From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Dinah Shore born Frances Rose Shore February 29 1916 February 24 1994 was an American singer actress and television personality She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s 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 lasting from 1940 into the late 50s and after appearing in a handful of films went on to a fourdecade career in American television starring in her own music and variety shows in the 50s and 60s and hosting two talk shows in the 70s TV Guide magazine ranked her at 16 on their list of the top fifty television stars of all time Stylistically Dinah Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the midtolate 40s and early 50s Doris Day and Patti Page Description above from the Wikipedia article Dinah Shore licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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