In June of ‘98, after she had recovered from this last health crisis, she appeared at Carnegie Hall with the Count Basie orchestra. She performed an extraordinarily long set for her -- about an hour and a half, but her voice was strong and as ever she was capable of making you laugh one moment and cry the next. At the close of the concert, I followed her with my eyes as the strode off stage. I noticed something fall from her hand as she exited stage left, so as the rest of the audience shuffled to the exits I wandered up to the foot of the stage to see what it was that Rosemary had dropped. It was a white handkerchief, the kind she used during almost every engagement, to keep the sweat from the hot lights out of her eyes. I asked one of the stagehands if I could have it, and he was nice enough to pick it up for me. It was smudged with her stage makeup. I pocketed my little treasure and went to look for the friends I had brought to the theater with me.
Rosemary Clooney The Count Basie Orchestra At Long Last 1998
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