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Lee, Peggy Filmography
- My Music: 50s Pop Parade (2007)
- Duet Impossible (2006)
- Judy Garland Duets (2005)
- Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook (2005)
- Peggy Lee: Singing at Her Best (2004)
- Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee (2004)
- Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003)
- 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003)
- Dean Martin: That's Amore (2001)
- Petula Clark: This Is My Song (2001)
- The Nightclub Years (2001)
- The Real Las Vegas (1996)
- Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
- Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (1990)
- The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989)
- Disney Sing-Along-Songs: You Can Fly (1988)
- Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Heigh-Ho (1987)
- Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Heigh-Ho (1987)
- Judy Garland: The Concert Years (1985)
- The Quintessential Peggy Lee (1984)
- Halloween Treat (1982)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1982)
- Something Spectacular with Steve Allen (1981)
- A Gift of Music (1981)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1979)
- The People's Command Performance (1978)
- Peggy (1977)
- America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music (1976)
- Hudson & Halls (1976)
- The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974)
- Julie's Christmas Special (1973)
- Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly (1973)
- Julie's Christmas Special (1973)
- Louis Armstrong: 1900 - 1971 (1971)
- Petula (1970)
- The Best on Record (1970)
- The World of Peggy Lee (1969)
- The World of Benny Goodman (1963)
- President Kennedy's Birthday Salute (1962)
- Summer on Ice (1961)
- Swing Into Spring! (1959)
- The Bing Crosby Show (1959)
- Happy New Year (1956)
- Jazz Ball (1956)
- The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
- The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953)
- The Jazz Singer (1952)
- TV's Top Tunes (1951)
- The Star-Spangled Revue (1950)
- Mr. Music (1950)
- Midnight Serenade (1947)
- Jasper in a Jam (1946)
- The Powers Girl (1943)
- Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Peggy Lee was Born Norma Dolores Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, on May 26, 1920. At age four her mother died. Peggy's father, a railroad station agent, remarried but later left home, leaving Peggy's care entrusted to a stepmother who physically abused her. Peggy later memorialized this in the calypso number "One Beating a Day", one of 22 songs she co-wrote for the autobiographical musical "Peg", in which she made her Broadway debut in 1983 at the age of 62. As a youngster Peggy worked as a milkmaid, later turning to singing for money in her teens. While singing on a local radio station in Fargo, the program director there suggested she change her name to Peggy Lee. Peggy's big break came when 'Benny Goodman (I)' (qv) hired her to sing with his band after hearing her perform. Peggy shot to stardom when she and Goodman cut the hit record "Why Don't You Do Right?" and went out on her own to record such classics as "Fever", "Lover", "Golden Earrings", "Big Spender" and "Is That All There Is?" - the latter winning her a Grammy Award in 1969. Peggy's vocal style provided a distinctive imprint to countless swing tunes, ballads and big band numbers. She was considered the type of performer equally capable of interpreting a song as uniquely as 'Billie Holiday' (qv), 'Ella Fitzgerald' (qv) and 'Bessie Smith' (qv). Her 1989 album, "Peggy Sings the Blues", was a Grammy Award nominee. Peggy was a prolific songwriter and arranger and her 1990 "The Peggy Lee Songbook" contained four songs she wrote with guitarist 'John Chiodini' (qv). Peggy also wrote for jazz greats 'Duke Ellington' (qv), who called her "The Queen", and 'Johnny Mercer' (qv), and composer 'Quincy Jones' (qv). Also in 1990 Peggy was awarded the coveted Pied Piper Award presented by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). She made her mark in Hollywood as an actress, winning an Academy Award nomination for her role as the hard-drinking singer in the jazz saga, _Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)_ (qv) and composed songs for the 1955 'Walt Disney' (qv) animated classic _Lady and the Tramp (1955)_ (qv). The animated film featured a character named Peg, a broken-down old showgirl of a dog, whose provocative walk was based on the stage-prowl of Peggy Lee. Later she sued Disney and won a landmark legal judgment for a portion of the profits from the videocassette sale of the film. Peggy's private life was racked by physical ailments, a near-fatal fall in 1976, diabetes and a stroke in 1998. She was married four times, all ending in divorce. She and first husband, guitarist 'Dave Barbour' (qv), had a daughter, Nicki, her only child. Peggy and Dave were on the verge of a reconciliation in 1965, but he died of a heart attack before the couple got back together. Peggy has left a vast legend of music that is constantly finding new generations of fans.
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- A Woman Alone With the Blues
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- My Old Flame
- I’m a Woman
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- My Sin
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- Shangri-La
- Talk to Me Baby
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- After You've Gone
- The Right to Love (Reflections)
- Theme From 'Joy House' (Just Call Me Love Bird)
- Senza Fine
- When in Rome (I Do as the Romans Do)
- (I'M) In Love Again
- Don't Smoke in the Bed
- Would You Dance With a Stranger? (feat. Mel Torme)
- Blues in the Night
- I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
- Lover
- Let's Do It
- Tonight You Belong to Me
- Bless You (feat. Mel Torme)
- I Love You but I Don't Like You
- Stormy Weather
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- Golden Earrings
- How Long Has This Been Going On
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Watermelon Weather (feat. Bing Crosby)
- Them There Eyes
- You Was!
- The Way You Look Tonight
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Elmer's Tune
- Merry Go Runaround (feat. Bing Crosby & Bob Hope)
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Just One of Those Things
- The Old Master Painter (feat. Mel Torme)
- Mañana (Is Good Enough for Me)
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- Kansas City
- Some Cats Know
- Don Juan
- I Ain't Here
- I'm a Woman
- Ready to Begin Again (Manya's Song)
- Professor Hauptmann's Performing Dogs
- A Little White Ship
- Tango
- I've Got Them Feelin' Too Good Today Blues
- The Case of M.J.
- I Remember
- Say It
- Long Fot a Simpler Time
- Is That All There Is?
- It's a Wonderful World
- Things Are Swingin'
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Ridin' High
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- Lullaby in Rhythm
- Alone Together
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- It's a Good, Good Night
- You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me
- You're Mine, You
- Life Is for Livin'
- You Don't Know
- Fever
- Oh Didn't He Ramble
- Sugar
- Somebody Loves Me
- I'm Going To Meet My Sweetie Now
- I Never Knew
- Bye, Bye, Blackbird
- What Do I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
- Hard Hearted Hannah
- Ella Hums the Blues
- He Needs Me
- Sing A Rainbow
- Pete Kelly's Blues
- Black Coffee
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Easy Living
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You
- A Woman Alone With the Blues
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- When the World Was Young
- Love Me or Leave Me
- You're My Thrill
- There's a Small Hotel
- Mr. Wonderful
- He's a Tramp
- Black Coffee
- Lover
- Where Can I Go Without You
- This Is a Very Special Day
- Sing a Rainbow
- Just One of Those Things
- Johhny Guitar
- The Siamese Cat Song
- The Moon Came Up With a Great Idea Last Night (With Bing Crosby)
- Apples, Peaches and Cherries
- (Sorry Baby) You Let My Love Get Cold
- Sans Souci
- La La Lu
- I Hear Music Now
- Oh! No! Please Don't Go
- How Bitter, My Sweet
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- It Never Entered My Mind
- Ooh, That Kiss
- I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now
- Sisters
- I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
- (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings
- Don't Explain
- Can I Change My Mind?
- Lean on Me
- Everyday People
- Please Send Me Someone to Love
- Spinning Wheel
- Living Is Dying Without You
- I Think It's Gonna Rain Today
- Is That All There Is?
- Love Story
- Me and My Shadow
- Sing a Rainbow
- My Old Flame
- I'm a Woman
- Somethin' Stupid
- Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show
- Something
- Whistle for Happiness
- Johnny (Linda)
- I Can Hear the Music
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
- (You Made Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
- (Sittin' On The) Dock of the Bay
Bewitching Lee! Peggy Sings Her Greatest Hits (S&P; Edition)
(Released 2003)
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- Don't Smoke in Bed
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Golden Earrings
- Hallelujah, I Love Him So
- Fever
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- Them There Eyes
- While We're Young
- My Man
- Unforgettable
- You Don't Know
- I'm a Woman
- It's a Good Day
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too)
- Birmingham Jail
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- If You Could See Me Now
- At the Café Rendezvous
- Once Around the Moon
- Life Is So Peculiar
- Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
- Fever
- I'm Lookin' Out the Window
- I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
- My Gentle Young Johnny
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- I Love Being Here With You
- Moments Like This
- Senza Fire
- Come Back to Me
- Is That All There Is?
- Let's Call It a Day
- Fever (Gabin 'Fever' remix)
- You Was Right, Baby
- Something
- It's a Good Day
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Peggy Lee
(Released 2002)
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- Lover
- Be Anything (But Be Mine)
- Just One of Those Things
- Sans Souci
- Black Coffee
- Somebody Loves Me
- Let Me Go Lover
- The Siamese Cat Song
- Johnny Guitar
- Mr. Wonderful
- He Needs Me
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- Mister Wonderful
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Where Flamingos Fly
- The Comeback
- Take a Little Time to Smile
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- Joe Sings Joe, Joe, Joey
- Crazy in the Heart
- You Oughta Be Mine
- We Laughed at Love
- That's Alright, Honey
- You've Got to See Mama Every Night
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
- Somebody Nobody Loves
- On the Atchsion, Topeka and the Santa Fe
- It's Anybody's Spring
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- I Can See It Your Way
- You Was Right, Baby
- What More Can a Woman Do
- Baby, You Can Count on Me
- He's Just My Kind
- She Did'Nt Say Yes
- Birmingham Jail
- Don't Be So Mean to Baby
- Bluest Kind of Blues (Nuages)
- Everything's Movin' Too Fast
- Speaking of Angels
- Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino, Go to Sleep)
- Just an Old Love of Mine
- Sugar (That Sugar Baby of Mine)
- Golden Earrings
- Them There Eyes
- It's a Good Day
- Hold Me
- A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues
- Why Don't You Do Right
- Why Don't You Do Right
- Waiting for the Train to Come In
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Too Young
- Just One More Chance
- Shangai
- Let There Be Love
- I'm Confessin'
- I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues
- Oh What a Beautiful Morning
- Love Is Just Around the Corner
- September in the Rain
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- These Foolish Things
- That Old Gang of Mine
- For Sentimental Reasons
- He's Just My Kind
- Fever
- Lets Do It (Lets Fall in Love)
- Stormy Weather
- Summertime
- Them There Eyes
- That Old Feeling
- Golden Earrings
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- Somebody Loves Me
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Where or When
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
- The Way You Look Tonight
- My Old Flame
- It's All Over Now
- You Can Depend on Me
- You Was
- Everything I Love
- Bye Bye Blues
- Chi-Baba Chi-Baba
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- Mañana
- 'Deed I Do
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
- Lonesome Road
- Them There Eyes
- You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
- The Glory of Love
- Melancholy Lullaby
- Taking a Chance on Love
- A Cottage for Sale
- Fools Rush In
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Love Is Just Around the Corner
- Porgy
- Blue Skies
- I've Had My Moments
- Blue Moon
- Can't Help Lovin' That Man
- Mean to Me
- I'm Confessing
- Summertime
- That Old Black Magic
- People Will Say That We Are in Love
- Up the Lazy River
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- You Do Something to Me
- Unforgettable
- The Best is Yet to Come
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- From This Moment On
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- Big Spender
- Lover
- Surrey With the Fringe on Top
- Somebody Loves Me
- Moments Like This
- Big Bad Bill
- It's a Good Day
- Where Can I Go Without You
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Sneakin' Up on You
- Pass Me By
- I Wanna Be Around
- Bewitched
- My Love, Forgive Me
- You Always Hurt the One You Love
- Love
- Dear Heart
- Quiet Nights
- That's What It Takes
- Come Back to Me
- You've Got Possibilities
- It's a Wonderful World
- I'll Only Miss Him When I Think of Him
- Big Spender
- I Must Know
- Alright, Okay; You Win
- Watch What Happens
- You Don't Know
- Let's Fall in Love
- Gotta Travel On
- A Hard Day's Night
- Fever
- He's a Tramp
- Things Are Swingin'
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Caramba! It's the Samba
- I Enjoy Being a Girl
- Siamese Cat Song
- Big Spender
- I'm a Woman
- Black Coffee
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- Golden Earrings
- I Go to Sleep
- I Feel It
- I Get Ideas
- Bali Ha'i
- So What's New
- You'll Remember Me
- Walking Happy
- Pass Me By
- Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too)
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- Till There Was You
- Hey, Look Me Over
- When He Makes Music
- Walking Happy
- Oh! You Crazy Moon
- So What's New?
- Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear
- A Bucket of Tears
- The Shining Sea
- Amazing
- I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
- Somethin' Stupid
- Makin' Whoopee!
- You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
- I Can Hear the Music
- It Might as Well Be Spring
- Two for the Road
- Release Me
- Sing a Rainbow
- No Fool Like an Old Fool
- Love Is Here to Stay
- I'm Gonna Get It
- A Doodlin' Song
- Every Night
- Please Don't Rush Me
- Light of Love
- Ain't Doin' Bad Doin' Nothin'
- Eight, Nine, and Ten
- Baby, Come Home
- I Love the Way You're Breaking My Heart
- Why Should I Cry Over You?
- Blum Blum, I Wonder Who I Am
- Similau (See-me-lo)
- Laroo, Laroo, Lili Bolero
- Hold Me
- (I'm Not Gonna) Let It Bother Me
- It's the Bluest Kind of Blue
- While We're Young
- Foolin' Nobody but Me
- All the Cats Join In
- Farewell to Arms
- Bubble-loo Bubble-loo
- Golden Earrings
- Lover
- Laroo, Laroo, Lili Bolero
- Fever
- Mr. Wonderful
- Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)
- It's All Over Now
- Waiting for the Train to Come In
- I'll Dance at Your Wedding
- I Get Ideas
- Bali Ha'i
- Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
- Is That All There Is?
- It's a Good Day
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby
- Black Coffee
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Easy Living
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- When the World Was Young
- Love Me or Leave Me
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- Gee Baby (Ain't I Good to You)
- You're My Thrill
- There's a Small Hotel
- Sea Fever
- Nine Thorny Thickets
- Little Old Car
- Greensleeves
- Chinese Love Poems
- The Happy Monks
- The White Birch & The Sycamore
- Of Such Is the Kingdom of God
- I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard
- The Maid With the Flaxen Hair
- The Wearing of the Green
- Chaconde
- Chinese Love Poems
- The Riddle Song
- The Golden Wedding Ring
- A Brown Bird Singing
- A Woman Alone With the Blues
- The Man I Love
- Please Be Kind
- Just One Way to Say I Love You
- That's All
- Something Wonderful
- He's My Guy
- Then I'll Be Tired of You
- My Heart Stood Still
- If I Should Lose You
- There Is No Greater Love
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- As Time Goes By
- If You Go
- Oh Love Hast Thou Forsaken Me
- Say It Isn't So
- I Wish I Didn't Love You So
- Maybe It's Because (I Love You Too Much)
- I'm Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life
- I Get Along Without You Very Well
- (I Love Your) Gypsy Heart
- When I Was a Child
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Smile
- Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
- As Time Goes By
- Basin Street Blues
- Stormy Weather
- Makin' Whoopee
- Fever
- Fly Me to the Moon
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- Always Something There to Remind Me
- I Am in Love
- The Man I Love
- Mack the Knife
- I Could Have Danced All Night
- On the Street Where You Live
- I'm a Woman
- Come Dance With Me
- I Hear Music
- Love and Marriage
- The More I See You
- Let's Fall in Love
- From Now On
- Cheek to Cheek
- Smile
- Kansas City
- Basin Street Blues
- Los Angeles Blues
- I Left My Sugar (In Salt Lake City)
- The Grain Belt Blues
- New York City Blues
- Goin' to Chicago Blues
- San Francisco Blues
- Fisherman's Wharf
- Boston Beans
- The Train Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Hey! Look Me Over
- The Shining Sea
- Elmer's Tune
- I See a Million People (But All I Can See Is You)
- That's the Way It Goes
- I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
- My Old Flame
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Shady Lady Bird
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
- Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
- Somebody Nobody Loves
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- That Did It, Marie
- Winter Weather
- Ev'rything I Love
- Not Mine
- Not a Care in the World
- My Old Flame
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- It's All Over Now
- Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)
- Golden Earrings
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- Balli Ha'i
- Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
- The Old Master Painter
- Fever
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- My Man
- Hallelujah, I Love Him So
- Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too)
- It's a Good Day
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- Waiting for the Train to Come In
- Heart
- I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
- Hey, Look Me Over
- I'm a Woman
- The Alley Cat Song
- Pass Me By
- Come Back to Me
- Big Spender
- So What's New?
- Walking Happy
- I Feel It
- Is That All There Is?
