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Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918–August 17, 1990) was an American singer and actress. After appearing in vaudeville
Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
, she made her Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 debut in St. Louis Woman
St. Louis Woman

St. Louis Woman is a musical theatre by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer based upon the novel God Sends Sunday by African-American writer Arna Bontemps....
  in 1946. She won a Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
 for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a Musical theater with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart , based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....
 in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award
Daytime Emmy Award

The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York, New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles, California-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in United States daytime television programming....
 for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC After school Special
After school special

----The American Broadcasting Company coined the term After School Special in 1972 with a series of made for television movies, usually dealing with controversial or socially relevant issues, that were generally broadcast in the early afternoon and meant to be viewed by school age children, particularly teenagers....
, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.

Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango
Takes Two to Tango

"Takes Two to Tango" is a popular music song written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1952 in music.Two versions of the song, by Pearl Bailey and by Louis Armstrong, charted in 1952 in music....
" hit the top ten in 1952.

ey was born in Southampton County, Virginia
Southampton County, Virginia

Southampton County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the population was 17,482....
, to Rev. Joseph and Ella Mae Bailey, and raised in the Bloodfields neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia
Newport News, Virginia

Newport News is an independent city in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. It is at the south-western end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the north shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads....
.

She made her stage-singing debut when she was 15 years old.






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Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918–August 17, 1990) was an American singer and actress. After appearing in vaudeville
Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
, she made her Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 debut in St. Louis Woman
St. Louis Woman

St. Louis Woman is a musical theatre by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer based upon the novel God Sends Sunday by African-American writer Arna Bontemps....
  in 1946. She won a Tony Award
Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
 for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a Musical theater with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart , based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....
 in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award
Daytime Emmy Award

The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York, New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles, California-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in United States daytime television programming....
 for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC After school Special
After school special

----The American Broadcasting Company coined the term After School Special in 1972 with a series of made for television movies, usually dealing with controversial or socially relevant issues, that were generally broadcast in the early afternoon and meant to be viewed by school age children, particularly teenagers....
, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.

Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango
Takes Two to Tango

"Takes Two to Tango" is a popular music song written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1952 in music.Two versions of the song, by Pearl Bailey and by Louis Armstrong, charted in 1952 in music....
" hit the top ten in 1952.

Early life

Bailey was born in Southampton County, Virginia
Southampton County, Virginia

Southampton County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state of the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the population was 17,482....
, to Rev. Joseph and Ella Mae Bailey, and raised in the Bloodfields neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia
Newport News, Virginia

Newport News is an independent city in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. It is at the south-western end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the north shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads....
.

She made her stage-singing debut when she was 15 years old. Her brother Bill Bailey
Bill Bailey (dancer)

Bill Bailey was an African American Tap dancing. He was the brother of Pearl Bailey. Bill was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk , although he referred to it as the "Backslide", in the film Cabin In the Sky , starring Ethel Waters, Rochester and Lena Horne....
 was beginning his own career as a tap dancer, and suggested she enter an amateur contest at Philadelphia’s Pearl Theater. She entered, won first prize, later won a similar contest at Harlem
Harlem

Harlem is a Neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center....
’s famous Apollo Theater
Apollo Theater

The Apollo Theater in New York City is one of the most famous music halls in the United States, and the most famous club associated almost exclusively with African-American performers....
, and decided to pursue a career in entertainment.

Career

Bailey began by singing and dancing in Philadelphia’s black nightclubs in the 1930s, and soon started performing in other parts of the East Coast. In 1941, during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, Bailey toured the country with the USO, performing for American troops. After the tour, she settled in New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. Her solo successes as a nightclub performer were followed by acts with such entertainers as Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader.Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s....
 and Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
. In 1946, Bailey made her Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 debut in St. Louis Woman
St. Louis Woman

St. Louis Woman is a musical theatre by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer based upon the novel God Sends Sunday by African-American writer Arna Bontemps....
. Bailey continued to tour and record albums in between her stage and screen performances.

In 1954, she took the role of Frankie in the film version of Carmen Jones
Carmen Jones (film)

Carmen Jones is a 1954 musical film produced and directed by Otto Preminger for Carlyle Productions, released on October 5, 1954 by 20th Century Fox....
, and her rendition of "Beat Out That Rhythm on the Drum" is one of the highlights of the film. She also starred in the Broadway musical House of Flowers
House of Flowers (musical)

House of Flowers is a musical theatre by Harold Arlen and Truman Capote , based on his own novella. This was Capote's only musical, and is the first theatrical production outside of Trinidad and Tobago to feature the new Caribbean instrument - the steel pan....
. In 1959, she played the role of Maria in the film version of Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward....
, starring Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Grammy award-winning Bahamas-United States actor, film director, author, and diplomat....
 and Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an United States actress and popular singer. Dandridge was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress....
. Also that year she played the role of "Aunt Hagar" in the movie St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues (1958 film)

St. Louis Blues is a 1958 in film film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy. It starred jazz and blues greats Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, and Barney Bigard, as well as gospel music singer Mahalia Jackson and actor Ruby Dee....
, alongside Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson was an United States gospel music singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre, and is the first "Queen of Gospel Music"....
, Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American actor, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her 1953 Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavaila...
, and Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
.

