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Roster of the listed and written up artists,
stars, legends and celebrities in the World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret,
Music and Entertainment.
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  CABARET-JAZZ
IS HOT. THE COMPLETE STORY FROM A TO Z. (45 Page in-depth article)
Photo, far left:
The
lady pays the bill and the cabaret
gigolo drinks the
Champagne and enjoys the view. Illustration by Lorenzi in
Fantasio, January 15, 1923. Right:
Marlene Dietrich in Paris.
The best singers,
chanteuses and entertainers...also...the best cabaret gigolos...but of course
Madame!
Mix all this with crèpe-de-Chine,
frou frou, chiffon, well-manicured caniches (French poodle), aged Cognac,
Champagne, horny aristocrats, fake millionaires, high-priced courtisanes (Courtesans),
Parisian gossip, gigolos, madams, bohemians, romantic songs, broken promises,
cozy bistros, coquettes des boulevards, croissants au beure, Gaston, Maurice,
Brigitte, Chantal, and you get the perfect delightful French Cabaret madness
formula! Paris was wild! And Le Cabaret was ready for it. Insiders said: “It was
Le Cabaret that created all
this!”
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 THE
GRAPEVINE: PEOPLE AND CELEBRITIES...
Photo:
Richard Skipper with Paulette Attie. Making her presence felt is Miss
Channing herself, with her red feather boa and Hello Dolly
poster.
It’s
summertime and a highlight of the season is RICHARD SKIPPER and
DAN SHERMAN’s annual SUMMER BARBEQUE at their beautiful Rockland
County home. They were also celebrating their 17th anniversary! Richard
is such a bigger than life star he often eclipses everyone around him,
especially in a cabaret venue.
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 THE
VERY BEST CABARET JAZZ SINGERS, CHANTEUSES AND ENTERTAINERS IN THE
UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD.
Photos and list.
You surf the Internet, you visit cabaret singers websites, you read
flyers and reviews of chanteuses and cabaret entertainers CDs,
performances et al…and you don’t know what to make out of these
charades, displays of thousands of talents and propaganda scenarioed
by publicists and highly paid agents and managers. In America, the
word “Cabaret” is so freely and so irresponsibly used by singers,
reviewers, critics and promoters.
But here is the list
of the very best!!
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  FEMMES
FATALES & ULTIMATE DIVAS! WHO ARE THEY?
The femme fatale, is an
irresistible dramatic and dangerously attractive woman. She is "la
Femme" who directs men toward the abyss of danger. Ironically, the
literature of the sacred and the damned does not include hommes
fatales. Even, Charles Boyer, Jean Gabin and Tyron Power do not fit the
description of a fatal persona. La femme fatale dates back to classic
myth and ancient folklore. Astarte (Ashtaroot in Aramaic and Phoenician)
was one.
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  WHY
SINGERS, CELEBRITIES, MOVIE STARS AND DOWN TO EARTH WOMEN POSE NAKED?
WHY SOME WOMEN STRIP IN PUBLIC AND WHY STARS
AND SINGERS POSE NAKED? For one million reasons. And it has nothing to
do with money, as many ingenious minds and rednecks believe or imagine.
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New book exposes very shocking
facts about music, showbiz, jazz and singers. Documented extraordinary
claims and facts: Afro-Americans and women artists suffered most!!
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 Bee
Palmer was too much for her time, and men adored her!!
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Bee
Palmer, a.k.a. The Shimmy
Queen, (September 11, 1894-December 22, 1967). One of a kind. A woman
who took the stage, the audience, the Jazz era, and the society by storm.
She used thick layers of “rouge”; rouge for her lips, that is. Nothing is
wrong with that, except that those thick layers of rouge were
intentionally mixed with Swedish wax! Asking her about the purpose of
such a mix, Palmer replied: “The kiss wouldn’t last more than 2
seconds!” She was referring to men with “bushy mustaches! She hated
mustaches and “hairy faces”! Bee Palmer was an accomplished
pianist, sophisticated, the most elegant woman of her generation,
composer, songstress, daring and risqué dancer, a Ziegfeld’s
Follies star...Read
full article
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
FAMSPA HONORS PATRICE FERRIS, BRUCE MORROW
"Cousin Brucie", DR. TRUDY PITTS AND ANTOINETTE MONTAGUE...
  All
on the cover of Volume V of the World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and
Entertainment.
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JUST PUBLISHED!
ORDER YOUR
COPY NOW!
