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By the time I was twenty-one," says May Belle Callaway who began singing publicly at the age of fifteen, "I had so many different names I answered to almost anything."
May Belle was a popular girl, both audience and sponsor-wise and she did several radio programs, each for another sponsor. "I broadcast under a different name for each one and I guess they must have listened only to their own shows because none of the sponsors knew I was singing for anyone else," laughs May Belle.
Today, as Lady Hamilton, May Belle is heard on over 400 stations throughout the U. S. and in Mexico, Canada, Alaska and Honolulu.
"You'd be surprised," says May Belle, "but of all my names, Lady Hamilton is the hardest one to live up to. On my show I sing old favorites and the more melodic popular tunes — you know, very dignified and sophisticated. Off the air, I try real hard to live up to my name, but May Belle Callaway keeps popping up and getting in the way."
May Belle has been singing ever since she can remember, but her first public appearance was on a local station in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. The managing director of New York's Hotel Astor, in town for a convention, heard her and brought her to New York. She was an immediate hit and an offer came from Montreal's renowned Mount Royal Hotel.
Most fifteen-year-olds would have swooned at the chance, but May Belle turned it down and went back to Memphis. She blushes as she re
calls, "It was December and I just couldn't bear the thought of spending Christmas away from home.
"What I like best about my present job is that after I've recorded the show, I can stay right here in Memphis with my friends and family."
Her "family" consists of her mother, dad and a married brother and sister. "She lives near-by," explains May Belle, "and her children and their friends, all about sixteen, are my best fans. They treat me as an equal, discuss their problems and tell me all about their dates. It's really very flattering.
"They make good subjects for pictures, too," she says. "Photography is my hobby — color only — but I also like to sew. I make most of my own clothes and I made that outfit I'm wearing in the picture."
As for other hobbies, May Belle states, "Needless to say, I love music
especially blues. You can't be
born in the South and not like blues. I like jazz, too," she adds, "but not over the air. I like to be in the same room with the musicians so I can 'feel' it."
Watching May Belle as she animatedly flits around the room, one would never know that she once had osteomylitis — a crippling bone disease, which resulted in the removal of her hip joint and made one leg shorter than the other. "I'm not the least bit sensitive about my leg, though. My mother made it seem very unimportant when I was young and, as I grew older, I saw so many other people really deserving of pity that I couldn't feel sorry for myself at all. Now I just think I'm lucky — really lucky to be alive."
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