Evelyn Knight - The Lass With The Delicate Air

Evelyn Knight (b. December 31, 1917, Reedville, Virginia  d. September 28, 2007, San Jose, California). American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1948, she recorded A Little Bird Told Me with , which was #1 for seven weeks and stayed on the charts for five months. Later that year she recorded Powder Your Face with Sunshine; that also hit #1 and remained on the charts well into the following year. She was raised originally on Virginia's Northern Neck but following her father's 1926 death relocated with her mother to Arlington. While still in high school Evelyn started her professional career in high school when she would sing at Washington D.C.s Station WRC as Honey Davis twice a week over NBC for $16 a broadcast. She married at 17 to "Washington Post" war photographer Andrew B. Knight. She spent the next years refining her craft at Washington's top night spots. After many successful years in Washington she moved to New York City where she began headlining at such Manhattan nightclubs as The Blue Angel and the Plaza Hotels Persian Room. She launched her recording career in 1945 by signing with Decca records, and moved to Los Angeles in the late 1940s where she headlined frequently at the celebrity-studded Ciros and Coconut Grove. Moved to New York City and cut her first records for , her debut single "Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking)" reaching the top 10. Heading west to Los Angeles she drew large crowds and rave reviews at Ciro's and the Cocoanut Grove, had a 1948 hit with "Buttons and Bows

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