BEST
MUSICIANS, SINGERS, ALBUMS AND ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITIES OF THE 19th,
20th AND 21st CENTURIES"
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970 Photos (Volume V of the World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and
Entertainment). Published by FAMSPA and TimesSquarePress.
Published on July 29, 2007
How Popular is
"Best Musicians, Singers, Albums and Entertainment Personalities of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries."?
Where this book is listed and referred to??
Have a look...
Photo: Diva Patrice Ferris on
the front cover of
"BEST
MUSICIANS, SINGERS, ALBUMS AND ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITIES OF THE 19th,
20th AND 21st CENTURIES"
[970 Photos] (Volume V of the World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and
Entertainment) published by FAMSPA and TimesSquarePress.
Published on July 29, 2007.
Breaking news
PATRICE
FERRIS GRACES THE COVER OF VOLUME V OF THE WORLD WHO'S WHO IN JAZZ, CABARET,
MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT.
New
York-New York. The Federation of American Musicians, Singers and Performing
Artists (FAMSPA), officially announced this week in New York City that Ms.
Patrice Ferris, lead vocalist of the Washington-based Satin Doll Trio has been
selected to grace the front cover of "BEST
MUSICIANS, SINGERS, ALBUMS AND ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITIES OF THE 19th,
20th AND 21st CENTURIES"
(Volume V of the World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and Entertainment)
published by FAMSPA and TimesSquarePress....Volume V is a
massive book containing 7,000 names and entries, 90 chapters and 970 photos
of
stars and legends who made their mark on the world of music, showbiz and
entertainment in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. It covers a wide array of
subjects and themes including, the golden age of the brass bands, America's most
famous instrumentalists and soloists, the history of recordings and live
entertainment during the early days of radio, charts of the biggest hits and
popular songs from 1880 to the present, international survey/poll on the 500
best and most famous singers of our time, history and stars biographies of the
ragtime, cakewalk, Doo Wop and Jazz. There are also heart-felt stories that
touch our hearts, for instance, the author writes about "HELLO
CENTRAL GIVE ME HEAVEN";
a
1901 song about a little child who used the phone to call her deceased mother. A
sad song written by A. P. Carter and sang by the Carter Family. The tears, the
pain and betrayal expressed in the music and lyrics written by the deposed and
jailed Queen of Hawaii, who wrote 500 songs, and who is considered to be one of
the earliest and most prolific songwriters in this country. But also the book
contains entertaining stories about stars never told before, such as how
impresarios and publicists in New York created so much extravagant and untrue
events and gossip to promote their stars and clients, all the gossips, rumors
and scandals of the era, starting with Barnum, Ziegfeld, Thomas Edison, Bette
Davis, Walter Matthau, Cole Porter, and ending with the top notch agents
in Manhattan, on Broadway and Wall Street.
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full article
   Forgotten
stars and legendary entertainers...Read
   How
much do you know about Cakewalk and Ragtime?
The Cakewalk,
a predecessor of the rag, is best known from 1870 to the early 20th
century, but it took its roots from the time of slavery. White slave owners used
to hold dance competitions for the slaves, and watching those events was a
favorite past-time. The winners were awarded a cake, giving rise to the
expressions “takes the cake” and “a piece of cake.” The dances, which were
parodies of the European ballroom dances, involved a combination of African
dance steps, high kicks, and exaggerated steps.
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  Radio
golden era. The early stars...It really all started with Frank Sinatra......
In January 1942, the
26 year old Frank Sinatra took the world of entertainment by storm. Thousands of
young girls fell in love with him, and hundreds fainted every time he performed
on stage. Female bobby-soxers screamed and screamed and rushed to touch his face
amid hysteria and bursting passion. For long time, he has been performing as a
solo singer with the Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, but now Sinatra
realized that his ready for a solo career, alone and on his own, even if his
boss Tommy Dorsey believed Sinatra was "a damn fool" for considering it.
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THE
BEST MUSICAL FILMS OF ALL TIME.
Photo:
Madonna,
star of the 1966 film “Evita”; based on the musical by
Andrew Lloyd Webber
and Tim Rice. “Evita” is an opera, with brief moments dialogue.
Directed by
Alan Parker.
Highlight: The song “Don’t Cry for me
Argentina”. The original song-album sold 20 million copies worldwide.
The 1960’s witnessed the end of the big musical golden age, because of
the rising cost of production, the drastic change in audience tastes and age.
Today’s cinema audience consists of young people, been brought up with MTV
and films filled with violence, Kungfu Karate stuff and infested with cheap
sexual scenes, drugs, guns with hysterical shapes, forms and use.
