Arpa Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 (edited) Yes!! I have too much time to kill. And yes I do KILL many a useless MYHTH.Was Rosemary Clooney Armenian?How is Clooney an Armenian surname? Is there a family named "klunian"? To once and for all to set the record straight about her being of Armenian heritage, just because she sang the Armenian song Come on-a My House by Wm Saroyan and Ross Baghdasarian, and that by association that her present day nephew George Clooney is also Armenian, not unlike the likes of Gregory Peck. See her biography, that she was born in an Irish-German Catholic family.Come on-a Rosie and George. Fess up and tell us that you are of Armenian heritage. Was she of Italian Heritage just because she also sang Mambo Italiano? Early lifeClooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, to Andrew Joseph Clooney and Frances Marie Guilfoyle, both of whom were Roman Catholics of Irish and German ancestry. Her father was an alcoholic and she and her brother and sister were constantly moving back and forth between her parents. When Clooney was fifteen, her mother and brother, Nick, moved to California. She and her sister, Betty, remained with their father. ====Biography forRosemary Clooney Date of Birth23 May 1928, Maysville, Kentucky, USA Date of Death29 June 2002, Beverly Hills, California, USA (lung cancer) NicknameRosie ===Mini BiographyShe was the daughter of Andrew and Frances Clooney and grew up in Maysville, Kentucky, where she and her sister Betty Clooney used to sing in her grandfather's mayoral election campaigns, which he won three times. She made her singing debut on Cincinnati radio station WLW in 1941 at 13. On WLW she worked with band leader Barney Rapp, who had also worked with Doris Day and Andy Williams at the same station. She attended high school at Our Lady of Mercy in Cincinnati. In 1946 she appeared with her sister in Atlantic City, New Jersey, at the Steel Pier with Tony Pastor's band. In 1949 she went solo and later appeared in White Christmas (1954), co-starring opposite Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Her first big hit was "Come On A My House" in 1951. She married José Ferrer in the 1950s and they had five children between 1955 and 1960. Her marriage to Ferrer was a tempestuous one and she had a nervous breakdown in 1968, but went on to resume her career in 1976. Her life was dramatized in a 1982 made-for-television form, which starred Clint Eastwood's then-girlfriend Sondra Locke.------One of many of her rendition of Come on a My House. Here the lyrics are clearer. ----I had never quite deciphered the lyrics. Observe how many Armenian themes there are, like figs, dates and grapes , pomegranate, apricot, and easta egg.---Come on-a my house my house, I'm gonna give you candyCome on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give a youApple a plum and apricot-a too ehCome on-a my house, my house a come onCome on-a my house, my house a come onCome on-a my house, my house I'm gonna give a youFigs and dates and grapes and cakes ehCome on-a my house, my house a come onCome on-a my house, my house a come onCome on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give you candyCome on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give you everything Come on-a my house my house, I'm gonna give you Christmas treeCome on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give youMarriage ring and a pomegranate too ahCome on-a my house, my house a come onCome on-a my house, my house a come onCome on-a my house, my house I'm gonna give a youPeach and pear and I love your hair ahCome on-a my house, my house a come onCome on-a my house, my house a come onCome on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give you Easta-eggCome on-a my house, my house, I'm gonna give youEverything - everything - everything Edited December 5, 2010 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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