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.

Wheel of Fortune
Kay Starr Lyrics

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The wheel of fortune
Goes spinning around
Will the arrow point my way?
Will this be my day?

Oh, wheel of fortune
Please don't pass me by
Let me know the magic of

A kiss and a sigh

While the wheel is spinning, spinning, spinning
I'll not dream of winning, fortune or fame
While the wheel is turning, turning, turning
I'll be yearning, yearning
For love's precious flame

Oh, wheel of fortune
I'm hoping somehow
If you'll ever smile on me
Please let it be now

While the wheel is spinning, spinning, spinning
I'll not dream of winning, fortune or even fame
While the wheel is turning, turning, turning
I'll be yearning, yearning
For love's precious flame

Oh, wheel of fortune
I'm hoping somehow

If you ever smile on me
Please let it be now

Overall Meaning

In the song "Wheel of Fortune," Kay Starr sings about the unpredictable nature of life and the desire for love and luck. The wheel of fortune is a metaphor for the ups and downs of life, and the singer wonders if she will be lucky enough to find love. She hopes that fate will smile on her and give her a chance at happiness.

The lyrics suggest that the singer is resigned to her fate and not overly concerned with winning fame or fortune. She is focused on finding love, which she sees as the most valuable prize. The phrase "a kiss and a sigh" implies that she wants a deep, passionate love, rather than a shallow or fleeting affection.

Through repetition of the lines "While the wheel is spinning, spinning, spinning/I'll be yearning, yearning/For love's precious flame," the singer conveys a sense of longing and anticipation. She acknowledges that life is unpredictable and there are no guarantees, but she still holds out hope that the wheel of fortune will point her in the direction of love.

Line by Line Meaning

The wheel of fortune
The concept of fate or unpredictable destiny

Goes spinning around
Moves in a circular motion, symbolizing the lack of control in one's life

Will the arrow point my way?
Is luck or chance going to be in my favor?

Will this be my day?
Is this the moment where good fortune will shine upon me?

Oh, wheel of fortune
A plea or hope for good luck

Please don't pass me by
A request for the opportunity to experience a stroke of luck

Let me know the magic of
Desire to feel the enchantment or wonder of

A kiss and a sigh
The romantic gesture that symbolizes love and contentment

While the wheel is spinning, spinning, spinning
During the time where fate is uncertain and decisions are out of one's control

I'll not dream of winning, fortune or fame
Not getting caught up in the allure of success and riches

While the wheel is turning, turning, turning
During the cycle of life that carries on regardless

I'll be yearning, yearning
Longing for something meaningful, such as love

For love's precious flame
The warmth and passion that love provides

Oh, wheel of fortune
A renewed hope for the future

I'm hoping somehow
A positive outlook amid uncertainty

If you'll ever smile on me
A belief that fate can turn around for the better

Please let it be now
Wishing for an immediate change in circumstance

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: George David Weiss, Bennie Benjamin

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

@jednagales4680

6y↑109

The wheel of fortune
Goes spinning around
Will the arrow point my way?
Will this be my day?
Oh, wheel of fortune
Please don't pass me by
Let me know the magic of
A kiss and a sigh
While the wheel is spinning, spinning, spinning
I'll not dream of winning, fortune or even fame
While the wheel is turning, turning, turning
I'll be yearning, yearning
For love's precious flame
Oh, wheel of fortune
I'm hoping somehow
If you ever smile on me
Please let it be now
While the wheel is spinning, spinning, spinning
I'll not dream of winning, fortune or even fame
While the wheel is turning, turning, turning
I'll be yearning, yearning
For love's precious flame
Oh, wheel of fortune
I'm hoping sometime
If you ever smile on me
Please let it be now

@fabianpuga5953

La rueda de la fortuna
va dando vueltas
¿La flecha señalará mi camino?
¿Será este mi día?
Oh, rueda de la fortuna
por favor no me pases
Déjame saber la magia de
un beso y un suspiro
Mientras la rueda gira, gira, gira
No soñaré con ganar, fortuna o incluso fama
Mientras la rueda gira, gira, gira
Estaré anhelando, anhelando
Por la llama preciosa del amor
Oh, rueda de la fortuna
Estoy esperando de alguna manera
Si alguna vez me sonríes
Por favor déjalo ser ahora
Mientras la rueda gira, gira, gira
No soñaré con ganar, fortuna o incluso fama
Mientras la rueda gira, gira, gira
Estaré anhelando, anhelando
Por la llama preciosa del amor
Oh, rueda de la fortuna
espero alguna vez
Si alguna vez me sonríes
Por favor déjalo ser ahora.

