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Allen Toussaint, , (born January 14, 1938) is an American musician, composer, record producer, and influential figure in New Orleans R&B.;
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Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She became famous for her starring roles in Bye, Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, and Tommy. Her later career includes character roles in Grumpy Old Men, Any Given Sunday, , and The Break-Up. She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. On August 21, 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on .
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In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) 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."
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Horace Heidt (May 21, 1901–December 1, 1986) was an American pianist, big band leader, and radio and television personality. His band, Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights, toured vaudeville and performed on radio and television through the 1930s and 1940s.
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Ina Ray Hutton (March 13, 1916 – February 19, 1984) was an American female leader during the Big band era, and half-sister to June Hutton.
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James "Jimmy" Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD". He composed the standards "I'm Glad There is You (In This World of Ordinary People)" and "It's the Dreamer in Me".
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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. He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations.
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Monk Hazel (a.k.a. Arthur Hazel, August 15, 1903, Harvey, Louisiana - March 5, 1968, New Orleans. Louisiana) was a jazz drummer.
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Hirt, Al Filmography
- Super Bowl XII (1978)
- Super Bowl VI (1972)
- The Manhunter (1972)
- Make Your Own Kind of Music! (1971)
- Super Bowl IV (1970)
- Number One (1969)
- AFL-NFL World Championship Game (1967)
- What Am I Bid? (1967)
- World's Fair Spectacular (1965)
- Your All-Time Favorite Songs (1964)
- Fanfare for a Death Scene (1964)
- Rome Adventure (1962)
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- Bourbon Street Parade
- That's a Plenty
- Cotton Candy
- Sugar Blues
- Java
- South Rampart Street Parade
- Basin Street Blues
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Wolverine Blues
- When the Saints Go Marchin' In
- Java
- Boy Meets Horn
- Mack the Knife
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
- Look Down That Lonesome Road
- The Best Things in Life Are Free
- Bourbon Street
- Parade
- And the Angels Sing
- A Night in Tunisia
- Tenderly
- I Can't Get Started
- Tuxedo Junction
- Stardust
- Tiger Rag
- Mississippi Mud
- Baia
- Frenesi
- Taboo
- Angelitos Negros
- Meditation (Meditaçao)
- A Sky Without Stars (Un Cielo Sin Estrellas)
- Gringo A-Go-Go
- Manhã De Carnaval
- Margarita
- What a Diff'Rence a Day Made
- Be True to Me (Sabor a Mi)
- Desafinado
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- Fools Rush In
- Cotton Candy
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- Walkin' With Mr. Lee
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- Clarinet Marmalade
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- Bourbon Street Parade
- I Can't Get Started
- Stranger in Paradise
- Java
- I Love Paris
- Sleepy Lagoon
- Tansy
- Clarinet Marmalade
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Alley Cat
- Up Above My Head
- Out of Nowhere
- Cotton Candy
- Three Little Words
- Poor Butterfly
- Fancy Pants
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- The Girl from Ipanema
- Sugar Lips
- Brotherhood of Man
- The Original Dixieland One-step
- Tin Roof Blues
- Royal Garden Blues
- Panama
- Blue and Broken-Hearted
- Wolverine Blues
- Washington and Lee Swing
- I'm Going Home
- Jazz Me Blues
- Night and Day
- South Rampart Street Parade
- Sugar
- Java
- Sugar Lips
- Keep the Ball Rollin'
- Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air)
- Mame
- Music to Watch Girls By
- Cotton Candy
- Fancy Pants
- If
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- The Christmas Song
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- Más Que Nada
- Wilkommen (Welcome)
- Nature Boy
- Theme from The Sand Pebbles
- Blow Your Own Horn
- Yo-Yo (Puppet Song)
- Six Long Days (Sechs Tage lang)
- His Girl
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- Sugar Lips
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- Nutty Jingle Bells
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Medley: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)
- Sleigh Ride
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- The Christmas Song
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- Medley: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)
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- Silver Bells
- The Christmas Song
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- Dear Old Southland
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- Man With a Horn
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- Oh Dem Golden Slippers
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South
- Ol' Man River
- New Orleans, My Home Town
- Darktown Strutter's Ball
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- Feet Draggin' Blues
- Wang Wang Blues
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- I Can't Get Started
- A Closer Walk With Thee
- Stardust
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- Song of the Wanderer
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- And the Angel Sings
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- Floatin' Down to Cottontown
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- Unforgettable
- East of the Sun
- I'll Be Seeing You
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- Java
- Poor Butterfly
- Stardust
- Birth of the Blues
- Sugar Blues
- New Orleans, My Home Town
- Echoes of Harlem
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- Trumpeter's Lullaby
- Imagination
- Deep Purple
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- South Rampart Street Parade
- Jazz Funeral (Oh, Didn't He Ramble)
- Salute to Satchmo Medley
- Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
- Mood Indigo / It's Been a Long Long Time
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- A Closer Walk
- Lazy River
- Perdido
- Basin Street Blues
- Super Bowl Blues
- Make the World go Away
- Secret Love
- Hey, Won't You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Gonna Travel On
- Always on My Mind
- Rocky Top
- Everything is Beautiful
- Release Me
- For the Good Times
- Up a Lazy River
- Salute to Satchmo
- Jazz Funreal
- Dream Baby
- The Lonely Bull
- Banana Pudding
- Raw Sugar
- You'll Never Know
- Dream a Little Dream of Me
- Granada
- Sweet Sauce
- A Rainy Night in Georgia
- South Rampart Street Parade
- Just a Closer Walk With Thee
- Melodie for Michelle
- Why Me
Born: 1922-11-07
Died: 1999-04-27
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Green Hornet Theme by Al Hirt
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- Duration: 2:17
- Published: 24 Nov 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
He's the King
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Maynard Ferguson & Al Hirt I Cant Get Started
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- Duration: 9:17
- Published: 03 Sep 2006
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
I Cant Get Started
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Al Hirt - Trumpet Duel [Johnny Cash Show]
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- Duration: 6:27
- Published: 20 Feb 2011
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
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Al Hirt - "Java" (1964)
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- Duration: 2:01
- Published: 16 May 2010
- Updated: 02 Sep 2012
Al Hirt (November 7, 1922 April 27, 1999) was an American trumpeter and bandleader.He is best remembered for his million selling recordings of "Java", and the accompanying album, Honey in the Horn (1963). His nicknames included 'Jumbo' and 'The Round Mound of Sound'. Alois Maxwell Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a police officer. At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop. He would play in the Junior Police Band with the children of Alcide Nunez, and by the age of 16, Hirt was playing professionally, often with his friend Pete Fountain. During this time, he was hired to play at the local horse racing track, beginning a six-decade connection to the sport. In 1940, Hirt went to Cincinnati, Ohio to study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with Dr. Frank Simon (a former soloist with the John Philip Sousa Orchestra). After a stint as a bugler in the United States Army during World War II, Hirt performed with various Swing big bands, including those of Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Ina Ray Hutton. In 1950, Hirt became first trumpet and soloist with Horace Heidt's Orchestra. Hirt then returned[when?] to New Orleans, working with various Dixieland groups and leading his own bands. Despite Hirt's statement years later "I'm not a jazz trumpeter and never was a jazz trumpeter", he made a few recordings where he demonstrated ability to play in that style during the 1950s, with bandleader <b>...</b>
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Jazz -Al Hirt - Tuxedo Junction
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- Duration: 2:43
- Published: 05 Aug 2010
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Al Hirt - "I Can't Get Started"
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- Duration: 2:48
- Published: 05 Apr 2011
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
The opening track to Al Hirt's 1963 album, "Honey in the Horn" and one of my all-time favorite performances of his.
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Al Hirt - Harlem Hendoo
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- Duration: 2:35
- Published: 02 Nov 2007
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
Sampled by De La Soul's Ego Trippin and the Roots' stay cool.
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Al Hirt Rocky
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- Duration: 3:27
- Published: 20 Aug 2007
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
Al Hirt playing Rocky (Gonna Fly Now).
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Al Hirt on the Johnny Cash Show
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- Duration: 4:22
- Published: 28 Jan 2010
- Updated: 21 Sep 2012
Johnny joins Hirt for a quick duet on "I Walk The Line," then surrenders the stage to his guest for what seems like a really long time. Hirt plays a brass instrument to produce what sounds suspiciously like jazz. From the Dec. 16, 1970 episode of Cash's show. This clip is mostly for Al Hirt fans. Just because I have no idea who he is doesn't mean he doesn't have a passionate following. Addendum: The following details from an Al Hirt fan just arrived this morning: The first song by Al Hirt and his band is a very fast version of the country song "Louisiana Man." The second song by Al Hirt and his band is an extremely fast version of the classic Jelly Roll Morton Dixieland song "Wolverine Blues."
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AL HIRT AT THE 1984 NEW ORLEANS WORLD'S FAIR
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- Duration: 6:22
- Published: 16 Nov 2007
- Updated: 31 Aug 2012
Al and his combo performed that number at Al Hirt's restaurant attraction inside the grounds of the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans on Press Day. Afterwards, he graciously endorsed The American Music Show (from Atlanta) at the request of the show's co-host James Bond
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Jazz - Al Hirt - Stardust
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- Duration: 3:01
- Published: 05 Aug 2010
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
Haydn / Al Hirt, 1964: Trumpet Concerto in E flat, Hob.: VII e, 1 - Complete
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- Duration: 13:39
- Published: 07 Nov 2010
- Updated: 21 Aug 2012
The late American trumpeter and bandleader Al Hirt (1922-1999) is soloist in this 1964 recording of the Haydn E-flat trumpet concerto. Arthur Fiedler conducts the Boston Pops orchestra. I created this music video from the LP shown above, released by Time-Life Records as part of a twenty-one volume series entitled "Great Moments in Music." The serial number of this LP is STLS-6003-J. All images in this video are taken from the LP label and jacket, with the exception of those of the composer and of the artist. Movement 1: Allegro Movement 2: Andante Movement 3: Allegro Note: I used YouTube's video editor to merge the three individual videos I had created for each of the three movements of this work, into a single video. NOTE: Maurice Andre performing this same concerto in 1968, complete: www.youtube.com
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Ann Margret & Al Hirt - Baby It's Cold Outside
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- Duration: 3:33
- Published: 21 Nov 2008
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Love their version of this classic.
