Last week, I posted 10 show-stopping videos by singer Nancy Wilson. This week, I offer you five relatively newly uploaded videos by Eydie Gormé plus three bonus videos. Gormé was a consummate pro, having come up in Tex Beneke's band in the early 1950s, when Henry Mancini was at the piano. She then moved on to become a solo pop singer recorded by ABC Paramount in the 12-inch LP era. After Eydie married Steve Lawrence in 1957, the pair became a popular residency act in Las Vegas and continued to tour extensively and globally until Gormé's retirement in 2002.
Eydie Gormé died in 2013.
Note: Nancy had beautiful hands, but watch Eydie's arms at the end of each number as she signals to the orchestra's conductor when to snap the band off, a communication worked out in rehearsal:
Here's What Did I Have That I Don't Have? in 1966 at Gormé's peak at age 37...
Here's As Long as He Needs Me in 1965...
Here's Tonight I'll Say a Prayer in the late 1960s...
Here's As Long as He Needs Me in 1969...
Here's A House Is Not a Home in the 1970s...
Bonus: Here's If He Walked Into My Life in the mid-1960s, again at her peak...
Here's I Wanna Be Around, leaving everything on the stage in 1966 on The Tonight Show and getting a monster ovation by the audience and Carson. Watch that left arm at the end of the song...
And here's Steve and Eydie in the studio on Sinatra's Duets II album (click on "Watch on YouTube"), with producer Phil Ramone at the tail end...
