Carroll Coates
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Carroll Coates is a songwriter, composer, and lyricist. His works have been produced commercially from the 1950s through the 1990s. His songs have been recorded by Frank Sinatra
, Carmen McRae
, Tony Bennett
, Sarah Vaughan
, Shirley Horn
, Mel Tormé
, Nancy Wilson, and others. His jazz ballad, "You'll See" has been recorded by more than a dozen artists. Coates has written at least nine songs for film, including "Sunday in New York."
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Following Sarah Vaughn's death in April 1990, Coates composed a song in tribute to her, called "Sarah". In a tribute concert for Sarah Vaughn on 25 June 1991, the Shirley Horn
Trio performed "Sarah". Reviewing the concert, the New York Times reported:
On 28 April 1996, Coates was honored in a concert called, "Songfest: A Songwriters Celebration," held in Larkspur, California. Before the event, The San Francisco Chronicle
reported that "Coates will introduce the vocalists who will sing his songs, among them Rebecca Parris
, Faith Winthrop, Shanna Carlson, Buddy Conner and Amy Dondy."
and Roland Everett, Coates was nominated for a Golden Globe Award
in 1964 for composing the song, "Sunday in New York" for the film of the same name.
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
, Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae
Carmen Mercedes McRae was an American jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable...
, Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
, Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...
, Shirley Horn
Shirley Horn
Shirley Valerie Horn was an American jazz singer and pianist.-Biography:Encouraged by her grandmother, who was an amateur organist, Horn began piano lessons at the age of four. At twelve, Horn studied piano and composition at Howard University and later majored from there in classical music...
, Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...
, Nancy Wilson, and others. His jazz ballad, "You'll See" has been recorded by more than a dozen artists. Coates has written at least nine songs for film, including "Sunday in New York."
Biography
In 1996, he reportedly lived in the San Francisco Bay AreaSan Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
.
Following Sarah Vaughn's death in April 1990, Coates composed a song in tribute to her, called "Sarah". In a tribute concert for Sarah Vaughn on 25 June 1991, the Shirley Horn
Shirley Horn
Shirley Valerie Horn was an American jazz singer and pianist.-Biography:Encouraged by her grandmother, who was an amateur organist, Horn began piano lessons at the age of four. At twelve, Horn studied piano and composition at Howard University and later majored from there in classical music...
Trio performed "Sarah". Reviewing the concert, the New York Times reported:
- Carroll Coates's affectionate tribute . . . praises Vaughan as one who "could do more with a melody than a hip whippoorwill." The final verse imagines Vaughan in heaven, in a quartet with Billie HolidayBillie HolidayBillie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
, Dinah WashingtonDinah WashingtonDinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...
and Bessie SmithBessie SmithBessie Smith was an American blues singer.Sometimes referred to as The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s...
, where instead of squabbling over roles, she says to Smith, "I'm new here, you lead."
On 28 April 1996, Coates was honored in a concert called, "Songfest: A Songwriters Celebration," held in Larkspur, California. Before the event, The San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
reported that "Coates will introduce the vocalists who will sing his songs, among them Rebecca Parris
Rebecca Parris
Rebecca Parris is an American jazz singer. Parris has made guest appearances with many top musicians , performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in '90 & '95, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and of course the ever-so-hip International...
, Faith Winthrop, Shanna Carlson, Buddy Conner and Amy Dondy."
Work for Film
| Year | Film | Song | Notes |
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| 1956 | The Girl Can't Help It The Girl Can't Help It The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 comedy musical film starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, and Edmond O'Brien. It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay adapted by Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited novel Do Re Me by Garson Kanin... |
Cool It, Baby | Lyricist |
| A Kiss Before Dying A Kiss Before Dying (1956 film) A Kiss Before Dying is a 1956 American color film noir, directed by Gerd Oswald. The screenplay was written by Lawrence Roman, based on Ira Levin's 1953 novel of the same name, which won the 1954 Edgar Award for "Best First Novel." The drama stars Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith,... |
A Kiss Before Dying | Lyricist | |
| The Last Wagon | Theme From The Last Wagon | Lyricist | |
| Teenage Rebel Teenage Rebel Teenage Rebel is a 1956 drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction Teenage Rebel is a 1956 drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated for two... |
Cool It, Baby | Lyricist | |
| 1957 | The Way to the Gold | The Drive-In Rock | Lyricist |
| Strange Weather | Lyricist | ||
| No Down Payment No Down Payment No Down Payment is a 1957 film directed by Martin Ritt. It was scripted by Philip Yordan, who fronted for a then uncredited and blacklisted Ben Maddow and is based on the novel of the same name by John McPartland... |
The Drive-In Rock | Lyricist | |
| Kiss Them for Me Kiss Them for Me (film) Kiss Them for Me is a 1957 comedy film starring Cary Grant and Jayne Mansfield, directed by Stanley Donen. Co-stars included Suzy Parker, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer.... |
Kiss Them For Me | Lyricist | |
| 1959 | Blue Denim Blue Denim Blue Denim was a successful Broadway play by writer James Leo Herlihy, the author of the novels All Fall Down and Midnight Cowboy . It starred Carol Lynley, Warren Berlinger and newcomer Burt Brinckerhoff in the lead male role... |
The Drive In Rock | Lyricist |
| 1960 | Let's Make Love Let's Make Love Let's Make Love is a 1960 musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter and Arthur Miller... |
Cool It, Baby | Lyricist |
| 1963 | Sunday in New York Sunday in New York Sunday in New York, filmed in Metrocolor, is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Peter Tewksbury and starring Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson, and Rod Taylor. It was one of Fonda's earliest films, and she was called "the loveliest and most gifted of all our new young actresses" by Newsday... |
Sunday In New York | Lyricist |
| 1965 | The Cavern | The Cavern | Composer/Lyricist |
| 1990 | Havana Havana (film) Havana is a drama film starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin and Raúl Juliá, directed by Sydney Pollack with music by Dave Grusin, and released in 1990. In the film, an American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran... |
London By Night | Composer/Lyricist |
Audio Recordings
| Song | Recording Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Afterglow | Chanticleer Chanticleer - Fiction :*A rooster appearing in fables about Reynard The Fox**The Nun's Priest's Tale, a version of Chanticleer and the Fox told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales**By metonymy, any rooster**A character in the movie Rock-a-Doodle played by Glen Campbell... |
Lost in the Stars |
| Cleo Laine Cleo Laine Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, DBE is a jazz singer and an actress, noted for her scat singing and vocal range... |
Blue & Sentimental | |
| Kendra Shank | Afterglow | |
| Better To Have Loved | Ida Zecco | Better To Have Loved |
| Between An Old Love And A New Love (Lyrics; Music by Hub Atwood) | Johnny Holiday Johnny Holiday Johnny Holiday was an American actor who entered the field of acting at the age of 87.-Biography:... |
Holiday For Lovers |
| City Lights | Contemporary Jazz Orchestra | Trench Heroes |
| Cool It, Baby (Lyrics; Music by Lionel Newman Lionel Newman Lionel Newman was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman.... )< |
The Treniers The Treniers The Treniers were an American R&B and jump blues musical group, led by identical twins Cliff and Claude Trenier. Their Gene Gilbeaux Orchestra included Don Hill on saxophone, Shifty Henry and later James Johnson on bass, Henry Green on drums and Gene Gilbeaux on piano, with the Treniers Twins and... |
Cool It Baby |
| Daughter, Dear! | Jim Porcella | Life Is So Pecualiar |
| The Holiday Song | Ida Zecco | A Song for Christmas |
| I Am A Man (He Is A Man) (Lyrics; Music by Ronnie Selbey) | Lizabeth Scott Lizabeth Scott Lizabeth Scott is an American actress and singer widely known for her film noir roles.-Early life:She was born Emma Matzo in the Pine Brook section of Scranton, Pennsylvania, one of six children, to Ruthenian parents who had emigrated from Uzhgorod, in what is now Ukraine... With Henri René Henri René Henri René was an American-born German producer, conductor and arranger. René mother's was German and his father French; while young, his family moved to Germany, and René studied at the Royal Berlin Academy of Music. Returning to the U.S. in the mid 1920s, he began appearing with several... And His Orchestra |
Lizabeth |
| I Have A Feeling | Lynda Jamison | You and the Night and the Music |
| Ida Zecco | Better To Have Loved | |
| I Still Believe In You | Sarah Vaughan Sarah Vaughan Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."... |
The Divine Sarah Vaughan |
| Kiss Them For Me (Lyrics; Music by Lionel Newman Lionel Newman Lionel Newman was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman.... ) |
Joan Crawford Joan Crawford Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre.... |
The Best of Everything |
| Lionel Newman Lionel Newman Lionel Newman was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman.... And His Orchestra |
Kiss Them For Me (Soundtrack) | |
| Later for Love | Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris is an American jazz singer. Parris has made guest appearances with many top musicians , performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in '90 & '95, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and of course the ever-so-hip International... & The Kenny Hadley Big Band |
A Beautiful Friendship |
| London By Night | Charly Antolini Charly Antolini Charly Antolini is a Swiss jazz drummer.Antolini started playing the traditional Swiss Basler drum and in 1956 went to Paris where he played with Sidney Bechet, Bill Coleman among others, and playing in the Oldtime Jazz Band "The Tremble Kids" with trumpeter Oscar Klein and clarinettist Werner... |
Right On Right-On Right-On is the third album of jazz and pop standards by Swiss jazz drummer Charly Antolini featuring UK tenor sax player Dick Morrissey.- Track listing :#"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"... |
| Tony Bennett Tony Bennett Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.... |
The Good Things In Life | |
| Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris is an American jazz singer. Parris has made guest appearances with many top musicians , performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in '90 & '95, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and of course the ever-so-hip International... |
Love Comes and Goes | |
| Ronnie Ross Ronnie Ross Albert Ronald "Ronnie" Ross was a jazz baritone saxophonist.Ross moved to England in 1946 and began playing tenor saxophone in the 1950s with Tony Kinsey, Ted Heath, and Don Rendell. During his tenure with Rendell he switched to baritone saxophone... |
It's A Wonderful World | |
| Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the... |
Come Fly With Me | |
| Various Artists | The Golden Age of Light Music: Going Places | |
| John Williams John Williams John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T... |
Echoes of London | |
| Love Comes and Goes | Cleo Laine Cleo Laine Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, DBE is a jazz singer and an actress, noted for her scat singing and vocal range... |
Blue & Sentimental |
| Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris is an American jazz singer. Parris has made guest appearances with many top musicians , performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in '90 & '95, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and of course the ever-so-hip International... |
Love Comes and Goes | |
| Love Is Letting Go | Jim Porcella | Life Is So Peculiar |
| A Miracle | Frank Mantooth Frank Mantooth Frank Mantooth was an American jazz pianist and arranger.Mantooth attended University of North Texas College of Music, graduating in 1969, then played in and arranged for the Air Force Academy Falconaires from 1969 to 1973... Jazz Orchestra |
A Miracle |
| More In Love (Lyrics; Music by Peter Nero Peter Nero Peter Nero is an American pianist and pops conductor.-Early life:Born in Brooklyn, New York, As Bernard Nierow, Nero started his formal music training at the age of seven. He studied piano under Frederick Bried... ) |
Rosie Carlino | What Matters Most |
| Music Is My Life | Jim Porcella | Life Is So Peculiar |
| Diane Schuur Diane Schuur Diane Schuur is an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Deedles", she has won two Grammy Awards, headlined many of the world's most prestigious music venues, including Carnegie Hall and The White House and has toured the world performing with such greats as Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, B. B... |
Music Is My Life | |
| No One Ever Tells You (with Hub Atwood) | Shirley Bassey Shirley Bassey Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"... |
The Fabulous Shirley Bassey The Fabulous Shirley Bassey The Fabulous Shirley Bassey was Shirley Bassey's third studio album, her debut for Columbia, and was recorded with Geoff Love and his orchestra. The album peaked at #12 in the UK album chart in early 1961.... |
| John "Buddy" Conner | "Can't Hide Love!" | |
| Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris is an American jazz singer. Parris has made guest appearances with many top musicians , performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in '90 & '95, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and of course the ever-so-hip International... |
Love Comes and Goes | |
| Jim Porcella | Life Is So Peculiar | |
| Ian Shaw Ian Shaw (singer) Ian Shaw is a Welsh jazz singer, record producer, and former stand up comedian.Shaw was born at St. Asaph, Wales, and his career in performance began on the Alternative Cabaret Circuit, alongside such performers as Julian Clary, Rory Bremner and Jo Brand.In his music career he has recorded and... and Cedar Walton Cedar Walton Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior is an American hard bop jazz pianist.-Biography:Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. His mother was an aspiring concert pianist, and was Walton's initial teacher. She also took him to jazz performances around Dallas... |
In a New York Minute In a New York Minute In a New York Minute is a 1999 studio album by Ian Shaw. -Track listing:#"In a New York Minute" – 4:12#"Standing in the Dark" – 5:22#"Wouldn't It Be Loverly" – 4:55... |
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| Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the... |
A Swinging Affair The Nearness of You |
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| Now I Live With You | Jim Porcella | Life Is So Peculiar |
| One for Monterey | Black Market Jazz Orchestra | Art Attack |
| Richie Cole Richie Cole Richard Cole was an Australian rules footballer for the Collingwood and Essendon Football Clubs in the Australian Football League.... |
Profile | |
| Dave Costa | Impassioned | |
| De Paul University Jazz Ensemble | Shade Street | |
| Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris is an American jazz singer. Parris has made guest appearances with many top musicians , performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in '90 & '95, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and of course the ever-so-hip International... |
Love Comes and Goes | |
| Frank Mantooth Frank Mantooth Frank Mantooth was an American jazz pianist and arranger.Mantooth attended University of North Texas College of Music, graduating in 1969, then played in and arranged for the Air Force Academy Falconaires from 1969 to 1973... Jazz Orchestra |
A Miracle | |
| Park & Ride | Richie Cole Richie Cole Richard Cole was an Australian rules footballer for the Collingwood and Essendon Football Clubs in the Australian Football League.... |
Profile |
| Sarah | Richie Cole Richie Cole Richard Cole was an Australian rules footballer for the Collingwood and Essendon Football Clubs in the Australian Football League.... |
Profile |
| Carmen McRae Carmen McRae Carmen Mercedes McRae was an American jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable... |
Sarah—Dedicated To You | |
| So I Love You | Shirley Horn Shirley Horn Shirley Valerie Horn was an American jazz singer and pianist.-Biography:Encouraged by her grandmother, who was an amateur organist, Horn began piano lessons at the age of four. At twelve, Horn studied piano and composition at Howard University and later majored from there in classical music... |
Close Enough For Love |
| Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris is an American jazz singer. Parris has made guest appearances with many top musicians , performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in '90 & '95, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and of course the ever-so-hip International... |
Love Comes and Goes | |
| Soft Sands (Lyrics; Music by Lou Stein) | The Chordettes The Chordettes The Chordettes were a female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional popular music. The Chordettes were one of the longest lived vocal groups with beginnings in the mainstream pop and vocal harmonies of the 1940s and early 1950s... |
The Best of the Chordettes |
| Oscar Peterson Oscar Peterson Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career... |
Soft Sands Soft Sands (album) Soft Sands is a 1957 studio album by Oscar Peterson, arranged by Buddy Bregman. -Track listing:# "Soft Sands" # "On the Outside Looking In"# "It Happens Every Spring"# "Shanel"... |
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| A Song For Christmas | Charles Brown Charles Brown (musician) Charles Brown , born in Texas City, Texas was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced the development of blues performance during the 1940s and 1950s... |
Charles Brown's Cool Christmas Blues |
| Laura Fygi Laura Fygi Laura Fygi is a Dutch singer.- Background and career :For the first eight years of her life, she lived with her parents in South America... |
The Very Best Time of Year | |
| Nancy LaMott Nancy LaMott Nancy LaMott was a singer, popular on the New York City cabaret circuit in the 1990s. LaMott performed twice at the White House for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton... |
Just In Time For Christmas | |
| Ida Zecco | A Song For Christmas | |
| Sunday in New York (Lyrics; Music by Peter Nero Peter Nero Peter Nero is an American pianist and pops conductor.-Early life:Born in Brooklyn, New York, As Bernard Nierow, Nero started his formal music training at the age of seven. He studied piano under Frederick Bried... ) |
Doc Anello | Doin' It Our Way |
| Ernestine Anderson Ernestine Anderson Ernestine Anderson is an American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than five decades, she has recorded over 30 albums. She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award. She has sung at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival , as well as at jazz festivals all... |
Be Mine Tonight | |
| Bobby Darrin | Ultra Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin' | |
| Keely Smith Keely Smith Keely Smith is an American jazz and popular music singer who enjoyed popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. She collaborated with, among others, Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra.-Career:... |
I'm In Love Again | |
| Mel Tormé Mel Tormé Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books... |
Mel Tormé Sings Sunday in New York & Other Songs About New York | |
| Stanley Turrentine Stanley Turrentine Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.-Biography:Turrentine was born in Pittsburgh's Hill District into a musical family... |
In Memory Of In Memory Of (album) In Memory Of is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, recorded for the Blue Note label in 1964 but not released until the 1980s, and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, Curtis Fuller, Herbie Hancock, Bob Cranshaw, and Otis Finch.... |
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| Libby York | Sunday in New York | |
| The Swing Song | Shanna Carlson | Swing High, Swing Low |
| Lucy Reed | Basic Reeding | |
| Too Much In Love To Care (Lyrics; Music by James J. Kriegsmann) | Carmen McRae Carmen McRae Carmen Mercedes McRae was an American jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable... |
The First of Carmen McRae - The Bethlehem Years |
| We Can Only Try (Lyrics; Music by Peter Daniels) | Lainie Kazan Lainie Kazan Lainie Kazan is an American actress and singer.-Personal life:Kazan was born Lanie Levine in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish father who worked as a bookie and a Turkish Sephardic Jewish mother, Carole, whom Kazan has described as "neurotic, fragile and... |
Body & Soul |
| Diane Schuur Diane Schuur Diane Schuur is an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Deedles", she has won two Grammy Awards, headlined many of the world's most prestigious music venues, including Carnegie Hall and The White House and has toured the world performing with such greats as Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, B. B... |
Pure Schuur | |
| Where Did the Summer Go? | Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris is an American jazz singer. Parris has made guest appearances with many top musicians , performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in '90 & '95, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and of course the ever-so-hip International... |
Love Comes and Goes |
| You'll See | Misty Bade | Touching You Touching Me |
| Rosie Carlino | What Matters Most | |
| Beth Logan | Time After Time | |
| Greta Matassa | I Wanna Be Loved | |
| Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris Rebecca Parris is an American jazz singer. Parris has made guest appearances with many top musicians , performed at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in '90 & '95, North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and of course the ever-so-hip International... |
Love Comes and Goes | |
| Jackie Ryan | Doozy | |
| Diane Schuur Diane Schuur Diane Schuur is an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Deedles", she has won two Grammy Awards, headlined many of the world's most prestigious music venues, including Carnegie Hall and The White House and has toured the world performing with such greats as Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, B. B... |
Love Songs | |
| Carol Sloane Carol Sloane Carol Sloane is an American jazz singer born in Providence, Rhode Island, who has been singing professionally since she was 14, although for a time in the 1970s she worked as a legal secretary in Raleigh, North Carolina. She currently lives in Stoneham, Massachusetts.One of her early efforts was... |
Heart's Desire | |
| Paula West Paula West Paula West is an American jazz and cabaret singer known for her rich, powerful contralto voice and for her sensitive interpretations of an extraordinarily eclectic selection of songs ranging far beyond jazz standards and cabaret chestnuts.-Early career:... |
Temptation | |
| Weslia Whitfield | Beautiful Love | |
| John B. Williams | Gratitude | |
| Nancy Wilson Nancy Wilson Nancy Wilson may refer to:* Nancy Wilson , American jazz singer and actress* Nancy Wilson , American singer and guitar player, member of the band Heart... |
R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) R.S.V.P. is a 2004 album by Nancy Wilson, featuring Wilson in duet with George Shearing, Toots Thielemans, Phil Woods, and Gary Burton... |
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| Susan Winter | Love Rolls On | |
| You're So Far Above Me | The Four Freshmen The Four Freshmen The Four Freshmen is a multiple Grammy-nominated American male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmony jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires , The Pied Pipers , and The Mel-Tones , founded in the barbershop tradition... |
The Complete Capitol Four Freshmen Fifties Sessions |
Awards
Along with cowriters Peter NeroPeter Nero
Peter Nero is an American pianist and pops conductor.-Early life:Born in Brooklyn, New York, As Bernard Nierow, Nero started his formal music training at the age of seven. He studied piano under Frederick Bried...
and Roland Everett, Coates was nominated for a Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
in 1964 for composing the song, "Sunday in New York" for the film of the same name.