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Eartha Kitt

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Aliases
Eartha Kitt and Orch.
Real name
Eartha Mae Keith
Born
January 17, 1927
Died
December 25, 2008
Country
United States
IPI
00334140798 1 work
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
Jazz / traditional pop / cabaret singer and actress. Kitt's mother was of Cherokee and African American ancestry, and Kitt was the product of her mother's rape by a white man.
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Originals

Title Performer Release date Covered by
May 1957 (2 artists)
1954 Dick Dixon and The Roommates
May 1955 (11 artists)
Hey Jacque Eartha Kitt September 1955 Unverified
September 1959 (2 artists)
September 1955 Marti Brom
September 1955 Ana Gasteyer
1953 (16 artists)
November 1955 Ellen ten Damme & The Magpie Orchestra
1956 (6 artists)
 REL June 1953 (57 artists)
Originally by Hope Foye PRF
1952 (21 artists)
1954 Shaynee Rainbolt
October 1953 (389 artists)
January 1954 (10 artists)
September 1955 Ulla Sjöblom med Gunnar Svenssons Orkester
May 1956 Vieno Kekkonen
Waray Waray Eartha Kitt 1965 Missing information
1983 (3 artists)

Covers by Eartha Kitt

Title Performer Release date Originally by
1962 Edith Piaf, Bob Sands with Orchestra conducted by Bill Loose
1994 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
November 24, 2014 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
1989 Eric Carmen
  September 1962 Lisa Kirk PRF,REL, Dinah Shore - Orchestra under the direction of Harry Zimmerman REC
June 1953 (unknown), Toña la Negra
1953 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
1958 Sara Martin and Clarence Williams Blue Five
1965 Yves Montand BRD, Cora Vaucaire - Au piano : M. Philippe-Gérard REL, Jo Stafford with Orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney
June 1953 Alberto Ribeiro e Seu Conjunto, (unknown)
1958 Prince's Band
  1965 Emilio Tuero PRF, Los Cadetes del Swing REC,REL
  1994 Rex Weber PRF, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC
1958 (unknown)
1970 Donovan
1965 Lilo and Peter Cookson
  1994 Jacques Hélian & son orchestre - Chant Jean Marco REC, Suzy Delair PRF
  June 1953 Jacques Hélian & son orchestre - Chant Jean Marco REC, Suzy Delair PRF
1958 (unknown)
1962 Lucienne Boyer - Orchestre : M. Iza Volpin, (unknown)
1965 Trío González
1994 Peggy Lee
1965 Rosemary Clooney with Stan Freeman, Mundell Lowe, Jimmy Crawford & Frank Carroll
  1965 Ana María González con acompañamiento de orquesta REC,REL, Pedro Infante BRD
  September 1962 Dorothy Shay and Her Kinfolk - Orchestra under the Direction of George Wyle REL, Carol Channing PRF
  September 1962 Irene Bordoni PRF, Ray Miller and His Orchestra REC
1965 (unknown)
1989 Grace Jones
  1962 Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC, James Stewart and Eleanor Powell [dubbed by Marjorie Lane] BRD
1965 (unknown)
1958 (unknown)
1991 Billie Holiday
1994 Billie Holiday
1965 Tito Guizar con guitarras
1965 June Carroll
  1962 Ethel Waters BRD, Woody Herman and His Orchestra - Vocal by Frances Wayne REC,REL
1994 Shirley Horn with Strings
1990 Jack Jones
1958 Prince's Band
1965 Libertad Lamarque
May 1956 Moon Mullican with Boyd Bennett and His Rockets
1965 Fred Astaire and Jane Powell accompanied by Johnny Green and the M-G-M Studio Orchestra
How Many Times Eartha Kitt 1991 Unverified
1970 Donovan
  1989 Yvonne DeCarlo REL,PRF
1965 Lupita Palomera - Orquesta Gonzalo Curiel
  September 1959 Sydney Chaplin and Ensemble REL,PRF
September 1959 Leroy Carr
1962 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
1970 Niní Cáffaro
September 1962 Dinah Shore - Orchestra under the direction of Harry Zimmerman
October 17, 2006 Dick Powell & Alice Faye
