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  Gisele MacKenzie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gisèle MacKenzie (January 10, 1927 - September 5, 2003) was a Canadian born singer, most famous for her performances on the popular television program Your Hit Parade.
MacKenzie was also an accomplished violinist and performed many comedic musical duets with mentor Jack Benny.
MacKenzie appeared on the show for several years, finally leaving it in 1957 to head her own short-lived variety program, The Gisele MacKenzie Show.
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 Gisele MacKenzie - Your Hit Parade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gisele and the show regulars would sing the 7 most popular songs of the week.
Gisele had her own musical variety program, "The Gisele MacKenzie Show" (1957-58 NBC).
Gisele MacKenzie was born, January 10, 1927, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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 Obituaries Today
MacKenzie was born Gisele Lefleche, on January 10, 1927, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to a Winnipeg doctor and a musically gifted mother.
MacKenzie demonstrated her gift for music early by playing the piano when she was only two years old.
MacKenzie went on to star in her own show, 'The Gisele MacKenzie Show' (1957-58), where she played host to guests like Dinah Shore, Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin.
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 Blog of Death: Gisele MacKenzie
Gisele MacKenzie, a singer and actress who became a star on the TV show, "Your Hit Parade," died on Sept. 5 of colon cancer.
Born Gisele Marie-Louise Marguerite LaFleche, she studied piano and violin at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto.
Gisele often commented that I was her number one fan, and an all around good friend.
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 MacKenzie, Gisèle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There she sang with Percy Faith's orchestra on CBS radio in New York, joined Bob Crosby on CBS TV's 'Club 15' in Hollywood in 1951, and began a long association with the comedian Jack Benny in 1953.
Two LPs, both entitled Gisele, were released by RCA (1958, Victor LSP-1790; 1959, Camden 532); and two more, Gisele MacKenzie at the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria and Gisele MacKenzie Sings Lullaby and Goodnight, were released in the 1960s by Everest (1069) and Pickwick (SPC-3185) respectively.
In common with such other Canadian singers as her contemporary Juliette and the younger Anne Murray, MacKenzie achieved fame through a distinctive combination of cool-headed, cheerful candour and an easy, pleasant voice of medium range, always in tune and handled with a disarming lack of affectation.
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 Gisele MacKenzie -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
MacKenzie was also an accomplished violinist and performed many comedic musical duets with mentor (United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (1894-1974)) Jack Benny.
She appeared often at (Largest city in Nevada; located in southeastern Nevada; originally settled by Mormons but is now famous for entertainment and gambling and general excess) Las Vegas venues in her burgeoning career and in numerous concerts throughout her life.
MacKenzie has a star on the (Click link for more info and facts about Hollywood Walk Of Fame) Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
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 Gisele MacKenzie
Gisele MacKenzie possessed a crystalline, resonant singing voice.
Gisele was also an accomplished violinist and performed many comedic musical duets with mentor Jack Benny.
Miss MacKenzie appeared on the show for several years, finally leaving it in 1957 to head her own short-lived variety program, The Gisele MacKenzie Show.
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 Gisele MacKenzie -- '50s TV star of 'Your Hit Parade'
Hollywood -- Gisele MacKenzie, the Canadian-born singer-actress who was a regular on the popular 1950s television musical show "Your Hit Parade" and starred in her own short-lived NBC variety series, has died.
MacKenzie, who was once known as Canada's First Lady of Song, died Friday in Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank after a long battle with colon cancer, said her daughter, Gigi Downs.
MacKenzie was the only one to ever have a big enough hit to appear in the show's top seven while she was a regular: "Hard to Get" in 1955.
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 Gisele Bundchen - News, Pictures, MP3, Videos and Gossip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gisele has mentioned several times that at least one of her sisters has attempted a modeling career as well.
While in school, Gisele was so thin that her friends used to call her "Olívia Palito" (Portuguese for Olive Oyl, Popeye's skinny friend), "Somaliana" (person from Somalia) and Saracura (kind of bird with long legs).
In an interview, Gisele remarked that she at first did not know what a model was, thinking it was something perhaps akin to being a hooker.
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 CMT.com : Gisele Mackenzie : Biography
Born Gisele Lafleche in Winnipeg, Canada, Gisele MacKenzie was known for her pop/rock hits "Hard to Get" and "Pepper-Hot Baby." She was a regular vocalist on Your Hit
Gisele MacKenzie made a television "comeback" in the 1980s when she made guest appearances on MacGyver and Murder She Wrote.
MacKenzie was diagnosed with cancer a few years later and finally succumbed early in September of 2003.
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 GISELE MACKENZIE FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gisèle MacKenzie (January_10, 1927 - September_5, 2003) was a Canadian born singer, most famous for her performances on the popular television_program ''Your_Hit_Parade''.
MacKenzie was also an accomplished violinist and performed many comedic musical duets with mentor Jack_Benny.
In later years MacKenzie performed widely in musical theater in such shows as ''Mame'', ''Gypsy'', ''The_Sound_of_Music'', and ''Hello Dolly''.
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 Gisele MacKenzie, early TV star of 'Hit Parade'
MacKenzie died Friday at Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank, said her daughter Gigi Downs.
In 1957, she left the show to headline her own musical variety program, ''The Gisele MacKenzie Show.'' It lasted half a year.
MacKenzie began singing and playing the violin and piano as a child in Canada, studying at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto.
