Shelby Flint

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Successful title
Angel on My Shoulder
on Valiant 6001

Shelby Flint (born September 17, 1939 in North Hollywood , California ) is an American singer who was active in the pop , folk and jazz music scene from the 1960s .

Artistic career

Flint learned to play the piano and guitar at the age of six. In Van Nuys , a district of Los Angeles , she attended public school and graduated from Birmingham High School in Los Angeles in 1957. She then joined the songwriting team around Barry De Vorzon . At the age of 19 she recorded her first single in the summer of 1958 with the New York record company Cadence Records . She wrote the A-side title I Will Love You herself, the B-side title Oh I Miss Him So was a joint effort with De Vorzon. Since the record was not accepted by the audience, she turned to folk music and founded a corresponding vocal trio.

In 1960 De Vorzon founded his own record company called Valiant and invited Flint to sing a new single with him. Again two tracks were selected from Flint's songwriting repertoire and the first Valiant single came out in November 1960, the two songs written and sung by Shelby Flint Angel On My Shoulder and Somebody . The song Angel on My Shoulder appeared for the first time on December 26, 1960 in the Hot 100 of the US music magazine Billbord and rose to number 22 in the following weeks. It was six years before a Shelby title was re-inducted into the Hot 100. In 1966 Valiant brought out a single with Flint, on the A-side of which she interpreted a version of Your Fate to the Wind by jazz musician Vince Guaraldi . Her version reached number 61 on the Hot 100. It was Flint's 13th single on Valiant, and her last single. In 1968 the record label Warner Bros. released a single with their two successful titles Angel on My Shoulder and Cast Your Fate to the Wind , and this ended Shelby Flint's record career, which also includes three Valiant long-playing records.

In the 1970s, Flint found employment in film. She appeared as a singer in the films Snoopy (1972), Breezy ( Meeting in the Morning , 1973) and The Rescuers ( Bernard and Bianca - Die Mäusepolizei , 1977). The song she sang in this film, Someone's Waiting for You , was nominated for an Oscar in 1978 for best movie song . In the television film Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July , she was part of the cast.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Flint turned to jazz. She released the jazz album You've Been On Mind in 1982 , with which she proved that she could also be successful in this genre. She performed with jazz greats like Chick Corea , Al Jarreau and Gregg Karukas , where she presented herself not only as a singer, but also as an instrumentalist. She appeared on numerous tours that took her not only through the United States, but also to Europe. The renowned jazz critic Leonard Feather described her as “a technically skilled artist with a pure voice and a broad spectrum”.

US charts on Billboard

Started title Hot 100
12/1960 Angel on my shoulder 22nd
08/1966 Cast Your Fate to the Wind 61.

US discography

Vinlyl singles

From page Catalog no. published
Cadence
I Will Love You / Oh I Miss Him So 1352 9/1958
Valiant
Angel on My Shoulder / Somebody 6001 11/1960
The Boy I Love / Ugly Duckling 6002 12/1960
Magic Wand / A Broken Vow 6004 01/1961
I will love you / every night 6010 05/1961
Magic Wand / A Broken Vow 6014 09/1961
The Riddle Song / I Love a Wanderer 6017 02/1962
The Boy I Love / Ugly Duckling 6022 07/1962
Little Dancing Doll / It Really Wouldn't Matter 6031 06/1963
Wonderland / Pipes for Keith 6052 09/1964
I've Grown Accustomed to His Face / Our Town 6060 11/1964
Angel on My Shoulder / I Will Love You 701 02/1965
Lonely Cinderella / Joy In The Morning 716 05/1965
Cast Your Fate to the Wind / The Lily 743 07/1966
Warner bros.
Angel on My Shoulder / Cast Your Fate to the Wind 7115 001968

LPs

title Catalog no. published
The Quiet Girl Valiant 401 1961
Shelby Flint Sings Folk Valiant 403 1963
Cast Your Fate to the Wind Valiant 25003 1966
Don't stop the music Savannah 1979
You've been on my mind Mad satyr 101 1982

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personal data
SURNAME Flint, Shelby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH North Hollywood , California