In 1967, Bailey and Cab Calloway headlined an all-black cast version of Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly!

Hello, Dolly! may refer to:*Hello, Dolly! , by Jerry Herman*Hello, Dolly! , from the musical*Hello, Dolly! , based on the musical*Hello, Dolly! , 1964 album by Ella Fitzgerald...
 The touring version was so successful, producer David Merrick
David Merrick

David Merrick was a prolific Tony Award-winning United States theatrical producer.Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law....
 took it to Broadway where it played to sold out houses and revitalized the long running musical. Bailey was given a special Tony Award for her role and RCA
RCA

RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. Today, the RCA is owned by the France conglomerate Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson....
 made a second original cast album.. That is the only recording of the score to have an overture which was written especially for that recording.

The following year, she sang the national anthem at Shea Stadium
Shea Stadium

William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, usually shortened to Shea Stadium or just Shea , was a stadium located in the New York City borough of Queens, in Flushing Meadows?Corona Park....
, prior to game 5 of the 1969 World Series
1969 World Series

The 1969 World Series was played between the New York Mets and the Baltimore Orioles, with the Mets prevailing in five games to accomplish one of the greatest upsets in Series history, as that particular Orioles List of baseball jargon #squad was considered to be one of the finest ever....
.

During the 1970s she had her own television show, and she also provided voices for animations such as Tubby the Tuba
Tubby the Tuba

Tubby the Tuba may refer to:*Tubby the Tuba , a song by Paul Tripp and George Kleinsinger*Tubby the Tuba The George Pal Puppetoon movie*Tubby the Tuba ...
 (1976) and Disney
Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
's The Fox and the Hound
The Fox and the Hound (film)

The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions, first released to movie theatres in the United States on July 10, 1981....
 (1981). She returned to Broadway in 1975, playing the lead in an all-black production of Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a Musical theater with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart , based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....
. She earned a B.A. in theology
Theology

Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
 from Georgetown University
Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a Society of Jesus private university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Father John Carroll founded the school in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634....
 in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 in 1985.

Later in her career, Bailey was a fixture as a spokesperson in a series of Duncan Hines
Duncan Hines

Duncan Hines was a United States pioneer of restaurant ratings for travelers. He is best known today for the brand of food products that bears his name....
 commercials.

Personal life

On November 19, 1952, Bailey married jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
 Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson

Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni , better known by the stage name Louie Bellson , was an Italian-American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the Double bass drumming....
 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. They had a daughter, Dee Dee J. Bellson, born about 1961.

Bailey, a Republican
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
, was appointed by President Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the only president to resign the office....
 as America's "Ambassador of Love" in 1970. She attended several meetings of the United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
 and later took part in a for President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
 in the 1976 election
United States presidential election, 1976

The United States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It pitted incumbent President of the United States Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, against the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia , Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate....
.

She was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom
Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a decoration bestowed by the President of the United States and is, along with theequivalent Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of United States Congress, the highest Civilian decorations of the United States in the United States....
 on October 17, 1988.

Death

Pearl Bailey died at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia on August 17, 1990. Following an autopsy
Autopsy

An autopsy, also known as a post-mortem examination, necropsy , autopsia cadaverum, or obduction, is a medical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a Dead body to determine the cause and manner of death and to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present....
, Dr. Emanuel Rubin, professor and chairman of the Department of Pathology at Jefferson Medical College, announced the cause of death as arteriosclerotic coronary artery disease with significant narrowing of the coronary artery. She is buried at Rolling Green Memorial Park in West Chester, Pennsylvania
West Chester, Pennsylvania

The Borough of West Chester is the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.Philadelphia is 25 miles to the east and Wilmington, Delaware 17 miles to the south....
.

