Colleen Lovett

Colleen Lovett (born November 3, 1946 in Texas) is an American singer, composer, and arranger who, since the age of six, has flourished as a recording artist and performer in North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe in nightclubs, musical theater, and television. Before marrying bandleader Teddy Phillips, she was known as one of the Lovett Sisters, a singing duo with her sister, Charlotte Lovett, who had been married to bandleader Ray Herrera. [1]

Formal education

Entering as a freshman in the fall of 1963, Lovett earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Texas and studied at the Berklee School of Music. Colleen also studied at Pierce College in Woodland Hills,Ca., California State University in Northridge,Ca. and UCLA in Los Angeles,Ca.

Colleen Lovett studied film scoring with composer Earle Hagen. Colleen also studied film scoring and 12 tone orchestration for several years with the renown George Tremblay, who was well known for creating the definite cycle, a serial technique of composition.

Selected compositions

Selected discography

"Colleen Lovett" Lovett Sisters

"Until I Lost You"
"I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire"
IF-581 (matrix): "Sometime, Somewhere"
IF-584 (matrix): "Behind My Back"
"Little Dirty Face"
"Bacon and Eggs"

With Teddy Phillips

Solo

"Goodnight Sweetheart"
"I've Baked a Cake"
"Wishin'"
"Cla-Wence" ("Don't Tweat Me So Wuff")
Recorded at Gold Star Studios, Hollywood

Videography

12-piece band including Dick Saunders (tenor sax, bass clarinet), Breesy Thomas (trombone), Ethmer Roten (flute), Ed Stanley (lead trumpet), Earl Morris (alto sax)
Taped with live audience, Golden West Ballroom, Norwalk, California, KCOP-TV, taped the week between August 7 and 13, 1965

References

  1. ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, Fourth edition, compiled for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, by Jaques Cattell Press, New York: R.R. Bowker, 1980 OCLC 7065938, 802158882
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