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Al Hirt in the Superdome
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- Duration: 1:49
- Published: 22 Dec 2010
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
brilliant version of the national anthem........
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1968 - Al Hirt - Magic Trumpet
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- Duration: 2:52
- Published: 20 Sep 2009
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
Al Hirt Java 1963 (Live) #4 Hit in 1963 (Billboard)
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- Duration: 2:02
- Published: 08 Apr 2011
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
Jazz - Al Hirt - September Song
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- Duration: 2:52
- Published: 05 Aug 2010
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
Al Hirt Live "Tin Roof Blues"
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- Duration: 3:28
- Published: 16 Feb 2011
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
Al Hirt plays "Tin Roof Blues" 1988 All TV promos, news clips, airchecks, music related performances etc. remain the sole property of their respective copyright holders. No video clips are for sale, nor do they imply challenge to ownerships. They are intended strictly for entertainment, educational, and historical purposes, and fall under the "Fair Use" guideline.
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Al Hirt - Man With A Horn (1963)
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 02 Jun 2011
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
Al Hirt - Man With A Horn (1963) From the RCA album: Honey In The Horn (Man With A Horn) "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Portions of this work contain the intellectual property of third party authors and contributors. As such, third party authors and contributors retain all copyrights in the individual works and reserve all rights not specifically granted herein.
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Jazz - Al Hirt - Walkin'
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- Duration: 2:22
- Published: 05 Aug 2010
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
Al Hirt - Green Hornet
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- Duration: 2:12
- Published: 18 Jan 2011
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
Cool stuff, with pollz.us I can watch my favorite movies in the comfort of my home;) Worth checking out...
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Al Hirt - Love Letters
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- Duration: 3:00
- Published: 08 Jul 2010
- Updated: 15 Aug 2012
Al Hirt - Love Letters
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Nutty Jingle Bells, by Al Hirt
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- Duration: 2:15
- Published: 22 Dec 2008
- Updated: 08 Mar 2012
Jazzy, nutty, jingle bells
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27 Apr 2009
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Feed AL HIRT ALBUM On this date in 1999 – Jazz trumpeter Al Hirt, 67, died in New Orleans of liver failure.Alois Hirt was born in 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was 6 years old when he got his first trumpet from a pawnshop, and it proved to be a life-long love affair. Al's...(size: 4.0Kb)
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All About Jazz News - 2 hrs ago All About Jazz is celebrating Al Hirt's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Al HirtAl Hirt - trumpet (1922 - 1999) A phenomenally proficient trumpet player, Al Hirt was one of the most successful instrumental recording artists of the 1960s. Perhaps...(size: 2.4Kb)
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Al Hirt Honored With Statue
28 Sep 2001
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Al Hirt's house for sale
26 Sep 1999
Jam Music
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The French Quarter house that trumpeter Al Hirt walked away from in 1990 is up for sale, along...(size: 0.7Kb)
The Washington Post
Al Hirt, 76, the burly and bearded musician whose power, technique and showmanship won him recognition as the "King of the Trumpet" and the musical embodiment of his native New Orleans, died at his home there yesterday. Family members said he died of liver failure. They said he had been in failing...(size: 5.1Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
Al Hirt, the legendary Dixieland trumpeter with a giant sound, died Tuesday in New Orleans at the age of 76. In a career that ranged over 50 years, the 6-foot-6, 300-pound Hirt recorded more than 50 albums, four of which went gold and one of which went platinum. He was...(size: 8.2Kb)
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NEW ORLEANS (CNN) -- Friends and fans Wednesday remembered Al Hirt, considered by many to be among the best trumpet players in the world. Hirt died Tuesday of liver failure at his New Orleans home. He was 76. Hirt's death coincided with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, now in its 30th...(size: 5.1Kb)
Trumpeter Al Hirt Dies After Long Illness
27 Apr 1999
The Los Angeles Times
NEW ORLEANS -- Trumpeter Al Hirt, a French Quarter favorite who became a national star by infusing popular music with the swinging sound of New Orleans jazz, died Tuesday after a long illness. Hirt, 76, had been in poor health for the past year but died of liver...(size: 3.3Kb)
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NEW ORLEANS, (Reuters) - Jazz trumpeter Al Hirt, who was listed in serious condition last week after reportedly suffering a stroke, has improved, officials said Monday. East Jefferson General Hospital officials...(size: 1.4Kb)
Al Hirt (November 7, 1922 – April 27, 1999) was an American trumpeter and bandleader.[1] He is best remembered for his million selling recordings of "Java" and the accompanying album Honey in the Horn (1963), and for the theme song to The Green Hornet. His nicknames included 'Jumbo' and 'The Round Mound of Sound'.[1] Al was a member of The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
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Biography[link]
Alois Maxwell Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana,[1] the son of a police officer. At the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop. He would play in the Junior Police Band with the children of Alcide Nunez, and by the age of 16, Hirt was playing professionally, often with his friend Pete Fountain. During this time, he was hired to play at the local horse racing track, beginning a six-decade connection to the sport.
In 1940, Hirt went to Cincinnati, Ohio to study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with Dr. Frank Simon (a former soloist with the John Philip Sousa Orchestra). After a stint as a bugler in the United States Army during World War II, Hirt performed with various Swing big bands, including those of Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Ina Ray Hutton.
In 1950, Hirt became first trumpet and soloist with Horace Heidt's Orchestra.
Hirt then returned[when?] to New Orleans, working with various Dixieland groups and leading his own bands. Despite Hirt's statement years later "I'm not a jazz trumpeter and never was a jazz trumpeter", he made a few recordings where he demonstrated ability to play in that style during the 1950s, with bandleader Monk Hazel and a few other recordings on the local Southland Records label.
Hirt's virtuoso dexterity and fine tone on his instrument soon attracted the attention of national labels and signed with RCA Victor Records. Hirt posted twenty two albums on the Billboard charts in the 1950s and 1960s. The albums Honey In The Horn and Cotton Candy were both in the Top 10 best sellers for 1964, the same year Hirt scored a hit single with his cover of Allen Toussaint's tune "Java" (Billboard #4), and later won a Grammy Award for the same recording. Both Honey in the Horn and "Java" sold over one million copies, and were awarded gold discs.[2]
Hirt's Top 40 charted hit "Sugar Lips" in 1964 would be later used as the theme song for the NBC daytime game show Eye Guess, hosted by Bill Cullen and originally airing during the mid-to-late 1960s.
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Hirt was chosen to record the frenetic theme for the 1960s TV show "The Green Hornet", by famed arranger and composer Billy May. Thematically reminiscent of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, it showcased Hirt's technical prowess. The recording again gained public attention in 2003 when it was used in the film Kill Bill.
From the mid 1950s to early 1960s, Hirt and his band played nightly at Dan's Pier 600 at the corner of St. Louis and Bourbon Street. The club was owned by his business manager, Dan Levy, Sr. In 1962 Hirt opened his own club on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, which he ran until 1983. He also became a minority owner in the NFL expansion New Orleans Saints in 1967.
In 1962, in an effort to showcase him in a different musical setting, Hirt was teamed with arranger and composer Billy May and producer Steve Sholes to record an album titled Horn A Plenty that was a departure from the Dixieland material that he was generally associated with. Covering an eclectic variety of popular, standard and show tunes, it featured a big-band supplemented by timpani, French horns and harp.
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On February 8, 1970, while performing in a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Hirt was injured while riding on a float. It is popularly believed that he was struck in the mouth by a thrown piece of concrete or brick. Factual documentation of the details of the incident is sparse, consisting primarily of claims made by Hirt after the incident. Whatever the actual cause of his injuries, Hirt underwent surgery and had to wait a while and then practice slowly to make a return to the club scene. This incident was parodied in a Saturday Night Live skit from their second season Mardi Gras special, the "Let's Hit Al Hirt in the Mouth with a Brick Contest".[3]
In 1987, Hirt played a solo rendition of "Ave Maria" for Pope John Paul II's visit to New Orleans.
In 1999, Hirt died, aged 76, in New Orleans of liver failure,[1] after spending the previous year in a wheelchair due to edema in his leg. Despite the bout with edema, Hirt continued to play in local clubs including Chris Owens Club. Hirt was buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.
Hirt had eight children, ten grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. In 1990, he married Beverly Estabrook Essel, a friend of 40 years.
He is referred to in the 1987 film, Good Morning Vietnam, in a broadcast made by Lieutenant Hauk (Bruno Kirby).
Al returned to New Orleans around 1953, and played a morning radio show called Dawn Busters with his friend Pete Fountain.
Discography[link]
- 30 Greatest Trumpet Hits of All Time
- A Living Legend
- Al (He's The King) Hirt and His Band
- Al Hirt
- Al Hirt at the Mardi Gras
- Al Hirt Blows His Own Horn
- Al Hirt Country
- Al Hirt Now!
