Teddy Grace

Teddy Grace ( born June 26, 1905 in Arcadia, Louisiana, † 4 January 1992 in La Mirada, California ) was an American jazz singer.

Biography

Teddy Grace began her career as a singer in 1931 when she was transferred to the southern United States on the radio and then with the bands of Al Katz ( 1933), Tommy Christian ( 1934) and Mal Hallett occurred ( 1934-1937 ), in which she also had a small film role. From 1937 to 1940 she took on the label Decca Records on under his own name; she was accompanied by Bobby Hackett, Jack Teagarden, Charlie Shavers, Buster Bailey, Pee Wee Russell, Max Kaminsky, Eddie Condon, Billy Kyle and Bud Freeman. The authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton thereby raise particularly the three sessions in 1939 out with Shavers, Buster Bailey and Kyle, sings at the Grace blues material. She also worked 1939/40, with the Mark Hallett, Lou Holden and the Bob Crosby Orchestra as a band singer; Over the Rainbow with Crosby and Grace reached # 2 on the charts. Other famous titles of Teddy Grace were I'll Never Let You Cry and Love Me or Leave Me

The end of 1940 they got out of the music business and joined shortly thereafter in the Women's Army Corps, a; during the Second World War, she sang at events staged the War bond and the troops entertainment. She lost her voice and was then not able to speak a few years. Your recordings for Decca in 1996 largely re-released on Timeless Records.

Appreciation

The author Will Friedwald called Teddy Grace " an excellent example of unrealized abilities ". Especially in the Decca session, she proved " that it is the blackest white singer, who is closer to the blues than most of their colored fellow of their time. If she had not disappeared at the beginning of the forties, and would not come out Kay Starr big, you would today celebrate Teddy Grace certainly as the greatest white blues singer. "

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Turn On That Red Hot Head (Hep Records, 1940) with the Bob Crosby Orchestra
  • Teddy Gace, 1937-1940 ( Timeless Records, 1937 to 1940 )

Swell

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9.
  • Will Friedwald: Swinging Voices of America - A compendium of great voices. Hannibal, St. Andrew - Woerdern, 1992. ISBN 3-85445-075-3
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