Throughout her recording career, starting in 1926 with thousands of records sold and millions of fans all over the U.S. and England, Annette sang with the Original Memphis Five, Willard Robison's Deep River Orchestra, Sam Lanin's Orchestra, Lou Gold's Orchestra, Frank Ferera's Hawaiian Trio and Rudy Vallee's Connecticut Yankees. Some of the artists whose solos were featured on her recordings were Red Nichols, Miff Mole, Phil Napoleon, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Adrian Rollini, Vic Berton, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, and Jack Teagarden Orchestras.
In 1929, Hanshaw began performing on CBS and NBC network radio. In the early 1930s, she sang on the air with Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra. From 1932 to 1934, Annette was featured on the popular Thursday evening NBC's radio program, The Maxwell House ShowBoat. She made her only film appearance in the 1933 Paramount short Captain Henry's Radio Show, then was voted the most popular female singer along with male singer Bing Crosby by a nationwide survey! On December 6, 1937 Hanshaw gave the final performance of her career on The Chevrolet Musical Moments Revue all of these performances can be found on www.youtube.com for free and on Wikipedia.com or on Google.com by using her name.
Friends, in opened time you will see our lives
are not some kind of quirk of fate; to live is our calling;
our destiny; a destiny that touches every living thing; like it or not we are
masters of our fate; nothing is written; and our cause how
ever righteous pales in comparison to the impact of our
fate; any hope for a better future comes from willing that future
into being; a future reflecting the measure of good within ourselves; and all
that is good inside us is measured by the good we do for others; we all share
the same fate; the same future; the sum of our infinite choices; one such
future is built on kindness, trust and mutual understanding-should we choose to
accept it; driving without question towards a light we cannot see;
not just for those we hold close but for the one(s) we will never meet.