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Kathy Barr (born Marilyn Sultana Aboulafia; June 4, 1929 – June 21, 2008) was an American vocalist who performed and recorded popular music, jazz, musical theater, and operettas. Barr flourished during the 1950s in nightclubs, television, and radio. She was acclaimed for her soprano range and ability to sing pop, jazz, and classical.

Personal life
Barr was born Marilyn Sultana Aboulafia to parents of Turkish and Spanish ancestry — her father had immigrated from Turkey.

Barr married Chicago nightclub owner Milton L. Schwartz around April 1954. The marriage was annulled in 1956.

In 1958, she legally changed her name to Kathy Barr.

In 1965, when she married Irwin M. Glickman (1930–2011), she ended the commercial aspect of her musical career and devoted herself to her family. She and Irwin had a daughter, Sylvia B. Glickman (born 1966).



Vocal range
Vocal range context: Most people can hit three to four octaves. Mariah Carey has a range of five and one-half octaves, as exhibited in her 1994 hit, "All I Want for Christmas Is You." Prince, some speculated, may have sung notes across six octaves. The "Star Spangled Banner," considered difficult to sing, covers an octave and a half.

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Selected discography


Popular

Armed Forces Radio

 * Old → The program hosted, Lt. Bob Osterberg (né Robert Pierce Osterberg) interviewed Kathy Barr and featured tracks from her new album, Follow Me. Osterberg was, among other things, the host and Emmy nominagted TV show, Dress Blues, launched in 1957, airing Sunday afternoons from 1 to 1:30. The show featured "The Marine Corp Four." It was produced by CBS TV affiliate on station KNXT-TV in Los Angeles.


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 * Dress Blues
 * Composer -pianist Walter Gross, saxophone player Sonny Criss and "The Four Most," (aka the "Marine Corp Four") a singing group are special guests with host Lt. Bob Osterberg.


 * Marine Corps musical-variety show. Bob Osterberg emcees.

a popular radio and TV show of the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, in connection with the El Toro Marine Air Station, broadcast from Los Angels.




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 * Presenting from Hollywood
 * Hosted by Bob Osterburg, El Toro Marine Air Station. Originally broadcast in the Mutual Broadcasting System.

   

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Discovery of Kathy Barr
Barr, before the age of 17, was discovered and signed to an MGM contract by Louis B. Mayer, himself, following a private audition in the New York studio of Mayer's old friend, Hungarian Professor of Music, Robert J. Korst (1885–1969). But she left Hollywood after a year to tour Europe with an American company under the auspices of impresario Edwin Lester (1895–1990).

Kathy Barr was brought to the attention of RCA Records by Mario Lanza. (cite AFRTS article here)


 * → September 1957: Ruthie Shapiro, record promosh, inked to represent Kathy Barr, new RCA recording artist, ex coloratura soprano turned pop.

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Club performances

 * Latin Quarter, Miami Beach, opened in 1940 by Lou Walters, father of Barbara Walters, and E.M. Loew (né Elias Moses Loew; 1897–1984), a major theater operator, but often assumed to be related to Marcus Loew, an even bigger theater operator. They weren't even distantly related.

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Musical theater roles

 * Aboulafia means m doggerel Sanskrit, Son of the Lord


 * June 13, 1949 – June 18, 1949: As Mascha in the The Chocolate Soldier, Karl Kritz, conductor, at Pitt Stadium (outdoors).
 * June 20, 1949 – June 26, 1949: Understudy of Patrice Munsel paying the title role in the Naughty Marietta, Karl Kritz, conductor, at Pitt Stadium (outdoors).
 * June 27, 1949 – July 2, 1949: As Lady Mary in the The Vagabond King, Karl Kritz, conductor, at Pitt Stadium (outdoors).
 * August 1, 1949 – August 6, 1940: As Dorothy Gale (leading soprano role) in the Wizard of Oz


 * April 24, 1950 – : As Mascha in the The Chocolate Soldier, an Edwin Lester production, Author Kay, conductor, at the Philharmonic Auditorium,


 * May 22, 1950 – As Mascha in the The Chocolate Soldier, an Edwin Lester production, Author Kay, conductor, at the Curran Theatre,


 * Make Mine Manhattan
 * Marinka, as Marinka (leading soprano role)
 * Winter Garden Theatre, New York


 * 1947: The Red Mill


 * Tivoli circuit, Melbourne: Opened May 28, 1948, at the Tivoli Theater, Melbourne
 * At the age of 19, Barr was elevated to the role of Marinka after being the understudy for Kathryn Grayson



Selected audio

 * , from the operetta by the same name, composed by Sigmund Romberg
 * Giorgio Tozzi & Barr, vocals
 * RCA Victor (1958)

Sample citation
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