Английская Википедия:Ella Johnson
Ella Johnson (June 22, 1919 – February 16, 2004)[1][2] was an American jazz and rhythm and blues singer.
Music career
Born Ella Mae Jackson in Darlington, South Carolina, United States,[2] she joined her brother Buddy Johnson in New York as a teenager,[3] where he was leading a popular band at the Savoy Ballroom. Her singing drew comparisons to Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.[1]
Johnson scored her first hit with "Please, Mr. Johnson" in 1940.[4] Subsequent hits included "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?", "When My Man Comes Home" and "Hittin' On Me". Her popular 1945 recording of "Since I Fell for You", composed by her brother, led to its eventual establishment as a jazz standard. She continued to perform with Buddy Johnson into the 1960s. AllMusic noted that her "later solo sides for Mercury are pale imitations of her work with the band."[3]
In February 2004, she died of Alzheimer's disease in New York at the age of 84.[1][3]
Discography
- Swing Me with Buddy Johnson (Mercury, 1958)[4]
With Buddy Johnson
- Rock and Roll (Mercury, 1956)
- Go Ahead and Rock Rock Rock (Roulette, 1959)
- Say Ella (Juke Box, 1983)[4]
References
- Английская Википедия
- 1919 births
- 2004 deaths
- People from Darlington, South Carolina
- American jazz singers
- American rhythm and blues singers
- East Coast blues musicians
- Jump blues musicians
- Deaths from dementia in New York (state)
- Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
- 20th-century American singers
- 20th-century American women singers
- 21st-century American women
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