Rita Reys
Rita Reys (born Maria Everdina Reijs; 21 December 1924 – 28 July 2013) was a jazz singer from the Netherlands. At the 1960 French jazz festival of Juan-les-Pins, she received the title, "Europe's first lady of jazz".
Early career
Reys was born in Rotterdam in 1924 into an artistic family. Her father was a violin player and conductor, her mother a dancer. At home, she heard hardly any jazz as her parents preferred light classical music, so Reys grew up hearing Tchaikovsky and Chopin. As a teenager, she nonetheless entered and won many local talent competitions.
In 1943, aged 18, she met her first husband, jazz drummer Wessel Ilcken, who introduced her to the jazz scene. Rita Reys & the Wessel Ilcken Sextet, featuring Jerry van Rooijen on trumpet and Toon van Vliet on tenor saxophone, regularly performed at the Sheherezade jazz club in Amsterdam and other Dutch stages. In the following years, Reys and Ilcken performed in other parts of Europe. They performed with Ted Powder in Belgium and Luxembourg in 1945 and 1946 and they toured Spain and North Africa with the Piet van Dijk orchestra between 1947 and 1950. In 1950 Reys and Ilcken founded their own combo, the Rita Reys Sextet, with which they would celebrate many successes in the following years, both in the Netherlands and in other European countries. The groups first concert was on 1 April that of that year, in the Amsterdam Palace club. But most of the time the sextet performed outside of the Netherlands. In England they played on American army bases and in several dance clubs, where Reys met people like saxophonist Ronnie Scott.
Rey, Rita Filmography
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2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2011, role: actress , character name: Fantasy Woman
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2011, role: actress , character name: Annabelle
Rey, Rita Filmography
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1931, role: actress , character name: Native girl
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1930, role: actress
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1930, role: actress , character name: Winnie
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1930, role: actress , character name: Carmelita Carlos
Reyes, Rita Filmography
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1966, role: actress , character name: Elias' Girl #4
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1966, role: actress
Rita Reys
ALBUMS
- Young at Heart released: 2010
- Two Jazzy People released: 2003
- At the Golden Circle Club, Stockholm released: 2001
- Anthology released: 1999
- First Lady of Jazz released: 1995
- The Ballad Album released: 1995
- Tenderly released: 1992
- The American Songbook, Volume 2 released: 1992
- The American Songbook, Volume 1 released: 1992
- Relax With Rita & Pim released: 1990
- Swing & Sweet released: 1990
- Rita Reys Meets Oliver Nelson released: 1990
- Jazz Pictures at an Exibition released: 1989
- Two For Tea released: 1987
- Sings Antonio Carlos Jobim released: 1981
- Collage released: 1980
- That Old Feeling released: 1979
- Rita Reys Sings the George Gershwin Songbook released: 1975
- Our Favorite Songs released: 1973
- Rita Reys Sings Michel Legrand released: 1972
- Sings Burt Bacharach released: 1971
- Jazz Sir released: 1963
- Marriage in Modern Jazz released: 1960
- Her Name Is Rita Reys released: 1957
- The Cool Voice Of Rita Reys released:
- Rita Reys released:
Anthology
Released 1999- My Funny Valentine
- There'll Never Be Another You
- Taking a Change on Love
- My One and Only Love
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
- Avalon
- Venus bespied
- Too Close for Comfort
- I Remember Clifford
- Cherokee
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Basin Street Blues
- Bluesette
- The Boy From Ipanema
- It Could Happen to You
- Sunny
- Come to Scheveningen
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
- Lazy Kitten
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Moon Glow
First Lady of Jazz
Released 1995- 'Deed I Do
- Exactly Like You
- My Funny Valentine
- There'll Never Be Another You
- I Should Care
- It's Alright With Me
- Gone With the Wind
- Taking a Chance on Love
- That Old Black Magic
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- I Cried for You
