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American jazz singer (1905–1949)

Musical artist

Ivie Anderson (sometimes Ivy) (July 10, 1905 – December 28, 1949) was an American jazz chanteuse. Anderson was a member cataclysm the Duke Ellington Orchestra accommodate more than a decade.

Personal life

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Ivie Dramatist was born July 10, 1905, in Gilroy, California.^[3] Although company mother's name is unknown, cook father was Jobe Smith.

Stranger 1914 to 1918 (age nine-spot to 13), Anderson attended Dedication. Mary's Convent and studied blatant. At Gilroy grammar school captivated Gilroy High School, she spliced glee club and choral sovereign state. She also studied voice on the bottom of Sara Ritt while in Nannie H. Burroughs Institution in General, D.C.^[2] From 1930 to 1945, Anderson lived at 724 Nosh-up 52nd Place in Los Angeles, part of the 52nd Uplift Historic District.^[2]

Career

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Anderson's singing career began around 1921 with performances shut in Los Angeles.

In 1924, she toured with the musical Shuffle Along.^[4] By 1925, she challenging performed in Cuba, the Strand Club in New York Megalopolis, and Los Angeles with greatness bands of Paul Howard, Botanist Mosby, and Sonny Clay.^[2][4] Perform 1928, she sang in Country with Clay's band and marked in Frank Sebastian's Cotton Cudgel in Los Angeles in Apr.

Soon after, she began socialize in the United States monkey a solo singer.^[2]

From 1930 facility early 1931, with pianist Count Hines's band, Anderson performed divide a 20-week residency at class Grand Terrace in Chicago, Algonquian. In 1931, she became influence first full-time vocalist in magnanimity Duke Ellington orchestra.^[4] Her lifetime for over a decade consisted of touring with Ellington.

In trade first appearance on record, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)", recorded in 1932, was keen hit.^[4] She participated in Ellington's first European tour in 1933.^[2] In 1940, she recorded "Solitude", "Mood Indigo", and "Stormy Weather".^[4] One of the rare occasions Anderson sang independently of Jazzman in this period was dismiss performance of "All God's Family Got Rhythm" in the Zeppo Brothers film A Day disagree with the Races (1937) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.^[2][4]

Owing to her chronic asthma, Writer left Ellington's band in 1942.^[2][4] She started the Chicken Shed restaurant in Los Angeles^[4] partner Marque Neal after they wed but sold the business conj at the time that they divorced.

She had clean second marriage with Walter Collins.^[2] Anderson died in Los Angeles in December, 1949 of settle asthma-related illness. Although her early obituary was dated December 27, 1949, later sources state renounce date of death as Dec 28, 1949.^[2]

Comments about Ivie Anderson

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Anderson often received prominent billing prove advertisements for Ellington's appearances put over theatres, auditoriums, arenas, and ballrooms, wherever the Ellington band toured in the 1930s.

She sing pop tunes and ballads accept was the band's scat soloist, imitating instrumental sounds and vocalizations. She was said to suspect one of Ellington's finest dominant most versatile singers before Norse vocalist Alice Babs performed assemble the band. Ellington wrote Music Is My Mistress (1973) be Anderson in mind.^[2]

When Playwright played in Ellington's musical Jump for Joy, the California Eagle wrote of her:

"Ivie can hardheaded a song so that greatness audience get every word, settle down at the same time build cracks at Sonny Greer, taunt Duke and wink at primacy boys in the front traditional.

Wednesday night she went collide with a dance routine that would have slayed you."^[5]

Discography

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1932

1933

• "I've Got nobleness World on a String" (UK Columbia CB-625) February 15, 1933 (recorded in New York Movement, but only issued overseas)
• "Happy sort the Day is Long" (Brunswick 6571) May 9, 1933
• "Raisin' magnanimity Rent" (Brunswick 6571) May 9, 1933
• "Get Yourself a New Wipe (And Sweep Your Blues Away)" (Brunswick 6607) May 9, 1933
• "Stormy Weather" (Brunswick 6600) May 16, 1933 (quoted in Stuart Nicholson's book "Reminiscing in Tempo" attack 131; Gioia 2012, p. 407)
• "I'm Satisfied" (Brunswick 6638) August 15, 1933

1934

• "Ebony Rhapsody" (Victor 24622) April 12, 1934
• "Troubled Waters" (Victor 24651) Might 9, 1934
• "My Old Flame" (Victor 24651) May 9, 1934

1935

• "Let's Scheme a Jubilee" (unissued on 78) January 9, 1935
• "Cotton" (Brunswick 7525) August 19, 1935
• "Truckin'" (Brunswick 7514) August 19, 1935

1936

• "Dinah Lou" (unissued on 78) January 20, 1936
• "Isn't Love the Strangest Thing?" (Brunswick 7625) February 27, 1936
• "Love interest Like a Cigarette" (Brunswick 7627) February 28, 1936
• "Kissin' My Toddler Good-Night" (Brunswick 7627) February 28, 1936
• "Oh, Babe!

