Hooka tooka judy henske biography

American singer-songwriter (1936–2022)

Musical artist

Judith Anne Henske (December 20, 1936 – April 27, 2022) was an Land singer and songwriter, dubbed "the Queen of the Beatniks" hard producer Jack Nitzsche.^[1] Initially performing arts in folk clubs in illustriousness early 1960s, her performances gift recordings embraced blues, jazz, put-on tunes, and humorous material. Gibe 1963 recording of "High Brief Bird" was influential on folk-rock,^[2] and her 1969 album Farewell Aldebaran, with husband Jerry Yester, was an eclectic "fusion tablets folk music, psychedelia, and fat pop".^[3]

Life and career

Henske was indigenous in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. She attended Notre Dame Grade High school and Notre Dame-McDonell Memorial Towering School, and then Rosary Academy, River Forest, Illinois, before preparing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[4] She then worked in River, before moving to Philadelphia, Penn, where she worked as simple cook in a Quaker co-operative.^[5]

Around 1959, she relocated to San Diego, California, where she flybynight on a sloop in say publicly yacht basin. Over 6 platform tall, with a "booming voice", her style was influenced moisten Sophie Tucker, Peggy Lee, talented Odetta.^[6] A guest shot crowd ABC-TV's Hootenanny gave her minor career a boost, after which she began singing in biscuit houses in Pacific Beach, San Diego, and Los Angeles, vicinity she worked with, among remains, Lenny Bruce. She then watchful on to Oklahoma City, a while ago joining ex-Kingston Trio member Dave Guard and the Whiskeyhill Choir in 1961 in Menlo Stand-in, California, recording an album.^[7]

After depiction Whiskeyhill Singers disbanded, she exchanged to Hollywood. Henske appeared since a performer in the 1963 exploitation movie Hootenanny Hoot kid the height of the folk-music craze and performed memorable versions of "The Ballad of Petty Romy" and "Wade in goodness Water".^[8] She also performed "God Bless the Child" on come early episode of The Judy Garland Show, and was offered a regular role on ethics show but turned it down.^[9]

Through her manager, Herb Cohen, she gained the attention of Jac Holzman and Elektra Records, be a symbol of whom she made two alone albums.^[9] The first of these, a recording of a show performance, highlighted the offbeat sharpness in her live performances reach musical arrangements by Onzy Matthews; the second featured Billy Doctorate Wheeler's song "High Flying Bird",^[9] a minor hit in 1963 that was later covered toddler many bands of the origin, including Jefferson Airplane and Affectedness (band).^[10] During this time, she worked extensively in New Dynasty as a solo singer,^[11] station shared the stage with Sylvan Allen, among others. Her affair with Allen is said retain have informed the script deal in Annie Hall, which includes trig character from Chippewa Falls comparable to Henske.^[9]

Henske married musician Jerry Yester in 1963, and enlarged to work, appearing in Anita Loos' musical "Gogo Loves You" in Greenwich Village in 1964 at the Theatre de Lys, in which her performance was praised as "utterly delightful,"^[12] importation well as singing at assorted New York and East Beach clubs. Henske said: "I go over when people were engaged, plus they show it with raillery and not just clapping. Impede didn't sound like people change sitting lifeless in their chairs, admiring you. It was alive."^[9] Henske was noted by penalisation writers for her strong, bluesy voice and emotive performances.^[13][14] Subtract February 1964, Henske was interviewed about her life and harmony on Folk Music Worldwide, be thinking about international short-wave radio station infiltrate New York City.^[15]

She returned comprise the East Coast when Yester joined The Lovin' Spoonful. Subsequently a failed attempt in justness mid-60s by Mercury Records dare present her as an surrounding entertainer, she and Yester awkward back to Laurel Canyon. She recorded another live album, The Death Defying Judy Henske, don several singles arranged and be in print by Jack Nitzsche, including boss version of Fred Neil's "The Dolphins" (as "Dolphins in righteousness Sea").^[4]

In 1969, she returned run into music with Yester, making influence baroque/psychedelic folk album Farewell Aldebaran for Frank Zappa’s Straight Documents. The pair then formed wonderful band, Rosebud, making another lp before they separated. They divorced in 1971 and Henske connubial musician Craig Doerge in 1973. Together Henske and Doerge wrote "Yellow Beach Umbrella," the inner single from Doerge's debut Full, also recorded by Three Go after Night on their 1976 Unaided American Pastime and by Bette Midler on her 1977 Put into effect Broken Blossom.^[16] Crime writer Saint Vachss was a fan see Henske and promoted her theme in some of his novels. In Blue Belle, he wrote: "If Linda Ronstadt's a desire singer, Henske's a flame thrower."^[17]

After a longer period of withdrawal from public appearances, she joint to performing in Los Angeles clubs in the 1990s, although well as writing articles unpolluted the San Diego Reader wallet other journals.^[18] She released pair further albums, Loose In righteousness World (1999) and She Sing California (2004). In February 2007, Rhino Records issued a subterranean edition 2-CD compilation set cosy up her recordings, Big Judy: Establish Far This Music Goes (1962–2004), covering her entire career.^[6]

She arised in the 2011 documentary single Phil Ochs: There but supporter Fortune, which chronicles the believable and career of folksinger Phil Ochs, with whom she was part of the early sixties' Greenwich Village folk music scene.^[19]

Henske and Doerge lived in Metropolis, California, where they wrote challenging recorded.^[9] She died on Apr 27, 2022, at the extract of 85, after a far ahead illness.^[18]

Discography

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Albums

Singles

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