- Al Hirt Plays Bert Kaempfert
- Beauty and the Beard (with Ann-Margret)
- Cotton Candy
- Have a Merry Little Al Hirt
- Here in my Heart
- Honey in the Horn, 1963 (His first album recorded in Nashville - published in Italy as La tromba magica di Al Hirt, which means Al Hirt's magic trumpet)
- Horn A Plenty
- In A Blue Mood
- In Love With You
- Jumbo's Gumbo
- Latin in the Horn with Lalo Schifrin (RCA Victor, 1966)
- Live at Carnegie Hall
- Le Roi De La Trompette
- Louisiana Man
- Music to Watch Girls By
- Our Man in New Orleans
- 'Pops' Goes The Trumpet
- Raw Sugar, Sweet Sauce, Banana Pudd'n'
- Soul in the Horn
- Struttin' Down Royal Street
- Sugar Lips
- Super Jazz
- Swingin' Dixie! At Dan's Pier 600
- That Honey Horn Sound
- The Best of Al Hirt
- The Best of Al Hirt Volume 2
- The Best of Dixieland Jazz
- The Greatest Horn in The World
- The Happy Trumpet
- The High-flying Trumpet of Al Hirt
- The Horn Meets The Hornet
- They're Playing Our Song
- This is Al Hirt
- Trumpet and Strings
References[link]
- ^ a b c d Thedeadrockstarsclub.com Accessed March 2010
- ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 160. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
- ^ "Season 2 Mardi Gras Special". snltranscripts.jt.org. http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/mgrasbacchus.phtml. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
External links[link]
- http://www.alhirt.com/
- "Al Hirt". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7702. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
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| Name | Hirt, Alois Maxwell |
| Alternative names | Al Hirt |
| Short description | American musician |
| Date of birth | November 7, 1922 |
| Place of birth | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Date of death | April 27, 1999 |
| Place of death | New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Johnny Cash | |
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 Cash in 1969. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | John R. Cash |
| Born | (1932-02-26)February 26, 1932 Kingsland, Arkansas, United States |
| Origin | Kingsland, Arkansas, United States |
| Died | September 12, 2003(2003-09-12) (aged 71) Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Genres | Country, rock and roll, folk, americana, gospel, blues, rockabilly |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician, actor |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, harmonica, mandolin |
| Years active | 1955–2003 |
| Labels | Sun, Columbia, Mercury, American, House of Cash, Legacy Recordings |
| Associated acts | The Tennessee Three, The Highwaymen, June Carter Cash, The Statler Brothers, The Carter Family, The Oak Ridge Boys, Area Code 615, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers |
| Website | johnnycash.com |
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| Martin Acoustic Guitars[1] | |
John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), was an American singer-songwriter, actor,[2] and author,[2] who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.[3] Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice;[4][5][6] for the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his rebelliousness,[7][8] coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor;[4] for providing free concerts inside prison walls;[9][10] and for his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black".[11] He traditionally started his concerts by saying, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."[12][13] and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom Prison Blues".
Much of Cash's music, especially that of his later career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation and redemption.[4][14] His signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "Get Rhythm" and "Man in Black". He also recorded humorous numbers, including "One Piece at a Time" and "A Boy Named Sue"; a duet with his future wife, June Carter, called "Jackson"; as well as railroad songs including "Hey, Porter" and "Rock Island Line".[15] Late in his career, Cash covered songs by several rock artists, most notably "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails - the resulting music video was voted one of the best of all time and is sometimes seen as Cash's epitaph.
Cash, a troubled but devout Christian,[16][17] has been characterized as a "lens through which to view American contradictions and challenges."[18][19][20] A Biblical scholar,[2][21][22] he penned a Christian novel titled Man in White,[23][24] and he made a spoken word recording of the entire New King James Version of the New Testament.[25][26] Even so, Cash declared that he was "the biggest sinner of them all", and viewed himself overall as a complicated and contradictory man.[27][28] Accordingly,[29] Cash is said to have "contained multitudes", and has been deemed "the philosopher-prince of American country music".[30][31]
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Personal life[link]
Early life[link]
Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas,[32] the fourth of seven children to Ray Cash (May 13, 1897, Kingsland, Arkansas – December 23, 1985, Hendersonville, Tennessee)[33] and Carrie Cloveree Rivers (March 13, 1904, Rison, Arkansas – March 11, 1991, Hendersonville, Tennessee).[34][35] Cash was named John R. Cash because his parents couldn't think of a name, but he went by J. R. all throughout his childhood as a shortened version of his real name. When Cash enlisted in the Air Force, they wouldn't let him use initials as his name, so he began to use his legal name of John R. Cash. In 1955, when signing with Sun Records, he took Johnny Cash as his stage name.[36]
The Cash children were, in order: Roy, Margaret Louise, Jack, J. R., Reba, Joanne and Tommy.[37][38] His younger brother, Tommy Cash, also became a successful country artist.
In March 1935, when Cash was three years old, the family settled in Dyess, Arkansas. He started working in cotton fields at age five, singing along with his family simultaneously while working. The family farm was flooded on at least two occasions, which later inspired him to write the song "Five Feet High and Rising".[39] His family's economic and personal struggles during the Great Depression inspired many of his songs, especially those about other people facing similar difficulties.
Cash was very close to his older brother, Jack.[40] In May 1944, Jack was pulled into a whirling head saw in the mill where he worked and was almost cut in two. He suffered for over a week before he died on May 20, 1944, at age 15.[39] Cash often spoke of the horrible guilt he felt over this incident. According to Cash: The Autobiography, his father was away that morning, but he and his mother, and Jack himself, all had premonitions or a sense of foreboding about that day, causing his mother to urge Jack to skip work and go fishing with his brother. Jack insisted on working, as the family needed the money. On his deathbed, Jack said he had visions of heaven and angels. Decades later, Cash spoke of looking forward to meeting his brother in heaven.
Cash's early memories were dominated by gospel music and radio. Taught by his mother and a childhood friend, Cash began playing guitar and writing songs as a young boy. In high school he sang on a local radio station; decades later he released an album of traditional gospel songs, called My Mother's Hymn Book. He was also significantly influenced by traditional Irish music that he heard performed weekly by Dennis Day on the Jack Benny radio program.[41]
Cash enlisted in the United States Air Force on July 7, 1950.[42] After basic training at Lackland Air Force Base and technical training at Brooks Air Force Base, both in San Antonio, Texas, Cash was assigned to a U.S. Air Force Security Service unit, assigned as a Morse Code Intercept Operator for Soviet Army transmissions at Landsberg, Germany "where he created his first band named The Landsberg Barbarians."[43] He was the first radio operator to pick up the news of the death of Joseph Stalin.[44] After he was honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant on July 3, 1954, he returned to Texas.[45]
Marriages and family[link]
On July 18, 1951, while in Air Force training, Cash met 17-year-old Vivian Liberto at a roller skating rink in her native San Antonio. They dated for three weeks, until Cash was deployed to Germany for a three year tour. During that time, the couple exchanged hundreds of pages of love letters.[46] On August 7, 1954, one month after his discharge, they were married at St. Anne's Catholic church in San Antonio. The ceremony was performed by her uncle, Father Vincent Liberto. They had four daughters: Rosanne, Kathy, Cindy and Tara. Cash's drug and alcohol abuse, constant touring, and affairs with other women, and his close relationship with future wife June Carter, led Liberto to file for divorce in 1966.[47]
In 1968, 13 years after they first met backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, Cash proposed to June Carter, an established country singer, during a live performance in London, Ontario,[48] marrying on March 1, 1968, in Franklin, Kentucky. They had one child together, John Carter Cash (born March 3, 1970). They continued to work together and tour for 35 years, until June Carter died in 2003. Cash died just four months later. Carter co-wrote one of Cash's biggest hits, "Ring of Fire," with singer Merle Kilgore. She and Cash won two Grammy awards for their duets.
Vivian Liberto claims a different version of the origins of "Ring of Fire" in I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny, stating that Cash gave Carter the credit for monetary reasons.[49]
Heritage[link]
Cash's heritage was a British Isles mix. He learned upon researching his heritage that he was of Scottish royal descent on his father's side, traced back to Malcolm I of Scotland.[50][51][52] After meeting with now-dead laird Major Michael Crichton-Stuart of Falkland, Fife, Scotland, Johnny traced the Cash family tree to eleventh-century Fife;[53][54][55] Cash Loch and other locations in Fife bear the name of his family.[53]
Cash also had English and Scots-Irish ancestry. Though he did not have American Indian ancestry, his empathy and compassion for Native American Indians were unabated. These feelings were expressed in several of his songs, including "Apache Tears" and "The Ballad of Ira Hayes", and on his album, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. Through his maternal grandmother, Rosanna Lee (Hurst) Rivers, Cash is distantly related to millionaire William Randolph Hearst and socialite Patty Hearst.[citation needed]
Friends[link]
Cash was a long time friend of Woody Hayes (ex Ohio State Buckeyes football coach). The lyrics "I braided Twigs of Willows Made a String of Buckeye Beads" from the song Flesh and Blood was for Woody.[citation needed]
Career[link]
Early career[link]
In 1954, Cash and Vivian moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he sold appliances while studying to be a radio announcer. At night he played with guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant. Perkins and Grant were known as the Tennessee Two. Cash worked up the courage to visit the Sun Records studio, hoping to get a recording contract. After auditioning for Sam Phillips, singing mostly gospel songs, Phillips told him that he didn't record gospel music any longer. It was once rumored that Phillips told Cash to "go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell," though in a 2002 interview Cash denied that Phillips made any such comment.[56] Cash eventually won over the producer with new songs delivered in his early rock'a'billy style. In 1955 Cash made his first recordings at Sun, "Hey Porter" and "Cry! Cry! Cry!", which were released in late June and met with reasonable success on the country hit parade.
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Cash (standing at right) with Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis. Cash wrote in his book, Cash: the Autobiography, that he sang the songs on the recordings, but was the one who was the farthest from the microphone and was singing the songs in a higher pitch to blend in with Elvis.
On December 4, 1956, Elvis Presley dropped in on studio owner Sam Phillips to pay a social visit while Carl Perkins was in the studio cutting new tracks, with Jerry Lee Lewis backing him on piano. Cash was also in the studio and the four started an impromptu jam session. Phillips left the tapes running and the recordings, almost half of which were gospel songs, survived and have since been released under the title Million Dollar Quartet.
