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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
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- Tale of Buttons the Dragon
- BTA commended country hotels, guesthouses and restaurants
- Edward Cocker (1632-1676) and his 'Arithmetick'; De Morgan demolished
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1920
- Active to
- 2007
Discography
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cabaretfemale vocalistUSAnovelty50s
Ruth Wallis (5 January 1920 – 22 December 2007) was a novelty cabaret singer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Wallis began her career singing jazz and cabaret standards, but gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s for her risqué, satirical songs, rife with double entendre that she wrote herself. She did have a mainstream hit with "Dear Mr. Godfrey," a song about his public firing of Julius La Rosa. She sang with a studio orchestra and often took on an accent for songs about characters from other countri
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ruth
- Family name
- Wallis
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Killingly
- Occupation
- singer
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- King
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- date of death
- 2007-12-22
- date of birth
- 1920-01-05
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
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