For over six decades she has been a singer of Broadway, jazz, pop, and an important interpreter of the Great American Songbook, which includes George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin.
Her cousin Neil Sedaka is well-known, and even the guy she went to high school with, Stanley Kubrick is, but not Eydie. I fell in love with her voice over 40 years ago when she was half way through the first track on her album Gorme sings Show Stoppers and I've been hooked ever since. It was the first time I knew that it was possible to fall in love with a voice.
Through the help of Google, and You Tube, I have made the delightful discovery that Eydie Gorme is much loved by gay men in the U.S. By searching for Eydie on Google Blog, it appears that many of the bloggers turn out to be gay men, who not only adore Eydie, but her husband Steve Lawrence also, who seems to have played a part in their early days of discovering their homosexuality. As one blogger said "she is a great singer, he is pretty". As Steve and Eydie have now been married, and singing together, for over 50 years, they have become Camp entertainment, as they are among the only few living singers of the Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis jnr, and Dean Martin era. In fact they did a world tour with Frank Sinatra in the early 1990s.
Eydie Gorme: A tribute to a neglected gay icon
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