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Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777. Fargo, along with its twin city of Moorhead, Minnesota, as well as adjacent West Fargo, North Dakota and Dilworth, Minnesota, form the center of the Fargo-Moorhead, ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Founded in 1871, Fargo is the crossroads and economic center of southeastern North Dakota and a portion of northwestern Minnesota. Fargo is a cultural, retail, manufacturing, health care, and educational hub for the region. Fargo is home to North Dakota State University.
The area that is present-day Fargo was an early stopping point for steamboats floating down the Red River during the 1870s and 1880s. The city was originally named "Centralia," but was later renamed "Fargo" after Northern Pacific Railway director and Wells Fargo Express Company founder William Fargo (1818 - 1881). The area started to flourish after the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the city became known as the "Gateway to the West".
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Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheater in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States that is used primarily for music performances. It is the largest natural amphitheater in the United States, with a seating capacity of nearly 18,000.
The Hollywood Bowl is known for its band shell, a distinctive set of concentric arches that graced the site from 1929 through 2003, before being replaced with a somewhat larger one beginning in the 2004 season. The shell is set against the backdrop of the Hollywood Hills and the famous Hollywood Sign to the Northeast.
The "bowl" refers to the shape of the concave hillside the amphitheater is carved into. The bowl is owned by the County of Los Angeles and is the home of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the host of hundreds of musical events each year.
It is located at 2301 North Highland Avenue, north of Hollywood Blvd and the Hollywood & Highland subway station and south of Route 101.
The site of the Hollywood Bowl was chosen in 1919 by William Reed and his son H. Ellis Reed, members of the newly formed Theatre Arts Alliance who were dispatched to find a suitable location for outdoor performances.
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Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), who performed under the mononym Aaliyah (
/ɑːˈliːə/), was an American recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of 10, she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight. At age 12, Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerson's Blackground Records. Hankerson introduced her to R. Kelly, who became her mentor, as well as lead songwriter and producer of her debut album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number. The album sold three million copies in the United States and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After facing allegations of an illegal marriage with R. Kelly, Aaliyah ended her contract with Jive and signed with Atlantic Records.
Aaliyah worked with record producers Timbaland and Missy Elliott for her second album, One in a Million; it sold 3.7 million copies in the United States and over eight million copies worldwide. In 2000, Aaliyah appeared in her first major film, Romeo Must Die. She contributed to the film's soundtrack, which spawned the single "Try Again". The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 solely on airplay, making Aaliyah the first artist in Billboard history to achieve this feat. "Try Again" earned Aaliyah a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocalist.
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Al Jolson
Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer".
His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized a large number of songs that benefited from his "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach". Numerous well-known singers were influenced by his music, including Bing CrosbyJudy Garland, rock and country entertainer Jerry Lee Lewis, and Bob Dylan, who once referred to him as "somebody whose life I can feel". Broadway critic Gilbert Seldes compared him to "the Greek God Pan", claiming that Jolson represented "the concentration of our national health and gaiety."
In the 1930s, he was America's most famous and highest paid entertainer. Between 1911 and 1928, Jolson had nine sell-out Winter Garden shows in a row, more than 80 hit records, and 16 national and international tours. Although he's best remembered today as the star in the first (full length) talking movie, The Jazz Singer in 1927, he later starred in a series of successful musical films throughout the 1930s. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with the 1946 Oscar-winning biographical film, The Jolson Story. Larry Parks played Jolson with the songs dubbed in with Jolson’s real voice. A sequel, Jolson Sings Again, was released in 1949, and was nominated for three Oscars. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jolson became the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II, and again in 1950 became the first star to perform for G.I.s in Korea, doing 42 shows in 16 days. He died just weeks after returning to the U.S., partly due to the physical exertion of performing. Defense Secretary George Marshall afterward awarded the Medal of Merit to Jolson's family.
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Art Lund
Art Lund (April 1, 1915, Salt Lake City, Utah – May 31, 1990, Holladay, Utah) was an American baritone singer, initially with bandleaders Benny Goodman and Harry James, and was also a television and stage actor.
Arthur Lund was a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, and received his master's degree from the United States Naval Academy in aerological engineering.
Lund was a teacher of mathematics at a high school in Kentucky, and sang with local bands as a sideline before giving up school teaching to tour with Jimmy Ray's orchestra. He originally billed himself as Art London.
After spells with Benny Goodman and Harry James, he went solo in 1946, and recorded his biggest seller the following year. The song was "Mam'selle", written by Mack Gordon (lyrics) and Edmund Goulding (melody). This gramophone record was #1 in the U.S. Billboard magazine chart and earned a gold disc. Other hits for Lund were "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China", "What'll I Do", "You Call Everybody Darlin'" and "Peg O' My Heart". He also recorded "Blue Skies", "My Blue Heaven", and "Mona Lisa."
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Bea Arthur
Beatrice "Bea" Arthur (May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedienne and singer whose career spanned seven decades. Arthur achieved fame as the character Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family and Maude, and as Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, winning Emmy Awards for both roles. A stage actress both before and after her television success, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Vera Charles in the original cast of Mame (1966).
Arthur was born Bernice Frankel on May 13, 1922 to Philip and Rebecca Frankel (1902–1986) in New York City. In 1933 her family moved to Cambridge, Maryland, where her parents operated a women's clothing shop. She attended Linden Hall School for Girls, an all girls boarding school in Lititz, Pennsylvania, before enrolling in the now-defunct Blackstone College for Girls in Blackstone, Virginia, where she was active in drama productions.
Arthur joined the United States Marine Corps in 1943. She worked at such jobs as typist and truck driver, and was honorably discharged with the rank of staff sergeant in 1945. She had a single misconduct report in 1944 for contracting venereal disease. During her time in the Marines, she married another Marine, Robert Aurthur, and changed her last name. She later denied having served in the military.
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Ben Grauer
Benjamin Franklin Grauer (June 2, 1908 – May 31, 1977) was an US radio and TV personality, following a career during the 1920s as a child actor in films and on Broadway. He began his career as a child in David Warfield's production of The Return of Peter Grimm. Among his early credits were roles in films directed by D.W. Griffith.
Grauer was born in Staten Island, New York. After graduating from Townsend Harris High School, he received his B.A. from the City College of New York in 1930. Grauer started in radio as an actor but soon became part of the broadcasting staff at the National Broadcasting Company. He was one of the four narrators, along with Burgess Meredith, of NBC's public affairs series The Big Story, which focused on courageous journalists.
In 1954, he married interior designer Melanie Kahane.
Grauer's greatest fame lies in his legendary 40-year career in radio. In 1930, the 22-year-old Benjamin Franklin Grauer joined the staff at NBC. He quickly rose through the ranks to become a senior commentator and reporter. He was the designated announcer for the popular 1940s Walter Winchell's Jergens Journal. Perhaps, most importantly, he was selected by Arturo Toscanini to become the voice of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Grauer took over as announcer in 1940 and remained until the orchestra was disbanded in June 1954. Toscanini said he was his favorite announcer.
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Benny Goodman
Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman (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."
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.
Goodman was born in Chicago, the ninth of twelve children of poor Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, who lived in the Maxwell Street neighborhood. His father was David Goodman, a tailor from Warsaw; his mother was Dora Grisinsky (from Kaunas, Lithuania). His parents met in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Chicago before Benny was born.
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Bette Midler
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys. During her more than forty-year career, Midler has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Her voice type is categorized as deep mezzo soprano.
Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her parents moved from Paterson, New Jersey to Honolulu before she was born, and hers was one of the few Jewish families in a mostly Asian neighborhood. Her mother, Ruth (née Schindel), was a seamstress and housewife, and her father, Fred Midler, worked at a Navy base in Hawaii as a painter. She was named after actress Bette Davis, though Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one, /ˈbɛt/. She was raised in Aiea and attended Radford High School, in Honolulu. She was voted "Most Talkative" in the 1961 school Hoss Election, and in her Senior Year (Class of 1963), "Most Dramatic". Midler majored in drama at the University of Hawaii, but left after three semesters. She earned money in the 1966 film Hawaii as an extra, playing an uncredited seasick passenger named Miss David Buff.
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artistes of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation.
A multimedia star, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations; this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como,Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for American G.I. morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.
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Carole King
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, her Tapestry album topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
She was most successful as a performer in the first half of the 1970s, although she was a successful songwriter long before and long after. She had her first number 1 hit as a songwriter in 1961 at age 18, with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which she wrote with Goffin. In 1997, she co-wrote "The Reason" for Aerosmith, but instead it was sung by Celine Dion.
In 2000, Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most successful female songwriter of 1955–99, because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry. Her most recent non-compilation album is Live at the Troubadour, a collaboration with James Taylor, which reached number 4 on the charts in its first week, and has sold over 600,000 copies.
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Charlie Parker
Charles Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
Parker acquired the nickname "Yardbird" early in his career and the shortened form, "Bird", which continued to be used for the rest of his life, inspiring the titles of a number of Parker compositions, such as "Yardbird Suite", "Ornithology", "Bird Gets the Worm", and "Bird of Paradise."
Parker was a highly influential jazz soloist and a leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and improvisation. Parker introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas, including rapidly passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. His tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber. Many Parker recordings demonstrate virtuosic technique and complex melodic lines, combining jazz with other musical genres, including blues, Latin, and classical.
Parker was an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual, rather than an entertainer.
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Chris Connor
Chris Connor (November 8, 1927 – August 29, 2009) was an American jazz singer.
She was born as Mary Loutsenhizer in Kansas City, Missouri to Clyde and Mabel Loutsenhizer. She studied and became proficient on the clarinet, having studied for 8 years throughout junior high and high school. Mabel Loutsenhizer died in 1940 and young Mary moved in with her older sister, who took over the responsibility of raising her. She first sang publicly in 1945, at the Jefferson City Junior College's graduation.
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Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminski; January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. His best known performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire nonsense songs.
Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), and — perhaps his most accomplished performance — The Court Jester (1956). His films were extremely popular, especially his bravura performances of patter songs and children's favorites such as The Inch Worm and The Ugly Duckling. He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his many years of work with the organization.
David Daniel Kaminski was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn. Jacob and Clara Nemerovsky Kaminski and their two sons, Larry and Mac, left Ekaterinoslav two years before his birth; he was the only one of their sons born in the United States. He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, where he began entertaining his young classmates with songs and jokes, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated. His mother died when he was in his early teens. Clara enjoyed the impressions and humor of her youngest son and always had words of encouragement for them; her death was a great loss for young Danny.
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Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz; January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy (also known as The Danny Thomas Show). He was also the founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He was the father of Marlo Thomas, Terre Thomas, and Tony Thomas.
Thomas was born in Deerfield, Michigan, to Charles Yakhoob Kairouz and his wife Margaret Taouk in 1912. His parents were Maronite Catholic immigrants from Lebanon. Thomas was raised in Toledo, Ohio, attending St. Francis de Sales Church (Roman Catholic), Woodward High School and finally The University of Toledo, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Thomas was confirmed in the Catholic Church by the bishop of Toledo, Samuel Stritch. Stritch, a native of Tennessee, was a lifelong spiritual advisor for Thomas, and urged him to locate the St. Jude Hospital in Memphis. He married Rose Marie Cassaniti in 1936, a week after his 24th birthday.
