LC control no. | n 94099186 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | King Pleasure |
Variant(s) | Beeks, Clarence Pleasure, King |
Birth date | 19220324 |
Death date | 19810321 1981-05 |
Place of birth | Oakdale (Tenn.) |
Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
Field of activity | Jazz |
Profession or occupation | Jazz singers |
Found in | Moody's mood for love, p1992: label (King Pleasure) container insert (b. Clarence Beeks, Oakdale, Tenn., Mar. 24, 1922) Wikipedia, January 9, 2014 (King Pleasure; born Clarence Beeks, March 24, 1922, Oakdale, Tennessee; died March 21, 1981; jazz vocalist and early master of vocalese, where a singer sings words to a famous instrumental solo; first achieved popularity by singing the Eddie Jefferson vocalese classic "Moody's mood for love", based on a 1949 James Moody saxophone solo to "I'm in the mood for love") All music guide WWW site, January 9, 2014 (King Pleasure; Clarence Beeks; born March 24, 1922, Oakdale, TN; died March 21, 1982, Los Angeles, CA; one of the early masters of vocalese, a style in which lyrics are written and sung to the solos of jazz instrumentalists) Social Security death index, accessed via GenealogyBank.com, January 9, 2014 (Clarence Beeks; born March 24, 1922; died May 1981; last known residence: Los Angeles, California; state issued: Ohio) |