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Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Oscar-nominated performer. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom and was famous for her "soft and cool" singing style. Though she recorded dozens of hit songs (many of which she wrote or cowrote), Lee might be best known for her interpretation of the Davenport/Cooley composition "Fever" and the song written by her and Dave Barbour, "It's a Good Day." Image File history File links PeggyLeeStageDoorCanteen. ...
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Jo Stafford (born Jo Elizabeth Stafford November 12, 1917, in Coalinga, California) is an American pop singer whose career spanned the late 1930s through the early 1960s. ...
Patti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler on November 8, 1927 in Claremore, Oklahoma) is one of the best-known female singers in traditional pop music. ...
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Early life
Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, the youngest child of seven. After her mother died, her father remarried and her stepmother was very cruel to her. She took solace in the music she heard on the radio. She first sang professionally with KOVC radio in Valley City, North Dakota. She soon landed her own series on a radio show sponsored by a local restaurant that paid her "salary" in food. Both during and after her high school years, she took whatever jobs she could find, waitressing and singing for paltry sums on other local stations. Radio personality Ken Kennedy (actual name: Ken Sydness), of WDAY in Fargo (the most widely listened to station in North Dakota) changed her name from Norma to Peggy Lee. Tiring of the abuse from her stepmother, she left home and traveled to Los Angeles at the age of 17. Jamestown is a city in Stutsman County, North Dakota in the United States. ...
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She returned to North Dakota for a tonsillectomy and, while there, lined up a gig at The Buttery Room, a nightclub in the Ambassador Hotel West in Chicago, home of Benny Goodman, the jazz clarinetist and band leader. According to Lee, "Benny's then-fiance, Lady Alice Duckworth, came into the Buttery, and she was very impressed. So the next evening she brought Benny in, because they were looking for replacement for Helen Forrest. "And although I didn't know, I was it. He was looking at me strangely, I thought, but it was just his preoccupied way of looking. I thought that he didn't like me at first, but it just was that he was preoccupied with what he was hearing." She joined his band in 1941 and stayed for two years, with the band then at the height of its popularity. Throat after tonsillectomy A tonsillectomy is a surgical procedure in which the tonsils are removed. ...
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Recording career In early 1942, Lee had her first # 1 hit, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place," followed by 1943's "Why Don't You Do Right?," which sold over a million copies and made her famous. She sang with Goodman in two 1943 films, Stage Door Canteen and The Powers Girl. Why Dont You Do Right? is Peggy Lees first hit song, recorded July 27, 1942 in New York with Benny Goodman. ...
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In March 1943, Lee married Dave Barbour, the guitarist in Goodman's band. Peggy said, "David joined Benny's band and there was a ruling that no one should fraternize with the girl singer. But I fell in love with David the first time I heard him play, and so I married him. Benny then fired David, so I quit, too. Benny and I made up, although David didn't play with him anymore. Benny stuck to his rule. I think that's not too bad a rule, but you can't help falling in love with somebody." When Lee and Barbour left the band, the idea was that he would work in the studios and she would keep house and raise their daughter, Nicki. But she drifted back towards songwriting and occasional recording sessions for the fledgling Capitol Records in 1944, for whom she produced a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including "I Don't Know Enough About You" and "It's a Good Day" (1946). With the release of the smash-hit #1-selling record of 1948, "Mañana," her "retirement" was over. Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the...
In 1948, she joined Perry Como and Jo Stafford as one of the rotating hosts of the NBC musical radio program Chesterfield Supper Club. Pierino Ronaldo Perry Como (May 18, 1912 â May 12, 2001) was an Italian American crooner during the latter half of the 20th century. ...
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Chesterfield Supper Club was an NBC musical variety radio program (1944-50) and was also broadcast as a television program (1948-50). ...
She left Capitol for a few years in the early 1950s, but returned in 1957. She is most famous for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit "Fever" and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's "Is That All There Is?" Her relationship with the Capitol label spanned almost three decades, aside from her brief but artistically rich detour (1952-1956) at Decca Records, where she recorded one of her most acclaimed albums Black Coffee (1956). While recording for Decca, Lee had hit singles with the songs "Lover" and "Mr. Wonderful." In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ...
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Fever is a song credited to Eddie Cooley and John Davenport (a pseudonym for Otis Blackwell). ...
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Songwriting She was also known as a songwriter with such hits as the songs from the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp, which she also sang. Her many songwriting collaborators, in addition to Barbour, included Laurindo Almeida, Harold Arlen, Sonny Burke, Cy Coleman, Gene DiNovi, Duke Ellington, Dave Grusin, Dick Hazard, Quincy Jones, Francis Lai, Jack Marshall, Johnny Mandel, Marian McPartland, Willard Robison, Lalo Schifrin, Hubie Wheeler, and Victor Young. Disney may refer to: The Walt Disney Company and its divisions, including Walt Disney Pictures. ...
