| 词条 | Ruby Murray |
| 释义 |
| name = Ruby Murray | background = solo_singer | image = | image_size = 220px | caption = Ruby Murray in 1955 | birth_name = Ruby Florence Murray | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1935|3|29}} | birth_place = Donegall Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland | origin = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1996|12|17|1935|3|29}} | death_place = Torquay, Devon, England | genre = Traditional popular music | occupation = Singer, actress | instrument = Vocals | years_active = 1953–1996 | label = Columbia (EMI) | associated_acts = | website = rubymurray.org }}Ruby Florence Murray (29 March 1935 – 17 December 1996)[1] was a Northern Irish singer and actress. One of the most popular singers in the British Isles in the 1950s, [2] she scored ten hits in the UK Singles Chart between 1954 and 1959. She also made pop chart history in March 1955 by having five singles in the Top Twenty in a single week.[3] Child starRuby Florence Murray was born near the Donegall Road in south Belfast, Northern Ireland, the youngest child in a Protestant family.[3] Her voice's distinctive sound was partly the result of an operation on her throat in early childhood.[4] She toured as a child singer and first appeared on television at the age of 12, having been spotted by producer Richard Afton.[1] Owing to laws governing children performing, Murray had to delay her start in the entertainment industry.[1] She returned to Belfast and full-time education until she was 14.{{fact|date=March 2019}} Chart successAfter being again spotted by Afton, Murray was signed to Columbia and her first single, "Heartbeat", reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1954.[5] Afton had offered her the position of resident singer on the BBC's Quite Contrary television show, to replace Joan Regan.[6] "Softly, Softly", her second single, reached number one in early 1955.[5] That same year Murray set a pop chart record by having five hits in the Top Twenty in one week, a feat unmatched for many years.[1][2] In 2014 the Guinness Book of World Records issued three certificates confirming that at the date of issue, nobody had beaten this record, although it was shared with three other singers. The record by a female singer still stands at the date of 26 February 2019. To view these certificates, please go to the official website and click on the link given on the home page. The 1950s was a busy period for Murray, during which she had her own television show, starred at the London Palladium with Norman Wisdom, appeared in a Royal Command Performance (1955),[7] and toured the world.[1] In a period of 52 weeks, starting on 3 December 1954 and lasting until the end of November 1955, Murray constantly had at least one single in the UK charts – this at a time when only a Top 20 was listed. Murray appeared in her only film role, as Ruby, in A Touch of the Sun, a 1956 farce with Frankie Howerd and Dennis Price.[1] A couple of hits followed later in the decade; "Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye", a No. 10 hit in 1959, was her final appearance in the charts.[1] EMI put together a compilation album of her hits on CD in 1989, including songs that regularly featured in her act; "Mr. Wonderful", "Scarlet Ribbons" and "It's the Irish in Me".[1] They updated this with the release of EMI Presents The Magic of Ruby Murray in 1997 and a four CD album, Anthology – The Golden Anniversary Collection, in 2005, the 50th anniversary of her peak successes on the charts.[1]LegacyMurray's popularity led to her name being adopted in Cockney rhyming slang as a rhyme for "curry".[8] The reference to "having a ruby tonight" appears in the "As One Door Closes" episode of the BBC TV comedy series Only Fools and Horses. A play about Murray's life, Ruby, written by the Belfast playwright Marie Jones, opened at the Group Theatre in Belfast in April 2000.[1] A second play, by Michael Cameron, opened in Belfast on 13 February 2019 and was sold out at all performances.[9] Personal lifeIn 1957, while working in Blackpool, Murray met Bernie Burgess, a member of a successful television and recording vocal quartet, the Four Jones Boys. Shortly afterwards she left Northern Ireland to marry him and live with him in England.[1] Burgess, contrary to press reports, didn't become her manager, but rather his role was that of a supporting husband. The couple included a song-and-dance segment in Ruby's act during the 1960s. Murray struggled with alcoholism for most of her life and this contributed to the breakdown of her marriage in 1974. The divorce was finalised in 1976, and Murray moved to Torquay to live with an old friend, Ray Lamar, a former stage dancer and theatre impresario, who was eighteen years her senior. [10] They married in 1993, three years before Murray's death. Murray had two children from her marriage to Burgess, Julie (b. 1960) and Tim (b. 1965).[1] Although her days as a major star were long over, Murray continued performing until close to the end of her life. Spending her last couple of years in Asprey's Nursing Home, she often delighted her carers with a song, and was visited by her friend Max Bygraves. She died of liver cancer on 17 December 1996, aged 61.[1] Ray Lamar died on 3 August 2005 from complications of pneumonia, aged 87.[11] Singles discography
† Ruby Murray with Anne Warren[5] For further discography, please see [https://www.rubymurray.org/songs.shtml this page] on the Official Ruby Murray website. See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 {{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p23722|pure_url=yes}} |title=Ruby Murray – Artist Biography by Sharon Mawer |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=20 February 2009}} 2. ^1 {{cite news|first=Tom | last=Vallance | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ruby-murray-1315048.html | title=Obituary | work=The Independent | date=18 December 1996 | access-date=28 February 2009 }} 3. ^Culture Northern Ireland {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518180858/http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/town_Home.aspx?co=15&to=286&ca=0&sca=0&navID=1 |date=18 May 2007}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rubymurray.org/|title=The Official Ruby Murray website|website=Rubymurray.org|accessdate=5 November 2018}} 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006| title= British Hit Singles & Albums| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited| location= London| isbn= 1-904994-10-5| page= 384}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.communigate.co.uk/sussex/bmbgat/page8.phtml |title=Singers of the Fabulous Fifties |accessdate=24 September 2008 |work=CommuniGate |publisher=This Is Sussex |location=United Kingdom |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913014230/http://www.communigate.co.uk/sussex/bmbgat/page8.phtml |archivedate=13 September 2008 }} 7. ^{{cite book| first= John| last= Tobler| year= 1992| title= NME Rock 'N' Roll Years| edition= 1st| publisher= Reed International Books Ltd| location= London| page= 20| id= CN 5585}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Cockney+Rhyming+Slang+%2528Transliterated%2529/ruby+murray|title=Ruby Murray rhyming slang|accessdate=15 December 2007|work=Webster's Online Dictionary|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511081605/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Cockney%2BRhyming%2BSlang%2B%28Transliterated%29/ruby%2Bmurray|archivedate=11 May 2008|df=}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://lyrictheatre.co.uk/event/ruby/|title=Ruby!|website=Lyric Theatre|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-02-26}} 10. ^{{Cite web|url= https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2005/ray-lamar/|title= Ray Lamar|website=Thestage.co.uk|access-date=2018-07-16}} 11. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2005/ruby-murrays-husband-ray-lamar-dies-aged-87/|title= Ruby Murray’s husband Ray Lamar dies aged 87|website=Thestage.co.uk|access-date=2018-07-16}} External links
11 : 1935 births|1996 deaths|Musicians from Belfast|Female singers from Northern Ireland|Deaths from liver cancer|Deaths from cancer in England|Pop singers from Northern Ireland|Presbyterians from Northern Ireland|Ulster Scots people|20th-century singers from Northern Ireland|20th-century women singers |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。