Her recording of " Sentimental Journey " was the first song placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one of the best albums ever made.

Her 1945 scat recording of " Flying Home " arranged by Vic Schoen would later be described by The New York Times as " one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade .... Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness.

" Her bebop recording of " Oh, Lady be Good!

Her first professional recording with Ike Turner was singing background for him on Ike's record, " Box Top ".

Her extraordinary talent was discovered when Miranda was first introduced to composer Josué de Barros, who went on to promote and record her first album with a Brunswick, a German recording company in 1929.

Her success as a live performer led to her recording several albums at Capitol Records: Liza!

" Her musical style and choreography have influenced and inspired a younger generation of recording artists.

Her fame grew throughout the early 1990s, especially in Spanish-speaking countries, and she had begun recording in English as well.

" ( Her performance was repeated on 1991 studio cast recording based on the concert staging, appearing alongside Howard McGillin, Susan Powell, Kim Criswell, and Karen Ziemba.

Her desire and ability to sing came early ; at age seven she was offered her first recording contract, which her father turned down.

Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned Brown a Tony Award, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award.

Her first studio recording session was with Bruce Robb, who produced, engineered, and mixed her demos.

Her youngest son, Solomon, also has started recording.

Her marriage and recording début came in 1929, to and with Kansas Joe McCoy, when a Columbia Records talent scout heard them playing in a Beale Street barbershop in their distinctive ' Memphis style ,' and their song " Bumble Bee " became a hit.

Her recording of " Tenderly " became an unexpected pop hit in late 1947.

Her December 27, 1947, recording of " It's Magic " ( from the Doris Day film Romance on the High Seas ) found chart success in early 1948.

Her recording of " Nature Boy " from April 8, 1948, became a hit around the same time as the release of the famous Nat King Cole recording of the same song.

Her debut Mercury recording session took place in February 1954 and she stayed with the label through 1959.

Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues ( 1996 ), which focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins, with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

In 1981, he recorded some instrumental tracks for his unreleased instrumental album Strings and Things and in 1984, he did some instrumental writing and recording including the soundtrack for the film A Breed Apart, The only work released under his own name were two singles: " Railroad " in 1970 and " Hold Her in Your Hand " in 1984.

Her relationship with the Wilburn Brothers and her appearances on the Grand Ole Opry, beginning in 1960, helped Lynn become the number one female recording artist in country music.

Her final professional appearance was a cameo on the 1988 studio recording of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, starring Frederica von Stade and Jerry Hadley, in which she affectingly spoke the few lines of The Old Lady on the Levee in the final scene.

Her 1961 recording of Sailor became her first No. 1 hit in the U. K., while such follow-up recordings as Romeo and My Friend the Sea landed her in the British Top Ten later that year.

Her maternal grandparents were Millicent Green, a dancer with the George White's Scandals, a series of 1920s musical revues similar to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Johnny McAfee, a multireedist and vocalist of the big band era ; her grandparents met while touring with Johnny Hamp and his orchestra.

Her most successful term was when Philip was away touring his Italian domains for nine months in 1702.

Her death was not immediately expected, as Jimmy was touring in New York at the time and returned to Los Angeles right away to complete funeral arrangements.

Her song " Angel "— inspired by the fatal overdose of Smashing Pumpkins touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin — made sales skyrocket.

" Her headaches grew in strength such that she ceased touring and lecturing, retreating instead to the old family home at Coy's Hill where she continued to correspond with Blackwell by letter.

With Nicol on board, the band released the album They Called Her Babylon early in 2004, and extensively toured the UK, Europe and Australia, and their relatively prolific output continued with the release of the Christmas album ' Winter ' later the same year, as the band ended a busy year of touring with a gala performance in London's Palladium theatre.

Her break into big-time show business came in February 1955, when she turned down $ 30 to appear on a Swainsboro radio station in order to see Red Foley and a touring promotional unit of his ABC-TV program Ozark Jubilee in Augusta.

Her mother, Catherine Estelle ( née Hayes ), or Essie, was an aspiring actress who worked in touring companies.

Her parents, Benjamin ( 1818 – 96 ), of Irish descent, and Sarah ( née Ballard, 1819 – 92 ), of Scottish ancestry, were comic actors in a touring company based in Portsmouth, ( where Sarah's father was a Wesleyan minister ) and had eleven children.

Her roles include the touring productions of Unsinkable Molly Brown, Most Happy Fella, The Boy Friend, Brigadoon, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma !, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Meet Me in St. Louis, Peter Pan, The Girl Next Door and How She Grew, and Irene, in which she made her Broadway debut, following Debbie Reynolds in the title role.

Her touring troupe La Troupe du bon vieux temps gave fairly consistent performances.

After 3 sold-out limited 7 " s (" Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion " on Dance to the Radio, " Watching " on Double Dragon, and " Let Her Go " on Angular Records ) and touring around the UK and Europe with bands such as The Long Blondes and The Research, the group released their debut album Grown-Ups, produced by Alan Smyth and James Ford, in June 2007 on Angular Records in the UK, Slumberland Records in the US, Fabtone in Japan and Speak N Spell in Australia.

Her inspiration reportedly came from several films, including Disney movies: " Well, the truth is that I had come back from a pretty long — you know, about a year-and-a-half of touring, and so my brain was sort of all circuit boards that were a little bit fried ", Clark said.

Moving to New York, Duel landed a role in a touring production of the comedy Take Her, She's Mine.

Her first professional work was touring with the New Zealand Players Trust.

Her fame spread throughout Europe following a sensational success in London in 1841, and became particularly associated with the works of Racine, Voltaire, and Corneille, touring in Brussels, Berlin, and St. Petersburg.

Her career made little headway until she met Meshulam Riklis, 30 years her senior, in 1972, while touring with a musical production.

Her first professional theatrical job was with the Wayne P. Sewell Production Company, a touring theater company based in Atlanta, for which she produced and directed plays and musicals for local organizations in small towns throughout the southeastern United States.

Her touring band included Paul Abrahams on bass guitar, Amanda Brown on oboe and violin ( ex-The Go-Betweens ), Robbie James on guitar ( GANGgajang ), King on guitar ( Absent Friends ), Lisa Maxwell on backing vocals, Mark Meyer on drums ( Moving Pictures ), Mark O ' Connor on keyboards and Valentine on saxophone.

Her stage credits include Harrigan and Hart ( Broadway ), Big Deal ( Broadway ), Robert Klein on Broadway, Minor Demons ( off Broadway ), Queenie Pie ( Kennedy Center ), Antigone ( Kennedy Center ), Cats ( touring ), West Side Story ( touring ), Telltale Hearts ( Crossroads Theater ), and Sweet Charity.

Her touring appearances and recording efforts in 2004 and 2005 centered around both 50 Foot Wave and her solo career.

Her first professional experience was in musical theater in 1944, as an ensemble member for four years with the Hollywood Turnabout Puppet Theatre, working alongside Elsa Lanchester ; she later joined the national touring company of the musical Finian's Rainbow in 1949.

Her touring possibilities expanded over the next decade, as she toured as a saxophonist / singer and keyboardist with Adam Sandler, John Tesh, Jonathan Butler, Teena Marie, Rick Braun, and Bobby Lyle.