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Dave Barbour
Dave Barbour (May 28, 1912 – December 11, 1965) was an American musician. He was a jazz banjoist and guitarist, a pop songwriter, an actor, and the husband of Peggy Lee for nine years.
Barbour was born in Long Island, New York started off as a banjoist with Adrian Rollini in 1933 and then Wingy Manone in 1934. He switched to guitar in the middle of the decade and played with Red Norvo in 1935-1936. He found much work as a studio musician and played in ensembles with Artie Shaw (1939), Lennie Hayton, Charlie Barnet (1945), Raymond Scott, Glenn Miller, Lou Holden, and Woody Herman (1949). He also recorded with Andre Previn in 1945.
He played with Benny Goodman in 1942, and while a member of Goodman's ensemble, he fell in love with lead singer Peggy Lee, and the pair quit the group to marry in 1943. Soon after they moved to Los Angeles, Johnny Mercer put them to work as a songwriting team, and they wrote a number of Lee's hits, such as "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" and "It's a Good Day". Barbour was an alcoholic and had domestic troubles with Lee; this eventually split apart their marriage, which ended in 1952. Dave Barbour and His Orchestra had the best-selling version (USA) of the peppy song "Mambo Jambo."
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Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry (born July 1, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers. Her acting career spans over thirty film roles and numerous television appearances.
Harry was born in Miami, Florida, and adopted by Catherine Harry and Richard Smith, gift shop proprietors in Hawthorne, New Jersey. She attended Hawthorne High School, where she graduated in 1963. She graduated from Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, with an Associate of Arts degree in 1965.[citation needed] Before starting her singing career she moved to New York City in the late 1960s and worked as a secretary at BBC Radio's office there for one year. Later, she was a waitress at Max's Kansas City, a go-go dancer in Union City, New Jersey, discothèque,[citation needed] and a Playboy Bunny.
Deborah Harry began her musical career in the late '60s with the folk rock group The Wind in the Willows, that recorded one album for Capitol Records. Harry then joined The Stilettos, with Elda Gentile and Amanda Jones, in 1974. The Stilettos included her eventual boyfriend and Blondie guitarist Chris Stein. When Harry and Stein left the Stilettos, they formed Angel and the Snake, with Tish and Snooky Bellomo. Shortly thereafter, Harry and Stein formed Blondie, naming it for the term of address men often yelled at Harry when she bleached her hair. Blondie quickly became regulars at Max's Kansas City and CBGB in New York City. After a debut album in 1976, commercial success followed in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, first in Australia and Europe, then in the United States.
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Dewey Martin (actor)
Dewey Martin is a retired American film and television actor.
Martin was born December 8, 1923 in Katemcy, Texas. His film debut was an uncredited part in Knock on Any Door (1949). He also appeared in The Thing from Another World (1951), co-starred with Kirk Douglas in The Big Sky (1952), played younger brother of Humphrey Bogart in The Desperate Hours (1955), and was featured opposite Dean Martin in his first post-Martin and Lewis film, the notorious flop Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), but did not became a full-fledged star.
He worked extensively in television as well, including The Twilight Zone episode "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" and The Outer Limits episode "The Premonition", co-written by Ib Melchior. Martin also played Daniel Boone on four 1960 episodes of Walt Disney's The Wonderful World of Color, an unsuccessful attempt to duplicate the national craze which had ensued when Fess Parker had portrayed Davy Crockett on the same series several years earlier.
Martin was married to singer Peggy Lee for two years; they divorced.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (
/ɡɨˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and, occasionally, singer.
Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated . . . Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time."
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.
In the 1940s Gillespie, together with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. In the opinion of Bob Blumenthal of The Boston Globe "In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington." A major figure in the history of jazz, Ellington's music stretched into various other genres, including blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical. His career spanned more than 50 years and included leading his orchestra, composing an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. Several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and extraordinary charisma, he is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music. His reputation increased after his death and the Pulitzer Prize Board bestowed on him a special posthumous honor in 1999.
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Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienOBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual sound, she was an important white soul singer, and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970. She is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the U.K. Music Hall of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time.
Born in West London to an Irish Catholic family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. She joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters, in 1958, then formed the pop-folk vocal trio The Springfields in 1960 with her brother Dion.
Her solo career began in 1963 with the upbeat pop hit, "I Only Want to Be with You" (1963). Among the hits that followed were "Wishin' and Hopin'" (1964), "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (1964), "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966), and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968). A fan of American pop music, she was the first public figure to bring little-known soul singers to a wider British audience, when she created and hosted the first British performances of the top-selling Motown artists in 1965. By 1966, she was the best-selling female singer in the world, and topped a number of popularity polls, including Melody Maker's Best International Vocalist. She was the first British singer to top the New Musical Express readers' poll for Female Singer. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde beehive hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of her 59-year recording career, she was the winner of 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.
Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia, the child of a common-law marriage between William and Temperance "Tempie" Fitzgerald. The pair separated soon after her birth and she and her mother went to Yonkers, New York, where they eventually moved in with Tempie's longtime boyfriend, Joseph Da Silva. Fitzgerald's half-sister, Frances Da Silva, was born in 1923. She and her family were Methodists and were active in the Bethany African Methodist Episcopal Church and she regularly attended worship services, Bible study, and Sunday School.
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Francis Lai
Francis Lai (born April 26, 1932, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France) is a French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores.
While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene. In 1965 he met filmmaker Claude Lelouch and was hired to help write the score for the film, Un homme et une femme (A Man and A Woman). Released in 1966, the film was a major international success, earning a number of Academy Awards, and for the young Francis Lai, a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Best Original Score". This initial success brought more opportunities to work for the film industry both in his native France as well as in Great Britain and the United States. He is known for his support of Mireille Mathieu in many compositions and recordings. In 1969, he wrote the score for director René Clément's film, Rider On The Rain ("Le Passager de la Pluie"). It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc in September 1971.
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra, /sɨˈnɑːtrə/, (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and film actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.
He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 (finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".
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Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen (February 15, 1905 - April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. "Over the Rainbow," in fact, was voted the twentieth century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Arlen was born Hyman Arluck, in Buffalo, New York, the child of a Jewish cantor. His twin brother died the next day. He learned the piano as a youth and formed a band as a young man. He achieved some local success as a pianist and singer and moved to New York City in his early 20s. He worked as an accompanist in vaudeville. At this point, he changed his name to Harold Arlen. Between 1926 and about 1934, Arlen appeared occasionally as a band vocalist on records by The Buffalodians, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti, Leo Reisman and Eddie Duchin, usually singing his own compositions.
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James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
Taylor achieved his major breakthrough in 1970 with the #3 single "Fire and Rain" and had his first #1 hit the following year with "You've Got a Friend", a recording of Carole King's classic song. His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million US copies. Following his 1977 album, JT, he has retained a large audience over the decades. His commercial achievements declined slightly until a big resurgence during the late 1990s and 2000s, when some of his best-selling and most-awarded albums (including Hourglass, October Road and Covers) were released.
James Taylor was born at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1948, where his father, Isaac M. Taylor, was a resident physician. His father was from a well-off family of Southern Scottish ancestry. His mother, the former Gertrude Woodard, had studied singing with Marie Sundelius at the New England Conservatory of Music and was an aspiring opera singer before the couple's marriage in 1946. James was the second of five children, the others being Alex (1947-1993), Kate (born 1949), Livingston (born 1950), and Hugh (born 1952).
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Jimmy Durante
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. His jokes about his nose included referring to it as a "Schnozzola", and the word became his nickname.
Durante was born on the Lower East Side of New York City. He was the youngest of four children born to Bartolomeo Durante and his mail-order bride Rosa, both of whom were immigrants from Salerno, Italy. Bartolomeo was a barber, and his wife Rosa was the sister of a woman who lived in the same boarding house. Jimmy Durante served as an altar boy at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, known as the Actor's Chapel.
Durante dropped out of school in eighth grade to become a full-time ragtime pianist. He first played with his cousin, whose name was also "Jimmy Durante." It was a family act, but he was too professional for his cousin. He continued working the city's piano bar circuit and earned the nickname "Ragtime Jimmy," before he joined one of the first recognizable jazz bands in New York, the Original New Orleans Jazz Band. Durante was the only member not from New Orleans. His routine of breaking into a song to deliver a joke, with band or orchestra chord punctuation after each line, became a Durante trademark. In 1920, the group was renamed Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band.
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Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Stafford was greatly admired for the purity of her voice and was considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era. She was also viewed as a pioneer of modern musical parody, having won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 1961 (with husband Paul Weston) for their album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris. She was also the first woman to have a No 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Stafford's work in radio, television and music is recognized by three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Stafford was born in Coalinga, California in 1917 to Grover Cleveland Stafford and Anna York Stafford, a second cousin of World War I hero Sergeant Alvin York; both parents enjoyed singing and sharing music with their family. Her father had hopes of being a success in the California oil fields when he moved his family from Gainesboro, Tennessee; what he found instead was a succession of various jobs. When he worked for a private girls' school, Grover was allowed to bring the school's phonograph home on Christmas. Stafford remembered hearing "Whispering Hope" on it as a small child. Her mother was an accomplished banjo player, playing and singing many of the folk songs which would become an influence on her daughter's later career.
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Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel (November 23, 1925) is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.
Born John Alfred Mandel, New York, N.Y., to Alfred, a garment manufacturer, and Hannah, an opera singer, who discovered when he was aged 5 that he had perfect pitch. Piano lessons ensued but Johnny switched to the trumpet and later the trombone. Mandel married Martha Blanner in 1970 and has a daughter, Marrisa, born in 1976.
He studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School. In 1943 he played the trumpet with Joe Venuti, in 1944 with Billy Rogers and trombone in the bands of Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, Buddy Rich, Georgie Auld and Chubby Jackson. In 1949 he accompanied the singer June Christy in the orchestra of Bob Cooper. From 1951 till 1953 he played and arranged music in Elliot Lawrence's orchestra, and in 1953 with Count Basie. Later he resided in Los Angeles, where he played the bass trumpet for Zoot Sims. A 1944 Band graduate of New York Military Academy, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, he wrote jazz compositions like "Not Really the Blues" for Woody Herman in 1949, "Hershey Bar" (1950) and "Pot Luck" (1953) for Stan Getz, "Straight Life" (1953) and "Low Life" (1956) for Count Basie as well as "Tommyhawk" (1954) for Chet Baker.
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Judy Garland
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. 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.
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Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations. Schifrin, associated with the jazz music genre, is also noted for work with Clint Eastwood in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, particularly the Dirty Harry films.
Schifrin was born Boris Claudio Schifrin in Buenos Aires to Jewish parents. His father, Luis Schifrin, led the second violin section of the orchestra at the Teatro Colón for three decades. At the age of six, Schifrin began a six-year course of study on piano with Enrique Barenboim, the father of the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. At age 16, Schifrin began studying piano with the Greek-Russian expatriate Andreas Karalis, former head of the Kiev Conservatory, and harmony with Argentine composer Juan Carlos Paz. During this time, Schifrin also became interested in jazz.
