Vicky Hamilton (musician)

Vicky Hamilton
Self Titled 1969 ABC Impulse LP Dave MacKay and Vicky Hamilton
Self Titled 1969 ABC Impulse LP Dave MacKay and Vicky Hamilton
Background information
Also known asJean Johnson
Jeannie Johnson
Nikki Price
Born
Sandra Jeanette Johnson

January 1937 (age 89)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
EducationMumford High School
San Francisco State University
Wayne State University
GenresJazz
Years active1950 – 1969
LabelsEpic, Impulse
Spouse(s)
Dave Mackay
(m. 1962)

Jean M. Johnson[1][2][3][4] (born Sandra Jeanette Johnson; January 1937), billed variously as Jean Johnson,[5] Jeannie Johnson,[2][6] Nikki Price,[7] and–from 1968 on–Vicky Hamilton,[8] was an American jazz singer-songwriter-composer, best known now for her collaborations with jazz pianist, singer-composer, Dave MacKay, beginning shortly after their marriage in 1962. Shortly before their meeting, she also made a well-received, self-titled solo LP for the Epic Records label, and, in 1963 at the Hollywood Bowl, was the featured female soloist performing Gordon Jenkins selections under the composer's baton.[9][10]

Early life and career

Born in Detroit, Michigan in January 1937,[11][12] and christened Sandra Jeanette Johnson,[13] she was the youngest of three (the others being brothers Kenneth M. and Robert B.), born to Virginia Montgomery (née Aspinwall) and Robert Marston Johnson. Her mother was an executive at Chrysler Corporation, and her father, a paint company executive and professor of business administration at Wayne State University.[11][14][15] Johnson attended Mumford High School,[12] San Francisco State University,[16] and, back home in Detroit, her father's workplace, Wayne State, where she received her bachelor's degree.[9]

In February 1956, Detroit Free Press columnist Dick Osgood reported that "Jeannie Johnson, Detroit girl, is being kept busy with appearances on the Perry Como Show, Godfrey and Friends, and umpteen singing commercials".[17] A full-page profile/interview, published two months later in the Chicago Tribune, goes into greater detail. In the summer of 1955, Johnson did summer stock in Warwick, Rhode Island.[18]

In February 1957, she performed with veteran Modesto-based pianist, Tommy Doyle, at The Sands in Las Vegas.[19][20] In May 1958, Johnson revisited Vegas, with saxophonist Charlie Ventura at the Desert Spa Lounge,[21] and, three months later, was on the bill at San Francisco's Hungry i with the "world's foremost authority", Professor Irwin Corey, and the Kingston Trio.[22]

Johnson's first appearance as "Nikki Price" occurred in August 1961, and Indianapolis clubgoers–or at least those who read the Indianapolis Star–were in for some potentially thunder-stealing happenstance when her Indy nightclub debut, on the bill with comic Phil Foster, coincided with–and, at least in this case, was advertised alongside–that of one like-named, cinematic canine protagonist, courtesy of Walt Disney Productions.[23]

The following January, Variety reported that Price had been signed by Columbia Records and that her first album was to be recorded that month.[24]

Reception

Despite having hit record stores about midway through 1962, Price's debut LP, entitled by Epic, Nikki; Introducing the Beautiful Nikki Price, ended up getting "overlooked in the July releases", as later noted by Daily News critic Douglas Watt. As for his own two-month-late take, it is, by and large, positive. Despite finding her style "as yet [...] pretty tentative [and] flawed by gaucheries", he insists that "the talent's there" and detects in her "an appealing, unaffected voice capable of negotiating a wide variety of tunes".[25]

Variety's review was even more belated but far less tentative in its praise.

