[1] The Singing Lady starred Ireene Wicker, whose children's radio program won 24 awards,[2] and now was "releasing her old magic in a new medium .
[4] The Suzari Marionettes initially enacted fairy tales on the program, with Wicker supplying all of the characters' voices — as many as 19 in one episode — off-camera.
[6] The program initially was sustaining but when ABC expanded its coverage from the Eastern United States to the Midwest via coaxial cable, Kellogg's cereals began sponsoring it.
[9] The review commended Wicker's "wonderful knack of switching voice ranges to take all parts" and complimented the integration of puppets with the story.
[10] Kellogg ended its sponsorship of The Singing Lady after Wicker's name was listed in the publication Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television.
[13] Newspaper columnist Alice Hughes wrote, "But the damage is done; her radio and TV contracts were cancelled and the legal fees were costly to procure denial of an unproved charge .