rosemary Clooney made her first public appearance at the age of three, on the stage of the Russell Theater in her tiny hometown of Maysville, Kentucky. She has been singing ever since: on the local radio; with Tony Pastor's orchestra; in big-box-office Hollywood films; at the London Palladium, Carnegie Hall; on her own television series; and at venues large and small around the world. The list of her friends and intimates reads like a Who's Who of show business royalty: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Tony Bennett, and Billie Holiday, to name just a few.

At twenty-five, she married the erudite and respected actor José Ferrer, sixteen years her senior and light-years more sophisticated. Trouble started almost immediately when, on her honeymoon, she discovered that he had already been unfaithful. Finally, after having five children while she virtually single-handedly supported the entire family and his numerous, unrepentant infidelities, she filed for divorce. From there her life spiraled downward into depression, addiction to various prescription drugs, and then, in 1968, a breakdown and hospitalization. After years spent fighting her way back to the top--with two albums at the top of the Billboard charts in six years--Clooney is married to her long-lost love--a fairy tale with a happy ending.

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