Right from the first side, "Would'ja For a Big Green Apple," a seldom-heard Johnny Mercer tune, Nikki Price projects with impact. Although she differs from the run-of-the-mill songstress heard on discs these days, her style isn't so offbeat as to appeal only to a specialized few fans who've caught her work along the intime nitery circuit. She has a mass attraction that will surely develop once the spinners start giving the disc its due exposure. Although she toys effectively with such popular numbers like "Fools Rush In," "If I Were a Bell" and "My Love Is a Wanderer," the unfamiliar entries like "Peel Me a Grape," "A Thousand Blue Bubbles" and "Sweet Pumpkin," as well as the aforementioned "Would'ja For a Big Red Apple," help her impress as a vocalist with a big potential.[26]

Similarly inclined, one month later still, was the trade paper's take–credited to Jose (aka Joe Cohen)–on Price's recently formed night club act (with recently wed husband Dave Mackay), specifically regarding their November 1962 engagement at New York's Left Bank. "Miss Price, at this point," notes Cohen, "brings a highly developed artistry to the podium. She goes for the unusual, vocally, but she brings these items to a universal level that is readily understood and appreciated."[27]

In January 1963, the couple appeared at New York's Village Vanguard.[28] Although understandably overshadowed by the top-billed performer on that date, the already famously controversial Lenny Bruce, the pair–Price, in particular–receives a brief but decided thumbs up at the review's conclusion.

On the bill in a return is the husband and wife team, pianist David Mackay and singer Nikki Price. Mackay, with rhythm backing, turns in a nice instrumental set, and Miss Price[sic] is first rate with a sophisticated book sung with jazz overtones. Her act builds from a slow start (most likely calculated) with a brace of tunes from 'The Wizard of Oz' to a very hip, upbeat special on the famous Mae West line, 'Beulah, peel me a grape.[29]

Reviewing their appearance in July 1963 at the Beverly Hills nitery, Ye Little Club, Daily Variety's reviewer makes note of Price's "extensive range [and] stratosphere-pierc[ing" upper register, while simultaneously assuring readers that her "jazz motivation and feeling never wavers".[30] In the midst of that ongoing engagement, Price was cast as the lead female vocalist–opposite baritone/narrator Bill Lee–in live renditions of Gordon Jenkins' "The Girl on the Rock" (from his Seven Dreams) and the Manhattan Tower suite, performed at the Hollywood Bowl, with the composer conducting.[31][10]

Following a near five-year absence (presumably devoted at least in some measure to her part in composing, arranging, and/or otherwise preparing the original material performed on their three jointly produced albums), Johnson / Price finally resurfaced in 1968, but this time under the name by which she would become best remembered. Described in the Citizen-News as "a female singer with a real jazz feeling, note sustaining power and a good sound", Hamilton, along with MacKay, bass player Chuck Domanico, drummer Joe Porcaro, and reed man Ira Schulman, comprised the Concert Jazz Quintet, featured that year at the Pilgrimage Theater Spring Jazz Festival[8]

New York Times critic Rex Reed wrote in 1969 of their self-titled album:

Vicky Hamilton is a vocalist of profound musical intelligence, wit and sensitivity who seems years ahead of her time. Together [with Dave Mackay] they have written most of the superb material in this album and sing it in an awesomely impressive jazz style. ... There are only two cuts here in a conventional time pattern; most are in odd time changes that flip from 5 to 7, with intervals that can only be described as microtonal. One number, written and sung within an inch of its life by Miss Hamilton, is called "Elephant Song". It took [their record producer] six hours .. to transcribe it. But that should not concern the listener, only the beauty and brilliance of the end result. ... "Elephant Song", which reminded me of the kind of whimsical lyrics Dory Previn writes, has the rich ebullience of a child's first trip to the circus.[32]

"There isn't one band on this disk", he added, "that could be considered less than perfect. ... Their up tunes are filled with joy and sass, and their ballads are lush and hypnotic. .... Miss Hamilton sings like a dream".[32]

Other reviewers were also positive. One said, "a very good blending of voices ... always gentle, never too loud. ... a very tasteful album - quite surprising in fact."[33] Another also commented, "The mellow voices of Dave and Vicky blend beautifully with the jazz sounds for some unusual effects",[34] while a third found them "fresh and stimulting [sic] in the tradition of Jackie and Roy ... experts at injecting unusual meters into their approach, giving their original compositions an off-beat style."[35]

