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Pearl Bailey: With a Song in Her Heart
A biography of the singer who entertained audiences with her performances on Broadway, television, and the concert stage
48 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1992
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July 13, 2020
I have only one Pearl Bailey record and it is marked as risque for airplay.
So I was a bit bemused to see a YA biog on the singer. Profusely pencil illustrated by Gershom Griffith this is a good and engaging overview of her D.C. life from attending church and being exposed to music through her parents' divorce, emerging as a performer in NYC to greater fame on stage (Broadway), screen as well as a singer. Also covered is her "interracial" marriage.
- LIFE - Dec 1, 1952
We also read of her years representing the US to the world through the UN. From an obituary "PEARL BAILEY, DELEGATE OF DELIGHT" (The Washington Post by Joseph McLellan August 18, 1990):
So I was a bit bemused to see a YA biog on the singer. Profusely pencil illustrated by Gershom Griffith this is a good and engaging overview of her D.C. life from attending church and being exposed to music through her parents' divorce, emerging as a performer in NYC to greater fame on stage (Broadway), screen as well as a singer. Also covered is her "interracial" marriage.
"There is only one race — the human race," Negro Blues Singer Pearl Bailey said last week in London as she married Louis Bellson Jr., drummer...
- LIFE - Dec 1, 1952
We also read of her years representing the US to the world through the UN. From an obituary "PEARL BAILEY, DELEGATE OF DELIGHT" (The Washington Post by Joseph McLellan August 18, 1990):
An American president once named her "America's ambassador of love," and an ambassador she was, serving under three presidents as a special delegate to the United Nations.
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