Although Schifrin studied sociology and law at the University of Buenos Aires, it was music that captured his attention. At age 20, he successfully applied for a scholarship to the Paris Conservatoire. While there, he attended Olivier Messiaen's classes and formally studied with Charles Koechlin, a disciple of Maurice Ravel. At night he played jazz in the Paris clubs. In 1955, Schifrin played piano with Ástor Piazzolla and represented his country at the International Jazz Festival in Paris.
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Laurindo Almeida
Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917, São Paulo, Brazil - July 26, 1995, Van Nuys, California) was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres. He is widely credited, with fellow artist Bud Shank, for creating the fusion of Latin and jazz which came to be known as the “bossa nova.” Almeida was the first artist to receive Grammy Awards for both classical and jazz performances. His discography encompasses more than a hundred recordings over five decades.
Laurindo Jose de Araujo Almeida Nobrega Neto was born in the village of Prainha, Brazil near Santos in the state of São Paulo.
Born into a musical family, Almeida was a self-taught guitarist. During his teenage years, Almeida moved to São Paulo, where he worked as a radio artist, staff arranger and nightclub performer. At the age of 19, he worked his way to Europe playing guitar in a cruise ship orchestra. In Paris, he attended a performance at the Hot Club by Stephane Grappelli and famed guitarist Django Reinhardt, who became a lifelong artistic inspiration.
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Lil Green
Lil Green (December 22, 1919 – April 14, 1954) was an American blues singer and songwriter. She was among the leading female rhythm and blues singers of the 1940s, possessed with an ability to bring power to ordinary material and compose superior songs of her own.
Originally named Lillian Green, she was born in Mississippi; after the early deaths of her parents, she went to Chicago, Illinois, where she began performing in her teens and where she would make all of her recordings.
Green was noted for superb timing and a distinctively sinuous voice. She was 18 when she recorded her first session for the 35 cent Bluebird subsidiary of RCA. In the 1930s she and Big Bill Broonzy had a night club act together. Her two biggest hits were, firstly, her own composition "Romance in the Dark" (1940), which was later covered by many artists, such as Dinah Washington and Nina Simone (in 1967), although Billie Holiday also recorded a different song with the same name. Then came Green's own (1941) version of Kansas Joe McCoy's minor key blues and jazz influenced song, "Why Don't You Do Right?", which was covered by Peggy Lee in 1942 and many others since. As well as performing in Chicago clubs, Green toured with Tiny Bradshaw and other bands, but never really broke away from the black theatre circuit.
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Marian McPartland
Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE (née Turner; born March 20, 1918) is an English-born jazz pianist, composer, writer, and was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio until she stepped down on November 10, 2011.
Marian Turner was a musical prodigy from the time she could sit at the piano, about the age of three. She studied classical music and the violin, in addition to the piano.
She pursued classical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Much to the dismay of her family, she developed a love for American jazz and musicians such as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Mary Lou Williams, and many others. In 1938, despite her family's efforts to keep her at Guildhall, Marian left to join Billy Mayerl's Claviers, a four-piano vaudeville act, performing under the stage name of Marian Page. The group toured throughout Europe during World War II, entertaining Allied troops.
While touring with USO shows in Belgium, she met and began performing with Chicago cornetist Jimmy McPartland in 1944. The couple soon married, playing at their own military base wedding in Germany.
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Martin Block
Martin Block (February 3, 1903 – September 18, 1967) born in Los Angeles, California, was an American disc jockey. Walter Winchell is said to have invented the term "disk jockey" as a means of describing Block's radio work.
He began working in radio in Tijuana, Mexico; before that, he sold small household items and appliances. At age 13, he became an office boy at General Electric. When his career had stalled in Los Angeles, Block moved his family to New York; he was only there for a week before he got an announcing job. Block came up with two famous advertising slogans for his sponsors: "ABC-Always Buy Chesterfield" for Liggett & Myers and "LSMFT"-Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco" for Lucky Strike. He was also an avid amateur radio operator with a large station at his home in Englewood, New Jersey.
In 1935, while listeners to New York's WNEW in New York (now information outlet WBBR) were awaiting developments in the Lindbergh kidnapping, Block built his audience by playing records between the Lindbergh news bulletins. This led to his Make Believe Ballroom, which began February 3, 1935 with Block borrowing both the concept and the title from West Coast disc jockey Al Jarvis, creating the illusion that he was broadcasting from a ballroom with the nation’s top dance bands performing live. He bought some records from a local music shop for the program as the radio station had none. Block purchased five Clyde McCoy records, selecting his "Sugar Blues" for the radio show's initial theme song.
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Maureen McGovern
Maureen Therese McGovern (born July 27, 1949) is an American singer and Broadway actress, well known for her premier renditions of the Oscar-winning songs "The Morning After" from the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure, and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno in 1974.
McGovern was born in Youngstown, Ohio, the daughter of James Terrence McGovern and Mary Rita (née Welsh). She has Irish ancestry. As a child, McGovern would listen to her father's singing quartet rehearse in their home. She was told by her elders that she began singing at the age of three, and would sometimes sing herself to sleep with things she heard on the radio. She decided at age eight that she wanted to be a professional singer. Her influences include Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick.
After graduating from Boardman High School in 1967, she worked as a secretary and performed part-time as a singer for a local folk band called Sweet Rain. Her singing caught the attention of Russ Regan (then head of 20th Century Records) in 1972 when he heard a demonstration she had recorded. At the time, Regan was searching for a singer to record "The Morning After" (the theme from The Poseidon Adventure) for release as a record. He hired McGovern sight unseen to record the song, which resulted in her contracting with 20th Century Records. After it won an Oscar for Best Original Song, "The Morning After" scored well on the popular music charts, reaching #1 during 1973. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in August 1973. Following the success of "The Morning After," she received a Grammy Award nomination in 1974 for Best New Artist.
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Mel Allen
Mel Allen (Hebrew name: Mordechai ben Yehuda Elya; February 14, 1913 – June 16, 1996) was an American sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the primary play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees. During the peak of his career in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Allen was arguably the most prominent member of his profession, his voice familiar to millions. Years after his death, he is still promoted as having been the "Voice of the New York Yankees." In his later years, he gained a second professional life as the first host of This Week in Baseball.
Allen was born Melvin Allen Israel in Birmingham, Alabama. (Biographer Stephen Borelli notes Allen added the middle name Avrom, to honor a grandfather of his with that name who had died.) The future sportscaster was educated as a lawyer, but a boyhood love for baseball led him to become first a sports columnist and then a radio announcer. He attended the University of Alabama where he was a member of Kappa Nu Fraternity as an undergraduate. He went on to earn a law degree from Alabama as well.
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Mel Torme
Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He composed the music for the classic holiday song "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells.
Melvin Howard Tormé was born in Chicago, Illinois, to immigrant Russian Jewish parents, whose surname had been Torma. However, the name was changed at Ellis Island to "Torme." A child prodigy, he first sang professionally at age 4 with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, singing "You're Driving Me Crazy" at Chicago's Blackhawk restaurant.
Between 1933 and 1941, he acted in the network radio serials The Romance of Helen Trent and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy. He wrote his first song at 13, and three years later, his first published song, "Lament to Love," became a hit recording for Harry James. He played drums in Chicago's Shakespeare Elementary School drum and bugle corps in his early teens. While a teenager, he sang, arranged, and played drums in a band led by Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers. His formal education ended in 1944 with his graduation from Chicago's Hyde Park High School.
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Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He composed the music for the classic holiday song "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells.
Melvin Howard Tormé was born in Chicago, Illinois, to immigrant Russian Jewish parents, whose surname had been Torma. However, the name was changed at Ellis Island to "Torme." A child prodigy, he first sang professionally at age 4 with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, singing "You're Driving Me Crazy" at Chicago's Blackhawk restaurant.
Between 1933 and 1941, he acted in the network radio serials The Romance of Helen Trent and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy. He wrote his first song at 13, and three years later, his first published song, "Lament to Love," became a hit recording for Harry James. He played drums in Chicago's Shakespeare Elementary School drum and bugle corps in his early teens. While a teenager, he sang, arranged, and played drums in a band led by Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers. His formal education ended in 1944 with his graduation from Chicago's Hyde Park High School.
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Mitchell Ayres
Mitchell Ayres (December 24, 1909 – September 5, 1969) was an orchestra leader, music arranger, composer and performer. He is best known for his many years of work with Perry Como on radio, records, and television and as the musical conductor for The Hollywood Palace.
Born Mitchell Agress in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he attended Columbia University, majoring in physical education, but began performing professionally at the Brooklyn Academy of Music while still a Columbia student. After graduation, Ayres became a violinist with the Roxy Theater Orchestra; he later moved on to the same position with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Because he wanted to return to New York, Ayres left classical music for popular, accepting a job with Jimmy Carr's Orchestra. Ayres later worked with Abe Lyman and Jack Little, known as Little Jack Little.
In 1937, after working in Little's band for a few years, Ayres and some of the other musicians decided to break away and start their own band. The musicians were extremely business-minded when planning their venture. The band was treated like a company, where each member had an equal number of stock shares in the new band. The orchestra leader was decided by election, and it was Ayres who was voted the head of the orchestra. Calling themselves "Fashions in Music" and selecting the song "You Go to My Head" as their theme, the members worked on arrangements and developing their own style while waiting for their first engagement. It took some time, but the orchestra got its first job at Brooklyn's Hotel St. George. The original contract with the hotel called for the band to play there for four weeks; their stay turned out to be seven months long.
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Nancy Sinatra
Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains best known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".
Other defining recordings include "Sugar Town", the 1967 number one "Somethin' Stupid" (a duet with her father), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as "Jackson", and her cover of Cher's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", which features during the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
Sinatra began her career as a singer and actress in the early 1960s, but initially achieved success only in Europe and Japan. In early 1966 she had a transatlantic number-one hit with "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", which showed her provocative but good-natured style, and which popularized and made her synonymous with go-go boots. The promo clip featured a big-haired Sinatra and six young women in tight tops, go-go boots and mini-skirts. The song was written by Lee Hazlewood, who wrote and produced most of her hits and sang with her on several duets, including the critical and cult favorite "Some Velvet Morning". In 1966 and 1967, Sinatra charted with 13 titles, all of which featured Billy Strange as arranger and conductor.
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Neil Papiano
Neil Papiano born (1934-11-25) November 25, 1934 (age 77), in Salt Lake City, Utah, is an American lawyer, and managing partner of Iverson, Yoakum, Papiano & Hatch. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University, the latter in 1957, and an LL.B. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1961. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1961 and is a member of the Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations. His practice areas are civil litigation and appellate practice, entertainment law, libel and defamation litigation, and corporation and securities law.
In the mid-1970s, Papiano was hired by Oakland Athletics owner Charlie Finley to file a restraint-of-trade lawsuit against Major League Baseball and Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. In the Spring of 1976, Finley commenced a "fire sale" of the team's highly paid players, including Reggie Jackson. When Finley sold Vida Blue to the New York Yankees and Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to the Boston Red Sox, Kuhn voided the sales as being contrary to the "best interest of baseball." Papiano and Finley lost the case, as the court ruled that "the Commissioner has the authority to determine whether any act, transaction, or practice is not within the best interest of baseball, and upon such determination, to take whatever preventative or remedial action he deems appropriate, whether or not the act, transaction, or practice complies with the Major league Rules or involves moral turpitude." Charles O. Finley vs. Bowie Kuhn, 7th Circuit, 1978. The judge stated that the question before him was not whether he agreed with Kuhn's action, but whether Kuhn had the power to act.
