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27-421: Limehouse Blues may refer to: "Limehouse Blues" (song) , a jazz standard Limehouse Blues (film) , a 1934 film named after the song Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Limehouse Blues . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

54-588: A Broadway star: (quote Lawrence:) "'Limehouse Blues' immediately became popular. We heard it in every night club in New York [City]. In England we never plugged songs as they do in the United States, and I was surprised and extremely flattered to find everyone singing and playing 'Limehouse .... ' wherever I went." The 1968 Gertrude Lawrence biopic Star! featured the film's star Julie Andrews – in muted Oriental makeup – recreating Lawrence's role in

81-588: A Recording for the HMV label by the Queen's Dance Orchestra (with a young Jack Hylton on piano). Gertrude Lawrence , recruited to replace an ailing Beatrice Lillie in A to Z , was reassigned the "Limehouse Blues" number which Lawrence encored when she made her 1924 Broadway debut in André Charlot's Revue . Lawrence's Broadway performance of the "Limehouse Blues" number proved to be a "showstopper", making her

108-404: A brief affair with drummer Kenny Clarke . This affair produced a son, Kenny Clarke Jr. (born 1950), who was raised by Clarke's brother and his wife. During her time with Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, she became addicted to heroin and in the late 1950s had an affair with the comedian Lenny Bruce , who was also having drug problems. By 1960, Carol Sloane was substituting for her on tour. After

135-631: A performance by the trio in London in May 1962, she remained in London to confront her drug addiction. In 1963, she married actor Sean Lynch; they divorced in 1975, and he died in a car crash soon afterwards. By that time, she had also lost her home and declared bankruptcy. She became a United States citizen in 2001. Ross died in New York City on 21 July 2020 from emphysema and heart disease , four days before her 90th birthday. Ross received

162-472: A shrug of her lips." Ross was born in Surrey , England, the daughter of Scottish vaudevillians John "Jack" Short and Mary Dalziel Short ( née Allan). Her brother was Scottish entertainer and theatre producer and director Jimmy Logan . She first appeared on stage at age three. At the age of four, she travelled to New York by ship with her family; she later recalled that they "got the cheapest ticket, which

189-456: A treatment of saxophonist Wardell Gray 's 1949 composition of the same title, a classic example of the genre. The song, first released in 1952 (later collected on the album King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Sings ), was an underground hit, and resulted in her winning Down Beat magazine's New Star award. In February 1956, the British music magazine NME reported that Ross's version of

216-541: A version of "Limehouse Blues" performed by Howard Alden and the Dick Hyman Group: the number is titled "Limehouse Blues/ Mystery Pacific" as the train imitation which opens the Django Reinhardt composition "Mystery Pacific" is played by Alden as a prelude to "Limehouse Blues". Annie Ross Annie Ross (born Annabelle McCauley Allan Short ; 25 July 1930 – 21 July 2020)

243-683: The ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame award (2009), the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters' Award (2010), and the MAC Award for Lifetime Achievement (2011). In July 2006 a one-woman play entitled TWISTED: The Annie Ross Story by Brian McGeachan premiered at The Space Theatre in London, starring Verity Quade. It focused on her stormy relationship with her aunt, Broadway legend Ella Logan, her brief affair with

270-837: The Dave McKenna Quartet with Zoot Sims , the Ellis Marsalis Trio, Hugo Montenegro , Django Reinhardt , the Adrian Rollini Trio, the Vince Guaraldi Trio on The Navy Swings , the Village Stompers , and the Teddy Wilson Trio. The song has also become a popular bluegrass instrumental number, most notably by Reno and Smiley . "Limehouse Blues" is played by Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals in

297-877: The "Limehouse Blues" number from André Charlot's Revue , including the vocal performance of the song (with the original's references to "chinkies" omitted). Recorded by Gertrude Lawrence in 1931, "Limehouse Blues" had earlier been recorded (1928) by cornetist Red Nichols with Scrappy Lambert 's vocal and would be recorded in 1934 by the Mills Brothers : these vintage recordings retained the original's "chinkies" reference which has been omitted from latterday vocal versions, including those by Tony Bennett , Rosemary Clooney , Ella Fitzgerald , Lee Wiley, Eydie Gormé , Tammy Grimes , Johnny Mathis , Carmen McRae , Mark Murphy , Anita O'Day , Annie Ross , Nancy Sinatra , and Kay Starr . Mark Nadler recorded "Limehouse Blues" in tandem with "Limehouse Nights" – an obscure song from

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324-466: The "Limehouse Blues" segment of Ziegfeld Follies , his daughter singer-actress Liza Minnelli performed the song in her 1999–2000 Broadway show Minnelli on Minnelli: Live at the Palace with the track appearing on the soundtrack album. In the 1950 film Young Man with a Horn – inspired by the life of Bix Beiderbecke – "Limehouse Blues" is performed by Harry James whose version was included on

351-654: The 1934 film Limehouse Blues – for his 2015 album release Runnin' Wild-Songs and Scandals of the Roaring 20's 2015 album release. "Limehouse Blues" has been recorded most often as an instrumental as such becoming a jazz standard, notable examples being recordings by Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane , Louis Armstrong , Chet Atkins with Les Paul , Count Basie , Sidney Bechet , the Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Gerry Mulligan , Duke Ellington , Benny Goodman , Stan Kenton on Adventures In Jazz ,

