The girl singers of the big band era emerged from being merely window dressing to being as important to the band’s success as the musicians themselves. They became the stars of the era, especially during the war, and beyond. We’ll listen to Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford, Martha Tilton and Margaret Whiting.   

About Stuart Johnson 

In 2007, as an outreach of the Michigan Jazz Record Collectors (MJRC), Stuart Johnson began and continues to lecture on Jazz and Jazz related topics at numerous locations throughout the Metro Detroit Area including libraries, the Adult Learning Institute, the Music Theater class at U of D-Mercy, SOAR Wayne State and MORE Macomb CC, other senior groups and organizations, and at a convention of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors.