Dinah Shore

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Dinah Shore (born Fannye Rose Shore, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television presenter, as well as the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s.

She came to fame as a recording artist during the Big Band era.

A decade later, she achieved even more success on television, mainly as hostess of a number of Chevrolet automobile company variety shows. Shore, after failing singing auditions for Benny Goodman's bandmates and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, decided to go out on her own.

She became the first female singer of her time to achieve great solo success.

She had a string of 80 charted hits from 1940 to 1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she moved to a four-decade career in American television.

She appeared on her own music and variety shows from 1951 to 1963, as well as hosting two talk shows in the 1970s.

On their list of the top 50 television stars of all time, TV Guide named her at number 16.

Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the 1950s and early 1950s, Doris Day and Patti Page, sylistically.

Early life

In Winchester, Tennessee, Frances "Fanny" Rose Shore was born on February 29, 1916, to Russian-Jewish shopkeepers Anna (née Stein) and Solomon Shore. Elizabeth, Elizabeth, an eight-year-old girl who was known as "Bessie," was her elder sister. Fanny was stricken with polio (infantile stricken) when she was eighteen months old. The only known therapy was bed rest and occasionally more intensive care if the child was severely impaired. (This was before the polio vaccine was invented, which put an end to polio in the United States.) Her mother provided extensive medical attention for her, which included regular therapeutic massages and a strict exercise regimen. She recovered, but she suffered with a broken foot and limp. Fanny loved to sing as a child; her mother, a contralto with operatic aspirations, encouraged her. Her father used to drag her to his store, where she would perform impromptu songs for the customers.

The Shore family immigrated to McMinnville, Tennessee, where her father had opened a department store in 1924. The family had migrated to Nashville, where she attended elementary school, by the fifth grade. Although she was timid due to her limp, she became heavily involved in sports, was a cheerleader at Hume-Fogg High School, and was active in other sports.

When Shore was 16, her mother died as a result of a heart attack. Shore attended Vanderbilt University, where she was involved in a variety of events and activities, including the Chi chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority. She earned a sociology degree from the university in 1938. She attended the Grand Ole Opry and made her radio debut on Nashville's WSM radio station.

Shore returned to pursue her singing career by heading to New York City to perform for orchestras and radio stations. She started off at Vanderbilt on a summer break, and after graduation, she did well. In several of her auditions, she performed "Dinah" in the popular song. Martin Block, a disc jockey, couldn't remember her name, dubbed her the "Dinah girl" right away, and soon after the word became her stage name, she became her stage name. She was eventually hired as a vocalist on radio station WNEW, where she performed with Frank Sinatra. She performed with the Xavier Cugat Orchestra and obtained a recording deal with RCA Victor Records in 1940.

Personal life

Shore was married to actor George Montgomery from 1943 to 1962. Melissa Ann "Missy" Montgomery was born in January 1948, she gave birth to her daughter Melissa Ann "Missy" Montgomery. John David "Jody" Montgomery was the boy's son who was later adopted by the couple. Missy Montgomery also became an actress.

In his book Mr. S about Frank Sinatra, for whom he worked as a long-serve, George Jacobs said that Shore and Sinatra had long-running relations in the 1950s. Maurice F. Smith, a professional tennis player, briefly married after her divorce from Montgomery in 1963. Comedian Dick Martin, singer Eddie Fisher, and actor Rod Taylor were among the couples involved in the late 1960s' romances.

Shore had a happy four-year public romance with actor Burt Reynolds, who was 20 years old, in the 1970s. The tabloids linked Shore with other young men, including Wayne Rogers, Andy Williams, and Ron Ely, after the friendship ended.

In March 2003, PBS presented MWAH!

Shore, a long-time proponent of women's competitive golf, was a long-time promoter of women's professional golf. She was instrumental in the creation of the Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Tournament in 1972, which has since renamed the Chevron Championship, making it one of the leading golf tournaments on the LPGA Tour. Each spring at Mission Hills Country Club, near Shore's former home in Rancho Mirage, California. Shore, who was a well-known golfer, was honoured at the Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend.

Shore was the first female member of the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles.

Shore was named honorary member of the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1994, in recognition of her contributions to golf. Shore was a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame when it was absorbed the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1998. The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America's highest award, She received the 1993 Old Tom Morris Award, GCSAA's highest award.

In 1963, she recruited mid-century modern architect Donald Wexler to design her Palm Springs home. In 2014, actor Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the house for almost $5.5 million.

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Music career

Shore debuted on national radio in March 1939 on Ben Bernie's Orchestra's Sunday-afternoon CBS Radio program. She became a featured vocalist on the NBC Radio program The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, a showcase for traditional Dixieland and blues songs. With her, the program went from 4:30 Sunday afternoon to a 9:00 p.m. time slot in September. "Mademoiselle Dinah Shore, Barogie-woogie, and the Blues" was her first appearance in primetime as "the music of the Three Bs, Barogie-woogie, and the Blues." Dinah's Blues, one of her RCA Victor albums, appeared with the two Basin Street bands; one of her albums was RCA Victor's eponymous Dinah's Blues.

Eddie Cantor's singing attracted Shore's attention. In 1940, he announced her as a regular on his radio show Time to Smile. Shore is praised for her self-confidence, comedic timing, and the art of connecting with a crowd.

Shore began to be a star with her own radio show, Call for Music, which was broadcast on CBS from February 13, 1948 to April 16, 1948, and on NBC from April 20, 1948 to June 29, 1948. Cantor appeared in her first film, Thank Your Lucky Stars, in 1943. Paul Whiteman Presents, she went straight to another radio show. During this period, the United States was active in World War II, and Shore became a favorite of the troops. "Blues in the Night," "Jim," "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" and "I'll Walk Alone," the first of her number-one hits, she had, as well as "I'll Walk Alone." The RIAA has sold more than 500,000 copies of "Blues in the Night" and was given a gold disc.

Shore appeared in radio shows through the 1940s, including The Bird's Eye Open House and Ford Radio Show. In early 1946, she switched to Columbia Records, the CBS-owned Columbia Records. Shore was having the most commercial success of her career, beginning with her first Columbia single release, "Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy," and peaking with "Buttons and Bows," the most popular song of 1948, which was number one for ten weeks. "The Gypsy" and "The Anniversary Song" were two of Columbia's top-one hits.

Buddy Clark's 1949 holiday classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was one of her most popular recordings. Many other artists, such as Ella Fitzgerald, had the song covered. "Laughing on the Outside" "I Wish I Didn't Love You So Much," "I Love You (For Sentimental Purpose), "I Love You") "Doin" "What Comes Naturally"), and "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" were among her four hits during her four years at Columbia. She appeared on BBC's quarter-hour radio show on CBS.

Shore appeared in the films Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), Follow the Boys (1944), and Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), as well as Danny Kaye's debut in 1942) and Belle of the Yukon (1944). Make Mine Music (1946) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947) were two Disney films in which she lent her musical voice. In Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952), she appeared in Paramount Pictures for her last starring film role.

Shore returned to RCA Victory in 1950, with a pledge to record 100 sides for $1 million (equivalent to $11.3 million in 2021). The hits continued to appear, but they were less frequent and not as high as they had been in the 1940s. "My Heart Cries for You" and "Sweet Violets" were two of Shore's biggest hits of this decade, with both of them debuting at number three in 1951. Many duets with Tony Martin were successful, with "A Penny a Kiss" being the most popular, debuting at number eight, with "A Penny a Kiss" being the most popular. "Blue Canary" was a 1953 hit, and her covers of "Changing Partners" and "If I Give My Heart to You" were top-ten hits. Both "Love and Marriage" and "Whatever Lola Wants" were top-five hits from 1955.

Chantez, Chantez, her last top-five hit, remained on the charts for more than 20 weeks in 1957. Shore remained with RCA Victor until 1958, and during that time, released albums such as Bouquet of Blues, Once in a While, and Vivacious, which were compilations of singles with different orchestras and conductors, such as Frank DeVol and Hugo Winterhalter. The exceptions were Holding Hands at Midnight, 1955, and Moments Like These, which were recorded in stereo, with orchestra under Harry Zimmerman's musical direction, but not on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show.

Shore was named RCA Victor for Capitol Records in 1959. Despite her fact that she had only one minor success for her new brand ("I Ain't Down Yet"), which debuted on Billboard's pop chart in 1960, she and arranger Nelson Riddle produced four "theme albums" paired her with arranger Nelson Riddle (Dinah, Yes Yes! André Previn (Somebody Loves Me and Dinah Sings, Previn Plays), conductor and accompanist André Previn, and jazz's Red Norvo (Dinah Sings Some Blues with Red) and jazz's Red Norvo (Dinah Sings. Dinah, Down Home, and The Fabulous Hits were her last two Capitol albums (Newly Recorded).

Shore was banned by Congress in 1962 and only a handful of albums were released over the next two decades. Lower Basin Street Revisited for friend Frank Sinatra's Reprise label in 1965, Songs for Sometime Losers (Project 3, 1967), Country Feelin' (Stanyan, 1975), and Dinah!, a double LP for Capitol in 1976. "You Know Where You're Going To") is one of her show's most popular hits like "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," "The Hungry Years," and "Theme from Mahogany." Dinah's last studio album was released in 1979. For the Children's Television Workshop, I've Got a Song.

Acting career

Shore appeared in seven radio shows of her own between 1941 and 1954. She made hundreds of guest appearances on television, including one on Suspense ("Frankie and Johnny") on May 5, 1952.

Shore arrived in New York in 1937, aged 21, and she made her first television appearances for NBC over station W2XBS in New York (now WNBC). She made her commercial television debut on CBS in 1949, over CBS, and on Easter Sunday, 1950, she made a guest appearance on Bob Hope's first network television show on NBC. After appearing on several television shows, she was given her own show, The Dinah Shore Show on NBC on November 27, 1951. Vic Schoen was her musical director from 1951 to 1954, as well as arranging music for her on The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954).

