Cleo Laine (added my illustration!) & new photos!- Page 2

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/26/07 at 8:52pm

just watch Dame Cleo's *eyes* in this one!
anyone would fall instantly in love!!!!
Cleo Laine - SEND IN THE CLOWNS

[Chita1933]

Posted: 10/26/07 at 9:33pm

I grew up listening to Cleo Laine (70's) lps. One of my favorites is a silly song called "Control Yourself." I'll post a "you send it" link later tonight.

[TomMonster]

Posted: 10/26/07 at 9:47pm

Oops. I knew Dankworth is her husband. I always get that confused as Galway and her have performed together so often...

[Chita1933]

Posted: 10/26/07 at 10:04pm

Cleo Laine Live!!! At Carnegie Hall
"Control Yourself" sample

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/27/07 at 9:49am

on this rainy morning, i cant stop listening & crying to Dame Cleo's NO ONE IS ALONE....

....& when she sings "someone is on your side", i start bawling because she makes me feel like someone *really is* on my side!!!!!

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/27/07 at 11:37am

As Puffer, she campaigned for my section of the mezz to vote for her in Drood!

[Chita1933]

Posted: 10/27/07 at 11:37am

As her Drood co-star, George Rose, once said...

"...an embarrassment of riches."

Updated On: 10/27/07 at 11:37 AM

[Chita1933]

Posted: 10/27/07 at 12:14pm

Puffer:
Once I bet me last ten pence - and won
Twice as rich then, friends said, "Call it done!"
"How sad", I said.
"So that's your wildest dream, eh, then...
Twenty pence instead of ten?"
I doubled up my bet again!

In life you start the same as when you're done:
If you lose, you're just where you've begun -
If you win, don't quit while you're ahead,
Just press your blessed luck instead!...

"Don't Quit While You're Ahead"
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Original Broadway Cast

Sample

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/28/07 at 12:20am

i want a movie where Cleo Laine, Grace Zabriskie & Karen Black play sisters.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/28/07 at 11:52am

this is lovely for a sunday morning!

...& dig Dame Cleo's ROYGBIV emsemble!
Cleo Laine & John Dankworth - ODE TO MOZART/TURKISH DELIGHT

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/28/07 at 6:14pm

my illustration of Dame Cleo Laine!
with lots of love!

[supportivemom]

Posted: 10/28/07 at 10:12pm

Woooow! Norn- once again a beautiful illustration! You really captured Miss Laine. I remember her being on a lot of talk shows when I was a kid- especially Mike Douglas. Thanks for sharing your wonderful artwork! mom

[D2]

Posted: 10/28/07 at 10:19pm

Norn, that is just perfect!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/28/07 at 10:20pm

Beautiful, Norn!

Both times I saw Drood, she was the killer!

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 10:38am

That's great, Norn!

[DG]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 11:12am

Bravo!

[TomMonster]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 11:48am

Fantastic, Norn!

[Chita1933]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:24pm

Bill

Words by P.G. Wodehouse & Music by Jerome Kern
As performed by Cleo Laine


I used to dream that I would discover
The perfect lover someday,
I knew I'd recognize him if ever
He came 'round my way.
I always used to fancy then
He'd be one of the God-like kind of men
With a giant brain and a noble head
Like the heroes bold
In the books I've read.

"Bill"

[tazber]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:56pm

I think that's my favorite pic yet Norn! wonderful!

[erikaamato]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 5:08pm

Brilliant work, as usual, Norn!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 5:19pm

i emailed the illustration to her website, i hope she got to see it for her birthday!
Updated On: 10/29/07 at 05:19 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 5:35pm

I love that, Norn! She can slay a dragon--any old week--EASY!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 8:54pm

i'm reading Cleo Laine's autobiography & im enjoying it so much!
the more i learn about her, the more i love her!

she writes in a friendly manner; clever, charming, very funny...& *EXTREMELY* self-depreciating!
sometimes it makes me sad how often she puts herself down, but maybe thats something i identify with in her.

she came from screaming horrible poverty; most jazz musicians do, but british poverty sounds much scarier than american poverty! & during the war, no less!

& not only the financial poverty but of imagination & possibilty as well; when she told people that she wanted to be a singer, they would laugh as if she said she wanted to live on the moon. women were supposed to be married off & have @ least one baby by the time they were 17.... & in fact, she *did* go that route; marrying a man she didnt care about just to get out of her mother's home & because "thats what girls do".

the moment that she realizes that she is meant for something more in this world is when she hears Nat King Cole's NATURE BOY for the first time, falls in love with it, practices it, & sings it to her first husband...& he responds by saying, "why would anyone ever wanna hear a SAD song?!?!?"

that was the push she needed to begin to take her music & life seriously; going on auditions, educating herself in used bookstores & libraries...& then landing a gig with the Johnny Dankworth Seven. with them, she would learn serious music theory & much later, find true love with John Dankworth himself.

i think Cleo & John Dankworth would make a great subject for a documentary...how two very creative perfectionists not only live together, but inspire & drive each other to achieve MORE in life!
& they *both* turned 80 this year!

i am so glad to have found out about Cleo Laine! even though i'm just beginning to learn about her vast body of work, i already feel so enriched! i dont know how i got so far along without finding her music!
Updated On: 11/7/07 at 08:54 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 9:29pm

Awwwww...look at them with Miss Fitz!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/7/07 at 9:29pm

fun fact: Cleo Laine was an extra (as a "street urchin") in THE THIEF OF BAGDAD starring Sabu!

(back then, her name was Clemmie Campbell)