378-484: The 1936 film One in a Million , as the second part of a medley that starts with the song "One in a Million"; the two songs have similar melodies and nearly identical rhythms. The song was played by Hoagy Carmichael in the 1944 film To Have and Have Not . "Limehouse Blues" lent its title to a segment of the 1946 film Ziegfeld Follies which features Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer , both in Oriental guise:

405-895: The Train (1987), Rose Brooks in Witchery (1988), Loretta Cresswood in Pump Up the Volume (1990), Tess Trainer in Robert Altman 's Short Cuts (1993), and Lydia in Blue Sky (1994). She also appeared as Granny Ruth in the horror films Basket Case 2 (1990) and Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991). She also had a bit part in Robert Altman 's The Player in 1992. Ross also starred in Scottish Television 's comedy-drama Charles Endell Esquire (1979). She provided

432-699: The age of seven, she sang " The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond " in Our Gang Follies of 1938 , and played Judy Garland 's character's sister in Presenting Lily Mars (1943). At the age of 14, she wrote the song "Let's Fly", which won a songwriting contest and was recorded by Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers . At the end of 10th grade, she left school, changed her name to Annie Ross, and went to Europe, where she established her singing career. She changed her surname to Ross during

459-729: The group in 1962. In 1964 she opened a nightclub in London. Annie's Room hosted Joe Williams , Nina Simone , Stuff Smith , Blossom Dearie , Anita O'Day , Jon Hendricks , and Erroll Garner . Her adulthood film roles included Liza in Straight On till Morning (1972), Claire in Alfie Darling (1976), Diana Sharman in Funny Money (1983), Vera Webster in Superman III (1983), Mrs. Hazeltine in Throw Momma from

486-462: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Limehouse_Blues&oldid=932965157 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Limehouse Blues (song) Evoking the Limehouse district, which pre- World War II

513-429: The plane trip to Prestwick ; in a 2011 interview, she said: "My aunt was very fanciful and she said I had an Irish grandmother called Ross, so that's where that surname came from." In 1952, Ross met Prestige Records owner Bob Weinstock , who asked her to write lyrics to a jazz solo in a similar way to King Pleasure , a practice that would later be known as vocalese . The next day, she presented him with " Twisted ",

540-462: The song " I Want You to Be My Baby " was banned by the BBC due to the lyric "Come upstairs and have some loving". She recorded seven albums with Lambert, Hendricks & Ross between 1957 and 1962. Their first, Sing a Song of Basie (1957), was to have been performed by a group of singers hired by Jon Hendricks and Dave Lambert with Ross brought in only as vocal consultant. It was decided that

567-482: The soundtrack of the same name ). As performed by Jackie Gleason and his orchestra, "Limehouse Blues" is prominently featured in the 1990 film Alice , key scenes of which are set in the Chinatown neighborhood of Lower Manhattan ; a rendition of "Limehouse Blues" by Bert Ambrose is also heard in the film. The 1999 film Sweet and Lowdown – which like Alice was written and directed by Woody Allen – premieres

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594-763: The speaking voice for Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man (1973), and Ingrid Thulin 's singing voice in Salon Kitty (1976). On stage, she appeared in Cranks (1955; London and New York City), The Threepenny Opera (1972), The Seven Deadly Sins (1973) at the Royal Opera House , Kennedy's Children (1975) at Arts Theatre, London, Side by Side by Sondheim , and in the Joe Papp production of The Pirates of Penzance (1982). In 1949, Ross had

621-402: The story of a coolie (Astaire) attempting to obtain a fan to present to a glamorous woman (Bremer) who has caught his fancy, frames a fantasy dance sequence between Astaire and Bremer scored to the tune of "Limehouse Blues". Reportedly it had been Astaire's own ambition to perform a dance number to "Limehouse Blues" since he'd first heard the song in the 1920s. As Vincente Minnelli directed

648-653: The trio should attempt to record the material and overdub all the additional vocals themselves, but the first two tracks were recorded and deemed unsatisfactory so they ditched the dubbing idea. The resulting album was a success, and the trio became an international hit. Over the next five years, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross toured all over the world and recorded such albums as The Hottest New Group in Jazz (1959), Sing Ellington (1960), High Flying (1962), and The Real Ambassadors (1962), written by Dave Brubeck and featuring Louis Armstrong and Carmen McRae . Ross left

675-571: Was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the influential jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross . She pioneered the vocalese style of jazz singing, with a style described by critic Dave Gelly as "a kind of dreamy watchfulness that is a definition of 1950s hip." In 2010, she was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts . Kenneth Tynan , who wrote liner notes for Ross, called her "a fallen angel" who "moves us and then brushes off our sympathy with

702-456: Was considered the Chinatown of London – with Chinese references heard in both the lyrics and the melody – the song premiered in the 1921 West End revue A to Z being sung by Teddie Gerard in a wordless melodramatic number featuring Gerard as a hostess in a Limehouse dance-hall fronting a brothel. A piano rendition was recorded for Ampico piano rolls by Ferde Grofé in June, 1922, as well as

729-400: Was right in the bowels of the ship." Shortly after arriving in the city, she won a token contract with MGM through a children's radio contest run by Paul Whiteman . She subsequently moved with her aunt, Scottish-American singer and actress Ella Logan , to Los Angeles, and her mother, father and brother returned to Scotland. She did not see her parents again until fourteen years later. At

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