KAY STARR: Kay Starr was born Katherine LaVerne Starks, her father Harry was a full-blooded Iroquois Indian and her mother Annie was Irish. She began singing at age 9, in the hen house behind their home; each day when she returned home from school she would give concerts to the chickens. Kay’s Aunt Nora recognized her talent and suggested she be entered her in a local radio station weekly talent contest. She returned each week, winning, until the station retired her by giving her a three times a week, fifteen minute radio program, earning three dollars a night. Know as “The Kid,” the program took requests and whenever a popular song was requested the management would say, “Aw, let the kid do it!” Katherine Starks changed her name to Kay Starr after constant misspellings in fan letters. In 1939, Kay received an offer to sing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Following her graduation in 1940, Kay moved to California. Settling in Los Angeles, she made several singles of jazz classics in 1946 for small indepen