Ruth Wallis

AKA:

Queen of the Party Song

Birth Name:

Ruth Shirley Wohl

Birth Date:

January 5, 1920

Birth Place:

Brooklyn, New York

Death Date:

December 22, 2007

Place of Death:

South Killingly, Connecticut

Age:

Cause of Death:

Alzheimer's disease

Cemetery Name:

Sharon Memorial Park

Claim to Fame:

Music

Ruth Wallis performed risqué cabaret numbers for listeners worldwide during the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. She was known as the Queen of the Party Song, and began her career performing jazz and cabaret songs. Ruth was a veteran of ten comedy albums which sold worldwide for over two decades. She traveled extensively as an international star doing her own songs and appeared in top supper clubs in Las Vegas, Miami and was a sensation and sell out on her tours of Australia, London and New Zealand. In the sixties, her albums enjoyed great success and were released on her own Wallis Originals label. Her signature number was "The Dinghy Song” which sold more than 250,000 copies. Her songs were banned from Boston radio and her records were seized by custom agents in Australia, but the incidents only made her more popular. In the end Ruth Wallis wrote the words and music to over 150 songs and her career spanned three decades and four continents. Wallis’s work was the inspiration for the off-Broadway revue, “Boobs! The Musical: The World According to Ruth Wallis” in 2003.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Sharon Memorial Park

120 Canton Street

Sharon, Massachusetts, 02067

USA

North America

Map:

Map of Sharon Memorial Park in Sharon, Massachusetts

Grave Location:

Mt. Tabor, Section 38, Lot 245, Space 3

Grave Location Description

As you enter the cemetery drive straight ahead with the administration building on your right. Veer to the left and then take the first right turn. Drive this road all the way to the Northeast corner of the cemetery. The Queen of the Party song is buried 6 spaces from the road almost even with the garden opening in the center of Section 38.