DANIELS, WILLIAM

DANIELS, WILLIAM (BILLY). Popular music singer (c1915 in Jacksonville, Florida). He sang in a church choir as a child. Later he sang on the local radio station, then left home at seventeen to go to New York, where his first employment was as a singing waiter. In 1938 he sang with the Erskin Hawkins orchestra; later he began performing as a single act in nightclubs. In 1951 he had his own television show; he also appeared in film musicals and in...