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Bobby Short

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Aliases
Bobby Short and His Orchestra ‎
Born
September 15, 1924
Died
March 24, 2005
Country
United States
Comments
Cabaret singer and pianist
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September 1958 Mary Jane Walsh, Sunnie O'Dea, Nanette Fabray and ensemble
  1973 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Bob Lytell REC
  1992 Eddy Duchin and His Central Park Casino Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Lew Sherwood REC,REL, Fred Astaire PRF
1987 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
1974 Don Ameche
1962 Diahann Carroll
1972 Noël Coward
December 1970 (unknown)
1956 Ruby Hill with "St. Louis Woman" Choral Group and Orchestra under the direction of Leon Leonardi
1987 Alabama Washboard Stompers – Vocal Chorus by Jake Fenderson
  1972 Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Adrienne Brune PRF, Noel Coward REL, Geoffrey Gelder and His Kettners Five REC
  December 1970 Jack Whiting PRF, Libby Holman REC,REL
i   September 2001 Lena Horne and Avon Long PRF, Harold Arlen - Piano Accompaniment by Arthur Schutt REC
  1974 Frances Williams PRF, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
May 1957 Clifton Webb
1956 Freddie "Schnickelfritz" Fisher and His Orchestra
  July 1955 J. Harold Murray PRF, Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash REC,REL
i September 2001 George J. Gaskin, Knickerbocker Male Quartette
  1962 Richard Kiley, Bernice Massi, Don Chastain, Alvin Epstein and Ann Hodges REL,PRF
  1975 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Helen Forrest REC, Vivienne Segal PRF
  1987 Edith Wilson PRF, Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra REC,REL
1995 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, Bobby Sherwood and His Orchestra
1965 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen)
December 1970 Shirley Ross, Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenneth Sargent
1982 Jack Hylton and His Orchestra
  1965 Fred Astaire BRD, Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra - Vocal and Tap Dancing Fred Astaire REC,REL
1995 Count Basie and His Orchestra
  1973 Eddie Quillan and Arline Judge REC,BRD, Ginger Rogers and Willie Howard PRF
1956 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Arthur Hall
  1999 Lilo - Orchestra conducted by Milton Rosenstock REC,REL, Lilo PRF
1993 Jacques Renard & His Orchestra
  1956 Enric Madriguera and His Orchestra REL, Etta Moten BRD
1999 Lilo and Peter Cookson
June 1959 (unknown)
1960 Nassau String Band
1973 Raúl Roulien
  July 1955 The Revelers [US1] REC,REL, Eddie Cantor PRF
Do I Hear You Saying I Love You Bobby Short May 1957 Unverified
1971 Ethel Merman & Ronald Graham
June 1959 Bennie Krueger's Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Billy Jones
  1970 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lew Sherwood REC, Ginger Rogers BRD
1973 Ruby Keeler & Frank McHugh
May 1957 The Coasters
  1956 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Edythe Wright REC,REL, Jack Whiting, June Clyde and Vivian Vance PRF
  1970 Tony Pastor and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by John McAfee REC, Orchestra [You'll Never Get Rich] BRD
1973 Lambert Murphy
1992 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
1993 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
May 1957 Johnny Green and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Lee Wiley
  1992 Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC, James Stewart and Eleanor Powell [dubbed by Marjorie Lane] BRD
Ebony Rhapsody Bobby Short September 1958 Unverified
  1973 Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns PRF, Majestic Dance Orchestra [Lou God] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman REC
  1975 Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Mary Ann McCall REC, Márta Eggerth, Leif Erickson PRF
1975 Ray Bolger & Benay Venuta
  1992 Nan Wynn PRF, Benny Goodman Quintet - Vocal Chorus by Peggy Mann REC
  June 23, 1994 Gertrude Lawrence REC,REL, Moya Nugent PRF
1960 (unknown performer)
  1974 Hal Kemp and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Bob Allen REC, Morton Downey PRF
  September 1958 Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Ginny Simms & Harry Babbitt REL, Toby Wing & Charles Kemper, The Debonairs and Ensemble PRF
December 1970 Márta Eggerth, Jack Haley, Shirley Ross, Eva Condon and Robert Chisholm
  September 1958 Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Miriam Shaw REC, William Gaxton and Tamara PRF
July 1955 Doris Day - Orchestra under the direction of Frank Comstock
  1956 Leo Reisman & His Orch. - Vocal Chorus by Harold Arlen REL, Frances Williams PRF
1993 Billie Holiday
July 1955 Bessie Smith - Orchestra accompanied by Buck and His Band
  1975 Doris Carson PRF, Bea Wain with Orchestra under the direction of Walter Gross REC
1993 (unknown)
1969 The Beatles
1987 Ethel Waters - Piano Accomp. by James P. Johnson
  1975 Joy Hodges & Austin Marshall PRF, Joe Rines and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Lee Sullivan REC,REL
June 1959 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
Here's to Us Mabel Mercer & Bobby Short 1968 Unverified
  1976 Rosemary Clooney REL, Lucille Ball, Paula Stewart PRF
1987 Bert Stock and His Orchestra
May 1957 Tony Martin & Yvonne DeCarlo
1971 Lee Wiley with Bunny Berigan's Music
1987 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenneth Sargent
How Can You Forget Bobby Short September 1958 Unverified
  1971 Gertrude Lawrence REC,REL,PRF
1971 Erik Rhodes
1982 Peter Cookson
1992 Tamara
  July 1955 Bob Hope PRF, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Skinny Ennis REC
  1992 Adelaide Hall PRF, Meyer Davis' Swanee Syncopators – Vocal Chorus by Al Shayne REC
  1999 Douglas McPhail BRD, Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Shirley Howard REC,REL
  1975 Marcy Westcott and Richard Kollmar PRF, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Louise Tobin REC,REL
May 1957 Abe Lyman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frank Parrish
