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Short Bio. . . Shaye Cogan sang with Vaughn Monroe on the Camel Caravan radio program, and appeared as a regular on the Camel Caravan televsion show. They did many song and dance numbers together, as well as skits on the short-lived television series that aired in the early 1950s. Shaye went on to co-star in several movies, most notably with Abbott & Costello in "Coming 'Round the Mountain" in 1951 and "Jack and the Beanstalk" in 1952. Shaye started out in Vaudeville with her two brothers, Mike and Charlie, as The Coggins Trio. She changed her stage name to Cogan some time later.
On Shaye's Passing . . . We received the following news from Susan Menke, niece of Shaye Cogan, who performed with Vaughn Monroe on the Camel Caravan radio and television shows: We're here in San Jose, California, visiting family and we were planning on seeing Shaye next week. Sadly, on Friday, June 12 (2009), just hours after our plane landed, Shaye passed away. She had been living in Modesto, in a very nice senior living facility in her own apartment, but several days ago she fell and went into the hospital to recover. While there, she got an upper respiratory infection which took her life. Her brother (my Uncle Don) was with her, along with Don's wife and their grown children and grandchildren. Shaye didn't have children of her own. She' been born in 1924. She was 84 years old. Shaye's nephew, Donald, also wrote to inform us of his Aunt Shaye's sudden passing. Donald writes: My Aunt was Shaye Cogan-Morris. I was with my Aunt last Friday night when she passed away. She was an incredible lady and will be missed. |
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