GIRL SINGER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

''I loved seeing the colors of the pills, like a bouquet in the palm of my hand,'' writes singer Rosemary Clooney of her addiction to prescription drugs in the 1960s. This candid account of her personal journey ''from porch swing to padded cell'' offers a surprising picture of the big-band diva (and aunt of George Clooney), whose fractured Kentucky childhood propelled her into a life of sometimes callous ambition. From her rise to stardom and her troubled marriage to actor Jose Ferrer to her live-on-stage breakdown in 1968 and her crawl back to sanity (and Carnegie Hall), Clooney's story is an eloquent tribute to the healing power of music. A-