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Norwegian American
Norwegian Americans (Norwegian: norskamerikanere) are Americans of Norwegian descent. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the later half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans according to the most recent U.S. census, and most live in the Upper Midwest. Norwegian Americans currently comprise the 10th largest American ancestry group.
Norsemen from Greenland and Iceland were the first Europeans to reach North America. Leif Ericson reached North America via Norse settlements in Greenland around the year 1000. Norse settlers from Greenland founded the settlement of L'Anse aux Meadows in Vinland, in what is now Newfoundland, Canada. These settlers failed to establish a permanent settlement.
There was a Norwegian presence in New Amsterdam (New York after 1664) in the early part of 17th century. Hans Hansen Bergen, a native of Bergen, Norway, was one of the earliest settlers of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam having immigrated in 1633. Another of the first Norwegian settlers was Albert Andriessen Bradt who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1637. Pieter Van Brugh, Mayor of Albany, New York was the grandson of Norwegian immigrants. His mother's parents were Roelof Janse (1602–1637), born in Marstrandsön, a small island situated in Båhuslen province in Norway (it was ceded to Sweden in 1658) and Anneke Jans (1605–1663), born on Flekkerøy, an island situated outside the town of Kristiansand, Vest-Agder county, Norway.
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Patti Page
Clara Ann Fowler (born November 8, 1927), known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records. Her nickname is The Singin' Rage (a phrase commonly followed by "Miss Patti Page").
Page signed with Mercury Records in 1947, and became their first successful female artist, starting with 1948's "Confess". In 1950, she had her first million-selling single "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming", and would eventually have 14 additional million-selling singles between 1950 and 1965.
Page's signature song, "Tennessee Waltz", recorded in 1950, was one of the biggest-selling singles of the twentieth century, and is also one of the two official state songs of Tennessee. "Tennessee Waltz" spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard magazine's Best-Sellers List in 1950. Page had three additional #1 hit singles between 1950 and 1953, with "All My Love (Bolero)", "I Went to Your Wedding", and "(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window".
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
According to the BBC, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists—more than any other song. Wings' 1977 release, "Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness. As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.
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Paul Weston
Paul Weston (March 12, 1912 – September 20, 1996) was an American pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. Weston was born Paul Wetstein in Springfield, Massachusetts. Weston has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring his work in music.
Though born in Springfield, Weston was reared in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where his family moved when he was two years old. The son of Paul Wetstein, a teacher, and Anna Grady, his parents were also interested in music. At age eight, he started piano lessons. He was an economics major at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1933. During his college days, Weston had his own band called "the Green Serenaders"; this allowed him to pay his own college tuition. Weston also learned how to play the clarinet so he could travel with the college band. He went to graduate school at Columbia University and was active in the Blue Lions, Columbia's dance band. In January 1934, Weston was seriously injured in a train accident. Unable to be active in a band, he started doing music arranging as a way to keep some involvement with music while convalescing.
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Peggy Lee
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.
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. Her father was Swedish American and her mother was Norwegian American.
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.
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Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr. C.", as he was nicknamed, sold millions of records for Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and pioneered a weekly musical variety television show, which set the standards for the genre and proved to be one of the most successful in television history. Como was seen weekly on television from 1949 to 1963, then continued hosting the Kraft Music Hall variety program on a monthly basis until 1967. His television shows and seasonal specials were broadcast throughout the world. Also a popular recording artist, Perry Como produced numerous hit records with record sales so high the label literally stopped counting at Como's behest. His combined success on television and popular recordings was not matched by any other artist of the time. Como's appeal spanned generations and he was widely respected for both his professional standards and the conduct in his personal life. In the official RCA Records Billboard magazine memorial, his life was summed up in these few words: "50 years of music and a life well lived. An example to all." Composer Ervin Drake said of him, "... [o]ccasionally someone like Perry comes along and won't 'go with the flow' and still prevails in spite of all the bankrupt others who surround him and importune him to yield to their values. Only occasionally."
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Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress and composer whose career has spanned eight decades.
Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II. During the 1950s she started recording in French and having international success in both French and English, with such songs as "The Little Shoemaker", "Baby Lover", "With All My Heart" and "Prends Mon Coeur". During the 1960s she became known globally for her popular upbeat hits, including "Downtown", "I Know a Place", "My Love", "Colour My World", "A Sign of the Times", and "Don't Sleep in the Subway". She has sold in excess of 68 million records throughout her career.
Born to English father Leslie Norman Clark and Welsh mother Doris (née Phillips), both nurses at Long Grove Hospital, in Epsom, Surrey, England, she was christened Petula Sally Olwen Clark. Her father Leslie coined her first name, jokingly alleging it was a combination of the names of two former girlfriends, Pet and Ulla. As a child, she sang in the chapel choir and showed a talent for mimicry, frequently impersonating Vera Lynn, Carmen Miranda and Sophie Tucker for the amusement of family and friends. Her father introduced her to theatre when he took her to see Flora Robson in a 1938 production of Mary Tudor; she later recalled that after the performance "I made up my mind then and there I was going to be an actress ... I wanted to be Ingrid Bergman more than anything else in the world." However, her first public performances were as a singer, performing with an orchestra in the entrance hall of Bentall's Department Store in Kingston upon Thames for a tin of toffee and a gold wristwatch, in 1939.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song "The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971, Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African American, each of them having seven nominations. At the 2008 BET Awards, Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award. He was played by Larenz Tate in the 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. Following this ground-breaking work, he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence".
Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays – Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, published respectively in 1841 and 1844 – represent the core of his thinking, and include such well-known essays as Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet and Experience. Together with Nature, these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.
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Richard Barone
Richard Barone is a rock musician born in Tampa, Florida who gained attention as frontman for The Bongos. He works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and producer, releases albums as a solo artist, tours, and has created major concert events at Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl and New York's Central Park.
Barone began his career at age 7 as 'The Littlest DJ' on a local Tampa top-40 radio station, and later gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for The Bongos, a critically acclaimed new wave band at the center of the early 1980s Hoboken, New Jersey music scene. After their first string of independent singles, released on the U.K.- based Fetish label and compiled for the U.S. as Drums Along the Hudson (PVC), the group signed to RCA Records. Barone has been called a "gifted pop-rock tunesmith," and, stepping out as a solo artist, Barone's albums have ventured into chamber pop, orchestral, and more narrative singer-songwriter territory.
Barone actually released his first solo album, Cool Blue Halo (recorded live at the Bottom Line in New York) before The Bongos' amicable breakup in 1987. Anthony DeCurtis, writing in Rolling Stone, praised Barone's "spare, elegant arrangements" and credits him with fashioning "a kind of rock chamber music." While Trouser Press described the record as "intimate but confused,"NPR's Tom Moon, in a more recent assessment, called the album "a plaintive masterpiece," and credited Barone with foreshadowing Nirvana's Unplugged performance of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World," adding "Cool Blue Halo feels timeless, and maybe even exotic." In 2012, for the 25th Anniversary of the album, a special reunion concert was planned along with a multi-disc boxset including the remastered album, concert DVD, and many special features. [1]
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Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress. She is the only Hispanic and one of the few performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, and was the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award.
Moreno was born Rosa Dolores Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico, to Rosa María, a seamstress, and Paco Alverío, a farmer. She moved with her mother to New York City at the age of five, and took the surname of her stepfather, Edward Moreno.
She began her first dancing lessons soon after arriving in New York from a friend of her mother, a Spanish dancer called Paco Cansino, who was the uncle of Rita Hayworth. When she was 11 years old, she lent her voice to Spanish language versions of American films.
She had her first Broadway role — as "Angelina" in Skydrift — by the time she was 13, which caught the attention of Hollywood talent scouts. She appeared in small roles in The Toast of New Orleans and Singin' in the Rain, in which she played Zelda Zanners.
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Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian (better known as David Seville, the father figure of Alvin and the Chipmunks), which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" (a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati), "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House", although she had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002. She was the aunt of Academy Award winning actor George Clooney.
Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, the daughter of Marie Frances (Guilfoyle) and Andrew Joseph Clooney. Her father was of Irish and German descent and her mother was of Irish and English ancestry. She was raised Catholic. When Clooney was fifteen, her mother and brother, Nick, moved to California. She and her sister, Betty, remained with their father.[citation needed] The family resided in the John Brett Richeson House in the late 1940s.
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Sonny Burke
Sonny Burke (born Joseph Francis Burke; March 22, 1914, Scranton, Pennsylvania – May 31, 1980) was an accomplished musical arranger, composer, big band leader and producer. In 1937, he graduated from Duke University, where he had formed and led the jazz big band known as the Duke Ambassadors.
During the 1930s and 1940s he was a big band arranger in New York, worked with Sam Donahue's band, and during the 1940s and 1950s worked as an arranger for the Charlie Spivak and Jimmy Dorsey bands, among others. In 1955 he wrote, along with Peggy Lee, the songs to Disney's Lady and the Tramp. He also wrote songs with John Elliot for Disney's Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom which won the 1953 Oscar for Best Short Animated Feature.
He wrote the music for number of popular songs that continue to be regarded as 'standards'. These include, Black Coffee, with lyric by Paul Francis Webster, and "Midnight Sun" co-written with jazz vibraphonist Lionel Hampton. The songs famous lyric was added later by Johnny Mercer. Burke was an active arranger, conductor and 'A and R man' [Artists and repertoire] in major Hollywood recording studios, including and especially Decca Records.
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The Fontane Sisters
The Fontane Sisters were a trio (Bea, Geri and Marge Rosse) from New Milford, New Jersey.
Their mother, Louise Rosse, was both a soloist and the leader of the St. Joseph's Church choir in New Milford. Bea and Marge started out singing for local functions, doing so well, they were urged to audition in New York City. Originally they performed as a trio with their guitarist brother Frank, under the name the Ross Trio (Rosse with the "e" omitted). The group auditioned for NBC and was soon sent off to work in Cleveland. When they returned to New York in 1944, Frank was drafted into the Army; he was killed in action in World War II. Geri, who had just finished school, took her brother's place, making it an all-girl trio.
