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Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s. She reached the height of her popularity as a recording artist during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s, but achieved even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as hostess of a series of variety programs for Chevrolet.
After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She had a string of 80 charted popular hits, spanning the years 1940 to 1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films went on to a four-decade career in American television, starring in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosting two talk shows in the 1970s. ''TV Guide'' magazine ranked her at #16 on their list of the top fifty television stars of all time. Stylistically, Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s, Doris Day and Patti Page.
==Early life==
Frances Rose Shore was born to Anna (née Stein) and Solomon Shore in Winchester, Tennessee, joining an older sister, Bessie. When she was two years old, she was stricken with polio (infantile paralysis), a disease that was not preventable at the time, and for which the only real treatment was bed rest. Her parents provided intensive care for her and she recovered, but she sustained a deformed foot and limp; luckily it wasn't a physical impediment. She loved to sing as a small child; her mother, a contralto with operatic aspirations, encouraged her. Her father would often take her to his store where she would perform impromptu songs for the customers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dinah Shore Fan Club Website )〕 In 1924, the Shore family moved to McMinnville, Tennessee, where her father had opened a department store. By her fifth-grade year the family had moved to Nashville, Tennessee,〔Personal communication from her school deskmate.〕 where she completed elementary school. Although shy because of her limp, she became actively involved in sports, was a cheerleader at Nashville's Hume-Fogg High School, and was involved in other activities. At 14 she debuted as a torch singer at a Nashville nightclub only to find her parents sitting ringside, having been tipped off to their daughter's performance ahead of time. They allowed her to finish, but put her professional career on hold. She was paid $10, .
When Shore was 16, her mother died unexpectedly of a heart attack and she decided to pursue her education. She went to Vanderbilt University, where she participated in many events and activities, including the Chi chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority. She graduated from the university in 1938 with a degree in sociology. She also visited the Grand Ole Opry and made her radio debut on Nashville's WSM (AM) radio station in these years. Shore decided to return to pursuing her career in singing, so she went to New York City to audition for orchestras and radio stations, first on a summer break from Vanderbilt, and after graduation, for good. In many of her auditions, she sang the popular song "Dinah." When disc jockey Martin Block could not remember her name, he called her the "Dinah girl," and soon after the name stuck, becoming her stage name. Shore eventually was hired as a vocalist at radio station WNEW, where she sang with Frank Sinatra. She recorded and performed with the Xavier Cugat orchestra, and signed a recording contract with RCA Victor Records in 1940.
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