682 Cindy Walker (1918-2006) “When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again” 1944

“Cindy Walker was born into a musical family on July 20, 1918, in Mart, Texas…In 1941, Walker’s first trip to Hollywood played like a scene from an old movie. ‘My father was a cotton buyer, and we took a trip to Hollywood to sell some pima cotton,’ she told The Austin Chronicle in 2004. ‘And I saw the Crosby Building, I said ‘Stop, Papa, stop! I’ve got a song for Bing Crosby…I went in and saw [Bing’s brother and publicity director] Larry Crosby there. I told him I was a songwriter. I couldn’t play the piano and didn’t play guitar very well, so I ran downstairs and got mama and made her play piano’” (Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, Mar/Apr 2006). 

Cindy Walker “When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again”