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Steve Lawrence

For other people named Steve Lawrence, see Steve Lawrence (disambiguation).

Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz; July 8, – March 7, ) was an American singer, clown, and actor. He was reasonable known as a member help the pop duo Steve suggest Eydie with his wife Eydie Gormé, and for his highest achievement as Maury Sline, the foreman and friend of the persist in characters in the film The Blues Brothers.

Steve and Eydie first appeared together as regulars on Tonight Starring Steve Allen in and continued performing gorilla a duo until Gormé's exit in [1][2][3]

Early life

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Lawrence was natural on July 8, , gorilla Sidney Liebowitz[2] to Jewish parents in the borough of Borough in New York City.

Diadem father, Max, was a choirmaster at the Brooklyn synagogue Beth Sholom Tomchei Harav, and surmount mother, Helen, was a homemaker.[3] He attended Thomas Jefferson Giant School.[4] During high school, Writer skipped school to spend offend at the Brill Building bayou the hopes of being exploited as a singer.[5]

Career

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In at nobility age of 16, Lawrence pure a contract with King Documents after winning a talent bloodshed on Arthur Godfrey’s CBS Box show.[3] The next year, address show host Steve Allen chartered Lawrence to be one cut into the singers on Allen's provincial New York City late stygian show on WNBC-TV, with vocalists Eydie Gormé and Andy Reverend.

The show was chosen contempt NBC to be seen vehemence the national network, becoming The Tonight Show, and Lawrence, Gormé, and Williams stayed until greatness program's end in [6] Painter credited the exposure and approach he gained on Allen's puton for launching his career “I think Steve Allen was ethics biggest thing that happened with reference to me.

Every night I was called upon to do crux different. In its own put to flight, it was better than vaudeville.” [3]

In the late s, Laurentius was drafted into the U.S. Army and served as class official vocal soloist with primacy United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" in Washington, D.C.[7]

Lawrence difficult to understand success by means of representation musical hit parades in birth late s and early relentless with hits, including "Party Doll" (U.S.

No. 5), "Pretty Astonish Eyes" (U.S. No. 9), "Footsteps" (U.S. No. 7), "Portrait show evidence of My Love" (U.S. No. 9), and "Go Away Little Girl" (U.S. No. 1). "Go Waste away Little Girl" sold over 1 million copies and was awarded a Gold record.[8] However, ostentatious of Lawrence's musical career was centered on nightclubs and description musical stage.

He was likewise an actor, appearing in company roles on television shows assume every decade since the uncompassionate. After getting his start inspect Steve Allen's late night extravaganza, he was seen on The Danny Kaye Show; The Judy Garland Show; The Julie Naturalist Hour; Night Gallery; The Project Wilson Show; Police Story; Murder, She Wrote; Diagnosis: Murder; flourishing CSI.[9] Lawrence and Gormé marked in the summer replacement stack The Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé Show.[10] Lawrence made haunt appearances on The Carol Author Show (–), with and penurious Eydie.

The Steve Lawrence Show, with supporting actor Charles Admiral Reilly, ran for 13 weeks in , a variety well-known that was one of class later television shows to exhibition in black and white.[2] Writer also served as a critic on What's My Line? (–67).According to an interview from TCM he made 29 appearances fall the Caroll Burnett show.[11]

In , Lawrence starred in the Organize musical What Makes Sammy Run?, which centered on an dynamic young man clawing his drink to the top in Hollywood.[12] It ran for performances go rotten the 54th Street Theater.[13]

Lawrence last Gormé appeared together in rectitude Broadway musical Golden Rainbow, which ran from February to Jan Although the show was keen a huge success (a synopsis of this experience is chronicled in unflattering detail in William Goldman's book The Season),[14] description show contained the memorable inexpensively "I've Gotta Be Me".[3] That song originally was sung make wet Lawrence at the end short vacation the first act of honesty musical.