Consequently, there is no more room for polite, heart-felt films with
substance, family oriented themes, rich with musical numbers, acts and
delightful songs. That beautiful era is gone, despite huge successes of
current films with singing and dancing like “Moulin Rouge” and “Chicago”.
Photo: Julie Andrews in the breathtaking opening scene of the
1965 “The Sound of Music.” A superb film with
music
by
Richard Rodgers,
lyrics:
Oscar Hammerstein II.
Written by
Howard Lindsay
and
Russel Crouse,
based
on the book “The
Story of the Trapp Family Singers”
by
Maria von Trapp.
The film showcased the 4 octave voice of Julie Andrews. Highlights: 3
songs,
The Sound of Music,
Edelweiss,
and
My Favorite Things,
became world popular and standards in the genre. A British stage production
opened at the
Palace Theatre
in London on
May 18,
1961
and ran for 2,385 performances.
There was a time when movies like “The Sound of Music”, “My Fair Lady”;
“Cabaret”; “Oliver” attracted audiences in the millions around the globe and
won avalanches of Oscars...Read
full article
____________________________________________________________________________
JUST PUBLISHED
SHOWBIZ,
PIONEERS, BEST SINGERS, MUSICIANS AND ENTERTAINERS FROM 1606 TO THE
PRESENT (Vol. IV of the World Who's Who in Jazz,
Cabaret, Music and Entertainment)
THE MOST
FASCINATING AND INFLUENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC, JAZZ AND CABARET BOOK EVER
PUBLISHED.
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articles and reviews
Photo: Peggy Judy on the front cover of
"SHOWBIZ, PIONEERS, BEST SINGERS, MUSICIANS AND ENTERTAINERS FROM 1606 TO THE
PRESENT (Vol. IV of World Who's Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and
Entertainment.)
Showbiz, Pioneers, Best Singers, Musicians and Entertainers from 1606
to the Present: THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT SINGERS, WORLD
SHOWBIZ AND ENTERTAINMENT. 5 Stars+
Review by Dr. Gisele von Guntunbergersen, Editor-in-Chief of World Art
Celebrities Journal.
Volume IV of the World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and Entertainment:
“Showbiz, Pioneers, Best Singers, Musicians and Entertainers from 1606 to the
Present” contains 800 photos, 60 chapters, more than 6,000 names, all the
glitters, the stories, data, statistics and lists of lists of all those who left
their mark on the world of music and showbiz from progressive fusion rock to
jazz and pop. And from the year's big buzz lists to national music awards, and
from San Remo Song Festival awards, airplay world official top 100 and divas to
the ultimate entertainers, singers and songwriters of our time. It started with
the first day of entertainment and the dawn of world music, singers and
pioneers. This is an unbelievable gigantic accomplishment on a very large scale
by a showbiz expert, author and producer, Maximillien de Lafayette. It is
overwhelming. It is Homeric in the wealth of information it offers, the
descriptive categories of live performances, styles, schools and music genres
and rich biographic chronicles of singers, composers, musicians, writers,
producers and giants of the industry. Volume IV illustrates and explains
in-depth the fabric and divergent world of stars and showbiz. A new wave of
formidable talents invaded the book, starting with the cover. In Volume IV, and
as expected, you will find the biography and career highlights of famous stars,
artists, composers, songwriters, comedians from 135 countries. But the author
walked 10 more miles to include all those who made significant contributions to
the world of music and entertainment, regardless of their visibility, name
recognition and status. "Recognizing others' talents is the primordial duty of
an honest historian and a well-informed critic. Household names or obscure but
gifted artists have the same rights and are entitled to be recognized by the
public. To do so, a responsible writer should not exclusively and constantly
write about the rich and the famous. I have a strong medium here to offer those
magnificent and unknown talents a maximum exposure. I did. I had to do it. So
expect to hear and read about fabulous singers and musicians who were deprived
from opportunities to be written up in newspapers and magazines..." said Mr. de
Lafayette, author of the Who's Who.
Add Showbiz, Pioneers, Best Singers, Musicians
and Entertainers from 1606 to the Present to your library. It is an essential
reference. A magnificent and refreshing book. Volume IV is the book of the year.
Reviewed by Dr. Gisele von Guntunbergersen.
COVERS OF 5
PUBLISHED VOLUMES OF THE WORLD WHO'S WHO IN JAZZ, CABARET, MUSIC AND
ENTERTAINMENT.
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