FREE: The Dinning Sisters: Twins Jean and Ginger and Lou

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Don't know the exact age of this 8 by 10 inch photo, but it does have the yellowing of age. Found it in an antique shop..wanted to copy the hairstyle.
Later, I found out the photo was of the Dinnings. Three ladies from a musical family of nine children, all of whom started singing harmony in church, and then spent their Sunday afternoons singing for fun. Three of the sisters, twins Jean and Ginger and sister Lou, started to win amateur singing contests before the age of ten, and later began to perform with older brother Ace's orchestra. With little experience but a lot of ambition, the young ladies left their Oklahoma hometown and traveled to Chicago, where they auditioned for NBC radio. They were hired and remained for seven years, and ultimately became the highest paid radio act in the Windy City.

The group underwent a few lineup changes over the years (Lou was replaced in 1946 by Jayne Bundesen, who was in turn replaced by Tootsie Dinning in 1952), but their albums for Capitol sold consistently well, including their debut release Songs by the Dinning Sisters which held the top spot on the charts for 18 weeks. Jean Dinning writing the song "Teen Angel" to the sisters' nephew Dean playing bass for alterna-rockers Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Farmer and Mrs. John Dinning of Wichita, OK, raised 9 children, all but one of which went into a music career. Twins Jean and Ginger and older sister Lou began their career in 1935 performing with brother Ace's orchestra, and continued in one form or another up into the 1960s. Their biggest hit was 'Buttons and Bows' from the Bob Hope and Jane Russell movie 'Paleface.' Buddy Clark, Perry Como, Kate Smith, Ozzie Nelson, Tennessee Ernie Ford and many others appeared with or recorded with the girls. The Sisters turn a chestnut like 'Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia' into their own love story, or apply their bright, cheery, sexy sound to might-have-been hits like 'Lolita Lopez' and 'Love On A Greyhound Bus.'