- Meals for Millions
- It's a Big Wide Wonderful World
- Whisper Not
- My Silent Love
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Days of Wine and Roses
- As Long as I Live
- I Won't Dance
- Cloudy Morning
- I Could Write a Book
- I Never Had a Chance
- Close Your Eyes
- Where Can I Go Without You?
- I'll Get By
- Please Don't Rush Me
- I'm a Fool to Want You
- I Didn't Find Love
- Little Boat
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- It's All Over Now
- Chi-Baba Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)
- Golden Earrings
- Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
- Fever
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- I'm a Woman
- Pass Me By
- Big Spender
- Is That All There Is?
- Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too)
- It's a Good Day
- Waiting for the Train to Come In
- Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- Black Coffee
- Lover
- Mr. Wonderful
- Johnny Guitar
- You Go to My Head
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads
- Swin Low Sweet Chariot
- I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard
- Love Letters
- Apples, Peaches and Cherries
- Sisters
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- He Needs Me
- Sing a Rainbow
- How Bitter, My Sweet
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me
- Sans Souci
- I Never Knew
- I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
- What's New
- As Time Goes By
- Basin Street Blues
- Stormy Weather
- Cheek to Cheek
- Come Dance With Me
- Fever
- Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
- The Folks Who Live On The Hill
- From Now On (Leave It To Me)
- Unforgettable
- Hallelujah, I Love Him So
- Happy Holidays
- I Am In Love
- I Could Have Danced All Night
- I Hear Music
- I'm A Woman
- The Man I Love
- The Lady is a Tramp
- Mack the Knife
- On the Street Where You Live
- It's a Wonderful World
- Things Are Swingin'
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Ridin' High
- It's Been a Long Long Time
- Lullaby in Rhythm
- Alone Together
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- It's a Good, Good Night
- You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me
- You're Mine, You
- Life Is for Livin'
- Jump for Joy
- Back in Your Own Back Yard
- When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
- I Hear Music
- Just in Time
- Old Devil Moon
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do
- Four or Five Times
- Music! Music! Music!
- Cheek to Cheek
- The Glory of Love
- Ain't We Got Fun
- Charley, My Boy
- Good for Nothin' Joe
- I Love to Love
- When a Woman Loves a Man
- I Like Men!
- I'm Just Wild About Harry
- My Man
- Bill
- So in Love
- Jim
- It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House
- Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh
- Ain't That Love
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- I Believe in You
- Embrasse Moi
- See See Rider
- Teach Me Tonight
- When the Sun Comes Out
- Tell All the World About You
- I Don't Wanna Leave You Now
- The Sweetest Sounds
- I've Got the World on a String
- Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
- I'm Confessin'
- September in the Rain
- That Old Gang of Mine
- If I Could Be With You
- Baby Please Come Home
- Make the Man Love Me
- These Foolish Things
- Too Young
- Just One More Chance
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Don't Blame Me
- It Never Happended to Me
- Shanghai
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- My Last Affair
- Gone With the Wind
- A Guy Is a Guy
- I've Got the World on a String
- When a Woman Loves a Man
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- There Is No Greater Love
- Too Close for Comfort
- Unforgettable
- Close Your Eyes
- If I Should Lose You
- I'm Just Wild About Harry
- Deep Purple
- It's Been a Long, Long Time
- The Man I Love
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Fever
- I Wanna Be Around
- I Hear Music
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- Lover
- Be Anything (But Be Mine)
- You Go to My Head
- Just One of Those Things
- Forgive Me
- I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)
- Watermelon Weather (feat. Bing Crosby)
- Moon Flowers
- River River
- Sans Souci
- That's Him Over There
- Who's Gonna Pay the Check
- Where Can I Go Without You
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Easy Living
- Black Coffee
- Apples, Peaches and Cherries
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads
- Johnny Guitar
- Sisters
- Bouquet of Blues
- Love Letters
- Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me
- (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young
- Fever
- It's All Right With Me
- Hallelujah I Love Him So
- Apples, Peaches and Cherries
- Mr. Wonderful
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Black Coffee
- Sans Souci
- Lover
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads
- Is That All There Is
- Big Spender
- That's What a Woman Is For
- The Siamese Cat Song
- Where Can I Go Without You
- Love Letters
- I'm Glad There Is You
- I'm a Woman
- He Needs Me
- Guess I'll Go Back Home
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- I'm In Love Again
- Why Don't You Do Right
- Remind Me
- Moments Like This
- Our Love Is Here To Stay
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- The Folks Who Live On The Hill
- 'S Wonderful
- Amazing
- Do I Love You
- You're My Thrill
- Always True In My Fashion
- That Was Then
- Manana
- Fever
- Things Are Swinging
- Fly Me to the Moon
- I'm a Woman
- I'll Get By
- Pass Me By
- Till There Was You
- I'm Just Wild About Harry
- Sneakin' Up on You
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- Come Dance With Me
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- It Could Happen to You
- You Deserve
- Love and Marriage
- Charlie My Boy
- Sugar
- Sing a Rainbow
- Makin' Whoopee
- It's a Wonderful World
- The Party's Over
- Hey, Look Me Over
- Manana
- It's a Good Day
- Circle in the Sky
- I Just Want to Dance All Night
- He's a Tramp
- There'll Be Another Spring
- Johnny Guitar
- Fever
- I'll Give It All to You
- Sans Souci
- Where Can I Go Without You?
- Boomerang
- Things Are Swingin'
- Over the Wheel
- The Shining Sea
- Johnny Guitar
- Lover
- Street of Dreams
- It's All Right With Me
- You Oughta Be Mine
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- I Didn't Know What Time it Was
- Black Coffee
- Guess I'll Go Back Home (This Summer)
- Mr. Wonderful
- Love Me or Leave Me
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Something I Dreamed Last Night
- There's a Small Hotel
- You Can Depend on Me
- I've Had My Moments
- Sugar
- I Should Care
- Someday Sweetheart
- September in the Rain
- That Old Gang of Mine
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- Gone With the Wind
- Don't Blame Me
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- My Last Affair
- I'm Confessin'
- As Time Goes By
- If You Go
- Oh Love Hast Thou Forsaken Me
- Say It Isn't So
- I Wish I Didn't Love You So
- Maybe It's Because (I Love You Too Much)
- I'm Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life
- I Get Along Without You Very Well
- (I Love Your) Gypsy Heart
- When I Was a Child
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Smile
- Them There Eyes
- I Don’t Know Enough About You
- Golden Earrings
- While We’re Young
- Stormy Weather
- Don’t Smoke in Bed
- I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
- ’deed I Do
- Why Don’t You Do Right (Give Me Some Money Too)
- It’s a Good Day
- Mañana
- Hold Me
- Love Song
- Razor (Love Me as I Am)
- When I Found You
- A Song for You
- It Changes
- It Takes to Long to Learn to Live Alone
- Superstar
- Just for a Thrill
- Someone Who Cares
- The More I See You
- I'll Be Seeing You
- A Lot of Livin’ to Do
- I’ve Got Your Number
- Little by Little
- Got That Magic
- The Moment of Truth
- That’s My Style
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Unforgettable
- Once (Ils S’Aimaient)
- I Got Lost in His Arms
- How Insensitive (Insensatez)
- (I’m) In Love Again
- (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings
- Don't Explain
- Can I Change My Mind?
- Lean on Me
- Everyday People
- Please Send Me Someone to Love
- Spinning Wheel
- Living Is Dying Without You
- I Think It's Gonna Rain Today
- (Sittin' On The) Dock of the Bay
- (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
- Fever
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Golden Earrings
- Hallelujah, I Love Him So
- Come Back to Me
- Heart
- Don’t Smoke in Bed
- I Don’t Know Enough About You
- Why Don’t You Do Right
- It’s a Good Day
- Something Stupid
- Makin’ Whoopee
- You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
- I Can Hear the Music
- It Might as Well Be Spring
- Two for the Road
- Release Me
- Sing a Rainbow
- No Fool Like an Old Fool
- (Our) Love Is Here to Stay
- I’m Gonna Get It
- Hey, Look Me Over
- When He Makes Music
- Walking Happy
- Oh! You Crazy Moon
- So What's New?
- Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear
- A Bucket of Tears
- The Shining Sea
- Amazing
- I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
- A Doodlin' Song
- Come Back to Me
- It’s a Wonderful World
- I’ll Only Miss Him When I Think of Him
- Big Spender
- I Must Know
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Watch What Happens
- You Don’t Know
- Let’s Fall in Love
- Gotta Travel On
- You’ve Got Possibilities
- As Time Goes By
- If You Go
- Oh Love Hast Thou Forsaken Me
- Say It Isn't So
- I Wish I Didn't Love You So
- Maybe It's Because (I Love You Too Much)
- I'm Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life
- I Get Along Without You Very Well
- (I Love Your) Gypsy Heart
- When I Was a Child
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Smile
- Ain’t That Love?
- The Best is Yet to Come
- I Believe in You
- Embrasse Moi (Embrace Me Just One More Time)
- See See Rider
- Teach Me Tonight
- When the Sun Comes Out
- Tell All the World About You
- I Don’t Wanna Leave You Now
- The Sweetest Sounds
- I’ve Got the World on a String
- Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
- Charley, My Boy
- Good for Nothin' Joe
- I Love to Love
- When a Woman Loves a Man
- I Like Men!
- I'm Just Wild About Harry
- My Man
- Bill
- So in Love
- Jim
- It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House
- Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh
- It’s a Wonderful World
- Things Are Swingin’
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Ridin’ High
- It’s Been a Long, Long Time
- Lullaby in Rhythm
- Alone Together
- I’m Beginning to See the Light
- It’s a Good, Good Night
- You’re Getting to Be a Habit With Me
- You’re Mine, You
- Life Is for Livin’
- Trapped (in the Web of Love)
- Losers Weepers
- Free Spirits
- I Go to Sleep
- Leave It to Love
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- They Say
- Seventh Son
- Then Was Then (and Now Is Now)
- Ev'rybody Has the Right to Be Wrong (at Least Once)
- (I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over
- Sneakin’ Up On You
- Pass Me By
- I Wanna Be Around
- Bewitched
- My Love, Forgive Me (Amore, Scusami)
- You Always Hurt the One You Love
- A Hard Day’s Night
- L-O-V-E
- Dear Heart
- Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
- That’s What It Takes
- It's a Big Wide Wonderful World
- Whisper Not
- My Silent Love
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Days of Wine and Roses
- As Long as I Live
- I Won't Dance
- Cloudy Morning
- I Could Write a Book
- I Never Had a Chance
- Close Your Eyes
- Where Can I Go Without You?
- The Alley Cat Song
- Mama’s Gone, Goodbye
- I’m Walkin’
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears
- I’m a Woman
- Mack the Knife
- You’re Nobody ’til Somebody Loves You
- I’ll Get By (as Long as I Have You)
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- A Taste of Honey
- One Note Samba
- As You Desire Me
- It Could Happen to You
- Pretty Eyes
- Remind Me
- You Fascinate Me So
- I Wanna Be Loved
- I'm Walking Through Heaven With You
- I Remember You
- Too Close for Comfort
- In Other Words
- Because I Love Him So
- ’deed I Do
- Trapped (in the Web of Love)
- Loosers Weepers
- Free Spirits
- I Go to Sleep
- Leave It to Love
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- They Say
- Seventh Son
- Then Was Then (and Now Is Now)
- Ev'rybody Has the Right to Be Wrong (at Least Once)
- (I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over
- Sneakin' Up on You
- Pass Me By
- I Wanna Be Around
- Bewitched
- My Love Forgive Me
- You Always Hurt the One You Love
- A Hard Day's Night
- Love
- Dear Heart
- Quiet Nights
- That's What It Takes
- In the Name of Love
- My Sin
- The Boy From Ipanema
- Shangri-La
- Talk to Me Baby
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- After You've Gone
- The Right to Love
- Theme From "Joy House"
- Senza Fine
- When in Rome Do as the Romans Do
- Jump for Joy
- Back in Your Own Back Yard
- When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
- I Hear Music
- Just in Time
- Old Devil Moon
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do
- Four or Five Times
- Music! Music! Music!
- Cheek to Cheek
- The Glory of Love
- Ain't We Got Fun
- The Man I Love
- Please Be Kind
- Just One Way to Say I Love You
- That's All
- Something Wonderful
- He's My Guy
- Then I'll Be Tired of You
- My Heart Stood Still
- If I Should Lose You
- There Is No Greater Love
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
- Golden Earrings
- Hold Me
- While We’re Young
- It’s a Good Day
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues
- Why Don’t You Do Right?
- Mañana
- Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby
- Elmer's Tune
- I See a Million People But All I Can See Is You
- I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
- My Old Flame
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
- How Long Has This Been Going On
- Winter Weather
- Blues in the Night
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- The Way You Look Tonight
- We'll Meet Again
- Full Moon (Noche de Luna)
- Ain't Goin' No Place
- That Old Feeling
- What More Can a Woman Do
- You Was Right, Baby
- Waitin' for the Train to Come In
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- Everything's Movin' Too Fast
- It's Lovin' Time
- It's All Over Now
- It's a Good Day
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- From This Moment On
- It's a Good Day
- You
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- That Old Black Magic
- Oh What a Beautiful Morning
- Let There Be Love
- 'Deed I Do
- You Do Something to Me
- The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Almost Like Being in Love
- Just One of Those Things
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Let There Be Love
- I'm Confessin'
- September in the Rain
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Don't Blame Me
- Make the Man Love Me
- These Foolish Things
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- My Last Affair
- Just One More Chance
- It Never Happened to Me
- A Guy Is a Guy
- That Old Gang of Mine
- Gone With the Wind
- You Can Depend on Me
- Shanghai
- Riding High
- He's a Tramp
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Everytime
- Waiting Forr the Train to Come
- Lover
- Black Coffee
- Would You Dance With a Stranger
- Don't Fan the Flame
- Caramba! It's the Samba
- Tonight You Belong to Me
- Sugar
- I Love You but I Don't Like You
- Wandering Swallow
- He's Only Wonderful
- Rock Me to Sleep
- Yeah Yeah Yeah
- Once in a Lifetime
- I Never Knew
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- It's a Good Day
- Waiting for the Train
- I See a Million People
- My Old Flame
- Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
- Not Mine
- Blues in the Night
- We'll Meet Again
- All I Need Is You
- Aint Goin No Place
- Two Silhouettes
- I'm Glad I Waited for You
- Its All Over Now
- Its a Good Day
- Why Dont You Do Right
- That Old Feeling
- Sugar (That Sugar Baby o' Mine)
- Talkin' to Myself About You
- All Dressed Up With a Broken Heart
- Baby Don't Be Mad at Me
- Caramba It's the Samba
- Bye Bye Blues
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- For Every Man There's a Woman
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Stormy Weather
- Them There Eyes
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too)
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- Sneakin' Up on You
- Come Dance With Me
- Fever
- Light of Love
- My Man
- Hallelujah I Love Him So
- I'm a Woman
- Pass Me By
- Is That All There Is
- Golden Earring
- Alright Okay You Win
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Mack the Knife
- See See Rider
- Mañana
- Till There Was You
- Big Spender
- It Is Alright With Me
- So Whats New ?
- As Time Goes By
- Things Are Swinging
- Black Coffee
- When a Woman Loves a Man
- Love Me or Leave Me
- He's a Tramp
- Unforgettable
- I'm a Woman
- Fly Me to the Moon
- They Con't That Away From Me
- I've Got Your Number
- I Feel It
- Basin St. Blues
- Walking Happy
- Cheek to Cheek
- I've You Under My Skin
- I Why Don't You do Right
- L-O-V-E
- Fever
- Till There Was You
- Street of Dreams
- What's New?