Personal life

In February 1958, while still working as Jeannie Johnson, her planned March 16 "merge" with Bobby Johnson, manager of the Drawing Room (a bar located on Van Ness and Union[36]), was reported by San Francisco Examiner night club editor Ivan Paul.[37] Approximately one week prior to that date came news that the marriage was off, and thus, "Jeannie Johnson, SF's 'Wilson Girl',[a] is on the loose again".[40]

In the summer of 1962, giving her name as Jean M. Price, she married pianist Dave MacKay, whom she met earlier that year, and with whom she would presently begin their near decade-long collaboration[7][1] (notwithstanding the later stage-name change.)[8]

In 1971, in the course of reviewing a live performance by Dave Mackay, Thom McGraham of the Valley News made reference to "the late Vicky Hamilton".[41] Despite the complete absence of any contemporaneous news reporting whatsoever regarding Hamilton's supposed death (including even the most meager paid funeral announcement), that one statement has been cited to document that death.

However, on January 6, 1980, Hamilton's father, Robert Marston Johnson, died. Judging from his obituary, in which the named survivors are "wife, Molly; children, Jean Spear, Robert B. and Kenneth M.",[42] his daughter, the former Mrs. Mackay, was indeed "departed" (from Mackay, that is), but not in the sense that seems to have been inferred by McGraham. Indeed, she was–and, quite possibly, still is–not dead, but simply divorced and evidently remarried.

Discography

Notes

  1. ↑ So designated by Examiner night club editor Frank Funge[16] aka Ivan Paul.[38] The term itself references columnist Earl Wilson and any young starlet displaying the kind of proportions–i.e. big bust and big behind-reputed to be his ideal.[39]

