Ivie Anderson
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Ivie Anderson (July 10, 1905 – December 28, 1949) was an American
United States
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 jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 singer. She was best-known for her performances with Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...

's orchestra between 1931 and 1942.

She was born in Gilroy, California
Gilroy, California
Gilroy is the southernmost city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 48,821 at the 2010 census. Gilroy is well-known for its garlic crop and for the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, featuring various garlicky foods, including garlic ice cream. Gilroy also produces...

. With a sweet, clear singing voice, she was a popular attraction with Ellington's band. Her performance of "Stormy Weather" in the movie short Bundle of Blues (1933) was only eclipsed by the later and far better known version sung by Lena Horne
Lena Horne
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the...

 in Horne's movie that was also entitled Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather (1943 film)
Stormy Weather is a 1943 American musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The film is one of two major Hollywood musicals produced in 1943 with primarily African-American casts, the other being MGM's Cabin in the Sky, and is considered a time capsule showcasing some of the top...

(1943).

Over Ellington's long career as bandleader, his indifference toward vocalists changed with the hiring of Anderson, who was generally considered the best vocalist he ever employed.

She also appeared as a singer in the Marx Brothers
Marx Brothers
The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion pictures from the early 1900s to around 1950...

 movie A Day at the Races
A Day at the Races (film)
Further reading* Elisabeth Buxbaum: Veronika, der Lenz ist da. Walter Jurmann – Ein Musiker zwischen den Welten und Zeiten. Mit einem Werkverzeichnis von Alexander Sieghardt. Edition Steinbauer, Wien 2006, ISBN 3-902494-18-2-External links:*...

(1937) and the same year in Hit Parade of 1937 (as Ivy Anderson).

Other Ellington songs featuring Anderson include
  • "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)
    It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
    "It Don't Mean a Thing " is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Irving Mills, now accepted as a jazz standard. The music was written and arranged by Ellington in August 1931 during intermissions at Chicago's Lincoln Tavern and was first recorded by Ellington and his orchestra for...

     (Brunswick 6265) 2/2/32
  • "Delta Bound" (Columbia 37298) 12/21/32 (not issued until the 1940s)
  • "I've Got The World On A String
    I've Got the World on a String
    "I've Got The World on a String" is a 1932 popular song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It was written for the 1932 Cotton Club Parade....

    " (UK Columbia CB-625) 2/15/33 (recorded in New York but only issued overseas)
  • "Happy As The Day Is Long" (Brunswick 6571) 5/9/33
  • "Raisin' The Rent" (Brunswick 6571) 5/9/33
  • "Get Yourself A New Broom (And Sweep Your Blues Away)" (Brunswick 6607) 5/9/33
  • "I'm Satisfied" (Brunswick 6638) 8/15/33
  • "Ebony Rhapsody" (Victor 24622) 4/12/34
  • "Troubled Waters" (Victor 24651) 5/9/34
  • "My Old Flame" (Victor 24651) 5/9/34
  • "Let's Have A Jubilee" (unissued on 78) 1/9/35
  • "Cotton" (Brunswick 7525) 8/19/35
  • "Truckin'" (Brunswick 7514) 8/19/35

  • "Dinah Lou" (unissued on 78) 1/20/36
  • "Isn't Love the Strangest Thing?" (Brunswick 7625) 2/27/36
  • "Love Is Like A Cigarette" (Brunswick 7627) 2/28/36
  • "Kissin' My Baby Goodnight" (Brunswick 7627) 2/28/36
  • "Oh Babe! Maybe Someday" (Brunswick 7667) 2/28/36
  • "Shoe-Shine Bow" (Brunswick 7710) 7/17/36
  • "It Was A Sad Night In Harlem" (Brunswick 7710) 7/17/36
  • "I've Got To Be A Rug Cutter" (Master MA-101) 3/25/37
  • "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" (as THE GOTHAM STOMPERS) (Variety VA-629) 3/25/37
  • "Did Anyone Ever Tell you?" (as THE GOTHAM STOMPERS) (Variety VA-541) 3/25/37
  • "Where Are you?" (as THE GOTHAM STOMPERS) (Variety VA-541) 3/25/37
  • "There's A Lull In My Life" (Master MA-117) 4/9/37
  • "It's Swell Of You" (Master MA-117) 4/9/37
  • "The Old Plantation" (as IVIE ANDERSON AND HER BOYS FROM DIXIE) (Variety VA-591) 4/9/37
  • "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (as IVIE ANDERSON AND HER BOYS FROM DIXIE) (Variety VA-591) 6/8/37
  • "Alabamy Home" (Master VA-137) 6/8/37
  • "If You Were In My Place (What Would You Do?)" (Brunswick 8093) 2/24/38
  • "Scrounch" (Brunswick 8093) 2/24/38
  • "Carnival In Caroline" (Brunswick 8099) 3/3/38
  • "Swingtime In Honolulu" (Brunswick 8131) 4/11/38
  • "You Gave Me The Gate (And I'm Swingin')" (Brunswick 8169) 6/7/38
  • "Rose Of Rio Grande" (Brunswick 8186) 6/7/38
  • "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street" (Brunswick 8168) 6/7/38
  • "Watermelon Man" (Brunswick 8200) 6/20/38
  • "La Do Doody Do" (Brunswick 8174) 6/20/38
  • "In A Mizz" (Brunswick 8405) 6/12/39
  • "I'm Checkin' Out, Goo'm Bye" (Columbia 35208) 6/12/39
  • "A Lonely Co-ed" (Columbia 35240) 6/12/39
  • "You Can Count On Me" (Brunswick 8411) 6/12/39
  • "Killing Myself" (Columbia 35640) 10/16/39
  • "Your Love Has Faded" (Columbia 35640) 10/16/39
  • "Solitude" (Columbia 35427) 2/14/40
  • "Stormy Weather" (Columbia 35556) 2/14/40
  • "Mood Indigo" (Columbia 35427) 2/14/40
  • "So Far, So Good" (Victor 26537) 3/6/40
  • "Me And You" (Victor 26598) 3/15/40
  • "At A Dixie Roadside Diner" (Victor 26719) 7/22/40
  • "Five O'Clock Whistle" (Victor 26748) 9/15/40
  • "Chocolate Shake" (Victor 27531) 6/26/41
  • "I Got it Bad And That Ain't Good" (victor 27531) 6/26/41
  • "Rocks In My Bed" (Victor 27639) 9/26/41
  • "I Don't Mind" (Victor 20-1598) 2/26/42
  • "Hayfoot, Strawfoot" (Victor 20-1505) 7/28/42


(The Gotham Stompers session included members of Ellington's band plus members of Chick Webb's)
," "My Old Flame," "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street," "Mood Indigo
Mood Indigo
"Mood Indigo" is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.-Disputed authorship:In a 1987 interview, Mitchell Parish claimed to have written the lyrics:...

," "Rocks in My Bed
Rocks in My Bed
"Rocks in My Bed" is a 1941 song written by Duke Ellington.-Notable recordings:*Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook *Sarah Vaughan - The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 2...

" and "I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good."

She developed chronic asthma
Asthma
Asthma is the common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath...

, which forced her to retire from touring in August 1942. She ran a chicken restaurant (Ivie's Chicken Shack) and continued singing in nightclub
Nightclub
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s on the West Coast, but deteriorating health limited her engagements and led to her untimely death.

Ivie Anderson died at age 44 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
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. She is interred in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery.

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