Eydie Gormé

Eydie Gormé ( born August 16, 1928 in New York City as Edith Garmezano; † August 10, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American pop music singer. As a soloist and in duet with her husband, Steve Lawrence, she published from the 1950s to the 1970s, several successful records. For their records and television productions, she has received numerous Grammys.

Life

Eydie was the youngest of three children of a Jewish immigrant family. The father was born in Sicily, the mother in Turkey. Neil Sedaka was her cousin. Eydie grew up bilingual, because in the family English and Spanish was spoken. Even with three years she appeared in a radio broadcast, as a high school graduate, she was a member of a band. After her high school graduation she worked as a Spanish interpreter in a stage equipment company and attended the evening the New York City College. From 1950 Eydie began to work professionally as a singer with various bands, including Tommy Tucker. In 1952 she signed a recording contract with Coral Records and began her first solo singles under her stage name Eydie Gormé be published. Their first single was released in 1952 still with the titles That Night Of Heaven / Tell Me More, and the catalog number 60879th From September 1953 she a regular at New York's Radio Show Tonight. There she met her future singing partner in 1954 and husband Steve Lawrence know. Already in the same year they released their first duet disc Make Yourself Comfortable / I've Gotta Crow ( Coral 61313 ).

Gormé moved in 1955 to the record company ABC Records, and the A- side of their second single ABC - Too Close for Comfort she came in April 1956 for the first time in the U.S. charts with space 39 as the best quotation. Likewise, the successor disk with Mama, Teach Me to Dance was able to place in July of the same year on the 34th. On December 29, 1957 married Eydie and Steve Lawrence Gormé. In May 1958 Gormé had titled You Need Hands her biggest success, he entered the U.S. charts at number 11, the same time they had with Love Me Forever her first success in the UK. In the local hit lists of titles rose to the rank 21. There followed a prolonged period without significant single success, the duet with plates Lawrence ( Steve & Eydie ) not sold now. The only exception was the theme song of the duet LP We Got Us, which won the 1960 Grammy for best vocal group production.

Only in 1963 was Gormé back on track. After she was one year before switching to the record company, Columbia Records, where the title of Blame It On The Bossa Nova was published in January 1963 on the third Gormé single. In March, the song found its way into the Billboard Hot 100, and rose to No. 7 overall was listed for 15 weeks. He brought Gormé a Grammy nomination. Blame It on the Bossa Nova was also an international success. He arrived in Canada Platz 4, UK # 32, arrived in South Africa on the 20th place and 18th place in Germany Gormé made ​​of this recording a version in Spanish ( her second mother tongue), which had great success in South America. In Brazil, the home of bossa nova, the song came on the 15th Place. The famous Latin American group Trio Los Panchos then visited the club Copacabana in Manhattan, New York, where Gormé sang. The Latin American musicians were so impressed that they asked Gormé together to make an album. This resulted in 1964, the album Amor - Great Love Songs in Spanish, Columbia CL 2203 mono, stereo CS 9003, which Gormé such perfect Latin American Spanish sings that uninitiated assume any U.S. citizen as a singer.

By 1964, Eydie Gormé had four more Hot 100 rankings and also the two duet title with Steve Lawrence I Want to Stay Here ( 28 ) and I Can not Stop Talking About You (35th ) came in 1963 among the top 40

This was followed by an unsuccessful phase again, interrupted only in 1966 with If He Walked into My Life. He arrived in the U.S. Adult Contemporary Charts ( AC) to 5th place and was awarded the Grammy best female vocal production. In 1967, she received along with her husband, a commitment to the Broadway musical Golden Rainbow, in which both appeared in 385 performances until 1969. Columbia Records brought Gormés Musical song How Could I Be So Wrong on a single out, and this title came into the AC charts at number 22 after two single releases in 1969 with RCA Victor the time of regular record releases was over. Only appeared sporadically in the 1970s singles for different labels.

With her husband to Gormé now specializing in television productions. 1975 was the TV special, Our Love Is Here to Stay, a tribute to George Gershwin. From a long-playing record was released, which won a Grammy. After two Grammy nominations in 1976 and 1977 for the two of Eydie Gormé in Latin America brought out LPs La Gormé on Gala Records Muy Amigos Close Friends were awarded seven Grammys for the TV production Steve and Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin. 1979 took Gormé and Lawrence under the pseudonym Parker and Penny the Euro Visions - winning song Hallelujah, with which it reached number 46 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary charts. 1989, when both mounted on their own label Music GL the LP Alone Together out. In addition, the couple had appearances in Las Vegas, New York and Los Angeles. In 1990 and 1991 she participated in Frank Sinatra's Diamond Jubilee tour occasion of his 75th birthday part.

Billboard Hot 100

Solo Discography

U.S. Singles

U.S. vinyl LPs

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