Who was the female singer in Jefferson Airplane
"The Worst of Jefferson Airplane The Worst of Jefferson Airplane is the first compilation album from the rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in November 1970 as RCA Victor LSP-4459. The album features all of Jefferson Airplane's hit singles up to that point. It peaked at #12 on the ""Billboard"" 200 in 1971 and has since gone platinum. In 1970, the band underwent a period of inactivity because of internal personnel conflict and pursuit of individual projects. Drummer Spencer Dryden was ousted from the group, Marty Balin found his commitment to the band he had started becoming tenuous, Grace Slick was"
"Signe Toly Anderson Signe Toly Anderson ( ; September 15, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American singer who was one of the founding members of the American rock band Jefferson Airplane. Anderson was born Signe Toly in Seattle, Washington, on September 15, 1941. At age three, her parents divorced, and she relocated with her mother to Portland, Oregon, where she was raised. Anderson sang in a band with three male musicians whom she had known in high school under the name Three Guys and a Gal. The group performed at a campaign event for John F. Kennedy in"
"was our den mother in the early days of the Airplane… a voice of reason on more occasions than one… an important member of our dysfunctional little family. I always looked forward to seeing her when we played the Aladdin in Portland. She never complained and was always a joy."" Signe Toly Anderson Signe Toly Anderson ( ; September 15, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American singer who was one of the founding members of the American rock band Jefferson Airplane. Anderson was born Signe Toly in Seattle, Washington, on September 15, 1941. At age three, her parents"
"Marty Balin Marty Balin (; born Martyn Jerel Buchwald; January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the founder and one of the lead singers and songwriters of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. Balin was born Martyn Jerel Buchwald in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Catherine Eugenia ""Jean"" (née Talbot) and Joseph Buchwald. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Eastern Europe. His father was Jewish and his mother was Episcopalian. Buchwald attended Washington High School in San Francisco, California. In 1962, Buchwald changed his name to Marty Balin, and began recording with"
"Anderson performed for the first two days, with the night concert on Saturday archived on the live album, ""Signe's Farewell"". Grace's Debut Grace's Debut is a live album by the American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane and released on Collector's Choice Records on October 11, 2010. The album features Grace Slick's first performance with the band after she replaced their former female-vocalist, Signe Toly Anderson. Arguably the turning point of Jefferson Airplane's career, the event leading to Slick's entry into the group was on the weekend of October 14–16, 1966, when the band played at the Filmore Auditorium on a"
"Cathy Richardson Catherine E. ""Cathy"" Richardson (born February 21, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and narrator from the Chicago suburbs in Illinois. She is the lead singer for the band Jefferson Starship and her own Cathy Richardson Band, and has performed the Janis Joplin parts for Joplin's former band Big Brother and the Holding Company. Richardson grew up in west suburban Burr Ridge, Illinois, Before starting her music career, Richardson worked as an auto mechanic and as a cashier at her father's gas station. The Cathy Richardson Band was voted Best Local Band in the ""Chicago Tribune"" readers"
"Grace's Debut Grace's Debut is a live album by the American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane and released on Collector's Choice Records on October 11, 2010. The album features Grace Slick's first performance with the band after she replaced their former female-vocalist, Signe Toly Anderson. Arguably the turning point of Jefferson Airplane's career, the event leading to Slick's entry into the group was on the weekend of October 14–16, 1966, when the band played at the Filmore Auditorium on a triple bill, preceded by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and followed by Big Mama Thornton for two shows a day."