The now all-female group chose the name of Fontaine from a great-grandmother; they decided to drop the "i", making themselves the Fontane Sisters. The sisters worked on sustaining (non-sponsored) programs for NBC, meeting and working with Perry Como soon after he came to the network. Word reached the sisters, then in Chicago for NBC, that "Supper Club" would be making cast changes; they were eager for a chance to join Como's show, which also meant being closer to their home. Beginning in the summer of 1948, they were featured on his radio show and television show known as The Chesterfield Supper Club and later (1950–1954) as The Perry Como Show. The trio also did appearances on Chesterfield Sound Off Time when the program originated from New York; however, the television show lasted only one season. The street Fontane Dr in Cornwall, NY was named after the Fontane sisters
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Lee, Peggy Filmography
- My Music: Big Band Vocalists (2012)
- My Music: 50s Pop Parade (2007)
- Duet Impossible (2006)
- Judy Garland Duets (2005)
- Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook (2005)
- Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee (2004)
- Peggy Lee: Singing at Her Best (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)
- Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Honor to Us All (1998)
- 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)
- The Quintessential Peggy Lee (1984)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1982)
- Halloween Treat (1982)
- Halloween Treat (1982)
- A Gift of Music (1981)
- Something Spectacular with Steve Allen (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)
- Julie's Christmas Special (1973)
- Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly (1973)
- Louis Armstrong: 1900 - 1971 (1971)
- The Best on Record (1970)
- Petula (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)
- The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956)
- Happy New Year (1956)
- Jazz Ball (1956)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
- Lady and the Tramp (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)
Lee, Peggy Filmography
- Sky Force 3D (2012)
- Daai mo seut si (2011)
- Re lang qiu ai zhan (2011)
- Little Gobie (2010)
- Di Renjie zhi tongtian diguo (2010)
- Ching yan (2008)
- Tian tang kou (2007)
- DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
- Ultraviolet (2006)
- Kung fu (2004)
- Tian di ying xiong (2003)
- Xun qiang (2002)
- Chik yeung tin si (2002)
- Shuang tong (2002)
- Da wan (2001)
- Shun liu Ni liu (2000)
- Wo hu cang long (2000)
- Wo de fu qin mu qin (1999)
- Da mao xian jia (1995)
Lee, Peggy Filmography
- (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
- Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
- There’s Always Something There To Remind Me
- A Doodlin' Song
- A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues
- All Of Me
- Alone Together
- Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did
- Autumn In Rome
- Bali Ha'i
- Bewitched
- Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
- Big Spender
- Birth of the Blues
- Black Coffee
- Blue Moon
- Blues In The Night
- Boy From Ipanema
- Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Cheek To Cheek
- Chi baba Chi baba
- Come Dance With Me
- Come In From The Rain
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Crazy He Calls Me
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Do I Love You
- Easy Evil
- Elmers Tune
- Fever
- Fools Rush In
- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
- Georgia On My Mind
- God Bless The Child
- Good-for-nothin' Joe
- Hallelujah I Love Him So
- Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
- He's A Tramp
- Hey Look Me Over
- I Can See It Your Way
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love
- I didn't Know What Time It Was
- I Enjoy Being a Girl
- I Left My Sugar (in Salt Lake City)
- I Like Men!
- Im Beginning To See The Light
- I'm Glad There Is You
- I'm Not In Love
Famous quotes by Peggy Lee:
"It had gotten in bad shape."
"They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)"
"Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd."
"I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me."
"Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road."
"You can't beat The Beatles, you join 'em."
"I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby."
"It had gotten in bad shape."
"They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)"
"Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd."
"I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me."
"Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road."
"You can't beat The Beatles, you join 'em."
"I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby."
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Once Around the Moon
- You Was Right, Baby
- I'm Lookin; Out the Window
- It's a Good Day
- Fever
- Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money, Too)
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Too Close for Comfort
- Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
- I've Got the World On a String
- Big Spender
- Black Coffee
- I Love Being Here with You
- Senza Fine
- Is That All There Is?
- 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
- Fever
- Mr. Wonderful
- Lover
- He's a Tramp
- The Siamese Cat Song
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads
- I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard
- Mañana
- Golden Earrings
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- Johnny Guitar
- Riders in the Sky
- Love You Didn't Do Right by Me
- Sisters (feat. Trudy Stevens)
- The Old Master Painter (feat. Mel Tormé)
- Caramba! It's the Samba
- Waiting for the Train to Come In
- It's a Good Day
- Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba
- It's All Over Now
- I'll Dance at Your Wedding
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- Everything I Love
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- Bye, Bye Blackbird
- 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
- (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young
- Love Me or Leave Me
- You're My Thrill
- There's a Small Hotel
- Do I Love You
- Guess I'll Go Back Home (This Summer)
- Street of Dreams
- What's New
- You're Blasé
- 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
- I Still Get a Thrill (Thinking of You)
- It's a Good Day
- Winter Weather
- For Me and My Girl
- Full Moon (Noche de Luna)
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Linger in My Arms a Little Longer Baby
- Manana
- My Old Flame
- I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
- Somebody Nobody Loves
- Accentuate the Positive
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Beside the Zeider Zee
- Everything's Moving Too Fast
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love
- Why Don't You Do Right
- Just One of Those Things
- Waitin' for the Train to Come In
- It's All Over Now
- As Long as I'm Dreaming
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- Golden Earrings
- Johnny Guitar
- Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
- The Old Master Painter
- Bali Ha'i
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- Lover Come Back to Me
- I'm Confessin'
- (When I Dance With You) I Get Ideas
- September in the Rain
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Don't Blame Me
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Autumn in Rome
- Let Me Go Lover
- Sugar
- Me
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Is That All There Is?
- Love Story
- Me and My Shadow
- My Old Flame
- I’m a Woman
- Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show
- Something
- Whistle for Happiness
- Johnny (Linda)
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- He's a Tramp
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Everytime
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- It's a Good Day
- 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
- I Like a Sleighride (Jingle Bells)
- The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
- Don't Forget to Feed the Reindeer
- The Star Carol
- Christmas Carousel
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
- The Christmas Waltz
- White Christmas
- Winter Wonderland
- Little Drummer Boy
- Happy Holiday
- The Christmas Spell
- Song at Midnight
- It's Christmas Time Again
- The Tree
- My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year)
- Don't Smoke in the Bed
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- Would You Dance With a Stranger?
- 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
- 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
- Them There Eyes
- Mañana (Is Good Enough for Me)
- You Was!
- The Way You Look Tonight
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Elmer's Tune
- Merry Go Runaround
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Just One of Those Things
- The Old Master Painter
- 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'
- You Don't Know
- Fever
- 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
- 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
- You've Got to See Mama Every Night
- 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
- 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
- Fever
- He's a Tramp
- Things Are Swingin'
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Caramba! It's the Samba
- I Enjoy Being a Girl
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- Siamese Cat Song
- Big Spender
- I'm a Woman
- Black Coffee
- Don't Smoke in Bed
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- Till There Was You
- Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too)
- 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
- 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
- A Doodlin' Song
- 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
- Elmer's Tune
- That's the Way It Goes
- My Old Flame
- Shady Lady Bird
- Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
- I See a Million People (But All I Can See Is You)
- I Got It Bad (And That Ain'tGood)
- How Deep Is the Ocean?
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
- Somebody Nobody Loves
- How Long Has This Been GoingOn?
- Winter Weather
- Not Mine
- That Did It, Marie
- Ev'rything I Love
- Not a Care in the World
- What More Can a Woman Do?
- Waiting for the Train to Come In
- I Don't Know Enough About You
- It's All Over Now
- It's a Good Day
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- It's a Good Day
- Golden Earrings
- Lover
- Laroo, Laroo, Lili Bolero
- Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby
- Fever
- Mr. Wonderful
- Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)
- It's All Over Now
- Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
- 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?
- Black Coffee
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Easy Living
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- A Woman Alone With the Blues
- 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
- 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
- The Riddle Song
- The Golden Wedding Ring
- 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
- 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
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- He Needs Me
- Guess I'll Go Back Home
- 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
- Manana
- 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
- Fever
- Things Are Swinging
- Fly Me to the Moon
- I'm a Woman
- Manana
- I'll Get By
- Pass Me By
- Till There Was You
- I'm Just Wild About Harry
- Sneakin' Up on You
- It's a Good Day
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Why Don’t You Do Right (Give Me Some Money Too)
- Them There Eyes
- ’deed I Do
- I Don’t Know Enough About You
- It’s a Good Day
- Golden Earrings
- While We’re Young
- Stormy Weather
- Don’t Smoke in Bed
- I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
- 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’m) In Love Again
- I Got Lost in His Arms
- How Insensitive (Insensatez)
- (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings
- Don't Explain
- Can I Change My Mind?
- Lean on Me
- (Sittin' On The) Dock of the Bay
- (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
- Everyday People
- Please Send Me Someone to Love
- Spinning Wheel
- Living Is Dying Without You
- I Think It's Gonna Rain Today
- Fever
- Alright, Okay, You Win
- Golden Earrings
- Hallelujah, I Love Him So
- Come Back to Me
- Heart
- Don’t Smoke in Bed
- Why Don’t You Do Right
- I Don’t Know Enough About You
- 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
- A Doodlin' Song
- Amazing
- I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
- 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
- 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
- Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
- 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
- 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)
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- 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
- Linger in My Arms a Little Longer, Baby
- It's a Good Day
- It's Lovin' Time
- It's All Over Now
- 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
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
- Just One of Those Things
- 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
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Fever - Peggy Lee
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 23 Dec 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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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.'
Peggy Lee - Why don't you do right
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- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 23 Dec 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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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
- published: 09 Feb 2010
- views: 2091554
- author: Nacho Areces
Peggy Lee: Fever!
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- Duration: 3:06
- Updated: 22 Dec 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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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 .
- published: 05 Dec 2007
- views: 2523014
- author: puglet7
Peggy Lee:Is That All There Is?
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- Duration: 2:53
- Updated: 23 Dec 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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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 !!!
- published: 05 Dec 2007
- views: 492939
- author: puglet7
Peggy Lee, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, 1981
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Peggy Lee, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, 1981
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Peggy Lee, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, 1981
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 61302
- author: peggy4AL
Peggy Lee - Where Or When
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- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
With the Benny Goodman Trio, Recorded 24/12/41
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With the Benny Goodman Trio, Recorded 24/12/41
- published: 03 Mar 2009
- views: 172911
- author: Grandad35
Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee - Why Don't You Do Right
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- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 20 Dec 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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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
- published: 10 Jul 2008
- views: 810124
- author: crazyshy84
Peggy Lee & Judy Garland Duet
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- Duration: 4:16
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Peggy Lee & Judy Garland talk a little and sing a duet
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Peggy Lee & Judy Garland talk a little and sing a duet
- published: 25 Mar 2008
- views: 222653
- author: RickInEastTexas
Peggy Lee - ♫ Is That All There Is ♫
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- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
Peggy Lee, Is That All There Is...
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Peggy Lee -- Is That All There Is? 1969
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- Duration: 4:38
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Peggy Lee -- Is That All There Is? 1969
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Peggy Lee - I Only Have Eyes For You
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
The most beautiful rendition of this song ever. Peerless.
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The most beautiful rendition of this song ever. Peerless.
- published: 19 Jul 2008
- views: 105195
- author: vladimirsmartins
Peggy Lee - Bye Bye Blackbird
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 22 Dec 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 ...
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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 ...
- published: 22 Mar 2009
- views: 216799
- author: John1948Ten
PEGGY LEE-He's aTramp-Walt Disney-Making of Lady & the Tramp
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- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
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PEGGY LEE - Johnny Guitar
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- Duration: 3:02
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Peggy Lee
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Peggy Lee in concert UK 1983
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- Duration: 6:40
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
I just found these two songs on an old betamax tape I recorded back in 1985! I saw her on this tour and she was amazing. She invited the audience to ask her questions. A very personable and classy lady. I asked her if the almost floor length string of pearls she was wearing were real - she said "No honey, but I have some just as long back home that are!"