Cash's next record, "Folsom Prison Blues", made the country Top 5, and "I Walk the Line" became No. 1 on the country charts and entered the pop charts Top 20. "Home of the Blues" followed, recorded in July 1957. That same year Cash became the first Sun artist to release a long-playing album. Although he was Sun's most consistently selling and prolific artist at that time, Cash felt constrained by his contract with the small label partly due to the fact that Phillips wasn't keen on Johnny recording gospel, and he was only getting a 3% royalty as opposed to the standard rate of 5%. Presley had already left Sun, and Phillips was focusing most of his attention and promotion on Lewis. The following year Cash left the label to sign a lucrative offer with Columbia Records, where his single "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" became one of his biggest hits.
In the early 1960s, Cash toured with the Carter Family, which by this time regularly included Mother Maybelle's daughters, Anita, June and Helen. June, whom Cash would eventually marry, later recalled admiring him from afar during these tours. In the 1960s he appeared on Pete Seeger's short lived Rainbow Quest.[57]
He also acted in a 1961 film entitled Five Minutes to Live, later re-released as Door-to-door Maniac. He also wrote and sang the opening theme.
Outlaw image[link]
As his career was taking off in the late 1950s, Cash started drinking heavily and became addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates. For a brief time, he shared an apartment in Nashville with Waylon Jennings, who was heavily addicted to amphetamines. Cash used the uppers to stay awake during tours. Friends joked about his "nervousness" and erratic behavior, many ignoring the warning signs of his worsening drug addiction. In a behind-the-scenes look at The Johnny Cash Show, Cash claims to have "tried every drug there was to try."
Although in many ways spiraling out of control, Cash's frenetic creativity was still delivering hits. His rendition of "Ring of Fire" was a crossover hit, reaching No. 1 on the country charts and entering the Top 20 on the pop charts. The song was written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore. The song was originally performed by June's sister, but the signature mariachi-style horn arrangement was provided by Cash, who said that it had come to him in a dream.
In June 1965, his truck caught fire due to an overheated wheel bearing, triggering a forest fire that burnt several hundred acres in Los Padres National Forest in California.[58][59] When the judge asked Cash why he did it, Cash said, "I didn't do it, my truck did, and it's dead, so you can't question it."[39] The fire destroyed 508 acres (206 ha), burning the foliage off three mountains and killing 49 of the refuge's 53 endangered condors. Cash was unrepentant: "I don't care about your damn yellow buzzards." The federal government sued him and was awarded $125,172 ($923,127 today). Cash eventually settled the case and paid $82,001.[60] He said he was the only person ever sued by the government for starting a forest fire.[39]
Although Cash carefully cultivated a romantic outlaw image, he never served a prison sentence. Despite landing in jail seven times for misdemeanors, each stay lasted only a single night. His most infamous run-in with the law occurred while on tour in 1965, when he was arrested October 4 by a narcotics squad in El Paso, Texas. The officers suspected that he was smuggling heroin from Mexico, but it was 688 Dexedrine capsules and 475 Equanil tablets that the singer had hidden inside his guitar case. Because they were prescription drugs rather than illegal narcotics, he received a suspended sentence.
Cash was later arrested on May 11, 1965, in Starkville, Mississippi, for trespassing late at night onto private property to pick flowers. (This incident gave the spark for the song "Starkville City Jail", which he spoke about on his live At San Quentin prison album.)
In the mid 1960s, Cash released a number of concept albums, including Ballads Of the True West (1965), an experimental double record mixing authentic frontier songs with Cash's spoken narration, and Bitter Tears (1964), with songs highlighting the plight of the Native Americans. His drug addiction was at its worst at this point, and his destructive behavior led to a divorce from his first wife and canceled performances.
In 1967, Cash's duet with June Carter, "Jackson", won a Grammy Award.
Johnny Cash's final arrest was in Walker County, Georgia where he was taken in after being involved in a car accident while carrying a bag of prescription pills. Cash attempted to bribe a local deputy, who turned the money down, and then spent the night in a LaFayette, Georgia jail. The singer was released after a long talk with Sheriff Ralph Jones, who warned him of his dangerous behavior and wasted potential. Johnny credited that experience for saving his life, and he later came back to LaFayette to play a benefit concert that attracted 12,000 people (the city population was less than 9,000 at the time) and raised $75,000 for the high school.[61]
Cash curtailed his use of drugs for several years in 1968, after a spiritual epiphany in the Nickajack Cave, when he attempted to commit suicide while under the heavy influence of drugs. He descended deeper into the cave, trying to lose himself and "just die", when he passed out on the floor. He reported to be exhausted and feeling at the end of his rope when he felt God's presence in his heart and managed to struggle out of the cave (despite the exhaustion) by following a faint light and slight breeze. To him, it was his own rebirth. June, Maybelle, and Ezra Carter moved into Cash's mansion for a month to help him conquer his addiction. Cash proposed onstage to June at a concert at the London Gardens in London, Ontario on February 22, 1968; the couple married a week later (on March 1) in Franklin, Kentucky. June had agreed to marry Cash after he had "cleaned up".[62] He rediscovered his Christian faith, taking an "altar call" in Evangel Temple, a small church in the Nashville area, pastored by Rev. Jimmie Rodgers Snow, son of country music legend Hank Snow.
According to longtime friend Marshall Grant, Cash's 1968 rebirth experience did not result in his completely stopping use of amphetamines. However, in 1970, Cash ended all drug use for a period of seven years. Grant claims that the birth of Cash's son, John Carter Cash, inspired Cash to end his dependence. Cash began using amphetamines again in 1977. By 1983, he was once again addicted, and entered the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, California for rehabilitation. Cash managed to stay off drugs for several years, but by 1989, he was dependent again and entered Nashville's Cumberland Heights Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center. In 1992, he entered the Loma Linda Behavioural Medicine Centre in Loma Linda, California for his final rehabilitation (several months later, his son followed him into this facility for treatment).[63][64][65]
Folsom Prison Blues[link]
Cash felt great compassion for prisoners. He began performing concerts at various prisons starting in the late 1950s. His first ever prison concert was held on January 1, 1958 at San Quentin State Prison.[66] These performances led to a pair of highly successful live albums, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968) and Johnny Cash at San Quentin (1969).
The Folsom Prison record was introduced by a rendition of his classic "Folsom Prison Blues", while the San Quentin record included the crossover hit single "A Boy Named Sue", a Shel Silverstein-penned novelty song that reached No. 1 on the country charts and No. 2 on the U.S. Top Ten pop charts. The AM versions of the latter contained a couple of profanities which were edited out. The modern CD versions are unedited and uncensored and thus also longer than the original vinyl albums, though they still retain the audience reaction overdubs of the originals.
In addition to his performances at U.S. prisons, Cash also performed at the Österåker Prison in Sweden in 1972. The live album På Österåker ("At Österåker") was released in 1973. Between the songs, Cash can be heard speaking Swedish, which was greatly appreciated by the inmates.
"The Man in Black"[link]
From 1969 to 1971, Cash starred in his own television show, The Johnny Cash Show, on the ABC network. The Statler Brothers opened up for him in every episode; the Carter Family and rockabilly legend Carl Perkins were also part of the regular show entourage. However, Cash also enjoyed booking more mainstream performers as guests; such notables included Neil Young, Louis Armstrong, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition (who appeared a record four times on his show), James Taylor, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton (then leading Derek and the Dominos), and Bob Dylan. During the same period, he contributed the title song and other songs to the film Little Fauss and Big Halsey, which starred Robert Redford, Michael J. Pollard, and Lauren Hutton. The title song, The Ballad of Little Fauss and Big Halsey, written by Carl Perkins, was nominated for a Golden Globe award.
Cash had met with Dylan in the mid 1960s and became closer friends when they were neighbors in the late 1960s in Woodstock, New York. Cash was enthusiastic about reintroducing the reclusive Dylan to his audience. Cash sang a duet with Dylan on Dylan's country album Nashville Skyline and also wrote the album's Grammy-winning liner notes.
Another artist who received a major career boost from The Johnny Cash Show was songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who was beginning to make a name for himself as a singer/songwriter. During a live performance of Kristofferson's "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", Cash refused to change the lyrics to suit network executives, singing the song with its references to marijuana intact: "On a Sunday morning sidewalk / I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned."[67]
By the early 1970s, he had crystallized his public image as "The Man in Black". He regularly performed dressed all in black, wearing a long black knee-length coat. This outfit stood in contrast to the costumes worn by most of the major country acts in his day: rhinestone suit and cowboy boots. In 1971, Cash wrote the song "Man in Black", to help explain his dress code: "We're doing mighty fine I do suppose / In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes / But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back / Up front there ought to be a man in black."
He wore black on behalf of the poor and hungry, on behalf of "the prisoner who has long paid for his crime",[68] and on behalf of those who have been betrayed by age or drugs.[68] "And," Cash added, "with the Vietnam War as painful in my mind as it was in most other Americans', I wore it 'in mournin' for the lives that could have been.' ... Apart from the Vietnam War being over, I don't see much reason to change my position ... The old are still neglected, the poor are still poor, the young are still dying before their time, and we're not making many moves to make things right. There's still plenty of darkness to carry off."[68]
He and his band had initially worn black shirts because that was the only matching color they had among their various outfits.[39] He wore other colors on stage early in his career, but he claimed to like wearing black both on and off stage. He stated that, political reasons aside, he simply liked black as his on-stage color.[39] To this day, the US Navy's winter blue uniform is referred to by sailors as "Johnny Cashes", as the uniform's shirt, tie, and trousers are solid black.[69]
In the mid 1970s, Cash's popularity and number of hit songs began to decline. He made commercials for Amoco, an unpopular enterprise in an era in which oil companies made high profits while consumers suffered through high gasoline prices and shortages. However, his autobiography (the first of two), titled Man in Black, was published in 1975 and sold 1.3 million copies. A second, Cash: The Autobiography, appeared in 1997. His friendship with Billy Graham led to the production of a film about the life of Jesus, The Gospel Road, which Cash co-wrote and narrated.