- You're Blase
- It's All Right With Me
- My Old Flame
- Dancing on the Ceiling
- It Never Entered My Mind
- Too Late Now
- I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
- Something I Dreamed Last Night
- Last Night When We Were Young
- So Blue
- Sea Fever
- Nine Thorny Thickets
- Little Old Car
- Greensleeves
- Chinese Love Poems : The Fisherman :Autumn Evening
- The Happy Monks
- The White Birch and the Sycamore
- Of Such Is the Kingdom of God
- A Brown Bird Singing
- I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard
- The Maid With the Flaxen Hair
- The Wearing of the Green
- Chaconde
- Chinese Love Poems : Going Rowing : Like the Moon : The Musicians
- The Riddle Song
- The Gold Wedding Ring
- I'm Glad I Waited for You
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby
- It's All Over Now
- Everything's Movin Too Fast
- Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)
- Sugar (That Sugar Baby O' Mine)
- Golden Earrings
- I'll Dance at Your Wedding
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- It's a Good Day
- Waiting for the Train to Come In
- All Dressed Up With a Broken Heart
- Talkin' to Myself About You
- 'deed I Do
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- Caramba! It's the Samba
- Them There Eyes
- Baby, Don't Be Mad at Me
- Bali Ha'i
- I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair
- Ghost Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
- The Old Master Painter
- Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World
- Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too)
- Ain't That Love
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- I Believe in You
- Embrasse-moi
- See See Rider
- Teach Me Tonight
- When the Sun Comes Out
- Tell All the World About You
- I Don't Wanna Leave You Now
- The Sweetest Sounds
- I've Got the World on a String
- Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
- I'll Be Around
- Loads of Love
- Amazing
- As You Desire Me
- It Could Happen to You
- Pretty Eyes
- Moments Like This
- Remind Me
- You Fascinate Me So
- I Wanna Be Loved
- I'm Walking Through Heaven With You
- I Remember You
- Too Close for Comfort
- In Other Words
- Because I Love Him So
- Nice 'n' Easy
- Strangers in the Night
- Mohair Sam
- Goodbye My Love
- Think Beautiful
- An Empty Glass
- Good Times
- Sweet Happy Life
- Touch the Earth
- Beautiful, Beautiful World
- My Guitar
- Call Me
- Shady Lady Bird
- My Old Flame
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- I See a Million People (But All I Can See Is You)
- It's All Over Now
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- Everything's Movin' Too Fast
- I'm Glad I Waited for You
- Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep)
- Sugar
- I'll Dance at Your Wedding
- Golden Earrings
- Talking to Myself About You
- Caramba! It's the Samba
- All Dressed Up With a Broken Heart
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- Baby Don't Be Mad at Me
- Them There Eyes
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- Linger in My Arms a Little Longer Baby
- It's a Good Day
- Mañana
- Waiting for the Train to Come In
- 'Deed I Do
- The Alley Cat Song
- Mama's Gone, Goodbye
- I'm Walkin'
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- There Ain't No Sweet Man (That's Worth the Salt of My Tears)
- I'm a Woman
- Mack the Knife
- You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You
- I'll Get By
- (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco
- A Taste of Honey
- One Note Samba (Samba de Uma Nota So)
- Love Song
- Razor (Love Me as I Am)
- When I Found You
- A Song for You
- It Changes
- It Takes to Long to Learn to Live Alone
- Superstar
- Just for a Thrill
- Someone Who Cares
- The More I See You
- I'll Be Seeing You
- Golden Earrings
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- Fever
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- Hallelujah I Love Him So
- I'm a Woman
- Big Spender
- So What's New
- The Shining Sea
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Is That All There Is
- I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
- A Doodlin' Song
- It's a Good Day
- Why Don't You Do Right
- Mañana
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- You Go to My Head
- Crazy in the Heart
- Autumn in Rome
- I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
- Do I Love You
- I Never Knew
- Love You So
- Sugar (That Sugar Baby of Mine)
- You're My Thrill
- Me
- I Belong to You
- Night Holds No Fear (For the Lover)
- Love Letters
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love Baby
- Just One of Those Things
- Ask Anyone Who Knows
- It Never Happened to Me
- We're One
- Slumming on Park Avenue
- As Long as I'm Dreaming
- Ain't Cha Ever Comin' Back
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Up a Lazy River
- Somebody Loves Me
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Golden Earrings
- (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
- Hallelujah I Love Him So
- Fever
- Heart (From "Damn Yankees")
- Yes Indeed!
- You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- So What's New
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do
- Big Spender
- The Alley Cat Song
- The Man I Love
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- Is That All There Is?
- I'll Get By
- Why Don't You Do Right
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- A Taste of Honey
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Too Young
- If I Could Be With You
- These Foolish Things
- Just One More Chance
- Shanghai
- It Never Happened to Me
- Make the Man Love Me
- It's All Over Now
- It Takes a Long Long Train
- Golden Earrings
- Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- I Got Lucky in the Rain
- He's Just My Kind
- Linger in My Arms a Little Longer
- For Sentimental Reasons
- My Last Affair
- I'm Confessin'
- A Guy Is a Guy
- Big Spender
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Somebody Loves Me
- That Old Black Magic
- So What's New
- Fools Rush In
- It's a Good Day
- You Do Something to Me
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- This Was Then
- Lover
- Fever
- Big Bad Bill
- Come Back to Me
- From This Moment On
- Speak Low
- The Train Blues
- Moments Like This
- Lonesome Road
- Up the Lazy River
- Do I Love You
- I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City
- Dreams Come True
- All Too Soon
- Mambo in Miami
- Isn't It Romantic
- Blue Prelude
- You Came a Long Way from St Louis
- Always True to You in My Fashion
- There'll Be Another Spring
- Get Out of Town
- Satin Doll
- Nobody's Heart
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- Let's Love
- He Is the One
- Easy Evil
- Don't Let Me Be Lonely
- Always
- You Make Me Feel Brand New
- Sweet Lov'liness
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Sweet Talk
- Sometimes
- Let's Love (reprise)
- I Am His Lady
- I Wanna Be Seduced
- Nickle Ride
- Let's Keep Dancing
- Let's Love (alternate version)
- My Old Flame
- That's the Way It Goes
- All I Need Is You
- Not a Care in the World
- Full Moon
- How Long Has This Been Going On
- That Did It, Marie
- Elmer's Tune
- I Threw a Kiss in the Ocean
- We'll Meet Again
- Is That All There Is
- Fever
- I'm a Woman
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Heart
- My Man
- Hallelujah, I Love Him So
- I Enjoy Being a Girl
- Why Don't You Do Right
- It's a Good Day
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- See See Rider
- Basin Street Blues
- Squeeze Me
- You Don't Know
- Fine and Mellow
- Baby Please Come Home
- Kansas City
- Birmingham Jail
- Love Me
- Beale Street
- Tain't Nobody's Bizness
- God Bless the Child
- Heart
- On the Street Where You Live
- I Am in Love
- Hey There
- I Could Have Danced All Night
- The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
- The Party's Over
- Dance Only With Me
- Wish You Were Here
- C'est Magnifique
- I Enjoy Being a Girl
- Come Dance With Me
- By Myself
- You're So Right for Me
- Just Squeeze Me
- Fantástico
- Love and Marriage
- Non Dimenticar
- From Now On
- You Stepped Out of a Dream
- Olé
- I Can't Resist You
- Together (Wherever We Go)
- Till There Was You
- Lover (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
- This Is a Very Special Day (Peggy Lee)
- Just One of Those Things (Cole Porter)
- Be Anything (But Be Mine) (Irving Gordon)
- Black Coffee (Paul Francis Webster, Sonny Burke)
- He's a Tramp (Sonny Burke, Peggy Lee)
- It Must Be So (Peggy Lee)
- Where Can I Go Without You (Victor Young, Peggy Lee)
- Somebody Loves Me (George Gershwin, B.G. De Sylva, Ballard MacDonald)
- Sans Souci (Sonny Burke, Peggy Lee)
- The Possibility's There (James Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
- I Hear the Music Now (Sammy Fain, Jerry Seelen)
- Johnny Guitar (Victor Young, Peggy Lee)
- The Siamese Cat Song (Sonny Burke, Peggy Lee)
- He Needs Me (Arthur Hamilton)
- Mr. Wonderful (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George Weiss)
- Fever
- I'm A Woman
- Is That All There Is?
- (You Gotta Have) Heart
- My Man
- A Doodlin' Song
- Hellelujah, I Love Hime So
- Big Spender
- Aliright, OK, You Win
- The Alley Cat Song
- Why Don't You Do Right
- For Every Man There's a Woman
- Fever
- Alright, OK, You Win
- Blue Prelude
- Hallelujah, I Love Him So
- Just For a Thrill
- Goin' to Chicago
- I'm a Woman
- See See Rider
- You Don't Know
- Call Me
- Whisper Not
- The Thrill Is Gone
- Seventh Son
- Please Send Me Someone to Love
- Mama's Gone Goodbye
- I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
Born: 1920-05-26
Died: 2002-01-21
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Fever - Peggy Lee
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 16 Oct 2006
- Updated: 05 May 2012
The late great Peggy Lee, a favorite of mine (I'm a huge Jazz fan). Peggy was a singer in The Benny Goodman Orchestra before going solo. You may also know her as the voice of the Siamese Cats in Disneys 'Lady and The Tramp.'
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Peggy Lee: Fever!
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- Duration: 3:06
- Published: 05 Dec 2007
- Updated: 05 May 2012
Fever!! A classic recording from the late 60's.Featuring Peggy with Max Bennett (bass) and Jack Sperling (drums).Written originally by Davenport and Cooley , Peggy added her own lyrics and the finger snapping and beat . Little Willie John released this in its original form a couple of years before Peggys version .
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Peggy Lee - Where Or When
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- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 03 Mar 2009
- Updated: 05 May 2012
With the Benny Goodman Trio, Recorded 24/12/41
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Peggy Lee:Is That All There Is?
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- Duration: 2:53
- Published: 05 Dec 2007
- Updated: 05 May 2012
Is That All There Is? A superb performance of this Leiber and Stoller classic , with which Peggy had her last number 1 hit. 1970.Sorry this cuts short ....I reloaded this clip so many times , but each time it cut the end off !!!
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Peggy Lee - Why don't you do right
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- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 09 Feb 2010
- Updated: 06 May 2012
Artist: Peggy Lee Song: Why Don't You Do Right Lyrics: You had plenty of money in 1922 You let other women make a fool of you Why don't you do right? Like some other men do Get out of here and get me some money, too You're sittin' down wonderin' what it's all about You ain't got no money that will put you out Why don't you do right? Like some other men do Get out of here and get me some money, too If you have prepared twenty years ago You wouldn't be wanderin' now from door to door Why don't you do right? Like some other men do Get out of here and get me some money, too I fell for you jiving and I too you in Now all you've got to offer me is a drink of gin Why don't you do right? Like some other men do Get out of here and get me some money, too
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Peggy Lee - Black Coffee
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- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 29 Aug 2009
- Updated: 05 May 2012
"Black Coffee" by Peggy Lee. Composed by Sonny Burke and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.
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Peggy Lee -- Is That All There Is? 1969
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- Duration: 4:38
- Published: 11 Oct 2009
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Peggy Lee -- Is That All There Is? 1969
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PEGGY LEE - Johnny Guitar
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- Duration: 3:02
- Published: 25 Sep 2009
- Updated: 05 May 2012
Peggy Lee
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Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee - Why Don't You Do Right
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- Duration: 2:31
- Published: 10 Jul 2008
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Artist: Peggy Lee Song: Why Don't You Do Right Album: Moments Like This Lyrics: You had plenty money, 1922 You let other women make a fool of you Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get out of here and get me some money too You're sittin' there and wonderin' what it's all about You ain't got no money, they will put you out Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get out of here and get me some money too If you had prepared twenty years ago You wouldn't be a-wanderin' from door to door Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get out of here and get me some money too
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Peggy Lee and Toots Thielemans: Makin'Whoopee.
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- Duration: 3:06
- Published: 05 Dec 2007
- Updated: 02 May 2012
Makin' Whoopee. Peggy and Toots having fun in the late 60's.
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Peggy Lee, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, 1981
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- Duration: 3:28
- Published: 31 Aug 2008
- Updated: 01 May 2012
Peggy Lee, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, 1981
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Peggy Lee - Fools Rush In
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- Duration: 2:25
- Published: 10 May 2008
- Updated: 05 May 2012
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Peggy singing one of her trademark songs, "Fools Rush In" with photos of of the lady herself, one of my all-time favorite singers. Enjoy!
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PEGGY LEE-He's aTramp-Walt Disney-Making of Lady & the Tramp
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- Duration: 2:54
- Published: 27 Oct 2007
- Updated: 05 May 2012
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Peggy Lee & Judy Garland Duet
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- Duration: 4:16
- Published: 25 Mar 2008
- Updated: 05 May 2012
Peggy Lee & Judy Garland talk a little and sing a duet
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Peggy Lee - Bye Bye Blackbird
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- Duration: 3:05
- Published: 22 Mar 2009
- Updated: 05 May 2012
PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: tinyurl.com Peggy Lee's alluring tone, distinctive delivery, breadth of material, and ability to write many of her own songs made her one of the most captivating artists of the vocal era, from her breakthrough on the Benny Goodman hit "Why Don't You Do Right" to her many solo successes, singles including "Mañana," "Lover" and "Fever" that showed her bewitching vocal power, a balance between sultry swing and impeccable musicianship. Born Norma Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, she suffered the death of her mother at the age of four and endured a difficult stepmother after her father remarried. Given her sense of swing by listening to Count Basie on the radio, she taught herself to sing and made her radio debut at the age of 14. She made the jump to Fargo (where she was christened Peggy Lee), then to Minneapolis and St. Louis to sing with a regional band. Lee twice journeyed to Hollywood to make her fortune, but returned unsuccessful from both trips. She finally got her big break in 1941, when a vocal group she worked with began appearing at a club in Chicago. While there, she was heard by Benny Goodman, whose regular vocalist Helen Forrest was about to leave his band. Lee recorded with Goodman just a few days later, debuting with the popular "Elmer's Tune" despite a good deal of nerves. That <b>...</b>
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I'm a Woman by Peggy Lee
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- Duration: 1:40
- Published: 19 Feb 2006
- Updated: 02 May 2012
"If you come to me sickly you know I'm gonna make you well If you come to me all hexed up you know I'm gonna break the spell If you come to me hungry you know I'm gonna fill you full of grits If it's lovin you're likin, I'll kiss you and give you the shiverin' fits 'Cause I'm a woman! WOMAN, I'll say it again" You just have to admire her! But I'll probably re-record it sometime soon...
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Peggy Lee - I Only Have Eyes For You
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- Duration: 3:27
- Published: 19 Jul 2008
- Updated: 05 May 2012
The most beautiful rendition of this song ever. Peerless.
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Peggy Lee - Big Spender
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- Duration: 2:05
- Published: 27 Mar 2010
- Updated: 06 May 2012
Track 17 from Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby!
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Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is (Original Stereo)
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- Duration: 4:21
- Published: 03 Jul 2010
- Updated: 04 May 2012
"Is That All There Is" was composed by the legendary rock and roll songwriting duo of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Leiber and Stoller were so identified with the early rock and roll era with songs like "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock", "Searchin", and so many others that when this song was released, it took much of the pop world by surprise. It was first recorded by a man named Dan Daniels in 1968, but the following year Peggy Lee took the song all the way to #11 on the charts in October of '69 making this her first pop chart hit since "Fever" back in 1958. Leiber and Stoller were inspired to write the song from a story written by Thomas Mann in 1896 entitled "Disillusionment". This recording earned Peggy a Grammy Award and it has since been enshrined in the Grammy Hall Of Fame.
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PEGGY LEE-Siamese Cat Song-Disney-Part 2-Lady and the Tramp
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- Duration: 6:48
- Published: 24 Dec 2007
- Updated: 02 May 2012
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Peggy Lee - Happy Holiday
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- Duration: 1:59
- Published: 01 Dec 2009
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Happy Holiday by Peggy Lee.
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Peggy Lee - 'Till there was you
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- Duration: 2:31
- Published: 08 Feb 2009
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Among many versions I like this one the best.
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Peggy Lee: I'm A Woman/ The Best Is Yet To Come
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- Duration: 4:49
- Published: 09 Dec 2007
- Updated: 30 Apr 2012
Peggy singing in 1981, a couple of her hits from the early sixties.
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| Peggy Lee | |
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| in the film Stage Door Canteen (1943) in the film Stage Door Canteen (1943) |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Norma Deloris Egstrom |
| Born | (1920-05-26)May 26, 1920 Jamestown, North Dakota |
| Died | January 21, 2002(2002-01-21) (aged 81) Bel Air, Los Angeles, California |
| Genres | Traditional pop, jazz |
| Occupations | Singer, actress, songwriter |
| Years active | 1941–2000 |
| Labels | Decca Records Capitol Records |
Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and performer. She wrote music for films, acted, and created conceptual record albums—encompassing poetry, jazz, chamber pop, and art songs.
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Early life[link]
Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, the seventh of eight children of Marvin Olof Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad, and his wife Selma Amelia (Anderson) Egstrom. Her mother died when Lee was just four years old.[1] Her father was Swedish American and her mother was Norwegian American.[2]
Lee first sang professionally over KOVC radio in Valley City, North Dakota. She later had her own series on a radio show sponsored by a local restaurant that paid her a "salary" in food. Both during and after her high school years, Lee sang for paltry sums on local radio stations. Radio personality Ken Kennedy, of WDAY in Fargo, North Dakota (the most widely heard station in North Dakota), changed her name from Norma to Peggy Lee.[citation needed] Thereafter, Lee left home and traveled to Los Angeles at the age of 17.
She returned to North Dakota for a tonsillectomy, and later made her way to Chicago for a gig at The Buttery Room, a nightclub in the Ambassador Hotel East. There, she was noticed by bandleader Benny Goodman. According to Lee, "Benny's then-fiancée, Lady Alice Duckworth, came into The Buttery, and she was very impressed. So the next evening she brought Benny in, because they were looking for a replacement for Helen Forrest. And although I didn't know, I was it. He was looking at me strangely, I thought, but it was just his preoccupied way of looking. I thought that he didn't like me at first, but it just was that he was preoccupied with what he was hearing." She joined his band in 1941 and stayed for two years.