"Jefferson Airplane to be regarded as the archetype ""60s Sound"". In 1968-69, the band often toured with The Doors. They were also one of the opening acts for Eric Burdon and the Animals in 1968. One of their best-known recordings is a version of the traditional folk song ""Motherless Child"". It appeared on their debut album, ""Sweetwater"", the band's only album to chart nationally in the U.S.. As the band progressed, they developed music more toward the psychedelic folk genre. The original members of the band were Nancy ""Nansi"" Nevins (lead vocals/guitar), August Burns (cello), Albert Moore (flute/backing vocals), Alan"
"version of this song is on the album ""Jefferson Airplane Takes Off"", with Signe Anderson as the lead vocalist. It is performed at a faster tempo and uses only three of the four verses. Anderson performed the song with strong contralto vocals. According to Jeff Tamarkin, author of ""Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane"", ""Chauffeur Blues"" was picked by Anderson from an album by the South African folksinger Miriam Makeba. It was not included in the repertoire of Jefferson Airplane's early gigs and was performed only occasionally. It was last performed by the Airplane on October 15,"
"November 1959. Anderson was a locally known and well-respected jazz and folk singer in San Francisco, where Marty Balin heard her perform and invited her to join his band, soon named ""Jefferson Airplane"". Soon after joining the Airplane, she married one of the Merry Pranksters, Jerry Anderson, a marriage that lasted from 1965 to 1974. She sang on the first Jefferson Airplane album, ""Jefferson Airplane Takes Off"", most notably on the song ""Chauffeur Blues"". Anderson distrusted the Airplane's original manager, Matthew Katz, and refused to sign a contract with him until he inserted a special escape clause freeing her from"
"1988 over authorship of the song, with claims made on behalf of vaudeville actress Peggy Thorne, pianist of the Musician's Lodge, Les Woods, and New Zealander Bill White. The jingle was first sung in the early 1930s on the Goodie Reeve radio show by three-year-old Jennifer Paykel. As the commercials were broadcast live, Paykel was taken to the studio two or three times per week to sing the jingle. Paykel's mother did not renew her contract because, according to Paykel, ""Shirley Temple was all the rage and my mother was terrified I might become a public figure like her"". Aeroplane"
"Grace Slick Grace Barnett Slick (born October 30, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, artist, and former model, widely known in rock and roll history for her role in San Francisco's burgeoning psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s. Her music career spanned four decades. She performed with The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship. She also had a sporadic solo career. Slick provided vocals on a number of iconic songs, including ""Somebody to Love,"" ""White Rabbit,"" ""We Built This City,"" and ""Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now."" Grace Barnett Wing was born October 30, 1939, in the Chicago suburb"
"Airplane before they became known internationally and before Grace Slick joined. Other tracks include ""Bert's Blues"" (a tribute to Bert Jansch), ""Guinevere"", and ""Legend of a Girl Child Linda"", a track featuring voice, acoustic guitar and a small orchestra for over six minutes. The album also features the sitar, which was played by American folk-rock singer Shawn Phillips. Donovan met Phillips in London in 1965, and he became a friend and early collaborator, playing acoustic guitar and sitar on recordings including ""Sunshine Superman"" as well as accompanying Donovan at concerts and on Pete Seeger's TV show. Creatively, Phillips served as"
"Elsie Janis Elsie Janis (March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as ""the sweetheart of the AEF"" (American Expeditionary Force). Born Elsie Bierbower (or Beerbower) in Marion, Ohio, she first took to the stage at age 2. By age 11, she was a headliner on the vaudeville circuit, performing under the name ""Little Elsie"". As she matured, using the stage name Elsie Janis, she began perfecting her comedic skills. Acclaimed by American and British critics, Janis was a headliner on Broadway and London."
