If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.