He also continued to appear on television, hosting an annual Christmas special on CBS throughout the 1970s. Later television appearances included a role in an episode of Columbo (Swan Song). He also appeared with his wife on an episode of Little House on the Prairie entitled "The Collection" and gave a performance as John Brown in the 1985 American Civil War television mini-series North and South. Johnny and June also appeared in Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV series) as a recurring couple. Cash also had a starring role in a Columbo film.
He was friendly with every US President starting with Richard Nixon. He was closest to Jimmy Carter, with whom he became close friends.[39] He stated that he found all of them personally charming, noting that this was probably essential to getting oneself elected.[39]
When invited to perform at the White House for the first time in 1970,[70] Richard Nixon's office requested that he play "Okie from Muskogee" (a satirical Merle Haggard song about people who despised youthful drug users and war protesters) and "Welfare Cadillac" (a Guy Drake song which denies the integrity of welfare recipients). Cash declined to play either and instead selected other songs, including "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" (about a brave Native American World War II veteran who was mistreated upon his return to Arizona), and his own compositions, "What Is Truth" and "Man in Black". Cash wrote that the reasons for denying Nixon's song choices were not knowing them and having fairly short notice to rehearse them, rather than any political reason.[39] However, Cash added, even if Nixon's office had given Cash enough time to learn and rehearse the songs, their choice of pieces that conveyed "antihippie and antiblack" sentiments might have backfired.[71]
Highwaymen[link]
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From left to right Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, who formed the country music supergroup, The Highwaymen
In 1980, Cash became the Country Music Hall of Fame's youngest living inductee at age 48, but during the 1980s his records failed to make a major impact on the country charts, although he continued to tour successfully. In the mid 1980s, he recorded and toured with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson as The Highwaymen, making three hit albums which were released beginning with the originally titled "Highwaymen" in 1985, followed by "Highwaymen 2" in 1990, and concluding with "Highwaymen - The Road Goes on forever" in 1995.
During that period, Cash appeared in a number of television films. In 1981, he starred in The Pride of Jesse Hallam, winning fine reviews for a film that called attention to adult illiteracy. In the same year, Cash appeared as a "very special guest star" in an episode of the Muppet Show. In 1983, he appeared as a heroic sheriff in Murder in Coweta County, based on a real-life Georgia murder case, which co-starred Andy Griffith as his nemesis. Cash had tried for years to make the film, for which he won acclaim.
Cash relapsed into addiction after being administered painkillers for a serious abdominal injury in 1983 caused by an unusual incident in which he was kicked and wounded by an ostrich he kept on his farm.[72]
At a hospital visit in 1988, this time to watch over Waylon Jennings (who was recovering from a heart attack), Jennings suggested that Cash have himself checked into the hospital for his own heart condition. Doctors recommended preventive heart surgery, and Cash underwent double bypass surgery in the same hospital. Both recovered, although Cash refused to use any prescription painkillers, fearing a relapse into dependency. Cash later claimed that during his operation, he had what is called a "near death experience". He said he had visions of Heaven that were so beautiful that he was angry when he woke up alive.[citation needed]
Cash's recording career and his general relationship with the Nashville establishment were at an all-time low in the 1980s. He realized that his record label of nearly 30 years, Columbia, was growing indifferent to him and was not properly marketing him (he was "invisible" during that time, as he said in his autobiography). Cash recorded an intentionally awful song to protest, a self-parody.[citation needed] "Chicken in Black" was about Cash's brain being transplanted into a chicken. Ironically, the song turned out to be a larger commercial success than any of his other recent material. Nevertheless, he was hoping to kill the relationship with the label before they did, and it was not long after "Chicken in Black" that Columbia and Cash parted ways.
In 1986, Cash returned to Sun Studios in Memphis to team up with Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins to create the album Class of '55. Also in 1986, Cash published his only novel, Man in White, a book about Saul and his conversion to become the Apostle Paul. He also recorded Johnny Cash Reads The Complete New Testament in 1990.
American Recordings[link]
After Columbia Records dropped Cash from his recording contract, he had a short and unsuccessful stint with Mercury Records from 1987 to 1991 (see Johnny Cash discography).
His career was rejuvenated in the 1990s, leading to popularity with an audience not traditionally interested in country music. In 1991, he sang a version of "Man in Black" for the Christian punk band One Bad Pig's album I Scream Sunday. In 1993, he sang "The Wanderer" on U2's album Zooropa. Although no longer sought after by major labels, he was offered a contract with producer Rick Rubin's American Recordings label, better known for rap and hard rock.
Under Rubin's supervision, he recorded American Recordings (1994) in his living room, accompanied only by his Martin Dreadnought guitar – one of many Cash played throughout his career.[73] The album featured covers of contemporary artists selected by Rubin and had much critical and commercial success, winning a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Cash wrote that his reception at the 1994 Glastonbury Festival was one of the highlights of his career. This was the beginning of a decade of music industry accolades and commercial success. Cash teamed up with Brooks & Dunn to contribute "Folsom Prison Blues" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. On the same album, he performed the Bob Dylan favorite "Forever Young".
Cash and his wife appeared on a number of episodes of the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman starring Jane Seymour. The actress thought so highly of Cash that she later named one of her twin sons after him. He lent his voice for a cameo role in The Simpsons episode "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)," as the "Space Coyote" that guides Homer Simpson on a spiritual quest. In 1996, Cash enlisted the accompaniment of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and released Unchained, which won the Best Country Album Grammy. Believing he did not explain enough of himself in his 1975 autobiography Man in Black, he wrote Cash: The Autobiography in 1997.
Last years[link]
In 1997, Cash was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Shy-Drager syndrome, a form of multiple system atrophy. The diagnosis was later altered to autonomic neuropathy associated with diabetes. This illness forced Cash to curtail his touring. He was hospitalized in 1998 with severe pneumonia, which damaged his lungs. The albums American III: Solitary Man (2000) and American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002) contained Cash's response to his illness in the form of songs of a slightly more somber tone than the first two American albums. The video that was released for "Hurt", a cover of the song by Nine Inch Nails, fits Cash's view of his past and feelings of regret. The video for the song, from American IV, is now generally recognized as "his epitaph,"[74] and received particular critical and popular acclaim.
June Carter Cash died on May 15, 2003, at the age of 73. June had told Cash to keep working, so he continued to record, completing 60 more songs in the last four months of his life, and even performed a couple of surprise shows at the Carter Family Fold outside Bristol, Virginia. At the July 5, 2003, concert (his last public performance), before singing "Ring of Fire", Cash read a statement about his late wife that he had written shortly before taking the stage:
The spirit of June Carter overshadows me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her. We connect somewhere between here and heaven. She came down for a short visit, I guess, from heaven to visit with me tonight to give me courage and inspiration like she always has.
Death[link]
Cash died of complications from diabetes at approximately 2:00 a.m. CT on September 12, 2003, while hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville - less than four months after his wife. It was suggested that Johnny's health worsened due to a broken heart over June's death.[75][76] He was buried next to his wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
On May 24, 2005, Vivian Liberto, Cash's first wife and the mother of Rosanne Cash and three other daughters, died from surgery to remove lung cancer at the age of 71. It was her daughter Rosanne's 50th birthday.[77]
In June 2005, Cash's lakeside home on Caudill Drive in Hendersonville was put up for sale by his estate. In January 2006, the house was sold to Bee Gees vocalist Barry Gibb and wife Linda and titled in their Florida limited liability company for $2.3 million. The listing agent was Cash's younger brother, Tommy Cash. During a major restoration of the property by the new owner, Cash's home was accidentally destroyed by workers using linseed oil products in a spontaneous combustion-ignited fire on April 10, 2007.[78]
One of Cash's final collaborations with producer Rick Rubin, entitled American V: A Hundred Highways, was released posthumously on July 4, 2006. The album debuted in the No.1 position on the Billboard Top 200 album chart for the week ending July 22, 2006.
On February 23, 2010, three days before what would have been Cash's 78th birthday, the Cash Family, Rick Rubin, and Lost Highway Records released his second posthumous record, titled American VI: Ain't No Grave.
Legacy[link]
From his early days as a pioneer of rockabilly and rock and roll in the 1950s, to his decades as an international representative of country music, to his resurgence to fame in the 1990s as a living legend and an alternative country icon, Cash influenced countless artists and left a large body of work. Upon his death, Cash was revered by the greatest popular musicians of his time. His rebellious image and often anti-authoritarian stance influenced punk rock.[79][80]
Among Cash's children, his daughter Rosanne Cash (by first wife Vivian Liberto) and his son John Carter Cash (by June Carter Cash) are notable country-music musicians in their own right.
Cash nurtured and defended artists on the fringes of what was acceptable in country music even while serving as the country music establishment's most visible symbol. At an all-star concert which aired in 1999 on TNT, a diverse group of artists paid him tribute, including Bob Dylan, Chris Isaak, Wyclef Jean, Norah Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Dom DeLuise and U2. Cash himself appeared at the end and performed for the first time in more than a year. Two tribute albums were released shortly before his death; Kindred Spirits contains works from established artists, while Dressed in Black contains works from many lesser-known artists.
In total, he wrote over 1,000 songs and released dozens of albums. A box set titled Unearthed was issued posthumously. It included four CDs of unreleased material recorded with Rubin as well as a Best of Cash on American retrospective CD.
