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Original: December 18, 2006
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She was born in 1926 and named Jean Vadala by her parents. She grew up in Carbondale, PA.
She gained a reputation in the area's "barn dance circuit" as young singer "of the Western-style category." In the summer of 1952, she had completed an engagement in Chicago when a television headliner named Milton Berle recruited her for his show.
Jean olivelli biography
Nate Gross wrote a column about Jean in the summer of 1952 in his column that wrote of the happenings in the local Chicago night club scene. The Scrantonian wrote of her early career in a September 1952 article.
Jean left Carbondale when she was about 17.
Since that time, she had resided in Syracuse, NY and New Jersey, too. A former resident of Carbondale was in Chicago around the same time and tried to contact her. Unfortunately his timing was such that he had found she had left Chicago with her troupe after their engagement at the Chez Par