Patience and Prudence
Patience and Prudence McIntyre, known professionally as Patience and Prudence, were two sisters who were a young singing act in the 1950s.
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[edit] Career
Mark McIntyre was an orchestra leader, pianist, and songwriter who accompanied Frank Sinatra on piano during the 1940s.[1] In the summer of 1956, he brought his daughters, 11-year-old Prudence and 14-year-old Patience,[2] into the Liberty Records studio in Los Angeles, California. They made a demonstration recording of the song, "Tonight You Belong to Me," which had been a hit for Gene Austin in 1927, and was written by Billy Rose and Lee David. Liberty signed them and immediately released a recording of the girls singing the song as a commercial single, (with the B-side, "A Smile and a Ribbon," a composition with music by Mark McIntyre) and by September the song reached #4 on the Billboard charts[1] and #28 in the UK Singles Chart,[3] and was the biggest selling record put out by Liberty for two years. It sold over one million copies and reached gold record status.[4]
Another recording by the girls, "Gonna Get Along without Ya Now," was released the same year they performed on Perry Como's television show.[1] It reached #11 on the Billboard chart[1] and #22 in the UK;[3] its B-side, "The Money Tree," also reached #73 in the U.S.
The girls continued to record—including a pairing with fellow Liberty act Mike Clifford , and several singles for the Chattahoochee Records label--but had no subsequent hit records.[1] In 1978, they reunited to appear on a Dick Clark television feature.[1] Collectors Choice issued a CD compilation of all their Liberty Records singles.
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- "A Smile and a Ribbon" is featured on a Sepia album, Lisa Kirk Sings at the Plaza. It was also the b-side of a single she cut for Columbia in the mid 1950s.
- "A Smile and a Ribbon" was used in the film, Ghost World as the child song of protagonist Enid, played by Thora Birch.
- "A Smile and a Ribbon" was used as the accompaniment to a television advertisement for the National Lottery in the UK in the spring of 2006.
- "Tonight You Belong to Me" was used by eBay in Germany as the soundbed for its television ad campaign in 2006.
- "Tonight You Belong to Me" was used in the 2004 film, Birth starring Nicole Kidman and Lauren Bacall.
- "Tonight You Belong to Me" was covered by NRBQ on their album, Grooves in Orbit, released in 1983 on Bearsville Records. The song was sung by an adult male vocalist instead of two teenaged girl singers, but was arranged in a similar manner to the original.
- "Gonna Get Along without Ya Now" was covered by the Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas on her album, Ochenta's, and was chosen as the second single off the record, and released in February 2007.
- "Gonna Get Along without Ya Now" was also covered by Viola Wills in 1980, reaching #37 in Australia
- "Tonight You Belong to Me" was used in the film, The Jerk and was sung as a duet by Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters.
- "Dreamer's Bay" was used as the accompaniment to a television advert for Unilever's Surf detergent in the UK and Ireland in the summer of 2007.
- The track "Dreamer's Bay" is used in the Surf Small and Mighty commercial.
- "Tonight You Belong to Me" was used in the first episode and first season finale of the FX television series American Horror Story.
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f "Biography by John Bush". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p190875. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 32. CN 5585.
- ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 420. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 84. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
