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Anita Kerr
WELCOME
TO MY WORLD (Ray
Winkler - John Hathcock) won't
you come on in still
happen now and then leave
your cares behind
built
with you in mind seek
and you will find to
keep this world of mine with
my arms unfurled waiting
just for you welcome
to my world
Welcome
to my world won't
you come on in still
happen now and then leave
your cares behind
built
with you in mind seek
and you will find to
keep this world of mine with
my arms unfurled waiting
just for you welcome to my world
THE
BEST OF JIM REEVES Vocals: William
Wright, Winifred Breast)
Anita's
first vocal group in Mary Ellen
Puckett, Evelyn Wilson, Mildred Kirkham, Don Fotrell. Front row:
Anita. The
Anita Kerr Singers
The Anita
Kerr singers with Marty Paich. Gil Wright, Dottie Dillard,
Marty Paich,
Anita, and Louis Nunley.
Anita, age 12
Anita
Kerr was the vocal embodiment of the "Nashville Sound" which dominated country
music throughout the mid 1950's and 1960's. Along with the
Jordanaires, her
group the Anita Kerr Singers was the seminal backing vocal unit of the
era, and
it is estimated that at their early-Sixties peak, they graced fully one
quarter of
all of the records coming out of A
Billboard
promo in 1965. The Gil Wright,
Anita, Dottie Dillard, and Louis Nunley.
She
formed the Anita Kerr Singers, which also featured alto Dottie Dillard, tenor
Gil Wright and baritone Louis Nunley. After gaining some fame on regional
radio, NBC
hired the Singers for the program Sunday Down South, with
Kerr brought aboard as Chorus Director. In 1951, the group signed
to Decca
Records, and began their career as a studio backing unit. Five
years later, the Singers made their first appearance on the New
York-based Arthur
Godfrey Talent Scouts television program, and quickly became featured players,
splitting their time between the broadcast and theirsession
work. Anita
reviewing score... In
the mid 1950's, Anita Kerr joined forces with Chet Atkins, then the head
of RCA
Records' country division and the creator of the pop-centric "Nashville
Sound," which
employed vocal choruses as a means of smoothing over country
music's rougher edges. The Anita Kerr Singers appeared on
literally hundreds
of the era's most prominent recordings, including releases
from Jim
Reeves, Roy Orbison, Floyd Cramer, Dottie West, Hank Snow, Eddy
Arnold and Lorne Greene; even pop singers like Perry Como
and Brook
Benton enlisted Kerr's talents. She also produced Skeeter
to
oversee a and
song writing, even as two of the Singers' LPs, We Dig Mancini
and Southland
Favorites, were winning Grammy awards (in
the Vocal Group and Gospel categories, respectively). The Anita
Kerr Singers performing at the NARAS
Grammy Awards presentation.
In
the later years of the decade, Kerr teamed with poet Rod McKuen for a series of
mood-music records, titled The Sea, The Earth and The Sky, for which the
Singers were
renamed the San Sebastian Strings and Singers. At the same
time, the
group was featured weekly on the Smothers Brothers' sketch comedy
program. By
the 1970's, Kerr produced a number of easy listening records before moving
to her
second husband Alex Grob's native
Anita Kerr conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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