Recording career[link]
In 1942 Lee had her first #1 hit, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place", followed by 1943's "Why Don't You Do Right?" (originally sung by Lil Green), which sold over a million copies and made her famous. She sang with Goodman's orchestra in two 1943 films, Stage Door Canteen and The Powers Girl.
In March 1943 Lee married Dave Barbour, a guitarist in Goodman's band. Peggy said, "David joined Benny's band and there was a ruling that no one should fraternize with the girl singer. But I fell in love with David the first time I heard him play, and so I married him. Benny then fired David, so I quit, too. Benny and I made up, although David didn't play with him anymore. Benny stuck to his rule. I think that's not too bad a rule, but you can't help falling in love with somebody."
When Lee and Barbour left the band, the idea was that he would work in the studios and she would keep house and raise their daughter, Nicki. But she drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for the fledgling Capitol Records in 1947, for whom she produced a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "It's a Good Day" (1948). With the release of the US #1-selling record of 1948, "Mañana", her "retirement" was over.
In 1948 Lee joined Perry Como and Jo Stafford as a rotating host of the NBC Radio musical program Chesterfield Supper Club.[3][4] She was also a regular on NBC's Jimmy Durante Show.
She left Capitol for a few years in the early 1950s, but returned in 1953. She is most famous for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit "Fever" written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport,[5] to which she added her own, uncopyrighted lyrics ("Romeo loved Juliet," "Captain Smith and Pocahontas") and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's "Is That All There Is?". Her relationship with the Capitol label spanned almost three decades, aside from her brief but artistically rich detour (1952–1956) at Decca Records, where in 1956 she recorded one of her most acclaimed albums, Black Coffee. While recording for Decca, Lee had hit singles with the songs Lover and Mister Wonderful.
Lee is today internationally recognized for her signature song "Fever". She had a string of successful albums and top 10 hits in three consecutive decades. She is regarded as one of the most influential jazz vocalists of all time, being cited as a mentor to diverse artists such as Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Bette Midler, Madonna, and Dusty Springfield. Lee was also an accomplished actress.
In her 60-year-long career, Peggy was the recipient of three Grammy Awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award), an Academy Award nomination, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Award, the President's Award, the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Living Legacy Award[6] from the Women's International Center. In 1999 Lee was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[7]
Songwriting[link]
Lee was a successful songwriter, with songs from the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp, for which she also supplied the singing and speaking voices of four characters.[8] Her collaborators included Laurindo Almeida, Harold Arlen, Sonny Burke, Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones, Francis Lai, Jack Marshall, Johnny Mandel, Marian McPartland, Willard Robison, Lalo Schifrin and Victor Young.
She wrote the lyrics for:
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Her first published song was in 1941, "Little Fool". "What More Can a Woman Do?" was recorded by Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" was no.1 for 9 weeks on the Billboard singles chart in 1948, from the week of March 13 to May 8.
Lee was a mainstay of Capitol Records when rock'n'roll came onto the American music scene. She was among the first of the "old guard" to recognize this new genre, as seen by her recording music from The Beatles, Randy Newman, Carole King, James Taylor and other up-and-coming songwriters. From 1957 until her final disc for the company in 1972, she produced a steady stream of two or three albums per year which usually included standards (often arranged quite different from the original), her own compositions, and material from young artists.
Acting career[link]
Lee starred and sang in the hit films The Jazz Singer, Disney's Lady and the Tramp, and Pete Kelly's Blues, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.[9]
In 1952 Lee played opposite Danny Thomas in a remake of the early Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer. In 1955 she played an alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues, for which she received an Academy Awards nomination.[9] In 1955 Lee did the speaking and singing voices for several characters in Disney's Lady and the Tramp movie: she played the human "Darling" (in the first part of the movie), the dog "Peg", and the two Siamese cats "Si" and "Am".[8] In 1957 Lee guest starred on the short-lived ABC variety program, The Guy Mitchell Show.
In the early 1990s she retained famed entertainment attorney Neil Papiano to sue Disney for royalties on Lady and the Tramp. Lee's lawsuit claimed that she was due royalties for video tapes, a technology that did not exist when she agreed to write and perform for Disney. Her lawsuit was successful.
Never afraid to fight for what she believed in, Lee passionately insisted that musicians be equitably compensated for their work. Although she realized litigation had taken a toll on her health, Lee often quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson on the topic: "God will not have his work be made manifest by cowards."
She also successfully sued MCA/Decca with the assistance of noted entertainment attorney Cy Godfrey.
Personal life[link]
Lee was married four times; each marriage ended in divorce:
- Guitarist and composer Dave Barbour (1943–1951); daughter Nicki Lee Foster (born 1943)
- Actor Brad Dexter (1953)
- Actor Dewey Martin (1956–1958)
- Bandleader and percussionist Jack Del Rio (1964–1965)
Retirement and death[link]
Lee continued to perform into the 1990s, sometimes in a wheelchair.[10][11] After years of poor health, Lee died of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at age 81. Her body was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles' Westwood, Los Angeles, California neighborhood. On her marker in a garden setting is inscribed, "Music is my life's breath."
Legacy[link]
Academy Awards memorial omission[link]
She was not featured in the memorial tribute during the 2002 Academy Awards ceremony. When her family requested she be featured in the following year's ceremony, the Academy stated they did not honor requests and Lee was omitted because her contribution to film and her legacy were not deemed significant enough, although she had been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Pete Kelly's Blues. Her family pointed out that, although she had been omitted, R&B singer/actress Aaliyah, who died a few months earlier, was included though having been in only one moderately successful film, Romeo Must Die (Queen of the Damned had yet to be released). The Academy provided no comment on the oversight.
Awards[link]
Lee was nominated for 12 Grammy Awards, winning Best Contemporary Vocal Performance for her 1969 hit "Is That All There Is?" In 1995 she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Lee is a recipient of North Dakota's Roughrider Award; the Pied Piper Award from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP); the Presidents Award, from the Songwriters Guild of America; the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement, from the Society of Singers; and the Living Legacy Award, from the Women's International Center. In 1999 she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Carnegie Hall tribute[link]
In 2003, "There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee" was held at Carnegie Hall.[12] Produced by recording artist Richard Barone, the sold-out event included performances by Cy Coleman, Debbie Harry, Nancy Sinatra, Rita Moreno, Marian McPartland, Chris Connor, Petula Clark, and others. In 2004 Barone brought the event to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl,[13] and then to Chicago's Ravinia Festival, with expanded casts including Maureen McGovern, Jack Jones and Bea Arthur. The Carnegie Hall concert was broadcast on NPR's "Jazz Set".
In popular culture[link]
- The Peggy Lee Rose is a light pink hybrid tea rose with a "touch of peach" that was introduced in 1983 and named in her honor.[14][15] Lee considered peach to be her favorite color.[16]
- Peggy Lee was known as "Miss Peggy Lee" or "Miss Peggy," and was the inspiration for the Muppets' Miss Piggy, a stylish self-assured blonde with a sense of romance.
Bibliography[link]
- Autobiography
- Peggy Lee, Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography, 2002, Bloomsbury (UK), ISBN 0-7475-5907-4
- Biography
- Peter Richmond, Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee, 2006, Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-7383-3
- Robert Strom, Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle, 2005, McFarland Publishing, ISBN 0-7864-1936-9
- Album liner notes
- Will Friedwald, Album liner notes The Best of Peggy Lee, The Capitol Years
Discography[link]
Capitol Records[link]
- 1948 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (set of 78s: 6 songs)
- 1952 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (10-inch LP: 8 songs; 12-inch LP: 12 songs)
Decca Records[link]
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Chart singles[link]
| Year | Title | Chart Positions [17] | |
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| 1941 | "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" | 25 | — |
| "Winter Weather" (w/ Art Lund) | 24 | — | |
| "Blues in the Night" | 20 | — | |
| "Somebody Else is Taking My Place" | 1 | — | |
| "My Little Cousin" | 14 | — | |
| "We'll Meet Again" | 16 | — | |
| "Full Moon" | 22 | — | |
| "The Way You Look Tonight" | 21 | — | |
| 1943 | "Why Don't You Do Right" | 4 | — |
| 1945 | "Waitin' for the Train to Come in" | 4 | — |
| 1946 | "I'm Glad I Waited for You" | 24 | — |
| "I Don't Know Enough About You" | 7 | — | |
| "Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby" | 16 | — | |
| "It's All Over Now" | 10 | — | |
| 1947 | "It's a Good Day" | 16 | — |
| "Everything's Moving too Fast" | 21 | — | |
| "Chi-baba, Chi-baba (My Bambino, Go to Sleep)" | 10 | — | |
| "Golden Earrings" | 2 | — | |
| 1948 | "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" | 1 | — |
| "All Dressed up with a Broken Heart" | 21 | — | |
| "For Every Man, There's a Woman" | 25 | — | |
| "Laroo, Laroo, Lili Bolero" | 13 | — | |
| "Talking to Myself About You" | 23 | — | |
| "Don't Smoke in Bed" | 22 | — | |
| "Caramba! It's the Samba" | 13 | — | |
| "Baby, Don't Be Mad at Me" | 21 | — | |
| "Somebody Else is Taking My Place" (re-issue) | 30 | — | |
| "Bubble Loo, Bubble Loo" | 23 | — | |
| 1949 | "Blum Blum, I Wonder Who I Am" | 27 | — |
| "Similau (See-Me-Lo)" | 17 | — | |
| "Bali Ha'i" | 13 | — | |
| "Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)" | 2 | — | |
| 1950 | "The Old Master Painter" (w/ Mel Torme) | 9 | — |
| "Show Me the Way to Get out of This World" | 28 | — | |
| 1951 | "(When I Dance with You) I Get Ideas" | 14 | — |
| 1952 | "Be Anything (But Be Mine)" | 21 | — |
| "Lover" | 3 | — | |
| "Watermelon Weather" (w/ Bing Crosby) | 28 | — | |
| "Just One of Those Things" | 14 | — | |
| "River, River" | 23 | — | |
| 1953 | "Who's Gonna Pay the Check" | 22 | — |
| "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" | 30 | — | |
| 1954 | "Where can I go Without You" | 28 | — |
| "Let Me Go, Lover" | 26 | — | |
| 1956 | "Mr. Wonderful" | 14 | — |
| "Joey, Joey, Joey" | 76 | — | |
| 1958 | "Fever" | 8 | — |
| "Light of Love" | 63 | — | |
| "Sweetheart" | 98 | — | |
| 1959 | "Alright, Okay, You Win" | 68 | — |
| "My Man" | 81 | — | |
| "Hallelujah, I Love Him So" | 77 | — | |
| 1963 | "I'm a Woman" | 54 | — |
| 1964 | "In the Name of Love" | 132 | — |
| 1965 | "Pass Me By" | 93 | 20 |
| "Free Spirits" | — | 29 | |
| 1966 | "Big Spender" | — | 9 |
| "That Man" | — | 31 | |
| "You've Got Possibilities" | — | 36 | |
| "So, What's New" | — | 20 | |
| "Walking Happy" | — | 14 | |
| 1967 | "I Feel it" | — | 8 |
| 1969 | "Spinning Wheel" | — | 24 |
| "Is That All There Is?" | 11 | 1 | |
| "Whistle for Happiness" | — | 13 | |
| 1970 | "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" | 105 | 26 |
| "You'll Remember Me" | — | 16 | |
| "One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round" | — | 21 | |
| 1972 | "Love Song" | — | 34 |
| 1974 | "Let's Love" | — | 22 |
Film and television[link]
- Film
- The Powers Girl (1943)
- Stage Door Canteen (1943)
- Banquet of Melody (1946) (short subject)
- Jasper in a Jam (1946) (short subject) (voice)
- Midnight Serenade (1947) (short subject)
- Peggy Lee and the Dave Barbour Quartet (1950) (short subject)
- Mr. Music (1950)
- The Jazz Singer (1952)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955) (voice, songwriter)
- Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
- Celebrity Art (1973) (short subject)
- Television
- Mystery guest on What's My Line? (February 28, 1960)
- The World of Peggy Lee – documentary film produced for National Educational Television (October 16, 1969)
References[link]
- ^ Peggy Lee profile at Current Biography
- ^ "Nättidningen RÖTTER - för dig som släktforskar! (Släkthistoriskt Forum)". Genealogi.se. http://www.genealogi.se/shf9731.htm. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ Dunning, John, ed. (1998). On the air: the encyclopedia of old time radio. Oxford University Press USA. pp. 840. ISBN 0-19-507678-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=chesterfield+supper+club&source=bl&ots=H4zKbUA0Br&sig=chyBsPTHW5ciO5txTs69pFS9OLk&hl=en&ei=Rj8pTNnOIJWknQfwu9SLAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CC8Q6AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=chesterfield%20supper%20club&f=false. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ^ Music—As Written. Billboard. June 19, 1948. http://books.google.com/books?id=dfUDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21&dq=chesterfield+supper+club&hl=en&ei=4KacTdTzDM-tgQfSobCNBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAzha#v=onepage&q=chesterfield%20supper%20club&f=false. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
- ^ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 56. CN 5585.
- ^ The Living Legacy Award of the Womens International Center
- ^ 14:00 - 16:30 (2008-08-15). "Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Peggy Lee". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/profiles/peggy_lee.shtml. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ a b "Lady and the Tramp – 50th Anniversary Edition". PeggyLee.com. February 28, 2006. http://www.peggylee.com/new/0602_ladyandthetramp.html.
- ^ a b Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 18. CN 5585.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (August 7, 1992). "Sounds Around Town". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/07/news/sounds-around-town-615692.html.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498007/bio Holden, Stephen, Sounds Around Town: Peggy Lee (August 7, 1992)] New York Times
- ^ David Torresen (content) and David Uy (design) (2003-06-23). "There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee". PeggyLee.com. http://www.peggylee.com/solos/carnegie.html. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ David Torresen (content) and David Uy (design). "There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee". PeggyLee.com. http://www.peggylee.com/solos/july2004.html. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
- ^ Peggy Lee Rose
- ^ United States Patent No: PP 5,467; dated May 14, 1985.
- ^ St. Johns, Elaine (May 1987). "A Presence in My Life: Recollections by Peggy Lee". Science of Mind Magazine. http://www.peggylee.com/library/870500.html. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
- ^ Peggy Lee chart hits – Peggy Lee.com
External links[link]
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- Official website: PeggyLee.com
- Peggy Lee Discography
- Peggy Lee at the Internet Movie Database
- Songwriters Hall of Fame's Peggy Lee exhibit
- Review of a Peggy Lee biography by Mark Steyn
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| Name | Lee, Peggy |
| Alternative names | Egstrom, Norma Deloris |
| Short description | Singer, actress |
| Date of birth | May 26, 1920 |
| Place of birth | Jamestown, North Dakota |
| Date of death | January 21, 2002 |
| Place of death | Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Benjamin David Goodman |
| Also known as | "King of Swing", "The Professor", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "Swing's Senior Statesman" |
| Born | (1909-05-30)May 30, 1909 |
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | June 13, 1986(1986-06-13) (aged 77) |
| Genres | Swing, big band |
| Occupations | Musician, bandleader, songwriter |
| Instruments | Clarinet |
| Years active | 1926–1986 |
Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman[1] (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".
In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."[2]
Goodman's bands launched the careers of many major names in jazz, and during an era of segregation, he also led one of the first well-known racially-integrated jazz groups. Goodman continued to perform to nearly the end of his life, including exploring his interest in classical music.
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Childhood and early years[link]
Goodman was born in Chicago, the ninth of twelve children of poor Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire,[1] who lived in the Maxwell Street neighborhood. His father was David Goodman, a tailor from Warsaw; his mother was Dora Grisinsky[1] (from Kaunas, Lithuania). His parents met in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Chicago before Benny was born.[3]
When Benny was 10, his father enrolled him and two of his older brothers in music lessons at the Kehelah Jacob Synagogue. The next year he joined the boys club band at Jane Addams' Hull House, where he received lessons from director James Sylvester. He also received two years of instruction from the classically trained clarinetist Franz Schoepp.[4] His early influences were New Orleans jazz clarinetists working in Chicago, notably Johnny Dodds, Leon Roppolo, and Jimmy Noone.[3] Goodman learned quickly, becoming a strong player at an early age: he was soon playing professionally in various bands.
Goodman attended Lewis Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1924 as a high school sophomore, while also playing the clarinet in a dance hall band. (He was awarded an honorary LL.D. from IIT in 1968.) When Goodman was 16, he joined one of Chicago's top bands, the Ben Pollack Orchestra, with which he made his first recordings in 1926.[3]
He made his first record on Vocalion under his own name two years later. Goodman recorded with the regular Pollack band and smaller groups drawn from the orchestra through 1929. The side sessions produced scores of sides recorded for the various dimestore record labels under an array of group names, including Mills' Musical Clowns, Goody's Good Timers, The Hotsy Totsy Gang, Jimmy Backen's Toe Ticklers, Dixie Daisies, and Kentucky Grasshoppers.
