Lee Wiley
Lee Wiley (October 9, 1908 – December 11, 1975) was an American jazz singer popular in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
Biography
Wiley was born in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. While still in her early teens, she left home to pursue a singing career with the Leo Reisman band. Her career was temporarily interrupted by a fall while horseback riding. Wiley suffered temporary blindness, but recovered, and at the age of 19 was back with Reisman again, with whom she recorded three songs: "Take It From Me," "Time On My Hands," and her own composition, "Got The South In My Soul." She sang with Paul Whiteman and later, the Casa Loma Orchestra. A collaboration with composer Victor Young resulted in several songs for which Wiley wrote the lyrics, including "Got The South in My Soul" and "Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere," the latter an R&B hit in the 1950s.
During the early 1930s, Wiley recorded very little, and many sides were rejected:
Tea for Two
Tea for Two can refer to:
See also
Tea for Two (film)
Tea for Two is a 1950 American musical film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by Harry Clork and William Jacobs was inspired by the 1925 stage musical No, No, Nanette, although the plot was changed considerably from the original book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel; and the score by Harbach, Irving Caesar, and Vincent Youmans was augmented with tunes by other composers.
Plot
Set in the Roaring Twenties, the story centers on Nanette Carter (Doris Day), a Westchester socialite with show business aspirations. She offers to invest $25,000 in a Broadway show if her boyfriend, producer Larry Blair (Billy De Wolfe), casts her in the starring role. What she doesn't realize is Larry is two-timing her with ingenue Beatrice Darcy (Patrice Wymore), whom he envisions as the lead. When he accepts Nanette's offer, she imposes upon her wealthy, penny-pinching uncle, J. Maxwell Bloomhaus (S.Z. Sakall), to lend her the money.
He's willing to do so, on one condition - for the next 24 hours, his niece must answer "no" to every question she's asked. Comic complications ensue when the cast arrives at Nanette's estate to rehearse; and composer and pianist Jimmy Smith, who has romantic designs on the girl, falls victim to the bet she's made with her uncle. Nanette wins, only to discover Uncle Max has lost all his money in the stock market crash. The only person still solvent is attorney William Early (Bill Goodwin), and Nanette's assistant Pauline Hastings (Eve Arden) sets out to charm him into backing the show.
Tea for Two (album)
Tea for Two was a 10" LP album released by Columbia Records on September 4, 1950 under catalog number CL-6149, featuring Doris Day, with Axel Stordahl conducting the orchestra on some pieces, and the Page Cavanaugh Trio as backup musicians on others. It contained songs from the soundtrack of the movie of the same name.
Track listing
Podcasts:
Lee Wiley
ALBUMS
- Time on My Hands released: 2002
- Night in Manhattan / Sings Vincent Youmans / Sings Irving Berlin released: 2001
- Music of Manhattan released: 2000
- Manhattan Nights released: 1999
- Back Home Again released: 1994
- As Time Goes By released: 1991
- A Touch of the Blues released: 1989
- Duologue released: 1988
- Songs of Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart and Harold Arlen released: 1986
- West of the Moon released: 1957
- Rodgers and Hart Album released: 1940
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- Night in Manhattan released:
Time on My Hands
Released 2002- Rise 'N' Shine
- Time on My Hands
- Got the South in My Soul
- Easy Come, Easy Go
- Sweet and Low Down
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- You Took Advantage of Me
- A Ship Without a Sail
- Let's Fly Away
- Easy to Love
- Looking at You
- Down to Steamboat Tennessee
- Down With Love
- Stormy Weather
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- It's Only a Paper Moon
- Body and Soul
- A Woman's Intuition
- Sugar
- Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
- Ghost of a Chance
- Oh, Look at Me Now
- Manhattan
Night in Manhattan / Sings Vincent Youmans / Sings Irving Berlin
Released 2001- Street of Dreams
- A Woman's Intuition
- Sugar (That Sugar Baby O' Mine)
- Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
- Manhattan
- I've Got a Crush on You
- Ghost of a Chance
- Oh! Look at Me Now
- Tea for Two
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Time on My Hands
- Rise 'n' Shine
- More Than You Know
- Should I Be Sweet?
