Shore, Dinah
(1917–1994)> SINGER
Dinah Shore Singer Frances Rose Shore, Winchester, Tennessee, March 1, 1917; Los Angeles, California, February 24, 1994. She began her career in Nashville on radio . She came to New York in 1938, and by the following year, she was recording with Xavier Cugat and singing on station WNEW. In 1940, she joined radio ’s Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street and made a few records with leader Henry “Hot Lips” Levine and his Barefooted Philharmonic. Eddie Cantor signed her for his radio show…