by James Gavin
Big Sky, The (film), 188
“Big Spender,” 261, 269
Big Spender (PL album), 269
Billboard, 50, 80, 82, 86–87, 90, 92, 100, 101, 107, 125, 136, 166, 215–216, 218, 223, 241, 256, 269, 279, 303, 316, 335, 492
Bill Haley & His Comets, 191
Billy Rose’s Aquacade, 60
Birdland (New York City jazz club), 256
“Birmingham Jail,” 462
Bishop, Jim, 234
Bishop, Joey, 164, 302–304, 371, 506
Bitz, Fred, 22
Bixby, Gail, 341
Blackboard Jungle (film), 178
“Black Coffee,” 451, 500
Black Coffee (PL album), 128–129, 153–156, 166, 184, 193, 196, 226, 253, 463, 486–487
Black, George M., 43
Blackglama, 348, 430
Blackwell, Otis, 197, 428–429, 468
Blair, Betsy, 179
Blasband, David, 457–458, 461–462, 471–472, 479–480, 482, 484, 487
Blondie, 517
Blood, Sweat, and Tears, 288, 296, 315
Bloom, Ken, 21, 256, 402, 463–464, 476
Bluebird, 78
Blue Chiffon (album), 210
blues, 2, 22, 34–36, 50, 77–79, 86–92, 94, 100, 105, 107, 128, 154, 166, 169, 183, 195, 196, 206, 211, 222, 236–237, 242–243, 254, 258, 273, 288–289, 304, 318, 347, 355, 367–368, 371, 372, 397, 404–405, 442, 462–464, 503
Blues Cross Country (PL album), 236–237, 242, 397
“Blues in the Night,” 86–87, 463
Blum, Steve, 22, 76, 235, 267–268
Blyth, Ann, 148
“Body and Soul,” 59, 60, 63, 363
Bogart, Humphrey, 102, 188
Bolcom, William, 368, 373
Bonfá, Luiz, 267
boogie-woogie, 87–88, 206
books of PL
Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography, 465–467
Softly—with Feeling, 146–147, 169
Boone, Pat, 198, 209
bossa nova, 267, 273, 495, 500
“Boston Beans,” 237
Boston Globe, 167, 225, 264–265, 515
Boswell, Connee, 36
“Both Sides Now,” 319
Botkin, Perry, Jr., 367
“Bouquet of Blues,” 166
Bow, Clara, 27
“Boy from. . . , The,” 403
Boys in the Band, The (play), 233
Bramlett, Bonnie, 333–334
Brave New World (Huxley), 223
Bread (band), 325, 332, 350–351
“Breathless,” 197
Brecht, Bertolt, 234, 280
Breen, Richard, 165, 173, 175
Bridge Over Troubled Water (PL album), 316, 369
Bridgewater, Dee Dee, 517
Bronson, Charles, 157
Bronzeville (Chicago), 63
“Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show,” 298–299, 370–371
Brown, Georgia, 281
Browning, Norma Lee, 300
Brown, Lew, 129
Brown, Ray, 86
Brown, Ruth, 499
Bruce, Virginia, 259
Bruno, Franklin, 302
Bryant, Bobby, 289
Brynner, Yul, 157
Buatta, Mario, 451–452, 517
Buddy Rich orchestra, 398
Budimir, Dennis, 235, 237, 267, 398
Buena Vista Home Video, 458, 460, 484–485
Bufman, Vilma, 408, 409, 415
Bufman, Zev, 407–411, 413–416, 419–424, 426, 428–431, 434, 436, 438, 439
Bunker, Larry, 184–185, 206
Burden, Jean, 109
Burden, Martin, 429
Burke, Johnny, 121
Burke, Sonny, 136–137, 142–143, 148–150, 154, 175, 187, 456, 480, 487
Burns, George, 453
Burroughs, Clark, 207–208
Burton, Richard, 408, 409
Butler, Artie, 332–335, 419, 434
“But Not for Me,” 72–73
Byers, Billy, 236, 247
“By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” 270, 274
C
Cabaret (musical), 363
Café Carlyle, Carlyle hotel (New York City), 445
Cagney, James, 49, 177, 188
Cahn, Sammy, 196, 229, 353, 450, 489, 490
“California Dreamin’,” 291
Callas, Charlie, 324
Callas, Maria, 348
“Call Me,” 267
Camino Real (Williams), 363
Campbell, Glen, 270, 274, 315
Campbell, Mary, 454
Can-Can (musical), 185
Cancelleri, Joe, 118
Candoli, Pete, 152–155, 161, 227
“Can I Change My Mind?,” 288
Canned Heat, 354
Cannon, Dyan, 254
Cano, Eddie, 215