In recognition of his lifelong support of SOS Children's Villages, his family invited friends and fans to donate to that charity in his memory. He had a personal link with the SOS village in Diessen, at the Ammersee Lake in Southern Germany, near where he was stationed as a GI, and also with the SOS village in Barrett Town, by Montego Bay, near his holiday home in Jamaica.[81] The Johnny Cash Memorial Fund was founded.[82]
In 1999, Cash received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Cash[83] No.31 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[84]
In a tribute to Cash after his death, country music singer Gary Allan included the song "Nickajack Cave (Johnny Cash's Redemption)" on his 2005 album entitled Tough All Over. The song chronicles Cash hitting rock bottom and subsequently resurrecting his life and career.
The main street in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Highway 31E, is known as "Johnny Cash Parkway"; the Johnny Cash Museum is located in the town.
On November 2–4, 2007, the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival was held in Starkville, Mississippi. Starkville, where Cash was arrested over 40 years earlier and held overnight at the city jail on May 11, 1965, inspired Cash to write the song "Starkville City Jail". The festival, where he was offered a symbolic posthumous pardon, honored Cash's life and music, and was expected to become an annual event.[85]
JC Unit One, Johnny Cash's private tour bus from 1980 until 2003, was put on exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum in 2007. The Cleveland, Ohio museum offers public tours of the bus on a seasonal basis (it is stored during the winter months and not exhibited during those times).
WWE Superstar The Undertaker used Cash's song "Aint No Grave" (from American VI: Ain't No Grave) to announce his return following an absence in February, 2011, and as his entrance music for Wrestlemania XXVII. Independent circuit wrestlers Tyson Dux and Brodie Lee also use "God's Gonna Cut You Down" (from American V: A Hundred Highways) as entrance music. Other professional wrestlers who have used Cash's songs as entrance music include Austin Aries, who used his cover of the Depeche Mode's song "Personal Jesus" (from American IV: The Man Comes Around), and Necro Butcher, who used both "The Man Comes Around" and "Hurt". WWE also used "Hurt" in a special video package that was aired on Monday Night RAW in November 2005 as a tribute to Eddie Guerrero, a popular WWE Superstar who had died of heart failure while he was still contracted with the company. It is also noted that current WWE Superstar Ted DiBiase, Jr. is a huge fan of Cash, as is former WWE Diva and current TNA Knockout Mickie James.
The television show "The Deadliest Catch" is using the song "Ain't No Grave" as the theme song in many of their commercials.
One of Cash's greatest hits, "Hurt", was also used to advertise Prototype 2 in the trailer called "The Power Of Revenge".
Portrayals[link]
The Canada Trust company used his name and images for their Johnny Cash automatic bank machines during the late 80s and early 90s.
In 1998, country singer Mark Collie was the first to portray Cash, in the short film, I Still Miss Someone.
In November of 2005, Walk the Line, an Academy Award-winning biopic about Cash's life starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny (for which he was nominated for the 2005 Best Actor Oscar) and Reese Witherspoon as June (for which she won the 2005 Best Actress Oscar), was released in the United States on to considerable commercial success and critical acclaim. Both Phoenix and Witherspoon have won various other awards for their roles, including the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, respectively. They both performed their own vocals in the film, and Phoenix learned to play guitar for his role as Cash. Phoenix received the Grammy Award for his contributions to the soundtrack. John Carter Cash, the first child of Johnny and June, served as an executive producer on the film.
On March 12, 2006 Ring of Fire, a jukebox musical of the Cash oeuvre, debuted on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, but closed due to harsh reviews and disappointing sales on April 30, 2006.
On April 11, 2010, Million Dollar Quartet, a musical portraying the early Sun recording sessions involving Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, debuted on Broadway. Actor Lance Guest portrayed Cash. The musical was nominated for three awards at the 2010 Tony Awards, and won one.
Discography[link]
Awards and honors[link]
- For detailed lists of music awards, see List of Johnny Cash awards.
Cash received multiple Country Music Association Awards, Grammys, and other awards, in categories ranging from vocal and spoken performances to album notes and videos.
In a career that spanned almost five decades during which he rose to recording industry icon status, Cash was the personification of country music to many people around the world. Cash was a musician who was not tied to a single genre. He recorded songs that could be considered rock and roll, blues, rockabilly, folk, and gospel, and exerted an influence on each of those genres. Moreover, he had the unique distinction among country artists of having "crossed over" late in his career to become popular with an unexpected audience, young indie and alternative rock fans. His diversity was evidenced by his presence in three major music halls of fame: the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), the Country Music Hall of Fame (1980), and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1992). Only thirteen performers are in both of the last two, and only Hank Williams Sr., Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, and Bill Monroe share the honor with Cash of being in all three. However, only Cash was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the regular manner, unlike the other country members, who were inducted as "early influences." His pioneering contribution to the genre has also been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.[86] He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1996. Cash stated that his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, in 1980, was his greatest professional achievement. In 2001, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[87] He was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for best cinematography for "Hurt" and was supposed to appear, but died during the night.
In 2007, Cash was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.[88]
Further reading[link]
- Graeme Thomson The Resurrection of Johnny Cash: Hurt, Redemption, and American Recordings Jawbone Press ISBN 978-1-906002-36-7
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- ^ Although Cash's voice type endured over the years, his timbre changed noticeably: "Through a recording career that stretche[d] back to 1955", Pareles writes, Cash's "bass-baritone voice [went] from gravelly to grave".
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- ^ Clapp (2008), p. xviii.
- ^ Other appraisals of Cash's iconic value have been even bolder. Clapp (2008) writes: "Very few figures in recent history are seen as more representative of American identity as Cash ... His has often been suggested as the face that should be added to the select pantheon on Mt. Rushmore", p. xvi.
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References[link]
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- Miller, Stephen (2003). Johnny Cash: The Life of an American Icon. Omnibus. ISBN 0-7119-9626-1. http://books.google.ca/books?id=NZDEbEHKMPsC&lpg=PP1&dq=Johnny%20Cash%3A%20The%20Life%20of%20an%20American%20Icon&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true.
- Streissguth, Michael. Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece, Da Capo Press (2004). ISBN 0-306-81338-6.
- Urbanski, Dave. The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash. New York: Relevant Books. ISBN 0-9729276-7-0.
- Cash, Johnny; Patrick Carr (1997). Cash: The Autobiography. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-101357-9.
- Cash, Johnny. May 18, 2010. [clarification needed]
- Turner, Steve. The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love, and Faith of an American Legend. Nashville, W Publishing Group, 2004. (The Authorized Biography).
- Thomson, Liz. Cash, Johnny. www.oxfordmusiconline.com. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/05087?q=Johnny+Cash&hbutton_search.x=23&hbutton_search.y=8&hbutton_search=search&source=omo_t237&source=omo_gmo&source=omo_t114&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
- Holmes, Cynthia S. (January, 2004), Remembering H. Dale Jackson, Connect: Newsletter of the CBF of Missouri, p. 2
Published works[link]
- Cash, Johnny. Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975. ISBN 99924-31-58-X.
- Cash, Johnny, with Patrick Carr. Cash: The Autobiography. New York: Harper Collins, 1997. ISBN 0-06-101357-9.
- Cash, Johnny, with June Carter Cash. Love liner notes. New York: Sony, 2000.
- Cash, Johnny, The Man in White, 1986.
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| Place of birth | Kingsland, Arkansas |
| Date of death | September 12, 2003(2003-09-12) |
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| Born | Ann-Margret Olsson (1941-04-28) April 28, 1941 (age 71) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, dancer |
| Years active | 1961–present |
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Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She is best known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and Tommy (1975). She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. On August 21, 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order: SVU.
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Early life[link]
Ann-Margret was born in Stockholm, the daughter of Anna (née Aronsson) and Gustav Olsson, a native of Örnsköldsvik. While young she moved with her parents to Valsjöbyn, Jämtlands län, which she later described as a small town "of lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle".[1] Her father worked in the United States during his youth and moved there again in 1942, working with the Johnson Electrical Company, while his wife and daughter stayed behind.
Ann-Margret and her mother moved to the United States in November 1946, and her father took her to Radio City Music Hall on the day they arrived. They settled just outside of Chicago in Wilmette, Illinois. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1949 and took her first dance lessons at the Marjorie Young School of Dance, showing natural ability from the start, easily mimicking all the steps. Her parents were supportive and her mother handmade all her costumes. Ann-Margret's mother became a funeral parlor receptionist[2] after her husband suffered a severe injury on his job.[3] While a teenager, Ann-Margret appeared on the Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour, Don McNeill's Breakfast Club and Ted Mack's Amateur Hour.
Through high school, where she graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, she continued to star in theatricals. She attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta but did not graduate. As part of a group known as the "Suttletones," they performed at the Mist, a Chicago nightclub, and went to Las Vegas for a promised club date which fell through after they arrived. They plugged ahead to Los Angeles and, through agent Georgia Lund, secured club dates in Newport Beach and Reno, where Ann-Margret had a chance encounter with Marilyn Monroe, who was on location for The Misfits. Monroe noticed the striking girl in a crowd of onlookers, then chatted privately with her, offering her encouragement.
