| Dee Shipman | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, actress, singer |
| Years active | 1962 – present |
| Label(s) | Decca |
Dee Shipman is a songwriter who has worked with Charles Aznavour and Petula Clark, with whom she wrote the 1990 West End musical Someone Like You. A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Decca Records is a British Record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both Charles Aznavour OC ( Armenian: Շառլ Ազնավուր born Shahnour Varenagh Aznavourian (Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրյան Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932 is an English singer actress and Composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London 's "Theatreland" Someone Like You is a musical with a book by Robin Midgley and Fay Weldon, lyrics by Dee Shipman, and music by Petula Clark
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Career
Early Acting and Singing
Dee Shipman began her professional career as an actress and singer, both in the theatre, and on TV, where she appeared in series such as The Avengers (Propellant 23) and Emergency - Ward 10. The Avengers was a British Television series featuring Secret agents in 1960s Britain. Emergency Ward 10 was a British television series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. She then went on to a very successful career in radio, including co-presenting a weekly series for the BBC Teen Scene, and having two series of her own for Radio Luxembourg Ready Steady Radio and Kids Like Us. Radio Luxembourg is a commercial broadcaster in many languages from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. During this period Dee was signed to Decca Records, and released a single of Mel Tormé’s classic "Comin’ Home Baby!" Dee also wrote for the magazine Pop Weekly, in which she had her own weekly column. Decca Records is a British Record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Melvin Howard Tormé ( September 13, 1925 &ndash June 5, 1999) nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician known as
As a singer, Dee recorded a twelve track LP that was produced by Norman Newell. Norman Newell, OBE ( January 25 1919 — December 1 2004) was born in Plaistow, Essex (now Greater London The album featured such evergreen standards as "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?", "The Way You Look Tonight" and "One Hand, One Heart". " What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? " is a song with lyrics written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and original music written by Michel Legrand " The Way You Look Tonight " is a song featured in the film Swing Time, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936.
Dee has made several films, which included starring as Mrs. Burke in the 1972 motion picture Burke And Hare opposite Harry Andrews and Derren Nesbitt, and which Dee described as “Glamorous no! Culture no! But fun? YES!”
Song-writing
Dee first started writing lyrics when she began her song-writing collaboration with composer Roger Webb. Major Harry Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (born 10 November, 1911 - 6 March, 1989) was an English Actor Derren Nesbitt (born Derren Horwitz June 19, 1935) is an English Actor who was in demand in the 1960s and 1970s for roles that Their considerable output included writing "Sad Song Lady" for Blossom Dearie, "The Rainbow Bridge" for Danny Williams and "Making It By Myself" for the Kenneth Tynan and Clifford Williams musical Carte Blanche at the Phoenix Theatre in London . Blossom Dearie (born April 28 1926) is an American Jazz Singer and Pianist, often performing in the Bebop genre Danny Williams ( 7 January 1942 - 6 December 2005) was a popular music Singer. Kenneth Peacock Tynan ( 2 April 1927 - 26 July 1980) was an influential and often controversial British Theatre Critic Clifford Williams (1926 &ndash 20 August 2005) was a Welsh Theatre director and stage actor. The Phoenix Theatre is a West End theatre in the London Borough of Camden, located on Charing Cross Road (at the corner with Flitcroft Street . . the show wasn’t well reviewed - but the song got rave notices! Dee and Roger also composed music and lyrics for three musical concepts A Kid For Two Farthings (based on the 1955 film of the Wolf Mankowitz modern classic story); The Last Touring Love Show; and Emma (based on the life of Emma Hamilton). Emma Lady Hamilton (born 1761 baptised 26 April 1765 &ndash 15 January 1815 is best remembered as the mistress of Lord Nelson and as the muse of George
Dee went on to write songs with Marc Wilkinson, Werner Becker, George Garvarentz, Albert Van Dam, Ralph Lewin, and Herbert Chappell.
Collaborations with Charles Aznavour and Petula Clark
In 1976, Dee began a very important partnership with Charles Aznavour, which still continues. Charles Aznavour OC ( Armenian: Շառլ Ազնավուր born Shahnour Varenagh Aznavourian (Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրյան Their songwriting partnership produced the Aznavour cult favourite "Pretty Shitty Days" as well as "A Very Private Christmas" and "You Make Me Hungry For Your Loving" amongst many others. It was Aznavour who introduced Dee to Petula Clark, and Dee and Petula wrote their first song together in 1978, and have been friends and partners since then. Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932 is an English singer actress and Composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits The Clark – Shipman partnership produced the original stage musical Someone Like You which toured the United Kingdom and transferred to the West End in 1990. Someone Like You is a musical with a book by Robin Midgley and Fay Weldon, lyrics by Dee Shipman, and music by Petula Clark The West End of London is an area of Central London, England, containing many of the city's major tourist attractions businesses headquarters and the commercial Dee and Clark have also written over 50 songs together for Clark’s commercial albums and singles plus their second, uncompleted musical Zola, based on the life of Emile Zola. Émile François Zola ( (2 April 1840 &ndash 29 September 1902 was an influential French Writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of Two songs from the score can be heard on the CD In Her Own Write, released by Sepia Records in 2007.
In 1989, while continuing to write all Aznavour’s English lyrics, and also working on two musicals with Clark, Dee wrote the script and co-produced the TV docudrama Petain, charting the life of Philippe Pétain. A Docudrama is a Dramatization of actual historical events Generalities Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951 generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain ( Maréchal Pétain) The film featured Harry Andrews as Petain, in his last film role. (Portions of the film's score, composed by Clark, can be heard on In Her Own Write. )
Aznavour and Dee together also devised and wrote the songs for a musical workshop of Molly Bloom's soliloquy from James Joyce’s Ulysses, which was performed at the Edinburgh International Festival by Eartha Kitt. Molly Bloom's soliloquy is presented in the eighteenth and final chapter of James Joyce 's Novel Ulysses. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 The Edinburgh International Festival is a festival of Performing arts that takes place in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, over three weeks from around Eartha Mae Kitt (born on January 17 1927) is an American actress, Singer, and Cabaret star
Charles Aznavour’s musical Lautrec, with English lyrics by Dee, premiered at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in March 2000 before transferring to the Shaftesbury Theatre, London. The Theatre Royal in Plymouth is a major producing and receiving house consisting of a large main auditorium housing west end Musicals, Opera and Ballet The Shaftesbury Theatre is a West End Theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the London Borough of Camden. Currently Charles and Dee are working together on several new songs to be included in a US and Canadian production of the show.
NLP
Dee is an NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) Master Coach, Trainer, and Master Practitioner, and is a partner with Paul Jacobs in New Oceans. Neuro-linguistic programming (or NLP) is an Interpersonal communication model applied in Psychotherapy and other contexts of communication and change Together they run regular Life, Business, Education, Coaching, and Performing & Creative Arts trainings, workshops, and seminars, and are also extremely successful life coaches. This article refers to the act of coaching people For other uses of the word see Coach (disambiguation Coaching -a definitionProminent
In 2006, Dee and Wes McGhee co-wrote the CD NLP Songs For Change, a unique musical introduction to the tools and techniques of NLP.
Dee has also written three books of short stories, based on her NLP experiences:- The Sunbeam Collection Vol. 1, The Sunbeam Collection Vol. 2, and All We Are Is Our Stories. Vol. 1. Dee is currently writing Volume 2. of All We Are…… , and also The Book Of Inspirational Parenting.
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