"was ranked number 20 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll in 1999. with Paul Kantner Other appearances Grace Slick Grace Barnett Slick (born October 30, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, artist, and former model, widely known in rock and roll history for her role in San Francisco's burgeoning psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s. Her music career spanned four decades. She performed with The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship. She also had a sporadic solo career. Slick provided vocals on a number of iconic songs, including ""Somebody to Love,"" ""White Rabbit,"" ""We Built"
"Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, civil rights activist, actress, and pianist. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was minister. At the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career recording for Columbia Records. However, she achieved only modest success. She found acclaim and commercial success after signing with Atlantic Records in 1966. Hit songs such as ""Respect"", ""Chain of Fools"", ""Think"", ""(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"", ""I Never Loved"
"as vocalist with Jefferson Starship on PBS's 2011 ""60s Pop, Rock & Soul"" television show, performing ""White Rabbit"" and ""Somebody to Love"". Cathy Richardson along with members of The Insiders Cathy Richardson Catherine E. ""Cathy"" Richardson (born February 21, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and narrator from the Chicago suburbs in Illinois. She is the lead singer for the band Jefferson Starship and her own Cathy Richardson Band, and has performed the Janis Joplin parts for Joplin's former band Big Brother and the Holding Company. Richardson grew up in west suburban Burr Ridge, Illinois, Before starting her music"
"Surrealistic Pillow Surrealistic Pillow is the second album by American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released on February 1, 1967, by RCA Victor (LSP-3766 [stereo] and LPM-3766 [mono]). It is the first album by the band with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden. The album peaked at number three on the ""Billboard"" album chart and has been certified a gold album by the RIAA. Original drummer Alexander ""Skip"" Spence had left the band in mid-1966. He was soon replaced by Dryden, an experienced Los Angeles jazz drummer and the half-nephew of Charlie Chaplin. New female vocalist Slick, formerly with another"
"wrote: ""The Summer of Love had an empress, and her name was Janis Joplin."" Women, in a few cases, enjoyed an equal status with men as stars in the San Francisco rock scene—but these few instances signaled a shift that has continued in the U.S. music scene. Both Grace Slick (singing with Jefferson Airplane) and Joplin (singing initially with Big Brother & the Holding Company) gained a substantial following locally and, before long, across the country. Another woman singer (and songwriter), Stevie Nicks, as a child had recurrently moved in the U.S. with her family. Coming of age in the"
"Bob Jones has recalled that ""Bev had this husky kind of voice, and somehow there's this old soul in there"". Bivens' performances on the album ""You Were On My Mind"" and in concert largely foreshadowed a female vocal style that, by 1967, was associated with, among others, Elaine ""Spanky"" McFarlane, Grace Slick of the Great Society and Jefferson Airplane, and Cass Elliot and Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas. Bivens was said to have inspired Jefferson Airplane's original vocalist Signe Toly Anderson, who was already well established on San Francisco's jazz and folk scene before joining the Airplane."
"were not involved in the accident. He was survived by his wife, Lauren. Joey Covington Joseph Edward ""Joey"" Covington (born Joseph Edward Michno; June 27, 1945 – June 4, 2013) was an American drummer, best known for his involvements with Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship. Though best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane, Electric Hot Tuna, and Jefferson Starship, Joey Covington (born Joseph Michno) had a long storied career starting at age 10 as a self-taught drummer/percussionist, along with becoming an award-winning songwriter and ultimately recording on over 22 albums, 16 went gold and platinum. Covington became"
"Jack Casady John William ""Jack"" Casady (born April 13, 1944) is an American bass guitarist, best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Jefferson Airplane became the first successful exponent of the San Francisco Sound. Their singles, including ""Somebody to Love"" and ""White Rabbit"", had a more polished style than their other material, and successfully charted in 1967 and 1968. Casady, along with the other members of Jefferson Airplane, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Casady was born in Washington D.C., the son of Mary Virginia (""née"" Quimby) and William Robert"
"Janis Joplin Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970), nicknamed ""Pearl"", was an American rock, soul and blues singer and songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely known female rock stars of her era. After releasing three albums, she died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. A fourth album, ""Pearl"", was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death. It reached number one on the ""Billboard"" charts. In 1967, Joplin rose to fame during an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then"
"music, and they turned in a more psychedelic direction from their former folk-rock style. ""Surrealistic Pillow"" included new recordings of ""White Rabbit"" and ""Somebody to Love"", both of which became top 10 singles. Jefferson Airplane became one of the most popular bands in the country and earned Slick a position as one of the most prominent female rock musicians of her time. In 1968, Slick performed ""Crown of Creation"" on ""The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"" in blackface and ended the performance with a Black Panther fist. In an appearance on a 1969 episode of ""The Dick Cavett Show"", she became"
"Darby Gould Darby Marie Gould (aka Darby Venegas) is an American vocalist best known for her work with Jefferson Starship and World Entertainment War. Over the years she has developed a loyal following based on her passionate, soulful vocals and intense stage presence. The daughter of a minister father and a pianist mother, Darby Gould’s first experiences of singing in front of an audience occurred in church. At age 12 she joined her first band, Eclipse, in Tustin, California. In high school she also performed at weddings, musicals and sang the National Anthem at various events. Darby attended the University"
"Paul Kantner Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and occasional vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. He continued these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's successor band. Jefferson Airplane formed in 1965 when Kantner met Marty Balin. Kantner eventually became the leader of the group and led it through its highly successful late 1960s period. In 1970, while still active with Jefferson Airplane, Kantner and several Bay Area musicians recorded a one-off"
"Airplane's Icebag Corporation. ""Volunteers"" soon became a gold record and gave the song its greatest visibility since its early days as a hymn. The Airplane ""Good Shepherd"" has been described as ""an ageless representation of genius"". It was included on the band's 1970 greatest hits album ""The Worst of Jefferson Airplane"". The song's first live performance by Jefferson Airplane was on May 7, 1969, in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, but with Grace Slick singing lead and Kantner doing the backing vocal. Kaukonen would begin singing the lead two days later in Kansas City, and subsequently kept that role."
"Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Airplane, a rock band based in San Francisco, California, was one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock. Formed in 1965, the group defined the San Francisco Sound and was the first from the Bay Area to achieve international commercial success. They were headliners at the three most famous American rock festivals of the 1960s—Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969) and Altamont (1969)—and the first Isle of Wight Festival (1968) in England. Their 1967 break-out album ""Surrealistic Pillow"" ranks on the short list of the most significant recordings of the ""Summer of Love"". Two songs from that album, ""Somebody"
"New York Times"", she resided in Greenwich Village. Ethel Shutta Ethel Shutta (pronounced ""shoo-TAY""; December 1, 1896 — February 5, 1976) was an American actress and singer, who came to prominence through her performances on Jack Benny's radio show, her role in the early Eddie Cantor musical ""Whoopee!"", and her Broadway comeback in ""Follies"" at the age of 74. In a 1934 vote held by ""Radio Stars"", she came in second place, behind Annette Hanshaw, as the best ""female popular singer."" By age seven, she was known as ""the little girl with the big voice"". Together with her mother, Augusta,"
"Jane Froman Jane Froman (November 10, 1907 – April 22, 1980) was an American singer and actress. During her thirty-year career, Froman performed on stage, radio and television despite chronic injuries that she sustained in a 1943 plane crash. Her life story was told in the 1952 film ""With a Song in My Heart"". She was portrayed by Susan Hayward, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Ellen Jane Froman was born in University City, Missouri, the daughter of Anna Tillman (née Barcafer 1874–1962) and Elmer Ellsworth Froman (1868-1936). Her childhood and adolescence were"
"Balin did not perform at the band's following concert at Winterland Ballroom on October 5 in remembrance of his close friend but continued with the tour; nevertheless, he was growing increasingly frustrated with the band's drug use and ""playing that messed up cocained music."" Jefferson Airplane stopped touring in November 1970 as Grace Slick and Paul Kantner were about to have a child. China Kantner was born on January 25, 1971. ""Pretty as You Feel"" (culled from a longer jam with members of Santana) was recorded in January 1971, during Slick's convalescence, while Hot Tuna continued touring and recorded the"
"hostility of other band members towards her husband. Anderson's last live performances with the Jefferson Airplane were two sets on October 15, 1966 at The Fillmore. Both performances were recorded (as were most Fillmore shows) and have surfaced on some bootleg albums. At what seemed to be the end of the second set, Marty Balin announced that Anderson was leaving the group. Her farewell to the audience was: ""I want you all to wear smiles and daisies and box balloons. I love you all. Thank you and goodbye."" At several fans' request, Anderson and the band performed her signature number,"
"Cornelia Frances Jefferson Cornelia Frances Jefferson (' Cornelia Frances Thomas; 1 October 1796 in New York – 24 October 1848 in Philadelphia) was a famous early-American singer and prolific comic actress. She was known widely in her younger years as Mrs. Burke, which was the surname from her first marriage to Thomas Burke. Cornelia’s mother died when she was very young. Her father, who had been raised in affluence, lost everything and was very poor. He finally found employment in the service of Alexander Placide, ancestor of the family of famous actors bearing that name. Placide was then manager of"