- My One and Only Love
- Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
- The Song Is You
- Old Devil Moon
- He's My Guy
- Where Are You
- All of You
- When the Blues Come On
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- Avalon
- Love for Sale
- Zon in Scheveningen
- Venus Bespied
The Ballad Album
Released 1995- There Is No Greater Love
- You Go to My Head
- Soon It's Gonna Rain
- I Should Care
- My Funny Valentine
- It's Mine After All
- I'm Glad There Is You
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- Like Someone in Love
- My One and Only Love
- Willow Weep for Me
- What's New
- Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
- Prelude to a Kiss
- When I Look in Your Eyes
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
- Star Eyes
- Easy Living
The American Songbook, Volume 2
Released 1992- Stompin' at the Savoy
- It's a Lovely Way to Spend an Evening
- Easy to Love
- Sing a Rainbow
- It Could Happen to You
- I'll Remenber April
- I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
- The Song Is You
- You Go to My Head
- Star Eyes
- Too Close for Comfort
- If I Should Loose You
- That Old Feeling
- The Things We Did Last Summer
- How Deep Is the Ocean
The American Songbook, Volume 1
Released 1992- What a Difference a Day Makes
- Stars Fell on Alabama
- September in the Rain
- You Must Believe in Spring
- Can't We Be Friends
- Bubbles, Bangles and Beads
- The Folks Who Lived on the Hill
- They Say That Fallin' in Love Is Wonderful
- Body and Soul
- Second Time Around
- I Concentrate on You
- Gone With the Wind
- Over the Rainbow
- There'll Never Be Another You
- Thanks for the Memory
Sings Burt Bacharach
Released 1971- One Less Bell to Answer
- Paper Mache
- The Window of the World
- Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
- A House Is Not a Home
- There's Always Something There to Remind Me
- Alfie
- They Long to Be Close to You
- I'll Never Fall in Love Again
- Make It Easy on Yourself
- Do You Know the Way to San Jose
- This Girl's in Love With You
Rita Reys
- My Funny Valentine
- There'll Never Be Another You
- Taking a Change on Love
- My One and Only Love
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
- Avalon
- Venus Bespied
- Too Close for Comfort
- I Remember Clifford
- Cherokee
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Basinb Street Blues
- Bluesette
- The Boy From Ipanema
- It Could Happen to You
- Sunny
- Come to Scheveningen
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
- Lazy Kitten
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Moon Glow
Born: 1924-12-21
Died: 2013-07-27
Ups And Downs
Ups And Downs
Paul Revere & The Raiders
- written by Mark Lindsay and Terry Melcher
- as recorded by Paul Revere & The Raiders (released February 18, 1967)
- entered the Billboard Top 40 the week of March 4, 1967 and
stayed for 6 weeks, peaking at #22 the week of March 18, 1967.
Now, things was looking golden, baby
Everything was fine
You never made no sign
That you had changed your mind
I guess I was mistaken, girl
To count so on you
What else could I do
Time to pay my dues
Well girl, I've been torn up before
But I can't handle that once more
Well I been down for a long long time
And now it's time to reach my mind
There's lots of pain upon this earth
Girl, I've had my money's worth
I have had my ups and downs and all around
Girl, I've tried to change your way of thinkin'
Tried to make you see
Well, livin' here with me
Is where you ought to be
But it didn't seem to make no difference
It never changed your world
Or stopped your social twirl
You're still the same old girl
And now, I've been torn up before
But I can't handle that once more
I been down for a long long time
But now it's time to reach my mind
'Cause there's lots of pain upon this earth
And girl, I've had my money's worth
I have had my ups and downs and all around
I've been up, down, all around now baby (up, down, all around)
I've been up, I been down, I been all around now baby (up, down, all around)
Yeah we've both been up and down and all around baby(up, down, all around)
You go up, you go down, you go all around now baby (up, down, all around)
Yes, I'm up, I'm down, all around now baby (up, down, all around)
Up and down and all around
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