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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.
Robert Earl Short (July 20, 1917 – November 20, 1982) was an American businessman, sport teams owner, and politician. Short owned the Minneapolis / Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association and the Washington Senators / Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball .
Bobby Short chronology; Bobby Short on the East Side (1960) My Personal Property (1963) Jump for Joy (1969) My Personal Property is a 1963 album by American singer ...
Feyer was succeeded by Bobby Short, who performed there five days a week [224] and eight months a year; [225] Short gave regular performances until 2004, [23] [226] the year before his death. [227] During Short's time at the Cafe Carlyle, the club became increasingly known as a jazz club, differentiating itself from the city's many other supper ...
A 1973 recording by Bobby Short from the album Live at the Café Carlyle [4] was used in the 1993 film Manhattan Murder Mystery. [5] British-born singer Dorothy Carless closes her album Mixed Emotions (1956) with the song.
The song, written by series star Carroll O'Connor and performed by Bobby Short, begins Sweet's heroic quest to see that justice is served before the aging murderer of his grandfather is allowed to pass away, taking his secret with him. [3] [4] Most notable was the name of one of the characters in the episode, the retired sheriff, Nathan Bedford.
Instead, Short performed a combination of recent songs from Broadway and old, bluesy numbers. The latter seemed to draw the greatest enthusiasm from him as he revisited some tunes he might have played in Midwest roadhouses back in his youth, songs like "Romance in the Dark," "I'm Confessin' That I Love You," and the newly trendy "If You're a ...
Bobby Short (1924–2005), American cabaret singer and pianist; Rob Short (born 1972), Canadian field hockey player; Robert Short (East India Company officer) (1783–1859), British officer in the Honourable East India Company; Robert L. Short (1932–2009), American clergyman and writer; Robert McCawley Short (1904–1932), American aviator