Gale Storm
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Biography
[Edit]Gale Storm, perhaps best remembered for her television series My Little Margie in the early '50s, didn't have an easy time growing up in Texas. When her luck changed, however, it changed in a big way. Through a series of lucky breaks, she won a movie contract, landed a husband, and started a singing career, in that order.
Storm, whose real name is Josephine Owaissa Cottle, was born in 1922 in Bloomington, TX. Her father passed away before her first birthday and left her mother as sole support of five children. Their home lacked modern conveniences like indoor plumbing. They made do with an outhouse and laundered their clothes with homemade soap. By the time Storm entered junior high school in Houston, there still wasn't enough money for extras like girls' clubs, including the Girl Scouts. Storm turned instead to the school's free drama club.
In high school, a pair of her teachers encouraged her to participate in a popular contest of the day, Gateway to Hollywood. Held in Hollywood during the late '30s, the competition offered an opportunity for two winners to walk away with a movie contract. Storm was one of those winners and a young man was the other. The two contestants ended up marrying each other, and Storm had her foot in the door at RKO and Universal. She went on to make such films as Between Midnight and Dawn, Woman of the North Country, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, and Foreign Agent, among others.
After Storm triumphed in the talent contest and won her trip to Hollywood, luck didn't desert her. When she appeared on the Comedy Hour Show, where she sang a popular number, her performance was caught by a little girl watching television in Gallatin, TN. From the next room, the child's father also heard the performance and asked who was on the broadcast. The child told him that the stunning singer was "My Little Margie." The girl's father, Randy Wood, was excited enough by her voice that he placed a telephone call then and there, while Storm was still on television. He wanted to sign her to his company, Dot Records.
Storm began to record for Dot. In 1955, her rendition of "I Hear You Knocking," originally by Smiley Lewis, landed in the Top Five on the charts. Other 1955 releases include "Memories Are Made of This" and "Teen Age Prayer," followed in 1956 by "Ivory Tower" and "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" and the following year, "Dark Moon." She also recorded "My Happiness" and "Now Is the Hour," and issued a few albums.
During the late '50s she starred in The Gale Storm Show on television. Later in life, Storm appeared in regional theater productions near her San Fernando Valley home. With actresses Sheree North and Betty Garrett in 1987, she co-starred in a production of Breaking Up the Act. In 1981 she wrote I Ain't Down Yet: The Autobiography of My Little Margie.
Collections
Title: 15 Great Classics
Genre: Pop
Title: The 50 Best Torch Songs Ever
Genre: Pop
Title: Best Loved Wedding Songs
Genre: Pop
Title: Best Romantic Love Songs of All Time
Genre: Jazz
Title: America's Greatest Hits 1957, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Young Love - Love Songs From the Fifties & Sixties
Genre: Pop
Title: Songs of Love & Romance
Genre: Jazz
Title: The 50s: Reasons to Dance, Vol. 5
Genre: Pop
Title: America's Greatest Hits 1956, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Catch a Falling Star - 25 Stellar Tracks
Genre: Pop
Title: Golden Girls - 25 Romantic Favourites
Genre: Pop
Title: We All Love Mums (Classic Mother's Day Songs, Vol. 5)
Genre: Pop
Title: Pop Easy Listening Vol 5
Genre: Pop
Title: 100 Love Songs
Genre: Jazz
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1956, Vol. 11
Genre: Pop
Title: Rock 'n' Roll, Pop & Soul Sisters, Vol. 7
Genre: Pop
Title: The Hits of 1957, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Songs We Can't Forget, Vol. 6
Genre: Pop
Title: The Best Songs to Remember, Vol. 6
Genre: Pop
Title: The Best Songs to Remember, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: 14 Valentine's Day Love Songs
Genre: Pop
Title: Girls Night Out the Early Hits of Rock & Roll
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1956, Vol. 10
Genre: Pop
Title: Songs We Can't Forget, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: The Best Songs to Remember, Vol. 5
Genre: Pop
Title: The Best Songs to Remember, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Pop Juke Box Hits Vol 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Soda Shop Songs of the 50s, Vol. 5
Genre: Pop
Title: Valentine's Day - 50 Classic Love Songs
Genre: Pop
Title: The Great Hits Vol 6
Genre: Pop
Title: 50 Classic Songs from the 1950s!
Genre:
Title: Radio Hits Vol 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Traditional Pop, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Popular Songs Vol 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Back to Mono Doo Wop, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: The Best Songs to Remember, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1955, Vol. 6
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1957, Vol. 9
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1956, Vol. 9
Genre: Pop
Title: Rockfile, Vol. 41
Genre: Rock
Title: Women: Golden Oldies
Genre: Pop
Title: Lounge Is For Lovers: Cool Music for Cool People
Genre:
Title: The Love Hits of 1956
Genre: Rock
Title: Songs We Can't Forget, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: The Great Millions
Genre: Pop
Title: Friendly Persuasion, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: The Best Songs to Remember, Vol. 6
Genre: Pop
Title: Jazz Erotic Vol. 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: Vocal Jazz Cafe, Vol. 2 (CD1)
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Title: Billboard Top 100 Hits Of 1957 (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: Rare 45's Vol. 2 (CD3)
Title: Unchained Melody- Fifites Forever
Genre: Rock & Roll, Country, Pop, Classical
Title: Jukebox Hits Of 1956 Volume 2
Genre: Pop
Title: American Heartbeat 1957 (CD1)
Genre: Rockabilly, Pop
Title: Chills & Fever - The Dot Records Story (CD2)
Genre: Rock & Roll, Rockabilly, Pop
Title: Chills & Fever - The Dot Records Story (CD3)
Genre: Rock & Roll, Rockabilly, Pop
Title: Fifties Girls (CD1)
Title: Fifties Girls (CD3)
Title: Female Legends Of The 50's And More! (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: Female Legends Of The 50's And More! (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Title: Female Legends Of The 50's And More! (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: The Beginning Of Rock & Roll (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop
Title: Mono Oldies Vol. 1
Genre: Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B, Pop