Please Be Kind - Mildred Bailey video free download

Joaquín Maria Aguirre Romero

La maravillosa Mildred Bailey una de las grandes reinas de la canción de la época dorada de la radio merece ser recordada y sobre todo considerada como una influencia en artistas posteriores. Maravillosos fraseo en este Please be kind! Disfrútalo!

Shawn Brehm

Mildred Bailey was MOST DEFINITELY Native!!! She was born in Tekoa, WA, right across the border from her mother's home reservation (the Couer d'Alene reservation in Idaho.) Her mother took her, and her younger siblings to family events all over the reservation, and the Couer d'Alene Tribe happily claims her as one of their own. I ran across an article in the National Museum of the Native American Magazine about her and thus began my fascination with her and her career. She was the first female to headline as the featured vocalist with a big band (The Paul Whiteman Orchestra,) and broke her little brother and his best buddy into the music business as well (also with the Whiteman band.) Her little brother was Al Rinker who went on to score a lot for movies (most notably writing the "Everyone Wants to Be a Cat" song from The Aristocats) while his buddy got involved in making movies (as well as still singing,) maybe you have heard of him? Bing Crosby?She also had a hand in breaking Frank Sinatra into the business as well.Billie Holiday would later say she looked on Mildred as her biggest influence.Mildred died almost penniless. Her brothers, Bing and Frank all pitched in to cover her final expenses. I have a hard time when someone who obviously knows little of her life story calls her a "white" artist... yes she was part white, but definitely was a Couer d'Alene... and not given nearly enough credit for her role as a true female jazz pioneer!

francisco javier lopez

Mildred Rinker (Tekoa, 1907 - 1951), conocida como Mildred Bailey, fue una cantante estadounidense de jazz.Su rostro llamativo y su voz clara, suave y bellamente modulada la convirtieron en un personaje ideal para la industria radiofónica y musical, pero su robusta figura le impidió cualquier posibilidad de pasar al mundo del cine.Nacida en Tekoa, un pequeño pueblo de Seattle, en Washington D.C, Mildred Bailey, tenía sangre india canadiense en sus venas. Educada en Spokane (Washington), donde fue compañera de estudios de Bing Crosby, comenzó a cantar en cabarets locales antes de aventurarse en la Costa Oeste y cantar en una emisora de radio local en la ciudad de Los Ángeles. Fue precisamente Bing Crosby, quien la recomendó para que el director de orquesta, Paul Whiteman, la contratara en 1929 y haría de ella una artista en el ámbito nacional. Estuvo con Whiteman cuatro años y en 1932, obtuvo un éxito enorme con el tema que le acompañó para toda su vida: "Rockin Chair", una canción de Hoagy Carmichael, cuya versión, todavía hoy nadie ha superado. En 1933, abandonó la orquesta de Paul Whiteman, al tiempo que contrajo matrimonio con el xilofonista, Red Norvo. Ambos formaron un grupo musical a partir de 1936, que obtuvo un discreto éxito inicial, pero que poco a poco se fue diluyendo en el tiempo agravado además por el empuje de las grandes voces emergentes del jazz en aquella época: Billie Holiday y Ella Fitzgerald. Eso, unido a su obesidad, la sumió en una grave depresión hasta el punto que su matrimonio entra en crisis. La separación con Red Norvo, se concretó en 1943 y la diabetes y las enfermedades relacionadas con su peso empezaron a hacer su aparición. El carácter irascible que empezó a aflorarle, los problemas hepáticos y su fracasado matrimonio, terminaron por destruirla, y evitaron que nadie la contratara. Se trasladó a vivir a New York, primero a una casa de campo y luego a un céntrico apartamento. Allí la encontraron en 1949 unos amigos en un estado cercano a la muerte y Bing Crosby y Frank Sinatra se hicieron cargo de los gastos de hospitalización, pero su vida se apagó apenas un par de años después. Mildred Bailey, fue considerada la primera mujer "canario" de la historia del jazz y ha sido una de las mejores cantantes blancas de jazz de la historia.

Beatriz Esmer

Please Be Kind - Mildred BaileyI love this song....♥

Lee Larson

I see the moderator rejected my brief comment because I don't concur with the 'loyal following' out there. Whatever.

Lee Larson

Don't give up your day job, Mildred.

Lee Larson

My thanks to all the folks about 'Native American' heritage. I myself come from the Paleface Tribe. ##Now will you all shut up so we can listen to the music?

Perico14ful

j e w e r l y

monk man

I don't care for the xylophone solo ;o) but otherwise, a BIG thumbs up!

3investigators

Mildred is wonderful. Thank you!

gfks11

Thats a GREAT song and version!!

Mark Story Jenks

I am a big fan of Mildred Bailey's work. I've learned a lot reading these posts, and I am proud of her accomplishments, and her heritage.

PublicRadioWorldWide

That Mildred has a charming and warming element to her voice - and in the song gives good advice lovingly like only a mother could -- and she seems like a wonderful mom of sorts to me. This recording went to number one in the first week of May 1938 (based on record sales, juke box plays and radio station requests). You can play it again for me!

vivandav67

WOW....gotta go find her cd's...she's /love on a biscuit...

stavlaft

yes...YES!!!! i like this tremendously much!!!!

direfranchement

I'm thrilled to hear of these tributes, and to be able to share in the appreciation of this great artist is truly my privelege. I have been an avid jazz fan and collector for some years now, but only stumbled across the late Mrs. Bailey last year in the liner notes of a Fitzgerald album. I have more of her music that I would love to post--I can also appreciate your inclusive acceptance of her as one of your own--I too have Native ancestry on my mother's side. Thanks for the information!

vancouversonglines

Its so wonderful you know so much about her, but from an Aboriginal (Native American) point-of-view - just because she wasn't full blooded in no way diminishes her native ancestry. Currently the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and Aboriginal West Coast based Talking Stick Festival (Vancouver BC) are both staging tribute events in honour of Mildred Bailey. She's also written up in the Encyclopedia of Native Music by Brian Wright Macleod.

direfranchement

Actually Mildred was the child of a Swiss-American father and a mother of part Couer d'Alene Indian heritage--she had Native American ancestry, but she was not Native American.

vancouversonglines

Such a lovely voice - but Mildred was actually a Coast Salish Native American woman - so not 'white'

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