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Dave Barbour

Dave Barbour

born on 28/5/1912 in Flushing, NY, United States

died on 11/12/1965 in Hollywood, CA, United States

Dave Barbour

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Dave Barbour (May 28, 1912 – December 11, 1965) was an American musician. He was a jazz banjoist and guitarist, a pop songwriter, an actor, and the husband of Peggy Lee for nine years.[1]

Biography

Barbour was born in Long Island, New York. At age 12, he played banjo on the stage of Carnegie Hall.[2]

He started off as a banjoist with Adrian Rollini in 1933 and then Wingy Manone in 1934. He switched to guitar in the middle of the decade and played with Red Norvo from 1935–1936. He found much work as a studio musician and played in ensembles with Teddy Wilson and Billie Holiday (1937), Artie Shaw (1939), Lennie Hayton, Charlie Barnet (1945), Raymond Scott, Glenn Miller, Lou Holden, and Woody Herman (1949). He also recorded with André Previn in 1945.

He played with Benny Goodman in 1942, and while a member of Goodman's ensemble, he fell in love with lead singer Peggy Lee, and the pair quit the group to marry in 1943. Soon after they moved to Los Angeles, Johnny Mercer put them to work as a songwriting team, and they wrote a number of Lee's hits, such as "Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" and "It's a Good Day". The couple had a daughter, Nicki, in 1943. Barbour was an alcoholic and had domestic troubles with Lee; this eventually split their marriage, which ended in 1951. Dave Barbour and His Orchestra had the best-selling version of the peppy song "Mambo Jambo."

Barbour's remaining career was far less successful than Lee's (who would marry three more times). His songwriting royalties sustained him, as the tunes he co-wrote with Lee were covered by many hitmakers of the 1950s. He acted in the films The Secret Fury[3] and Mr. Music, and occasionally performed, including with Benny Carter in 1962. He died in 1965 of a hemorrhaged ulcer in Malibu Beach, California at the age of 53. He was survived by Peggy Lee, and their daughter Nicki Lee Foster.

References

  1. ^ Chadbourne, Eugene. "Dave Barbour | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 December 2016. 
  2. ^ Richmond, Peter (2007). Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee. Macmillan. p. 154. ISBN 9780312426613. Retrieved 10 October 2017. 
  3. ^ Feather, Leonard (1960). The Encyclopedia of Jazz (New ed.). Bonanza Books. pp. 110–111. 

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