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	Bailey Mildred
		Bailey began performing at an early age, playing piano and singing in movie theaters during the early '20s.
		In fact she was a talented and much under-rated musician, Bailey was one of the earliest white vocalists to catch the nuances of African-American jazz.
		Mildred Bailey continued to perform and record during the 1940s.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /bailey_mildred_english.html (1396 words)

	Mildred Bailey Summary
		Bailey was born Mildred Rinker on February 27, 1907, in Tekoa, a small town in eastern Washington state, close to the border with Idaho.
		By the mid-1920s, Bailey, who had married and divorced at an early age, retaining nothing of her first husband but his last name, was headlining at a club in Hollywood, performing a mixture of pop, vaudeville standards, and early jazz tunes.
		The bandleader had already hired Crosby and Bailey's older brother, Al Rinker, to appear with his band as the "Rhythm Boys." Impressed with Bailey's vocal stylings, Whiteman hired her to sing with his band, making her one of the first female singers to be featured with a major dance orchestra.
	www.bookrags.com /Mildred_Bailey (1829 words)

	Songbirds: Mildred Bailey
		Bailey’s relationship with xylophonist (and later, vibraphonist) Norvo began in 1931, when he joined the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, of which she was a star attraction (and one of the first female singers featured with a dance band).
		In the litany of woe comprised of unreissued Bailey recordings, a critical gap lies in the eight sides Bailey and Norvo made in a mind-to-late 1940s reunion on the Crown label; Bailey’s style had evolved since then, and Norvo was moving toward a more "modern" sound than that heard on their earlier pairings.
		Legend very credibly has it that, subsequent to Sauter’s being the object of a Bailey rage, he fashioned for her an arrangement that would be any other singer’s worst nightmare, riddled with ear-bending dissonance that might have permanently traumatized most other lady band singers.
	www.mrlucky.com /songbirds/html/oct99/9910_bailey.html (1401 words)

	Solid! -- Mildred Bailey
		Plump singer known for her small, high-pitched voice, Mildred Bailey was one of the most popular female vocalists of the 1930s.
		Bailey continued recording until the mid-1940s, when health problems forced her to retire.
		Plagued by a combination of diabetes, heart trouble and hardening of the arteries, she was near death and broke until she was rescued by composer Jimmy Van Heusen, who arranged to split her medical bills with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.
	www.parabrisas.com /d_baileym.php (375 words)

	JazzSociety.se
		Mildreds artisteri ligger naturligtvis ett par klasser för högt för den nutida vanvettes- uppfattningen, men nog tycker man att det i syndafloden av musik på skiva borde finnas utrymme för henne.
		Mildred Bailey var en artist med en personlighet som var så stor att hon kunde välja ett nummer till sin repertoar och kreera en definitiv version av det.
		Mildreds probelm var att hon var kolossalt tjock.
	www.jazzsociety.se /layout/list.php?sort_by=artist (992 words)

	Daryl Sherman
		Rebecca Kilgore and Daryl Sherman are the finest of a number of female singers who revive forgotten songs of the swing era and surround themselves with musicians who love Billie Holiday, Lee Wiley, and Mildred Bailey as much as they do.
		No one has done more than Sherman to keep the disarmingly light, ardently swinging sound of Mildred Bailey alive, and she lets you know her pedigree right off with the obscure Born to Swing, closing with a riotous three-way Bing Crosby medley that crams about 25 songs into four or five minutes.
		Sherman… a basic neat-and-potatoes jazz singer who echoes the artful simplicity of Mildred Bailey, with fillips of Billie Holiday's elided diction.
	www.darylsherman.com /pages/reviews.html (1779 words)

	Mildred Bailey - The Incomparable Mildred Bailey at Music Hills.com
		Mildred Bailey was not just the first real Jazz band singer.
		In an age before television, Bailey continued to have fans white and Black who did not know she was white.
		Mildred was a great singer, a great jazz pioneer, and a lot of fun.
	www.music-hills.com /Mildred-Bailey/The-Incomparable-Mildred-Bailey-B00009VU2J.htm (378 words)

