Many thanks, Guest; which means that the previous line ends with 'sacked', no doubt. I can just about, racking my brains, remember Connee Boswell, having gone solo, as a 1940s singer; and learn from wiki [qv re the group] that she had to sing from a wheelchair due to a chilodhood accident. Also that the Andrews Sisters began as a sort of Boswell tribute group and Ella Fitzgerald patterned her singing on Connee's.

~M~