en.unionpedia.org

The Blue Angel (New York nightclub), the Glossary

The Blue Angel, also known as the Blue Angel Supper Club, was a New York City nightclub founded in April 1943 and closed in 1964.^[1]

53 relations: Alice Ghostley, Alice Pearce, Anita Ellis, Édith Piaf, Barbra Streisand, Bart Howard, Blossom Dearie, Blue Angels, Bobby Short, Carol Burnett, Cherub, Desegregation in the United States, Dick Gregory, Dorothy Loudon, Eartha Kitt, Eddie Mayehoff, Elaine May, Felicia Sanders, Florence Desmond, Fly Me to the Moon, Gale Garnett, Go-go, Godfrey Cambridge, Gourmet, Greenwich Village, Harry Belafonte, Ian Tyson, Irène Bordoni, Johnny Mathis, Lexington Avenue, Mabel Mercer, Martha Davis (singer), Max Gordon (Village Vanguard founder), Mildred Bailey, Mort Sahl, Nichols and May, Park Avenue, Pearl Bailey, Peter, Paul and Mary, Phyllis Diller, Proscenium, Shelley Berman, Sylvia Tyson, The Ed Sullivan Show, The New Yorker, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Weavers, Tonight Starring Jack Paar, Vaughn Meader, Village Vanguard, ... Expand index (3 more) »
1943 establishments in New York City
1964 disestablishments in New York (state)
Comedy clubs in the United States
Defunct nightclubs in New York (state)
Nightclubs in New York City
Restaurants disestablished in 1964
Restaurants established in 1943

Alice Ghostley

Alice Margaret Ghostley (August 14, 1923 – September 21, 2007) was an American actress and singer on stage, film and television.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Alice Ghostley

Alice Pearce

Alice Pearce (October 16, 1917 – March 3, 1966) was an American actress.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Alice Pearce

Anita Ellis

Anita Ellis (née Kert, later Shapiro; April 12, 1920 – October 28, 2015) was a Canadian-born American singer and actress.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Anita Ellis

Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion; 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Édith Piaf

Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Barbra Streisand

Bart Howard (born Howard Joseph Gustafson, June 1, 1915 – February 21, 2004) was an American composer and songwriter, most notably of the jazz standard "Fly Me to the Moon", which has been performed by Kaye Ballard, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Della Reese, Bobby Womack, Diana Krall, Paul Anka, June Christy, Brenda Lee, Astrud Gilberto, Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Sia and RAYE among others.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Bart Howard

Blossom Dearie

Margrethe Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Blossom Dearie

Blue Angels

The Blue Angels, formally named the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, are a flight demonstration squadron of the United States Navy.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Blue Angels

Bobby Short

Robert Waltrip Short (September 15, 1924 – March 21, 2005) 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. The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Bobby Short are Nightlife in New York City.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Bobby Short

Carol Burnett

Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American comedian, actress, and singer.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Carol Burnett

Cherub

A cherub (cherubim; כְּרוּב kərūḇ, pl. כְּרוּבִים kərūḇīm, are one of the unearthly beings in Abrahamic religions. The numerous depictions of cherubim assign to them many different roles, such as protecting the entrance of the Garden of Eden.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Cherub

Desegregation in the United States

Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups, usually referring to races.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Desegregation in the United States

Dick Gregory

Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, activist and social critic.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Dick Gregory

Dorothy Loudon

Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1925 – November 15, 2003) was an American actress and singer.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Dorothy Loudon

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Mae Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer and actress known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby".

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Eartha Kitt

Eddie Mayehoff

Edward Mier Mayehoff (July 7, 1909 – November 12, 1992) was an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Harold Lampson, the henpecked husband and incompetent lawyer in How to Murder Your Wife (1965).

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Eddie Mayehoff

Elaine May

Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American comedian, filmmaker, playwright, and actress.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Elaine May

Felicia Sanders

Felicia Sanders (born Felice Schwartz; April 26, 1921 – February 7, 1975) was a singer and musician of traditional pop.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Felicia Sanders

Florence Desmond

Florence Dawson (31 May 1905 – 16 January 1993), better known by her stage name Florence Desmond, was an English actress, comedian and impersonator.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Florence Desmond

Fly Me to the Moon

"Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Fly Me to the Moon

Gale Garnett

Gale Zoë Garnett (born 17 July 1942) is a New Zealand-born Canadian singer best known in the United States for her self-penned, Grammy-winning folk hit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine".

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Gale Garnett

Go-go

Go-go is a subgenre of funk music with an emphasis on specific rhythmic patterns, and live audience call and response.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Go-go

Godfrey Cambridge

Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 – November 29, 1976) was an American stand-up comic and actor.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Godfrey Cambridge

Gourmet

Gourmet is a cultural idea associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterized by their high level of refined and elaborate food preparation techniques and displays of balanced meals that have an aesthetically pleasing presentation of several contrasting, often quite rich courses.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Gourmet

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Greenwich Village

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Harry Belafonte

Ian Tyson

Ian Dawson Tyson (25 September 1933 – 29 December 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote several folk songs, including "Four Strong Winds" and "Someday Soon", and performed with partner Sylvia Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Ian Tyson

Irène Bordoni

Irène Bordoni (16 January 1885 – 19 March 1953) was a Franco-American actress and singer.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Irène Bordoni

Johnny Mathis

John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Johnny Mathis

Lexington Avenue

Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Lexington Avenue

Mabel Mercer

Mabel Mercer (3 February 1900 – 20 April 1984) was an English-born cabaret singer who performed in the United States, Britain, and Europe with the greats in jazz and cabaret.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Mabel Mercer

Martha Davis (singer)

Martha Davis (December 14, 1917 – April 6, 1960) was an American singer whose musical comedy act "Martha Davis & Spouse" was popular in the late 1940s and 1950s.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Martha Davis (singer)

Max Gordon (Village Vanguard founder)

Max Gordon (March 12, 1903 – May 11, 1989) was an American jazz promoter and founder of the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Max Gordon (Village Vanguard founder)

Mildred Bailey

Mildred Bailey (born Mildred Rinker; February 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951) was a Native American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "The Queen of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady", and "Mrs.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Mildred Bailey

Mort Sahl

Morton Lyon Sahl (May 11, 1927 – October 26, 2021) was a Canadian-born Jewish American comedian, actor, and social satirist, considered the first modern comedian.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Mort Sahl

Nichols and May

Nichols and May was an American improvisational comedy duo act developed by Mike Nichols (1931–2014) and Elaine May (born 1932).

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Nichols and May

Park Avenue

Park Avenue is a boulevard in New York City that carries north and southbound traffic in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Park Avenue

Pearl Bailey

Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress, singer and author.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Pearl Bailey

Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mary were an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival phenomenon.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Peter, Paul and Mary

Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Phyllis Diller

Proscenium

A proscenium (προσκήνιον) is the metaphorical vertical plane of space in a theatre, usually surrounded on the top and sides by a physical proscenium arch (whether or not truly "arched") and on the bottom by the stage floor itself, which serves as the frame into which the audience observes from a more or less unified angle the events taking place upon the stage during a theatrical performance.

See The Blue Angel (New York nightclub) and Proscenium

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Angel_(New_York_nightclub)

, Woody Allen, YouTube, 55th Street (Manhattan).

The Blue Angel (New York nightclub), the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

1943 establishments in New York City

1964 disestablishments in New York (state)

Comedy clubs in the United States

Defunct nightclubs in New York (state)

Nightclubs in New York City

Restaurants disestablished in 1964

Restaurants established in 1943

References