He succeeded in getting them a contract with Brunswick, and they traveled to New York to make records.

Then a young hotel clerk they’d met and befriended in a seedy joint in San Francisco-Harry Leedy-came to visit and convinced them to take him on as their manager, and later Connie’s husband. Eventually, they wound up in California, where they settled for a time in Los Angeles and became popular radio personalities.

Several years later, after some setbacks, the trio left for Chicago to embark on a vaudeville tour. The three Boswell Sisters became a popular musical act around town, singing harmony and playing instruments when the Victor Talking Machine Company made their first field trip to Houston and New Orleans, the Boswells made their first record. Soon after the accident, the Boswells packed up and moved to New Orleans, where the children were exposed to-and became a part of-the genesis of jazz. In any event, she was left completely incapacitated, yet in spite of adversity, Connie recovered, even being able to stand up and walk after a fashion for a time, though she would later rely on a wheelchair. They relocated to Birmingham when Connie was about three years old, and it was there where she suffered the incident that would leave her crippled, most likely by a bout of infantile paralysis, though her mother claimed it was the result of an accident involving a toy wagon. Connie was born Constance Foore Boswell-taking her middle name from her mother’s maiden name-in Kansas City, Missouri on December 3, 1907, the third of the Boswell children, and the middle Boswell sister.

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