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From Hal Leonard, the world's leader in sheet music publishing, the Blossom Dearie Songbook!

Tracks include: Bring All Your Love Along, Bye-Bye Country Boy, Deed I Do, I Like You, You're Nice, I Won't Dance, I'm Shadowing You, Inside A Silent Tear, It Might As Well Be Spring, Long Daddy Green,

(There Ought To Be A) Moonlight Saving Time, Once Upon A Summertime, Peel Me A Grape, Sweet Georgie Fame, Touch The Hand Of Love, Winchester In Apple Blossom Time.

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Merry Christmas from BlossomDearie.com! We had the good fortune to learn that Elton John named his new million-dollar piano after Blossom, as well as a special tribute is planned by Kyline Minogue and the BBC Radio on December 22. It's been a wonderful year! The songbook(above) is in print with a new edition, and the Christmas CD is available, too! Please browse our online store(link below) and enjoy this website.

Find Collectibles and More in the Online Store! (click here)

You'll also find many of the Daffodil Records CDs, collectibles, and special sale prices on Verve and Fontana CDs. Visit our store today!

The song you hear playing, "Christmas" was written by Blossom and her brother

Walter W. Birchett and appears on the CD, Christmas Spice So Very Nice,

available from us. (see link above)

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Now Available in partnership with Amazon.com Webstores: CDs, LPs and signed posters and other memorabilia.

Rare and one of a kind items from Blossom's estate are available as well!

Products like Blossom's LPs, Signed Photos are very

limited in quantity, so please order soon!

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e-mail us at: daffodilrecords_yahoo.com.

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Blossom's Personal Digital Piano!

This piano, an electric Yamaha YPP-50 resided in Blossom's country home and was used for rehearsing her live shows during her time off as well as songwriting for the CD Blossom's Planet. Outside of the significant value as a piece of Blossom Dearie memorabilia, the piano is in pristine condition, it looks and plays beautifully!

Make an offer for this absolutely one of a kind item to: DaffodilRecords_yahoo.com (Minimum $700.00)

This will require special packaging and shipping, and will be sent by UPS Ground. International Shipping will be more than U.S. Domestic shipping. This will be discussed upon purchase.

Only Certified Bank Checks or Money Orders, in U.S. Funds, will be accepted.

Biography

About Blossom, a biograpy in progress

Blossom Dearie (her real name) was born in 1924, in a little village, in the Catskill Mountains of New York state. Her older brothers heralded her arrival by filling the house with pear blossoms, and she was named Blossom Margrete(after her mother)Dearie. She was proudly of Scottish(Dearie) and Norwegian descent. At the age of two she was able to pick out songs on the family piano, and spent most of her young years finding laps to sit on at the piano to do just that. Her mother remarked that unlike most children who would bang at the keys when in front of a piano, Blossom thoughtfully played songs from ear and memory. Lessons began around age five and she studied classical music until her teens, when she switched to jazz. Influenced by what she called, “the wonderful music of the time,” she was a popular performer, as part of a group, at local high school dances.In the late 40s, Blossom traveled to New York City where she spent time in vocal groups with bandleaders like Alvino Rey, and also accompanied other singers as well as played in between headlining acts at new york clubs. Blossom marked the starting point of her career as 1950 when she sat down and paired piano, with voice, in a little club in Greenwich Village. Her friend Tony Bennett stopped in often.From New York she traveled to Paris and could be found with peers Annie Ross, Bobby Short and dear friend, Bob Dorough at the Mars Club. She recorded an album for Nicole and Eddie Barclay, and when Norman Granz stopped in and heard her; he asked that she record for him when she returned to the States.What followed were six phenomenal albums for Verve Records. Blossom Dearie, Give Him The Ooh La La, Once Upon A Summertime, Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs, Sings Comden and Green, and her favorite, My Gentleman Friend. My Gentleman friend featured her husband, Belgian flautist Bobby Jaspar, who passed away in 1963.In the 1960s Blossom shared the bill with Miles Davis, six times, at the Village Vanguard. Blossom recorded an album for Capitol Records entitled “May I Come In.” She also recorded four albums for Fontana in England. Her favorite of those was the live album, “Blossom Time and Ronnie Scott’s.”The 1970s saw Blossom transition from a club performer to a concert performer. She increasingly controlled the environment in which she presented her music. Special sets for listeners who were more than just fans to her, but family. She recorded the "hit" Schoolhouse Rock songs, "Figure Eight" and "Unpack Your Adjectives" and in 1974, Daffodil Records released “Blossom Dearie Sings” featuring music written entirely by Blossom, it is now available on our “Blossom’s Own Treasures” CD set. Subsequent recordings were the favorites, “From the Meticulous to the Sublime,” “My New Celebrity Is You,”(title track written by and given to Blossom from the great Johnny Mercer) “Winchester In Apple Blossom Time” and also recent recordings like the vocal jazz favorites “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” which featured Mike Renzi as her co-arranger and keyboardist, and “Blossom’s Planet,” a Brazilian influenced recording featuring music from Blossom and Michel Legrand, as well as Sting, Ivan Lins and of course Jobim. Many have commented that her version of Jobim’s “Wave” is the definitive one. A perennial favorite among fans(and overhead in restaurants and stores) is “Christmas Spice So Very Nice”.Sadly, Blossom Dearie gave her last performances in early 2007, when illness forced her into retirement. She passed away, peacefully, at her Greenwich Village home in February of 2009. She is survived by her brother, Barney, a niece and nephew, and her longtime(and acclaimed)musicians Dave Silliman and Ray Kilday. Blossom’s family and associates are working hard to keep her music available and her spirit alive. Look for more information, collectibles and memorabilia, as well as photos and new releases at www.BlossomDearie.com.
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In the studio

Late 70s

Figure Eight

Clinton White House

Unpack Your Adjectives

Ronnie Scott's -1960s

Ms. Magazine - LA

London -1960s

1957

Final CD cover

with Bob Dorough

NYC - 1983

San Francisco - 1985

Winchester - 1977

Kraft Music Hall TV Show

Hires Root Beer Session

Blossom with Norman Granz

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We just discovered a file of rarely seen publicity and live photos of Blossom. We are working to scan and upload them. If you have an image you would like to share, please contact us!

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