Vocalist Liz Tilton worked with a number of orchestras during the big band era. Though never as popular as her older sister, Martha (pictured), she had a successful career from the late 1930s until the mid-1940s when she retired to married life. She briefly returned to singing in the early 1950s. Martha Tilton enjoyed her greatest renown during her two-year stint with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. Featured on Goodman's smash rendition of the swing-era classic "And the Angels Sing," she was also the first non-classical vocalist to perform at Carnegie Hall.
Rosemary Victoria Yuro (Rosemarie Timotea Auro), professionally known as Timi Yuro, was an American singer and songwriter. Sometimes called "the little girl with the big voice," she is considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era. According to one critic, "her deep, strident, almost masculine voice, staggered delivery and the occasional sob created a compelling musical presence." Yuro possessed a contralto vocal range.
Cocktail time.
Classic cocktails are the foundation of mixology, offering timeless recipes that have been enjoyed for generations. These drinks have enduring appeal, thanks to their perfect balance of flavours and intriguing histories.
India Adams was a 'ghost singer', a voice double for Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon (1953) and for Joan Crawford in Torch Song (1953).
This week our swell dames are dancing again.
This week our swell dames continue to trip the light fantastic.
This week our swell dames sing about dancing.
R&B/blues singer Faye Adams was born Faye Tuell in Newark, NJ, in 1925. As a young girl she and two of her sisters sang as The Tuell Sisters in churches in the Newark area and on a local radio station, where they were soon given their own gospel program. Faye eventually left the gospel genre for R&B and blues, and began getting jobs in New Jersey and New York nightclubs (after marrying musician Tommy Scruggs in 1942 she used the name Faye Scruggs). In 1952 she joined an R&B/blues band called Joe Morris' Blue Cavalcade, and recorded "I'm Gonna Leave You" for Atlantic Records in 1953. When the band's contract with Atlantic expired, she and Morris signed a contract with Herald Records, and she changed her name to Faye Adams. She recorded her best-known song, "Shake a Hand", for Herald in 1953, which went to #1 on the US R&B charts. Although she had a string of subsequent hits, including two more #1 songs, her career had faded by 1957. She left Herald that year and recorded for a succession of smaller labels, but none of her songs were as successful as her earlier hits. She eventually returned to New Jersey and got back into gospel music.
Barbara Lea’s taste and integrity and uncompromising standards, along with her devotion to lyrics and her deep musicality, made her one of the most widely respected and admired interpreters of the classic American popular song.
Three Little Words: Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen and Red Skelton star in this musical biography based on the lives and career of one of the United States' greatest songwriting teams--Three Little Words. From the moment they meet, lyricist and vaudeville star Bert Kalmar (Astaire--Silk Stockings, Easter Parade, Top Hat) and piano player and song huckster Harry Ruby (Skelton--"The Red Skelton Show") are destined for great things. The two have nothing in common except, together, the ability to craft chart-topping songs and the lifelong friendship that grows between them. Now, through work, women, setbacks and success these two reach the heights of their profession and overcome a rift that threatens to divide them forever.