Goodman's father, David, was a working-class immigrant about whom Benny said (interview, Downbeat, February 8, 1956); "...Pop worked in the stockyards, shoveling lard in its unrefined state. He had those boots, and he'd come home at the end of the day exhausted, stinking to high heaven, and when he walked in it made me sick. I couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand the idea of Pop every day standing in that stuff, shoveling it around".
On December 9, 1926, David Goodman was killed in a traffic accident. Benny had recently joined the Pollack band and was urging his father to retire, since he and his brother (Harry) were now doing well as professional musicians. According to James Lincoln Collier, "Pop looked Benny in the eye and said, 'Benny, you take care of yourself, I'll take care of myself.'" Collier continues: "It was an unhappy choice. Not long afterwards, as he was stepping down from a streetcar—according to one story—he was struck by a car. He never regained consciousness and died in the hospital the next day. It was a bitter blow to the family, and it haunted Benny to the end that his father had not lived to see the success he, and some of the others, made of themselves."[5] "Benny described his father's death as 'the saddest thing that ever happened in our family.'"[6]
Career[link]
Goodman left for New York City and became a successful session musician during the late 1920s and early 1930s (mostly with Ben Pollack's band between 1926 and 1929). A notable March 21, 1928 Victor session found Goodman alongside Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Joe Venuti in the All-Star Orchestra, directed by Nat Shilkret.[7][8][9] He played with the nationally known bands of Ben Selvin, Red Nichols, Isham Jones (although he is not on any of Jones's records), and Ted Lewis. He recorded sides for Brunswick under the name Bennie Goodman's Boys, a band that featured Glenn Miller. In 1928, Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller wrote the instrumental "Room 1411", which was released as a Brunswick 78.[10] He also recorded musical soundtracks for movie shorts; fans believe that Benny Goodman's clarinet can be heard on the soundtrack of One A. M., a Charlie Chaplin comedy re-released to theaters in 1934.
During this period as a successful session musician, John Hammond arranged for a series of jazz sides recorded for and issued on Columbia starting in 1933 and continuing until his signing with Victor in 1935, during his success on radio. There were also a number of commercial studio sides recorded for Melotone Records between late 1930 and mid-1931 under Goodman's name. The all-star Columbia sides featured Jack Teagarden, Joe Sullivan, Dick McDonough, Arthur Schutt, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins (for 1 session), and vocalists Jack Teagarden and Mildred Bailey, and the first two recorded vocals by a young Billie Holiday.
In 1934 Goodman auditioned for NBC's Let's Dance, a well-regarded three-hour weekly radio program that featured various styles of dance music. His familiar theme song by that title was based on Invitation to the Dance by Carl Maria von Weber. Since he needed new arrangements every week for the show, his agent, John Hammond, suggested that he purchase "hot" (swing) arrangements from Fletcher Henderson, an African-American musician from Atlanta who had New York's most popular African-American band in the 1920s and early 1930s.[3]
Goodman, a wise businessman, helped Henderson in 1929 when the stock market crashed. He purchased all of Henderson's song books, and hired Henderson's band members to teach his musicians how to play the music.[11]
In early 1935, Goodman and his band were one of three bands (the others were Xavier Cugat and "Kel Murray" [r.n. Murray Kellner]) featured on Let's Dance where they played arrangements by Henderson along with hits such as "Get Happy" and "Jingle Bells" from composer and arranger Spud Murphy.[12] Goodman's portion of the program from New York, at 12:30 a.m. Eastern Time, aired too late to attract a large East Coast audience. However, unknown to him, the time slot gave him an avid following on the West Coast (they heard him at 9:30 p.m. Pacific Time). He and his band remained on Let's Dance until May of that year when a strike by employees of the series' sponsor, Nabisco, forced the cancellation of the radio show. An engagement was booked at Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill (filling in for Guy Lombardo), but the crowd there expected 'sweet' music and Goodman's band was unsuccessful.[13] The band set out on a tour of America in May 1935, but was still poorly received. By August 1935, Goodman found himself with a band that was nearly broke, disillusioned and ready to quit.
Catalyst for the Swing era[link]
In July 1935, a record of the Goodman band playing the Henderson arrangements of "King Porter Stomp" backed with "Sometimes I'm Happy", Victor 78 25090, had been released to ecstatic reviews in both Down Beat and Melody Maker.[14] In Pittsburgh at the Stanley Theater some of the kids danced in the aisles.[15] This had made little impact on the band's tour until August 19 when they arrived in Oakland to play at McFadden's Ballroom.[16] There, Goodman and his artists Gene Krupa, Bunny Berigan, and Helen Ward found a large crowd of young dancers, raving and cheering the hot music they had heard on the Let's Dance radio show.[17] Herb Caen wrote that "from the first note, the place was in an uproar."[18] One night later, at Pismo Beach, the show was another flop, and the band thought the overwhelming reception in Oakland had been a fluke.[13]
The next night, August 21, 1935 at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, Goodman and his band began a three-week engagement. On top of the Let's Dance airplay, Al Jarvis had been playing Goodman records on KFWB radio, and Los Angeles fans were primed to hear him in person.[19] Goodman started the evening with stock arrangements, but after an indifferent response, began the second set with the arrangements by Fletcher Henderson and Spud Murphy. According to Willard Alexander, the band's booking agent, Krupa said "If we're gonna die, Benny, let's die playing our own thing."[20] The crowd broke into cheers and applause. News reports spread word of the enthusiastic dancing and exciting new music that was happening. Over the course of the engagement, the "Jitterbug" began to appear as a new dance craze,[21] and radio broadcasts carried the band's performances across the nation.[13]
The Palomar engagement was such a marked success it is often exaggeratedly described as the beginning of the swing era.[13] Donald Clarke wrote "It is clear in retrospect that the Swing Era had been waiting to happen, but it was Goodman and his band that touched it off."[13]
In November 1935 Goodman accepted an invitation to play in Chicago at the Joseph Urban Room at the Congress Hotel. His stay there extended to six months and his popularity was cemented by nationwide radio broadcasts over NBC affiliate stations. While in Chicago, the band recorded If I Could Be With You, Stompin' At The Savoy, and Goody, Goody.[13] Goodman also played three special concerts produced by jazz aficionado and Chicago socialite Helen Oakley. These "Rhythm Club" concerts at the Congress Hotel included sets in which Goodman and Krupa sat in with Fletcher Henderson's band, perhaps the first racially integrated big band appearance before a paying audience in the United States.[13] Goodman and Krupa played in a trio with Teddy Wilson on piano. Both combinations were well-received, and Wilson stayed on.
In his 1935–1936 radio broadcasts from Chicago, Goodman was introduced as the "Rajah of Rhythm."[20] Slingerland Drum Company had been calling Krupa the "King of Swing" as part of a sales campaign, but shortly after Goodman and crew left Chicago in May 1936 to spend the summer filming The Big Broadcast of 1937 in Hollywood, the title "King of Swing" was applied to Goodman by the media.[13] Goodman left record company RCA for Columbia, following his agent and soon to be brother-in-law John Hammond.
At the end of June 1936, Goodman went to Hollywood, where, on June 30, 1936 his band began CBS's "Camel Caravan," its third, and, according to Connor and Hicks, its greatest of them all, sponsored radio show, co-starring Goodman and his old boss Nat Shilkret.[7][8] By spring, 1936, bandleader Fletcher Henderson was writing arrangements for Goodman's band. He would disband his own group in 1939 and become a full-time arranger for Goodman. Other noteworthy arrangers in the Goodman band were Jimmy Mundy, 1935 to 1939 (overlapping with Henderson) and Eddie Sauter, the 1940s.
Carnegie Hall concert[link]
| “ | In bringing jazz to Carnegie, [Benny Goodman was], in effect, smuggling American contraband into the halls of European high culture, and Goodman and his 15 men pull[ed] it off with the audacity and precision of Ocean's Eleven. | ” |
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In late 1937, Goodman's publicist Wynn Nathanson attempted a publicity stunt by suggesting Goodman and his band should play Carnegie Hall in New York City. If this concert were to take place, then Benny Goodman would be the first jazz bandleader to perform at Carnegie Hall. "Benny Goodman was initially hesitant about the concert, fearing for the worst; however, when his film Hollywood Hotel opened to rave reviews and giant lines, he threw himself into the work. He gave up several dates and insisted on holding rehearsals inside Carnegie Hall to familiarize the band with the lively acoustics."[23]
The concert was the evening of January 16, 1938. It sold out weeks before, with the capacity 2,760 seats going for the top price of US$2.75 a seat, for the time a very high price.[23] The concert began with three contemporary numbers from the Goodman band—"Don't Be That Way," "Sometimes I'm Happy," and "One O'Clock Jump." They then played a history of jazz, starting with a Dixieland quartet performing "Sensation Rag." Once again, initial crowd reaction, though polite, was tepid. Then came a jam session on "Honeysuckle Rose" featuring members of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands as guests. (The surprise of the session: Goodman handing a solo to Basie's guitarist Freddie Green who was never a featured soloist but earned his reputation as the best rhythm guitarist in the genre—he responded with a striking round of chord improvisations.) As the concert went on, things livened up. The Goodman band and quartet took over the stage and performed the numbers that had already made them famous. Some later trio and quartet numbers were well-received, and a vocal on "Loch Lomond" by Martha Tilton provoked five curtain calls and cries for an encore. The encore forced Goodman to make his only audience announcement for the night, stating that they had no encore prepared but that Martha would return shortly with another number.[24]
By the time the band got to the climactic piece "Sing, Sing, Sing", success was assured. This performance featured playing by tenor saxophonist Babe Russin, trumpeter Harry James, and Benny Goodman, backed by drummer Gene Krupa. When Goodman finished his solo, he unexpectedly gave a solo to pianist Jess Stacy. "At the Carnegie Hall concert, after the usual theatrics, Jess Stacy was allowed to solo and, given the venue, what followed was appropriate," wrote David Rickert. "Used to just playing rhythm on the tune, he was unprepared for a turn in the spotlight, but what came out of his fingers was a graceful, impressionistic marvel with classical flourishes, yet still managed to swing. It was the best thing he ever did, and it's ironic that such a layered, nuanced performance came at the end of such a chaotic, bombastic tune."[25]
This concert has been regarded as one of the most significant in jazz history. After years of work by musicians from all over the country, jazz had finally been accepted by mainstream audiences. Recordings were made of this concert, but even by the technology of the day the equipment used was not of the finest quality. Acetate recordings of the concert were made, and aluminum studio masters were also cut.[23]
| “ | The recording was produced by Albert Marx as a special gift for his wife, Helen Ward and a second set for Benny. He contracted Artists Recording Studio to make 2 sets. Artists Recording only had 2 turntables so they farmed out the second set to Raymond Scott's recording studio.
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Goodman took the newly discovered recording to his record company, Columbia, and a selection was issued on LP. These recordings have not been out of print since they were first issued. In early 1998, the aluminum masters were rediscovered and a new CD set of the concert was released based on these masters. The album released based on those masters went on to be one of the best selling live jazz albums of all time.[citation needed]
Charlie Christian[link]
Pianist/arranger Mary Lou Williams[27] was a good friend of both Columbia records producer John Hammond and Benny Goodman. She first suggested to John Hammond that he see Charlie Christian.[28]
Charlie Christian was playing at the Ritz in Oklahoma City where [...] John Hammond heard him in 1939. Hammond recommended him to Benny Goodman, but the band leader wasn't interested. The idea of an electrified guitar didn't appeal, and Goodman didn't care for Christian's flashy style of dressing. Reportedly, Hammond personally installed Christian onstage during a break in a Goodman concert in Beverly Hills. Irritated to see Christian among the band, Goodman struck up "Rose Room", not expecting the guitarist to know the tune. What followed amazed everyone who heard the 45-minute performance.[29]
Charlie was a hit on the electric guitar and remained in the Benny Goodman Sextet for two years (1939–1941). He wrote many of the group's head arrangements (some of which Goodman took credit for) and was an inspiration to all. The sextet made him famous and provided him with a steady income while Charlie worked on legitimizing, popularizing, revolutionizing, and standardizing the electric guitar as a jazz instrument.[30]
Charlie Christian's recordings and rehearsal dubs made with Benny Goodman in the early forties are widely known and were released by Columbia.
Beyond swing[link]
Goodman continued his meteoric rise throughout the late 1930s with his big band, his trio and quartet, and a sextet. By the mid-1940s, however, big bands lost a lot of their popularity. In 1941, ASCAP had a licensing war with music publishers. In 1942 to 1944 and 1948, the musician's union went on strike against the major record labels in the United States, and singers took the spot in popularity that the big bands once enjoyed. During this strike, the United States War Department approached the union and requested the production of the V-Disc, a set of records containing new and fresh music for soldiers to listen to.[31] Also, by the late 1940s, swing was no longer the dominant mode of jazz musicians.[32]
Bebop, Cool Jazz[link]
By the 1940s, jazz musicians were borrowing advanced ideas from classical music. The recordings Goodman made in bop style for Capitol Records were highly praised by jazz critics. When Goodman was starting a bebop band, he hired Buddy Greco, Zoot Sims, Wardell Gray and a few other modern players.[33]
| “ | Pianist/arranger Mary Lou Williams had been a favorite of Benny's since she first appeared on the national scene in 1936 [...]. [A]s Goodman warily approached the music of [Charlie] Parker and [Dizzy] Gillespie, he turned to Williams for musical guidance. [...] Pianist Mel Powell was the first to introduce the new music to Benny in 1945, and kept him abreast to what was happening around 52nd Street. | ” |
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Goodman enjoyed the bebop and cool jazz that was beginning to arrive in the 1940s. When Goodman heard Thelonious Monk, a celebrated pianist and accompanist to bop players Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clarke, he remarked, "I like it, I like that very much. I like the piece and I like the way he played it. [...] I think he's got a sense of humor and he's got some good things there."[33]
| “ | Benny had heard this Swedish clarinet player named Stan Hasselgard playing bebop, and he loved it ... So he started a bebop band. But after a year and a half, he became frustrated. He eventually reformed his band and went back to playing Fletcher Henderson arrangements. Benny was a swing player and decided to concentrate on what he does best. | ” |
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By 1953, Goodman completely changed his mind about bebop. "Maybe bop has done more to set music back for years than anything [...] Basically it's all wrong. It's not even knowing the scales. [...] Bop was mostly publicity and people figuring angles."[35]
Forays into classical repertoire[link]
Goodman's first classical recording dates from April 25, 1938 when he recorded Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, with the Budapest Quartet. After his bop period, Goodman furthered his interest in classical music written for the clarinet, and frequently met with top classical clarinetists of the day. In 1946, he met Ingolf Dahl, an emigre classical composer on the faculty of the University of Southern California, who was then musical director of the Victor Borge show. They played chamber music together (Brahms, Milhaud, Hindemith, Debussy) and in 1948 Goodman played in the world premiere performance of Dahl's Concerto a Tre.[36]
In 1949, when he was 40, Goodman decided to study with Reginald Kell, one of the world's leading classical clarinetists. To do so, he had to change his entire technique: instead of holding the mouthpiece between his front teeth and lower lip, as he had done since he first took a clarinet in hand 30 years earlier, Goodman learned to adjust his embouchure to the use of both lips and even to use new fingering techniques. He had his old finger calluses removed and started to learn how to play his clarinet again—almost from scratch.[37]
Goodman commissioned and premiered works by leading composers for clarinet and symphony orchestra that are now part of the standard repertoire, namely Contrasts by Béla Bartók, Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Op. 115 by Malcolm Arnold, Derivations for Clarinet and Band by Morton Gould, and Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto. While Leonard Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs was commissioned for Woody Herman's big band, it was premiered by Goodman. Woody Herman was the dedicatee (1945) and first performer (1946) of Igor Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto, but many years later Stravinsky made another recording, this time with Benny Goodman as the soloist.[38]
He made a further recording of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, in July 1956 with the Boston Symphony String Quartet, at the Berkshire Festival; on the same occasion he also recorded Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Charles Munch. He also recorded the clarinet concertos of Weber and Carl Nielsen.[3]
Other recordings of classical repertoire by Goodman are:[39]
- Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet by Claude Debussy
- Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E flat by Johannes Brahms
- Rondo from Grand Duo Concertant in E flat by Weber, and
- An arrangement by Simeon Bellison of Beethoven's Variations on a theme from Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
Touring with Armstrong[link]
After forays outside of swing, Goodman started a new band in 1953. According to Donald Clarke, this was not a happy time for Goodman.
| “ | In 1953 Goodman re-formed his classic band for an expensive tour with Louis Armstrong’s All Stars that turned into a famous disaster. He managed to insult Armstrong at the beginning; then he was appalled at the vaudeville aspects of Louis’s act [...] a contradiction of everything Goodman stood for. | ” |
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Movies[link]
Benny Goodman's band appeared as a specialty act in major musical features, including The Big Broadcast of 1937, Hollywood Hotel (1938), Syncopation (1942), The Powers Girl (1942), Stage Door Canteen (1943), The Gang's All Here (1943), Sweet and Lowdown (1944) and A Song Is Born (1948). Goodman's only starring feature was Sweet and Lowdown (1944).
