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Nebraska jazz singer Jeri Southern's star was bright in 1. Music. Legendary jazz promoter Dick La. Palm, 8. 2, answers every question. A memory. Scenes that frequently involve himself. Chicago, New York or L.

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A. Names. like Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee drop casually from his end of the. He's savvy, almost debonair. For nearly half an hour he's revisited memories of close friend.

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Jeri Southern, a Nebraska- born jazz singer whom he. Chicago nightclub in the early '5.

Only once, during the last question, does he falter. What was it like to attend Jeri's funeral? A deep sigh. A gap in the interview."One of the saddest days of my life," he says soberly, pausing. More people should have known about her. She should have. stayed, remained in show business and gotten the recognition she.

It's evident that La. Palm, a former Chess Records exec, always. Jeri Southern to the best of her peers, to Ella Fitzgerald. Sarah Vaughan and Rosemary Clooney. So now, more than 5. Southern's prime, it's difficult to watch the others become. Southern's career remains mysterious at best.

Nebraskans."There was no question whatsoever that she would have been an. Sinatra tells Jeri she is ‘the best'New York City, mid- 1. Frank Sinatra lounges in a dressing. Paramount Theatre. He's talking with Manny Sachs, a. Just down the. hall, Dick La.

Palm and Jeri Southern are finishing drinks with. June Hutton, the other name on the marquee. When La. Palm and.

Southern stand to say goodbye, Hutton stops them."June just freaked out and said, ‘No! You can't leave yet. If. Frank knows that you were here and didn't meet you, he'd really be. La. Palm says. "I thought she was kidding, and so did.

Jeri."But she isn't. Hutton walks to Sinatra's dressing room, knocks.

She has exciting news for The Voice: Jeri Southern's. I've never seen anyone leap up so fast," La.

Palm says. "He. leaped up and came running out and grabbed Jeri. He hugged her so. I think he was actually hurting her."Sinatra tells her she is "just the best, the very best," La.

Palm. remembers."And then he looked at her and said, ‘And no one should record. Dancing On The Ceiling" after what you've done with it.'"From German pig farmers.

Sinatra's favorite singer descended from German pig farmers. Jeri Southern's grandfather, Julius Hering, immigrated to America.

Royal, Neb. Southern - Genevieve Hering - was born 4. Aug. 5. 1. 92. 6, just in time to witness her father lose his mill to the Wall. Street Crash of '2.

When she was 3, her father moved the family. Royal Farmers Union elevator until. A product of the Depression and the youngest of six children. Hollywood about Jeri Southern."I don't think she had an article of clothing that was new until. Chicago," says Kathryn King, Southern's daughter.

She got the hand- me- downs of the. Southern passed the time in Royal playing piano, always under. German, she must. Bavarian princes."This fantasy was dashed on the rocks of reality one day when an.

Old Country was discovered in an. Please send money. Watch Neil Stryker And The Tyrant Of Time Online Metacritic. The pig is sick,'". King in an e- mail. So our beginnings were humble, that's for. Despite her family's hardships, Southern's parents sent their.

Notre Dame Academy in Omaha. She told me she had auditioned to enter Juilliard as a. Omaha, must. have been 1. King says. "She. said it changed her life."After graduating from Notre Dame, Southern moved to Chicago. Hi- Note Lounge. Enter Dick La. Palm, at. this point on the road with Peggy Lee, who stopped in Chicago to. Anita O'Day sing at the Hi- Note."It's intermission ..

La. Palm says. "Peggy was talking to me and she stops. Jeri was. playing a song called ‘You're The Cause of It All.' I'll never.

Peggy turned to me and said, ‘Who is that? My God, she's. marvelous.'"One month later, La. Palm was visiting Lee in Los Angeles."‘Dick,' Lee said, ‘whatever you do, I would find that girl we. Hi- Note and try to help her.

She's absolutely. Thus began Southern's career. In 1. 95. 1, she signed with Decca. Records. By the mid- '5. Sarah Vaughan and Count Basie, Billy Eckstine and Doris Day.

In. 1. 95. 5 her recording of "An Occasional Man" made the Billboard pop. Top 3. 0 hit with "Fire Down Below." She. Capitol Records. where she released her final album in 1.

Ella, Sarah, Carmen Mc. Rae, Nat Cole, Sinatra, Miles Davis, Mel. Torme," La. Palm says. You name the great artists, they adored. Walking away from it all"The day she decided to stop performing was one of the greatest. King wrote in an e- mail.

An enormous. relief for both of us."Despite her critical acclaim - Nat Cole said she was one of the. La. Palm recalls - Southern hated performing.

She was exceedingly shy, and according to King she suffered from "a. Just contemplating. For years she battled her fears, however, because people loved.

I think she felt a responsibility to use the. King wrote. "But eventually the. By 1. 96. 2, at the early age of 3. Southern retired from her. Once she allowed herself to quit, it truly liberated her," King. At a certain point you have to ask yourself, ‘How long am I.

She began teaching in Hollywood, composing music and playing. She wrote a book for singers about accompanying themselves. Kathryn, now a record producer and. Pebble Beach, Calif., to love music as much as she. She absolutely influenced me. When it was time for me to go to. I was going to major in music," King.

I didn't even consider anything else."Southern died unexpectedly on Aug. Although the immediate cause of death was a heart. Southern was also diabetic and had been diagnosed with.

There's no question that, had she been able to conquer her. King wrote. "But I can tell you that today serious. Home in Royal. Today, Jeri Southern's home in Royal still stands, just off U. S. 2. 0, waiting for a new foundation.

The home's owners, the Jensens. It's not much to look at, but one day they. Jeri. Southern Home and Museum Society, which they began in 1.

Justin. Jensen, 4. The society had. 1. It just throws me that somebody can start in a little town like. Royal and then touch all points of this world," says Jensen, who.

Royal. But those who knew her best say she never fully left. Nebraska."There was a no- nonsense, unadorned quality to how she related. King says. "She was no diva. She had an ego like every. I remember sitting around the kitchen table at my. Royal, everybody smoking and drinking beers. That's a quality she.

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