Charlene Darling, Jazz Singer

[JSngry]

Here we go again, clearing out unresolved memories of childhood courtesy of/induced by the cathode ray...

I remember watching some summer replacement show (or maybe it was just a "special") when I was a kid ca.1966 and seeing a pretty loud group consisitng of a female singer fronting a piano trio. What made the memory stick out was that the singer strongly resmembled Charlene Darling from the Andy Griffith show. A strange jusxtopostition, that, I thought at the time (although not yet, at age 11, actually using the word "juxtaposition"...), this hilbilly chick singing this really strange, flashy, kinda "coo-coo" city music.

Well, time passes, and the little things slip into the recesses of one's memory, but occasionally something pops up and makes you say, "Hey, I remember Charlene Darling singing jazz on TV, WTF was that?" And then, as quickly as the thought comes, it goes, unresolved, and surely creating/leaving some sort of deeply subconscious anxiety in the process.

Anxiety, no matter how minor or subliminal, is not to be courted, not these days. That's why when the though popped up today, I turned to that Grand Anxiety Resolver, The Internet, to settle once and for all if I had in fact seen Charlene Darling singing jazz, if it was just some chick who looked just like Charlene Darling, or just what the phuc it was that creating this lingering burr under the saddle. The Internet did not disappoint.

It turns out that Charlene Darling is/was actually Maggie Peterson, and that Maggie Peterson was indeed no stranger to either singing or to jazz. I still don't know for absolute certainty that it was her I saw on the TV show when I was 11, but hey, close enough to consider the case closed.

Details here: http://www.what-a-character.com/cgi-bin/di...gi?id=982799425

Thank you all for your ongoing support throughout this labrythian ordeality.

[Jim Alfredson]

I would be scared to look inside your brain, Jim.

[JSngry]

[Hot Ptah]

I find that really interesting. The Darlings were the Dillards, a bluegrass group which recorded several albums for Elektra Records. I had not known that she was also a professional singer.

Today, a female singer/actress who looked like she did in the early 1960s, would probably be featured on any number of TV and/or cable series and reality or game shows, record her own CDs, star in depressingly poor films, be a scantily clad presenter at the Grammys and Oscars...but back then, she was doomed to relative obscurity by the scarcity of marginal, bad taste national media opportunites.

Edited March 24, 2006 by Hot Ptah

[Neal Pomea]

Anxiety, no matter how minor or subliminal, is not to be courted, not these days. That's why when the though popped up today, I turned to that Grand Anxiety Resolver, The Internet, to settle once and for all if I had in fact seen Charlene Darling singing jazz, if it was just some chick who looked just like Charlene Darling, or just what the phuc it was that creating this lingering burr under the saddle. The Internet did not disappoint.

Can't find reliable info on what long term affects my medicines have, but I'll sleep well knowing what Charlene Darling did. That's what the free Web is good for.

Can we name the Darling brothers? Didn't the daddy say Ohther had the most personality?

Edited March 25, 2006 by It Should be You