All comments from YouTube:

@ejseabury

29w↑26

“L.A. Confidential” is one of the best movies ever made.

And this is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. IMO

@beberodri

4y↑158

“I wouldn’t trade places with Exley right now for all the whiskey in Ireland”

@thecrushedtwinkie6632

3y↑13

Kay Starr is of Iriquois and Irish ancestry. Google her for details.

@titancoach15

2y↑11

Boyo

@clodge5196

2y↑7

Great movie

@randywhite3947

2y↑4

@@clodge5196 movie name?

@clodge5196

2y↑8

@@randywhite3947 LA confidential '97

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@johnathanhardin152

4y↑122

My grandfather played this on a jukebox at a restaurant and asked my grandmother to dance with him to this song. They married a year later. That’s all it took.

@griffonsarcade

2y↑6

that's adorable

@robinmiller3296

2y↑4

Ohh, that's beautiful 😍 ❤

@darkelectrick

2y↑4

@@karlwithak1835 atleast its not like now where you need to 6figures be 6 ft and crap tons of things that make it difficult just to get one lame ass girl who probably isnt worth it nowadays

@ishents1

2y↑1

Grandad was a playa with damn good taste.

@josephstevens9888

3y↑9

This song always reminds me of the movie "LA Confidential".

@JessicaLanear

4y↑84

My 90 year old patient introduced me to this song today. Beautiful song

@BLIZZARD_idkwhatnametotype

2y↑8

must be lucky for an elderly to let you know this masterpiece from the 1950s

@kelliintexas3575

2y↑3

Check out Rock & Roll Waltz

@TheProms

24w

Lucky you.

@francisalbert1799

6y↑55

L.A. Confidential, one of the greatest films!

@cfindegreen

31w↑2

I totally agree. The montage in that film was edited perfectly with this song. AND the editor/director was brilliant enough to let the entire song play to the end. (they did however, eliminate one of the wheel spins at the beginning.)

@joshflynn2173

24w

@@cfindegreenThat montage was seriously well done, I had to rewind to watch it again

@mathispodcz6923

3y↑10

The reals ones are here because of Curtis Hanson's masterpiece, L.A Confidential !!

@DEBORAHGERBACK

25w↑3

10Am. My father loved this song and Kay Starr. We would listen to her for hours. She was so wonderful.

@michaellazzeri2069

2y↑3

i have a vague memory of this song. I was 5 & 6 y/o in '52, but i do remember it. --------Time goes by, too fast. ----------------MJL, 76 y/o

@geoffm9944

3y↑65

Kay Starr made this an unforgettable and memorable song of the 1950’s! She had a powerful and very distinctive voice! It brings back memories of a decade when there was a galaxy of superb female singers.

@nevittwoods1730

3y↑1

and good night clubs up west

@waynedecarlo8538

3y↑3

I agree with you , she is one of the best.

@CZECHMATE650

2y↑2

The greatest generation

@michaelconner1771

3y↑36

I dig this song...I discovered it from watching the movie, "LA Confidential." This same artist does a really nice Christmas song called, "The Man With The Bag."

@robinmiller3296

2y↑3

Yes. That's where I first heard it. Then I heard "Man With the Bag," and learning it's the same woman. She's awesome. Absolutely Amazing voice. 👏🏿

@Pluton702

2y↑1

Same do i :-) I also saw LA Confidential and felt in love with this song. AWESOME !!!

@francovu

3y↑43

I think the young people listening to this in 1952 are no different than the young people who listen to todays hits. We live in the moments of music, they bring us back somehow.

@andonellaperreault8537

1y↑4

THIS SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL , MY COUSIN PLAYED THIS WHEN WE VISITED SOMETIMES, GREAT SONG, SHE LOVED THIS SONG, R.I.P. DOLLY,.

@jontilley3521

35w↑6

Today's music isn't like the good stuff back then

@lesserknown66

30w↑2

Nowhere the reason why people listen to old music. This has more class and and it's was all recorded to perfection with the skills of the singer and instruments no computers.

