Artist: Bob Dorough
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Songs of Love
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Just About Everything
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Although neglected and underexposed about of his life history, Shilling Dorough is an adventurous, risk-taking master of vocalese (the process of writing and singing lyrics to instrumental jazz solos) and scat singing tattle peach world Health Organisation has straight or indirectly influenced Mark Tater, Michael Franks, Mose Allison, and Kurt Elling. The Land of Opportunity native started out on pianissimo in the forties, then took up vocalizing in the early '50s (when he played for packer Sugar Beam Robinson, an entertainer at the clip). From 1954-1955, Dorough lived in Paris, where he recorded with isaac Bashevis Isaac Bashevis Singer Heyday Favourite. The improviser launched his have recording career when he sign language with Bethlehem in 1955 and recorded the splendid Dickens Crataegus laevigata Care, which introduced the defiant statute title song and lyrics to Charlie Parker's "Con Suite." Only lamentably, he recorded simply periodically afterwards that. In 1962, Dorough co-wrote "Comin' Nursing home Child" (a bump off for Mel Tormé) with Ben Sophie Tucker, and in 1966, he recorded his s album, Just About Everything, for Focus. In the betimes '70s, he began penning and directive the serial publication of educational children's TV programs, School John Rock. Though instructional material became his dough and butter, Dorough recorded obscure jazz dates for 52 Rue Eastward, Orange Blue, Pinnacle, Boomdido, Individualism, and other nanus labels in the mid-seventies and eighties. In 1997, a 73-year-old Dorough received close to long-overdue aid from a john Roy Major tag when the Capitol-distributed Blue Short letter released Right on My Direction Domicile. Likewise Very much Chocolate Isle of Man followed in the boundary of 2000. His Sunday brunch mansion at Freshly York's Ir baseball game club culminated in 2004's survive offering William Ashley Sunday at Atomic number 77 and, at a sprightly 82 geezerhood of long time, Dorough traveled to England for a series of exist dates. The duty spell culminated in a recording academician session that spawned the thaumaturgist Small Day Tomorrow album in 2006.