Ketty Lester

Ketty Lester - Love Letters

Ketty Lester (* 16th August 1934 (according to other sources in 1938) in Hope , Arkansas as Revoyda Frierson ) is an American R & B - singer and actress .

Life

Ketty Lester studied music at San Francisco State College and joined the college choir. After graduating, she worked in a music club and was discovered by Cab Calloway . She went with him on a tour of South America and in 1961 got a record deal with Era Records . With her single Love Letters she was able to reach number 5 in the US charts in 1962. From 1968 Lester regularly played smaller and larger TV roles, e.g. B. in the TV series Lou Grant . Her biggest role was as Hester-Sue Terhune in Michael Landon's series Our Little Farm .

Discography

Albums

• 1962 Love Letters
• 1964 Betty Everett & Ketty Lester
• 1964 The Soul of Me
• 1965 Where Is Love?
• 1966 When a Woman Loves a Man
• 1969 Ketty Lester
• 1977 Ketty Lester in concert
• 1982 A Collection of Her Best
• 1984 I Saw Love

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	R&B
1962	Love letters	UK4 (12 weeks) UK	US5 (14 weeks) US	R&B2 (14 weeks) R&B
	But not for me	UK45 (4 weeks) UK	US41 (7 weeks) US	-
	You Can't Lie to a Liar	-	US90 (1 week) US	-
	This Land Is Your Land	-	US97 (1 week) US	-

More singles

• 1962 Whip O Will
• 1963 Fallen Angel
• 1964 Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid
• 1964 Please Don't Cry Anymore
• 1964 I Trust You Baby
• 1964 You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Crazy)
• 1965 (Looking for A) Better World
• 1965 I'll Be Looking Back
• 1966 Secret Love
• 1966 When a Woman Loves a Man
• 1968 I Will Lead You
• 1968 Measure of a Man
• 1969 Show Me
• 1984 One Day at a Time
• 1984 Have You Heard?

Filmography

Feature films

• 1968: Black Power
• 1972: Blacula
• 1974: It's Good to Be Alive (TV movie)
• 1974: Saturday night in the blacks' neighborhood (Uptown Saturday Night)
• 1975: The nerve bundle (The Prisoner of Second Avenue)
• 1976: Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style (TV movie)
• 1976: Adventurizing with the Chopper (TV movie)
• 1978: Cops and Robin (TV movie)
• 1978: Battered (TV movie)
• 1980: The Night the City Screamed (TV movie)
• 1985: Handsome Harry's (TV movie)
• 1993: Clenched Fists (Street Knight)
• 1993: Percy & Thunder - The Prize of Victory ( Percy & Thunder , TV movie)
• 1994: House Party 3
• 1994: Jack Reed: Merciless Hunt ( Jack Reed: A Search for Justice , TV movie)
• 1997: Deadly Speed ( Runaway Car , TV movie)

TV Shows

• 1969: FBI ( The FBI , an episode)
• 1969: Green Acres (two episodes)
• 1969: Cute but a little crazy ( That Girl , an episode)
• 1969: Bill Cosby ( The Bill Cosby Show , an episode)
• 1969: Julia (five episodes)
• 1970: Here Come the Brides (an episode)
• 1970, 1973: Love, American Style (two episodes)
• 1971: Room 222 (two episodes)
• 1972: The Rookies (an episode)
• 1972–1973: Temperatures Rising (three episodes)
• 1973: Sanford and Son (an episode)
• 1973–1975: Dr. med. Marcus Welby ( Marcus Welby, MD , three episodes)
• 1975: The Streets of San Francisco ( The Streets of San Francisco , a series)
• 1975: Harry O (an episode)
• 1975-1977: Days of Our Lives (Days of our Lives)
• 1976: Hunter (an episode)
• 1977: Sugar Time! (one episode)
• 1977: The Waltons ( The Waltons , an episode)
• 1977–1983: Our Little Farm ( Little House on the Prairie , 40 episodes)
• 1978: Lou Grant (an episode)
• 1979: The White Shadow (an episode)
• 1981: Palmerstown, USA (one episode)
• 1982: Happy Days (an episode)
• 1983: Hill Street Police Station ( Hill Street Blues , two episodes)
• 1984: The Fisher Family (an episode)
• 1984: Rituals
• 1985: GI Joe (four episodes)
• 1986: Agent with a Heart ( Scarecrow and Mrs. King , an episode)
• 1986: Morningstar / Eveningstar (seven episodes)
• 1986: Hotel (one episode)
• 1987: Webster (two episodes)
• 1987: Trying Times (an episode)
• 1988: Chief Physician Dr. Westphall ( St. Elsewhere , an episode)
• 1989: In the Heat of the Night ( In the Heat of the Night , a series)
• 1989: Heartbeat of Life - Goddesses in White ( Heartbeat , an episode)
• 1989: Spacecop LA ( Alien Nation , an episode)
• 1989: Back to the Past ( Quantum Leap , an episode)
• 1990: Brewster Place (two episodes)
• 1990: Chicago Soul (two episodes)
• 1990: The New Adam-12 (an episode)
• 1991: LA Law - Star Lawyers, Tricks, Litigation ( LA Law , one episode)
• 1995: Courthouse (an episode)
• 1998: Everything purely personal ( Getting Personal , one episode)

literature

• Günter Ehnert: HIT GUIDE - US Chart Singles 1950-1963 . Taurus Press 1992, ISBN 3-922542-47-6 .
• Julia Edenhofer : The Great Oldie Lexicon . Bastei-Lübbe 1991, p. 370, ISBN 3-404-60288-9 .

Web links

• Ketty Lester in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Ketty Lester on discogs , accessed August 11, 2013
• Ketty Lester on allmusic , accessed August 11, 2013
• Ketty Lester in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Ketty Lester in the German dubbing file

swell

1. ↑ Günter Ehnert: HIT GUIDE - US Chart Singles 1950-1963 . P. 142
2. ^ Hester-Sue Terhune (Character), "Our Little Farm" (1974). Retrieved August 11, 2013 .  (English)
3. ↑ Chart sources: UK US