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I just found these two songs on an old betamax tape I recorded back in 1985! I saw her on this tour and she was amazing. She invited the audience to ask her questions. A very personable and classy lady. I asked her if the almost floor length string of pearls she was wearing were real - she said "No honey, but I have some just as long back home that are!"
- published: 22 Oct 2006
- views: 129654
- author: Steve Weaver
Peggy Lee - Big Spender
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- Duration: 2:05
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Track 17 from Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby!
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Track 17 from Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby!
- published: 27 Mar 2010
- views: 337750
- author: LittleMissLounge
Peggy Lee - Fever
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- Duration: 3:22
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Never know how much I love you, Never know how much I care. When you put your arms around me, I get a fever that's so hard to bear. You give me fever, When you kiss me, Fever when you hold me tight. Fever! In the morning, Fever all through the night. Sun lights up the daytime And moon lights up the night.. I light up when you call my name And you know I'm gonna treat you right You give me fever When you kiss me, Fever when you hold me tight. Fever! In the morning, And fever all through the night Everybody's got the fever That is something you all know Fever isn't such a new thing Fever started long ago Romeo loved Juliette Juliette she felt the same When he put his arms around her he said, "Julie, Baby , you're my flame "Thou giveth fever "When we kisseth "Fever with thy flaming youth "Fever! I'm afire, "Fever, yeah, I burn, forsooth." Cap'in Smith and Pocahontas had a very mad affair When her daddy tried to kill him She said, "Daddy, oh, don't you dare! "He gives me fever "With his kisses "Fever when he holds me tight "Fever! I'm his missus, So "Daddy, Won't you treat him right?" Now you've listened to my story, Here's the point that I have made: Chicks were born to give you fever, Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade They give you fever When you kiss them Fever if you live and learn Fever! 'till you sizzle what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn
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Never know how much I love you, Never know how much I care. When you put your arms around me, I get a fever that's so hard to bear. You give me fever, When you kiss me, Fever when you hold me tight. Fever! In the morning, Fever all through the night. Sun lights up the daytime And moon lights up the night.. I light up when you call my name And you know I'm gonna treat you right You give me fever When you kiss me, Fever when you hold me tight. Fever! In the morning, And fever all through the night Everybody's got the fever That is something you all know Fever isn't such a new thing Fever started long ago Romeo loved Juliette Juliette she felt the same When he put his arms around her he said, "Julie, Baby , you're my flame "Thou giveth fever "When we kisseth "Fever with thy flaming youth "Fever! I'm afire, "Fever, yeah, I burn, forsooth." Cap'in Smith and Pocahontas had a very mad affair When her daddy tried to kill him She said, "Daddy, oh, don't you dare! "He gives me fever "With his kisses "Fever when he holds me tight "Fever! I'm his missus, So "Daddy, Won't you treat him right?" Now you've listened to my story, Here's the point that I have made: Chicks were born to give you fever, Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade They give you fever When you kiss them Fever if you live and learn Fever! 'till you sizzle what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn
- published: 02 Apr 2010
- views: 62043
- author: KimiNacija
Peggy Lee and Toots Thielemans: Makin'Whoopee.
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- Duration: 3:06
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
Makin' Whoopee. Peggy and Toots having fun in the late 60's.
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Makin' Whoopee. Peggy and Toots having fun in the late 60's.
- published: 05 Dec 2007
- views: 178188
- author: puglet7
Peggy Lee - It's A Good Day
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- Duration: 2:55
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
I couldn't find this brilliant song on youtobe so I uploaded it myself ;)
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I couldn't find this brilliant song on youtobe so I uploaded it myself ;)
- published: 16 Oct 2008
- views: 309095
- author: damarkovavidea
Peggy Lee - It's A Good Day
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:09
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
"It's A Good Day"- Peggy Lee and the David Barbour Quartet, 1950. From "The Snader Telescriptions". Copyright 2011 Peggy Lee Associates, LLC, under exclusive license to South Bay Music, LLC.
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"It's A Good Day"- Peggy Lee and the David Barbour Quartet, 1950. From "The Snader Telescriptions". Copyright 2011 Peggy Lee Associates, LLC, under exclusive license to South Bay Music, LLC.
- published: 18 May 2011
- views: 61365
- author: PeggyLeeVEVO
Peggy Lee - You was right Baby
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- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
peggy lee live
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Peggy Lee - Why don't you do right
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- Duration: 2:25
- Updated: 22 Dec 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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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
- published: 17 Jan 2011
- views: 79130
- author: Lukyz69
Peggy Lee - 'Till there was you
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- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
Among many versions I like this one the best.
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Peggy Lee - You was right Baby
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- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
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Peggy Lee - Why don't you do right
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- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 23 Dec 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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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
- published: 09 Feb 2010
- views: 2091554
- author: Nacho Areces
Peggy Lee Live 1995
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- Duration: 5:37
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
Peggy Lee Live 1995
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Fever - Peggy Lee
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- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 23 Dec 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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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.'
- published: 16 Oct 2006
- views: 8011636
- author: ZanyBear
Peggy Lee - From This Moment On (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)
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- Duration: 2:05
- Updated: 14 Dec 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 ...
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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 ...
- published: 30 Dec 2009
- views: 10293
- author: John1948Ten
Peggy Lee: Fever!
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- Duration: 3:06
- Updated: 22 Dec 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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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 .
- published: 05 Dec 2007
- views: 2523014
- author: puglet7
Peggy Lee - Where Or When
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- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
With the Benny Goodman Trio, Recorded 24/12/41
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With the Benny Goodman Trio, Recorded 24/12/41
- published: 03 Mar 2009
- views: 172911
- author: Grandad35
Peggy Lee:Is That All There Is?
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- Duration: 2:53
- Updated: 23 Dec 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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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 !!!
- published: 05 Dec 2007
- views: 492939
- author: puglet7
Peggy Lee, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, 1981
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Peggy Lee, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, 1981
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Peggy Lee, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, 1981
- published: 31 Aug 2008
- views: 61302
- author: peggy4AL
Peggy Lee & Judy Garland Duet
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- Duration: 4:16
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Peggy Lee & Judy Garland talk a little and sing a duet
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Peggy Lee & Judy Garland talk a little and sing a duet
- published: 25 Mar 2008
- views: 222653
- author: RickInEastTexas
Peggy Lee - I Only Have Eyes For You
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
The most beautiful rendition of this song ever. Peerless.
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The most beautiful rendition of this song ever. Peerless.
- published: 19 Jul 2008
- views: 105195
- author: vladimirsmartins
PEGGY LEE-He's aTramp-Walt Disney-Making of Lady & the Tramp
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- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
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Peggy Lee in concert UK 1983
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- Duration: 6:40
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
I just found these two songs on an old betamax tape I recorded back in 1985! I saw her on this tour and she was amazing. She invited the audience to ask her questions. A very personable and classy lady. I asked her if the almost floor length string of pearls she was wearing were real - she said "No honey, but I have some just as long back home that are!"
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I just found these two songs on an old betamax tape I recorded back in 1985! I saw her on this tour and she was amazing. She invited the audience to ask her questions. A very personable and classy lady. I asked her if the almost floor length string of pearls she was wearing were real - she said "No honey, but I have some just as long back home that are!"
- published: 22 Oct 2006
- views: 129654
- author: Steve Weaver
Peggy Lee - It's A Good Day
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- Duration: 3:09
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
"It's A Good Day"- Peggy Lee and the David Barbour Quartet, 1950. From "The Snader Telescriptions". Copyright 2011 Peggy Lee Associates, LLC, under exclusive license to South Bay Music, LLC.
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"It's A Good Day"- Peggy Lee and the David Barbour Quartet, 1950. From "The Snader Telescriptions". Copyright 2011 Peggy Lee Associates, LLC, under exclusive license to South Bay Music, LLC.
- published: 18 May 2011
- views: 61365
- author: PeggyLeeVEVO
Peggy Lee - Big Spender
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- Duration: 2:05
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Track 17 from Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby!
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Track 17 from Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby!
- published: 27 Mar 2010
- views: 337750
- author: LittleMissLounge
Peggy Lee with 'The Folks Who Live on The Hill'
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- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
Ah! Peggy Lee!.. What a wonderful personality and voice. Here she is singing the song I never get through without tears. She sings it so gentle, so intimate and tender. This is the best there is in vocal performance and presence (in my humble opinion) Enjoy the lady and her art... love, Philip
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Ah! Peggy Lee!.. What a wonderful personality and voice. Here she is singing the song I never get through without tears. She sings it so gentle, so intimate and tender. This is the best there is in vocal performance and presence (in my humble opinion) Enjoy the lady and her art... love, Philip
- published: 09 Oct 2008
- views: 21322
- author: Philip Paar
Peggy Lee - Bye Bye Blackbird
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 22 Dec 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 ...
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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 ...
- published: 22 Mar 2009
- views: 216799
- author: John1948Ten
Peggy Lee - Why don't you do right
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- Duration: 2:25
- Updated: 22 Dec 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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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
- published: 17 Jan 2011
- views: 79130
- author: Lukyz69
Peggy Lee - The Folks Who Live On The Hill (1957)
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- Duration: 3:41
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Lovely sound of Peggy Lee from 1957 - The Folks Who Live On The Hill
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Lovely sound of Peggy Lee from 1957 - The Folks Who Live On The Hill
- published: 24 Jan 2012
- views: 8067
- author: YCSMusic2
Peggy Lee - ♫ Is That All There Is ♫
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- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
Peggy Lee, Is That All There Is...