1993 Chick Webb's Savoy Orch.
i   September 2001 Bing Crosby and Patty Andrews with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra REC,REL, Isabel Bigley PRF
  1972 Ivy St. Helier REL,PRF
1969 Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys - Vocal Chorus by Jonah Jones
  1974 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain Ramona REC, William Gaxton & Ethel Merman PRF
i   September 2001 Ivie Anderson PRF, Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ivie Anderson REL
September 1958 Bessie Smith
i June 23, 1994 (unknown)
1974 Oscar Ragland
1971 Vivian Vance, James Todd, Mary Jane Walsh and Danny Kaye
  July 1955 Victor Young and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Vera Van REC,REL, Brice Hutchins, Vivian Janis PRF
1997 Victor Young and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Vera Van REC,REL, Brice Hutchins, Vivian Janis PRF, Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Herb Muse REC,REL, Fred Astaire PRF,BRD, Doris Day - Orchestra under the direction of Frank Comstock
  December 1970 Gene Krupa and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Irene Daye REC, Eddie Bracken, Marcy Wescott, Mary Jane Walsh, Richard Kollmar, Hal Le Roy PRF
  1972 Peggy Wood & George Metaxa REC,REL,PRF
1974 Harold Arlen - Piano Accompaniment by Arthur Schutt
1970 Phil Baker, Edgar Bergen
May 1957 Bing Crosby
1972 Noël Coward
  June 1959 Ruth Etting REC,REL,PRF
September 1958 (unknown)
1969 Fats Waller and His Buddies - Vocal Refrain by Orlando Roberson, Chester Gaylord "The Whispering Serenader"
1987 Casey Bill
1960 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
1971 The Six Hottentots - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman
1982 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Ivy Anderson
1964 Ethel Merman
1999 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
i September 2001 Duke Ellington
1956 Lena Horne
1969 George Givot and Josephine Huston
  1975 Nat Finston and his Paramount Studio Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Sam Coslow REL, Maurice Chevalier, Rolfe Sedan, Bert Roach, Jeanette MacDonald BRD
1976 Tony Bennett with Frank DeVol and His Orchestra
i June 23, 1994 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
1960 Shirley Ross
  1970 Dick Hyman REL, Richard Kollmar and Jeanne Madden PRF
  1972 Noël Coward REL, Ambrose and His Orchestra REC
  September 1958 Ray Noble and His Orchestra REC,REL, Gertrude Lawrence PRF
1975 Doris Carson & Ray Bolger
  1969 Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra REL, Newbold Noyes & Rufus F. King PRF
  1973 Mary Hay and Clifton Webb PRF, Lee Wiley with Max Kaminsky's Orchestra REC,REL
  May 1957 Fred Astaire BRD, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Edythe Wright REC
1956 Ann Sothern & Jack Whiting
  1956 Aida Ward PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC
1973 (unknown)
1971 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Fred Astaire
  1976 Swen Swenson REL, Swen Swenson, Virginia Martin PRF
  1999 Virginia Bruce BRD, Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC
1976 Blossom Dearie
May 1957 Don Redman and His Orchestra
1973 (unknown)
1975 Grace McDonald & Rolly Pickert
  1975 Ruby Newman & His Rainbow Room Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Wynn Murray REC, Wynn Murray PRF
1972 Pat Kirkwood
1969 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Herb Jeffries
  1971 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen REC,REL, June Knight & Charles Walters PRF
i   June 23, 1994 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen REC,REL, June Knight & Charles Walters PRF
1971 Ethel Merman
1973 (unknown)
K-ra-zy For You Bobby Short 1973 Unverified
April 1957 Mighty Dictator
June 1959 Arthur Ball
  May 1957 Harold Arlen with Orchestral Acc. Dir. by Ray Sinatra REC, Art Jarrett BRD
1971 Barrie Oliver and Hope Williams
1973 Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire, and Ensemble
1974 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
1960 Henry King and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Tony Russell
listen on Internet Archive 1953 Henry King and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Tony Russell
