Lucy Ann Polk

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Lucy Ann Polk (born May 16, 1927 - October 10, 2011 ) was an American jazz and big band vocalist.

Live and act

Polk began her career with Tommy Dorsey (Baby, Baby All the Time) around 1947 ; She then became known primarily through her collaboration with the band leader Les Brown , in whose orchestra she sang in the early 1950s, when well-known jazz musicians such as saxophonist Dave Pell and trumpeter Don Fagerquist also played. In 1950, the single Crazy He Calls Me was released by RCA Victor . With Les Brown's orchestra she also appeared in a music film (I've Got the World on a String, 1951).

In 1954 she left Brown's orchestra because she no longer wanted to go on strenuous tours. She was also a singer in the bands of Kay Kyser and Dave Pell. In 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1954 she won the Downbeat Poll in the category Best Girl-Singer with Band . Polk submitted a total of three solo albums, including Lucky Lucy Ann (1957), which contained arrangements by Marty Paich and was the only one to be re-released on CD.

Discography

  • Dave Pell Octet: Plays Burke and Van Heusen (Fresh Sound, 1953)
  • Lucy Ann Polk with The Dave Pell Octet (Trend, 1954)
  • Lucky Lucy Ann (VSOP, 1957) with Bob Hardaway, Dick Noel, Buddy Clark , Mel Lewis , Tony Rizzi
  • Easy Livin ' (Interlude, 1959)
  • Les Brown and His Orchestra: The Uncollected Vol. 3 (Hindsight, 1978)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in tributes.com
  2. ^ David Dicaire: Jazz musicians of the early years, to 1945
  3. ↑ New hot discography: the standard directory of recorded jazz 1948
  4. ↑ Yanow, Scott. Jazz: a Regional Exploration . 77. Greenwood Press, 2005.
  5. ↑ Saturday review of literature: Volume 33, 1950
  6. ^ Rebecca D. Clear: Jazz on film and video in the Library of Congress
  7. ^ Down Beat 1958
  8. ↑ worlds records
  9. ^ Review of the album Plays Burke and Van Heusen by Scott Yanow on Allmusic . Retrieved December 14, 2011.
  10. ↑ The Uncollected Vol. 3 Les Brown and His Orchestra 1949 at Discogs (English)
personal data
SURNAME Polk, Lucy Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and big band vocalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1927
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2011