Goodman's success story was told in the 1955 motion picture The Benny Goodman Story[41] with Steve Allen and Donna Reed. A Universal-International production, it was a follow up to 1954's successful The Glenn Miller Story. The screenplay was heavily fictionalized, but the music was the real draw. Many of Goodman's professional colleagues appear in the film, including Ben Pollack, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton and Harry James.
Personality and influence[link]
Goodman was regarded by some as a demanding taskmaster, by others an arrogant and eccentric martinet. Many musicians spoke of "The Ray",[42] Goodman's trademark glare that he bestowed on a musician who failed to perform to his demanding standards. Guitarist Allan Reuss incurred the maestro's displeasure on one occasion, and Goodman relegated him to the rear of the bandstand, where his contribution would be totally drowned out by the other musicians. Vocalists Anita O'Day and Helen Forrest spoke bitterly of their experiences singing with Goodman.[43] "The twenty or so months I spent with Benny felt like twenty years," said Forrest. "When I look back, they seem like a life sentence." At the same time, there are reports that he privately funded several college educations and was sometimes very generous, though always secretly. When a friend once asked him why, he reportedly said, "Well, if they knew about it, everyone would come to me with their hand out."[44]
| "As far as I'm concerned, what he did in those days—and they were hard days, in 1937—made it possible for Negroes to have their chance in baseball and other fields." |
| —Lionel Hampton on Benny Goodman[45] |
Goodman is also responsible for a significant step in racial integration in America. In the early 1930s, black and white jazz musicians could not play together in most clubs or concerts. In the Southern states, racial segregation was enforced by the Jim Crow laws. Benny Goodman broke with tradition by hiring Teddy Wilson to play with him and drummer Gene Krupa in the Benny Goodman Trio. In 1936, he added Lionel Hampton on vibes to form the Benny Goodman Quartet; in 1939 he added pioneering jazz guitarist Charlie Christian to his band and small ensembles, who played with him until his death from tuberculosis less than three years later. This integration in music happened ten years before Jackie Robinson became the first black American to enter Major League Baseball. "[Goodman's] popularity was such that he could remain financially viable without touring the South, where he would have been subject to arrest for violating Jim Crow laws."[46] According to Jazz by Ken Burns, when someone asked him why he "played with that nigger" (referring to Teddy Wilson), Goodman replied, "I'll knock you out if you use that word around me again".
John Hammond and Alice Goodman[link]
One of Benny Goodman's closest friends off and on, from the 1930s onward was celebrated Columbia records producer John H. Hammond, who influenced Goodman's move from RCA to the newly created Columbia records in 1939.[3]
Benny Goodman dated John H. Hammond's sister Alice Frances Hammond (1913–1978) for three months. She had previously been married to British politician George Duckworth, from whom she obtained a divorce. She and Goodman married on March 14, 1942. They had two daughters, Benjie and Rachel.[3]
Both daughters studied music, though neither became the musical prodigy Goodman was.
Hammond had encouraged Goodman to integrate his band, persuading him to employ pianist Teddy Wilson. But Hammond's tendency to interfere in the musical affairs of Goodman's and other bands led to Goodman pulling away from him. In 1953 they had another falling-out during Goodman's ill-fated tour with Louis Armstrong, which was produced by John Hammond.[3]
Goodman appeared on a 1975 PBS salute to Hammond but remained at a distance. In the 1980s, following the death of Alice Goodman, John Hammond and Benny Goodman, both by then elderly, reconciled. On June 25, 1985, Goodman appeared at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City for "A Tribute to John Hammond".[47]
Later years[link]
After winning numerous polls over the years as best jazz clarinetist, Goodman was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1957.
Goodman continued to play on records and in small groups. One exception to this pattern was a collaboration with George Benson in the 1970s. The two met when they taped a PBS salute to John Hammond and re-created some of the famous Goodman-Charlie Christian duets.[3]
Benson later appeared on several tracks of a Goodman album released as "Seven Come Eleven." In general Goodman continued to play in the swing style he was most known for. He did, however, practice and perform classical clarinet pieces and commissioned compositions for clarinet. Periodically he would organize a new band and play a jazz festival or go on an international tour.
Despite increasing health problems, he continued to play until his death from a heart attack in New York City in 1986 at the age of 77, in his home at Manhattan House, 200 East 66th Street. A longtime resident of Pound Ridge, New York, Benny Goodman is interred in the Long Ridge Cemetery, Stamford, Connecticut. The same year, Goodman was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[48] Benny Goodman's musical papers were donated to Yale University after his death.[4]
He is a member of the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in the radio division.[49]
His music was featured in the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, narrated by Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman.[50][51][52]
Discography[link]
(This discography combines LP and CD reissues of Goodman recordings under the dates of the original 78 rpm recordings through about 1950)
- A Jazz Holiday (1928, Decca)
- Benny Goodman and the Giants of Swing (1929, Prestige)
- BG and Big Tea in NYC (1929, GRP)
- Swinging 34 Vols. 1 & 2 (1934, Melodean)
- Sing, Sing, Sing (1935, Bluebird)
- The Birth of Swing (1935, Bluebird)
- Original Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet Sessions, Vol. 1: After You've Gone (1935, Bluebird)
- Stomping at the Savoy (1935, Bluebird)
- Air Play (1936, Doctor Jazz)
- Roll 'Em, Vol. 1 (1937, Columbia)
- Roll 'Em, Vol. 2 (1937, CBS)
- From Spirituals to Swing (1938, Vanguard)
- The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert Vols. 1, 2, & 3 (Live) (1938, Columbia)
- Mozart Clarinet Quintet (with Budapest String Quartet) (1938, Victor)
- Ciribiribin (Live) (1939, Giants of Jazz)
- Swingin' Down the Lane (Live) (1939, Giants of Jazz)
- Featuring Charlie Christian (1939, Columbia)
- Eddie Sauter Arrangements (1940, Columbia)
- Swing Into Spring (1941, Columbia)
- Undercurrent Blues (1947, Blue Note)
- Swedish Pastry (1948, Dragon)
- The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (1950, Columbia)
- Sextet (1950, Columbia)
- BG in Hi-fi (1954, Capitol)
- The Benny Goodman Story Volume 1 (1955?, Decca)
- Mozart Clarinet concerto (with Boston symphomy) (1956)
- The Great Benny Goodman (1956, Columbia)
- Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman (1957, Harmony)
- Benny in Brussels Vols. 1 & 2 (1958, Columbia)
- In Stockholm 1959 (1959, Phontastic)
- The Benny Goodman Treasure Chest (1959, MGM)
- Texaco's Swing into Spring 59 (1959, Cunningham & Walsh, Inc.)
- Swing With Benny Goodman And His Orchestra (1960s?, Columbia/Harmony)
- Benny Goodman in Moscow (1962, RCA Victor)
- Benny Goodman Today (London Records of (1970) Canada Ltd.)
- Benny Goodman And His Orchestra (1977)
- Benny Goodman Live at Carnegie Hall; 40th Anniversary Concert (1978)
- Live! Benny Let's Dance (1986)
- The King Swings Star Line
- Pure Gold (1992)
- 1935–1938 (1998)
- Portrait of Benny Goodman (Portrait Series) (1998)
- Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert '38 (1998)
- Bill Dodge All-star Recording (1999)
- 1941–1955 His Orchestra and His (1999)
- Live at Carnegie Hall (1999)
- Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert (2006) Remastered again
Noted sidemen[link]
- Noni Bernardi (1911–2006), big-band musician and member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council, 1961–93
Notes[link]
- ^ a b c "Biography". Benny Goodman – The Official Website of the King of Swing. Estate of Benny Goodman. http://www.bennygoodman.com/about/biography2.html. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r443459
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Firestone 1993,[page needed]
- ^ a b "JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography—Benny Goodman". PBS. January 8, 2001. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_goodman_benny.htm. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ Collier, James Lincoln (1989). Benny Goodman and the Swing Era. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505278-1. [page needed]
- ^ Firestone 1993, pg. 42.
- ^ a b Conner, D. Russell; Hicks, Warren W. (1969) [1958 as BG-Off the Record]. BG on the Record: A Bio-Discography of Benny Goodman (2nd ed.). New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House. [page needed]
- ^ a b Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Niel Shell and Barbara Shilkret, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5128-8
- ^ Stockdale, Robert L., Tommy Dorsey on the Side, Studies in Jazz, No. 19, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey, 1995.
- ^ Red Hot Jazz website, Benny Goodman's Boys: http://www.redhotjazz.com/bgb.html
- ^ Charters, Murray. "The road to Carnegie Hall". Brantford Expositor, 2009.
- ^ The Independent, August 29, 2005. Obituaries. Spud Murphy: Big-band composer and arranger. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Clarke, Donald. The Rise and Fall of Popular Music (A polemical history). Chapter 9: The Swing Era Begins. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
- ^ Firestone 1993, p. 134.
- ^ Benny Goodman and the Swing Era. James Lincoln. page 163 This information is attributed to writer and historian James T. Maher
- ^ "Historic Sweet's Ballroom". Archived from the original on July 23, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070723130918/http://www.historicsweetsballroom.com/pages/info_pages/Information.PDF. Retrieved July 6, 2010. Originally a dance studio built in 1923, it was managed by Bill Sweet and turned into one of Oakland's best ballrooms. The ballroom was known as McFadden's in the 1930s and as Sands Ballroom in the 1970s. In his book Benny Goodman and the Swing Era on page 164, Collier lists both a "McFadden's Ballroom in San Francisco" and "Sweet's in Oakland" as separate engagements for Goodman, with Pismo Beach in between. However, there was never a McFadden's or Sweet's Ballroom in San Francisco, and the length of the trip to Pismo Beach was not at all convenient. While Oakland and San Francisco are about 15 miles (24 km) apart, Pismo Beach is more than 235 miles (378 km) south from both of them. Once in Pismo Beach, Los Angeles is only 175 miles (282 km) away continuing southerly and easterly. Pismo Beach was a logical place for Goodman to play while traveling from Oakland to L.A.
- ^ Selvin, Joel. San Francisco, the musical history tour, Chronicle Books, 1996, p. 138. ISBN 0-8118-1007-0
- ^ SFGate.com. May 26, 2009. Benny Goodman's music still swings. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
- ^ Coleman, Rick. Blue Monday, Da Capo Press, 2006, p. 36. ISBN 0-306-81491-9
- ^ a b Spink, George. TuxedoJunction.net. Benny Goodman. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
- ^ BBC (March 22, 2006). "Jitterbug". http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A8240438. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ Will Friedwald (November 20, 2006). "Arts and Letters: Peplowski Blows Back to His Roots". http://www.nysun.com/arts/peplowski-blows-back-to-his-roots/43821/. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ a b c Mike Joyce. "The 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert". http://www.jitterbuzz.com/carcon.html. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ "insert booklet", "The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert" Sony 199 2 CD reissue .
- ^ David Rickert (January 31, 2005). "Benny Goodman: "Sing, Sing, Sing"". http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=16281. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ Firestone 1993, p. 366.
- ^ Mary Lou Williams: "Swinger with a Mission", by Catherine O'Neill, "Books & Arts," 12/7/79
- ^ Charles Christian: Musician
- ^ Texas Monthly: Texas Music Source
- ^ Biography2
- ^ Big Band Era Recording Ban Of 1942
- ^ Jazz History Time Line[dead link]
- ^ a b c Schoenberg, Loren (1995). "Liner Notes". Benny Goodman: Undercurrent Blues. Capitol
- ^ Post-Gazette. May 8, 2005. Nate Guidry. A Life in Tune: New works trumpet Doc Wilson's longevity on the music scene
- ^ Firestone 1993, p. 354.
- ^ Anthony Linick, The Lives of Ingolf Dahl (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2008), 159–61, 253, 273
- ^ Current Biography (1962). The H. W. Wilson Company. Benny Goodman
- ^ Three Cheers for Yeh!
- ^ Available on compact disc: Benny Goodman—Clarinet Classics, Pavilion Records Ltd. Pearl GEM0057
- ^ Donald Clarke. "The Rise and Fall of Popular Music". http://www.musicwebinternational.com/RiseandFall/nine.htm. Retrieved February 30, 2007. [dead link]
- ^ IMDb: The Benny Goodman Story (1955)
- ^ Firestone 1993, p. 173.
- ^ Firestone 1993, pp. 296, 301–302, 401.
- ^ Firestone 1993, pp. 296, 301–302, 401
- ^ Firestone 1993, pp. 183–184.
- ^ NNDB.com, webpage: Benny Goodman.
- ^ John S. Wilson (June 29, 1985). "JAZZ FESTIVAL; BENNY GOODMAN JOINS JOHN HAMMOND TRIBUTE". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E5D91E39F93AA15755C0A963948260. Retrieved April 2, 2007.
- ^ "Lifetime Achievement Award". The Recording Academy. http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Lifetime_Awards/. Retrieved April 2, 2007.
- ^ "NAB Hall of Fame". National Association of Broadcasters. http://www.nab.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Awards7&CONTENTID=11047&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm. Retrieved May 3, 2008. [dead link]
- ^ Kenneth Turan (November 19, 2010). "Movie review: 'Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story'". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/19/entertainment/la-et-jews-baseball-20101119. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
- ^ "Film". Jewsandbaseball.com. http://www.jewsandbaseball.com/film1.html. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
- ^ Scott Barancik (July 7, 2010). "New film explores our love affair with baseball". Jewish Baseball News. http://www.jewishbaseballnews.com/tag/kevin-youkilis/page/2/. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
References[link]
- Firestone, Ross (1993). Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-03371-6.
External links[link]
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- Benny Goodman scores, Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Benny Goodman papers (the bulk of the musician's estate) in Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University
- Benny Goodman Audio Collection, Institute of Jazz Studies, Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.
- Benny Goodman biography
- the Benny Goodman Sextet performing live in 1950 as regulars on the DuMont network TV series Star Time
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| Name | Goodman, Benny |
| Alternative names | Goodman, Benjamin David |
| Short description | Jazz clarinetist |
| Date of birth | May 30, 1909 |
| Place of birth | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Date of death | June 13, 1986 |
| Place of death | New York City, New York, United States |
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This article is about the Jazz musician. For the reggae artist, see Toots & the Maytals.
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 Dutch Bigband Contest 2006 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans |
| Born | (1922-04-29) 29 April 1922 (age 90) Brussels, Belgium |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupations | Musician, composer |
| Instruments | Harmonica, guitar, professional whistling |
| Years active | 1949–present |
| Associated acts | Quincy Jones Stevie Wonder |
| Website | Official site |
Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (born 29 April 1922, Brussels, Belgium), known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgian jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century.[1][2]
He has worked as a bandleader (scoring an international hit in the 1960s with his song "Bluesette"), as a sideman (notably on many projects with composer/arranger Quincy Jones), and has appeared on dozens of film soundtracks. In 2009 he became NEA Jazz Master, the highest honour for a jazz musician in the United States.[3]
He is perhaps best-known to the American public for whistling the melody in commercials for Old Spice cologne.
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Career[link]
Thielemans started his career as a guitar player. In 1949 he joined a jam session in Paris with Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach and others.[4] In 1949 and 1950 he participated in European tours with Benny Goodman, making his first record in Paris with fellow band member, tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims.[5] In 1951 he became a band member of the singer-songwriter and compatriot Bobbejaan Schoepen (at the time still as a guitarist).[6][7]
He moved to the US in 1952 where he was a member of Charlie Parker's All-Stars and worked with Miles Davis and Dinah Washington.[citation needed] He played and recorded with Ella Fitzgerald, Jaco Pastorius, Peggy Lee, The George Shearing Quintet, Quincy Jones, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, The Happenings, Astrud Gilberto, Shirley Horn, Elis Regina and others.[8]
A jazz standard by Toots Thielemans is "Bluesette" where he used whistling and guitar in unison. First recorded by Toots in 1962, with lyrics added by Norman Gimbel the song became a major worldwide hit. His harmonica playing can also be heard in film scores such as Midnight Cowboy, Jean de Florette, Sugarland Express, The Yakuza, Turkish Delight, The Getaway, French Kiss, Dunderklumpen, and in various TV programs, including Sesame Street, the Belgian TV series Witse, and the Dutch TV series Baantjer. He composed the music for the 1974 Swedish film Dunderklumpen! in which he also voiced the animated character Pellegnillot.
