Everyone Is Waiting for the Man with the Bag
Kay Starr (Katherine Laverne Starks, July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016) was … Read Full Bio ↴Kay Starr (Katherine Laverne Starks, July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016) was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 1950s.
Kay Starr was successful in every field of music she tried, jazz, country and pop. But her roots were in jazz, Billie Holiday, considered by many the greatest jazz singer of all time, called Starr "the only white woman who could sing the blues."
She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Rock And Roll Waltz".
Kay Starr was born on a reservation in Dougherty, Oklahoma. Her father, Harry, was a full-blooded Iroquois Indian; her mother, Annie, was of mixed Irish and American Indian heritage. When her father got a job installing water sprinkler systems, the family moved to Dallas, Texas.
While her father worked for the Automatic Sprinkler Company, her mother raised chickens, and Kay used to sing to the chickens in the coop. As a result of the fact that her aunt, Nora, was impressed by her singing, she began to sing at the age of seven on a Dallas radio station, WRR, first in a talent competition where she finished third one week and won every week thereafter, then with her own weekly fifteen minute show. She sang pop and "hillbilly" songs with a piano accompaniment. By the age of ten, she was making $3 a night, a lot of money in the Depression days.
As a result of her father's changing jobs, her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and she continued performing on the radio, singing "Western swing music," still mostly a mix of country and pop. It was while she was on the Memphis radio station WMPS that, as a result of misspellings in her fan mail, she and her parents decided to give her the name "Kay Starr". At the age of fifteen, she was chosen to sing with the Joe Venuti orchestra. Venuti had a contract to play in the Peabody Hotel in Memphis which called for his band to feature a girl singer, which he did not have; Venuti's road manager heard her on the radio, and suggested her to Venuti. Because she was still in junior high school, her parents insisted that Venuti take her home no later than midnight.
Although she had brief stints in 1939 with Bob Crosby and Glenn Miller (who hired her in July of that year when his regular singer, Marion Hutton, was sick), she spent most of her next few years with Venuti, until he dissolved his band in 1942. It was, however, with Miller that she cut her first record: "Baby Me"/"Love with a Capital You." It was not a great success, in part because the band played in a key more appropriate for Marion Hutton, which was less suited for Kay's vocal range.
Kay Starr was successful in every field of music she tried, jazz, country and pop. But her roots were in jazz, Billie Holiday, considered by many the greatest jazz singer of all time, called Starr "the only white woman who could sing the blues."
She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Rock And Roll Waltz".
Kay Starr was born on a reservation in Dougherty, Oklahoma. Her father, Harry, was a full-blooded Iroquois Indian; her mother, Annie, was of mixed Irish and American Indian heritage. When her father got a job installing water sprinkler systems, the family moved to Dallas, Texas.
While her father worked for the Automatic Sprinkler Company, her mother raised chickens, and Kay used to sing to the chickens in the coop. As a result of the fact that her aunt, Nora, was impressed by her singing, she began to sing at the age of seven on a Dallas radio station, WRR, first in a talent competition where she finished third one week and won every week thereafter, then with her own weekly fifteen minute show. She sang pop and "hillbilly" songs with a piano accompaniment. By the age of ten, she was making $3 a night, a lot of money in the Depression days.
As a result of her father's changing jobs, her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and she continued performing on the radio, singing "Western swing music," still mostly a mix of country and pop. It was while she was on the Memphis radio station WMPS that, as a result of misspellings in her fan mail, she and her parents decided to give her the name "Kay Starr". At the age of fifteen, she was chosen to sing with the Joe Venuti orchestra. Venuti had a contract to play in the Peabody Hotel in Memphis which called for his band to feature a girl singer, which he did not have; Venuti's road manager heard her on the radio, and suggested her to Venuti. Because she was still in junior high school, her parents insisted that Venuti take her home no later than midnight.
