I watched a movie short as a kid...she played with the high heels.
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From: <MrChuk@...>
To: <ethelsmith@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:28 AM
Subject: Ethel Smith Does anyone know?


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> Was Ethel a "peg leg" organists? Using just her left foot on the pedals?
> And did she play in high heel shoes as shown in her pictures?
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> Thanks,
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> Chuck in Mississippi
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> In a message dated 10/23/2006 8:05:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> hammondrobb@... writes:
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> It was on this date, 64 years ago, and it happened a bit like this. It was
> Saturday night in
> New York City. One of the most popular radio shows on the air, "Your Hit
> Parade", was
> about to introduce what would become their new star. Although the live or
> radio audience
> didn't know this story was fiction at the time, their new star was
> introduced like this by the
> shows MC: "You know friends, the other evening, a man of our armed
> services,
> on
> furlough in New York, had dinner in the Iridium Room of the St Regis
> Hotel,
> and while
> there, heard a young lady who played the organ. That young fellow thought
> the young
> lady was so wonderful that he could talk of nothing else and he has asked
> Your Hit Parade
> to put her on our program. Well, we're answering the request of that man
> in
> uniform who
> "left his heart at the St Regis Hotel" by presenting "Ethel Smith", the
> girl
> he heard on his
> big night in the big town. We hope all his buddies in uniform everywhre
> are
> listening right
> now, becasue here she is, Ethel Smith at the Hammond Electric Organ
> playing
> Tico Tico....
> And the rest is music history. Tico Tico went on to become a huge hit for
> Ethel, and in her
> own words "meant to me a Palm Beach Ocean Front Condo, and a music
> publishing
> business". Ethel was a huge hit on the hit parade, and ended up playing
> the
> tune in the
> MGM musical Bathing Beauty. Tico Tico has gone on to become one of the
> most
> recongnized Latin American tunes of all time, being recorded by hundred's
> of
> artists.
> Maybe our good buddy Don will upload a few odd ones to the MP3 section.
> Until then,
> give the ultimate version a listen, by the one and only.... Ethel Smith !
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