Nancy LaMott
Nancy LaMott (December 30, 1951 in Midland, Michigan–December 13, 1995 in New York City) was a singer, popular on the New York City cabaret circuit in the 1990s. LaMott performed twice at the White House for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
In 2008, her posthumously-released album Ask Me Again, featuring songs she recorded between 1988 and 1995, reached #12 on Billboard magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart. She sang with a "sweet-voiced cabaret-style singing" described as "gentle" with a "1940s style" which won a tight circle of admirers and almost a "cult following". Her life was tragically cut short by uterine cancer in 1995 when she began to achieve commercial and critical success.
Early life
As a young girl, LaMott would sing along with Barbra Streisand records, according to her father, a supervisor with the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan. At fifteen, she performed with her father's dance band, and also worked at a local Sears store. At seventeen, she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, an incurable medical affliction which involves difficult intestinal problems and chronic pain and arthritis.
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ALBUMS
- Ask Me Again released: 2008
- Live at Tavern on the Green released: 2005
- What's Good About Goodbye? released: 1996
- Listen to My Heart released: 1995
- Just in Time for Christmas released: 1994
- My Foolish Heart released: 1993
- Come Rain or Come Shine: The Songs of Johnny Mercer released: 1992
- Beautiful Baby released: 1991
- Best of Nancy Lamott released:
Just in Time for Christmas
Released 1994- Some Children See Him
- I Saw Three Ships / Bring a Torch / Jeannette, Isabella
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- (Christmas) Stay With Me
- Earth and Sky
- All Those Christmas Cliches
- What Child Is This? / I Wonder as I Wander
- A Child Is Born
- Just in Time for Christmas
- Baby, It's Cold Outside
- A Song for Christmas
- The Christmas Song
Born: 1951-12-30
Died: 1995-12-13
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Ask Me Again
by: Nancy LamottAsk me again
Who's the one I've begun to adore
Ask me again
Whose the partners my heart clambers for
Who is the who that has ties in bow knot
So that I know not just where I met
Who is it makes my friends all find
That I have a one track hard at mind
Oh ask me again
Let me tell how I fell from the start
One look and then
Couldn't govern the love in my heart
Who is it that I looked high and low for
Whom will go for my whole life through
Please ask me again
Let shout to the world its you
Ask me again
Whose the moon and the stars and the sun
Who's the why and the where and the what
Who is that I looked everywhere for
To care to care for
My whole life through
Please ask me again
Cause just love to say its you
Who is the only one I fancy
Whom will I fancy
My whole life through
Please ask me again
Let me shout to the world
Its you