- Was the first to record the song "Let There Be Peace on Earth."
- As a singer, she made many recordings with Lawrence Welk on the Dot label and, for Walt Disney, on the Buena Vista label with the Tutti Commerata orchestra, including an album with Rex Allen featuring songs from the score of the motion picture Say One for Me (1959). She also made an album for Decca, with The Virginian (1962) regular Randy Boone, entitled "Singing Start of the Virginian", which showcased songs performed on the TV series.
- A one-time talented yodeler, her yodel appears on the Disney soundtrack album of "It's a Small World."
- She is a 1961 graduate of San Gabriel High School, San Gabriel, California. She was queen of her senior prom in high school.
- Once toured Australia with the Mouseketeers
- She was a guest at the 2012 Memphis Film Festival's "A Gathering of Guns 4: A TV Western Reunion" at the Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center in Olive Branch, Mississippi.
- She appeared as a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1996 and 2003. At the 2003 show, she was reunited with her The Virginian (1962) co-stars James Drury, Gary Clarke and Randy Boone.
- In 1984, she was working as a disc jockey at a radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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