Jo Ann Greer
Jo Ann Greer (born April 3, 1927 in Atlantic City , † May 24, 2001 in Los Angeles ) was an American singer.
Life
Greer married the swing and boogie-woogie pianist and bandleader Freddie Slack (1910-1965) in the 1940s , which gave her connections to the Hollywood film industry. She had her first band appearances with Sonny Burke . She became known as a singer in the big band of Ray Anthony , with whom she had the hits Wild Horses and 1953 The Hokey-Pokey . In the same year she moved to Les Brown , with whom she stayed until the early 1990s and made numerous single recordings. However, she never released an album under her own name.
She was also a ghost singer ( dubber ) for Hollywood stars like Rita Hayworth (in Affair in Trinidad , Purgatory , where she sang the Oscar-nominated song Blue Pacific Blues for Rita Hayworth, and Pal Joey ), Gloria Grahame (in Naked Alibi ), Carole Mathews (in Meet Me at the Fair ), Charlotte Austin (in Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder ), Esther Williams (in Jupiter's Darling ), June Allyson (in The Opposite Sex ), Kim Novak (in Five Against the House ), May Wynn (in The Caine Mutiny ) and Susan Kohner (in Imitation of Life ).
From 1991 onwards, she processed these experiences in a popular cabaret show with two other former Ghost singers (Annette Warren, India Adams), Voices - Hollywood's Secret Singing Stars .
After her marriage to Slack, she was married twice, both times to trumpeters: Stan Stout from the Les Brown Orchestra and Mickey McMahan from the Lawrence Welk Orchestra, with whom she had two children.
In 1956 she won the Down Beat magazine's readers' poll in the band singer category.
Web links
- Jo Ann Greer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jo Ann Greer at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greer, Jo Ann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atlantic City |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 2001 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |