I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.
The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture.
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.
I worked as a singing, dancing busgirl in high school.
I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.