@jamesross1799

27w

It's an amazing song I first heard it in 1991 on the british crime film "let him have it " about Bentley and kraig

@CanisLupus123

4y↑13

I first heard this in the movie "L.A Confidential". Classic!

@479isis

11y↑190

Always makes me think of L.A. Confidential the vocals are stunning!!

@stefanfilipovits21

4y↑6

Same

@mathispodcz6923

3y↑6

Curtis Hanson's masterpiece !!!!

@mohammedashian8094

3y↑12

Remember dear commenters you heard it here first off the record on the QT and Very HUSH HUSH

@jednagales4680

6y↑109

@tonybazley5733

4y↑1

Thanks. Robert Gordon does an interesting version of this.

@TheGooselopez

3y↑1

Gracias

@fabianpuga5953

@aceystar1478

First chorus is just fortune or fame. Remove the even

@darrenwright179

3y↑3

LA Confidential brought me here. Classic

@jayonnaj18

2y↑21

I remember hearing this song on the radio when I was a little girl back in the 1950s and always loved it, and loved Kay Starr's voice!

@geoffm9944

3y↑27

Kay Starr had a fantastic voice. Her vocal strength and her plaintive tones were unforgettable! For my money, one of the best popular female singers of the 20th century.

@moatdea218

7y↑2

I don't know why an 8-year old third grader would like this song but I did and still do 65-years later.

@RaymondLayzell

10y↑167

I Played this in 1952 while undergoing the most strenuous preparations for a stint in the Parachute Regiment, 3rd Brigade! Anybody out there. Thanks Kay for the memory.

@edgargiosano

10y↑11

You are awesome!

@RaymondLayzell

10y↑11

Gio64
Not Awesome, just Old, but thanks for the compliment.

@sjhall5777

9y↑6

Ray Layzell THANK YOU.From the USA

@RaymondLayzell

9y↑4

I believed that Kay Starr was Canadian? But I appreciate your thanks.

@jp3923

7y↑8

Ray, many of us can identify with certain entertainers and/or songs that were popular during our military service. I remember well when I first heard her sing this song, and I have fond memories of it and Kay.

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@ronyates1140

8y↑3

She had a great voice ...unlike most of the female singers of today ...

@anthonys904

2y↑2

"Go back to Jersey, Sonny. This is the City of the Angels and you haven't got any wings."

@rfbuninga5641

8y↑77

Kay died early this month at 93 years old. I have known this song for so long.

@michele530

6y↑2

@WishyTheStar

10y↑40

Her harmonies are so beautiful in this song.

@ChrsGuit

2y↑1

A very modern studio vocal sound, especially for so long ago...

@raymondprice2693

3y↑9

Great memories hearing this song by Kay Starr.

@GoonerBob42

3y↑16

A timeless classic from one of the best female vocalists of the 20th century.

@cjcarp9438

4y↑10

I grew up listening to REO and Led Zep but I heard this on the Jukebox when I was 5 and its been my favorite song ever since.

@charlesbarrett9059

3y↑10

It’s 2022 and this song is still so special. Timeless.

@maxgonzalez214

5y↑27

I first heard this many years ago in the film LA Confidential. Back then the internet was very new and YT didn't yet exist. So happy that now I can listen to this beautiful song any time I want.

@mja91352

Never heard of records, I take it?

@bluesdharma

3y↑1

😍

@robertmasina4610

@max. If this song was on the radio before your time, on can't blame you for never having heard this.

@geoffm9944

3y↑12

Kay had a brilliant, unforgettable voice,

@robertjones-eb4xo

5y↑15

This song was a milestone in Pop music , I remember everywhere we went it was blaring out , R&R followed shortly after . Brill.

@iriscot5398

4y↑5

All ways reminds me of the film Let him have it a true story of British judgement gone wrong and La Confidential as well

@lashontajackson5112

9y↑72

I play this at the retirement home and the love it

@mr.warmth1511

8y↑5

+LaShonta Jackson pretty lady and pretty name

@lashontajackson5112

8y↑1

+roger huff Thank You

@cemex6504

8y↑2

+LaShonta Jackson+ I agree with roger's comment by the way is a nice touch on your part by putting the song at the retirement home for the seniors who enjoy hearing it, well, I hope when I reach that age someone does something similar for me, greetings from Monterrey Mexico.

