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American composer
Collaborated with poet Rod McKuen on a trilogy of albums in the late 1960s: "The Sea", "The Earth", and "The Sky"; each also featured the San Sebastian Strings.
Among those who performed as part of The Anita Kerr Singers: Robert Tebow , Gene Merlino , Jackie Ward , Bill Lee , B.J. Baker , and Bill Cole.
As "The Dixie Belles", several female members of The Anita Kerr Singers recorded "Down at Papa Joes" in 1963, which reached #9 on the Billboard charts. Since the Anita Kerr Singers were all white, and the record sounded as if it were recorded by a black group, the record company assembled a trio of black female singers to go on tour as "The Dixie Belles", but they were not the singers who originally recorded "Papa Joes".