As part of NBC's The Chevy Show series, Shore began a monthly series of one-hour, full-color spectaculars in 1956. These were so popular that they were renamed The Dinah Shore Chevy Show the following season, with Shore taking over as the full-time host, helming three of the month's three weeks. This variety show, as seen on NBC's most popular 1950s and early 1960s, featured actors of the 1950s and early 1960s, including Yves Montand and Maurice, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, and Pearl Bailey, as one of the first stars of the 1960s and early 1960s, as well as actress Katherine Bennett, one of the first television debuts of actors of the 1950s and early 1960s. Tennessee Ernie Ford appeared on one show as "Tennesse Ernie CHEVROLET!!" a girl narrates. She has also appeared on The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom as a guest.

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show ran from 1960 to 1961, the American Dairy Association and Green Stamps sponsored Shore, and Chevrolet pulled sponsorship after that. Nat "King" Cole, Bing Crosby, Jack Lemmon, Boris Karloff, Boris Karloff, Betty Hutton, Art Carney, and a young Barbra Stody Show appeared on Shore, simply titled The Dinah Shore Show. Shore produced 125 hours of programs from 1951 to 1963, with 444 showings. She always ended her televised programs by giving a passionate kiss straight to the cameras (and viewers) and shouting "MWAH!" To the audience, she introduced herself.

In the 1964–65 season, Shore appeared in four ABC specials (in black-and-white). They were sponsored by the Purex Corporation.

Shore hosted two daytime programs from 1970 to 1980, Dinah's Place (1970–1974) on NBC and Dinah. (later Dinah and Friends) in syndication from 1974 to 1980, as well as a third cable service from 1989 to 1992. Dinah's Place, mainly sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive (which later sponsored her women's golf tournament), was a 30-minute Monday-through-Friday program broadcast on NBC, her network home since 1939. Instead of a chat show, Shore said this show would be a "Do-Show" rather than a chat show because she'll have her guests demonstrate an unexpected talent, such as Frank Sinatra's sharing his spaghetti sauce recipe, or Ginger Rogers showing Shore how to throw a clay pot on a potter's wheel.

Though Dinah's Place attracted well-known celebrity guests, Shore has often grilled less popular lifestyle experts on diet, exercise, or homemaking. Despite being one of NBC's most popular morning show on television, winning out The Lucy Show reruns on CBS and local programming on ABC, which began two years ago, this program remained on air in 1974 after NBC announced it on television and local television news, despite the fact that it broke up a "game show programming block" and competition from The Joker's Wild on CBS, which began two years ago. Thus came an end to the network's 35-year association with Shore. She returned from the fall with Dinah!, a syndicated 90-minute daily talk show (also seen on some stations) that put the emphasis on top guest stars and entertainment. Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin, whose shows had been on the air for ten years before Dinah! This was the first time it had been launched. Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, and James Stewart), as well as regular contributors such as lifestyle guru Dr. Wayne Dyer, were among the frequent visitors.

Tina Turner, David Bowie, and Iggy Pop performed at unexpected rock music performances. Shore appeared on the Norman Lear comedy-soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, in April 1976. Shore talked to country singing character Loretta Haggars (played by Mary Kay Place) and included a controversial remark made by Miss Haggars during her appearance on Shore's "Live" broadcasting. Andy Kaufman in his Tony Clifton guise appeared on her show but did not, as it was supposed, spit eggs at Shore or pour them on her head.

Shore, with her Dixie drawl and demure demure demeanor, has been identified with the South, and guests on her show often commented on it. Melody played Melody in "Went with the Wind" spoofed this image. "The well-known Gone with the Wind parody for The Carol Burnett Exhibition" is "the most popular Gone with the Wind parody. Shore hosted Dinah and Her New Best Friends, an eight-week summer replacement series for The Carol Burnett Show, which featured a cast of young hopefuls such as Diana Canova and Gary Mule Deer, as well as seasoned guests such as Jean Stapleton and Linda Lavin. On Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special, a shore guest appeared, calling Pee-wee on his cameraphone and singing "The 12 Days of Christmas." Pee-wee walks past the picturephone for the first time, only to see her going back to the original 12 days ("on the 500th day of Christmas...").

Shore spent her time on television, broadcasting A Conversation with Dinah (1989–1992) on the cable network TNN (The Nashville Network). Former President Gerald Ford and his wife and former First Lady Betty Ford appeared on one-on-one interviews with celebrities and comedians (such as Bob Hope), former boyfriends (Burt Reynolds in a special one-hour episode), and political personalities (including former President Gerald Ford and his wife and former First Lady Betty Ford). Shore was given by former First Lady Nancy Reagan for the first post-White House interview. She began working as a TV spokeswoman for Holly Farms chicken around this time. Shore performed in Glendale Federal Bank television commercials in the 1980s. Shore's last television film, Dinah Comes Home (TNN 1991), brought her career full circle, bringing her right back to the Grand Ole Opry stage, where she first visited some 60 years ago. Shore received nine Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Shore's interview featured cooking segments, and she wrote Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah, which was also included in the cookbook.

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