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Robert Waltrip Short (September 15, 1924 – March 21, 2005) [1] was an American cabaret singer and pianist, who interpreted songs by popular composers from the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Richard A. Whiting, Vernon Duke, Noël Coward and George and Ira Gershwin .
Mar 21, 2005 · Bobby Short, the cherubic singer and pianist whose high-spirited but probing renditions of popular standards evoked the glamour and sophistication of Manhattan nightlife, died yesterday at New ...
Bobby Short, one of the cabaret world's most revered performers and a living symbol of a bygone brand of late-night New York style, died of leukemia March 21, the Associated Press reports. His ...
Mar 21, 2005 · Bobby Short, the tuxedoed embodiment of New York style and sophistication who was a fixture at his piano in the Carlyle Hotel for more than 35 years, died Monday. He was 80.
Bobby Short was an American cabaret singer and piano player who in his personal and performance style came to represent a sophistication and elegance typical of an earlier era. At age 9 Short was already playing piano in roadhouses and saloons near his childhood home; at 12 he played his first.
Mar 22, 2005 · NEW YORK — Cabaret singer Bobby Short, the tuxedoed embodiment of New York style and sophistication who was a fixture at his piano in the Carlyle Hotel for more than 35 years, died yesterday.
Jun 28, 2009 · Singer Bobby Short dead at 80. Source: All About Jazz March 21, 2005. NEW YORK - Bobby Short, the suave, tuxedoed cabaret singer who epitomized Manhattan glamour and sophistication with renderings of the great American songbook, died of leukemia Monday at 80.
