Editing Crooner (section)

==Female crooners==
The term crooner has been applied to some female singers around the world, especially those who have low [[alto]] voices. Among the first was white American singer [[Lee Morse]] who performed in three [[Vitaphone]] short films in 1930. A cartoon published in the ''[[Cleveland Plain Dealer]]'' in 1930 listed four male and seven female singers as the "All-American Crooning Eleven". Blues singer [[Ruth Etting]] was in the group, along with [[Helen Morgan (singer)|Helen Morgan]], [[Libby Holman]], [[Bernadene Hayes]], [[Annette Hanshaw]], and others.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hASICgAAQBAJ&pg=PT250 |page=250 |title=Real Men Don't Sing: Crooning in American Culture |date=2015 |last=McCracken |first=Allison |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=9780822375326}}</ref> Several more American women singers were called crooners in 1950 with chart hits by [[Teresa Brewer]] and [[Patti Page]]. [[Anita O'Day]]'s version of "[[Tennessee Waltz]]"  was a crooner-style hit in 1951. The success of women crooners continued through 1956 but was diminished in 1957 after ''Billboard'' combined the segregated black and white pop charts, which led to a rise in male hit songs.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ljeEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT39 |page=39 |title=All I Want Is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s |last=Bergsman |first=Steve |date=2023 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=9781496848802}}</ref> Black American blues singer [[Nina Simone]] has been described as a crooner for her work in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Coles |first=Alex |date=2023 |title=Crooner: Singing from the Heart from Sinatra to Nas |publisher=Reaktion Books |page=119 |isbn=9781789148305}}</ref>