Robert Lrod Dorough was an American bebop and cool jazz vocalist, pianist, composer, songwriter, arranger, and producer.
14 Facts About Bob Dorough
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Robert Lrod Bob Dorough was born in Cherry Hill, Polk County, Arkansas and grew up in Plainview, Texas.
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From 1949 to 1952 Bob Dorough was a graduate student at Columbia University in New York City, and on the side played piano at local jazz clubs.
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Bob Dorough was hired for a tour by boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, who had interrupted his boxing career to pursue music.
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When Bob Dorough returned to the United States, he moved to Los Angeles, where he performed in various clubs, including a job between sets by comedian Lenny Bruce.
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Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis liked the album, and in 1962 when Columbia Records asked Davis to make a Christmas record, he sought out Bob Dorough to provide lyrics and vocals.
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In 1969, Bob Dorough participated as arranger, choir vocalist, and pianist for beat poet Allen Ginsberg's 1970 LP Songs of Innocence and Experience, a musical adaptation of William Blake's poetry collection of the same name.
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Bob Dorough got the job when advertiser David McCall asked him in 1969 to put the multiplication tables to music, with "Three Is a Magic Number" earning him the job as the series' musical director.
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Bob Dorough wrote all the songs for Multiplication Rock, the first of six eventual subject areas.
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Bob Dorough was a partner for many years with Stuart Scharf, producing two albums for the folk-pop band Spanky and Our Gang and adding jazz arrangements to their sound.
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Bob Dorough was the vocalist for The 44th Street Portable Flower Factory, recording cover versions of popular music for Scholastic Records in the early 1970s.
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Bob Dorough continued to do occasional work intended for children.
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Bob Dorough wrote an illustrated book of Blue Xmas and three songs to accompany Maureen Sullivan's books about Carlos the French bulldog: Ankle Soup, Custard and Mustard and Christmas Feet.
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Bob Dorough died on April 23,2018, at his home in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, at the age of 94.