Bad ideas really don’t come much worse than this, now do they? In 1979 — the very tail-end of the disco era, if not the beginning of the post-disco era — A&M thought it wise to make “The Ethel Merman ...

One-time Denverite Ethel Merman released a disco album in 1979 on A&M Records. The Ethel Merman Disco Album came out in 1979. The genre was declared dead a year later. We can't say if that's Ethel's ...

Move over Christina Crawford. Stand back Bette Davis Hyman. There's a new, bewildered celebrity offspring on the block and her name is Varla Jean Merman. OK, so she's really not the daughter of Ethel ...