Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The death of Georgia Gibbs

Probably most of you don't remember Her Nibbs, Georgia Gibbs, but she was a very popular singer when I was growing up. I had assumed she had died 40 years ago, but it turned out that it was just the other day, and she was only 87. Not that that is young, but I had assumed she was much older, perhaps since she apparently stopped singing for her supper when she was in her 40s. I also saw in the newspaper this morning that host Bob Barker turned 83, which makes him just four years younger than Georgia Gibbs. Mind boggling (at least for a second or two)

Also, I learned that Georgia Gibbs' real name was Frieda Lipschutz.

I wonder what Bob Barker's is.

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