Bonnie Baker

b. Evelyn Nelson, 1 January 1918, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, d. 11 August 1990, Florida, USA. An exceptionally popular vocalist with Orrin Tucker’s dance music group from 1936-42, Baker was noticed by Tucker while playing a golf club in Chicago. He employed her like a music group vocalist and transformed her name, billing her as ‘Wee Bonnie Baker’. In 1939, they documented the classic novelty quantity ‘Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh!’, a 1918 music by Abe Olman and Ed Rose. It quickly became among the ‘most popular’ information around, adding to Baker becoming voted Many Popular Feminine Vocalist of 1940 inside a Billboard university poll. More strikes adopted, including ‘Prevent! It’s Amazing’, ‘Billy’, ‘Would’ja Brain?’, ‘You’d End up being Surprised’, ‘Pinch Me personally’, ‘If I POSSIBLY COULD End up being The Dummy ON YOUR OWN Leg’, ‘Where SHOULD I Move From You?’ and ‘My Level of resistance Is Low’. The music group and Baker also presented, for a time of year, on Lucky Hit’s Your Strike Parade, on CBS network radio, and in the small musical film, You’re THE MAIN ONE. In 1942, Tucker split up the music group and volunteered for services in america Navy. Baker proceeded to go solo, and worked well through the 40s, but ultimately faded through the music scene.