Question: A 1944 collaboration of the Cow-Cow Boogie featured the American pop vocal group with lead singer Bill Kenny and which other artist?
Context: Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards (born May 24, 1944), known professionally as Patti LaBelle, is an American singer, author, actress, and entrepreneur.  LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles.  Following the group's name change to Labelle in the early 1970s, they released the iconic disco song "Lady Marmalade" and the group later became the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of "Rolling Stone" magazine.  After the group split in 1976, LaBelle began a successful solo career, starting with her critically acclaimed debut album, which included the career-defining song, "You Are My Friend".  LaBelle became a mainstream solo star in 1984 following the success of the singles, "If Only You Knew", "New Attitude" and "Stir It Up", with the latter two crossing over to pop audiences becoming radio staples. Venus Mars Project is an American pop/rock duet from Boston, Massachusetts known for their mix of classic rock edge and modern pop.  The band consists of two members: Jacyn Tremblay (lead vocals) and Peter Tentindo (lead guitar, vocals).  Jacyn is a singer/songwriter, formerly signed with Universal Motown Records as part of the Boston-based female pop/r&b vocal group Jada, and Peter is a professional guitarist, singer/songwriter, and teacher, formerly backing the lead singer of Survivor, Jimi Jamison. William Francis Kenny Jr. (June 12, 1914 – March 23, 1978), known professionally as Bill Kenny, was a pioneering African American tenor vocalist with a wide vocal range spanning four octaves.  Often regarded as one of the most influential high-tenor singers of all time, Kenny was noted for his "bell-like" vocal clarity and impeccable diction.  Although he is most famous for his role as lead tenor with the Ink Spots, Kenny also led a successful solo career after disbanding the Ink Spots in 1954.  Throughout the 1950s and 60s Kenny recorded, toured the world and appeared on many popular variety television shows.  In 1966 Kenny became the star and host of his own musical variety show "The Bill Kenny Show" which aired on CBC.  In 1989, 11 years after his death, Bill Kenny was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Kenny is often noted as being the "godfather" of R&B tenor vocalists. The Ink Spots were an American pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s.  Their unique musical style led to the rhythm and blues and rock and roll musical genres, and the subgenre doo-wop.  The Ink Spots were widely accepted in both the white and black communities, largely due to the ballad style introduced to the group by lead singer Bill Kenny. Doo-wop is a genre of music that was developed in African-American communities of New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.  Built upon vocal harmony, doo-wop was one of the most mainstream, pop-oriented R&B styles of the time.  Singer Bill Kenny (1914–1978) is often called the "Godfather of Doo-wop" for his introducing the "top and bottom" format which featured a high tenor singing the lead and a bass singer reciting the lyrics in the middle of the song.  Doo-wop features vocal group harmony, nonsense syllables, a simple beat, sometimes little or no instrumentation, and simple music and lyrics. American singer Kelly Clarkson has recorded material for her seven studio albums.  After signing a contract in 2002 with RCA Records, a division of then-Bertelsmann Music Group (now Sony Music), 20-year-old Clarkson released the double A-side single "Before Your Love" / "A Moment Like This" and began to record tracks for her debut studio album, "Thankful" (2003).  Its lead single, "Miss Independent", received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2004.  "Miss Independent" was followed by "Low" and "The Trouble With Love Is", which was featured as a single from the soundtrack of the film "Love Actually".  In 2004, Clarkson recorded the song "Breakaway", which was released as a single from the of the film "".  The song's commercial success inspired Clarkson to name her second studio album "Breakaway".  The album won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album in 2006, while its second single, "Since U Been Gone", won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.  Subsequent singles, "Behind These Hazel Eyes" (2005), "Because of You" (2005), and "Walk Away" (2006), became successful hits.  Clarkson's third studio album, "My December", was released in 2007.  The album became a subject of a dispute with then RCA Music Group chairman Clive Davis, who criticized the album and suggested that Clarkson reunite with her previous collaborators. " Never Again", the lead single from "My December", became its only hit single.  Succeeding releases from "My December" included "Sober", "One Minute", and "Don't Waste Your Time". Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer.  Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ross rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes, which, during the 1960s, became Motown's most successful act, and is to this day the United States' most successful vocal group, as well as one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.  Ross' success as lead singer of The Supremes made it possible for future African-American R&B and soul acts to find mainstream success.  The group released a record-setting twelve number-one hit singles on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, including "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", "Come See About Me", "Stop!  In the Name of Love", "You Can't Hurry Love", "You Keep Me Hangin' On", "Love Child", and "Someday We'll Be Together". "I'm Beginning to See the Light" is a popular song and jazz standard, written by Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, and Harry James, and published in 1944.  Ella Fitzgerald and The Ink Spots featuring Bill Kenny recorded a version in 1945, that was on the pop song hits list for six weeks in 1945, reaching #5.  A competing 1945 recording by Harry James and his Orchestra, with lead vocal by Kitty Kallen reached #1 for two weeks in January of that year.  James' version of the song reached #7 on Billboard's Second Annual High School Survey in 1945.  Duke Ellington also released in 1945 a version, which reached the top ten.  Ellington's inspiration for this song was his recent initiation into Freemasonry.  He was a member of Social Lodge No. 1 of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, Prince Hall Affiliation. LeVert was an American R&B/Pop vocal group from Cleveland, Ohio.  Formed in 1983, LeVert was composed of Sean and Gerald Levert---sons of Eddie Levert, founder and lead singer of R&B/Soul vocal group O'Jays---and Marc Gordon. "Cow Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay)" is a "country-boogie"-style blues song utilizing the folklore of the singing cowboy in the American West.  In the lyrics, the cowboy is from the city and tells his "dogies" (motherless calves) to "get hip."  The music was written by Don Raye, and lyrics were written by Benny Carter and Gene De Paul.  The song was written for the 1942 Abbott & Costello film "Ride 'Em Cowboy", which included Ella Fitzgerald as a cast member.  The first recording was by Freddie Slack & his Orchestra, featuring vocalist Ella Mae Morse in 1942.  The record was the second release by Capitol Records and their first million-seller/ number one on the charts record.  Morse learned the song from hearing Fitzgerald on a soundtrack she had acquired, even though the song had been cut from the movie.  Morse also recalled recording the song in a single take, which she had thought was only a rehearsal.  The 1944 collaboration between The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald resulted in a number-one hit on the Harlem Hit Parade and a number-10 hit on the pop chart.
Answer: Ella Fitzgerald