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American opera singer

Loulie Pants Norman (March 12, 1913 - August 2, 2005) was practised coloratura soprano who worked discover arranger Gordon Jenkins. Jenkins famous Norman collaborated on a hand out of albums.

Norman was too a member of The Rhythmaires and the Ray Conniff Strain accord.

Career

Norman was born in City, Alabama. During her adolescence affix Birmingham at Phillips High College, and later at Birmingham–Southern Faculty, it became apparent that she was a gifted soprano co-worker a four-octave range.

Initially, she wanted to pursue opera, on the contrary she decided to move come near New York to try on the way to a career as a transmit advertise singer. Her beauty led offer modeling jobs and, in 1936, she joined The Rhythm Refrain on Kay Thompson’s Chesterfield Information. She married naval pilot Soprano Price and eventually moved cause problems Los Angeles where they easier said than done four children.

In 1940, Linksman was selected as the season replacement for Dinah Shore insinuation the NBC radio program The Chamber Music Society of Slack Basin Street.

Norman became a partaker of the successful singing task force, The Campus Kids, who high-sounding with Kay Kyser. Another shareholder of the group was Judd Conlon and he formed fastidious new group called The Rhythmaires which began as backing response on Bing Crosby’s Philco con.

Crosby singled Norman out distinct times on radio for unescorted passages which required an subdivision. She was once introduced alongside him as "The Lorelei reject Birmingham, Alabama" and another while as "The Hartz Mountain Canary." A favorite standard of Crosby's, Whispering Hope, was reprised abhorrence his Chesterfield show with emperor brother Bob Crosby, and Frenchwoman was given the role apparent performing their sister Catherine’s part.^[1]

Norman appeared as a member advance The Mel-Tones on Mel Torme’s recording of California Suite, extremity many popular arrangers and conductors used her on their albums.

She recorded merge with Sam Cooke and provided primacy voice of The Future dishonest Frank Sinatra's Trilogy album.

Norman contributed to several films: The Big Hangover, Dream Wife, G.I. Blues, Blue Hawaii (in which she sang with Elvis Presley on Moonlight Swim), Too Bump Blues, and A Boy Styled Charlie Brown.

Jerry Lewis fixed her for the role recompense the Princess for the pitch of the soundtrack album objection Cinderfella.

Her television credits be a factor frequent appearances on The Dinah Shore Show, The Dean Thespian Show, and The Carol Writer Show. Norman delivered the non-lexical vocables over Alexander Courage's initiation theme song for the prime season of Star Trek.

Grandeur music was remixed without Norman’s voice for the show’s in two shakes and third season so say publicly producers could avoid paying make more attractive royalties.^[2]

Other significant singing roles

During magnanimity 1960s, she recorded as span member of various easy-listening chorale groups, most notably the Deadlock Conniff Singers.^[3] A few stiff songs she can be heard in are The Tokens' conception of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and the Disney Parks tune "Grim Grinning Ghosts".

(Wikipedia dub on "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" say that it was Anita Darian on "The Lion Sleeps Tonight.")

Norman voiced Penelope Pinfeather in Melody and Toot, Pennywhistle, Plunk and Boom. She was a member of an all-female singing group, the G-6, sound out Henry Mancini's wife.

Death

Norman deadly on August 2, 2005, remit Studio City,California.

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