“Can’t Help Falling in Love,” 267
“Can’t Think Straight,” 494–495
Capitol Industries, 271, 285, 302
Capitol Records, 5, 125–129, 191–195, 198–199, 241, 257, 265–266, 284–285, 294, 364, 488
anniversary concerts, 413–414
Dave Barbour recordings, 114–116
origins of, 86–88
PL recordings, 86–101, 106–109, 125, 128–129, 192–196, 205, 206–207, 208–211, 215–216, 226, 230, 269–277, 288–291, 301–309, 315–316, 331–335, 348, 413
Capote, Truman, 352–353
Capp, Frank, 186–187, 513
Capri, George, 212
Captain and Tenille, 364
“Caramba! It’s the Samba,” 101
“Careless Hands,” 125
Carlson, Bob, 517
Carmichael, Hoagy, 99, 331
Carnegie, Dale, 54, 61
Carnegie Hall (New York City), 64, 67, 136, 246, 247, 323, 501–504, 517
Carpenters, 317, 333–334, 364
Carr, Allan, 407
Carr, Leon, 334
Carroll, Barbara, 217
Carroll, Diahann, 343, 380–381
Carr, Vicki, 315
Carson, Johnny, 302, 397, 472
Carter, Benny, 93, 166, 236–237, 240, 242, 243, 245, 347, 419, 450, 505, 513
Carter, Jack, 499
Carter, June, 308–309
Casablanca (film), 138, 144
“Case of M. J., The,” 366
Case, Russ, 133
Cash, Johnny, 307–309
Cassidy, Claudia, 122
Castellucci, Stella, 161–162, 168, 173, 184, 188–189, 192, 194, 195, 221, 223, 225–226, 450, 504, 505, 511
Castle, Nick, 196, 219, 244
Castro, Fidel, 234
Catalano, Tom, 332–335
Cavanaugh, Dave, 198, 199, 208–211, 215, 235, 241, 243, 261, 276, 288
CBS, 46, 113, 125–126, 142, 199–200, 207, 231, 302, 347, 380, 392, 442, 505
Century Plaza Hotel (Los Angeles), 315–316
Champion, Gower, 121
Champion, Marge, 121
Champlin, Charles, 301
Chandler, Jeff, 144, 186
Chandler, Karen, 135
Chanin, Marvin, 247
Channing, Carol, 382, 431, 473
Channing, Stockard, 431
“Chapel of Love,” 279, 332
Chaplin, Charlie, 196
Charisse, Cyd, 499
Charles, Ray, 206–207, 214–215, 235, 347
Charlie (PL respirator), 239–240, 261, 289, 351
Charnin, Martin, 379, 416
Chase, Chaz, 60
Checker, Chubby, 240
Cherry, Don, 162–163
Chesky, David and Norman, 493–494
Chesky Records, 493–494
Chess (label), 288
Chicago (band), 325, 347
Chicago Daily Herald, 335
Chicago Daily News, 386–387
Chicago Sun-Times, 299, 370
Chicago Tribune, 63, 122, 196, 290, 325, 371, 395, 401, 436
Chileta (Dave Barbour’s girlfriend), 265–266, 510
/> “Chinese Love Poem,” 167–168
Chiodini, John, 441–443, 450, 461, 463, 467–468, 474, 488, 513
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical), 334
Christian, Charlie, 66, 76
Christmas Carousel (PL album), 232
“Christmas List, The,” 232
“Christmas Lullaby,” 268–269
“Christmas Song, The (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire),” 125
Christy, George, 437–438
Christy, June, 120, 369
Churcher, Sharon, 430, 432
Church of Religious Science. See Science of Mind philosophy
Cicalo, Hank, 368
Cinderella (animated film), 142, 486–487
“Circle in the Sky,” 468, 469, 490, 504, 514
Ciro’s (West Hollywood club), 102–104, 135–140, 156, 159, 177, 180, 188, 196, 214
Clair de Lune: A Novel About Claude Debussy (La Mure), 340
Clark, Ann, 54, 72
Clark, Dick, 305
Clarke, Donald, 105
Clark, Peggy, 54, 67, 71, 86
Clark, Petula, 155, 293, 317–318, 517
Clark Sisters/Sentimentalists, 53–54, 67, 71, 86
Clayton, Buck, 35
Cline, Patsy, 495
Clooney, Rosemary, 125, 136, 195, 499
Close Enough for Love (PL album), 398, 441–442
“Clouds,” 41–42, 350–351
“Cloudy Morning,” 245
Clovers, the, 242
CNN, 478, 518
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (cartoon), 95
