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Sallie Blair
voc,
Jazz
Born in Baltimore as Sara Bolling Hutchins (1935-1992), Sallie Blair drifted into music as a child. She took her stage name while at Douglass High School, then spelling it Sally with a Y, and gained experience singing with local bands that encouraged her to change her brunette hair to blonde. So in 1952 she made her first mark as the blonde, band singer with the Johnny Otis Band of Hand Jive fame. Subsequently, she sang with the Illinois Jacquet and Duke Ellington bands. In July 1953, tired of one-nighters, she left the band business in Los Angeles to work as a single. Early in 1956, she began a solo career as Sallie Blair. In 1957, Cab Calloway signed her for his Cotton Club Revue. The show was a hit, and from then on, it was one triumph after another for the blonde bombshell. Her sexy and intimate approach made her recordings ideal for radio programming and as a night-club singer. Walter Winchells column earned her spots on the Ed Sullivan and Johnny Carson TV shows and she became an international star with appearances in South America, Europe, and the Middle East.Although her stage persona became more sophisticated in style of delivery, voice and dress with the years, one thing is for sure: Sallie Blair delivered more sex and surging, sultry emotion in a song than many singers in their whole careers
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Let Me Come In / Walk, Proudly Walk | Sallie Blair | 1971 | Single |
| Come By Sunday / Then I'll Be Tired Of You | Sallie Blair | 1962 | Single |
| George Gershwin's Porgy And Bess | George Gershwin, Mel Tormé, Frances Faye With Betty Roché, George Kirby, Johnny Hartman, Sallie Blair, Frank Rosolino, Loulie Jean Norman, Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, Russell Garcia Conducting The Studio Orchestra, The Australian Jazz Quintet, The Pat Moran Quartet, The Stan Levey Group And Maynard Ferguson, Cat Anderson, Howard McGhee, Herbie Mann, Paul Gonsalves, Ralph Sharon, Johnny Hodges | 1962 | Album |
| Keep An Eye On Your Man / In The Still Of The Night | Sallie Blair | 1961 | Single |
| More Than Anything / That Remains To Be Seen | Sallie Blair | 1960 | Single |
| It's A Sin To Tell A Lie / A Kiss A Day | Sallie Blair | 1960 | Single |
| Daddy | Sallie Blair | 1958 | Single |
| Whatever Lola Wants / Daddy | Sallie Blair | 1958 | Album |
| Hello, Tiger | Sallie Blair | 1958 | Album |
| Squeeze Me | Sallie Blair | 1957 | Album |
| Don'cha Go 'way Mad | Sallie Blair | Single |
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