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Keely Smith

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Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928The reference work The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet gives Smith's date of birth as March 9, 1932. – December 16, 2017), better known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist. [1]

46 relations: Beany and Cecil, Bei Mir Bistu Shein, Bob Clampett, Capitol Records, Cherokee, Concord Jazz, Dot Records, Fantasy Records, Fever (Little Willie John song), Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Frank Sinatra, Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus, Harold Arlen, Heart failure, Hey Boy! Hey Girl!, Hollywood Walk of Fame, I Wish You Love (Keely Smith album), I've Got You Under My Skin, Jazz, Jimmy Bowen, Johnny Mercer, Keely Smith Sings the John Lennon—Paul McCartney Songbook, Little Girl Blue/Little Girl New, Louis Prima, Nelson Riddle, Norfolk, Virginia, Palm Springs Walk of Stars, Palm Springs, California, Politely!, Pop music, Popular music, Reprise Records, Sam Butera, Saxie Dowell, Senior Prom (film), Swingin' Pretty, That Old Black Magic, That Old Black Magic (album), The Beatles, The Intimate Keely Smith, Thunder Road (film), United States, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Vocal jazz, You're Breaking My Heart, 1st Annual Grammy Awards.

Beany and Cecil

Beany And Cecil is an animated television series created by Bob Clampett for the American Broadcasting Company.

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Bei Mir Bistu Shein

"Bei Mir Bistu Shein" (בײַ מיר ביסטו שיין, "To Me You're Beautiful") is a popular Yiddish song composed by Jacob Jacobs (lyricist) and Sholom Secunda (composer) for a 1932 Yiddish language comedy musical, I Would If I Could (in Yiddish,, "You could live, but they don't let you"), which closed after one season (at the Parkway Theatre in Brooklyn, New York City).

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Bob Clampett

Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett (May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984) was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Cherokee

The Cherokee (translit or translit) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands.

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Concord Jazz

Concord Jazz is a record company and label created in 1973 by Carl Jefferson, the founder of Concord Records and former owner of Jefferson Motors Lincoln Mercury dealership in Concord, CA.

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Dot Records

Dot Records is an American record label founded by Randy Wood that was active between 1950 and 1979.

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Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is an American record company and label founded by brothers Max and Sol Weiss in 1949.

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Fever (Little Willie John song)

"Fever" is a song written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell, who used the pseudonym John Davenport.

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills is one of the six Forest Lawn cemeteries in Southern California.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus

The Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus was awarded from 1959 to 1960.

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Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide.

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Heart failure

Heart failure (HF), often referred to as congestive heart failure (CHF), is when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs.

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Hey Boy! Hey Girl!

Hey Boy! Hey Girl! is a 1959 film directed by David Lowell Rich.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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I Wish You Love (Keely Smith album)

I Wish You Love is the 1957 debut solo album recorded by Keely Smith and released by Capitol Records as T-914 (mono) & ST-914 (stereo).

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I've Got You Under My Skin

"I've Got You Under My Skin" is a song written by Cole Porter in 1936.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jimmy Bowen

James Albert Bowen (born November 30, 1937) is an American record producer and former rockabilly singer.

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Johnny Mercer

John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer.

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Keely Smith Sings the John Lennon—Paul McCartney Songbook

Keely Smith Sings the John Lennon—Paul McCartney Songbook is an album by the American singer Keely Smith of music written by the songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

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Little Girl Blue/Little Girl New

Little Girl Blue/Little Girl New is a 1963 album by Keely Smith, with arrangements by Nelson Riddle.

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Louis Prima

Louis Leo Prima (December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) was an Italian American singer, actor, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter.

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Nelson Riddle

Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Palm Springs Walk of Stars

The Palm Springs Walk of Stars is a walk of fame in downtown Palm Springs, California, where "Golden Palm Stars", honoring various people who have lived in the greater Palm Springs area, are embedded in the sidewalk pavement.

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Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs (Cahuilla: Se-Khi)Wilkerson, Lyn (2009).

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Politely!

Politely! is a 1958 album by Keely Smith, with arrangements by Billy May.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra.

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Sam Butera

Sam Butera (August 17, 1927 – June 3, 2009) was a tenor saxophonist best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith.

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Saxie Dowell

Horace Kirby Dowell (May 24, 1904 – July 22, 1974), professionally Saxie Dowell, was an American jazz and pop music bandleader and singer and songwriter.

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Senior Prom (film)

Senior Prom is a 1958 film directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Jill Corey and Paul Hampton.

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Swingin' Pretty

Swingin' Pretty is a 1959 studio album by the American jazz singer Keely Smith, arranged by Nelson Riddle.

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That Old Black Magic

"That Old Black Magic" is a 1942 popular song written by Harold Arlen (music), with the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

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That Old Black Magic (album)

That Old Black Magic is a 1965 album by Keely Smith, with arrangements by Ernie Freeman.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Intimate Keely Smith

The Intimate Keely Smith is a 1964 album by Keely Smith.

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Thunder Road (film)

Thunder Road is a black and white 1958 drama–crime film about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the late 1950s.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach is an independent city located on the southeastern coast of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Vocal jazz

Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of instruments.

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You're Breaking My Heart

"You're Breaking My Heart" is a popular song.

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1st Annual Grammy Awards

The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keely_Smith

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