Bobby Short Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Bobby Short Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Robert Waltrip Short (September 15, 1924 â€" March 21, 2005) was an

American cabaret singer and pianist, best known for his

interpretations of songs by popular composers of the first half of the

20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern,

Harold Arlen, Richard A. Whiting, Vernon Duke, Noël Coward and George

and Ira Gershwin.He also championed African-American composers of the

same period such as Eubie Blake, James P. Johnson, Andy Razaf, Fats

Waller, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, presenting their work not

in a polemical way, but as simply the obvious equal of that of their

white contemporaries.His dedication to his great love â€" what he

called the "Great American Song" â€" left him equally adept at

performing the witty lyrics of Bessie Smith's "Gimme a Pigfoot (And a

Bottle of Beer)" or Gershwin and Duke's "I Can't Get Started". Short

stated his favorite songwriters were Ellington, Arlen and Kern, and he

was instrumental in spearheading the construction of the Ellington

Memorial in New York City. He was a personal friend of Tom Jobim and

was present during the composer's final days in New York City.He was

born in Danville, Illinois, where two of his school classmates were

Dick Van Dyke and Donald O'Connor. He began performing piano in dance

halls and saloons, and as a busker, after leaving home at the age of

eleven, for Chicago, with his mother's permission.
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