Paul Whiteman With Mildred Bailey ââ“ ââåall of Meã¢ââ Album Art
| Mildred Bailey | |
|---|---|
 Bailey photographed past William P. Gottlieb in New York City, 1947 | |
| Background information | |
| Nativity name | Mildred Eleanor Rinker |
| Born | (1907-02-27)Feb 27, 1907 [1] Tekoa, Washington, U.South. |
| Died | December 12, 1951(1951-12-12) (aged 44) Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, song jazz, blues |
| Occupation(due south) | Singer |
| Labels | Vocalion |
| Associated acts | Scarlet Norvo, Bing Crosby |
Mildred Bailey (born Mildred Rinker; Feb 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951) was a Native American jazz singer[ii] during the 1930s, known every bit "The Queen of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady" and "Mrs. Swing". She recorded the songs "For Sentimental Reasons", "It's So Peaceful in the State", "Doin' The Uptown Lowdown", "Trust in Me", "Where Are You?", "I Let a Song Become Out of My Middle", "Small Fry", "Please Exist Kind", "Darn That Dream", "Rockin' Chair", "Blame It on My Last Matter", and "Says My Centre". She had three records that reached number i on the popular charts.[3]
She grew upwards on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in Idaho, where her mother was an enrolled member. The family moved to Spokane, Washington when she was 13. Her younger brothers as well became musicians. Her blood brother, Al Rinker, started to perform as a vocalizer with Bing Crosby in Spokane and became a member of The Rhythm Boys. As adults, Charles Rinker was a lyricist, and Miles Rinker was a clarinet and saxophone player who later became a booking agent.[four]
Early on life [edit]
Bailey was born Mildred Rinker on a farm in rural Tekoa, Washington.[v] Her mother Josephine was a member of the Coeur d'Alene people[3] and a devout Roman Catholic.[4] Bailey's great-granddad, Bazil Peone, was a head speaker and song leader of the Coeur d'Alene at the turn of the 20th century. His ability to create indigenized Catholic hymns helped guide the tribe during difficult times of agile colonization past Jesuit missionaries.[half-dozen]
Bailey and her siblings grew upwardly nigh De Smet, Idaho, on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation. Her father played fiddle and called square dances. Her mother played piano every evening and taught her to play and sing. Her younger brothers included Miles, Al, a singer and composer, and Charles, a lyricist.[vii] The family often hosted Saturday nighttime gatherings, creating modest music and trip the light fantastic toe hall in the habitation for local ranchers with both Josephine and Mildred at the pianoforte. Mildred as well accompanied her mother to traditional native ceremony where she heard and proficient the traditional songs and lyrics that would later influence her unique singing voice.[6]
Josephine died from tuberculosis at the age of 36, threatening Mildred's ability to remain connected to her native family unit and traditions in a manner that she was able to while her mother was alive. Soon subsequently Josephine'southward expiry, Mildred'due south father remarried, bringing a daughter and creating a tumultuous and unhappy house where Mildred and her siblings were systematically pushed out of by her new stepmother.[6] Given an ultimatum to cull his own children or his new wife, Mildred'southward father sided with his wife and Mildred moved out of the home and in with her aunt and uncle in Seattle. She and her aunt were involved in a serious car accident a brusque fourth dimension later which killed her aunt and left Mildred with serious physical and emotional scars.[6]
Music career [edit]
At age 17, Rinker moved to Seattle and worked every bit a sheet music demonstrator at Woolworth'due south. She married and divorced Ted Bailey, keeping his terminal name because she thought it sounded more American than Rinker,[4] which was of Swiss (German) origin.[3]
She toured with a Westward Coast revue and finished in California where she obtained piece of work at radio station KMTR and at a speakeasy in Bakersfield chosen The Swede'southward.[eight] With the assistance of her 2nd husband Benny Stafford, Bailey became an established blues and jazz vocalist on the west coast of the The states. According to Gary Giddins in his book Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 1903–1940, she found work for her brother Al Rinker and Bing Crosby, who had started performing in Spokane, Washington. They had traveled from Spokane to join her in Los Angeles. Giddins says Crosby heard nearly Louis Armstrong from Bailey, who urged him to hear Armstrong if Crosby was to be a serious jazz singer. She besides played Crosby records from her collection by Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith.[iv]