1960 Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Ensemble
  1974 Dorothy Collins REC,PRF
i September 2001 Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra, Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
  1973 Kenny Baker [US1] BRD, Abe Lyman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frank Parrish REC
1970 (unknown)
1962 Polly Rowles and Bernice Massi
  1999 Judy Garland BRD, Judy Garland with The M-G-M Studio Orchestra conducted by Lennie Hayton REC, Perry Como with Russ Case and His Orchestra REL
  1973 Jan Garber and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Russ Brown REC, Kenny Baker [US1] BRD
  July 1955 Sterling Holloway - June Cochran PRF, The Knickerbockers [Ben Selvin] REC
  1972 Noël Coward with The Piccadilly Theatre Orchestra REC,REL, Graham Payn PRF
  1973 Jesse Crawford with Nat Shilhkret and The Victor Orchestra REC, Oscar Shaw & Gertrude Lawrence PRF
1974 Anita Ellis
1974 Ed Lowry, Janet Gaynor BRD, The Charleston Chasers [US]
1969 Jane Froman & Everett Marshall
1972 Peggy Wood PRF, Noël Coward REC,REL, Peggy Wood & George Metaxa REL,PRF, Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward
i   September 2001 Ethel Waters REC, Minto Cato PRF
  1982 Hoagy Carmichael PRF, Betty Jane Bonney with Orchestra REL
1973 William Gaxton, Lois Moran and Ensemble
1974 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday
  1974 Peggy Johnson and Her Orchestra REC, Douglas Byng PRF
1974 Luella Gear
  1960 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Edythe Wright REC,REL, Vivian Vance PRF
i June 23, 1994 The Jungle Band [Duke Ellington]
i 1997 Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Jack Albin and His Hotel Pennsylvania Dance Orch. - Vocal Chorus by Bill Coty REC, Adele Astaire & Eddie Foy Jr. PRF
1975 Gloria Grafton & Donald Novis
  June 23, 1994 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Eugenie Baird REC, Joan Leslie with Freddie Slack and his Orchestra BRD
June 1959 Ipana Troubadours (Sam Lanin)
  1972 Noël Coward with The Piccadilly Theatre Orchestra REC,REL, Graham Payn PRF
  1965 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra - Vocal by Fred Astaire REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
1974 Sara Martin – Piano Accomp. by Clarence Williams
1995 John Battles, Cris Alexander and Adolph Green
  1992 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Fred Astaire REC, Fred Astaire PRF
  1972 Noël Coward with The Piccadilly Theatre Orchestra REC,REL, Cyril Ritchard, Tom Linden and Gail Kendal PRF
  1970 Jan Clayton with The "Show Boat" Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Edwin McArthur REL, Jan Clayton PRF
1975 Constance Moore
  1974 Lena Horne with Orchestra conducted by Horace Henderson REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
1968 Jack Payne and The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra (With Vocal Chorus by Jack Payne)
  1976 Virginia Martin REL,PRF
  1974 Harry Richman PRF, Ted Lewis and His Band REC
  1975 Doris Carson, Ray Bolger & David Morris PRF, Ruby Newman and His Orchestra REC,REL
1970 Bob Lawrence
  1992 Pola Negri BRD, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frances Maddux REC
1995 Tom Gerun and His Orchestra - Vocal by Scrappy Lambert
  1972 New Princes' Toronto Band REC,REL, Alice Delysia PRF
1965 (unknown)
  1971 Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC,REL, Marjorie Lane and The Foursome BRD
  1974 Sid Caesar PRF,REL
1964 Ethel Merman and Ensemble
i   September 2001 Isham Jones Orchestra REL, Franklyn Baur REC
  September 1958 Joe Turner with Freddie Slack Trio REC, Joe Turner [US1] PRF
1969 Lil Green
i September 2001 Cootie Williams and His Orchestra
i June 23, 1994 Cootie Williams and His Orchestra
  1956 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Tommy Ryan REC, Don Ameche & Mary Martin BRD
1992 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, The Coasters
1982 Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
  1974 Glynis Johns REL,PRF
  1973 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
  1995 Al Jolson BRD, Enric Madriguera and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Tony Sacco REC
  1982 Noël Coward with The Piccadilly Theatre Orchestra REL, Graham Payn PRF
