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Julie London
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Born in Santa Rosa, California, as Gayle Peck, she was the daughter of Jack and Josephine Peck, who were a vaudeville song-and-dance team. When she was 14, the family moved to Los Angeles. Shortly after that, she began appearing in movies. She graduated from the Hollywood Professional High School in 1945.
She was married to Jack Webb of Dragnet fame. Her obvious beauty and self-poise (she was a pinup girl prized by GIs during World War II) contrasted with his pedestrian appearance and stiff-as-a-board acting technique (much parodied by impersonators). This unlikely pairing arose from his and her love for jazz music; their marriage lasted from July 1947 to November 1953.[1] They had two daughters, one who was killed in a traffic accident in the 1990s and one who survived her. In 1954, having become somewhat reclusive after her divorce from Jack Webb, she met jazz composer and musician Bobby Troup at a club on La Brea Blvd.[2] They married on December 31, 1959 and remained married until his death in February 1999. Together, they had one daughter and twin sons.
She suffered a stroke in 1995, and was in poor health until her death in Encino, California, at the age of 74, survived by four of her five children.
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Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
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GigaCat wrote:
Amazing voice, impossible to find anything to compare! <3 her
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2ndLifeEnt wrote:
Sultry!
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recklssprincss wrote:
It's a very close call between her "Black Coffee", Peggy Lee's and Sarah Vaughn's!
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xandovsky wrote:
Oh how I love her voice...
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maulofsound wrote:
i love how women looked back then. so lovely.
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nyrd06 wrote:
1st discovered her in v for vendetta movie...love her now...charade and cry me a river and mad about the boy and several others
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meowmixhash wrote:
latin in a satin mood!
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Lord-ton wrote:
..And let me play among the stars..
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goddaughter wrote:
magic voice.. i love her singing Sway and Wives And Lovers most of all
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Incredible. :D She's pwning Peggy Lee, that is actually damn hard.
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mistral84 wrote:
<3'i only i have eyes for you' and 'charade'
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nul33 wrote:
No Moon At All is adorable!
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yingjai wrote:
nice and soothing voice
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DanVeiga wrote:
Delicious is her name ...
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medoozza wrote:
Absolutely gorgeous voice! There's some kind of magic in it.
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mol4un wrote:
Diana Krall is a bit colder... I love her!
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jEANYGenes2 wrote:
I almost could not tell the difference between her and Diane Krall ;o)
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giardinorosso wrote:
What a fine and beautiful voice! And the woman - a pin up? Sure, and such a gorgeous one!
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alisonL wrote:
there's soemthing really effortless and elegant about her voice. and definitely sultry and soulful
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Yonder wrote:
Goddess.
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