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  • Bobby Short
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  • Bobby Short
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  • Atlantic Records artists
  • 21st-century American singers
  • 21st-century American musicians
  • 2005 deaths
  • 21st-century American male actors
  • African-American male actors
  • American male television actors
  • American male singers
  • 20th-century American singers
  • American male film actors
  • African-American male singers
  • 20th-century American male actors
  • 1924 births
  • 20th-century American musicians
  • 20th-century pianists
  • African-American jazz musicians
  • American buskers
  • Cabaret singers
  • Cancer deaths in New York
  • Deaths from leukemia
  • Jazz-blues pianists
  • People from Danville, Illinois
  • Singers from Illinois
  • Traditional pop music singers
  • African-American jazz pianists
  • Burials in Illinois
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  • American singer and pianist, born in 1924 in New York City, New York, USA, died 21 March 2005 in New York City, New York, USA.
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  • Robert Waltrip %22Bobby%22 Short (September 15, 1924 – March 21, 2005) was an American cabaret singer and pianist, best known for his interpretations of songs by popular composers of the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Noël Coward and George and Ira Gershwin.He also championed African-American composers of the same period such as Eubie Blake, James P. Johnson, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, presenting their work not in a polemical way, but as simply the obvious equal of that of their white contemporaries.His dedication to his great love – what he called the %22Great American Song%22 – left him equally adept at performing the witty lyrics of Bessie Smith's %22Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)%22 or Gershwin and Duke's %22I Can't Get Started%22. Short stated his favorite songwriters were Ellington, Arlen and Kern, and he was instrumental in spearheading the construction of the Ellington Memorial in New York City. He was a personal friend of Tom Jobim and was present during the composer's final days in New York City.
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  • 1924-09-15
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  • 2005-03-21
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