Альбомы исполнителя
16 Most requested Songs
1991 · альбом
Pearl's Pearls
1971 · альбом
The Pearl Bailey Retrospective
2023 · альбом
Timeless Pearl
2021 · сборник
Around the World With Me
2019 · альбом
Won't You Come Home, Pearly Bailey?
2018 · альбом
Soul Masters: Pearl Bailey
2014 · альбом
The Real Pearl Bailey
2013 · альбом
At Her Best
2013 · альбом
Solid Gold Cadillac
2012 · альбом
The Best of Pearl Bailey
2010 · сборник
Say "Si Si"
1953 · альбом
Pearl Bailey
1957 · альбом
The Intoxicating Pearl Bailey
1957 · альбом
The One And Only Pearl Bailey Sings
1957 · альбом
Cultured Pearl
1957 · альбом
Gems By Pearl Bailey
1958 · альбом
Sings Porgy & Bess And Other Gerswhin Melodies
1959 · альбом
Pearl Bailey at Her Best
1962 · альбом
Pearl Bailey and Louis Bellson
1962 · альбом
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Биография
An uninhibited vocalist who gave more to her performances than any other singers around, Pearl Bailey gained fame for her work in Broadway, cabaret, and Hollywood. Bailey's sultry, slurred delivery livened up many a stale standard, including "Baby It's Cold Outside" and her only hit, "Takes Two to Tango." The daughter of a preacher, Bailey began singing at the age of three (her brother, Bill Bailey, also taught her a few dance steps). She was performing professionally by her early teenage years and after touring as a dancer for several years, she featured both as a singer and dancer with jazz bands led by Noble Sissle, Cootie Williams, and Edgar Hayes. She began performing as a solo act in 1944, and wooed night club audiences with her relaxed stage presence and humorous asides. After briefly replacing Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Cab Calloway's Orchestra during the mid-'40s, she debuted on Broadway during 1946 in the musical St. Louis Woman. Bailey earned an award for most promising newcomer, and made her first film, Variety Girl, in 1947. Though it wasn't a hit, her version of "Tired" (from Variety Girl) increased her standing in the jazz community. She recorded for several different labels, including Columbia, during the '40s and finally found a hit in 1952 after signing to Coral. Her version of "Takes Two to Tango," backed by Don Redman's Orchestra, hit the Top Ten. That same year, she married drummer Louie Bellson, and he left his position with Duke Ellington to become her musical director. Bailey recorded several albums for Coral during the early '50s, and starred as a fortune teller in the 1954 film Carmen Jones. More starring roles followed, in the W.C. Handy biopic St. Louis Blues as well as the first filmed version of Gershwin's classic operetta Porgy and Bess. In 1959, a new recording contract (with Roulette) resulted in a change of direction. After her double-entendre LP For Adults Only was banned from radio play, it became a big seller and occasioned a string of similar albums during the early '60s. She continued to perform on Broadway, and won a Tony award in 1970 for her title role in Hello, Dolly!. She led her own television variety show in 1971, but retired from active performance several years later. Pearl Bailey was named to the American delegation to the United Nations in 1976, and awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1988. ~ John Bush, Rovi