Judy Henske
Judy Henske (born December 20, 1936 in Chippewa Falls , Wisconsin , USA ) is an American singer and songwriter .
Life
Henske attended Notre Dame Grade School and Rosary College in River Forest, Illinois , and then studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She later worked in the office of Oberlin College, Ohio , and then in a Quaker cooperative in Philadelphia .
Around 1959 she lived in the marina of San Diego , California , on a sailing ship anchored there and sang in coffeehouses in San Diego and Los Angeles , where she performed with Lenny Bruce , among others . In 1961 she joined the Whiskey Hill Singers , a formation founded by Dave Guard , former singer of the Kingston Trio . With these she recorded an album.
After the Whiskey Hill Singers broke up , she moved to Hollywood , where she was given the opportunity to appear on the television series Hootenanny . Due to her great success, she was booked for regular appearances on the Judy Garland Show, but was canceled after a short time because of her cynical lyrics.
In 1963 she took part in the film Hootenanny Hoot , a documentary about the height of the folk music movement of the time. A short time later Jac Holzman became aware of her from the record company Elektra Records and recorded two albums with her. Already at the first she expressed her sharp-tongued humor. At the same time she performed regularly as a solo singer in New York and worked a. a. with Woody Allen , with whom she had a relationship.
In 1963 she married Jerry Yester , a musician in the Modern Folk Quartet . She appeared in the musical Gogo Loves You by Anita Loos and sang in Greenwich Village clubs in New York and in other cities on the east coast of the USA.
After a failed attempt by Mercury Records to establish her as an all-round entertainer, she moved to Laurel Canyon with Yester and stayed away from the music business for a few years. When Yester joined The Lovin 'Spoonful in 1967 , she went back to the East Coast.
In 1969 she returned to music and recorded the album Farewell Aldebaran with Yester on Frank Zappa's Straight Records label , with an experimental mix of folk, psychedelic parts and elements of classical music. The couple formed the band Rosebud and recorded another album with them before they split up. In 1973 Henske married the rosebud musician Craig Doerge and withdrew into private life.
She continued to write songs, however, but didn't perform live again until the 1990s. In 1999 and 2004 she released two new albums and in 2007 Rhino Records released her complete works on CD.
Henske and Doerge now live in Pasadena , California. They keep writing songs and recording their music.
The American writer Andrew Vachss is an admirer of Henske and mentioned her several times in his crime novels.
Discography
Albums
- Dave Guard and the Whiskeyhill Singers (1962)
- How the West Was Won (soundtrack, 1962)
- Judy Henske (1963)
- High Flying Bird (1963)
- Little Bit of Sunshine ... Little Bit of Rain (1965)
- The Death Defying Judy Henske (1966)
- Farewell Aldebaran (1969) (with Jerry Yester)
- Rosebud (1971)
- Loose in the World (1999)
- She Sang California (2004)
- Big Judy: How Far This Music Goes (2007)
Singles
- That's Enough / Oh, Didn't He Ramble (as Judy Hart, 1962)
- I Know You Rider / Love Henry (1963)
- High Flyin 'Bird / Charlotte Town (1963)
- Til The Real Thing Comes Along / Lonely Train (1963)
- Crazy He Calls Me / Baby (1965)
- Road to Nowhere / Sing A Rainbow (1966)
- Day To Day / Dolphins In The Sea (1966)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henske, Judy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chippewa Falls , Wisconsin, USA |