His whistling and harmonica playing can be heard on Old Spice radio and TV commercials that have been made over the years. During the 1980s he performed with bassist and composer/bandleader Jaco Pastorius in ensembles ranging from duet to the Word of Mouth Big Band.[9] In 1983 he contributed to Billy Joel's album An Innocent Man, and his trademark harmonica can be heard on "Leave a Tender Moment Alone." A year later, he appeared on the Julian Lennon song "Too Late For Goodbyes" from the album Valotte. In 1984, he recorded the final album of Billy Eckstine (I Am A Singer), featuring very beautiful ballads and standards arranged and conducted by Angelo DiPippo. In the 1990s Thielemans embarked on theme projects that included world music. In 1998 he released a French flavoured album titled "Chez Toots" that included the Les Moulins De Mon Coeur (The Mills of my Heart) featuring guest singer Johnny Mathis. Apart from his popularity as an accomplished musician, he is well liked for his modesty and kind demeanor. In his native Belgium, he is also popular for describing himself as a Brussels "ket", which means "street kid" in old Brussels slang. He received a joint honorary doctorate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) and in 2001 Thielemans was ennobled a baron by King Albert II of Belgium.
In 2005 he was nominated for the title of The Greatest Belgian. In the Flemish version he ended 20th place, in the Walloon version he ended 44th place. In October 2008, he was honored with the 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship. On 23 January 2009, he joined Philip Catherine on stage at the Liberchies church (Belgium) in memory of the 100th anniversary of Django Reinhardt's birth.
Discography[link]
Major works include:
- The Sound (1955, Columbia)
- Man Bites Harmonica (1958, Riverside Records)
- The Whistler and His Guitar (1964, ABC-Paramount)
- Only Trust Your Heart (1988, Concord Records)
- Footprints (1991, Universal)
- The Brasil Project (1992, BMG)
- The Brasil Project vol 2. (1993, BMG)
- Compact Jazz (1993, Verve)
- East Coast, West Coast (1994, Private Music)
- Apple Dimple (1994, Denon)
- Aquarela do Brasil (1995, Universal)
- Chez Toots (1998, Windham Hill)
- The Live Takes, volume 1 (2000, Quetzal records)
- Hard to Say Goodbye, the very best of Toots Thielemans (2000, Universal)
- Toots Thielemans & Kenny Werner (2001, Universal)
- One More for the Road (2006, Verve)
As sideman[link]
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With Dizzy Gillespie:
- Digital at Montreux, 1980 (Pablo, 1980)
With Urbie Green:
- The Fox (CTI, 1976)
With Oscar Peterson:
With Billy Joel:
- "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" (1984, Columbia Records)
References[link]
- ^ National Endowment for The Arts, Toots Thielemans biography
- ^ All About Jazz, Toots Thielemans biography
- ^ NEA, National Endowment for the Arts Announces the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters, June 3, 2008
- ^ Festival International De Jazz All Stars in the Charlie Parker discography
- ^ Billboard, Thielemans biography
- ^ Bobbejaan Schoepen: Belgian musician who worked with Jacques Brel and Josephine Baker - [The Independent, 30 July 2010.]
- ^ Biography Bobbejaan Schoepen
- ^ All About Jazz, Toots Thielemans biography
- ^ Mars Jazz, Excerpted from Windham Hill promo material for Chez Toots
External links[link]
- Official site
- Official MySpace
- Toots Thielemans at Allmusic
- Bluesette Sheet Music and Guitar Tabs
- "Profile: Toots Thielemans" by Arnold Jay Smith (Jazz.com)
- An Interview with Toots Thielemans
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| Name | Thielemans, Toots |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | Belgian jazz musician |
| Date of birth | 29 April 1922 |
| Place of birth | Brussels, Belgium |
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| Born | Frances Ethel Gumm (1922-06-10)June 10, 1922 Grand Rapids, Minnesota |
| Died | June 22, 1969(1969-06-22) (aged 47) Chelsea, London, England |
| Cause of death | Barbiturate overdose |
| Resting place | Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Judy Garland |
| Occupation | Singer, actress, vaudevillian |
| Years active | 1924-1969 as a singer 1929-1967 as an actress |
| Spouse | David Rose (m. 1941-1944; divorced) Vincente Minnelli (m. 1945-1951; divorced) Sidney Luft (m. 1952-1965; divorced) Mark Herron (m. 1965-1967; divorced) Mickey Deans (m. 1969, her death) |
| Children |
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| Awards | List of awards and honours |
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian. Renowned for her contralto voice, she attained international stardom through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage.[1] Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the remake of A Star is Born and for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg. At 39 years of age, she remains the youngest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry.
After appearing in vaudeville with her two older sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and the 1939 film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz. After 15 years, she was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a return to acting beginning with critically acclaimed performances.
Despite her professional triumphs, Garland battled personal problems throughout her life. Insecure about her appearance, her feelings were compounded by film executives who told her she was unattractive and manipulated her on-screen physical appearance. She was plagued by financial instability, often owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. She married five times, with her first four marriages ending in divorce. She had a long struggle with alcohol and drug use during most of her career, dying of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 47, leaving children Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft, and Joey Luft.
In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the ten greatest female stars in the history of American cinema.[2]
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Early life[link]
Born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Garland was the youngest child of Ethel Marion (née Milne; November 17, 1893–January 5, 1953) and Francis Avent "Frank" Gumm (March 20, 1886–November 17, 1935). Her parents were vaudevillians who settled in Grand Rapids to run a movie theatre that featured vaudeville acts.
Garland's ancestry on both sides of her family can be traced back to the early colonial days of the United States. Her father was descended from the Marable family of Virginia, her grandfather from a Milne ancestry from Aberdeen, Scotland[3] and her maternal grandmother from a Patrick Fitzpatrick, who emigrated to America in the 1770s from Smithtown, County Meath, Ireland.[4]
Named after both her parents and baptized at a local Episcopal church, "Baby" (as she was called by her parents and sisters) shared her family's flair for song and dance. Her first appearance came at the age of two-and-a-half when she joined her two older sisters, Mary Jane "Suzy/Suzanne" Gumm (1915–1964) and Dorothy Virginia "Jimmie" Gumm (1917–1977), on the stage of her father's movie theater during a Christmas show and sang a chorus of "Jingle Bells".[5] Accompanied by their mother on piano, The Gumm Sisters performed there for the next few years.
Following rumors that Frank Gumm had made sexual advances toward male ushers, the family relocated to Lancaster, California in June 1926.[6] Frank purchased and operated another theater in Lancaster, and Ethel, acting as their manager, began working to get her daughters into motion pictures.
Early career[link]
The Gumm Sisters[link]
In 1928, The Gumm Sisters enrolled in a dance school run by Ethel Meglin, proprietress of the Meglin Kiddies dance troupe. They appeared with the troupe at its annual Christmas show.[7] It was through the Meglin Kiddies that they made their film debut, in a 1929 short subject called The Big Revue. This was followed by appearances in two Vitaphone shorts the following year, A Holiday in Storyland (featuring Garland's first on-screen solo) and The Wedding of Jack and Jill. They next appeared together in Bubbles. Their final on-screen appearance came in 1935, in another short entitled La Fiesta de Santa Barbara.[8]
In 1934, the trio, who by then had been touring the vaudeville circuit as "The Gumm Sisters" for many years, performed in Chicago at the Oriental Theater with George Jessel. He encouraged the group to choose a more appealing name after "Gumm" was met with laughter from the audience. According to theatrical legend, their act was once erroneously billed at a Chicago theater as "The Glum Sisters".[9]
Several stories persist regarding the origin of the name "Garland". One is that it was originated by Jessel after Carole Lombard's character Lily Garland in the film Twentieth Century which was then playing at the Oriental; another is that the girls chose the surname after drama critic Robert Garland.[10] Garland's daughter, Lorna Luft, stated that her mother selected the name when Jessel announced that the trio "looked prettier than a garland of flowers".[11] Another variation surfaced when he was a guest on Garland's television show in 1963. He claimed that he had sent actress Judith Anderson a telegram containing the word "garland," and it stuck in his mind.[12]
By late 1934 the Gumm Sisters had changed their name to the Garland Sisters.[13] Frances changed her name to "Judy" soon after, inspired by a popular Hoagy Carmichael song.[14] By August 1935 they were broken up when Suzanne Garland flew to Reno, Nevada and married musician Lee Kahn, a member of the Jimmy Davis orchestra playing at Cal-Neva Lodge, Lake Tahoe.[15]
Signed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[link]
In 1935, Garland was signed to a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, supposedly without a screen test, though she had made a test for the studio several months earlier. It did not know what to do with her, as at age 13 she was older than the traditional child star but too young for adult roles. Her physical appearance created a dilemma for MGM. At only 4 feet 11.5 inches (151.1 cm), her "nice" or "girl next door" looks did not exemplify the more glamorous persona required of leading ladies of the time. She was self-conscious and anxious about her appearance. "'Judy went to school at Metro with Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, real beauties,' said Charles Walters, who directed her in a number of films. 'Judy was the big money-maker at the time, a big success, but she was the ugly duckling ...I think it had a very damaging effect on her emotionally for a long time. I think it lasted forever, really.'"[16] Her insecurity was exacerbated by the attitude of studio chief Louis B. Mayer, who referred to her as his "little hunchback".[17] During her early years at the studio, she was photographed and dressed in plain garments or frilly juvenile gowns and costumes to match the "girl next door" image that was created for her. She was made to wear removable caps on her teeth and rubberized disks to reshape her nose.[18]
She performed at various studio functions and was eventually cast opposite Deanna Durbin in the musical short Every Sunday. The film contrasted her alto vocal range[19] and swing style with Durbin's operatic soprano and served as an extended screen test for the pair, as studio executives were questioning the wisdom of having two girl singers on the roster.[20] Mayer finally decided to keep both actresses, but by that time Durbin's option had lapsed and she was signed by Universal Studios.
On November 16, 1935, in the midst of preparing for a radio performance on the Shell Chateau Hour, Garland learned that her father, who had been hospitalized with meningitis, had taken a turn for the worse. Frank Gumm died the following morning, on November 17, leaving her devastated. Her song for the Shell Chateau Hour was her first professional rendition of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", a song which would become a standard in many of her concerts.[21]
Garland next came to the attention of studio executives by singing a special arrangement of "You Made Me Love You" to Clark Gable at a birthday party held by the studio for the actor; her rendition was so well regarded that she performed the song in the all-star extravaganza Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), singing to a photograph of him.[22]
MGM hit on a winning formula when it paired Garland with Mickey Rooney in a string of "backyard musicals".[23] The duo first appeared together in the 1937 B movie Thoroughbreds Don't Cry. They became a sensation and teamed up again in Love Finds Andy Hardy. She would eventually star with him in nine films.
To keep up with the frantic pace of making one film after another, Garland, Rooney, and other young performers were constantly given amphetamines, as well as barbiturates to take before going to bed.[24] For Garland, this regular dose of drugs led to addiction and a lifelong struggle and contributed to her eventual demise. She later resented the hectic schedule and felt that her youth had been stolen from her by MGM. Despite successful film and recording careers, awards, critical praise and her ability to fill concert halls worldwide, she was plagued throughout her life with self-doubt and required constant reassurance that she was talented and attractive.[25]
[edit] The Wizard of Oz
In 1938, aged 16, she was cast as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939), a film based on the children's book by L. Frank Baum. In this film, she sang the song for which she would forever be identified, "Over the Rainbow". She was initially outfitted in a blonde wig for the part, but Freed and LeRoy decided against it shortly into filming. Her blue gingham dress was chosen for its blurring effect on her figure.[26]
Shooting commenced on October 13, 1938,[27] and was completed on March 16, 1939,[28] with a final cost of more than US$2 million.[29] With the conclusion of filming, MGM kept Garland busy with promotional tours and the shooting of Babes in Arms. She and Rooney were sent on a cross-country promotional tour, culminating in the August 17 New York City premiere at the Capitol Theater, which included a five-show-a-day appearance schedule for the two stars.[30]
The Wizard of Oz was a tremendous critical success, though its high budget and promotions costs of an estimated $4 million coupled with the lower revenue generated by children's tickets meant that the film did not make a profit until it was re-released in the 1940s.[31] At the 1940 Academy Awards ceremony, Garland received an Academy Juvenile Award for her performances in 1939, including The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms.[32] Following this recognition, she became one of MGM's most bankable stars.
Stardom as an adult[link]
In 1940, she starred in three films: Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, Strike Up the Band, and Little Nellie Kelly. In the latter, she played her first adult role, a dual role of both mother and daughter. Little Nellie Kelly was purchased from George M. Cohan as a vehicle for her to display both her audience appeal and her physical appearance. The role was a challenge for her, requiring the use of an accent, her first adult kiss, and the only death scene of her career.[33] The success of these three films, and a further three films in 1941, secured her position at MGM as a major property.
During this time Garland experienced her first serious adult romances. The first was with the band leader Artie Shaw. She was deeply devoted to him and was devastated in early 1940 when he eloped with Lana Turner.[34] Garland began a relationship with musician David Rose, and, on her 18th birthday, he gave her an engagement ring. The studio intervened because he was still married at the time to the actress and singer Martha Raye. They agreed to wait a year to allow for his divorce from her to become final, and were wed on July 27, 1941.[35] Garland, who had aborted her pregnancy by him in 1942, agreed to a trial separation in January 1943, and they divorced in 1944.[36] She was noticeably thinner in her next film, For Me and My Gal, alongside Gene Kelly in his first screen appearance. She was top billed over the credits for the first time and effectively made the transition from teenage star to adult actress.
At the age of 21, she was given the "glamour treatment" in Presenting Lily Mars, in which she was dressed in "grown-up" gowns. Her lightened hair was also pulled up in a stylish fashion. However, no matter how glamorous or beautiful she appeared on screen or in photographs, she was never confident in her appearance and never escaped the "girl next door" image that had been created for her.[37]
One of Garland's most successful films for MGM was Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), in which she introduced three standards: "The Trolley Song", "The Boy Next Door", and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Vincente Minnelli was assigned to direct and he requested that makeup artist Dorothy Ponedel be assigned to Garland. Ponedel refined her appearance in several ways, including extending and reshaping her eyebrows, changing her hairline, modifying her lip line and removing her nose discs. She appreciated the results so much that Ponedel was written into her contract for all her remaining pictures at MGM.
During the filming of Meet Me in St. Louis, after some initial conflict between them, Garland and Minnelli entered a relationship. They were married June 15, 1945,[38] and on March 12, 1946, daughter Liza was born.[39] In 1951, they divorced.[40]
The Clock (1945) was her first straight dramatic film, opposite Robert Walker. Though the film was critically praised and earned a profit, most movie fans expected her to sing. It would be many years before she acted again in a non-singing dramatic role. Garland's other famous films of the 1940s include The Harvey Girls (1946), in which she introduced the Academy Award-winning song "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", and The Pirate (1948).
Leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[link]
During filming for The Pirate in April 1947, Garland suffered a nervous breakdown and was placed in a private sanitarium.[41] She was able to complete filming, but in July she undertook her first suicide attempt, making minor cuts to her wrist with a broken glass.[42] During this period, she spent two weeks in treatment at the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts[43] Following her work on The Pirate, she completed three more films for MGM: Easter Parade (in which she danced with Fred Astaire), In the Good Old Summertime, and her final film with MGM, Summer Stock.
Because of her mental condition, Garland was unable to complete a series of films. During the filming of The Barkleys of Broadway, she was taking prescription sleeping medication along with illicitly obtained pills containing morphine. It was around this time she also developed a serious problem with alcohol. These, in combination with migraine headaches, led her to miss several shooting days in a row. After being advised by her doctor that she would only be able to work in four-to-five-day increments with extended rest periods between, MGM executive Arthur Freed made the decision to suspend her on July 18, 1948. She was replaced by Ginger Rogers.[44]
Garland was cast in the film adaptation of Annie Get Your Gun in the title role of Annie Oakley. She was nervous at the prospect of taking on a role strongly identified with Ethel Merman, anxious about appearing in an unglamorous part after breaking from juvenile parts for several years and disturbed by her treatment at the hands of director Busby Berkeley. She began arriving late to the set and sometimes failed to appear. She was suspended from the picture on May 10, 1949, and was replaced by Betty Hutton.[45]
Garland was next cast in the film Royal Wedding with Fred Astaire after June Allyson became pregnant in 1950. She again failed to report to the set on multiple occasions and the studio suspended her contract on June 17, 1950. She was replaced by Jane Powell.[46] Reputable biographies following her death stated that after this latest dismissal, she slightly grazed her neck with a broken water glass, requiring only a Band-Aid, but at the time, the public was informed that a despondent Garland had slashed her throat.[47] "All I could see ahead was more confusion," Garland later said of this suicide attempt. "I wanted to black out the future as well as the past. I wanted to hurt myself and everyone who had hurt me."[48]
Later career[link]
Renewed stardom on the stage[link]
In October 1951, Garland opened in a vaudeville-style, two-a-day engagement at Broadway's newly refurbished Palace Theatre. Her 19-week engagement exceeded all previous records for the theater, and was described as "one of the greatest personal triumphs in show business history".[49] Garland was honored for her contribution to the revival of vaudeville with a Special Tony Award.[50]
In May 1952, at the height of Garland's comeback, her mother Ethel was featured in a Los Angeles Mirror story in which she revealed that while Garland was making a small fortune at the Palace, Ethel was working a desk job at Douglas Aircraft Company for $61 a week.[51] They had been estranged for years, with Garland characterizing her mother as "no good for anything except to create chaos and fear" and accusing her of mismanaging and misappropriating her salary from the earliest days of her career.[52] Garland's sister Virginia denied this, stating "Mama never took a dime from Judy."[53] On January 5, 1953, Ethel Gumm was found dead in the Douglas Aircraft parking lot. She was 59 years old.[54]
[edit] A Star Is Born
In 1954, Garland filmed a musical remake of the 1937 film A Star is Born for Warner Bros. She and her third husband, Sid Luft (whom she had married in 1952) produced the film through their production company, Transcona Enterprises, while Warner Bros. supplied the funds, production facilities, and crew.[55] Directed by George Cukor and costarring James Mason, it was a large undertaking to which she initially fully dedicated herself.
