After posting of my delight at being reunited with Mari Wilson, I noted that I wanted to hunt down another favorite from the early 80s-Karla DeVito. Well, wonders of the World Wide Web…
Karla DeVito’s 1981 album Is This a Cool World or What? was often blasting on the stereo at our cool apartment on the top floor of a pre-war brick building on Capitol Hill in Seattle. I played this album over & over, singing along to her originals & her great covers of Jim Steinman’s Heaven Can Wait, The Grass Roots’ Midnight Confessions & John Fogerty's Almost Saturday Night.
Karla started in theatre in her native Chicago. She went on to be a backup singer for Meatloaf. Karla later struck out on her own & as a solo artist she opened for Hall & Oates & Rick Springfield, & did club dates of her own. She met her husband of 27 years actor-singer-writer-director-cutie pie Robby Benson (Ode To Billy Joe, Ice Castles, Beauty & The Beast) while they were both appearing on Broadway in The Pirates of Penzance. The Bensons live in NYC where Robby is a professor at NYU. Karla continues to do voice work. Dig that crazy 80s look on her album cover!