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Cy Coleman (June 14, 1929 - November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. ...
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During a time when youths began turning to rock'n'roll, she was one of the mainstays of Capitol recordings. From 1957 until her final disc for the company in 1972, she routinely produced a steady stream of two or three albums per year. Rock and roll (also spelled rock n roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
Acting career Lee also acted in several films. In 1952, she played opposite Danny Thomas in a remake of the early Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer. In 1955, she played a despondent, alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Danny Thomas (January 6, 1914 - February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor of Lebanese Maronite Catholic descent. ...
Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson, May 26, 1886 â October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed European singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950. ...
The Jazz Singer (1952) is the remake of the infamous 1927 talking picture, The Jazz Singer. ...
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Pete Kellys Blues is a 1955 film directed by Jack Webb, who also acts in it, along with Janet Leigh and Peggy Lee, who plays an alcoholic jazz singer. ...
Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
Lee was nominated for 12 Grammy Awards, winning Best Contemporary Vocal Performance for her 1969 hit "Is That All There Is?" In 1995 she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
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In the early 1990s, she retained famed entertainment attorney Neil Papiano, who, on her behalf, successfully sued Disney for royalties on Lady and the Tramp. Lee's lawsuit claimed that she was due royalties for video tapes, a technology that did not exist when she agreed to write and perform for Disney. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Retirement and death She continued to perform into the 1990s and still mesmerized audiences and critics alike. After years of poor health, Lee died of complications from diabetes and heart attack at the age of 81. She is survived by Nicki Lee Foster, her daughter with Barbour. She is buried at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California. This article is about the disease that features high blood sugar. ...
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Legacy She was not featured in Memoriam Tribute during the Academy Awards ceremony. When her family requested she be featured in the following year's ceremony, the Academy stated they did not honor requests and Lee was omitted because her contribution to film and her legacy were not deemed significant enough. The Lee family pointed out that, although she had been omitted, R&B singer/actress Aaliyah, who died a few months earlier, was included though having been in only one moderately successful film, Romeo Must Die (Queen of the Damned had yet to be released). The Academy provided no comment on the oversight. Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ...
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Lee is a recipient of the state of North Dakota's Roughrider Award; the Pied Piper Award from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP); the Presidents Award, from the Songwriters' Guild of America; the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement, from the Society of Singers; and the Living Legacy Award, from the Women's International Center. In 1999 she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Roughrider Award is an award presented by the governor of the state of North Dakota. ...
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In 2003, "There'll Be Another Spring: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee" was held at Carnegie Hall. Produced by recording artist Richard Barone, the sold-out event included performances by Cy Coleman, Debbie Harry, Nancy Sinatra, Rita Moreno, Marian McPartland, Chris Connor, Petula Clark and many others. In 2004, Barone brought the event to the Hollywood Bowl and Chicago's Ravinia Festival, with expanded casts including Maureen McGovern and Bea Arthur. The Carnegie Hall concert was broadcast as on NPR's "Jazz Set." Richard Barone is a musician, formerly the vocalist and leader in the New Jersey band The Bongos. ...
Cy Coleman (June 14, 1929 - November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. ...
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Biographies - Robert Strom, Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle, 2005, McFarland Publishing, ISBN 0-7864-1936-9
- Peter Richmond, Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee, 2006, Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-7383-3
- Will Friedwald, Sinatra! The Song is for You, 1996, Da Capo Press & Liner Notes for The Best of Peggy Lee, The Capitol Years.
Albums Capitol Records - 1948 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (set of 78s: 6 songs)
- 1952 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee (10-inch LP: 8 songs; 12-inch LP: 12 songs)
Decca Records Black Coffee is a 1953 album (see 1953 in music) album by the American jazz singer Peggy Lee. ...
White Christmas was Bing Crosbys third Decca long play album, recorded and originally realesed in 1954 as the soundtrack for the White Christmas. ...
Harry Lillis Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903 â October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. ...
Kaye entertaining U.S. troops at Sasebo, Japan, 25 Oct 1945 David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 â March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian. ...
Songs from Pete Kellys Blues is a 1955 (see 1955 in music) soundtrack album by Peggy Lee featuring tracks by Ella Fitzgerald, and several jazz instrumentals. ...
Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 â June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella and the First Lady of Song, is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century. ...
Black Coffee is a 1953 album (see 1953 in music) album by the American jazz singer Peggy Lee. ...