	Mildred Bailey : 1929-1932 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She was born Mildred Rinker on a wheat farm inside of an Indian reservation near the Idaho panhandle in Tekoa WA on February 27, 1907.
		After developing her skills by singing in speakeasies and over the radio in the Northwest, Mildred Bailey married a bootlegger named Benny Stafford and moved to Los Angeles where she began attracting a lot of attention by singing in nightclubs on the Sunset Strip.
		At her best, Mildred Bailey was a gifted interpreter of ballads and topical amusements; her superb abilities as a jazz and pop vocalist are well represented by this first volume of her complete recorded works.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,881480,00.html (509 words)

	Jazz: Bailey M (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although her high-pitched childlike voice which contrasted with her plump body takes a bit of getting used to for some, Mildred Bailey was one of the finest jazz singers to emerge during the 1930s.
		Bailey's marriage ended in divorce in 1943 although she worked with Norvo on and off in the '40s.
		Many of Mildred Bailey's records are currently available and she would probably be shocked to know that she is on a postage stamp!
	www.ddg.com /LIS/InfoDesignF96/Ismael/jazz/1930/baileym.html (202 words)

	Mildred Bailey - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: An early jazz singer with a sweet voice that belied her plump physique, Mildred Bailey balanced a good deal of popular success with a hot jazz-slanted career that saw her billed as Mrs.
		Born Mildred Rinker in Washington state in 1907, Bailey began performing at an early age, playing piano and singing in movie theaters during the early '20s.
		Though she and Norvo later divorced, Bailey continued to perform and record during the 1940s.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/765/Mildred-Bailey/1001248.html (293 words)

	Mildred Bailey - The Incomparable Mildred Bailey
		Recorded during the heyday of Jazz and the height of her once-considerable popularity, The Incomparable Mildred Bailey is an appropriately glowing tribute.
		Bailey cruises effortlessly into Biscayne Bay on "The Weekend of a Private Secretary", tackling the Latin rhythm with ease.
		The plaintive blues of "Rockin' Chair", Bailey's best-known hit, is a testament to this—only a true savant could lay such a melodic vocal on top of the song's plodding rhythm and achieve such a timeless result.
	www.porthalcyon.com /reviews/200503/bailey.shtml (396 words)

	Bing Crosby :: spokesmanreview.com
		Bailey arranged for the pair to audition for a traveling jazz show called “The Syncopation Idea.” She drove them to the audition, sat nervously while they performed and celebrated when they got the job.
		They talked Bailey into throwing one of her legendary parties (she was known for her cooking and her outstanding home-brewed beer) and made sure that Whiteman and his band members were invited.
		Bailey seemed bitter and unhappy, and jazz writers speculated that she really “wanted to be the (slender) person who went with the voice.”
	www.spokesmanreview.com /bing/storytemplate.asp?ID=bing2 (2068 words)

	Jazz News: Mosaic Records Presents The Complete Columbia Recordings of Mildred Bailey
		From the time Mildred Bailey joined Paul Whiteman's band in 1929, becoming the first prominent big band “girl singer,” her crystal clear tone and impeccable phrasing made Bailey a major influence on both jazz and popular vocal styles.
		The Complete Columbia Recordings of Mildred Bailey (10 CD's) includes more than 200 performances recorded between 1929 and 1942, when she was one of the most prolific and popular singers, outselling most of the era's female vocalists, with the exception of Billie Holiday.
		Mildred's sessions with Roy Eldridge in 1937 and 1940, with arrangements by Sauter and Alec Wilder
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=424 (688 words)

	Mildred Bailey Discography and Music at CD Universe
		Mildred Bailey Discography and Music at CD Universe
		This extensive best-of features many examples of the pioneering 1920s and '30s jazz singer Mildred Bailey's influential vocal style, including her most popular recording, Hoagy Carmichael's "Old Rockin' Chair" and the equally well-known "Georgia on My Mind." Bailey's relaxed,...
		Personnel includes: Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman, Matty Malneck, The Dorsey Brothers, Red Norvo, Ellis Larkin, Eddie Sauter.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/artist/Bailey%2C+Mildred/a/Mildred+Bailey.htm (200 words)

