Recorded in New York, 1947. Written by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael.. + Informações

Maxine Sullivan sings Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies". A brilliant, rare version recorded on August 6th, 1937. From the ASV Living Era series CD released in 1998.. + Informações

Maxine Sullivan (b. Marietta Williams in 1911, Homestead, Pennsylvania - d. 1987, New York City) enjoyed great success as a vocalist in the swing era and then later as a pre-rock pop singer. Her first hit was in 1937 with the song Loch Lomond. In 1940 Maxine co-hosted a nation-wide radio program called Flow Gently Sweet Rhythm. At the time it was the only coast-to-coast radio show that featured African-American performers as the MCs. After some acting, Maxine became a nurse in 1953. Five years later she returned to music, singing and playing flugelhorn and trombone. Einar Aaron Swan (Eino William Swan) was born in Massachusetts, USA in 1903 to the Finnish immigrant family, died in Greenwood Lake, New York, USA in 1940. He was a composer, arranger and a sax player, best kown as an autor of the international evergreen ?When Your Lover Has Gone" (1931). Recording: Maxine Sullivan - When Your Lover Has Gone (Einar Aaron Swan), Decca 1942. + Informações

Live in Japan / Sep.28,1986 ? A Hundred Years From Today ? Just One Of Those Things. + Informações

Maxine Sullivan was born in Pennsylvania in 1911 and had very little formal musical training. While singing in the Ben Harrison Literary Club (actually a prohibition era speakeasy) she was discovered by Gladys Mosier who was a member of Ina Rae Hutton's Big Band and a close friend of Claude Thornhill. She was introduced to Thornhill and under his guidance, made her first 4 records in the summer of 1937, including the recording of Loch Lomond presented on this vid. Critics gave her performance friendly reviews and she was off to NY to seek club engagements. While performing at the Onyx Club in NY she met, married, and formed a musical partnership with musician John Kirby. The Loch Lomond recording became a national hit but unfortunately cast Sullivan as a ballad singer despite her obvious talent as a smooth jazz singer. In 1940, Sullivan and Kirby became the first black jazz stars to have a nationally syndicated radio show "Flow Gently Sweet Rhythm". By 1948 she was on an extended tour of Great Britain and continued to record until 1956. In 1958, she left show biz to raise her kids and become a nurse. Sullivan appeared on stage in '39 and '53 and in two movies-St. Louis Blues and Going Places with Louis Armstrong and Ronald Reagan. After she had raised her kids, she quit nursing to rejoin showbiz and from 1975 to 1984, she toured Sweden and France and had several long engagements at Parisian clubs. She died in 1987 still performing her art at age 76.. + Informações

Recorded in 1956, Sullivan's swing on this Fats Waller classic is uber-cool.. + Informações

Maxine Sullivan had very little formal music training. She was discovered while singing at the Benjamin Harrison Literary Club in Pittsburg by Gladys Mosier. Mosier was, in the mid 1930's, working in Ina Rae Huttons big band and an acquaitance of fellow pianist Claude Thornhill. She soon introduced her new find to Thornhill and as his protege', Maxine Sullivan made her first records in June of 1937, accompanied by the pianist's all-star band. The critics at Metronome magazine received Maxine's first records warmly, giving the discs good ratings and reviews. Around the same time Maxine became the vocalist at The Onyx Club in New York. It was here that she formed both a music and personal partnership with bass-man John Kirby who she soon married. Kirby had worked with Fletcher Henderson in the early 1930s as well as Henry Red Allen. A busy man in 1937, the stellar bassist recorded with Teddy Wilson, Willie The Lion Smith, Frankie Newton, Midge Williams, Charlie Barnet, and Lionel Hampton all prior to the first records he made with Maxine on August 6th, 1937 which also saw accompaniment from Thornhill on piano. Sullivan and Kirby remained married until 1941. It was this first session with Kirby that proved to be both a blessing and a curse for Maxine Sullivan. It produced a hit record, a swing version of a Scottish folk song called Loch Lomond. Unfortunately it "typed" her and she depended on similar folk style performances for many subsequent records, despite her ability to .... + Informações

A swingin' ode to The Bay State from one of jazz's sweetest luminaries.. + Informações

Recorded 1937. Possessing one of the smoothest and most sublime voices to emerge in the late swing era, Maxine Sullivan was a songstress of poise, grace and cool. She was not a virtuosa ala Ella or Sarah, nor was she a Blues diva in the line of Billie or Dinah...of her individual style, Maxine said the following: "The characteristics which I consider most important in singing are the way in which I hit notes...softly and without effort, a relaxed feeling at all times and a feeling for what I am singing. Most of all I like to take a sad number with a simple melody, changing the notes to fit the soft, straight manner, strict tempo vocalizing and without jive." After Sullivan died on April 7, 1987 Roy Eldridge said of her "She was a great little singer...up to the last moment. She had a style of singing that nobody could match. It was very subtle, but it was swinging." This recording, taken from 1937 when her voice was at its freshest and most divine is simply flawless--and with her singing like this, she is, most certainly, VERY easy to love.. + Informações

A simply beautiful track that hasn't been on youtube, but surely needs to be (Fairport Convention's version from 30 years later is widely available). According to Wikipedia, Maxine Sullivan made this recording in 1936, but it's collected on a Classics 1938-1941 cd and itunes et al. identify the recording as from 1940. (I have the track on a strange, early '90s, 2-disc Sony compilation A Tribute to Black Entertainers.) At any rate, Sullivan was from Homestead (just outside Pittsburgh) PA, but hit the (semi-)big time in NYC. She sang initially mostly at the Onyx Club w/ her (soon-to-be) husband John Kirby's band, but soon got a radio show on CBS and performed and appeared in films with Louis Armstrong (see tinyurl.com ). Sullivan's early recordings had a very pure, cool, unaffected tone that partly anticipated songbook breakthroughs by Ella and others in the late '40s. Sullivan was also strikingly beautiful. In sum, although she's well-known to early jazz-buffs, Sullivan's ripe for rediscovery by a wider audience.. + Informações

Lyrics and Music by Cole Porter.. + Informações

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Recorded between 1937-38 Born Marietta Williams on May 13, 1911, in Homestead, Pennsylvania; died on April 17, 1987, in New York City; married John Kirby (divorced), married Cliff Jackson; children: Paula Morris, Orville Williams. For bio go to www.answers.com. + Informações

St. Louis Blues Victor 25895-B ( WC Handy ) Maxine Sullivan with Claude Thornhill and Orch. Sullivan was born Marietta Williams in Homestead, Pennsylvania. After moving to New York, Sullivan sang during intermissions at the Onyx Club and was discovered by the pianist, Claude Thornhill. Thornhill recorded her with a sympathetic septet singing a couple of standards and two Scottish folk songs performed in swinging fashion ? "Annie Laurie" and "Loch Lomond" The latter became a hit record and Sullivan's signature song for the rest of her career. en.wikipedia.org Claude Thornhill (10 August 1909 at Terre Haute, Indiana 1 July 1965, New York City) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He composed the jazz and pop standard "Snowfall". en.wikipedia.org More 78's at: www.youtube.com. + Informações

Maxine Sullivan at Manassas, December 1975. Backed by Art Hodes, piano - Wally Garner, Clarinet - Butch Hall, Guitar- Gene Mayl, Bass - Bob Thompson, Drums. + Informações

Maxine Sullivan - Honeysuckle Rose. + Informações

Here is the underrated Maxine Sullivan, who along with Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, was a great lady of jazz. Her smooth, mellow, alluring voice made her one of the most popular singers of the 1930's and 1940's. Some of the dancers in this soundie are of historic interest as well. A few of the dancing girls in this soundie were Cotton Club chorines, Winnie (Wini) Johnson is the pretty female dancer in the middle. She was maried to actor Stepin Fetchit and also dated actor Canada Lee. While in the Cotton Club chorus line, she danced alongside Lena Horne. Also there's Edna Mae Holly, former wife of Sugar Ray Robinson, she's the beautiful lady with the shoulder length hair and light colored dress, who receives numerous close ups in this soundie, and is playing house with the stick dolls. She was a well-known dancer in her day. She was a Cotton Club dancer. When she married Sugar Ray Robinson, she was famous as his wife and was with him during his important years as a boxer. She appeared on the cover of all the prominent black magazines of the day, Jet, Ebony , Hue, and Tan. On the first issue of Jet magazine, she was the first to appear on the cover, with an expensive mink coat from Sugar Ray. In her last years, she was still active, she taught dancing, was a personal fitness trainer, therapist, and exercise specialist at the YWCA.. + Informações

Maxine at Manassas, 1978. Kenny Davern, Kenny Mason, Larry Eanet, Dean Keenhold,Chuck Redd. + Informações

Here is a complete episode from 31 May 1938 of "Recital in Swingtime" with Maxine Sullivan and Lud Gluskin and his Orchestra. 1. Loch Lomond 2. It's Wonderful 3. St. Louis Blues 4. Dipsy Doodle / Gypsy in My Soul 5. Lullaby in Rhythm A native of Homestead, Pennsylvania, Maxine Sullivan (born Marietta Williams 1911-1987), had a remarkable career which lasted over 50 years.. + Informações

February 10 1969 Yank Lawson-trp, Buddy Morrow-trb, Bernie Leigthon-p, Bud Freeman-ts, Gus Johnson-d, Bob Wilber-ssax,cl Maxine Sullivan-v. + Informações

Maxine Sullivan was born in Pennsylvania in 1911 and had very little formal musical training. While singing in the Ben Harrison Literary Club (actually a prohibition era speakeasy) she was discovered by Gladys Mosier who was a member of Ina Rae Hutton's Big Band and a close friend of Claude Thornhill. She was introduced to Thornhill and under his guidance, made her first 4 records in the summer of 1937, including the recording of Loch Lomond presented on this vid. Critics gave her performance friendly reviews and she was off to NY to seek club engagements. While performing at the Onyx Club in NY she met, married, and formed a musical partnership with musician John Kirby. The Loch Lomond recording became a national hit but unfortunately cast Sullivan as a ballad singer despite her obvious talent as a smooth jazz singer. In 1940, Sullivan and Kirby became the first black jazz stars to have a nationally syndicated radio show "Flow Gently Sweet Rhythm". By 1948 she was on an extended tour of Great Britain and continued to record until 1956. In 1958, she left show biz to raise her kids and become a nurse. Sullivan appeared on stage in '39 and '53 and in two movies-St. Louis Blues and Going Places with Louis Armstrong and Ronald Reagan. After she had raised her kids, she quit nursing to rejoin showbiz and from 1975 to 1984, she toured Sweden and France and had several long engagements at Parisian clubs. She died in 1987 still performing her art at age 76.. + Informações

AFRS 86 44-07-21:29 -25:04 minutes Maxine Sullivan Milkman Keep Those Bottles Quiet, unknown orchestra. Ernie Whitman Emcee as seen in Green Pastures. Mediaoutlet has many AFRS Jubilee, Command Performance and other WWII era broadcasts in MP3 audio format: www.mediaoutlet.com on DVD $20 (regularly $26). home.swipnet.se has an EXCELLENT Discography of Jubilee Transcriptions pdfs. MILKMAN, KEEP THOSE BOTTLES QUIET From the film "Broadway Rhythm" (1944) (Don Raye / Gene De Paul) Nancy Walker with Tommy Dorsey Orch. (Film Soundtrack) - 1944 Ella Mae Morse - 1944 Woody Herman & His Orch. - 1944 The King Sisters - 1944 Marilyn Maxwell (Radio Transcript) - 1944 Bing Crosby (Radio Transcript) - 1944 Geraldo & His Orch. - 1944 Also recorded by: Beryl Davis & The Squadronaires; The Charioteers; The Pied Pipers; Maxine Sullivan; Judy Kaye; Boyd Raeburn. A Great Day In Harlem 1958 www.a-great-day-in-harlem.com Front row, left of center Milkman, keep those bottles quiet Can't use that jive on my milk diet So milkman, keep those bottles quiet Been jumpin' on the swing shift, all night Turnin' out my quota all right Now I'm beat right down to the sod Gotta catch myself some righteous nod Milkman stop that grade A riot Cut out if you can't lullaby it Oh, milkman, keep those bottles quiet Been knocking out a fast tank, all day Working on a bomber okay Boy you blast my wig with those clinks And I got to catch my forty winks So milkman, keep those bottles quiet Now noise of the riveter .... + Informações

Tokyo january 1985. Maxine Sullivan-v, Scott Hamilton-ts, John Bunch-p, Chris Flory-g, Phil Flanigan-b, Chuck Riggs-d.. + Informações

Maxine Sullivan - one of great singers of a swing era - was discovered while singing at the Benjamin Harrison Literary Club in Pittsburg by Gladys Mosier. Mosier was, in the mid 1930's, working in Ina Rae Hutton's big band and an acquaitance of pianist Claude Thornhill. She soon introduced Maxine to Thornhill with whom she made her first recording in 1937 ("Loch Lomond"). Unfortunately, she did not record many sides. In 1940s she co-hosted a nation-wide radio program called Flow Gently Sweet Rhythm - the show that featured African-American performers. In 1953 she became a nurse, to return to music a few years later as a flugelhorn and a trombone player. The song "L'Heure Bleu" (English title: "The Hour Of Parting")was one of the great cabaret hits in Berlin in 1928. Composed by Mischa Spolianski (who was, by the way, born in Bialystok, Poland) it was first performed by Margo Lion, to become soon an international "decadent" evergreen. Recording: Maxine Sullivan - The Hour Of Parting, Columbia, 1940. + Informações

Personal Information Born Marietta Williams on May 13, 1911, in Homestead, Pennsylvania; died on April 17, 1987, in New York City; married John Kirby (divorced), married Cliff Jackson; children: Paula Morris, Orville Williams. Career Benjamin Harrison Literary Club, singing from table to table, 1936; Onyx Club, New York City, recorded "Loch Lomond" and other songs, 1937; Made two films in Hollywood, Going Places and St. Louis Blues, 1938; performed on CBS Radio program titled Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm, 1939-41; toured Great Britain, 1948, 1954; performed at Le Ruban Bleu, 1946-52; performed at the Village Vanguard, 1952-56; came out of retirement at the Blues Alley Club in Washington, DC, 1967; continued to tour and make records throughout the 1970s and 1980s until her death in 1987. Life's Work Maxine Sullivan was a jazz singer whose career spanned much of the twentieth century and took her from a Pittsburgh after-hours club to New York's hottest jazz clubs, to Hollywood, Broadway, and ultimately all over the world. She first appeared before an audience at the age of six when her grandmother signed her up to sing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" at the public library. Sullivan recorded her first hit in 1937 and received her last Grammy nomination in 1986 at the age of 75. Unlike the popular jazz and blues singers of her time, Sullivan was known not for her big voice but for her smooth and intricate swing delivery--a style that served her well for more than 50 years. Young .... + Informações