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Arts > Music > Jazz > USA > Nellie Lutcher 1912 or 1915-2007
Nightclub Singers
Singer Nellie Letcher singing and accompanying herself on the piano with appreciative audience in background at Cafe Society Downtown.
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: 1947
Photograph: Gjon Mili
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Nellie Lutcher 1912 or 1915-2007
singer and pianist who had a string of rhythm-and-blues hits in the late 1940s and continued performing into the early 1990s
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Ms. Lutcher’s career was a classic case of seemingly overnight success that actually took years to achieve.
She had been performing in the Los Angeles area for more than a decade when a Capitol Records talent scout, Dave Dexter, heard her on a radio broadcast of a charity concert in 1947 and quickly signed her.
Over the next two years she went from obscurity to stardom, with four records reaching the Billboard R & B Top 10.
Her distinctively lively, lighthearted, mildly risqué approach, exemplified by her original compositions “He’s a Real Gone Guy” and “Hurry On Down,” earned her an international following and a booking at the New York nightclub Café Society.
But by 1952 a more rough-hewn brand of rhythm and blues was catching on, her sales were declining and Capitol released her.
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Nellie Lutcher was born in Lake Charles, La., on Oct. 15, 1912.
Her father was a jazz bassist, and her mother was a church organist.
By the age of 11, she was accomplished enough as a pianist to be pressed into service accompanying the blues singer Ma Rainey, whose regular pianist was ill.
Within a few years she was playing and singing professionally, often in a band led by her father. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/arts/15lutcher.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jul/21/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/arts/15lutcher.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/jun/14/guardianobituaries.musicnews
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