@lashontajackson5112

8y↑10

+Cemex Good morning from Birmingham, Alabama thanks I work in a dementia and alzheimer community and music is something they never forget! 💓

@mr.warmth1511

8y↑8

god bless you ms. jackson

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@sue503

6y↑107

She's my grandma's dad's cousin!(:

@theamazingcapitalist3547

5y↑25

If we track back to adam and eve we might find some lineage together, dear cousin.

@whoisbillgates1050

5y↑4

TheAmazingCapitalist ahahahaha love that

@allysonkitchens5840

5y↑4

She was amazing. My mom had all her albums.

@alecscott5799

5y↑3

She's my second cousin to an aunt whose father was brother to an uncle of my grandfather's nephew's brother- in- laws uncles ex wife!! Oh yes! I knew her very well!! Lol!!
Just kidding sue503..lol.

@alecscott5799

5y↑1

@@allysonkitchens5840 In the early fifties my older sister sang Kay Starr from one end of the house to the other!! Quite well actually!

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@normal_guy1771

4y↑113

The devil all the time brought me to this masterpiece

@elizabethconnelly6756

4y↑5

Same.

@elizabethconnelly6756

4y↑17

I just paused the movie to find this.

@katerinaskabrahova3224

4y↑4

Same

@khai.45

Same mister schoolshooterswagman

@someguyyouknow6420

4y↑6

DEEEEEEEELLLLLUUUUUUUSSSSSSIIIIIIIIOOOOOOONNNNNSSS!

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@deliapasqualini970

3y↑3

I don't know why I am crying so much while listening to this song

@Cristinatmg

2y↑2

Great, Great Song! I'd like too take a Spin and win ♡ ♡ ♡.. Let the Wheel twirl!! Thank you Mrs. Kay Starr! Beautiful voice!

@donkeysan8988

7y↑28

I heard this song on the radio and cried..Her voice was so beautiful

@SuperRedhead1988

4y↑20

Music has always held a special place in my mind and soul. Songs can take you to special places in your past, or remove you briefly from the current. This is one of those songs, timeless and so beautiful sung.

@WhatSheSayz77

Thank you. Appreciate it

@JayKhwaja

4y↑16

L.A. Confidential, Brilliant Flick, watched it twice at the Cinema back in '97.

@stefanfilipovits21

4y↑1

Kinda jealous. I’d have loved to see LA Confidential on the big screen

@JayKhwaja

@@stefanfilipovits21 I'm really sorry you missed out, if you ask me, that was when when Cinema 🎥 was on it's last days of entertainment as by 2000s, the enthusiasm started to somewhat sadly decline when all these other gimmick films began to show up, reducing cinema to a shadow of it's former glory days 😢

@NoirChat138

4y↑1

If the movie is good you should try the book

@NoirChat138

4y↑1

@@JayKhwaja yep, then came that abortion of Black Dahlia made by De Palma...

@JayKhwaja

@@NoirChat138 What Happened with that?

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@delhornbuckle3911

8y↑14

RIP Kay Starr.. Loved her voice! This was my favorite song

@juliereminiec4937

3y↑1

one of my many favorite songs

@aarongranda7825

5y↑3

This is the city of the angels, and you haven't got any wings. Go back to Jersey, Sonny.

@blidabladi1906

3y↑4

L.A confidential un de mes films préférés, le charisme de Russell Crowe, le glamour de Kim Basinger. Tout est parfait dans ce film !

@gplunk

8y↑23

R I P Ms. Starr and thanks for all your talents and wonderful work over the years......

@WhatSheSayz77

2y↑2

Forever in mind, my grandparents and mom dancing to this song year's ago, one of my most earliest and precious memories

@user-mf6li4sw6n

23w

I remember hearing this on the radio.

@63onbehalf

5y↑5

What a beautiful, strong Voice!

@Iris156

4y↑3

Kay, she is amazing! My grandfather was so right to adore her!

@gerwynevans2729

5y↑2

Brash, blousy, flamboyant and fabulous. Love it

@MegaGenten

7y↑2

I remember being approx 5 years old living in garston tenements garston liverpool 19 when this song was often played on the radio! WoW! How the years have changed! Years just fly by!

@karenmoore5754

2y↑4

My Mum used to sing this when I was young. My best friend recently wrote a poem for them with some of the lyrics from the song for their Diamond Wedding Anniversary this year.

