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GEORGIA GIBBS

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Georgia Gibbs (August 17 1919<ref name="Lipschitz">{{cite news | last =Miller| first =Stephen| coauthors=| title =Georgia Gibbs, 87, Bubbly Singer in 1940s and 1950s| pages=2| publisher =| date =2006-12-12 | url =http://www.nysun.com/article/45011| accessdate =2006-12-12</ref> - December 9 2006) was an American singer, most pop music|popular in the 1950s.

Biography
Early life
Gibbs was born Frieda Lipschitz<ref name="Lipschitz" /> in Worcester, Massachusetts, the youngest of four children of Russian Jewish descent.<ref name="Gibbs2">{{cite news | last =Bernstein| first =Adam| coauthors=| title =Singer Georgia Gibbs, 87; Performed With Big Bands and on Radio Shows| pages=| publisher =The Washington Post| date =2006-12-12 | url =http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101298.html| accessdate =2006-12-12 </ref> Her father died when she was six months old, and she spent her first seven years in an orphanage in Worcester, separated from her other siblings.

She revealed a natural talent for singing at a very young age, and was given the lead in the orphanage's yearly variety show. She was reunited with her mother (who had visited her once every other month) when the latter found employment as a midwife. However, her job often forced her to leave her daughter alone for weeks ... read all