Cancer Deaths in the Australian Capital Territory - Gery Scott, Jeannie Ferris, Peter Leonard, Bob Meyer (Paperback)

Chapters: Gery Scott, Jeannie Ferris, Peter Leonard, Bob Meyer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gery Scott (5 October 1923 14 December 2005) was a jazz and cabaret entertainer and teacher, whose performing career spanned 26 countries and over 60 years. She was noted for her powerful stage persona and engaging delivery, with material ranging from the songbooks of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Lorenz Hart, Cy Coleman and all the "standards" as well as Noel Coward and some pop material. Whilst she was well know to British audiences during the later part of the Second World War, she achieved most of her fame outside the UK. Born Diana Geraldine Whitburn in Bombay, British India, in 1923 - a child of the Raj - she made her first recording in Calcutta for Indian Columbia in 1942 singing Stormy Weather accompanied by Teddy Weatherford and his band. She then went on to work with various BBC bands in London including Harry Gold and His Pieces of Eight and The Vic Lewis Big Band. Scott also spent the war years with the American Red Cross entertaining the American Armed Forces in Burma and India. She was married three times: to the late World War II RAF pilot Pat Lofting (later personal pilot to the Raja of Bengal), to musical director and pianist Igo Fischer (now living in Germany) and finally, to oil magnate Tony Diamond, who was murdered in Scotland in 1986. From 1950 to 1957, she toured Europe performing with such artists as Woody Herman, Bud Shank, Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan. This tour led to a seven year recording contract with Czech based Supraphon, during which time she recorded eighty titles, released as either albums or singles, accompanied by orchestras under the direction of Gustav Brom, Karel Vlach and Dalibor...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=420180