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Miss Wonderful is a 1959 album (see 1959 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged and conducted by Sy Oliver. ...
Capitol Records The Man I Love is a 1957 album (see 1957 in music) by Peggy Lee, with an orchestra arranged by Nelson Riddle, and conducted by Frank Sinatra. ...
Jump for Joy is a 1959 album (see 1959 in music) by Peggy Lee, with an orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. ...
Things Are Swingin is a 1959 album (see 1959 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged and conducted by Jack Marshall. ...
I Like Men! is a 1959 album (see 1959 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged and conducted by Sy Oliver. ...
Beauty and the Beat! is a 1959 album (see 1959 in music) by Peggy Lee, accomapnied by the George Shearing Quartet. ...
Latin ala Lee! is a 1960 album (see 1960 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged by Jack Marshall. ...
All Aglow Again! is a 1960 compilation album (see 1960 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged by Jack Marshall. ...
Pretty Eyes is a 1960 studio album (see 1960 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged by Billy May. ...
Christmas Carousel is a 1960 studio album (see 1960 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged by Billy May. ...
Olé ala Lee is a 1961 album (see 1961 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged by Joe Harnell. ...
Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee is a live 1961 album (see 1961 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged by Jack Marshall. ...
Track Listing âAs Time Goes Byâ Herman Hupfield 2:48 âIf You Goâ Geoffrey Parsons, Michel Emer 2:39 âOh Love Hast Thou Forsaken Meâ William Bowers 2:33 âSay It Isnt Soâ Irving Berlin 2:53 âI Wish I Didnt Love You Soâ Frank Loesser 2:45...
Blues Cross Country is a 1962 (see 1962 in music) album by Peggy Lee, arranged by Quincy Jones. ...
Sugar N Spice is a 1962 (see 1962 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Mink Jazz is a 1963 (see 1963 in music) album by Peggy Lee, arranged by Benny Carter. ...
Im a Woman is a 1963 (see 1963 in music) song and album by Peggy Lee, arranged by Benny Carter. ...
In Love Again! is a 1964 (see 1964 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
The first Thompson Twins album released in the U.S. The album was released in 1982 and is comprised by eight of the eleven tracks from their second album Set and two of the singles from their debut album A Product of. ...
Then Was Then - Now Is Now! is a 1966 (see 1966 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Guitars A là Lee is a 1966 (see 1966 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Big $pender is a 1966 (see 1966 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Extra Special! is a 1967 (see 1967 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Somethin Groovy! is a 1967 (see 1967 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
2 Shows Nightly is a 1968 (see 1968 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
A Natural Woman is a 1969 (see 1969 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
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Make It With You is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the Pop/Rock group that Gates was a member of, Bread. ...
Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota is a 1972 (see 1972 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Post-Capitol albums Lets Love is a 1974 (see 1974 in music) album by Peggy Lee, with the title track arranged and written by Paul McCartney. ...
Mirrors is a 1975 (see 1975 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Live in London is a live 1977 (see 1977 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Close Enough for Love is a 1979 (see 1979 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues is a 1988 (see 1988 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Moments Like This is a 1993 (see 1993 in music) album by Peggy Lee. ...
Filmography - The Powers Girl (1943)
- Stage Door Canteen (1943)
- Banquet of Melody (1946) (short subject)
- Jasper in a Jam (1946) (short subject) (voice)
- Midnight Serenade (1947) (short subject)
- Peggy Lee and the Dave Barbour Quartet (1950) (short subject)
- Mr. Music (1950)
- The Jazz Singer (1952)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955) (voice)
- Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
- Celebrity Art (1973) (short subject)
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The Jazz Singer (1952) is the remake of the infamous 1927 talking picture, The Jazz Singer. ...
Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Productions, and originally released to theaters on June 16, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution/RKO Radio Pictures. ...
Pete Kellys Blues is a 1955 film directed by Jack Webb, who also acts in it, along with Janet Leigh and Peggy Lee, who plays an alcoholic jazz singer. ...
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An autographed photo of Richard Rodgers Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 â December 30, 1979) was one of the great composers of musical theater, best known for his song writing partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. He wrote more than 900 published songs, and forty Broadway musicals. ...
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Paul Francis Webster (December 20, 1907-March 18, 1984) was an American lyricist. ...
Richard A. Whiting (November 12, 1891-February 10, 1938) was a writer of popular songs. ...