References

  1. 1 2 "Connecticut, Marriage Index, 1959-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VWYQ-WDY : Tue Feb 18 21:16:36 UTC 2025), Entry for David O Mackay and Jean M Price, 13 Dec 1962.
  2. 1 2 Lyon, Herb (February 6, 1963). "Tower Ticker". Chicago Tribune. p. 22A. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. About Nikki Price, who is starring at the Downstage room with her blind hubby-pianist Dave McKay. She copped the Miss Chicago prize in 1954 under her real monicker, Jeannie Johnson, but three weeks later was disqualified because she hadn't lived here long enough.
  3. ↑ "United States, Census, 1940", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KH98-92K : Wed Jan 22 05:57:28 UTC 2025), Entry for Robert M Johnson and Virginia A Johnson, 1940.
  4. ↑ "United States, Census, 1950", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FSF-DJ8P : Mon Mar 17 22:13:50 UTC 2025), Entry for Robert M Johnson and Virginia A Johnson, 10 April 1950.
  5. ↑ Blackard, Mae (April 23, 1950). "Forgotten Children to Be Remembered by Teen-Agers; Jean Johnson: Young soprano looks to future". Detroit Free Press. p. 12D. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. SOPRANO JEAN JOHNSON, 13, has more than 100 shows to her credit. She has appeared as soloist with the Don Large chorus on "Make Way for Youth," a network radio show, and sings regularly on a small station. Just last week Jean was rated superior in the National Federation of Music Clubs' local contest and is thus eligible for state competition. Jean's father, Robert M. Johnson, will be accompanist for the Saturday show.
  6. ↑ "Jeannie Johnson: Wilson Girl?". The Duluth News-Tribune. February 7, 1958. p. 16. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Today's Wilson Girl nominee is Jeannie Johnson, singer at San Francisco's 365 club, and a psychology major at San Francisco State.
  7. 1 2 Loring, Kay (February 12, 1963). "Front Views & Profiles: Language of the Heart". Chicago Tribune. p. B3. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. They've been a working duo almost a year. David, who studied music at Boston university and has degree in English from Trinity college, invited some fellow musicians to his parents' Hartford, Cornn., home last spring. The friends brought Nikki with them. [...] When Nikki was booked in a small New York night club a short time later, she was asked if she knew of a good accompanist. 'David MacKay,' she said promptly. He's been doing her arrangements ever since. From New York, they traveled for engagements to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. By June, were sharing dreams and ideas. They knew from the beginning they shared music as language of the heart. They wanted always to travel together, they decided. So they were married.
  8. 1 2 3 "In Concert". Hollywood Citizen-News. May 18, 1968. p. 6. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. The Concert Jazz Quintet will be featured at the Pilgrimage Theater Spring Jazz Festival at 3 p.m. Sunday. Members include, from left, standing; Vicki Hamilton, vocalist; Joe Porcaro, percussion; Ira Schulman, woodwinds, and Chuck Domanico, bass; seated, Dave MacKay, piano and leader of the group. [...] Vicki Hamilton, the vocalist, is a female singer with a real jazz feeling, note sustaining power and a good sound. She has sung with such groups as Les McCann's, the Gene Russell Trio, and recently as a soloist with Don Ellis' Orchestra.
  9. 1 2 "Price-McKay Duo Praised (Perfection at Matador)". The Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. January 4, 1963. p. 5. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. At 16, was Miss Chicago, quite illegally, since she was underage and not a qualified resident of Chicago. She was thrown out before she got as far as the Miss America contest. It wasn't long before she turned up in New York. Got a job modeling on 'The Big Payoff.' Sang with the Ray Charles Singers (of Perry Como Show fame) and learned enough dancing to get a job at the Latin Quarter. Then she settled down and went to school out in the West at San Francisco State (where she worked her way through college as a night club singer.) However, her degree (she combined music and education) came from Wayne University, back in her old home town, Detroit. [...] She has her own album, made before she teamed with Dave, on the Epic label, called simply 'Nikki.' She occasionally still does dates as a single and has one forthcoming with Gordon Jenkins at the Hollywood Bowl soon.
  10. 1 2 Clar, Mimi (July 22, 1963). "Piano Duo Scores Hit in Bowl". The Los Angeles Times. p. D11. Retrieved July 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Gordon Jenkins also managed to impress the good-sized Bowl gathering with his own compositions and his arrangements of popular songs. He directed the orchestra through a robust version of 'Valencia,' and enlisted the aid of Nikki Price, soprano, and Bill Lee, baritone and narrator, to interpret 'The Girl on the Rock' from his piece 'Seven Dreams' and to help celebrate the wonders of New York in a smooth version of 'Manhattan Tower.'
