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Article: Dorothy Collins, `Hit Parade' Singer
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 23, 1994
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WATERVLIET, N.Y. Dorothy Collins, who rose to fame singing "Be
happy, go Lucky" for Lucky Strike cigarettes on television's "Your
Hit Parade" and later set up gags on "Candid Camera," has died at 67.
Ms. Collins, who had retired in 1980, died at her daughter's
house Thursday. Her former husband, Ron Holgate, said she apparently
suffered a heart attack.
Ms. Collins sang on the radio with big bands as a teenager. In
the 1950s, she landed a job selling Lucky Strike cigarettes on "Your
Hit Parade."
Placed in the middle of the Lucky Strike bull's-eye, she would
sing the jingle "Be happy, go Lucky." She later sang weekly top hits
on the show and became one of its stars.
"Your Hit Parade," ...