Although she had brief stints in 1939 with Bob Crosby and Glenn Miller (who hired her in July of that year when his regular singer, Marion Hutton, was sick), she spent most of her next few years with Venuti, until he dissolved his band in 1942. It was, however, with Miller that she cut her first record: "Baby Me"/"Love with a Capital You." It was not a great success, in part because the band played in a key more appropriate for Marion Hutton, which was less suited for Kay's vocal range.
Everyone Is Waiting for the Man with the Bag
Kay Starr Lyrics
Old Mr. Kringle is soon gonna jingle
The bells that'll tingle all your troubles away
Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
'Cause Christmas is comin' again
He's got a sleigh full, it's not gonna stay full
He's got stuff to drop at every stop of the way
Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
'Cause Christmas is comin' again
He'll be here with the answers to the prayers
That you've made through the year
You'll get yours if you've done everything you should
Extra special good
He'll make this December, the one you'll remember
The best and the merriest you ever did have
Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
Christmas is here again
Old Mr. Kringle is soon gonna jingle
All the bells that'll tingle all your troubles away
Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
Christmas is here again
He's got a sleigh full and it's not gonna stay full
Got stuff that he's droppin' every stop of the way
Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
Christmas is here again
He'll be here with the answer to the prayers
That you've made through the year
You'll get yours if you've done everything you should
Extra special good
He'll make this December, the one you'll remember
The best and the merriest you ever did have
Everybody's waitin', they're all congregatin'
Waitin' for the man with the bag
Better watch out now
The bells that'll tingle all your troubles away
Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
'Cause Christmas is comin' again
He's got a sleigh full, it's not gonna stay full
He's got stuff to drop at every stop of the way
Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
'Cause Christmas is comin' again
That you've made through the year
You'll get yours if you've done everything you should
Extra special good
He'll make this December, the one you'll remember
The best and the merriest you ever did have
Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
Christmas is here again
Old Mr. Kringle is soon gonna jingle
All the bells that'll tingle all your troubles away
Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
Christmas is here again
He's got a sleigh full and it's not gonna stay full
Got stuff that he's droppin' every stop of the way
Everybody's waitin' for the man with the bag
Christmas is here again
He'll be here with the answer to the prayers
That you've made through the year
You'll get yours if you've done everything you should
Extra special good
He'll make this December, the one you'll remember
The best and the merriest you ever did have
Everybody's waitin', they're all congregatin'
Waitin' for the man with the bag
Better watch out now
Lyrics © Kanjian Music
Written by: Dudley Brooks, Hal Stanley, Irving Taylor
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@6catalina0
If you work for someone else, you learn that the supervisor has his favorite employees who get their requested days off and their favorite schedule. Supervisors also overlook their favorite employees tardiness and no call/no shows and any of their mistakes and transgressions towards customers and other employees.
Supervisors also mistreat employees when they don't like their opinions, cultural and political beliefs -- Or these Supervisors just plain took a dislike to these employees.
I have been hired at a company where a new supervisor has been hired and an employee who has been with the company for five years quit or got written up and fired. The employee had been working for the company for five years without an incident. But the new supervisor did not like the employee.
Lately, I have been informed by other employees that when they give the required two weeks notice that they are leaving the company, the supervisor or owner tells them, " I don't need you anymore." So the employee has to ask the new company if they can start two weeks early.
As an employee, you learn to accept that supervisors do not treat employees fairly. You learn that everything is personal, and it doesn't matter how good you do your job -- It only matters if you are liked --
Or you find another J-O-B -- Christmas music or not.
@AlvaSudden
It's December '23, & this song is playing in every store. I thought it was something new, but look at this! It's from 1950, 73 years ago. I love it.
@nosygamer7662
This is one of my favourite Christmas songs of all time
@jackolsson9450
Me too ! Merry Christmas !!! :)
@shaungaraghty2571
New one on me this year.
@musicrocksoffical
Such an underrated singer and Christmas classic. ❤❤❤Kay❤❤❤
@normancoulman9277
I love this song! That big band sound you just can't beat!
@v1s4bl32
her voice is so perfect what
@313pookie313
Kay Starr has a strong voice, love listening to all of her music!
@socrates1818
Now that’s a melody!
@Ecosse57
that voice!