  11. 1 2 Smith, Ardis (December 30, 1954). "Jeannie Johnson, 17, A Pretty Film Pagan, Has Real Talent, Too". The Buffalo News. p. 6. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. 'She got started like me, early,' Jeannie recalls, 'and now she can do everything, including flying. Mary Martin wasted no time. And I'm in a hurry, too. In eight days I'm going to be 18.' [...] [H]er father, Robert M. Johnson, a paint-company executive and Wayne University instructor, and her mother, Chrysler executive of Detroit, approve her unchaperoned travel.
  12. 1 2 "'Fifth Century Beauty' Visits Pittsburgh to Promote Movie; Eighteen-Year-Old Jeannie Johnson Won Contest to Represent 'Sign of the Pagan'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 7, 1955. p. 12. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Miss Johnson, a dancer at the Latin Quarter night club in New York, was born in Detroit, Mich., the daughter of Robert M. Johnson, a paint company executive and university instructor, and Virginia Johnson, a business machine supervisor for the Chrysler Corporation. She attended Mumford High School in her native city, but she was bitten by the show business bug at the age of ten, when she first appeared as a singer in amateur shows on the radio and in theaters in and around Detroit. Although her parents encouraged Jeannie to begin lessons in singing, dancing, acting and piano playing, she chose to earn her own tuition money by appearing at local shows and broadcasts. At the age of 13, she began acting in summer stock at the Will-O-Way Playhouse at Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit, JEANNIE JOHNSON and in the Civic Light Opera in Detroit. At the same time she began her TV appearances as a singer, later adding acting, piano playing and commercial announcements to her video 1 repertoire. In Many TV Shows To date, Jeannie has appeared on 18 different TV shows, with over 500 performances, includling several months on WXYZ-TV's 'Melodies and Money' program in Detroit, 'Bob Murphy Calling' on WJBK-TV in Detroit, and 'The Big Payoff,' "Breakfast Club" and other coast-to-coast productions. Jeannie has brown hair and flashing brown eyes. Her ambition is become a talented actress on the screen or in television. She is proudest of her three-and-a-half octave range as a singer.
  13. ↑ Penn, Sylvia (October 9, 1937). "GLIMPSES in DETROIT'S MIRROR". The Detroit Tribune. p. 5. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Well, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Johnson of Great Lakes Manor has been named. We think they chose quite a pretty name and it is Sandra Jeanette.
  14. ↑ Carberry, Edward (January 18, 1955). "Jeannie Johnson, 17, A Pretty Film Pagan, Has Real Talent, Too". The Cincinnati Post. p. 13. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Universal, cunningly bent on promoting a film called 'Sign of the Pagan,' went out and found a girl who looked like the portrait. She turned out to be an 18-year-old from Detroit, name of Jeannie Johnson. She also turned out to be a dancer at Manhattan's Latin Quarter. [...] What about Miss Johnson's background? Her father, the press learned, is a professor of business administration at Wayne University in Detroit. She has two older brothers; one is studying to be a medical missionary and one is in the Army in Korea. She plays the piano and sings and would like to act.
  15. ↑ "Aspinwall-Johnson Nuptials to Be Read". Detroit Free Press. August 30, 1933. p. 11. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. 1 2 Wilson, Earl (February 7, 1958). "Cafe Society; Jeannie Johnson, Wilson Girl?". The Duluth News Tribune. p. 16. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Jeannie Johnson, singer"at San Francisco's 365 club, and a psychology major at San Francisco State. Frank Funge of the S. F. Examiner nominates her and says she's the cutest one in town.
  17. ↑ Osgood, Dick (February 9, 1956). "Osgood Observes". Detroit Free Press. p. 19. ProQuest 1818067826.
