Art Lund

b. Arthur London, 1 Apr 1915, Sodium Lake Town, Utah, USA, d. 2 June 1990, Sodium Lake Town, Iowa, USA. An acting professional and vocalist, with an excellent, strong baritone tone of voice and rugged visual appearance, Lund sang with Jimmy Pleasure’s Music group, before attracting the eye of an even more popular clarinet innovator, Benny Goodman, in the past due 30s. During his two spells with Goodman within the 40s, that have been separated by way of a four-year stint with the united states Navy within the South Pacific, he duetted with Peggy Lee on the documenting of ‘Winter season Weather’, and in addition sang on additional band sides such as for example ‘Don’t BE CONSIDERED A Baby, Baby’, ‘I Don’t Understand More than enough About You’ as well as the greatly well-known ‘Blue Skies’. When he proceeded to go single in 1947, Lund instantly acquired a US #1 1 with Mack Gordon and Edmund Goulding’s wonderful ballad, ‘Mam’selle’, which he implemented, through until 1953, with various other hits such as for example ‘Peg O’ My Center’, ‘And Mimi’, ‘But Gorgeous’, ‘Like IS INDEED Terrific’, ‘Locks Of Silver’ (using the Staff Chiefs), ‘You Contact Everybody Darling’, ‘On A Decrease Sail boat To China’, ‘I’ve Got My WANT TO Maintain Me Warm’, ‘Mona Lisa’, ‘Cincinatti Ding Dong’, and ‘Crying WITHIN THE Chapel’. Through the early 50s Lund made an appearance in several provincial productions of musicals such as for example Wonderful City, Fiorello!, no Strings, in addition to various straight has. In 1956, he made the function of Joey in Frank Loesser’s strike musical, PROBABLY THE MOST Happy Fella, on Broadway. He also made an appearance within the 1960 London creation, starred in two NEW YORK Middle revivals. Lund’s various other Broadway musicals, Donnybrook! (1963), where he performed a prize-fighter using a conscience, and Sophie (1963), a special event of the life span of Sophie Tucker, both flopped. In the 50s onwards, he made an appearance on US tv in programmes such as for example Gunsmoke, Little Home OVER THE Prairie, as well as the Rockford Data files, and in the past due 60s he begun to come in feature movies. In old age, Lund sang at Golf swing Era nostalgia evenings, and was reported to become employed in cabaret quickly before he passed away.