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Bill Lee
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American musician and composer (1928–2023)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 56
Top works
- Sittingbourne and district
- Have glove, will travel : adventures of a baseball vagabond
- School Lessons Beyond the 3 R's
- Using the GCF and the LCM to Solve 50 Word Problems
- Number Facts Worksheets Volume 4
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Film & TV
Snow Hill, Alabama, USA
William James Edwards Lee (July 23, 1928 – May 24, 2023) was an American musician. He was the father of Spike Lee and Joie Lee. He composed original music for many of his son's films, including She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), and Mo' Better Blues (1990). Lee was involved in many releases from the Strata-East jazz record label, including directing the…
Known for
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest1993
- Mo' Better Blues — Father of the Bride1990
- School Daze — Phil Hyman Quartet - Bass1988
- She's Gotta Have It — Sonny Darling1986
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1920-05-26
- Active to
- 2002-01-21
Discography
- Fever (Stereo Version)
- Rendezvous With Peggy Lee1948
- Benny Goodman and His Orchestra and Sextet; Vocals by Peggy Lee1948
- South Pacific1949
- Road To Bali (Selections From The Paramount Picture)1952
- Black Coffee With Peggy Lee1953
- Selections from Irving Berlin’s White Christmas1954
- Songs in an Intimate Style1954
- Black Coffee With Peggy Lee1956
- Dream Street1957
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- 147,675
- Total plays
- 747,954
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There is more than one artist with this name: William 'Bill' Lee (21 August 1916 - 15 November 1980) was an American singer who provided a voice or singing voice in many films, for actors in musicals and for many Disney characters. He was also part of a popular singing quartet known as The Mellomen. Bill was born in Nebraska and died in 1980 in Los Angeles, California, of a brain tumor. Partial Filmography: Alice in Wonderland (1951) - a member of The Mellomen <a href="https://www.last.fm/m
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Lee
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Snow Hill
- Place of death
- New York City
- Child
- Spike Lee
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Morehouse College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- bass guitar
- Record label
- Columbia Records
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- name in native language
- Bill Lee
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
- date of birth
- 1928-07-23
- birth name
- William James Edwards Lee III
- different from
- Bill Lee
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- date of death
- 2023-05-24
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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