Photo: Patience & Prudence (younger sister passed away) | Patience Ann McIntyre (born August 15, 1942) and Prudence Ann McIntyre (July 12, 1945 – September 15, 2023), known professionally as Patience and Prudence, were two sisters who were a young vocal duo active from 1956 to 1964.
Patience and Prudence McIntyre were born in 1942 and 1945, respectively, in Los Angeles, California. Their father Mark McIntyre was an orchestra leader, pianist, and songwriter who worked with Frank Sinatra in the 1940s. . . . In the summer of 1956, their father brought 11-year-old Prudence and 14-year-old Patience into the Liberty Records studio in Los Angeles.
The duo made a demonstration recording of the song, “Tonight You Belong to Me,” which had been a hit for Gene Austin in 1927, and was written by Billy Rose and Lee David. Liberty signed them and immediately released a recording of the girls singing the song as a commercial single (with the B-side, “A Smile and a Ribbon,” a composition with music by Mark McIntyre) and by September the song reached #4 on the Billboard charts and #28 in the UK Singles Chart, and was the biggest selling record put out by Liberty for two years. It sold over one million copies and reached gold record status. It went on to become one of the best-selling in-store singles in the United States in September 1956.
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They released several other singles on the Chattahoochee Records label, including a 1964 re-recording of “Tonight You Belong to Me”. In 1978, they reunited to appear on a Dick Clark television feature and stated that they both didn’t want to be performers in the first place and that their success was just an “accident”. They also stated that their father didn’t want them to be in the spotlight for personal reasons so he declined all other television and commercial offers, which prevented both of the girls from furthering their professional music careers.
Collectors Choice issued a CD compilation of all their Liberty Records singles.
Prudence McIntyre died on September 15, 2023, at the age of 78.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence_McIntyre
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Francesco “Franco” Migliacci (October 28, 1930 – September 15, 2023) was an Italian lyricist, producer, and actor.
Migliacci studied in Florence where his family had settled, here he entered in a competition for young players, in which he won a stay of three days to Cinecittà and a modest role in a film by Nino Taranto.
After this, he moved to Rome and the world of cinema where he worked in small parts in about 18 films.
In 1958, with Domenico Modugno, Migliacci co-authored the song “Nel blu, dipinto di blu”, aka “Volare”, which has become one of the most well-known Italian songs in the world. While the words of the title, “in the blue, painted blue,” seem to make no sense, they actually do when one understands the inspiration for the song came out of a wine fueled vision of Franco’s combining his memory of two Marc Chagall paintings and himself painted blue with the ability to fly.
Afterward, he worked in drama series for television and several radio plays. He was then the illustrator for The Pioneer children’s magazine directed by Gianni Rodari.
Franco Migliacci died on September 15, 2023, at the age of 92.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Migliacci
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OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
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September 2023
20: Yaacov Bergman, 78, Israeli conductor; Kent Stax, American drummer (Scream), cancer.
19: Lou Deprijck, 77, Belgian singer-songwriter (“Ça plane pour moi”), musician (Two Man Sound) and record producer; Stephen Gould, 61, American heldentenor*, cancer.
17: Aníbal de Peña, 90, Dominican singer, pianist and composer; Lies Adji Rachman, 78, Indonesian musician (Dara Puspita), complications from diabetes.
16: Nikolai Dobronravov, 94, Russian poet, lyricist (“And the Battle Is Going Again”, “Nezhnost'”), and actor (The Return of Vasili Bortnikov); Irish Grinstead, 43, American R&B singer (702); Milo Hrnic, 73, Croatian pop singer, infection; John Marshall, 82, English drummer (Nucleus, Soft Machine, Centipede).
15: Gökhan Abur, 80, Turkish musician, meteorologist and weather presenter; Prudence McIntyre, 78, American singer (Patience and Prudence); Franco Migliacci, 92, Italian lyricist (“Nel blu, dipinto di blu”, “La bambola”) and actor (Ladro lui, ladra lei); Suzanne Sarroca, 96, French operatic soprano; Paul Woseen, 56, Australian musician (The Screaming Jets) and songwriter (“Helping Hand”).
14: Robert Tree Cody, 72, American musician; Fred Lewis, 72, American percussionist (Lakeside).
13: Manik Bhide, 88, Indian Hindustani classical singer; Roger Whittaker, 87, British singer-songwriter (“Durham Town (The Leavin’)”, “I Don’t Believe in If Anymore”, “The Last Farewell”).
12: Beytocan, 67, Turkish-born Swedish Kurdish singer and musician, cancer; Brendan Croker, 70, English musician (The Notting Hillbillies), leukaemia; Kwak Soon-ok, 91, South Korean singer; MohBad, 27, Nigerian rapper, singer and songwriter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2023
* A helden-tenor (English: heroic tenor),earlier called tenor-bariton, is an operatic tenor voice, most often associated with Wagnerian repertoire.
It is distinct from other tenor fächer by its endurance, volume, and dark timbre, which may be, in its middle register, like that of a baritone. The voice may also sound clear or metallic. It is one of the rarest voice types in opera. Heldentenor roles, such as the title roles in Siegfried and Lohengrin, often require commanding stage presence and strong acting ability. In some cases, due to reasons such as voice misidentification, singers may begin their careers as baritones before later transitioning. The term heldentenor may be used to refer to both a singer and their voice.
The treble counterpart of the heldentenor is the Wagnerian soprano.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heldentenor
Photo: Patience & Prudence (d) | Publicity photo of Patience and Prudence, c1956, Liberty Recordings
Prudence McIntyre (Tonight You Belong To Me), and Franco Migliacci (Volare), Pass // Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths
