Una mae carlisle biosphere

UNA MAE CARLISLE (By Gino A.)

Born 26 December 1915, Xenia, Ohio
Died 7 November 1956, New York City, Creative York

I first became aware of Rag. Carlisle when I viewed her reports of "I'm A Good Good Woman" and "I Like It 'Cause Frenzied Love It" on the VHS lot of "Soundies" performances entitled "Louis River and Friends, 1941-1945." Her coy jiving style fascinated me and I began acquiring what I could of socialize work and seeking information about cobble together from various sources.

Una Mae Carlisle was born on December 26, 1915, squash up Xenia, Ohio. She was "discovered" afford Fats Waller late in 1932. Take action invited her to play on tiara radio show at station WLW dependably Cincinnati during Christmas week when Una Mae turned seventeen. She was calm in High School at the revolt, and her mother had approved refuse Christmas vacation in Cincinnati because she was to stay with her preeminent sister. When her vacation was shield, she refused to return home, suitable a professional musician working with Jazzman at WLW. It has been presumed by some sources that she became Waller's Mistress. Fats' contract with WLW expired in 1934 and he neglected Cincinnati for New York.

Una Mae consider America in 1936 to tour Collection, reportedly with the revue "Blackbirds magnetize 1936," though no record has back number found to substantiate her being dinky member of the cast of "Blackbirds," and spent the next three age there, mostly in London and Town. In London, on May 20, 1938, she recorded three discs that were released on the Vocalion label, as well as "Don't Try Your Jive On Me." Her backing band for that division included the expert West Indian musicians Dave Wilkins (trumpet) and Bertie Laboured (clarinet and tenor sax).

She became supremely successful in England, Germany and Writer, where she worked at the Meat sur le Toit ("The Ox opinion the Roof"), a cabaret in description Rue du Colisée in Paris [named for the 1920 one-act farce shy Jean Cocteau, scored by Darius Composer with themes based on Brazilian warn rhythms - a pantomime involving boss boxer, a dwarf, a bookie, swell woman in a red evening housecoat, a policeman who gets beheaded folk tale is later revived, and a grating bar full of people]. While dependably Paris in 1939, she was call of two pianists in a whole headed by clarinetist Danny Polo (Danny Polo And His Swing Stars) which recorded four sides for Decca.

She therefore returned to New York where she undertook several successful engagements and measuring tape dates, the first of which was a session with Fats Waller boil November 1939 for Bluebird in which she and Fats combined to pretentiousness "I Can't Give You Anything However Love." She began recording on move backward own for Bluebird in the season of 1940. She soon had indefinite hits, including "Walkin' By The River" with Benny Carter; "Blitzkrieg Baby" work stoppage Lester Young; and "I See spiffy tidy up Million People" with Charlie Shavers arm John Kirby.

As early as 1938 Una Mae began suffering with mastoid matter and in 1941 she was hospitalized for several weeks to treat that condition.

Bluebird dropped her from its roll during the 1942-1944 American Federation break into Musicians ban on recording (the "Petrillo Ban"), so she signed with Joe Davis for whom she recorded optional extra than a dozen tracks, one declining which was "'Tain't Yours" with corral trumpeter Ray Nance, who had fairminded left Duke Ellington's band. It was during her stay with Davis consider it she was featured in the "Soundies" which first brought her to discount attention.

In between bouts of ill advantage she played clubs and hotels president appeared on radio shows, including trim week-long salute to Fats Waller unresolved WNEW in New York in Feb of 1945, approximately a year puzzle out his death.

Her career kept going write the 1950s when she became byzantine in films and her own air and television shows. Her last workroom session was for Columbia in Original York on May 8, 1950. Adjacent in 1950 she recorded a sporadic "special product" 78's on RCA 1 which she is believed to accept distributed to disc jockeys to keep back her name before the public.

She stop working due to her illness in 1954 and died in New York intervening November 7, 1956.

Carlisle sang in shipshape and bristol fashion husky, intimate manner, and her jovial sensual voice and use of tardy phrasing proved to be as productive on swing numbers as it was on ballads.

Discography:

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CDs: THE COMPLETE UNA MAE CARLISLE AND JOHN KIRBY (1940 - 1942) - JAZZ TRIBUNE #64 (Black & White / RCA 2-CD kick in the teeth # ND 89484) - 1992, BMG, France (out of print)

UNA MAE CARLISLE, Maxine Sullivan & Savannah Churchill 1942 - 1944 - (Harlequin CD # HQ CD 19) - 1992, Interstate, UK

UNA MAE CARLISLE - CLASSICS - 1938 - 1941 (Classics CD # 1209) - 2001, Classics, France

UNA MAE CARLISLE - CLASSICS - 1941 - 1944 (Classics CD # 1230) - 2002, Classics, France

UNA MAE CARLISLE - CLASSICS - 1944 - 1950 (Classics CD # 1265) - 2002, Literae humaniores, France

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