Once her career had been revived thanks to Bing Crosby's anniversary tour, Rosemary Clooney was in a better position to pick up more creative projects. Although she never considered herself a true jazz singer, Clooney recorded an entire album for Concord Jazz, called Everything's Coming Up Rosie. She paid tribute to all the jazz greats like Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, and Duke Ellington. And the album was very well received by critics. According to The Washington Post, Jazz critic Don Heckman highly praised Clooney's album and commended her on how her singing had matured.
"[Clooney is] a lot more than a symbol, and a far more intriguing singer than she was during her 'Come On-a My House' days in the '50s," he said.
She would pick up her pen and write two autobiographies, one in 1977, This for Remembrance: The Autobiography of Rosemary Clooney, an Irish-American Singer, and the second in 1999, titled Girl Singer: An Autobiography. Her first book was adapted into a 1982 TV movie, called Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story, starring Sondra Locke.
After the tragic death of her younger sister, Betty, in 1975, Clooney also founded the Betty Clooney Foundation in memory of her sister — a facility for survivors of cognitive disabilities. Clooney herself would perform annual concerts where the proceeds would all go towards the running of the foundation. And in 1995, Clooney received a Daytime Emmy nomination for her guest role on her nephew George Clooney's television show, E.R.
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