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New Blossom Dearie Songbook from Hal Leonard!

Source: Jim Smith
July 18, 2011

Hal Leonard has produced a lovely new personality folio featuring the music of Blossom Dearie. From her years at Verve in the 50s, Fontana in London in the 60s through the most important songs on Blossom's own label, Daffodil Records, this folio is definitive. A new biography starts out the songbook and the following songs are included: Bring All Your Love Along, Bye-Bye Country Boy, Deed I Do, I Like You, You're Nice, I Won't Dance, I'm Shadowing You, Inside ...

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For Sale

Items from the estate of Blossom Dearie for sale!

Source: Jim Smith
December 15, 2010

Unique and one of a kind items from the estate of Blossom Dearie are for sale. Items include: Signed items to Blossom from Cary Grant and Jo Stafford, Christmas cards from the White House and Bill and Hillary Clinton, Handwritten Leadsheet to Lullaby of Birdland, a hit for her group the Blue Stars of France, old photos from her Verve recording session, and time as a fashion model in the 1940s, and the grand treasure, Blossom's Yamaha digital piano! Visit ...

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Recording

A Special Blossom Dearie Combo for the Holidays

Source: Jim Smith
December 3, 2010

Blossom Dearie with good friend and mentor Mike Renzi created two beautiful recordings. Featuring Blossom Dearie on solo vocals and piano(Erroll Garner's Steinway, no less)with arrangements and additional keyboards from Mike Renzi, Daffodil Records is proud to offer Christmas Spice So Very Nice and Tweedledum & Tweedledee. Christmas Spice So Very Nice is a perennial treasure that will fill your home with joy and warmth through the holidays and year. A special collection of Christmas love songs, not the over-played ...

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Recording

Blossom Dearie CDs for Jazz Fans in time for the Holidays at BlossomDearie.com!

Source: Jim Smith
November 16, 2010

From the jazz favorite “Tweedledum and Tweedledee" with guest arranger and keyboardist Mike Renzi to “Christmas Spice So Very Nice" fans, longtime and new, are enthralled with Blossom's music! In time for the Holidays, CDs like Blossom's final recording “Blossom's Planet" featuring what has been called the definitive version of Jobim's “Wave" along with “The Ladies Who Lunch" “Bye Bye Country Boy" “Blusette" and Sting's “La Belle Dame Sans Regrets. Or her favorite live album from the late Reno Sweeney's ...

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