Irene Daye
Irene Daye ( born January 17, 1918 in Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts, † November 1, 1971 in Greenville, South Carolina as Irene Spivak ) was an American jazz singer.
Life and work
Irene Daye was born in 1918 as the daughter of Adam and Bella Daye in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Even before she made in 1935 graduated from St. Patrick's High School, she has toured with Jan Murphy Big Band through the country; they had to interrupt their tour and fly back home to take their diploma in reception. Irene Daye remained for two years with Jan Murphy and then moved for a short period of time bandleader Hallett. In May 1938, she began her involvement with Gene Krupa band, which they made known in the jazz world and lasted until January 17, 1941. In the course of this collaboration, she played a 63 song with Krupa band, including well-known songs like " Jeepers Creepers ", " Bolero at the Savoy " and their most successful song " Drum Boogie".
After this hit, just before the final breakthrough of Krupa band, she decided to end her career at the age of only 23 years and married trumpeter Corky Cornelius. So she left it to her successor in Krupa band, Anita O'Day, with the duet " Let Me Off Uptown " that O'Day along with trumpeter Roy Eldridge the colored box office shortly thereafter, enter into the annals of jazz history and Krupa band abruptly an audience of millions to make known.
On October 14, 1943 Daye brought a daughter, Corine, to the world. Tragically, her husband died Corky Cornelius in the following year, and so the single mother had a commitment to try again: In 1944, she joined the band of Charlie Spivak and replaced the singer June Hutton, who had switched to the Pied Pipers. Over the next six years she played critically acclaimed songs like " Baby Will not You Please Come Home ", " It's been a Long, Long Time " or " I'll Never Say Goodbye ", but tell it was her band at a Spivak really big hit failed.
In 1950 she married the bandleader Charlie Spivak and ended her singing career again. From then on she led her husband and his band the shops. In the late 1950s, Irene and Charlie Spivak moved to Miami, Florida, where Spivak led several formations in Las Vegas and Miami had mainly performances. Due to illness, her husband had to retire from the music business in 1963.
In 1967, after Charlie Spivak was well again, he started again a small band that played regularly at Ye Olde Fireplace Restaurant in Greenville, South Carolina - with Irene Daye as a singer. The couple Spivak moved after some time his second home in Greenville.
Irene Daye Spivak suffered in the last years of her life from cancer, which she died in Greenville at the age of 53 years on 1 November 1971, William G. Sirrine Hospital.