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Peggy Lee - It's A Good Day
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- Duration: 2:55
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
I couldn't find this brilliant song on youtobe so I uploaded it myself ;)
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I couldn't find this brilliant song on youtobe so I uploaded it myself ;)
- published: 16 Oct 2008
- views: 309095
- author: damarkovavidea
Peggy Lee - Fever
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- Duration: 3:22
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Never know how much I love you, Never know how much I care. When you put your arms around me, I get a fever that's so hard to bear. You give me fever, When you kiss me, Fever when you hold me tight. Fever! In the morning, Fever all through the night. Sun lights up the daytime And moon lights up the night.. I light up when you call my name And you know I'm gonna treat you right You give me fever When you kiss me, Fever when you hold me tight. Fever! In the morning, And fever all through the night Everybody's got the fever That is something you all know Fever isn't such a new thing Fever started long ago Romeo loved Juliette Juliette she felt the same When he put his arms around her he said, "Julie, Baby , you're my flame "Thou giveth fever "When we kisseth "Fever with thy flaming youth "Fever! I'm afire, "Fever, yeah, I burn, forsooth." Cap'in Smith and Pocahontas had a very mad affair When her daddy tried to kill him She said, "Daddy, oh, don't you dare! "He gives me fever "With his kisses "Fever when he holds me tight "Fever! I'm his missus, So "Daddy, Won't you treat him right?" Now you've listened to my story, Here's the point that I have made: Chicks were born to give you fever, Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade They give you fever When you kiss them Fever if you live and learn Fever! 'till you sizzle what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn
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Never know how much I love you, Never know how much I care. When you put your arms around me, I get a fever that's so hard to bear. You give me fever, When you kiss me, Fever when you hold me tight. Fever! In the morning, Fever all through the night. Sun lights up the daytime And moon lights up the night.. I light up when you call my name And you know I'm gonna treat you right You give me fever When you kiss me, Fever when you hold me tight. Fever! In the morning, And fever all through the night Everybody's got the fever That is something you all know Fever isn't such a new thing Fever started long ago Romeo loved Juliette Juliette she felt the same When he put his arms around her he said, "Julie, Baby , you're my flame "Thou giveth fever "When we kisseth "Fever with thy flaming youth "Fever! I'm afire, "Fever, yeah, I burn, forsooth." Cap'in Smith and Pocahontas had a very mad affair When her daddy tried to kill him She said, "Daddy, oh, don't you dare! "He gives me fever "With his kisses "Fever when he holds me tight "Fever! I'm his missus, So "Daddy, Won't you treat him right?" Now you've listened to my story, Here's the point that I have made: Chicks were born to give you fever, Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade They give you fever When you kiss them Fever if you live and learn Fever! 'till you sizzle what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn what a lovely way to burn
- published: 02 Apr 2010
- views: 62043
- author: KimiNacija
Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee - Why Don't You Do Right
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- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 20 Dec 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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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
- published: 10 Jul 2008
- views: 810124
- author: crazyshy84
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Peggy Lee - You was right Baby
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published: 21 Oct 2007
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Peggy Lee - You was right Baby
peggy lee live
- published: 21 Oct 2007
- views: 171528
- author: bilindaite
3:20
Peggy Lee - Why don't you do right
Artist: Peggy Lee Song: Why Don't You Do Right Lyrics: You had plenty of money in 1922 You...
published: 09 Feb 2010
author: Nacho Areces
Peggy Lee - Why don't you do right
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
- published: 09 Feb 2010
- views: 2091554
- author: Nacho Areces
3:17
Fever - Peggy Lee
The late great Peggy Lee, a favorite of mine (I'm a huge Jazz fan). Peggy was a singer in ...
published: 16 Oct 2006
author: ZanyBear
Fever - Peggy Lee
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.'
- published: 16 Oct 2006
- views: 8011636
- author: ZanyBear
2:05
Peggy Lee - From This Moment On (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)
PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your br...
published: 30 Dec 2009
author: John1948Ten
Peggy Lee - From This Moment On (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)
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 ...
- published: 30 Dec 2009
- views: 10293
- author: John1948Ten
3:06
Peggy Lee: Fever!
Fever!! A classic recording from the late 60's.Featuring Peggy with Max Bennett (bass) and...
published: 05 Dec 2007
author: puglet7
Peggy Lee: Fever!
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 .
- published: 05 Dec 2007
- views: 2523014
- author: puglet7
2:53
Peggy Lee:Is That All There Is?
Is That All There Is? A superb performance of this Leiber and Stoller classic , with which...
published: 05 Dec 2007
author: puglet7
Peggy Lee:Is That All There Is?
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 !!!
- published: 05 Dec 2007
- views: 492939
- author: puglet7
4:16
Peggy Lee & Judy Garland Duet
Peggy Lee & Judy Garland talk a little and sing a duet...
published: 25 Mar 2008
author: RickInEastTexas
Peggy Lee & Judy Garland Duet
Peggy Lee & Judy Garland talk a little and sing a duet
- published: 25 Mar 2008
- views: 222653
- author: RickInEastTexas
3:27
Peggy Lee - I Only Have Eyes For You
The most beautiful rendition of this song ever. Peerless....
published: 19 Jul 2008
author: vladimirsmartins
Peggy Lee - I Only Have Eyes For You
The most beautiful rendition of this song ever. Peerless.
- published: 19 Jul 2008
- views: 105195
- author: vladimirsmartins
6:40
Peggy Lee in concert UK 1983
I just found these two songs on an old betamax tape I recorded back in 1985! I saw her on ...
published: 22 Oct 2006
author: Steve Weaver
Peggy Lee in concert UK 1983
I just found these two songs on an old betamax tape I recorded back in 1985! I saw her on this tour and she was amazing. She invited the audience to ask her questions. A very personable and classy lady. I asked her if the almost floor length string of pearls she was wearing were real - she said "No honey, but I have some just as long back home that are!"
- published: 22 Oct 2006
- views: 129654
- author: Steve Weaver
3:09
Peggy Lee - It's A Good Day
"It's A Good Day"- Peggy Lee and the David Barbour Quartet, 1950. From "The Snader Telescr...
published: 18 May 2011
author: PeggyLeeVEVO
Peggy Lee - It's A Good Day
"It's A Good Day"- Peggy Lee and the David Barbour Quartet, 1950. From "The Snader Telescriptions". Copyright 2011 Peggy Lee Associates, LLC, under exclusive license to South Bay Music, LLC.
- published: 18 May 2011
- views: 61365
- author: PeggyLeeVEVO
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2:36
Siamese Twins: Lumix GH1
Bit of fun with the Lumix GH1, Sigma f1.4 30mm, Glidetrack compact and my cats.
Song is ...
published: 11 Aug 2009
author: Philip Bloom
Siamese Twins: Lumix GH1
Bit of fun with the Lumix GH1, Sigma f1.4 30mm, Glidetrack compact and my cats.
Song is the classic "We are Siamese" sung by Peggy Lee.
All shot at 720 50fps and slowed down to 25p for overcrank in Cinema Tools
Blog here: http://philipbloom.co.uk/2009/08/11/little-bit-of-fun-with-gh1-30mm-f1-4-and-glidetrack-compact/
4:15
Ear Candy - RB Meet at Nikko
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published: 22 Jun 2011
author: inertiaMS
Ear Candy - RB Meet at Nikko
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where. Nikko Circuit, Nikko, Japan
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sound. Gramophonedzie - Why don't you / Peggy Lee - Why don't
9:36
Peggy Lee 1952-2012
Our Peggy Lee...
published: 23 May 2012
author: Sherry Cheatham
Peggy Lee 1952-2012
Our Peggy Lee
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2:05
Peggy Lee - Big Spender
Track 17 from Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby!...
published: 27 Mar 2010
author: LittleMissLounge
Peggy Lee - Big Spender
Track 17 from Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby!
- published: 27 Mar 2010
- views: 337750
- author: LittleMissLounge
3:48
Peggy Lee with 'The Folks Who Live on The Hill'
Ah! Peggy Lee!.. What a wonderful personality and voice. Here she is singing the song I ne...
published: 09 Oct 2008
author: Philip Paar
Peggy Lee with 'The Folks Who Live on The Hill'
Ah! Peggy Lee!.. What a wonderful personality and voice. Here she is singing the song I never get through without tears. She sings it so gentle, so intimate and tender. This is the best there is in vocal performance and presence (in my humble opinion) Enjoy the lady and her art... love, Philip
- published: 09 Oct 2008
- views: 21322
- author: Philip Paar
3:05
Peggy Lee - Bye Bye Blackbird
PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your br...
published: 22 Mar 2009
author: John1948Ten
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 ...
- published: 22 Mar 2009
- views: 216799
- author: John1948Ten
2:25
Peggy Lee - Why don't you do right
Artist: Peggy Lee Song: Why Don't You Do Right Lyrics: You had plenty of money in 1922 You...
published: 17 Jan 2011
author: Lukyz69
Peggy Lee - Why don't you do right
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
- published: 17 Jan 2011
- views: 79130
- author: Lukyz69
photo: AP / Aijaz Rahi
22 Dec 2012
Tweet. 0 Email. Report. Photo 1 of 18. In 2009, ELLE Magazine named Mrs Assad the most stylish woman in world politics. She is an icon of fashion in her country. Credit. Aimee Kligman. In 2009, ELLE Magazine named Mrs Assad the most stylish woman in world politics. She is an icon of fashion in her country.In 2009, ELLE Magazine named Mrs Assad the most stylish woman in world politics ... Syrians detained by the Assad regime. 13 Photos ... 10 Photos ... ....(size: 6.3Kb)
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21 Dec 2012
The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved sending an African-led intervention force to help Mali’s army reconquer much of the country from Islamist militants. The 15-member council gave the force an initial one year mandate to use “all necessary measures” to help the Mali government take back the northern half of the country from “terrorist, extremist and armed groups.” ... Agence France-Presse ....(size: 1.9Kb)
photo: AP / Alfred de Montesquiou
21 Dec 2012
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council on Thursday authorized military action to wrest northern Mali from the control of al-Qaida-linked extremists, but it demanded progress first on political reconciliation, elections and training African troops and police ... Instead, it set out benchmarks to be met before the start of offensive operations, starting with progress on a political roadmap to restore constitutional order ... U.N ... On Nov ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)
photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena
22 Dec 2012
Salman Khan's Dabangg 2 has broken the record for the biggest non-holiday opener ... "Biggest opener [holiday] #EkThaTiger 32.92 cr ... Biggest opener [non-holiday] #RowdyRathore 15.1 cr ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)
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21 Dec 2012
Former Chelsea and Liverpool midfielder Raul Meireles is said to have been given an 11-match ban by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) for spitting at a referee. In trouble. Raul Meireles is alleged to have spat at the referee after being sent-off . By Telegraph Sport. 10.14AM GMT 21 Dec 2012. Comments ... It is alleged that Meireles spat at the official and also made a homophobic comment ... After the match he said ... . European ... View ... ....(size: 8.6Kb)
Chicago Sun-Times
22 Dec 2012
Updated. December 22, 2012 5.07PM. The Kennedy Center Honor is the highest recognition of Buddy Guy’s illustrious career. And the segment saluting the Chicago blues icon on the 8 p.m. Wednesday airing of “The 35th Annual Kennedy Center Honors” on WBBM-Channel 2 is an illustrious postcard to the city ... 3) ... on a scorching cover of “Sweet Home Chicago” at the John F ... “One time somebody sang ‘Fever’ and gave credit to Peggy Lee ... Spoiler alert ... 2....(size: 5.8Kb)
CNN
20 Dec 2012
December 20, 2012 -- Updated 1850 GMT (0250 HKT). Los Angeles (CNN) -- Looking for that special Christmas gift for the Judy Garland fan who has everything? Consider giving them the U.S. rights to the legendary actress-singer's television variety series ... Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, Peggy Lee, Count Basie, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Bob Newhart, Donald O'Connor, Steve Allen, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Vic Damone and Jack Jones ... 0 ... U.N ... U.S....(size: 3.8Kb)
