Russ Columbo’s 100th bday
When I first moved to LA, I stayed in the very room where he was accidentally killed. I was hoping there’d be some “residual energy” but alas Russ is solidly dead. From my friend (god, do I love to brag that she is one of my best girlfriends - I can’t wait until we are dowagers together, with lorgnettes and fainting couches, if only she’d move out here sooner), Eve Golden:
Lenny Kaye wrote a great book about Columbo, “You Call It Madness: The Sensuous Song of the Croon.”
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I remember hearing his voice when I was a young girl. It is a shame that he was killed, because he would have given Crosby and Vallee a run for their money.
Tura Satana
Comment by Tura Satana — January 3, 2008 @ 11:43 pm