The group finally arrived at The Dunes in Las Vegas, which also headlined Tony Bennett and Al Hirt at that time. George Burns heard of her performance and she auditioned for his annual holiday show, in which she and Burns did a softshoe routine. Variety proclaimed, "George Burns has a gold mine in Ann-Margret...she has a definite style of her own, which can easily guide her to star status."[4]
Recording career[link]
Ann-Margret began recording for RCA in 1961. Her first RCA recording was "Lost Love" from her debut album And Here She Is: Ann-Margret, produced in Nashville with Chet Atkins on guitar, the Jordanaires (Elvis Presley's backup singers), and the Anita Kerr Singers, with liner notes by mentor George Burns. She had a sexy, throaty singing voice, and RCA attempted to capitalize on the 'female Elvis' comparison by having her record a version of "Heartbreak Hotel" and other songs stylistically similar to Presley's. She scored the minor hit "I Just Don't Understand" (from her second LP), which entered the Billboard Top 40 in the third week of August 1961 and stayed six weeks, peaking at #17.[5] The song was later covered in live performances by The Beatles and was recorded during a live performance at the BBC. Her only charting album was The Beauty and the Beard (1964), on which she was accompanied by trumpeter Al Hirt. She also sang at the Academy Awards presentation in 1962, singing the Oscar-nominated song "Theme from Bachelor in Paradise." Her contract with RCA ended in 1966. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she had hits on the dance charts, the most successful being 1979's "Love Rush," which peaked at #8 on the disco/dance charts.[6] In 2001, working with Grammy Award-Winning producer-arranger-musician Art Greenhaw who calls Ann-Margret his favorite female vocalist, she recorded the critically acclaimed album God Is Love: The Gospel Sessions. The album went on to earn a Grammy Nomination and a Dove Nomination for best album of the year in a gospel category. Her album Ann-Margret's Christmas Carol Collection, also produced and arranged by Art Greenhaw, was recorded in 2004 and continues to be available every year during the holiday season.[7]
Film career[link]
1960–66[link]
In 1961, she filmed a screen test at 20th Century Fox and was signed to a seven-year contract. Ann-Margret made her film debut in a loan-out to United Artists in Pocketful of Miracles, with Bette Davis. It was a remake of the 1933 movie Lady for a Day. Both versions were directed by Frank Capra.
Then came a 1962 remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical State Fair, playing the "bad girl" role of Emily opposite Bobby Darin and Pat Boone. She had tested for the part of Margy, the "good girl," but she seemed too seductive to the studio bosses, who decided on the switch.[8] The two roles mimicked her real-life personality — shy and reserved offstage, but wildly exuberant and sensuous onstage. As she summed up in her autobiography, she would easily transform herself from "Little Miss Lollipop to Sexpot-Banshee" once she stepped on stage and the music began.[9]
Her next starring role, as the all-American teenager Kim from Sweet Apple, Ohio, in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), made her a major star. The premiere at Radio City Music Hall, 16 years after her first visit to the famed theater, was a smash hit: the highest first-week grossing film to date at that venue. Life magazine put her on the cover for the second time and announced that the "torrid dancing almost replaces the central heating in the theater."[10] She was asked to sing "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" at President John F. Kennedy's private birthday party at the Waldorf-Astoria, one year after Marilyn Monroe's famous "Happy Birthday."[11]
Ann-Margret met Elvis Presley on the MGM soundstage when the two filmed Viva Las Vegas (1964). Ann-Margret introduced Presley to David Winters, whom she recommended as a choreographer for their film. Viva Las Vegas was Winters' first feature film choreography job and was his first of four movies with Presley and his first of five films, including Kitten with a Whip (1964), Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965), Made in Paris (1966) and The Swinger (1966), and two TV specials with Ann-Margret.[12] Ann-Margret was Winters's dance student at the time and Winters credits Ann-Margret as being 'that special person who changes your life'.[13] Winters was nominated for the 1970 Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Achievement in Choreography' for his CBS Television Special: "Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love" (1969)[14][15]
In 1963, Ann-Margret guest-starred in a popular episode of the animated TV series The Flintstones, voicing Ann-Margrock, an animated version of herself. She sang the ballad "The Littlest Lamb" as a lullaby and the (literally) rock-ing song, "Ain't Gonna Be a Fool." Decades later, she recorded the theme song, a modified version of the Viva Las Vegas theme, to the live-action film The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, in character as Ann-Margrock.
While working on the film Once a Thief (1965), she met future husband Roger Smith, who, after his successful run on the private-eye television series 77 Sunset Strip, was performing a live club show at the Hungry i on a bill with Bill Cosby and Don Adams. That meeting began their courtship, which met with resistance from her parents.
Ann-Margret starred in The Cincinnati Kid in 1965 opposite Steve McQueen. She also co-starred along with friend Dean Martin in the spy spoof Murderers' Row (1966). Finally she starred as the lead in The Swinger in 1966 with Tony Franciosa.
Her redhead hair color (she is a "natural brunette") was the idea of Sydney Guilaroff, a hairdresser who changed the hair color of other famous actresses such as Lucille Ball.
She was offered the title role in Cat Ballou (1965), but her manager turned it down without telling her. In March 1966, Ann-Margret and entertainers Chuck Day and Mickey Jones teamed up for a USO tour to entertain U.S. servicemen in remote parts of Vietnam and other parts of Southeast Asia. She still has great affection for the veterans and refers to them as "my gentlemen." Ann-Margret, Day and Jones reunited in November 2005 for an encore of this tour for veterans and troops at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.[16]
1967–79[link]
During a lull in her film career in July 1967, Ann-Margret gave her first live performance in Las Vegas, with her husband Roger Smith (whom she had married in 1967) taking over as her manager after that engagement. Elvis Presley and his entourage came to see her during the show's five-week run and to celebrate backstage. From thereon until his death, Presley sent her a guitar-shaped floral arrangement for each of her Vegas openings. After the first Vegas run ended, she followed up with a CBS television special "The Ann-Margret Show", produced and directed by David Winters on December 1, 1968,[17] with guest-stars Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Danny Thomas, and Carol Burnett. Then she went back to Saigon as part of Hope's Christmas show. A second Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television special followed, directed and choreographed by David Winters[18] and produced and distributed by Winters' company Winters-Rosen[19] with Dean Martin and Lucille Ball. In 1970, she returned to films with R.P.M. and C.C. and Company. David Winters and the show were nominated for a Primetime Emmy in Outstanding Choreography.[20]
In 1971, she starred in Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge, playing the over-loving girlfriend of a viciously abusive Jack Nicholson and garnering a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
On the set of The Train Robbers in Durango, Mexico, in June 1972, she told Nancy Anderson of Copley News Service that she had been on the "grapefruit diet" and had lost almost twenty pounds (134 to 115) eating unsweetened citrus.[21]
On Sunday, September 10, 1972, while performing at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, she fell 22 feet from an elevated platform to the stage and suffered injuries including a broken left arm, cheekbone and jawbone. Husband Roger Smith flew a stolen plane from Burbank, California, to Lake Tahoe in order to get his wife to the surgeons at the medical center at UCLA for treatment. She required meticulous facial reconstructive surgery that required wiring her mouth shut and putting her on a liquid diet. Unable to work for ten weeks, she ultimately returned to the stage almost (some would say miraculously) back to normal.[22]
Throughout the 1970s, Ann-Margret balanced her live musical performances with a string of dramatic film roles that played against her glamorous image. In 1973 she starred with John Wayne in The Train Robbers. Then came the musical Tommy in 1975, for which she was nominated the Academy Award for Best Actress. In addition, she has been nominated for 10 Golden Globe Awards and has won five, including her Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for Tommy. She also did a string of successful TV specials, starting with The Ann-Margret Show for NBC / CBS in 1968.
On August 17, 1977, Ann-Margret and Roger Smith traveled to Memphis to attend Elvis Presley's funeral.[citation needed] Three months later, she hosted Memories Of Elvis featuring abridged versions of the Elvis 1968 TV and Aloha from Hawaii specials.[citation needed]
In 1978, she co-starred with Anthony Hopkins in the horror/suspense thriller Magic.
1980–89[link]
In 1982, Ann-Margret co-starred with Walter Matthau and Dinah Manoff in the film version of Neil Simon's play I Ought to Be in Pictures. That same year, she appeared with a six-year-old Angelina Jolie in Lookin' to Get Out, playing Jolie's mother. To round out 1982, she appeared alongside Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson, and Julie Christie in the film adaptation of The Return of the Soldier. She also starred in the TV movies Who Will Love My Children? (1983) and a remake of A Streetcar Named Desire (1984). These performances collectively won her two Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy nominations. She appeared as the wife of Roy Scheider's character in the 1986 crime thriller 52 Pick-Up.
In 1989, an illustration was done of Oprah Winfrey that was on the cover of TV Guide, and although the head was Oprah's, the body was referenced from a 1979 publicity shot of Ann-Margret. The illustration was rendered so tightly in color pencil by freelance artist Chris Notarile that most people thought it was a composite photograph.[23]
1990–2009[link]
In 1992 she co-starred with Robert Duvall and Christian Bale in the Disney musical, Newsies. In 1993, Ann-Margret starred in the hit comedy Grumpy Old Men reuniting with Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Her character returned for Grumpier Old Men (1995), the equally successful sequel which this time co-starred Sophia Loren.
Ann-Margret published an autobiography in 1994 titled Ann-Margret: My Story,[24] in which she publicly acknowledged her battle with and ongoing recovery from alcoholism. In 1995, she was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history; she ranked 10th.
She also filmed Any Given Sunday (1999) for director Oliver Stone, portraying the mother of football team owner Cameron Diaz. She filmed a cameo appearance for The Limey but her entire performance was cut from the movie.[citation needed]
Ann-Margret also starred in several TV movies, including Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) and Life of the Party (1999), the latter of which she received nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She made guest appearances on the television shows Touched by an Angel in 2000 and three episodes of Third Watch in 2003. In 2001, she made her first appearance in a stage musical, playing the character of brothel owner Mona Stangley in a new touring production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.The production co-starred Gary Sandy and Ed Dixon . She played Jimmy Fallon's mother in the 2004 comedy Taxi, co-starring Queen Latifah. In 2001, Ann-Margret worked with Art Greenhaw on the album God Is Love: The Gospel Sessions. The critically acclaimed project resulted in her first Grammy Award nomination and first Dove Award nomination for Best Album of the Year in a Gospel category. They teamed up again in 2004 for the album Ann-Margret's Christmas Carol Collection. She performed material from the album at two auditorium church services at Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, and broadcast worldwide on the program Hour of Power.[25]
In 2006, Ann-Margret had supporting roles in the box-office hits The Break-Up with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause with Tim Allen. She also starred in several independent films, such as Memory (2006) with Billy Zane and Dennis Hopper. In 2009, she appeared in the comedy Old Dogs with John Travolta and Robin Williams.
