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Betty Harris (2)

American vocalist, born in Louisville, Ohio, active from the late 1930s to the 1950s. She started singing at the local radio stations in Ohio in the late 1930s, and in 1939 became the singer for the Larry Funk orchestra, a position she held for four years. In 1944, she sang with Harold Nelson's orchestra on WAKR and WADC. In 1947, she signed a contract with the group [a=The Three Suns] for recordings, personal appearances, and broadcasts. In 1948 she got her own show on NBC, "The Betty Harris Show," where she was accompanied by guitarist Johnny Smith and his instrumental trio. In the 1950s, she recorded children's music for Peter Pan Records as well as popular music with Enoch Light and his Orchestra for Prom Records, both subsidiaries used by the Synthetic Plastics Company or SPC of Newark, NJ.