Dorothy Moore
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I Believe You
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Genre: Blues / R&B / Soul
Location Jackson, Mississippi, US
Profile Views: 30482
Last Login: 11/4/2009
Member Since 8/25/2007
Website www.farishstreetrecords.com
Record Label Farish Street Records
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
Multi-Grammy award nominee, Dorothy Moore played New York’s Madison Square Garden and London’s Palladium when she burst on the scene with the classic MISTY BLUE in 1976. Dorothy Moore’s professional recording and touring career started in the 1960s as the lead singer of a trio called the Poppies. After one Poppies album with Epic label, she went solo. Moore has over thirty years of professional work in the music and entertainment industry and seventeen albums to her credit. Dorothy Moore is still hot with her “powerhouse pipes.” Varese Sarabande released a Greatest Hits in October 2001. In 1999, she did a project with DreamWorks, a Steven Spielberg company. Moore tours throughout the US and internationally playing Italy in 2004, Canada in 2002, 2003 and a second Japan tour in 2001. Moore was invited to perform at the famed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, to honor Bessie Smith. Some of Moore’s early ballads topping the charts were "Misty Blue, Funny How Time Slips Away, I Believe You, For Old Time Sake and With Pen In Hand." "Misty Blue" climbed the US charts to number one for R&B and to number one single in the UK. It went gold in Canada and has sold millions worldwide. More recently, "Misty Blue" went platinum for the Phenomenon soundtrack and it was in the John Travalota movie. Moore has performed live or recorded with Lou Rawls, Eddie Floyd, ZZ Hill, Little Milton, Glenn Cambpell and Charlie Jacobs. In 2000, she replaced an ailing Ruth Brown at the Monterey Blues and Heritage Festival, Moore's seventh Monterey show. "I Believe You," released in 1977, earned Dorothy Moore one of Record World’s Top Female Vocalists of the year. I Believe You made the number one single R&B and the top ten single in the US, and went to number one single in the UK. Dorothy Moore debuted her first produced work in September 2002, Please Come Home for Christmas on her own label, Farish Street Records of Mississippi. She released a single, "Dorothy Moore Sings the National Anthem." Moore released"Gittin' Down Live" in 2003 and continues work on her autobiography. She is working on an in-studio CD for a 2004 release. Moore released I'm Doing Alright in May 2005. Legend singer Dorothy Moore was honored at home in Jackson, Mississippi, in January 2001 with a 150 pound granite sidewalk marker of her likeness now placed at the Alamo Theater on Farish Street, where at thirteen Dorothy began her professional career. Moore’s marker is in the company of B.B. King, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Sam Myers. Dorothy Moore’s other local honors have included the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1996, Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame in 2001 and numerous Jackson Music Awards, more than any single artist. She was a Distinguished Scholar at Tougoloo College in 2001. She was named Jackson Music Diva in 2002. Moore tours, produces and records from Jackson, where she still resides. You can buy Dorothy's new music at www.CDbaby.com -
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Aretha Franklin, Dinah Washington and many others. I sing it all. Jazz, gospel, blues, country. You name it and I sing it. -
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Sunshine on a breezy day or Gladys Knight.
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Just passin thru to send you some love. Hope everything is going just the way you want.
Dorothy, hope you are having a wonderful day.
I love your song "misty Blue." My husband and I danced our first dance as husband and wife to it :)
Hello Dorothy, Thanks for adding
"I Believe you" and thanks for the email, always nice to hear from you.
God Bless
Yvonne J
Thanks so much for add me.
Might I just say, no one ever did justice to Misty Blue like you did. Oh the sorrow in your voice. I love that song.
Dorothy my friend: so grateful to know you in real life (and not just on myspace!). It's one of the honors of my life to have performed with you and to know you, and I hope we get to do it again soon. You're the greatest!!!
dear dorothy,
thank you so much for your friend request.
i feel so happy...
"misty blue"...my sweet memory...
i love song! i love your singing voice!
thanks again.
hope you have a beautiful day!
cheers anne*