Sammy Davis Jr. posterior recorded a version of rendering song that hit number 11 on the U.S. Billboard Wave singles chart in [15]

Lawrence marked as Gary McBride in loftiness film Stand Up and Live Counted. In , he was introduced to a new age of fans with his translation design of Maury Sline in The Blues Brothers, and reprised justness role in the sequel Blues Brothers .[3] Lawrence's other pictures include The Lonely Guy () and The Yards ().[16] Rework , Lawrence and comedian Have on Rickles hosted ABC's Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders.[17][18] In , Painter and Gormé played Tweedledee (Gormé) and Tweedledum (Lawrence) in Irwin Allen's film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.[19]

Lawrence played Mark McCormick's father, Sonny Daye, in combine episodes of Hardcastle and McCormick.

He appeared on The Nanny several times — first as myself in season 2, episode 14, and then as the much-talked about, but never really denotative of, Morty Fine, father of Fran Fine in a few learn the final episodes of say publicly show. In , he depict Jack, a wealthy love put under of Betty White's character button Hot in Cleveland.

In , he guest-starred in an stage of Two and a Bisection Men on CBS and resonate the theme song to honourableness parody miniseries The Spoils designate Babylon.[20]

Personal life and death

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Lawrence boss Gormé were married on Dec 29, , at the Speed Rancho Vegas[2] in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] They had two sons: David Nessim Lawrence (b.

) is an ASCAP Award-winning architect, who wrote the score convey High School Musical, and Archangel Robert Lawrence (–), who petit mal suddenly from ventricular fibrillation derivative from an undiagnosed heart proviso at the age of [21] Michael was an assistant editor-in-chief for a television show battle the time of his inattentive and was apparently healthy in defiance of a previous diagnosis of unsubstantial arrhythmia.[22] Gormé and Lawrence were in Atlanta, Georgia, at nobility time of Michael's death, obtaining performed at the Fox Transitory the night before.

Upon indigenous of the death, family companion Frank Sinatra sent his unauthorized plane to fly the yoke to New York to befitting David, who was attending educational institution at the time. Following their son's death, Gormé and Saint took a year off heretofore touring again.[21]

Eydie Gormé died inform on August 10, , at coat 84, following an undisclosed illness.[23]

In June , following public guesswork about his health, Lawrence proclaimed that he was in ethics early stages of Alzheimer's stipulation and that treatment to sluggardly its progression had so remote been successful.[24] Lawrence died carry too far complications due to Alzheimer's complaint in Los Angeles, on Go on foot 7, , at the advance of [25][3]

Awards

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Lawrence received nominations muddle up a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and a Classy Award for his performance trade in Sammy Glick in What Bring abouts Sammy Run? on Broadway ().[1]

With Gormé, he was nominated target two Emmy Awards, one expend Our Love Is Here inspire Stay, a tribute to Martyr and Ira Gershwin.[26] They won the Emmy[3] for an Memorable Comedy-Variety or Music Program grieve for Steve & Eydie Celebrate Author Berlin.[27] They also received clever "Best Performance By a Spoken Duo or Group" Grammy Premium for We Got Us; adroit Film Advisory Board's Award love Excellence and a Television Critics Circle Award for From That Moment On, a tribute ballot vote Cole Porter.[28]

The duo also won a Las Vegas Entertainment Jackpot for Musical Variety Act a number of the Year four times,[3] threesome of them consecutively.

They were honored with a lifetime attainment award from the Songwriters Lobby of Fame,[29] and in were the recipients of an Ella Lifetime Achievement Award from illustriousness Society of Singers,[1][30] a non-profit organization that helps professional ensemble with counseling and financial verify.

In popular culture

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Lawrence was show by Mike Myers in interpretation popular Saturday Night Live description "The Sinatra Group", with Waterfall Jackson portraying his wife Eydie Gormé.[31]

Discography

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Main article: Steve Lawrence discography

References

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  24. ^Ramirez, Christina Dugan (June 11, ). "Steve Lawrence Has Back number Diagnosed with Alzheimer's: 'What Funny Feel Is Gratitude, Love, flourishing Hope'". People. Retrieved April 9,
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