Stuff
20 Dec 2012
There are plenty of people who loathe Christmas music or tire of it quickly, and it can be easy to see why. Every year brings fruitless attempts to introduce a new song into the canon or put a new spin on a holiday classic, and that can be a drag ... Peggy Lee's Winter Wonderland takes a swinging, jazzy turn with her signature sultry interpretation that enhances the typically sweet and straightforward vocalisation other artists prefer ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
Stuff
20 Dec 2012
There are plenty of people who loathe Christmas music or tire of it quickly, and it can be easy to see why. Every year brings fruitless attempts to introduce a new song into the canon or put a new spin on a holiday classic, and that can be a drag ... Peggy Lee's Winter Wonderland takes a swinging, jazzy turn with her signature sultry interpretation that enhances the typically sweet and straightforward vocalisation other artists prefer ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
noodls
20 Dec 2012
(Source. Government of Singapore). Singapore builds up green building research capabilities with new test-bedding facility at BCA Academy. -New facility to be modelled after Berkeley Lab's FLEXLAB (Facility for Low Energy Experiments in Buildings). -Collaboration creates bi-directional learning for BCA and Berkeley Lab; far-reaching significance on green buildings and sustainable development in the tropics expected ... Peggy Lee ... DID ... DID....(size: 14.6Kb)
Chicago Tribune
19 Dec 2012
There are plenty of people who loathe Christmas music or tire of it quickly, and it can be easy to see why ... Sometimes, the traditional version of a Christmas song remains the best ... Peggy Lee's "Winter Wonderland" takes a swinging, jazzy turn with her signature sultry interpretation that enhances the typically sweet and straightforward vocalization other artists prefer ... Louis" (1995) ... "Winter Wonderland," Peggy Lee from "Ultra-Lounge ... ....(size: 5.4Kb)
The Examiner
19 Dec 2012
Are they your Christmas past or present? Kardashian, Lohan, and Kristen Stewart. To quote the prescient Peggy Lee, Is that all there is?. There are those of us who loathe a headline with any of the aforementioned names ... Crazed – that’s the word. Avoid crazed. Tis the season to be jolly and evolved ... ....(size: 1.6Kb)
The Washington Post
19 Dec 2012
In the early 1950s, the virtuosic jazz pianist Hal Schaefer was working behind the scenes at the 20th Century Fox studio in Hollywood as a musician, musical arranger and vocal coach. He tutored many film stars in the finer points of singing, but none more glamorous than Marilyn Monroe. The two became lovers, which is how the little-known Mr ... Loading... Recommend ... Mr ... Having worked with Peggy Lee, Billy Eckstine and other singers, Mr ... Mr ... ....(size: 4.1Kb)
Stockhouse
19 Dec 2012
NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ ... (Logo. http.//photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101014/NY82093LOGO ) ... "Bing Crosby Christmas Radio" features Crosby with special guests including. Rosemary Clooney, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Orson Welles, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Mercer, Ethel Barrymore, Edgar Bergen and his daughter, a young Candice Bergen ... About Sirius XM Radio ... P-SIRI....(size: 6.9Kb)
noodls
18 Dec 2012
(Source. Grammy Awards - The Recording Academy) GRAMMY winners to be recognized at sixth annual P&E; Wing GRAMMY Week event. GRAMMY.com ... The event will be held during GRAMMY Week on Feb. 6, 2013,at the Village Recording Studiosin West Los Angeles ... Throughout the '60s and '70s he arranged music for legendary artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra ... In 2006 he was honored with a Recording Academy Trustees Award....(size: 4.9Kb)
PR Newswire
18 Dec 2012
The Annual Celebration Will Highlight Sound Quality and Pay Homage to Industry Legends at The Village Studios in West Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2013. Google. Download image. SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec ... The event will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, at The Village Studios in West Los Angeles ... Through the '60s and '70s, his career continued to blossom, arranging for legendary artists Ella Fitzgerald , Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra ... ....(size: 9.6Kb)
noodls
18 Dec 2012
(Source. Grammy Awards - The Recording Academy). THE RECORDING ACADEMY® PRODUCERS & ENGINEERS WING® PRESENTS SIXTH ANNUAL GRAMMY® WEEK EVENT "AN EVENING OF JAZZ" HONORING MULTIPLE GRAMMY® WINNERS QUINCY JONES AND AL SCHMITT ... 6, 2013. SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Dec ... ET/PT ... Through the '60s and '70s, his career continued to blossom, arranging for legendary artists Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra ... MEDIA R.S.V.P ... (noodl....(size: 8.1Kb)
The Jazz Mann
17 Dec 2012
Dave Cliff is a legendary internationally-acclaimed guitarist and has toured with Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh who are amongst the all-time giants of jazz ... Kate Daniels is a popular visitor to the Map studio cafe, delighting audiences with her smoky late -night voice that evokes Julie London, Peggy Lee and the Cellar bars of the 50’s....(size: 11.2Kb)
| 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]
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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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Book: Peggy Lee |
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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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| Benny Goodman | |
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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.
[...] It was Benny's sister-in-law who found the recordings in Benny's apartment [in 1950] and brought them to Benny's attention. |
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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 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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| Judy Garland | |
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 c. 1940 |
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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]
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- ^ 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
- ^ "Judy Garland at the Hippodrome". Judy Garland – The Live Performances!. http://users.deltacomm.com/rainbowz/con070951.html. Retrieved September 5, 2008.
- ^ Clarke p. 73
- ^ Clarke p. 58
- ^ Edwards p. 47
- ^ "dOc DVD Review: Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection (Babes in Arms/Strike Up the Band/Babes on Broadway/Girl Crazy) (1939–1943)". Digitallyobsessed.com. April 1, 2009. http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/displaylegacy.php?ID=9718. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ "Judy Garland: By Myself". American Masters. February 25, 2004.
- ^ Clarke pp. 135–36
- ^ Finch pp. 134–35
- ^ Clarke p. 95
- ^ Clarke p. 100
- ^ Edwards p. 61
- ^ Clarke pp. 102–03
- ^ Clarke p. 104
- ^ Clarke p. 105
- ^ Juneau pp. 55–56
- ^ Frank pp. 148–49
- ^ Clarke p. 155
- ^ Clarke p. 211
- ^ Frank p 175
- ^ Hopper, Hedda (September 1954). "No More Tears for Judy". Woman's Home Companion.
- ^ Clarke p. 223
- ^ "Judy Garland Files Suit for Divorce". U.P.. February 22, 1952.
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- ^ Frank p. 231
- ^ "Judy Garland – Career Timeline | American Masters". PBS. July 7, 2004. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/judy-garland/career-timeline/601/. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
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- ^ Clarke p. 255
- ^ Frank p. 271
- ^ a b Alexander, Shana (June 2, 1961). "Judy's New Rainbow". Life.
- ^ Hyams, Joe (January 1957). "Crack-Up". Photoplay.
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- ^ Clarke p. 311
- ^ a b Garland, Judy (August 1967). "The Plot Against Judy Garland". Ladies' Home Journal.
- ^ Shearer, Lloyd (October 4, 1964). "Judy Garland's Sister: The Happy One in the Family". Parade.
- ^ Clarke p. 309
- ^ Clarke, p. 308
- ^ Clarke p. 319
- ^ Clarke p. 325
- ^ Juneau p. 126
- ^ Clarke p. 326
- ^ "Judy Garland". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/29377. Retrieved December 24, 2007.
- ^ Juneau p. 108
- ^ Frank p. 304
- ^ MacPherson, Virginia (April 10, 1951). "Judy Garland in Comeback with Palladium Contract". U.P..
- ^ Gerold Frank, Judy, page 326 (De Capo Press, 1999). ISBN 0-306-80894-3
- ^ "British Give Judy Garland Big Ovation". Associated Press. April 10, 1951.
- ^ Garver, Jack (June 12, 1952). "Judy Garland Married With Simple Ceremony". U.P..
- ^ Edwards p. 166
- ^ Sanders p. 24
- ^ "Judy Garland – About Judy Garland | American Masters". PBS. July 7, 2004. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/judy-garland/about-judy-garland/600/. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ Frank pp. 420–21
- ^ "Judy Reigns in Palace as Queen of New York". UPI. October 31, 1952.
- ^ "Judy Garland Said To Have Hepatitis". UPI. November 26, 1959.
- ^ Clarke p. 347
- ^ Clarke p. 349
- ^ Cox, Gordon (May 28, 2006). "Rufus Over The Rainbow". Variety.
- ^ "Grammy Awards for Judy at Carnegie Hall". The Recording Academy. http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=&title=Judy+at+Carnegie+Hall&year=All&genre=All. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
- ^ Sanders p. 29
- ^ Parsons, Louella (September 23, 1955). "TV Spectacular Gives New Rainbow to Judy". The Daily Review.
- ^ Edwards p. 175
- ^ Sanders p. 391
- ^ Sanders pp. 108–109
- ^ Lewis, Richard Warren (December 7, 1963). "The TV Troubles of Judy Garland". The Saturday Evening Post.
- ^ "Awards for The Judy Garland Show (1963)". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. http://www.emmys.tv/awards/awardsearch.php. Retrieved December 14, 2007.
- ^ a b "Judy Wins Divorce From Sid Luft". Wisconsin State Journal. May 20, 1965.
- ^ Irwin, Elson (November 17, 1968). "Judy Garland: Femme Fatale". Stars and Stripes.
- ^ DiOrio, p. 202
- ^ "John F. Kennedy Judy Garland, LBJ and Adlai Stevenson at 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHZM76keZUk. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
- ^ "Adlai Stevenson , Sammy Davis Jr., and Judy Garland at Democratic Dinner - U1238885 - Rights Managed - Stock Photo - Corbis". Corbisimages.com. 1960-07-10. http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U1238885/adlai-stevenson-sammy-davis-jr-and-judy. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
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- ^ "Judy Garland Locks Self in Hotel Room". Stars and Stripes (UPI). May 24, 1964.
- ^ Edwards p. 214
- ^ Frank p. 556
- ^ Seaman, pp. 292–93
- ^ Seaman, p. 343
- ^ Shipman p. 494
- ^ Clarke p. 412
- ^ DiOrio, p. 204
- ^ Steiger, p. 88
- ^ Edwards p. 275
- ^ Clarke p. 422
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- Clarke, Gerald (2001). Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. New York, Random House. ISBN 0-375-50378-1.
- DiOrio, Jr., Al. Little Girl Lost: The Life and Hard Times of Judy Garland. Manor Books. New York, 1973.
- Duberman, Martin (1993). Stonewall. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-525-93602-5.
- Edwards, Anne. Judy Garland. Simon & Schuster. New York, 1975. ISBN 0-671-80228-3 (paperback edition).
- Finch, Christopher. Rainbow: The Stormy Life of Judy Garland. Ballantine Books. 1975. ISBN 0-345-25173-3 (paperback edition).
- Frank, Gerold. Judy. Harper & Row. New York, 1975. ISBN 0-06-011337-5.
- Juneau, James. Judy Garland: A Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies. Pyramid Publications. 1974, New York. ISBN 0-515-03482-7.
- Luft, Lorna. Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir. Simon & Schuster. New York, 1999. ISBN 0-283-06320-3.
- Sanders, Coyne Steven. Rainbow's End: The Judy Garland Show. Zebra Books. 1990 ISBN 0-8217-3708-2 (paperback edition).
- Seaman, Barbara. Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann. Seven Stories Press. 1996, New York. ISBN 0-9658770-6-X (1996 edition).
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- Wayne, Jane Ellen (2003). The Golden Girls of MGM. New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 0-7867-1303-8.
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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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| Preceded by Ella Fitzgerald for Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife |
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1962 for Judy at Carnegie Hall |
Succeeded by Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson |
| 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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| Toots Thielemans | |
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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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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 |
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| Short description | Belgian jazz musician |
| Date of birth | 29 April 1922 |
| Place of birth | Brussels, Belgium |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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