@josephwheeler1279

10y↑40

No your never going to get this great music these days

@loveistruth5713

5y↑3

Check out postmodern jukebox. They're bringing back the sounds they're on YouTube entering around the world.

@MrClitheroe

4y↑1

@@loveistruth5713 They are fantastic. Sooooo many talented performers. A great live show.

@mcsuibhne005

4y↑2

Such a great time to be alive right now - music wise. All of the greatest music ever at the touch of a button

@josephkane3215

6y↑4

Another timeless Classic hit single from The late Great Kay Starr with her biggest selling hit single of all-time as it is Called Wheel Of Fortune

@ronsanford4793

4y↑4

This should be the theme song for Wheel of Fortune.

@jeangabin70

9y↑12

je suis français et j adore cette chanteuse

@allthingsclassicrock

4y↑5

What a voice!

@shirleypena4133

8y↑12

I LOVE this song and the fabulous Kay Starr!
From Kay Starr to Bobby Whitlock there is something
so special about the voice of folks who are Native American! :)

@mr.warmth1511

8y↑1

i am 1 mam

@nicholasmclaine4398

Hello dear, how are you

@robinmiller3296

I just remembered this song and decided to "Google" her. I was pleasantly surprised to learn she was born on a Navaho Indian Reservation in Oklahoma.

@denverjohnson4653

8y↑21

beautiful music from a simpler time.........

@josephkane2148

7y↑2

One Of the most Beautiful singles of 1952 as it is By Kay Starr as it is her Biggest Selling single to date such a real Cracking single

@OlderWomenRock

3y↑2

Love this song , first heard it in the fab movie LA confidential

@davidmoore2325

How are you doing?

@joeyvillanueva5596

Wow wow i moved to cry this song was a BIG Hits in Philippines on on 1952 when my Mom 18 years old she was born on February 1934 my Mom favourite song and her Bestfriend Name Guada

@npsit1

7y↑2

I remember hearing this song as a kid.. in the 80s. My dad got a bunch of records and tapes from a friend that we used to play a lot.

@gourmandespagnol

6y↑5

Una canción maravillosa.
Para escucharla en el silencio de la noche una y otra vez.
Y otra y otra vez...

@davkatjenn

3y↑7

I simply love this and the arrangement is wonderful.

@robertolh.2520

5y↑4

This song is a master piece with a flawless performance, im from Mexico and i love this song.

@Scottsteaux63

17w

Magnificent.

@SHJOBR

8y↑19

KAY STARR...ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST GEMS OF THE FIFTIES....SHE COULD SING ANYTHING...EFFORTLESS.AND AS BILLIE HOLIDAY ONCE SAID OF KAY....THE ONLY WHITE SINGER SHE KNEW THAT COULD SING THE BLUES....GREAT POINT, EVEN THOUGH SHE IS PART NATIVE AMERICAN....A TREASURE NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN....

@jackstiteley5439

8y↑3

My mother loved Kay Starr like we loved so many of the 60's groups. I remember her playing this song on an album whenever dad was at work. Mom died at 60 in 1990. I miss her very much but when I hear this song, it is the late 50's and dad is at work.

@error.418

8y↑2

jerry frasier she's mostly native American, 3/4

@jackcanfield182

6y↑3

She was Patsy Cline's favorite singer, and if you listen carefully . . .

@harveyaaronson6984

5y↑4

Love her voice, and style. Although I was a little kid in the 1950s, When she sings If you Love me really Love me, it brings tears of joy and sadness to. But what a great artist. Thank you

@larryd.kelley212

3y↑3

Just as the intro began I finally recalled her and her voice. Distinctive. Great song and well done.

@imorccUO

9y↑240

LA Confidential brought me here.

@abu-hashimalruwaishid3356

9y↑9

The same movie brought me here too

@mick09790162

9y↑9

+Ian McDonald After "Shotgun Ed".

@fatmam.tawfik316

8y↑7

the same here. Great film, great soundtrack.

@mectron63

8y↑3

+Ian McDonald so did the movie let him have it

@MidgardianMetalHead

8y↑1

Same. Lol.

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@charlotteswincicki2226

8y↑18

RIP!! How sad to lose such a good singer!!

@Juliaflo

6y↑1

I second that.

@nicholasmclaine4398

Hello dear

@leahmay1506

2y↑1

The entire song is amazing, but what a finish!!!