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 Gisele MacKenzie biography : albums : icebergradio.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born Gisele Lafleche in Winnipeg, Canada, Gisele MacKenzie was known for her pop/rock hits "Hard to Get" and "Pepper-Hot Baby." She was a regular vocalist on Your Hit Parade from 1953-57.
Her musical and acting career took her from recording studios, to radio stations, to television and to the stage.
Gisele Lafleche learned to play the violin and piano as she was growing up in Winnipeg.
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 Variety.com - Gisele MacKenzie
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Canadian-born singer-actress-musician Gisele MacKenzie, a regular on 1950s TV musical show "Your Hit Parade" and WHO starred in her own NBC variety series, died from colon cancer Friday Sept. 5 in Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank.
Although most of the show's singers were recording artists, MacKenzie was the only one to have a hit that appeared in the show's top seven while she was a regular: "Hard to Get" in 1955.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Hard To Get: Best Of Gisele - Gisele MacKenzie at Epinions.com
Gisele recorded for Capitol, RCA Victor and its subsidiary labels VIK and X. Her arrangers were top notch, and her way with a lyric is remarkable.
Gisele was always immaculately dressed and coiffed - and was the subject of a set of Whitman Paper Dolls.
Gisele MacKenzie came to Indy in the 1960's to do Mama Rose in "Gypsy." After the first performance, the producer got several complaints about a word used by one of the minor characters, and he cut the word.
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 MacKenzie, Gisele --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Compton Mackenzie was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
The Mackenzie River's course runs through northwestern North America for 2,635 miles (4,241 kilometers) from its source in the Rocky Mountains northward to the Arctic Ocean.
Lewis MacKenzie published an account of his career, ‘Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo', in which he recounted his harrowing experiences in 1992 as chief of staff of the United Nations peacekeeping force in former Yugoslavia.
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 Gisele MacKenzie, Singer and Star of 'Your Hit Parade,' Dies at 76
MacKenzie also traded barbs and violin riffs with Jack Benny and played the piano on her own variety show.
Gisele Marie Louise Marguerite La Fleche was born on Jan. 10, 1927, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
MacKenzie wavered between a career as a singer or one as a concert violinist until her $3,000 violin was stolen from a parked car.
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 Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes
Gisele performed in public for the first time in a violin recital at the Royal Alexandra Hotel in Winnipeg when she was 12 and later trained at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
Gisele got her first radio show in 1946 on CBC Radio.
MacKenzie was her father’s middle name, his mother’s maiden name.
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Gisele MacKenzie, pioneering TV star, singer-actress, dead at 76
Singer-actress Gisele MacKenzie, who became one of early television's biggest stars through her appearances on "Your Hit Parade," has died of colon cancer.
She stayed with the program until 1957 when she left to headline her own musical variety program, "The Gisele MacKenzie Show." It lasted only half a year.
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 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - MacKenzie, Gisele
Winnipeg's Gisele Lefleche, who'd later adopt her husband's name, MacKenzie, demonstrated her gift for music early by playing the piano when she was only two years old.
After formal training at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, she launched her musical career with her own radio show, "Meet Gisele." While entertaining her listeners, MacKenzie was discovered by some vacationing talent scouts who heard her show and passed her name along to Hollywood radio personality Bob Crosby.
While appearing in a night club in Las Vegas, Jack Benny saw her and invited her to become a regular on 'The Jack Benny Show'.
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 MacKENZIE, Gisele : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(b Gisele Lefleche, 10 Jan. '28, Winnipeg, Canada; d 5 Sep. 2003, Burbank CA) Pop singer with an unusually good voice.
She was the only staff singer on Your Hit Parade, a weekly presentation of the USA’s top seven hits, to be able to sing her own.
Her eponymous RCA LP was reissued '87 in UK; there was also a collection of radio broadcasts on a Glendale LP.
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 Amazon.com: Mam'selle Gisele [IMPORT] [LIMITED EDITION]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Canadian/American stellar vocalist Gisele MacKenzie recorded this classic all French language collection of pop tunes for RCA Victor's Vik label some years ago.
This album is no different and features Neal Hefti, Sid Bass and George Siravo backing Gisele with a wide assortment of tasteful arrangements from lush strings and vocal chorus to big band.
Hopefully a grand artist of the magnitude of Gisele MacKenzie is getting her just residuals from such a release.
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 Boston.com / A&E / TV / Early TV star Gisele MacKenzie dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Boston.com / AandE / TV / Early TV star Gisele MacKenzie dies
Two years later she had joined "Your Hit Parade," whose regulars would sing the seven most popular songs of the week.
MacKinzie began singing and playing the violin and piano as a child in Canada, studying at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto.
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 Gisele MacKenzie, "singer, actress", Your Hit Parade, dies at 76 September 5 in History
Gisele MacKenzie, "singer, actress", Your Hit Parade, dies at 76 September 5 in History
Gisele MacKenzie, "singer, actress", Your Hit Parade, dies at 76
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Hard To Get: Best Of Gisele - Gisele MacKenzie at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hard To Get: Best Of Gisele - Gisele MacKenzie
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 Gisele Mackenzie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After formal training at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, she launched her musical career with her own radio show, "Meet Gisele."
1960 Gisele MacKenzie At The Empire Room Of The Waldorf Astoria (Capitol)
1963 Gisele MacKenzie Sings Lullaby And Goodnight (Capitol)
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