I stan Miss Starr! And I think you will, too. A jazz vocalist's jazz vocalist, Kay Starr was "the only white woman who could sing the blues" according to Billie Holiday, who adored her, as did fellow artists like Tony Bennett, Dinah Washington, Les Paul, Patsy Cline and Count Bassie. It's not hard to see, or rather hear, why. Though Starr is largely forgotten by mainstream jazz vocal devotees, her smooth, yet hard-living, vocal delivery always feels genuine.  Of her own singing, she once said, “People who haven’t seen me think I’m either a 260-pound peroxide blond or a 260-pound Black woman. Whites sing one-two-three-four. I sing between the beat, in the cracks, any old way. I run the gamut from hillbilly to jazz to just plain ballads. And if I sing them well, I attribute that to the fact that I grew up as a kid singing lots of hillbilly stuff. Contrary to what people say, it's a hard style to sing and it made my voice flexible. The nicest compliment ever paid to ...