  18. ↑ Hutchings, Harold (July 22, 1963). "Jeannie's Doing OK! She Lost Her Miss Chicago Crown After Three Weeks; Now She's a TV Success in New York". Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine. p. 43. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. The first six weeks in New York were tough with almost no work, lots of scrimping, and some heartache. Then she got a few cheap night club jobs over in New Jersey, playing the piano and singing. [...] The first break came two months after arrival--a job as a model showing fine clothes on the CBS-TV program, The Big Payoff. [...] That went on for two months, paid the grocery bill, and gave her a fine sense of achievement. She was glad to accept a change, however, when Universal-International came along with a bid for pretty girls to help plug the movie,'The Sign of the Pagan.' This meant travel, too, and for two more months Jeannie traveled to 30 cities to stand about prettily as a pagan princess in flowing robes of gold and red as part of the whoop-la connected with premieres of the movie. She was billed as a movie starlet. A part in the John Henry Faulk television show for children came next, giving Jeannie a chance to try her hand at singing, telling fairy tales, interviewing children, and spieling the commercials. About this time, also, she had a brief assignment with two others, billed as 'The Three Girls,' who acted, sang, and played the piano for a couple of months on a local ABC sustaining show. Things picked up from that. point. Twice she appeared on the Milton Berle show, with small acting parts. Last summer she got experience doing summer stock at Warwick, R. I. Then came the big time. Each week for two months last fall she sang as a member of an all-girl quartet on Godfrey and His Friends on CBS-TV; appeared on the Perry Como show; had two appearances in the Herb Shriner show; and sang as a member of a group on an NBC New Year's day spectacular. In between, Jeannie has made filmed cigaret and soap commercials which net her $50 each time they are used on the air.
  19. ↑ Jarlson, Alan (February 4, 1957). "The Las Vegas Strip". Daily Variety. p. 6. ProQuest 3349201573. Jeannie Johnson, who was 'Miss Chiago' in '55, but got disqualified because she's from Detroit, opened as a chirper with the Tommy Doyle group in the Sands lounge last week.
  20. ↑ "City News Briefs". The Modesto Bee. November 24, 1947. p. 2. Retrieved July 30, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Tommy Doyle, well known Modesto pianist, has opened the Doyle Studio Music, 8071⁄2 Tenth Street. Staffed with the Valley's finest musical artists.
  21. ↑ Duke, Forrest (May 28, 1958). "Chatter: Las Vegas". Variety. p. 78. ProQuest 964053220. Charlie Ventura (with chirper Jeannie Johnson) a click in Desert Spa lounge.
  22. ↑ "Night Clubs". The San Francisco Examiner Pictorial. August 31, 1958. p. 12. Retrieved July 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. PROF. IRWIN COREY continues to lecture in laughter at the hungry i. He is aided in this endeavor by Capitol Record's Kingston Trio, and Jeannie Johnson.
  23. ↑ "Week's Events". The Indianapolis Star. August 13, 1961. p. 1H. Retrieved July 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. NIGHT CLUBS: B & B – The Three Heartbreakers, girl vocal group. Crown Room – Phil Foster, comedian. Nikki Foster, vocalist. [...] NIKKI, an Eskimo husky dog, defends his master, Jean Coutu, in Walt Disney's production of 'Nikki, Wild Dog of the North.' Coming Thursday to the Circle, it's the story of a. dog raised in the wilds.
  24. ↑ "Col Gets Nikki Price; Prestige Corrals Eddie Kirkland; Other Pacts". Variety. January 3, 1961. p. 47. ProQuest 1014849712. Nikkie Price, formerly Jeannie Johnson, and 'Miss Chicago 1955, has been signed by Columbia Records. Her first album will be cut this month. She's appeared on tv in filmed commercials and in singing groups on several occasions.
  25. ↑ Watt, Douglas (August 31, 1958). "Night Clubs". New York Daily News. p. C21. Retrieved July 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Speaking of vocalists, a promising girl named Nikki Price got overlooked in the July releases. Making her debut on an Epic recording titled 'Nikki,' Miss Price reveals an appealing, unaffected voice capable of negotiating a wide variety of tunes. Her style is pretty tentative as vet and flawed by gaucheries, but the talent's there.
  26. ↑ "Record Review: Newley's 'World,' 'Purr-ee' Track, Getz's 'Band,' Pitney's 'Heart' Top LPs; NIKKI PRICE: NIKKI (EPIC)". Variety. October 31, 1962. p. 40. ProQuest 1017079172.
  27. ↑ Jose (November 28, 1962). "New Acts: NIKKI PRICE & DAVID MacKAY". Variety. p. 54. ProQuest 1017084140. Price is making headway with her Epic diskings and works in tandem with MacKay. They are a song & piano Mr. and Mrs. MacKay. [...] [She] starts the proceedings with a warm set of pops, presented with some unusual configurations and different insights into the melody. He later augments this offering with pleasant vocalistics. Miss Price, at this point, brings a highly developed artistry to the podium. She goes for the unusual, vocally, but she brings these items to a universal level that is readily understood and appreciated.
  28. ↑ Orr, Jack (January 12, 1963). "Talent: Cheese It, the Cops--Lenny's In". Billboard. p. 10. ProQuest 1286238493. Lenny Bruce, the much-raided comic, opened without incident at the Village vanguard this week for a four-week stand. [...] In the new stand he is supported by newlyweds (well, six-month newlyweds) singer Nikki Price and trio-leader Dave MacKay