2010–present[link]
Ann-Margret guest-starred in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, "Bedtime," which first aired on March 31, 2010.[26] She received her sixth Emmy nomination for her performance. She also appeared in the Lifetime series, Army Wives, in the episode "Guns and Roses" (Season 4, Episode 5), which originally aired May 9, 2010. On August 29, 2010, she won an Emmy Award for Guest Performance by an Actress for her "SVU" performance. It was the first Emmy win of her career, and she received a standing ovation from the Emmy venue audience as she approached the stage to receive her award.
On October 14, 2010, Ann-Margret appeared on CBS' CSI.[27]
Personal life[link]
Ann-Margret was raised into the Lutheran religion.[1] She has been married to Roger Smith since May 8, 1967; he was an actor who later became her manager. Now Smith is semi-retired due to myasthenia gravis.
She rode a 500cc Triumph T100C Tiger motorcycle in The Swinger (1966). She used the same model, fitted with a non-standard electric starter, in her stage show and her TV specials. A keen motorcyclist, she was featured in Triumph Motorcycles' official advertisements in the 1960s. She suffered three broken ribs and a fractured shoulder when she was thrown off a motorcycle she was riding in rural Minnesota in 2000.
Portrayal[link]
In the 1987 movie, Full Metal Jacket, Ann-Margret is shown entertaining troops stationed in Vietnam. In the 2005 CBS miniseries, Elvis, she is portrayed by Rose McGowan, in which her affair with Elvis Presley (played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is depicted during the filming of Viva Las Vegas. Kristen Wiig portrayed her in a skit during the May 14, 2011, episode of Saturday Night Live.
Filmography[link]
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Discography[link]
- Singles
- "I Just Don't Understand" (1961) U.S #17
- "It Do Me So Good" (1961) U.S #97
- "What Am I Supposed To Do" (1962) U.S #85, #19 Adult Contemporary Chart
- "Sleep In the Grass" (1969) U.S #113 (Bubbling Under Chart)
- "Love Rush" (1979) U.S #8 (Club Play Chart)
- "Midnight Message" (1980) U.S #12 (Club Play Chart)
- "Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes" (1981) U.S. #22 (Club Play Chart)
- EPs
- And Here She Is...Ann-Margret (1961)
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- Side 1: "I Just Don't Understand"/"I Don't Hurt Anymore"
- Side 2: "Teach Me Tonight"/"Kansas City"
- More and More American Hits (compilation) (1962)
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- Side 2: "What Am I Supposed To Do"
- Albums
- And Here She Is...Ann-Margret (1961)
- On the Way Up (1962)
- The Vivacious One (1962)
- Bachelor's Paradise (1963)
- Beauty and the Beard (1964) (with Al Hirt) U.S. #83
- David Merrick Presents Hits from His Broadway Hits (1964) (with David Merrick) U.S #141
- Songs from "The Swinger (And Other Swingin' Songs) (1966)
- The Cowboy and the Lady (1969) (with Lee Hazlewood)
- Ann-Margret (1979)
- God Is Love: The Gospel Sessions (2001)
- Ann-Margret's Christmas Carol Collection (2004)
- Love Rush (reissue of Ann-Margret) (2007)
- Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes (single, reissue) (2007)
- All's Faire In Love (2008)
- Soundtracks
- State Fair (1962) U.S #12
- Bye Bye Birdie (1963) U.S #2
- The Pleasure Seekers (1965)
- Tommy (1975) U.S #2
- Newsies (1992) U.S #149
Theatre productions[link]
- Love Letters, with Burt Reynolds
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (2001, touring production)
Honors[link]
| Year | Award | Category | Result | For |
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| 1962 | Grammy Award | Best New Artist | Nominated | |
| 1962 | Golden Laurel | Top Female New Personality | Won | |
| 1962 | Golden Globe | Most Promising Newcomer — Female | Won | |
| 1963 | Golden Laurel | Top Female Musical Performance | Won | State Fair |
| 1963 | Golden Laurel | Top Female Star | Nominated | |
| 1964 | Golden Laurel | Top Female Comedy Performance | Won | Bye Bye Birdie |
| 1964 | Golden Laurel | Top Female Star | Nominated | |
| 1964 | Golden Globe | Best Motion Picture Actress — Musical/Comedy | Nominated | Bye Bye Birdie |
| 1964 | Photoplay Award | Most Popular Female Star | Won | |
| 1965 | Golden Laurel | Musical Performance, Female | Won | Viva Las Vegas |
| 1966 | Golden Laurel | Musical Performance, Female | Won | Made in Paris |
| 1967 | Golden Laurel | Top Female Star | Nominated | |
| 1972 | Academy Award | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated | Carnal Knowledge |
| 1972 | Golden Globe | Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role | Won | Carnal Knowledge |
| 1975 | Academy Award | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated | Tommy |
| 1975 | Golden Globe | Best Motion Picture Actress — Musical/Comedy | Won | Tommy |
| 1978 | Golden Globe | Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated | Joseph Andrews |
| 1979 | Saturn Award | Best Actress | Nominated | Magic |
| 1981 | Genie Award | Best Performance by a Foreign Actress | Nominated | Middle Age Crazy |
| 1983 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special | Nominated | Who Will Love My Children? |
| 1983 | Golden Apple Award | Female Star of the Year | Won | |
| 1984 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special | Nominated | Streetcar Named Desire, AA Streetcar Named Desire |
| 1984 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV | Won | Who Will Love My Children? |
| 1985 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV | Won | Streetcar Named Desire, AA Streetcar Named Desire |
| 1987 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini Series or a Special | Nominated | Two Mrs. Grenvilles, TheThe Two Mrs. Grenvilles |
| 1987 | Women in Film Crystal Award | For outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.[28] | Recipient | |
| 1988 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV | Nominated | Two Mrs. Grenvilles, TheThe Two Mrs. Grenvilles |
| 1993 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini Series or a Special | Nominated | Queen: The Story of an American Family |
| 1994 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV | Nominated | Queen: The Story of an American Family |
| 1999 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated | Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story |
| 1999 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV | Nominated | Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story |
| 1999 | SAG Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries | Nominated | Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story |
| 2001 | Grammy Award | Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album | Nominated | God is Love: The Gospel Sessions |
| 2002 | GMA Dove Award | Best Country Album | Nominated | God is Love: The Gospel Sessions |
| 2005 | CineVegas International Film Festival | Centennial Award | Won | |
| 2010 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Won | Law & Order: SVU |
Notes[link]
- ^ a b "Religious Affiliation Ann-Margret". Adherents.com. http://www.adherents.com/people/pa/AnnMargret.html. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ "Ann-Margret Biography". FilmReference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/9/Ann-Margret.html. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ "Ann-Margret biography". movies.Yahoo.com. Yahoo movies. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800011586/bio. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
- ^ Ann-Margret 1994, p. 77.
- ^ "I Just Don't Understand, Ann Margret". Billboard.com. Billboard Top 100. 1961-10-02. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=379&cfgn=Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3070121&cdi=8793639&cid=10%2F02%2F1961.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003. Record Research. p. 21. ISBN 0-89820-156-X.
- ^ official records, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences; official records, Gospel Music Association; Mesquite (Texas) News, 2001 Volumes; holiday record release data, Select-O-Hits Distribution, 2004-2010
- ^ Ann-Margret 1994, p. 91.
- ^ Ann-Margret 1994, p. 96.
- ^ Ann-Margret 1994, p. 102.
- ^ Ann-Margret 1994, p. 104.
- ^ David Winters Bio IMDb web site
- ^ Ann Margret Bio IMDb web site
- ^ "Ann-Margret: From Hollywood With Love" The New York Times
- ^ Ann Margret Bio Lyricfreak.com
- ^ Ann-Margret Will Entertain Her Troops Again at Aviation Nation. Las Vegas Events. 20 September 2005[dead link]
- ^ The Ann Margret Show at IMDb
- ^ "From Hollywood with Love" at IMdb
- ^ "Company credits for Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love" at IMDb
- ^ "Awards for Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love" at IMDb
- ^ Anderson, Nancy (June 4, 1972). "John Wayne A Father Figure On Movie Set in Durango, Mexico". The Joplin Globe (Copley New Service).
- ^ Ann-Margret 1994, pp. 236–254.
- ^ "Going Too Far With the Winfrey Diet". NYTimes.com (New York Times). 1989-08-30. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEED9163DF933A0575BC0A96F948260. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
- ^ Ann-Margret 1994.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2004, Local section
- ^ "Exclusive: Ann-Margret to Guest on SVU". TVGuide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Exclusive-Ann-Margret-1015300.aspx.
- ^ "Keck's Exclusives: How CSI Nabbed Ann-Margret". TVGuide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Kecks-Exclusives-CSI-1023527.aspx=. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
- ^ Past Recipients Crystal Award WIF web site
References[link]
- Ann-Margret; Todd Gold (1994) (Autobiography). My Story (First ed.). G. P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 978-0-399-13891-1. http://books.google.com/?id=5OZkAAAAMAAJ&dq=isbn%3A9780399138911. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
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- Official website
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- Ann-Margret at AllRovi
- Ann-Margret discography at Discogs
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- Ann of a Thousand Knights at Snopes.com
- Interview with Larry King, January 1, 2001, particularly with regard to the 2001 touring production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
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| Name | Olsson, Ann-Margret |
| Alternative names | Ann-Margret |
| Short description | Actress, singer |
| Date of birth | April 28, 1941 |
| Place of birth | Valsjöbyn, Jämtlands Iän, Sweden |
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