Filmography

  • Variety Girl
    Variety Girl

    Variety Girl is an all-star movie musical produced by Paramount Pictures. Numerous Paramount contract players and directors make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bing Crosby....
     (1947
    1947 in film

    The year 1947 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Isn't It Romantic?
    Isn't It Romantic? (film)

    Isn't It Romantic? is a 1948 in film from Paramount Pictures, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Veronica Lake and Billy De Wolfe. Although it takes its title from a 1932 song by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, it is based on a novel called Gather Ye Rosebuds by Jeannette C....
     (1948
    1948 in film

    The year 1948 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Carmen Jones
    Carmen Jones (film)

    Carmen Jones is a 1954 musical film produced and directed by Otto Preminger for Carlyle Productions, released on October 5, 1954 by 20th Century Fox....
     (1954
    1954 in film

    The year 1954 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • That Certain Feeling (1956
    1956 in film

    The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • St. Louis Blues
    St. Louis Blues (1958 film)

    St. Louis Blues is a 1958 in film film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy. It starred jazz and blues greats Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, and Barney Bigard, as well as gospel music singer Mahalia Jackson and actor Ruby Dee....
     (1958
    1958 in film

    The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Porgy and Bess (1959
    1959 in film

    The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • All the Fine Young Cannibals
    All the Fine Young Cannibals

    All The Fine Young Cannibals is a 1960 in film film directed by Michael Anderson , based on the novel by Rosamond Marshall starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, and Pearl Bailey....
     (1960
    1960 in film

    The year 1960 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Landlord
    The Landlord

    The Landlord is a 1970 film directed by Hal Ashby, which was based on the novel by Kristin Hunter....
     (1970
    1970 in film

    The year 1970 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Tubby the Tubba
    Tubby the Tuba (1975 film)

    Tubby the Tuba is a 1975 in film animated feature film, based on the Tubby the Tuba by Paul Tripp and George Kleinsinger. It was released on April 1 1975 by Avco Embassy Pictures....
     (1975
    1975 in film

    The year 1975 in film involved some significant events....
    ) (voice)
  • Norman... Is That You? (1976
    1976 in film

    The year 1976 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Fox and the Hound
    The Fox and the Hound (film)

    The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions, first released to movie theatres in the United States on July 10, 1981....
     (1981
    1981 in film

    Events*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate , a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica Corporation to sell it....
    ) (voice)


Television work

  • Mike and Pearl (1968
    1968 in television

    The year 1968 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1968.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1968-69 American network television schedule....
    )
  • Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey: On Broadway (1969
    1969 in television

    The year 1969 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1969.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1969-70 American network television schedule....
    )
  • The Pearl Bailey Show (1971
    1971 in television

    The year 1971 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1971.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1971-72 American network television schedule....
    ) (midseason replacement series)
  • All-Star Salute to Pearl Bailey (1979
    1979 in television

    The year 1979 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1979.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1979-80 American network television schedule....
    )
  • The Member of the Wedding
    The Member of the Wedding

    The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern United States writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete -- though she interrupted the work for a few months to write the short novel The Ballad of the Sad Cafe....
     (1982
    1982 in television

    The year 1982 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1982.For the American TV schedule, see: 1982-83 American network television schedule....
    )
  • As the World Turns
    As the World Turns

    As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that airs each weekday on CBS.Set in the fictional town of Oakdale , the show debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm Eastern Time Zone....
     (cast member in 1982)
  • Peter Gunn
    Peter Gunn

    Peter Gunn is an United States detective fiction television programme which aired on the National Broadcasting Company and later American Broadcasting Company television networks from 1958 to 1961....
     (1989
    1989 in television

    The year 1989 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1989.For the American TV schedule, see: 1989-90 United States network television schedule....
    ) (unsold pilot)


Theater work

  • St. Louis Woman
    St. Louis Woman

    St. Louis Woman is a musical theatre by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer based upon the novel God Sends Sunday by African-American writer Arna Bontemps....
     (March 30 - July 6, 1946) (Broadway)
  • Arms and the Girl (February 2 - May 27, 1950) (Broadway)
  • Bless You All (December 13, 1950 - February 24, 1951) (Broadway)
  • House of Flowers
    House of Flowers (musical)

    House of Flowers is a musical theatre by Harold Arlen and Truman Capote , based on his own novella. This was Capote's only musical, and is the first theatrical production outside of Trinidad and Tobago to feature the new Caribbean instrument - the steel pan....
     (December 30, 1954 - May 21, 1955) (Broadway)
  • Call Me Madam
    Call Me Madam

    Call Me Madam is a musical theater with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.A satire on politics and foreign affairs that Parodys United States's penchant for lending billions of dollars to needy countries, it centers on Sally Adams, a well-meaning but ill-informed socialite widow who is appo...
     (1966) (Melodyland Theater)
  • Hello, Dolly!
    Hello, Dolly! (musical)

    Hello, Dolly! is a Musical theater with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart , based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....
     (November 21, 1967 - 1969) (Broadway and national tour)
  • Hello, Dolly!
    Hello, Dolly! (musical)

    Hello, Dolly! is a Musical theater with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart , based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....
     (November 6 - December 28, 1975) (Broadway)


Discography

  • Pearl Bailey Entertains (1950
    1950 in music

    Events*January 3 - Sam Phillips launches Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.*August - Herbert Howells' Hymnus Paradisi is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival....
    )
  • Birth of the Blues (1952
    1952 in music

    Events*Pierre Schaeffer publishes his A la recherche d'une musique concr?te , an explanation of his experimental approach to composing.*Joni James begins her recording career at MGM...
    )
  • Cultured Pearl (1952)
  • I'm with You (1953
    1953 in music

    Events*Arthur Bliss replaces Arnold Bax as Master of the Queen's Music.*Alfred Schnittke becomes a student of Evgeny Golubev.*Frank Sinatra begins recording at Capitol...
    )
  • Say Si Si (1953)
  • Carmelina (1955
    1955 in music

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    )
  • The Intoxicating Pearl Bailey (1956
    1956 in music

    Events*January 1 - Blue Suede Shoes is released by Carl Perkins on the Sun Records label.*Cameo-Parkway Records formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Kal Mann & Bernie Lowe....
    )
  • The One and Only Pearl Bailey Sings (1956)
  • Gems by Pearl Bailey (1958
    1958 in music

    Events*January 28 - Little Richard begins attending classes at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama*January 29 - Bo Diddley records "Say Man", a #3 R&B hit when it is released in the Fall of 1959....
    )
  • Pearl Bailey A-Broad (1959
    1959 in music

    Events* 1959 Jimi Hendrix buys first electric guitar: a White Single pickup Supro Ozark 1560 S.*January 5 The first sessions for Ella Fitzgerald's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook are held....
    )
  • Pearl Bailey Sings for Adults Only (1959)
  • More Songs for Adults Only (1960
    1960 in music

    Events*January 14 - Elvis Presley is promoted to Sergeant in the U.S. Army*February 6 - Songwriter Jesse Belvin dies in an automobile accident in Los Angeles, California....
    )
  • Naughty But Nice (1960)
  • Songs of the Bad Old Days (1960)
  • Pearl Bailey Sings the Songs of Harold Arlen (1961
    1961 in music

    Events*January 15 - Motown Records signs The Supremes*January 20 - Francis Poulenc's Gloria is premiered in Boston*February 12 - The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single...
    )
  • Come On, Let's Play with Pearlie Mae (1962
    1962 in music

    Events*January 1 - The Beatles and The Tremeloes both audition at Decca Records, a company which has the option of signing one group only. The Beatles are rejected, mainly as they come from Liverpool and the others are Dagenham-based nearer London....
    )
  • Happy Sounds (1962)
  • All About Good Little Girls and Bad Little Boys (1963
    1963 in music

    Events*January 1 - The Beatles start a 5 day tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, "Love Me Do".*January 4 - At Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on juke boxes....
    )
  • C'est La Vie (1963)
  • Les Poupées de Paris
    Les Poupées de Paris

    Les Poup?es de Paris was a musical puppet show created, produced and directed by Sid and Marty Krofft, that toured the United States throughout the 1960s....
     (1964
    1964 in music

    Events*January 1 - Top of the Pops premieres on BBC television.*January 3 - Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show....
    )
  • Songs By James Van Heusen (1964)
  • The Risque World of Pearl Bailey (1964)
  • For Women Only (1965
    1965 in music

    Events*January 4 - Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is sold to CBS for $13 million.*January 12 - Hullabaloo premieres on NBC. The first show included performances by the New Christy Minstrels, comedian Woody Allen, actress Joey Heatherton and a segment from London in which Brian Epstein introduces The Zombies and Gerry & The Pacemak...
    )
  • The Jazz Singer (1965)
  • After Hours (1969
    1969 in music

    EventsPerhaps the two most famous musical events of 1969 were concerts. At a Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, California, a fan was stabbed to death by Hells Angels, a biker gang that had been hired to provide security for the event....
    )
  • Pearl's Pearls (1971
    1971 in music

    Events*February 5 - Eric Burdon & War disband. They never performed together again until April 21, 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music....
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Bibliography

  • The Raw Pearl (1968) (autobiography)
  • Talking to Myself (1971) (autobiography)
  • Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook (1973)
  • Duey's Tale (1975)
  • Hurry Up America and Spit (1976)
  • Between You and Me: A Heartfelt Memoir on Learning, Loving, and Living (1989)


External links

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