 She was at the dance with her friends and hanging around the bandstand. All her friends knew she wanted to be a singer, and someone asked me if she could sing, and I said, okay. She was good. And about two weeks later, I sent for her. I sent a telegram to her agent in Detroit, and she joined me in Toledo, Ohio. Betty was into bebop. She'd already sat in with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.