- Keepin' Myself for You
- Why, Oh, Why?
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Some Sunny Day
- I Got Lost in His Arms
- Heat Wave
- Soft Lights and Sweet Music
- Fools Fall in Love
- How Many Times
- Supper Time
Music of Manhattan
Released 2000- Street of Dreams
- Oh, Look at Me Now
- Hallelujah
- Manhattan
- Manhattan
- Ghost of a Chance
- Sugar
- I've Got a Crush on You
- Sugar
- Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere
- Oh, Look at Me Now
- 'Deed I Do
- That's for Sure
- 'S Wonderful
- I've Got a Crush on You
- Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere
- Street of Dreams
- Manhattan
- 'Deed I Do
- I've Got a Crush on You
- I'm Comin' Virginia
- Down to Steamboat Tennessee
- Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
Manhattan Nights
Released 1999- Take it from Me (I'm Taking to You)
- Time on My Hands
- Got the South in My Soul
- You're an Old Smoothie
- Leave These Reminders for You
- A Tree Was a Tree
- You've Got Me Crying Again
- I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
- Let's Call it a Day
- A Hundred Years from Today
- Easy Come Easy Go
- Repeal the Blues
- Careless Love
- Motherless Child
- Hands Across the Table
- I'll Follow My Secret Heart
- What Is Love?
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Sweet and Low Down
- Sam and Delilah
- My One and Only
- 'S Wonderful
Back Home Again
Released 1994- Moon River
- When I Fall in Love
- You're Lucky to Me
- A Woman's Intuition
- I'll Be Home
- A Love Like This
- A Sleeping Bee
- Indiana
- Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
- I'm Coming, Virginia
- If I Love Again
- Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
- When I Leave the World Behind
- Why Shouldn't I
- The Lonesome Road
- Some Day You'll Be Sorry
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- Indiana
- When I Leave the World Behind
- When I Leave the World Behind
- Why Shouldn't I
- Why Shouldn't I
- The Lonesome Road
- The Lonesome Road
- The Lonesome Road
- The Lonesome Road
As Time Goes By
Released 1991- This Is New
- You're a Sweetheart
- My Ideal
- You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
- Who Can I Turn to Now?
- Can't Get Out of This Mood
- East of the Sun
- Limehouse Blues
- As Time Goes By
- Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
- Stars Fell on Alabama
- My Melancholy Baby
- The Ace in the Hole
- Someday You'll Be Sorry
- A Hundred Years From Today
- Blues in My Heart
- Maybe You'll Be There
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- I Don't Want to Walk Without You Baby
- Make Believe
Songs of Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart and Harold Arlen
Released 1986- Baby's Awake Now
- Here in My Arms
- You Took Advantage of Me
- A Little Birdie Told Me So
- A Ship Without a Sail
- I've Got Five Dollars
- Glad to Be Unhappy
- As Though You Were There
- Let's Fall in Love
- Moanin' In the Mornin'
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Stormy Weather
- Down With Love
- I've Got the World on a String
- Fun to Be Fooled
- You Said It
West Of The Moon
- You’re a Sweetheart
- This Is New
- You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
- Who Can I Turn to Now?
- My Ideal
- Can’t Get Out of This Mood
- East of the Sun
- I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain
- Moonstruck
- Limehouse Blues
- As Time Goes By
- Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now
- Stars Fell on Alabama
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
Born: 1908-10-09
Died: 1975-12-11
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You've Got Me Crying Again
by: Lee WileyYou’ve got me crying again
You’ve got me sighing again
What is this love all about?
I’m in, I’m out
Your kisses right from the start
Came from your lips, not your heart
You make me happy and then
Somebody new looks good to you
You’ve got me crying again