Georgia Gibbs (born Frieda Lipschitz; August 17, 1918 – December 9, 2006) [1] was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs achieved acclaim and notoriety in the mid-1950s copying songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later became a featured ...

Dec 12, 2006 · Georgia Gibbs, a brassy-voiced pop singer who topped the charts in the 1950s with “Kiss of Fire” and other hits, died on Saturday in Manhattan, where she had lived for many years. She was 87....

Georgia Gibbs, 87, the versatile, bold-voiced singer whose biggest hits were pop versions of songs first recorded by black rhythm and blues singers, died on December 9th at Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York.

American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Born August 17, 1919, Worcester, Massachusetts; died December 9, 2006 (age 87), New York City, New York. She began singing at the age of 13, under the name Fredda Lipson, and joined the Hudson-DeLange Orchestra in 1936 (age 17), and toured with them for 10 months as Fredda Gibson .

Dec 12, 2006 · Georgia Gibbs, a versatile singer who starred on radio and television's popular "Hit Parade" in the 1950s, performed with the big bands of Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw and was perhaps best known...

Georgia Gibbs (born Frieda Lipschitz, August 17, 1918 – December 9, 2006) was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early.

Dec 11, 2006 · Georgia Gibbs, a versatile singer who starred on the popular show “Your Hit Parade” and reached the top of the charts in the 1950s with covers of songs by black artists, has died. She was 87....

Dec 12, 2006 · Georgia Gibbs, who died Saturday at 87, was a versatile “girl singer” who started off fronting big bands in the 1930s and eventually had hits as a solo artist, beginning with “If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake” (1950).

Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most popular in the 1950s. Gibbs was born Frieda Lipschitz, in Worcester, Massachusetts, the youngest of four children of Russian Jewish descent. Her father died when she was six months old, and she spent her first seven years in an orphanage in Worcester, separated from her other siblings.

Aug 31, 1995 · This audio only interview was conducted for a radio program by Dan Del Fiorentino and donated to the NAMM Oral History program: Georgia Gibbs, often billed as “Her Nibbs,” enjoyed a successful career as a singer with the big bands beginning in 1936.