Crosby helped Bailey in plow by introducing her to Paul Whiteman in Los Angeles.[4] She sang with Whiteman's band from 1929 to 1933. Whiteman had a radio program for Onetime Gilded Cigarettes, and when Bailey debuted on it with her version of "Moanin' Depression" on August 6, 1929,[9] favorable public reaction was immediate. However, Bailey's first recording with Whiteman did not have place until Oct six, 1931, when she recorded a vocal called "My Goodbye to You".[ten] Her recording of "All of Me" with Whiteman the same year was a hitting in 1932.[eleven]
Her first two records had been every bit an uncredited vocalist for a 1929 session by the Eddie Lang Orchestra ("What Kind o' Human being Is You lot?", a Hoagy Carmichael song that was issued only in the UK), and a recording on May 8, 1930, of "I Like to Exercise Things for You" for Frankie Trumbauer.[12] She was Whiteman'southward female person vocaliser through 1932 (recording in a polish, crooning mode) but left the band later that aforementioned year over salary disagreements. She recorded four sides for Brunswick in 1931 with the Casa Loma Orchestra.[13] and there were farther recordings for the characterization in 1933 with the Dorsey Brothers equally supporting musicians. Bailey was part of an all-star session with Benny Goodman's studio band in 1934 featuring Coleman Hawkins, Dick McDonough, and Gene Krupa.[14] Subsequently leaving Whiteman, Bailey sang on the radio shows of George Jessel and Willard Robison.[fifteen]
In 1933, Bailey married Red Norvo, a xylophonist, improviser, and band leader who had as well worked with Paul Whiteman. A dynamic couple, they remained married until 1942 and were known as "Mr. and Mrs. Swing".[3] They worked much of the time in New York City. They remained friends later their divorce.[8] She worked as a solo act, singing in clubs in New York, such every bit the Café Society and the Blueish Angel. From September 1944, Bailey's radio testify began on CBS and continued until February 1945.[16] Her terminal major date was with Joe Marsala in Chicago in 1950.[15]
From 1936 to 1939, Norvo recorded for Brunswick (with Bailey as primary vocalist), and Bailey recorded for Vocalion, oft with Norvo's band. Some of her other recordings featured members of Count Basie's band. The two performers continued to record together intermittently until 1945. Bailey was featured on Benny Goodman'due south Camel Caravan radio program and sang on a number of Goodman's Columbia recordings in 1939 and 1940, including her version of "Darn That Dream" which was a hit in 1940.[17]
Bailey suffered from diabetes. Due to her health, she was hospitalized in 1938, 1943, and 1949. She went into retirement for a time in 1949 on a farm she owned in Poughkeepsie, New York. Often in fiscal difficulties, she was bailed out several times by Bing Crosby.[13]
Bailey died of heart failure on December 12, 1951[eighteen] in St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York at the age of 44.[3]
Awards and honors [edit]
- In 1989, Bailey was inducted into the Large Band and Jazz Hall of Fame.
- The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz describes Bailey every bit "the first white vocalist to absorb and main the jazz-flavored phrasing...of her black contemporaries."[three]
- In 1994, a 29-cent stamp was issued by the US Postal Service in Bailey's honor;[19] it was designed by Howard Koslow, based on the photograph by jazz photographer William Gottlieb (at the caput of this article) of Bailey performing at Carnegie Hall.[3]
- In 2012, the Coeur d'Alene Nation introduced a resolution honoring Bailey to the Idaho country legislature. They were seeking acknowledgement of the singer's Coeur d'Alene ancestry too equally to promote her consecration to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Hall of Fame in New York City.[iii]
Number one hits [edit]
In 1938, Bailey had 2 number i hits with Scarlet Norvo and His Orchestra. "Please Be Kind" reached number ane on the Hitting Parade chart on May 7. She also sang pb vocals with Norvo on "Says My Heart", which reached number ane during the calendar week of June xviii, 1938.[xx]
Bailey sang pb vocals on "Darn That Dream", recorded by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, which reached number ane for i week in March 1940 on the U.Due south. pop chart.[21]
Discography [edit]
- Sweet Ancestry (The Old Masters, 1994)
- Band Vocalist (The One-time Masters, 1994)
- The Rockin' Chair Lady (GRP, 1994)
- The Blueish Angel Years (Baldwin Street Music, 1999)
- Me and the Dejection (Savoy, 2000)
- The Legendary V-Disc Sessions (Vintage Jazz, 1990)
- The Complete Columbia Recordings of Mildred Bailey (Mosaic, 2000)
Hit singles [edit]
(Vocalion releases only)
| Year | Single | U.s.a. | Cat. No. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | "For Sentimental Reasons" | xviii | 3367 |
| "More than Than You Know" | 15 | 3378 | |
| 1937 | "Trust in Me" (A-side) | 4 | 3449 |
| "My Terminal Affair" (B-side) | 10 | 3449 | |
| "Where Are Yous?" | 5 | 3456 | |
| "Never in a Million Years" | viii | 3508 | |
| "Rockin' Chair" | xiii | 3553 | |
| "It'due south the Natural Affair to Exercise" | fourteen | 3626 | |
| "Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)" | 14 | 3712 | |
| "Correct or Wrong" | xix | 3758 | |
| 1938 | "Cheers for the Memory" | 11 | 3931 |
| "Don't Be That Fashion" | nine | 4016 | |
| "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" | 8 | 4083 | |
| "Small Fry" | 9 | 4224 | |
| "So Help Me" | 2 | 4253 | |
| "My Reverie" | 10 | 4408 | |
| 1939 | "Blame Information technology on My Last Affair" | 13 | 4632 |
| "Moon Honey" | 14 | 4939 |
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Other notable recordings [edit]
- "Georgia on My Heed" (1931)
- "I'll Never Be the Same" (1932)
- "Lazy Bones" (1933)
- "Heat Wave" (1933)
- "Ol' Pappy" (1934)
- "Miss Brown to you" (Sideman Teddy Wilson) (1935)
- "I'd Dearest to Take Orders from You" (1935)
- "Someday, Sweetheart" (1935)
- "When Mean solar day Is Done" (1935)
- "Honeysuckle Rose" (1935)
- "Clasp Me" (1935)
- "'Long About Midnight" (1936)
- "It Tin can Happen to You" (1936)
- "I've Got My Love to Proceed Me Warm" (1937)
- "Slumming on Park Avenue" (1937)
- "Worried Over Y'all" (1937)
- "Love Is Here to Stay" (1938)
- "Please Be Kind" (1938)[twenty]
- "Weekend of a Private Secretarial assistant" (1938)
- "Says My Center" (1938)[20]
- "Garden of the Moon" (1938)
- "Accept You Forgotten So Shortly?" (1938)
- "Built-in to Swing" (1938)
- "I Go for That" (1939)
- "Dear's a Necessary Affair" (1939)
- "I'1000 Glad In that location Is You" (1939)
- "I Don't Stand up a Ghost of a Chance with You" (1939)
- "The Lamp Is Low" (1939)
- "I Thought About You" (1939)
- "Bluebirds in the Moonlight" (1939)
- "Darn That Dream" (1939)[21]
- "Don't Take Your Love from Me" (1940)[23]
- "It'southward And so Peaceful in the Country" (1940)
- "In Love in Vain" (1946)
- "It's a Woman'south Prerogative" (1946)
- "Near Like Beingness in Dear" (1947)
External links [edit]
- Mildred Bailey on encyclopedia.com
References [edit]
- ^ "Mildred Bailey". britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica. February 23, 2019. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
- ^ Robinson, Jessica (March 15, 2012). "Tribe Seeks To Correct Jazz History On Native Singer'south Heritage". NPR . Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- ^ a b c d eastward f g h Miller, John. (Associated Press) "Idaho tribe: 'Mrs. Swing' was Indian." Archived November xv, 2017, at the Wayback Automobile, The Wenatchee World; retrieved March 27, 2012.
- ^ a b c d due east Giddins, Gary (2001). Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams (1 ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Piffling, Brown. ISBN0-316-88188-0.
- ^ Bush, John. "Mildred Bailey". AllMusic . Retrieved Nov 23, 2017.
- ^ a b c d Berglund, Jeff (2016). Indigenous pop : Native American music from jazz to hip hop. University of Arizona Printing. ISBN978-0816533732. OCLC 936200020.
- ^ "Decease Takes Mildred Bailey, Blues Singer" Archived July 6, 2015, at the Wayback Auto, Seattle Daily Times, December thirteen, 1951.
- ^ a b Hemming, Roy (1991). Discovering Great Singers of Classic Popular . New York: Newmarket Press. p. 42. ISBN1-55704-072-9.
- ^ Pairpoint, Lionel. "And Here's Bing..." BING magazine . Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ^ "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com . Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954. Wisconsin: Tape Research. p. 452. ISBN0-89820-083-0.
- ^ "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com . Retrieved March xvi, 2018.
- ^ a b Friedwald, Will (1996). Jazz Singing. New York: Da Capo Printing. p. 69. ISBN0-306-80712-ii.
- ^ Rust, Brian (1984). Jazz Records 1897–1942 (5th ed.). London: Storyville Publications. p. 593. ISBN0902391046.
- ^ a b Rayno, Don (2003). Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music – Vol 1, 1890–1930. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. p. 343. ISBN0-8108-4579-two.
- ^ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com . Retrieved March 16, 2018.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn'due south Pop Memories 1890–1954. Wisconsin: Record Research. p. 180. ISBN0-89820-083-0.
- ^ "Mildred Bailey, Singer of Blues; Noted Entertainer Succumbs to Heart Ailment Won Fame With 'Old Rockin' Chair' Big Proper noun" in Field Discovered in 1929 (Published 1951)". The New York Times. December 13, 1951. Retrieved November vi, 2020.
- ^ "Mildred Bailey", Women on Stamps, Publication 512, United States Postal Service, 2003
- ^ a b c "YOUR Hit PARADE (United states) WEEKLY SINGLE CHARTS FROM 1938". Hits Of All Decades . Retrieved December thirty, 2016.
- ^ a b "Songs from the Year 1939". TSort . Retrieved December thirty, 2016.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954. Wisconsin, USA: Tape Research Inc. pp. 41–42. ISBN0-89820-083-0.
- ^ "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #three". 1972.
Farther reading [edit]
- The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz 1900–1950 by Roger D. Kinkle (Arlington Business firm Publishers, 1974)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Bailey
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