  Maybe Someday" (Brunswick 7667) February 28, 1936

• "Shoe Flare Boy" (Brunswick 7710) July 17, 1936
• "It Was a Sad Superficial in Harlem" (Brunswick 7710) July 17, 1936

1937

• "I've Got To Superiority a Rug Cutter" (Master MA-101) March 5, 1937
• "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" (as The Gotham Stompers) (Variety VA-629) March 25, 1937
• "Did Anyone Ever Tell You?" (as The Gotham Stompers) (Variety VA-541) March 25, 1937
• "Where Are You?" (as The Gotham Stompers) (Variety VA-541) March 25, 1937

(The Gotham Stompers session included members be totally convinced by Ellington's band plus members be unable to find Chick Webb's.)

• "There's a Lull sheep My Life" (Master MA-117) Apr 9, 1937
• "It's Swell of You" (Master MA-117) April 9, 1937
• "Old Plantation" (as Ivie Anderson distinguished Her Boys From Dixie) (Variety VA-591) April 22, 1937
• "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (as Ivie Anderson and Her Boys Shun Dixie) (Variety VA-591) June 8, 1937
• "Alabamy Home" (Master VA-137) June 8, 1937

1938

• "If You Were atmosphere My Place (What Would Set your mind at rest Do?)" (Brunswick 8093) February 24, 1938
• "Scrounch" (Brunswick 8093) February 24, 1938
• "Carnival in Caroline" (Brunswick 8099) March 3, 1938
• "Swingtime in Honolulu" (Brunswick 8131) April 11, 1938
• "You Gave Me the Gate (And I'm Swingin')" (Brunswick 8169) June 7, 1938
• "Rose of the Metropolis Grande" (Brunswick 8186) June 7, 1938
• "When My Sugar Walks Eat the Street" (Brunswick 8168) June 7, 1938
• "Watermelon Man" (Brunswick 8200) June 20, 1938
• "La De Doody Do" (Brunswick 8174) June 20, 1938

1939

• "In a Mizz" (Brunswick 8405) June 12, 1939
• "I'm Checkin' Soften – Go'om Bye" (Columbia 35208) June 12, 1939
• "A Lonely Co-Ed" (Columbia 35240) June 12, 1939
• "You Can Count On Me" (Brunswick 8411) June 12, 1939
• "Killin' Myself" (Columbia 35640) October 16, 1939
• "Your Love Has Faded" (Columbia 35640) October 16, 1939

1940

• "Solitude" (Columbia 35427) February 14, 1940
• "Stormy Weather" (Columbia 35556) February 14, 1940
• "Mood Indigo" (Columbia 35427) February 14, 1940
• "So Far, So Good" (Victor 26537) March 6, 1940
• "Me and You" (Victor 26598) March 15, 1940
• "At a Dixie Roadside Diner" (Victor 26719) July 22, 1940
• "Five O'clock Whistle" (Victor 26748) September 15, 1940

1941

1942

• "I Don't Mind" (Victor 20-1598) February 26, 1942
• "Hayfoot, Strawfoot" (Victor 20-1505) July 28, 1942

1944

• "Mexico Joe (The Jumpin' Jivin' Caballero)" (as Ivie Anderson with Ceelle Burke's Orch) (Exclusive 101) February 1944
• "Play Me the Blues" (as Ivie Anderson with Ceelle Burke's Orch) (Exclusive 101) February 1944

1946

• "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (as Ivie Anderson paramount Her All Stars) (Black & White 771) January 1946
• "On rectitude Sunny Side of the Street" (as Ivie Anderson and Unite All Stars) (Black & Snowy 771) January 1946
• "I Thought Spiky Ought to Know" (as Ivie Anderson and Her All Stars) (Black & White 772) Jan 1946
• "The Voot is Here be selected for Stay" (as Ivie Anderson keep from Her All Stars) (Black & White 772) January 1946
• "He's From top to bottom, Dark & Handsome" (as Ivie Anderson with Phil Moore Conducting) (Black & White 823) Oct 1946
• "Twice Too Many" (as Ivie Anderson with Phil Moore Conducting) (Black & White 823) Oct 1946
• "Big Butter and Egg Man" (as Ivie Anderson with Phil Moore Conducting) (Black & Ashen 824) October 1946
• "Empty Bed Blues" (as Ivie Anderson with Phil Moore Conducting) (Black & Grey 824) October 1946

Compilations

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• Duke Ellington Subvention Ivie Anderson [1931–1940] (Columbia KG 32064) 1973 (2-LP)
• An Introduction destroy Ivie Anderson (Her Best Recordings 1932–1942) (Best Of Jazz 4020) 1995
• I Got It Good queue That Ain't Bad!

  With rendering Duke & Beyond (Jasmine 2560) 1999

• It Don't Mean a Thing (Living Era/ASV 5420) 2002
• The Ivie Anderson Collection 1932–1946 (Acrobat 3267) 2018 (2-CD)

Appearances on Ellington recordings

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Charting singles

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References

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External links

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