	Mildred Bailey CDAJS2020 : Jazz CD Reviews- 2007 MusicWeb International (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mildred Bailey seemed to fall somewhere between those two critical commonplaces — taken for granted and underestimated.
		This however is not representative at all of the best sides here — excellently and inventively arranged and with Bailey’s cool, clear voice modifying from a rather portamento-fluid and high affair to a highly personalised, artifice-free and effortlessly swinging one.
		One final thing; Digby Fairweather can’t agree with himself as to when Bailey was born; 1903 or 1907.
	www.musicweb-international.com /jazz/2007/Bailey_CDAJS2020.htm (657 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Mildred Bailey
		A talented and much under-rated musician, Bailey was one of the earliest white vocalists to catch the nuances of African-American jazz.
		She and Norvo were so much at the centre of New York's musical life in the 1930s that they were nicknamed 'Mr and Mrs Swing', although Bailey became better-known as 'The Rockin' Chair Lady' after her success with Hoagy Carmichael's famous song.
		Bailey grew up in Washington State in the Pacific North West.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/jazz/profiles/mildred_bailey.shtml (326 words)

	Mildred Bailey - AOL Music
		In 1939, Bailey fronted a 6 side session as "Mildred Bailey and her Oxford Greys" for Vocalion, which featured a brilliant small mixed-race combo of Mary...
		Mildred Bailey her real name was Mildred Rinker and she was the sister of Al Rinker.
		She was born on February 27, 1907 in Tekoa, Washington and she died of...
	music.aol.com /artist/mildred-bailey/6045/main (161 words)

	Mildred Bailey
		I am entering Mildred Bailey in the Jazz Hall of Fame because she was early jazz singer with a sweet voice that belied her plump physique, Mildred Bailey balanced a good deal of popular success with a hot jazz-slanted career that saw her billed as Mrs.
		She was born Mildred Rinker in 1907 in Washington state, Bailey begun performing at an early age, playing pianos and singing in movie theaters during the early 20's.
		Hampered by health problems during the late '40s, she spent time in the hospital suffering from diabetes and died of a heart attack in 1951.
	www.dist126.k12.il.us /stonyjazzsites/stonymildred_6thgrader2/index.html (271 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Crosby, Bing (1903-1977) and Mildred Bailey (1907-1951): Spokane's Jazz Royalty
		Meanwhile, Rinker’s sister -- who’d adopted the stage name of “Mildred Bailey” -- had become a minor sensation in Los Angeles where she “was singing the blues nightly in the city’s most popular speakeasy, the Silver Grill.” Like Crosby, she too had shown an early aptitude for music, playing the family piano throughout her childhood.
		Upon returning to Spokane (and while working at Baileys) she got her first gig playing at the town’s hippest speakeasy, Charlie Dale’s, and soon headed off to pursue a quest for fame and fortune in Hollywood.
		Meanwhile, in 1932 Bailey debuted “Ol’ Rockin’ Chair’s Got Me” on a Chicago-based live broadcast of Whiteman’s weekly Old Gold radio show, and the tune sparked a public response that was immediate and overwhelming.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=7445 (1543 words)

	Amazon.ca: Blue Angel Years: Music: Mildred Bailey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This wonderful CD has most of legendary jazz singer Mildred Bailey's studio recordings in the 1940's, most of them with The Ellis Larkins Trio(who also recorded on sesisons with Ella Fitzgerald, and Lee Wilay).
		This CD shows why Mildred Baliey's voice just improved from the 30's, in the 40's she could sing a ballad and mave you to tears as where in the 30's she'd sing a swing tune, and she's get you to snap you're fingers or get up and do the lindy hop.
		Bailey's voice had more emotiona and she felt what she was singing.
	www.amazon.ca /Blue-Angel-Years-Mildred-Bailey/dp/B00002EIUI (374 words)

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