Allmusic: June Christy:
Though she was the epitomy of the vocal cool movement of the 1950s, June Christy was a warm, chipper vocalist able to stretch out her impressive voice on bouncy swing tunes and set herself apart from other vocalists with her deceptively simple enunciation. From her time in Stan Kenton's Orchestra, she inherited a... >>read more
Ladies of Jazz: June Christy: Biographical information on Christy, who replaced Anita O'Day with Stan Kenton's Orchestra in 1945.
She had hits with "Tampico," "Shoo-Fly Pie" and "How High the Moon" and her renditions of ballads and novelties helped to keep the Kenton Orchestra going, contrasting with their more experimental and... >>read more