Coates, Phil, 253–254
Cochran, Charlie, 153
Cocker, Joe, 364
Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles), 119
Cohen, Myron, 249
Cohen, Nancene, 185
Colbert, Claudette, 115
Cole Español (album), 215
Coleman, Cy, 230, 241, 254–255, 261, 264, 269, 422–427, 429, 430, 434, 438, 514
Coleman, Ray, 393
Cole, Natalie, 488, 500
Cole, Nat King, 87, 89–90, 102, 103, 107, 120, 151, 164, 191, 192, 215, 269, 488
Collier, Marian, 122, 265, 266, 519
Collingwood, Charles, 231–232
Collins, Joan, 179
Collins, Judy, 256, 290–291, 305, 319, 431
Collins, Lloyd, 54–56,
Colombier, Michel, 364
Columbia Records, 66, 69–70, 74, 75, 79, 80, 86, 98, 268–269, 270, 357, 445
“Comeback, The,” 183
“Come Back to Me,” 259, 319
Come Fly with Me (album), 230
“Come on-a My House,” 125
“Come Rain or Come Shine,” 136
“Come Together,” 304
Cominos, Nick, 297
Communism, 121, 125, 209
Como, Perry, 241, 257
Company (musical), 403, 404
Concert of Hope (CBS-TV special), 505
Conitz, Artis, 3, 7–9, 11, 14, 16–19, 24–27, 36–37, 51–52, 56, 116
Connery, Sean, 268
Connie’s (Harlem club), 132–133
Connolly, Sheryl, 453
Connor, Chris, 517
Connors, Chuck, 212
Considine, Shaun, 79, 323, 338, 356
“Constant Craving,” 492
“Cool,” 199
Cooley, Eddie, 197
Cooper, Alice, 396
Cooper, Bob, 184
Copacabana (New York City club), 124, 128, 151, 164, 260–264, 268, 269, 273–276, 284, 332–333
Copa Room, Sands Hotel (Las Vegas), 163–165, 183, 194
Copland, Aaron, 193
Copyright Act (1909), 471–472
Cosby, Bill, 256
Cosmopolitan, 159, 276, 290, 340
Costa, Mary, 472, 482, 486
Costanzo, Jack, 164, 185, 186, 205
Costello, Frank, 151
“Cottage for Sale, A,” 99
Council of Motion Pictures Organizations, 179
country music, 191, 270, 307–309
“Courage, Madame,” 392
Cowan, Marge and Irving, 406–439
Coward, Noël, 163, 408
“Cow Cow Boogie,” 87
C. P. MacGregor recording facility, 88
Crabbe, Buster, 60
Craig, Betty, 145
Craig, Catherine, 124
Crawford, Christina, 477
Crawford, Joan, 102, 131, 144, 148, 234, 477
“Crazy He Calls Me,” 104
“Crazy Life,” 365
Creatore, Luigi, 267
Credence Clearwater Revival, 325
Cristina. See Monet, Cristina.
Crosby, Bing, 35–36, 50, 60, 94, 96, 121, 145, 164, 223, 226–227, 391, 477
Crosby, Gary, 477
Crowley, Mart, 233
Crowther, Bosley, 115–116, 176
“Cry Me a River,” 166
Cue, 144, 301
Cugat, Xavier, 102–103, 217, 248
Culture Club, 418–419
Culverhouse, Hugh, 411
Curtis, Charlotte, 448
Curtis, Tony, 144, 166, 401
Curtiz, Michael, 138–140, 145, 172
Curt Massey Show, The (radio program), 115
D
“Daddy Was a Railroad Man,” 418, 432, 435, 438
Daily Mirror, 238
Daily News, 143
Dalai Lama, 4, 254, 415
Dalí, Salvador, 144
Daly, Anne, 481
Daly, Maggie, 401
Damn Yankees (musical), 215
Damone, Vic, 196, 209, 381
Dandridge, Dorothy, 151
Dangaard, Colin, 351
Daniel, Dan, 281
Daniels, Mary, 325, 326
Darin, Bobby, 164, 223, 226, 234, 260, 272, 275, 348, 509
Dave Barbour and His Orchestra, 93
Dave Barbour Quartet, 117
Davenport, John, 197
David, Hal, 473
David, Jane, 487–488, 490, 496–499, 501, 505–506, 508–510
Davis, Bette, 102, 223, 348, 495
Davis, Gene, 506
Davis, Miles, 152, 318–319, 445
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 102, 164, 166, 184, 208, 237, 293, 347, 380–381, 455
Davis, Tyrone, 288
“Davy the Fat Boy,” 284
Dawson, Greg, 445–449, 468–469
Day, Doris, 115, 135, 138–140, 145, 148, 169, 180, 195, 374
