Ruth McCullough

American vocalist who sang with the orchestras of Tony Pastor and Mitchell Ayres in the 1940s. She started singing in the 1930s with such groups as the Rodd Raffell orchestra, after which she headed to New York. There she performed with Sonny Dunham and Isham Jones bands, as well as the Mitchellaires before joining the Tony Pastor orchestra in the early 1940s. With Pastor she recorded such songs as “Bell Bottom Trousers,” “I’m Beginning to See the Light” and “Walk a Little, Talk a Little”. She married vocalist and trumpeter Dick Dyer in 1944, and left the Pastor orchestra in 1946 to raise a family. Born: circa 1920-1921 Died: 15 June 2001 in San Diego, California, USA (age 80)