Edythe Wright

Edythe " Dee Dee " Wright ( born August 16, 1914 in Bayonne (New Jersey ), † 27 October 1965 Point Pleasant ( New Jersey)) was an American singer of swing, known from her time from 1935 to 1939 with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.

Life

Wright went to school in New Brunswick. In 1933 she graduated from high school graduation and studied as an actress at the New Jersey College for Women in New Brunswick. In a summer residence in 1935 on the coast of New Jersey in Sea Girt she was asked by bandleader Frank Dailey to step in as a singer, where she heard the agent of Tommy Dorsey, who later committed. From September 1935 to September 1939 she sang with Dorsey, with whom she made ​​many recordings, appeared on the radio and also arranged. She also sang and recorded with the Clambake Seven of Dorsey. Sometimes she sang accompanied by the vocal trio Three Esquires ( singer Jack Leonard, arranger Axel Stordahl, trumpeter Joe Bauer ). There were frequent clashes with Dorsey, since they had an equally violent temper. Dorsey forced their view tasteless ( corny ) to sing songs in part to singer Arthur " Skeets " Herfurt. In 1939, she left Dorsey's band, where he was then replaced by Anita Boyer and Connie Haines and Jo Stafford. However, the good-looking, glamorous singer remained with Dorsey many musicians and friends to have taken so on indirectly influence on the band.

During World War II she was in California. In 1950 she returned to New York or New Jersey. She married the mechanic John T. Smith and devoted himself to amateur theater performances. She lived in Manasquan, New Jersey, and died of pancreatic cancer.