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Jackie & Roy

Jackie & Roy has been played on NTS in shows including Black Classical , featured first on 4 July 2016. Songs played include Deus Brasileiro, Samba Do Aviao and Loving You.

Jackie and Roy was a jazz vocal team consisting of husband and wife singer Jackie Cain (born May 22, 1928 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died September 15, 2014 in Montclair, New Jersey) and singer/pianist Roy Kral (born October 10, 1921 in Cicero, Illinois; died August 2, 2002 also in Montclair, New Jersey).

They first joined forces in 1946. Jackie and Roy's stint with Charlie Ventura's band in 1948 and 1949 brought them a great deal of recognition; Lou Stein's "East of Suez" was an unusual feature for their voices. Shortly after leaving Ventura in June 1949, they were married and worked together on a regular basis thereafter. Jackie and Roy had their own television show in Chicago in the early 1950s, worked in Las Vegas from 1957 to 1960, settled in New York in 1963, and appeared on some television commercials. They recorded many spirited jazz performances for a variety of labels through the decades, and performed into the 2000s until Kral's death in August 2002. Fairly early in their career, Jackie and Roy were befriended by composer Alec Wilder, who wrote the liner notes for one of their earliest albums, Jackie Cain and Roy Kral (1955). They had always favored Wilder's songs and, ten years after his death, paid tribute by recording an entire album of them, An Alec Wilder Collection.

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Jackie & Roy

Jackie & Roy has been played on NTS in shows including Black Classical , featured first on 4 July 2016. Songs played include Deus Brasileiro, Samba Do Aviao and Loving You.

Jackie and Roy was a jazz vocal team consisting of husband and wife singer Jackie Cain (born May 22, 1928 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died September 15, 2014 in Montclair, New Jersey) and singer/pianist Roy Kral (born October 10, 1921 in Cicero, Illinois; died August 2, 2002 also in Montclair, New Jersey).

They first joined forces in 1946. Jackie and Roy's stint with Charlie Ventura's band in 1948 and 1949 brought them a great deal of recognition; Lou Stein's "East of Suez" was an unusual feature for their voices. Shortly after leaving Ventura in June 1949, they were married and worked together on a regular basis thereafter. Jackie and Roy had their own television show in Chicago in the early 1950s, worked in Las Vegas from 1957 to 1960, settled in New York in 1963, and appeared on some television commercials. They recorded many spirited jazz performances for a variety of labels through the decades, and performed into the 2000s until Kral's death in August 2002. Fairly early in their career, Jackie and Roy were befriended by composer Alec Wilder, who wrote the liner notes for one of their earliest albums, Jackie Cain and Roy Kral (1955). They had always favored Wilder's songs and, ten years after his death, paid tribute by recording an entire album of them, An Alec Wilder Collection.

Original source: Last.fm

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Deus Brasileiro
Jackie & Roy
Capitol Records1968
Samba Do Aviao
Jackie Cain & Roy Kral
Jazzed Media2007
Loving You
Jackie And Roy
Concord Jazz1982
Samba Triste = Sad Samba
Jackie And Roy
Verve Records1967
Let Me Love You
Jackie And Roy
ABC-Paramount1959
Seven Hills
Jackie & Roy
Concord Jazz1980
So It's Spring
Jackie And Roy, Bill Holman's Orchestra
ABC-Paramount1958
The Word
Jackie & Roy
Verve Records1966
Day By Day
Jackie & Roy
King Records2013