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Index
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction
Part 1 - Individual Artists
Ernestine Anderson
The Andrews Sisters
Louis Armstrong
Fred Astaire
Gene Austin
Mildred Bailey
Pearl Bailey
Chet Baker
Tony Bennett
Andy Bey
Connee Boswell and the Boswell Sisters
Al Bowlly
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Cab Calloway
Eddie Cantor
Betty Carter
Ray Charles
June Christy
Buddy Clark
Rosemary Clooney
Nat King Cole
Perry Como
Chris Connor
Bing Crosby
Vic Damone
Bobby Darin
Sammy Davis Jr.
Doris Day
Blossom Dearie
Matt Dennis
Jimmy Durante
Billy Eckstine
Ella Fitzgerald
Aretha Franklin
Judy Garland
Buddy Greco
Johnny Hartman
Dick Haymes
Bill Henderson
Woody Herman
Billie Holiday
Shirley Horn
Lena Horne
Helen Humes
Al Jolson
Jack Jones
Louis Jordan
Sheila Jordan
Eartha Kitt
Diana Krall
Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross
Eydie Gormé
Steve Lawrence
Peggy Lee
Abbey Lincoln
Julie London
Dean Martin
Mary Martin
Susannah McCorkle
Audra McDonald
Carmen McRae
Mabel Mercer
Ethel Merman
Helen Merrill
The Mills Brothers
Matt Monro
Joe Mooney
Mark Murphy
Anita O’Day
Patti Page
Jackie Paris
Louis Prima
Arthur Prysock
Martha Raye
Della Reese
Dianne Reeves
Jimmy Rushing
(Little) Jimmy Scott
Dinah Shore
Bobby Short
Nina Simone
Frank Sinatra
Carol Sloane
Kate Smith
Jeri Southern
Jo Stafford
Kay Starr
Dakota Staton
Barbra Streisand
Maxine Sullivan
Sylvia Syms
Jack Teagarden
Mel Tormé
Sophie Tucker
Sarah Vaughan
Fats Waller
Dinah Washington
Ethel Waters
Margaret Whiting
Lee Wiley
Joe Williams
Cassandra Wilson
Julie Wilson
Nancy Wilson
Part 2 - Multiple Artists
Chapter 20 - The Birth of the Croon
Cliff Edwards
Nick Lucas
Rudy Vallee
Russ Columbo
Chapter 21 - Torch Singers and Flappers
Marion Harris
Ruth Etting
Helen Morgan
Annette Hanshaw
Chapter 22 - African Americans Abroad
Adelaide Hall
Josephine Baker
Elizabeth Welch
Alberta Hunter
Chapter 23 - There’ll Always Be an England
Hutch (Leslie Hutchinson)
Clarence Johnstone
Turner Layton
Gracie Fields
Chapter 24 - Female Band Singers I: Benny’s Babes
Helen Ward
Martha Tilton
Helen Forrest
Chapter 25 - Sing a Song of Ellington
Ivie Anderson
Herb Jeffries
Al Hibbler
Chapter 26 - Sing a Song of Miller: Male (Mostly) Band Singers I
Ray Eberle
Bob Eberly
Marion Hutton
Johnny Desmond
Tex Beneke
Ray McKinley
Chapter 27 - Singing Songwriters
Hoagy Carmichael
Harold Arlen
Johnny Mercer
Chapter 28 - Female Band Singers II: Big Bands into Pop
Edythe Wright
Bea Wain
Ginny Simms
Kitty Kallen
Chapter 29 - Male Band Singers II: Exceptional Boychicks
Harry Babbitt
George “Bon Bon” Tunnell
Chapter 30 - Hollywood Divas
Alice Faye
Dorothy Lamour
Shirley Temple
Betty Hutton
Skinnay Ennis
Chapter 31 - Two Inimitables: Noel Coward and Marlene Dietrich
Sir Noel Coward
Marlene Dietrich
Chapter 32 - Fats’s Femme Followers
Lil Hardin Armstrong
Cleo Brown
Lee Morse
Ramona
Una Mae Carlisle
Julia Lee
Nellie Lutcher
Rose Murphy
Hadda Brooks
Chapter 33 - Big Pop (Male)
Frankie Laine
Johnnie Ray
Guy Mitchell
Johnny Mathis
Andy Williams
Chapter 34 - Hipsters and Bopsters
King Pleasure
Eddie Jefferson
Jackie Cain
Roy Kral
Irene Kral
Ann Richards
Cleo Laine
Chapter 35 - Lee Wiley’s Boston Connection
Teddi King
Barbara Lea
Chapter 36 - Leading Ladies
Barbara Cook
Julie Andrews
Chapter 37 - Leading Men: In Defense of the Broadway Baritone
Alfred Drake
John Raitt
Gordon MacRae
Howard Keel
Robert Goulet
Chapter 38 - Dinah’s Daughters: Soulful Ladies and Local Favorites
Etta Jones
Gloria Lynne
Teri Thornton
Irene Reid
Lorez Alexandria
Chapter 39 - Two Soulful Gentlemen
Sam Cooke
Lou Rawls
Chapter 40 - Blossom’s Buds and Dearie’s Daughters
Barbara Carroll
Daryl Sherman
Ann Hampton Callaway
Chapter 41 - Rock Goes Standards!
Chapter 42 - Dynasty: Freddy Cole and Natalie Cole
Freddy Cole
Natalie Cole
Chapter 43 - Contemporary Male Jazz Singers
Allan Harris
Kevin Mahogany
Kurt Elling
Chapter 44 - Contemporary Cabaret
Andrea Marcovicci
Mary Cleere Haran
Michael Feinstein
Eric Comstock
Chapter 45 - Harry Connick Jr. and the Retro Crooner Boychicks
Harry Connick, Jr.
Michael Bublé
Jamie Cullum
Peter Cincotti
Part 3 - Extras
Chapter 46 - Folk Rock: Bob Dylan (born 1941)
Bob Dylan
Chapter 47 - Gospel: Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972)
Mahalia Jackson
Chapter 48 - Rock ’n’ Roll: Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Elvis Presley
Chapter 49 - Blues: Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
Bessie Smith
Chapter 50 - Country and Western: Hank Williams (1923—1953)
Hank Williams
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