Hildegarde, RIP

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I know nothing about her, but she sounds pretty swell.

The original one-name entertainer, it says.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 31 July 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Hildegarde0002.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 31 July 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

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― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 31 July 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Hildegarde0005.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 31 July 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

She was still alive!?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 31 July 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

I have a few songs by her, and she's pretty good. But she had hits in the thirties; I never would have guessed she stuck around this long.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 31 July 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

an earlier one-name entertainer (fictional dept admittedly but i still don't buuy the "hildegard" claim))

(haha this link also contains a similarly dubious "first": du maurier's book was apparently the first “best seller” --- ?!)

(the book may however be the first AND ONLY novel where names of the two main characters become currency apart from the story, where the connection between them is NOT currency)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 31 July 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

I read the title of this thread and thought it referred to Hildegard of Bingen, the bit about her being a one name entertainer does somewhat apply...

My favourite diva, however, is Clara Rockmore

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

The original one-name entertainer, it says.

Harry Houdini pretty much went by "Houdini" alone.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

But only Hildegarde influenced Liberace.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 31 July 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Kate Winslet should play her in an biopic. They've got practically the same face!

― The Gospel Comes to New Guinea (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 31 July 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

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