Vincent Youmans (September 27, 1898 - April 5, 1946) was an American popular composer and Broadway producer. ...
| | Singers | | Anka | Armstrong | Astaire | Bennett | Boswell | Boswells | Brice | Bublé | Carter | Christy | Clooney | Cole | Como | Connick | Connor | Crosby | Day | Dearie | Eckstine | Faye | Feinstein | Fitzgerald | Francis | Garland | Hanshaw | Hartman | Holiday | Horn | Horne | Keel | Kelly | Krall | Laine | Lamour | Lee | Manilow | Martin | Mathis | McRae | Midler | Nilsson | O'Day | Page | Rogers | Shore | Simone | Sinatra | Stafford | Stewart | Streisand | Tormé | Vaughan | Washington | Williams Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor. ...
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Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 â June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska,[1] was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ...
For other persons named Tony Bennett, see Tony Bennett (disambiguation). ...
The Boswell Sisters on the cover of the reissue album collection Thats How Rhythm Was Born The Boswell Sisters were a close harmony singing group that attained national prominence in the USA in the 1930s. ...
The Boswell Sisters on the cover of the reissue album collection Thats How Rhythm Was Born The Boswell Sisters were a singing group that attained national prominence in the USA in the 1930s. ...
Early Ziegfeld Follies portrait of Fanny Brice Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 â May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American comedian, singer, theatre and film actress and entertainer, remembered best for her many stage, radio and film appearances and her recordings. ...
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Betty Carter Betty Carter (May 16, 1929 â September 26, 1998) was a prominent American jazz singer, who was renowned for her improvisational techniques. ...
June Christy (born November 25th, 1925 - June 21st, 1990) was an American Jazz Singer popular in the 1950s. ...
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 â June 29, 2002) was an American popular singer and actress. ...
Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 â February 15, 1965) was a popular American singer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. ...
Pierino Ronaldo Perry Como (May 18, 1912 â May 12, 2001) was an Italian American crooner during the latter half of the 20th century. ...
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Chris Connor is one of the really great jazz singers. ...
Harry Lillis Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903 â October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. ...
Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1924[1]) is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. ...
Blossom Dearie (born on April 28, 1926 in East Durham, New York) is an American jazz singer. ...
Billy Eckstine (8 July 1914 â 8 March 1993), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as William Clarence Eckstein. ...
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Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 â June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella and the First Lady of Song, is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century. ...
Connie Francis (born December 12, 1938 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American pop singer best known for international hit songs such as Whos Sorry Now?, Where The Boys Are, and Everybodys Somebodys Fool. ...
Superscript text Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 â June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress, considered by many to be one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywoods Golden Era of musical film, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale from The...
Annette Hanshaw (October 18, 1901 - March 13, 1985) was on of the first great female jazz singers. ...
Johnny Hartman (1923-1983), a jazz singer who is remembered for his smooth performances of jazz ballads, is best known for his work with John Coltrane. ...
Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 â July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan and later called Lady Day was an American singer widely considered one of the greatest jazz voices of all time. ...
Shirley Horn (May 1, 1934 â October 20, 2005) was an American jazz singer and pianist. ...
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York) is a popular African American singer. ...
Howard Keel, born Harry Clifford Leek (April 13, 1919 â November 7, 2004) was an American actor who starred in many of the classic film musicals of the 1950s. ...
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 â February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. ...
Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Grammy award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer. ...
Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio (March 30, 1913 â February 6, 2007), was one of the most successful American singers of the twentieth century. ...
Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 â September 22, 1996) was an American motion picture actress. ...
Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus, June 17, 1943[1] in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer and songwriter best known for his recordings I Write the Songs, Mandy and Copacabana. His career achievements include selling more than 75 million records worldwide. ...
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Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920âNovember 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer. ...
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known to her fans as The Divine Miss M. She is named after the actress Bette Davis although Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one. ...
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Anita ODay (October 18, 1919 â November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer. ...
Patti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler on November 8, 1927 in Claremore, Oklahoma) is one of the best-known female singers in traditional pop music. ...
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 â April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress and singer. ...
Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore February 29, 1916 - February 24, 1994) was an American singer and actress. ...
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone (February 21, 1933âApril 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. ...
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 â May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. ...
Jo Stafford (born Jo Elizabeth Stafford November 12, 1917, in Coalinga, California) is an American pop singer whose career spanned the late 1930s through the early 1960s. ...
Roderick David Stewart, CBE (born January 10, 1945), is a Scottish singer born and raised in London. ...
Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. ...
Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 â June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, is best known as one of the great male jazz singers. ...
Sarah Lois Vaughan (nicknamed Sassy and The Divine One), (March 27, 1924 â April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer, described as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century [1]. // Sarah Vaughan was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1924. ...
Dinah Washington (August 29, 1924 â December 14, 1963) was a blues, R&B and jazz singer. ...
For other persons named Andrew Williams, see Andrew Williams (disambiguation). ...
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