@jamesgonzales7994

6y↑2

She must have been a Angel!!!

@frankplatt323

4y↑1

Poor old Bud, such a tough guy, and then he's blindsided by love. We've all been there. Good music can break the hardest man

@claragallegos_

2y↑6

Wow, esto es realmente hermoso. No salio de mi mente en las ultimas 3 semanas

@AnthonysDen

8y↑8

This was always one of my favorites from this wonderful girl. RIP, Kay Starr (July 21, 1922 - November 3, 2016).

@josephkane2852

8y↑6

This has got to be one of the Greatest singles of The Rock & Roll Era such a Classic Single of it's Time a Timeless Classic single from 1952

@josephkane4753

7y↑3

One of the Finest Female singles to Top The Charts On both UK & US singles charts such a timeless classic single from the Great Kay Starr Called Wheel Of Fortune

@ishents1

Heard this in "Let I'm Ave it" haunted me ever since beautifully sung and arranged.
Classic.

@Apophis-lw6bz

First heard this song in the movie LA Confidential, couldn't get it out of my head since.

@KingsOwn19

3y↑3

“There he is. You did good kid. Who would’ve thought? Shotgun Ed”

@desertbob6835

9y↑3

In the Billboard Top 10 back the day I was born. Love Kay Starr to this very day. WHAT a set of pipes on her! Art Mooney's orchestra, produced by Lou Busch at Capitol.

@frost9057

Beautiful song. Excellent movie la confidential 👍

@donnaheitkoetter6316

8y↑30

I ABSOLUTELY ADORED THE FABULOUS FIFTIES. THAT WAS ALL OF MY SCHOOL DAYS--
GRADUATED RIVERVIEW GARDENS HIGH SCHOOL 1955!!!

@error.418

8y↑1

Donna Heitkoetter so you enjoyed high school, like most people

@donnaheitkoetter6316

I was a dancer and loved to dance.

@error.418

Donna Heitkoetter That's wonderful :)

@cf1934

8y↑1

I graduated from South High in Omaha, Ne. in 1955 and you're right, the 50's were the greatest.

@error.418

8y↑1

clarence fender "my generation was the greatest" what a load of crap

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@georgeward1527

2y↑1

Great song

@ThinKwiQ

34w

As a 43-year-old metal head, I listen to a lot of death metal, black metal, thrash, etc. This woman's voice is incredible. What a great song!

@gilliansherlock7211

4y↑1

rem from film LET HIM HAVE IT great song great singer ...

@darrylevans4401

5y↑3

One of the greatest and selling records the late and great Kay Star ever made wow what a voice

@johngreen6783

2y↑1

I grew up listening to hard rock all my life but I LOVE this song. I never get tired of hearing it. Ranks among the definitive pop standards of the 1950s

@murph5438

10y↑17

A great popular song sung by a wonderful American female vocalist --- sounds as great as always --- this will always sound spectacular

@JarnBjorn72

9y↑7

Oh wow. I looked this song up because it was #1 in the U.S. on the day my dear mother was born. Beautiful tune!

@fatmam.tawfik316

8y↑57

Please take me there, to live in the 1950s.

@barbarathornhill8385

6y↑3

I'm with you on that !!!!!!?

@johannaottervanger9576

6y↑5

Fatma Mta although I was only about 4-5 yrs old when she sang this.....it was one of so many 45's my parents would play all the time, and Ink Spots, Platters, Ray Charles, and every song heard from LA Confidential soundtrack......FUN FUN

@bonnielopez2809

6y↑10

I agree. When ladies dressed as it was dinner party every night and were homemakers.

@ynakoliai5146

The 50's are pretty as an esthetic but damn i wouldn't want to live in that time.

@fatmam.tawfik316

@@ynakoliai5146 why?

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@jeanannkerr6386

8y↑2

Funny how she has always been forgotten. I know nothing of her history, I just love to hear her sing.

@DonLefFL

#1 song the day I was born.

@johngalvin3124

4y↑2

Seen a million tough guys sing along to this...the voice sweeps you along...

@raymondshaw6186

10y↑3

Speechless. Love this lady!

@ricardo93642

3y↑3

what a voice and the orchestra Thanks for sharing

@primarchicarus7099

51w↑1

All of these people sharing beautiful stories of old timers and their loves, and here I am listening to this song only because it was in a Fallout New Vegas mod and I liked the song.