Irene Higginbotham

Irene Higginbotham ( born June 11, 1918 in Worcester (Massachusetts ); † August 27, 1988 in Brooklyn, New York City ) was an American pianist and songwriter, known for its involvement in the Billie Holiday song Good Morning Heartache 1946.

Life and work

Irene Higginbotham came from a musical family; she was a niece of jazz trombonist JC Higginbotham, cousin of jazz trombonist Joseph Orange. They first visited the New York Business School, to work as a stenographer, then studied music at Kemper and Harold Frederic Hall. Already at the age of thirteen she had written her first song; the age of fifteen she began performing as a concert pianist. In 1944 she became a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ).

Higginbotham also wrote several dance numbers that were instrumental hits. Early 1950s were title of her like Jersey Turnpike under the pseudonym Glenn Gibson, however, did not originate any Glenn Gibson attributed song by Irene Higginbotham, because Joe Davis, who was one of their publishers, used the name to copyright claims on the songs to raise the public domain were.

Irene Higginbotham is not with Irene Kitchings (1908-1975) to be confused, which was briefly married to Teddy Wilson and the standard Some Other Spring composed. For a time, was erroneously claimed, Kitchings and Higginbotham are one and the same person, which could have arisen from the fact that both women had written songs that had been introduced by Billie Holiday.

Compositions (selection )

Among her best-known songs included not only Good Morning Heartache, she wrote with Dan Fisher and songwriter Ervin Drake and Billie Holiday on January 22, 1946 for the first time grossed, No Good Man, also recorded by Billie Holiday (1946) and Nina Simone (1961 ), This Will Make You Laugh, taken from the Nat King Cole Trio ( 1941) and 1993 by Natalie Cole, also of Carmen McRae (1955), Marvin Gaye (1978 ), John Pizzarelli (1992) and Keith Ingham (1998), ' ' Are You Livin' Old Man, recorded by Anita O'Day with the Stan Kenton Orchestra (1942 ) and June Christy mith the Kenton Orchestra (1945 ), It's Mad, Mad, Mad, taken from the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1947 ), I Got News for You, recorded by Woody Herman (1948 ), Mean and Evil Blues, recorded by Dinah Washington ( 1948), No Sale recorded by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five ( 1945), That Did It, Marie, recorded by Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (1941 ) and The Bottle 's Empty, taken by Coleman Hawkins ( 1945).

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