March 24th 2008 Ruth Olay: The Best Is Yet To Come
Jazz singer Ruth Olay was born to a rabbi and a singer in San Francisco. When she was eighteen months old, her family moved to Los Angeles. While just a teenager in the 1940s, she began to sing with Benny Carter’s band, and by the mid-a1950s she was a major fixture in the Hollywood nightclub scene. Eventually, Olay parlayed her regional popularity into national and international recognition via television, recordings, and in major nightclubs in the U.S. and abroad.
Today, Olay is retired from singing and has turned to social activism on various committees for aging, the homeless, etc. Read Bill Reed’s interview with her in 2000.