1969 Tommy Boyce
1960 Alice Faye
1972 Roy Fox (The Whispering Cornetist) and His Band
1982 Roberto Paiva w/ Luiz Bonfá on guitar and orchestra led by A.C. Jobim, Nicole Quasee
1972 Savoy Hotel Orpheans (Carroll Gibbons)
1968 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
  May 1957 Tony Pastor and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Eugenie Baird REC, Fred Astaire BRD
  1975 Ray Noble and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Al Bowlly REC,REL, Bing Crosby BRD
  1974 Charles Kimbrough, George Coe, Charles Bramwell, Dean Jones REC,REL,PRF
  May 1957 Donald Burr, Dave Fitzgibbons and Dorothy Fitzgibbons PRF, Felicia Sanders REL
i 1987 Bob Haring and His Orchestra
  1975 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC,REL, Dennis King & Vivienne Segal PRF
i September 2001 Prince's Band
1992 Russ Columbo and His Orchestra
Sunday in Savannah Bobby Short with Buddy Bregman and Jud Conlon Rhythmaires (Bobby Short, Buddy Bregman, Jud Conlon) 1953 Unverified
June 1959 Jack Buchanan
1993 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
  1973 Adele Astaire & Allen Kearns PRF, Frank Crumit REC,REL
1993 Lena Horne - Orchestra conducted by Luther Henderson
  1995 Rosemary Clooney REL, Frances Williams PRF
  1992 Helen Clark–Lewis James REC, Phyllis Cleveland and Jack Barker PRF
1993 Dick Farney - Orchestrated and conducted by Paul Baron
1973 Allen Kearns and Queenie Smith
June 1959 Paul Johnson and His 4 Hawaiians (Jack Kaufman)
1968 Simon and Garfunkel
1976 Jesse Belvin with Marty Paich and His Orchestra
1995 Bing Crosby
1973 Carl Randall and Barbara Newberry
1962 Mitchell Gregg
1956 Gloria Grafton & Donald Novis
1992 Chick Bullock accompanied by His Orchestra
  1975 Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Maxine Grey REC, Doris Carson & Ray Bolger PRF
  1976 Tony Bennett REC, Lena Horne - Orchestra conducted by Marty Gold REL
  1995 Lottie Gilson PRF, Dan Quinn REC,REL
  1973 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra BRD, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Ozzie Nelson REC,REL
1972 Ray Noble and His New Mayfair Orchestra
1993 Blossom Dearie
June 1959 Original Dixieland Jass Band, Mills Brothers
  1992 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenny Sargent REC, Ross Alexander [dubbed by James Newill] & Wini Shaw BRD
1960 Henry Allen and His Orchestra
1972 Noël Coward
1975 Ronald Graham
September 1958 Ipana Troubadours - S. C. Lanin Director – Vocal Refrain by Willard Robison
1971 Fanny Brice
1999 (unknown)
  1972 Noël Coward REL, Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward PRF
1999 Elsie Carlisle
1974 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash
1968 Peggy Lee
i September 2001 J. W. Myers
  1995 Artie Shaw and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Helen Forrest REC, Ethel Merman PRF
1971 Charles King and Hope Williams
  1975 Ruby Newman & His Rainbow Room Orch. featuring Ray Heatherton REC, Ray Heatherton & Mitzi Green PRF
  1970 Helen Ford, Margaret Breen and Ensemble PRF, Harry Reser's Syncopators REC
  1969 Jill O'Hara PRF, Dionne Warwick REL
  1971 Margaret Adams PRF, Johnny Green and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Marjory Logan REC
1970 Roy Royston and Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies
1976 Frank Sinatra
1975 John Hundley & Lillian Taiz
1970 Beatrice Lillie
May 1957 Portia - Ralph Burns - Conductor and Arranger
You Are Not My First Love Bobby Short July 1955 Unverified
  1999 Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Cool REC, Dinah Shore with Orchestra conducted by Paul Wetstein REL
1971 William Gaxton
1999 William Gaxton & Genevieve Tobin
1960 Cy Coleman
  July 1955 Martha Tilton with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC,REL, Carol Stewart and Del Porter BRD
  1975 Gene Kelly, June Havoc, Diane Sinclair, Sondra Barrett and Chorus PRF, Harold Lang with Orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel REL
1999 Frank Sinatra
  1999 William Gaxton & Ethel Merman PRF, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Peggy Healy & John Hauser REC
1975 Busby Berkeley and Joyce Barber
1971 Jack Thompson & Betty Compton
1972 Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward