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King Pleasure

LC control no.n 94099186
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Personal name headingKing Pleasure
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Variant(s)Beeks, Clarence
Pleasure, King
Birth date19220324
Death date19810321
1981-05
Place of birthOakdale (Tenn.)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activityJazz
Profession or occupationJazz singers
Found inMoody'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)