[4] It rose to number 8 on the Billboard R&B chart,[5] and she turned professional, making appearances in Chicago and, later in the year, touring with Lowell Fulson, Johnny "Guitar" Watson and others.
She moved to live in Chicago, where she performed in nightclubs and continued to release records, but with diminishing success.
[6][7] In 1959 she joined Earl Hooker's band as a featured vocalist, and signed for Chief Records in Chicago.
[4] Follow-up records again failed to be commercially successful, and she retired from music in the early 1960s to raise a family, being replaced on an intended American Folk Blues Festival tour of Europe by Sugar Pie DeSanto.
[6][7] Offitt continued to live in Racine, Wisconsin, working outside the music business and raising her family.