As shooting progressed, however, she began making the same pleas of illness which she had so often made during her final films at MGM. Production delays led to cost overruns and angry confrontations with Warner Bros. head Jack Warner. Principal photography wrapped on March 17, 1954. At Luft's suggestion, the "Born in a Trunk" medley was filmed as a showcase for her and inserted over director Cukor's objections, who feared the additional length would lead to cuts in other areas. It was completed on July 29.[56]
Upon its September 29, 1954 world premiere, the film was met with tremendous critical and popular acclaim. Before release, it was edited at the instruction of Jack Warner; theater operators, concerned that they were losing money because they were only able to run the film for three or four shows per day instead of five or six, pressured the studio to make additional reductions. About 30 minutes of footage was cut, sparking outrage among critics and filmgoers. A Star is Born ended up losing money, and the secure financial position Garland had expected from the profits did not materialize.[57] Transcona made no more films with Warner.[58]
Garland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and, in the run-up to the 27th Academy Awards, was generally expected to win. She could not attend the ceremony because she had just given birth to her son, Joseph Luft, so a television crew was in her hospital room with cameras and wires to televise her anticipated acceptance speech. The Oscar was won, however, by Grace Kelly for The Country Girl (1954). The camera crew was packing up before Kelly could even reach the stage. Groucho Marx sent her a telegram after the awards ceremony, declaring her loss "the biggest robbery since Brinks". TIME magazine labeled her performance as "just about the greatest one-woman show in modern movie history".[59] Garland won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the role.[60]
Garland's films after A Star Is Born included Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (for which she was Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated for Best Supporting Actress), the animated feature Gay Purr-ee (1962), and A Child Is Waiting (1963) with Burt Lancaster. Her final film was I Could Go On Singing (1963), costarring Dirk Bogarde.
Television, concerts, and Carnegie Hall[link]
Garland engaged Sid Luft as her manager the same year she divorced Minnelli.[61] He arranged a four-month concert tour of the United Kingdom, where she played to sold-out audiences throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland.[62] It included her first appearances at the renowned London Palladium, for a four-week stand in April.[63] Although some in the British press chided her before her opening for being "too plump",[64] she received rave reviews and the ovation was described by the Palladium manager as the loudest he had ever heard.[65]
Garland and Luft were married on June 8, 1952, in Hollister, California.[66] Garland gave birth to Lorna Luft, herself a future actress and singer, on November 21, 1952, and to Joey Luft on March 29, 1955.[67]
Beginning in 1955, Garland appeared in a number of television specials. The first, the 1955 debut episode of Ford Star Jubilee, was the first full-scale color broadcast ever on CBS and was a ratings triumph, scoring a 34.8 Nielsen rating. She signed a three-year, $300,000 contract with the network. Only one additional special, a live concert edition of General Electric Theater, was broadcast in 1956 before the relationship between the Lufts and CBS broke down in a dispute over the planned format of upcoming specials.[68] In 1956, Garland performed four weeks at the New Frontier Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip for a salary of $55,000 per week, making her the highest-paid entertainer to work in Las Vegas.[69] Despite a brief bout of laryngitis, her performances there were so successful that her run was extended an extra week.[70] Later that year she returned to the Palace Theatre, site of her two-a-day triumph. She opened in September, once again to rave reviews and popular acclaim.[71]
In November 1959 Garland was hospitalized, diagnosed with acute hepatitis.[72] Over the next few weeks several quarts of fluid were drained from her body until, still weak, she was released from the hospital in January 1960. She was told by doctors that she likely had five years or less to live, and that even if she did survive she would be a semi-invalid and would never sing again.[73] She initially felt "greatly relieved" at the diagnosis. "The pressure was off me for the first time in my life."[47] However, she recovered over the next several months and, in August of that year, returned to the stage of the Palladium. She felt so warmly embraced by the British that she announced her intention to move permanently to England.[74]
Her concert appearance at Carnegie Hall on April 23, 1961, was a considerable highlight, called by many "the greatest night in show business history".[75] The two-record Judy at Carnegie Hall was certified gold, charting for 95 weeks on Billboard, including 13 weeks at number one. The album won four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal of the Year.[76] The album has never been out of print.
In 1961, Garland and CBS settled their contract disputes with the help of her new agent, Freddie Fields, and negotiated a new round of specials. The first, entitled The Judy Garland Show, aired in 1962 and featured guests Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.[77] Following this success, CBS made a $24 million offer to her for a weekly television series of her own, also to be called The Judy Garland Show, which was deemed at the time in the press to be "the biggest talent deal in TV history". Although she had said as early as 1955 that she would never do a weekly television series,[78] in the early 1960s she was in a financially precarious situation. She was several hundred thousand dollars in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, having failed to pay taxes in 1951 and 1952, and the failure of A Star is Born meant that she received nothing from that investment.[79] A successful run on television was intended to secure her financial future.
Following a third special, Judy Garland and Her Guests Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet, Garland's weekly series debuted September 29, 1963.[80] The Judy Garland Show was critically praised,[81][82] but for a variety of reasons (including being placed in the time slot opposite Bonanza on NBC) the show lasted only one season and was canceled in 1964 after 26 episodes. Despite its short run, the series was nominated for four Emmy Awards.[83] The demise of the series was personally and financially devastating for Garland.
Garland sued Luft for divorce in 1963, claiming "cruelty" as the grounds. She also asserted that he had repeatedly struck her while he was drinking and that he had attempted to take their children from her by force.[84] She had filed for divorce from Luft more than once previously, including as early as 1956, but had reconciled.[85]
Final years[link]
With the demise of her television series, Garland returned to the stage. Most notably, she performed at the London Palladium with her then 18-year-old daughter Liza Minnelli in November 1964. The concert, which was also filmed for British television network ITV, was one of her final appearances at the venue. She made guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, The Hollywood Palace, and The Merv Griffin Show, on which she guest-hosted an episode.[86]
Garland was a lifelong Democrat and was active in both the Hollywood Democratic Committee and attended many of the Democratic National Conventions. In 1960 she was in attendance at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles with John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, and Lyndon B. Johnson.[87][88][89]
A 1964 tour of Australia was largely disastrous. Garland's first concert in Sydney, held in the Sydney Stadium because no concert hall could accommodate the crowds who wanted to see her, went well and received positive reviews. Her second performance, in Melbourne, started an hour late. The crowd of 7,000, angered by her tardiness and believing her to be drunk, booed and heckled her, and she fled the stage after just 45 minutes.[90] She later characterized the Melbourne crowd as "brutish".[52] A second concert in Sydney was uneventful but the Melbourne appearance garnered her significant bad press.[91] Some of that bad press was deflected by the announcement of a near fatal episode of pleurisy.
Garland's tour promoter Mark Herron announced that they had married aboard a freighter off the coast of Hong Kong; however, she was not legally divorced from Luft at the time the ceremony was performed.[92] It became final on May 19, 1965,[84] but she and Herron did not legally marry until November 14, 1965 and then separated six months later.[93]
In February 1967, Garland was cast as Helen Lawson in Valley of the Dolls for 20th Century Fox.[94] During the filming, she missed rehearsals and was fired in April, replaced by Susan Hayward.[95] Her prerecording of the song "I'll Plant My Own Tree" survived, along with her wardrobe tests.
Returning to the stage, Garland made her last appearances at New York's Palace Theatre in July, a 16-show tour, performing with her children Lorna and Joey Luft. She wore a sequined pantsuit on stage for this tour, which was part of the original wardrobe for her character in Valley of the Dolls.[96]
By early 1969, Garland's health had deteriorated. She performed in London at the Talk of the Town nightclub for a five-week run[97] and made her last concert appearance in Copenhagen during March 1969.[98] She married her fifth and final husband, musician Mickey Deans, at Chelsea Register Office, London, on March 15, 1969,[99] her divorce from Herron having been finalized on February 11.[100]
Death[link]
On June 22, 1969, Garland was found dead by Deans in the bathroom of their rented house in Chelsea, London. At the subsequent inquest, coroner Gavin Thursdon stated that the cause of death was "an incautious self-overdosage" of barbiturates; her blood contained the equivalent of ten 1.5-grain (97 mg) Seconal capsules.[101] Thursdon stressed that the overdose had been unintentional and that there was no evidence to suggest she had committed suicide. Her autopsy showed that there was no inflammation of her stomach lining and no drug residue there, which indicated that the drug had been ingested over a long period of time, rather than in one dose. Her death certificate stated that her death had been "accidental".[102] Even so, a British specialist who had attended her said she had been living on borrowed time due to cirrhosis of the liver.[103] She had turned 47 just twelve days prior to her death. Her Wizard of Oz costar Ray Bolger commented at her funeral, "She just plain wore out."
On June 26, Deans took Garland's remains to New York City, where an estimated 20,000 people lined up for hours at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan to pay their respects. On June 27, James Mason gave a eulogy at the funeral, an Episcopal service led by the Rev. Peter A. Delaney of Marylebone Church, London, who had officiated at her marriage to Deans.[104] The public and press were barred. She was interred in a crypt in the community mausoleum at Ferncliff Cemetery, in Hartsdale, New York.[105]
Legacy[link]
Garland's legacy as a performer and a personality has endured long after her death. The American Film Institute named her eighth among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time.[106] She has been the subject of over two dozen biographies since her death, including the well-received Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir by her daughter, Lorna Luft, whose memoir was later adapted into the television miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, which won Emmy Awards for the two actresses portraying her (Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis).[107]
Garland was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.[108] Several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[109] These include "Over the Rainbow", which was ranked as the number one movie song of all time in the American Film Institute's "100 Years...100 Songs" list. Four more Garland songs are featured on the list: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (#76), "Get Happy" (#61), "The Trolley Song" (#26), and "The Man That Got Away" (#11).[110] She has twice been honored on U.S. postage stamps, in 1989 (as Dorothy)[111] and again in 2006 (as Vicki Lester from A Star Is Born).[112]
Gay icon[link]
Main article: Judy Garland as gay icon
Garland always had a large base of fans in the gay community and has become a gay icon.[113] Reasons often given for her standing, especially among gay men, are admiration of her ability as a performer, the way her personal struggles mirrored those of gay men in America during the height of her fame and her value as a camp figure.[114] When asked about how she felt about having a large gay following, she responded, "I couldn't care less. I sing to people."[115]
Some have also suggested a connection between the date of Garland's death and funeral on June 27, 1969 and the Stonewall riots, the flashpoint of the modern Gay Liberation movement,[116][117] which started in the early hours of June 28.[116] However, in a 2009 interview gay historian David Carter stated that this connection is untrue, and based on a mocking reference to the riot by an anti-gay writer in the Village Voice the next day.[118]
Filmography and performances[link]
Main article: List of Judy Garland performances
Portrayals in fiction[link]
Main article: List of Judy Garland biographies
Garland has been portrayed on television by Andrea McArdle in Rainbow (1978), Tammy Blanchard (young Judy) and Judy Davis (older Judy) in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) and Elizabeth Karsell in James Dean (2001). Anne Hathaway is set to play Garland in a biopic titled Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland which is in production and is set to be released in either 2012 or 2013.
On stage, Garland is a character in the musical The Boy from Oz (1998), portrayed by Chrissy Amphlett in the original Australian production and by Isabel Keating on Broadway in 2003. End of the Rainbow (2005) featured Caroline O'Connor as Garland and Michael Cumpsty as Garland's pianist. Adrienne Barbeau played Garland in The Property Known as Garland (2006) and The Judy Monologues (2010) featured Kimberly Roberts as Garland. Garland was briefly mentioned in the biopic film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge for the 1954 Academy Awards for A Star Is Born.
Discography[link]
Main article: Judy Garland discography
Awards[link]
Main article: List of awards and honors received by Judy Garland
Notes[link]
- ^ Louis Bayard, "Supernova", Washington Post, April 16, 2000, p. X9
- ^ http://www.afi.com/100Years/stars.aspx
- ^ as she told an audience on May 29, 1951 in Edinburgh
- ^ McClure, Rhonda (June 13, 2002). "Ancestry of Liza Minnelli". Genealogy.com. http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/liza-minnelli. Retrieved December 22, 2007.
- ^ Shipman p. 12
- ^ Clarke, p. 23
- ^ Clarke, pp. 29–30
- ^ Finch pp. 43–47, 76
- ^ Judy Garland, 47, Found Dead, The New York Times, June 23, 1969
- ^ "Judy: Beyond the Rainbow". Biography. January 1, 1999.
- ^ Luft, p. 26
- ^ "Episode 12". The Judy Garland Show. episode 12. season 1. November 1, 1963.
- ^ "Program of Comedy Due --- Eddie Conrad Will Head Ebell Vaudeville." Los Angeles Times. December 7, 1934. p. 15.
- ^ Edwards p. 27
- ^ "Nuptials Turn Trio to Duet --- Cupid Robs Radio Team --- Suzanne Garland Flies to Reno to Become Bride of Musician." Los Angeles Times. August 15, 1935. p. A3.
- ^ "Judy: Impressions of Garland". Omnibus. 1972. http://imdb.com/title/tt0813809.
- ^ Wayne, p. 204
- ^ Frank p. 73
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- Judy Garland at the Internet Movie Database
- Judy Garland at AllRovi
- Judy Garland at the TCM Movie Database
- Judy Garland at the Internet Broadway Database
- Judy Garland at TV Guide
- The Judy Room Celebrating the life and career of Judy Garland
- The Judy Garland Birthplace and Museum in Grand Rapids, MN
- The Judy Garland Club official international fan club
- Judy Garland: By Myself – American Masters special
- Judy Garland's Film "The Wizard of Oz" Film site on Judy and Oz
- Judy Garland at The Biography Channel
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Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1962 for Judy at Carnegie Hall |
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| Preceded by Dave Brubeck, Marvin Gaye, Georg Solti, Stevie Wonder |
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1997 |
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| Name | Garland, Judy |
| Alternative names | Gumm, Frances Ethel |
| Short description | American actress, singer |
| Date of birth | June 10, 1922 |
| Place of birth | Grand Rapids, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Date of death | June 22, 1969 |
| Place of death | Chelsea, London, England, UK |
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Peggy Lee - Bye Bye Blackbird
PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: tinyurl.com Peggy Lee's alluring tone, distinctive delivery, breadth of material, and ability to write many of her own songs made her one of the most captivating artists of the vocal era, from her breakthrough on the Benny Goodman hit "Why Don't You Do Right" to her many solo successes, singles including "Mañana," "Lover" and "Fever" that showed her bewitching vocal power, a balance between sultry swing and impeccable musicianship. Born Norma Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, she suffered the death of her mother at the age of four and endured a difficult stepmother after her father remarried. Given her sense of swing by listening to Count Basie on the radio, she taught herself to sing and made her radio debut at the age of 14. She made the jump to Fargo (where she was christened Peggy Lee), then to Minneapolis and St. Louis to sing with a regional band. Lee twice journeyed to Hollywood to make her fortune, but returned unsuccessful from both trips. She finally got her big break in 1941, when a vocal group she worked with began appearing at a club in Chicago. While there, she was heard by Benny Goodman, whose regular vocalist Helen Forrest was about to leave his band. Lee recorded with Goodman just a few days later, debuting with the popular "Elmer's Tune" despite a good deal of nerves. That <b>...</b>
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Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is (Original Stereo)
"Is That All There Is" was composed by the legendary rock and roll songwriting duo of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Leiber and Stoller were so identified with the early rock and roll era with songs like "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock", "Searchin", and so many others that when this song was released, it took much of the pop world by surprise. It was first recorded by a man named Dan Daniels in 1968, but the following year Peggy Lee took the song all the way to #11 on the charts in October of '69 making this her first pop chart hit since "Fever" back in 1958. Leiber and Stoller were inspired to write the song from a story written by Thomas Mann in 1896 entitled "Disillusionment". This recording earned Peggy a Grammy Award and it has since been enshrined in the Grammy Hall Of Fame.
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