  29. ↑ Bill. (January 23, 1963). "Night Club Reviews: Village Vanguard, N.Y.". Variety. p. 68. ProQuest 1017084140.
  30. ↑ tube (July 12, 1963). "NITERY REVIEWS: YE LITTLE CLUB (Two Drink Minimum)". Daily Variety. p. 7. ProQuest 352829807.
  31. ↑ "Nikki Price Biking". Daily Variety. July 12, 1963. p. 4. ProQuest 3352829309. Nikki Price, Saturday night, bicycles between Hollywood Bowl, where she is lead singer in Gordon Jenkins' 'Manhattan Tower,' to her regular stint at Ye Little Club.
  32. 1 2 Reed, Rex (9 November 1969). "Two Who 'Make Magic Happen'" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 313. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  33. 1 2 Arganbright, Frank (16 January 1970). "Listening on Records". Journal and Courier. Lafayette, Indiana. p. 19. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  34. 1 2 Ober, Chick (17 May 1970). "Muting Makes The Music Mellow". Tampa Bay Times. St Petersburg, Florida. p. 4F. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  35. 1 2 Lass, Don (22 March 1970). "Record Previews". Asbury Park Press. Asbury Park, New Jersey. p. 10C. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  36. ↑ Caen, Herb (November 14, 1957). "Baghdad-by-threee-Bay: Tales of the Town; TODAY'S VALIANT PUN". The San Francisco Examiner. p. B1. Retrieved July 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. TODAY'S VALIANT PUN: Guy walked into the Drawing Room at Van Ness and Union (this here is a bar) and tried to borrow $100 from Owner Angelo Lima. 'Sorry,' answered Angelo firmly. 'My name is Angelo Lima--not Crocker Angelo!'
  37. ↑ Paul, Ivan (February 15, 1958). "Around Town". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 7. Retrieved July 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Jeannie Johnson, SF's 'Wilson Girl,' will merge with Bobby Johnson on March 16. Groom-to-be manages the Drawing Room, Van Ness brew establishment.
  38. ↑ "WE THANK OUR STARS..." The San Francisco Examiner. December 21, 1962. p. ML12. Retrieved July 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. CO-PRODUCERS AND DIRECTORS... George Heinz (left), well known theatrical impresario, and Frank Funge, The Examiner's night club editor ("Ivan Paul"), produced and directed the show for today's Examiner Carriers' Party.
  39. ↑ "Retired Gossip Columnist Earl Wilson, 79, Dies". The Post-Standard. December 21, 1962. p. B-2. Retrieved July 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Wilson made the rounds of opening nights and celebrity haunts, and he was especially fond of profiling starlets and ingenues. He said he was known as "the three B's editor - booze, bosoms and behinds." Tallulah Bankhead, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marilyn Monroe and Gloria Vanderbilt all found their names in Wilson's column, frequently with parentheses specifying their bust, waist and hip measurements. For example: "Sitting in Sherry's at a choice table, we greeted Zsa Zsa (36-22-34), Patrice Munsel (37-23-35), Rita Gam (34-21-32).
  40. ↑ Paul, Ivan (March 8, 1958). "Around Town". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 7. Retrieved July 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Jeannie Johnson, SF's "Wilson Girl," is on the loose again. Her marriage to Bobby Johnson is off.
  41. ↑ McGraham, Thom (18 June 1971). "Acts in Review". Valley News. Van Nuys, California. p. 23. Retrieved 21 July 2019. Songs from his recent album with the late Vicki Hamilton still have strength with his lone interpretation. 'See You Later' with its underlying sadness is [sic] one of McKay's best because it offers the audience a piece of his deepest feelings.
  42. ↑ "Obituaries: Robert M. Johnson". Arizona Republic. March 8, 1958. p. 7. Retrieved July 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Robert Marston Johnson, 71, who had been corporate secretary of Marathon Steel Co. of Phoenix, died Jan. 6, 1980, in his home. Mr. Johnson, 7514 E. Edgemont, was a World War II Coast Guard veteran and moved here 16 years ago from Highland Park, Mich. Surviving are his wife, Molly; children, Jean Spear, Robert B. and Kenneth M
  43. ↑ "Dave Mackay with Vicky Hamilton". Jazz Journal International. Billboard Limited: 39. 1983. Retrieved 12 July 2019.

Further reading

  • Sharper, Hazel (November 17, 1962). "The Sharper Side of . . . New York City". New Pittsburgh Courier. p. 6. ProQuest 371621951. Beautiful and talented Nikki Price, who is currently appearing at the Left Bank Club, cheered the boy's of the Left Bank Team as they challenged the girls of the Latin Quarter team in a game of touch football in Central Park. We were very happy to have Miss Price and her talented husband on our radio show (WHBI).
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