  1962 Virginia Bruce BRD, Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC
1990 Gloria Gaynor
1965 Roland Gerbeau – Orchestre, direction Guy Luypaerts, Keely Smith with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra
Johnny Eartha Kitt 1956 Unverified
1965 El Jarocho
1965 (unknown)
September 1962 Nino Rota
La Vie En Rose Eartha Kitt 2008 Unverified
1956 Kaye Ballard
  1954 Irving Aaronson and His Commanders REC, Irene Bordoni and Arthur Margetson PRF
1994 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
1956 Hermínia Silva, Alan Dale with Chorus and Orchestra directed by Dick Jacobs
1962 Irving Kaufman
1958 (unknown)
September 1955 Queenie Smith
  September 1962 Kathryn Crawford, June Shafer, Ida Pearson and Stella Friend PRF, Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by The Three Waring Girls REC
1991 George Shearing Quintet, Ella Fitzgerald - Chorus and Orchestra directed by Sy Oliver
1956 George Shearing Quintet, Ella Fitzgerald - Chorus and Orchestra directed by Sy Oliver
September 1959 Harald Paulsen mit Orchesterbegleitung REL, Kurt Gerron PRF, Gerald Price
  1965 Audrey Hepburn BRD, Henry Mancini and His Orchestra and Chorus REC,REL
  June 1953 Mary Martin with Lute Song Orchestra under direction of Raymond Scott REL, Mary Martin and Yul Brynner PRF
  1991 Fairchild and Carroll and Their Orchestra REL, Mitzi Green PRF
  1994 Fairchild and Carroll and Their Orchestra REL, Mitzi Green PRF
1954 Mary Martin
  1965 Mistinguett, Fanny Brice REC,PRF
1970 Herman's Hermits
September 1962 Melina Mercouri, Lyn Cornell - Accompaniment directed by Ian Fraser
  1991 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Fred Astaire REC, Fred Astaire PRF
  1994 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Fred Astaire REC, Fred Astaire PRF
1965 Pedro Vargas con la orquesta de Maestro Esparza Oteo
November 1955 Art Mooney and His Orchestra - Vocal by Barry Gordon
1970 Marco Antonio Muñiz, La Lupe
1970 (unknown), Toña la Negra
Covered by Imany
1960 Margit Carlqvist
1962 Eartha Kitt with Henri René and His Orchestra
  1962 Walter Huston PRF, Walter Huston - Orchestra Conducted by Maurice De Abravanel REC,REL
  1991 Tamara PRF, Gertrude Niesen with orchestral acc dir. by Ray Sinatra REC
  1954 Tamara PRF, Gertrude Niesen with orchestral acc dir. by Ray Sinatra REC
  1994 Tamara PRF, Gertrude Niesen with orchestral acc dir. by Ray Sinatra REC
1994 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
1962 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
  1994 Mary Martin and Kenny Baker REL, Kurt Weill REC
  1962 Mary Martin and Kenny Baker REL, Kurt Weill REC
1958 (unknown)
1958 Prince's Band
May 1955 Bobby Capo, S. Bolivar Orchestra and Barry Frank
1965 Os Cariocas REL, João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes PRF, Stan Getz & João Gilberto featuring Antônio Carlos Jobim
September 1955 Léo Ferré
Covered by (5 artists)
  1965 Kate Smith REC, Ann Sothern BRD
1958 Victor Military Band, (unknown)
1994 Chick Bullock accompanied by His Orchestra
1965 Eddie Barclay et son grand orchestre, Betty Johnson
1965 Sammy Davis, Jr.
October 1953 Georgel
Covered by (3 artists)
April 1953 (unknown)
1970 Donovan
September 1962 Dinah Shore
October 17, 2006 Elsie Carlisle
1994 Lillian Taiz and Inez Courtney
Wonderful Illusion Eartha Kitt 1962 Unverified
September 1959 (unknown), Katherine Dunham and Ensemble, The Norman Luboff Choir
1958 Prince's Band
  1994 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC,REL, Fay Templeton PRF
August 1957 (unknown)
Covered by (3 artists)
  1991 Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Cool REC, Dinah Shore with Orchestra conducted by Paul Wetstein REL
1962 Alice Faye

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