Beryl Davis

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Beryl Davis with Tommy Dorsey 1947.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

Beryl Davis (born March 16, 1924 in Plymouth , England , † October 28, 2011 in Los Angeles , California ) was a British - American singer and actress .

Live and act

Davis was the daughter of the English band leader Harry Davis. At the age of 12 she already appeared with Stéphane Grappelli's and Django Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France , on August 25, 1939, two records for Decca Records were made in London ( Don't Worry About Me / Undecided ). With Grappelli, who stayed in London after the outbreak of war, she recorded Bluebirds in the Moonlight . She has given concerts in London clubs with the pianist George Shearing . During World War II she was also a band vocalist in Arthur Young's Swingtette and Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band . After moving to the United States, she took on for RCA Victor ( I'm Waiting For Ships That Never Come 1947) and married the disc jockey Peter Potter in Hollywood in 1948; the marriage was divorced in 1965. After the war ended in the late big band era, she appeared in shows with Bob Hope , Frank Sinatra ( Your Hit Parade ) and Benny Goodman . In the 1950s she formed a vocal quartet with Jane Russell , Connie Haines and Della Russell , which recorded the gospel song Do Lord Remember Me . From the 1970s she appeared mainly on cruise ships of the Princess Line and in night clubs. The critic Leonard Feather wrote about the singer: "[She] reminds you of the days when nightclub singers of a certain special quality were called chanteuses."

Beryl Davis (2009)

Discographic notes

Filmography

  • 1946: Paradise of Love (London Town)
  • 1948: Merry-Go-Round
  • 1949: I Remember You (short film)
  • 1956: Around the World Revue (short film)
  • 1963: The Red Skelton Show (TV series, episode)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in Los Angeles Times
  2. ↑ See Alexander Schmitz, Peter Maier: Django Reinhardt. His life His music His records. Oreos Verlag (Collection Jazz), Gauting-Buchendorf 1985
  3. ^ Hatchett's Restaurant - Piccadilly The Swingette ( January 10, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Billboard Jun 26, 1948
  5. ^ Obituary in The Guardian
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Beryl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Plymouth , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2011
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States