The Bell Sisters

The Life and Career of Cynthia and Kay Strother

In Print

Long Beach Press-Telegram, Seal Beach, California [TEXT]
Title: She Plays Piano Too!: Beach Singer, Composer Making ‘Name’ Via Video
Text, one photograph

Post and Wave, Seal Beach, California [TEXT]
Title: Bell Sisters Prepare for TV Shows; “Bermuda” Top Tune in So. Calif.
Text, one photograph

Down Beat, Chicago, Illinois, vol. 19, p. 13 [TEXT]
(Under Los Angeles News)
Title: THE HOLLYWOOD BEAT: Two Coast Kids, 16 and 11, May Click on 1st Record
By Hal Holly
Text, one photograph

Newsweek, p. 90 [TEXT]
Title: Bermuda Belles
Text, one photograph

The Courier-Journal Magazine, Kentucky, pp. 6-7 [TEXT]
Title: RHYTHM vs. ‘RITHMETIC: The Bell Sisters from Kentucky, whose “Bermuda” song made them suddenly popular, have had to turn down several guest spots on television: schoolwork comes first
By Bobbe Manley
Text, three photographs.

Press-Telegram, Long Beach, California, pp. X, 5 [TEXT]
Title: Two Seal Beach sisters started it all by warbling in the dishwater. Now radio and television fans everywhere are exclaiming: HOW THOSE BELLS DO SING!
By Ben Zinser
Text, four photographs

Grit [TEXT]
Title: Musical Duo: Hit Record “Bermuda” Launches Girls’ Career
Text, one photograph

East San Diego, Calif. Press, San Diego, California [TEXT]
Title: Hilo Hattie, Bell Sisters, Spade Cooley to Appear in S.D. County Fair Shows
Text, one photograph

LIFE, pp. 55-56, 58 [TEXT]
Title: Singing Sisters of Seal Beach: The Bell Girls, 16 and 12, make music at home, big money away
Text, nine photographs

Seventeen, pp. 82-83, 93 [TEXT]
Title: BERMUDA RINGS THE BELL! : The Bell Sisters, Cynthia and Kay, have turned the pop record world topsy-turvey with their gay music-making
By Edwin Miller and Sara Salzer
Text, six photographs

Variety, vol. 187, p. 118 [TEXT]
Title: NEW ACTS: BELL SISTERS (2), Songs, 20 Mins., Last Frontier, Las Vegas
Text (review of act)

Music, vol. 30, pp. 10-11
Title: Hit Record “Bermuda” Launches Girls’ Career
Reprinted from GRIT Magazine
Text, one photograph

Down Beat, Chicago, Illinois, vol. 19, p. 22 [TEXT]
Title: “Caught in the Act”
Text

Variety, vol. 188, p. 64 [TEXT]
Title: Riverside, Reno
Text (review of act)

People and Places, vol. 10, no. 2 [TEXT]
(Published by Your De Soto-Plymouth Dealer)
Title: THE SINGING BELLS: Young Singing Duo is Tops in Recording Field
Text, eight photos (7 with article, cover photo)

Scholastic Roto, p. 1 (cover) [TEXT]
(The High School World in Picture and Paragraph – More than One Million Circulation)
Title: They’re Breaking Records While Making Records!
Text, seven photos

Silver Screen, p. 8 [TEXT]
Column: Hollywood Earfuls
Text

Newsweek, p. 90 [TEXT]
Title: Those Redheads from Seattle (movie review)
Text (Cynthia Bell [Strother] mentioned)

Pacific Stars and Stripes [TEXT]
Title: Operation Starlift Arrives; Grant Vows ‘Good Clean Show’
By Cpl. Frank Jacobs
Text, one photo (not of Bell Sisters)

Pacific Stars and Stripes [TEXT]
Title: Hollywood 9 Delights 27th Regt.; One-Hour Show Features Music, Comedy
by PFC Dick Brooks
Text, one photo

I Work For My Daughters, “The Bell Sisters” (Unpublished) [TEXT]
By Eugene Rex Strother, Sr.

Belvoir Castle (The Engineer Center, U.S. Army, Fort Belvoir, Virginia) [TEXT]
Title: Two Shows on Tap Today: HOLLYWOOD REVUE STARS BELL SISTERS
Text, two photographs

The Forty-Niner (Long Beach State College) [TEXT]
Title: Former Recording Artist Is English Major Here
by Marv Skolnick
Text, one photograph

The Forty-Niner (Long Beach State College) [TEXT]
Title: State Senior Services Country in Radio Broadcast to Servicemen
by Mona Seymour
Text, one photograph

News From Disneyland (Press Release), Anaheim, California [TEXT]
Title: The Spacemen (Biography)
Text

Daily Pilot / News-Press, Orange County, California [TEXT]
Title: Remember? Swinging Sisters Rocketed to Fame
Text, one photograph

Register, Orange County, California [TEXT]
Title: Fame Recalled: Kay Bell Tries for Brand New Career
Text, one photograph

The Sun, Seal Beach, California
Text, one photograph

Discoveries Magazine, Issue 142, pp. 51-52, Iola, Wisconsin
Title: The Bell Sisters
By Rex Strother
Text, four photographs

In Tune International, Issue 121, pp. 8-10, Norfolk, U.K.
Title: The Bell Sisters Story, Part One
By Ossie Dales
Text, five photographs

The same article appears “Mitchell Music” No. 78 (Sept. 2002). “Mitchell Music” is the magazine of the Guy Mitchell Appreciation Society.

In Tune International, Issue 122, Norfolk, U.K.
Title: The Bell Sisters Story, Part Two
By Ossie Dales
Text, two photographs

The same article appears in “Mitchell Music,” No. 79 (Dec. 2002)


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