Dean, James, 173–174, 518
Dean, Peter “Snake Hips,” 76, 358–359
Dearie, Blossom, 445
Debussy, Claude, 73, 319, 340, 404
Decca Records, 86, 128, 147, 150, 191, 270
PL recordings, 132–137, 153–156, 166, 167–169, 173–174, 183–185, 193, 511–512
“Deep in a Dream,” 55
DeHaven, Gloria, 119, 489
De Havilland, Olivia, 159
Della. See Rudrud, Della Egstrom (sister)
Dell, Alan, 180, 450, 476–477
Dell, Maury, 286
Del Rio, Jack, 247–251, 406, 466
Delsener, Ron, 318–319
DeMille, Cecil B., 96
Dempsey, Jack, 49
Denslow Music, 106, 425–426, 456
Denver Post, 145
DeShannon, Jackie, 315
DeSylva, Buddy, 86–87, 107, 191
Detroit Free Press, 403–404
Detroit Lions, 61–62
Deutsch, Alvin, 457–458, 461
DeVine, Lawrence, 403–404
Dewhurst, Colleen, 412
Dexter, Brad, 143–146, 151, 156–157, 195, 222, 251, 466, 513
Dexter, Dave, Jr., 70, 73, 88–89, 92, 107, 270, 271, 302
Diamond, Neil, 298–299, 332
“Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friends,” 226, 473
Dickinson, Emily, 413
Diddley, Bo, 242–243, 256
“Didn’t Want to Have to Do It,” 273, 274
“Didn’t We,” 296
Diet
rich, Marlene, 163, 219, 234, 280–281, 294–295, 348, 350, 421
Diller, Phyllis, 323
DiNovi, Gene, 77, 137, 161, 168, 173–174
Diplomat Resort and Country Club (Hollywood, Florida), 406, 408, 439
disco, 365, 372, 382, 383, 392, 398
“Disillusionment” (Mann), 279–280
Disney, Roy, 142, 471–472, 483, 487, 488
Disney, Walt, 142–143, 149–150, 456, 458, 471–472, 479, 480, 481–482, 484
Dixie Cups, 279, 332
Domino, Fats, 198
“Don Juan,” 365
“Don’t Be Cruel,” 191, 197
“Don’t Be That Way,” 64
“Don’t Cry Out Loud,” 389
“Don’t Explain,” 288–289, 290, 448–449
“Don’t Give Me a Ring on the Telephone (Until You Give Me a Ring on My Hand),” 125
“Don’t Smoke in Bed,” 97, 99–101, 225, 477, 517
Don’t Tell Mama (New York City), 445, 517
doo-wop, 195
Dorsey, Jimmy, 71
Dorsey, Tommy, 53, 71, 82, 90, 183, 192
Douglas, Kirk, 410–411
Douglas, Larry, 105
Down Beat, 59, 69–71, 73, 88, 94, 127, 132, 137–138, 152–153, 155, 177, 186, 237, 372
“Down by the River,” 36
“Down in the Valley,” 308
“Downtown,” 317
Dragnet (TV program), 165, 178
Drama-Logue, 441
Dream Street (PL album), 184–185
DRG, 398
Drifters, The, 166–167, 242
Drivas, Robert (Bobby), 422–425, 428, 429, 436
Duckworth, Alice Hammond (Lady Duckworth), 64, 66, 76
Duffy, Janice Wiese, 15, 17, 18
Duke, Doris, 264, 338–340, 407
Duke, Vernon, 383
Duncan, Lesley, 333
Duncan, Russell, 9–10
Duncan, Sandy, 380–381
Durante, Jimmy, 94, 102, 111, 128, 164, 223, 260, 433
Dylan, Bob, 22, 108
E
East of Eden (film), 178, 179
“Easy Does It,” 398
“Easy Living,” 104, 154
Eckstine, Billy, 166–167, 212, 347
Edgeley Mail, 33
Ed Sullivan Show (TV program), 200, 230, 240, 323–324
Edwards, Ralph, 336–337
Egstrom, Clair (brother), 11, 14, 23–25, 28–29, 52, 56, 337
Egstrom, Della (sister). See Rudrud, Della Egstrom (sister)
Egstrom, Glen (cousin), 10, 14, 116, 190
Egstrom, Gloria (sister), 13
Egstrom, Jean (sister), 13, 52
Egstrom, Leonard (brother), 11, 53
Egstrom, Marion (Marianne). See Ringuette, Marion (Marianne) Egstrom (sister)
Egstrom, Marvin Olaf (father; “Ole”), 7–17, 42, 52, 225
alcoholism, 10, 11, 14, 20, 25–26, 29, 31, 38, 116, 345
birth and early years, 10
dramatic interests, 33
illness and death, 116–118, 360
marriages, 10–21
name change, 11
railroad work, 7, 9, 11, 16–30, 23–25, 31–32, 37–38, 47, 51, 116, 476–477, 516