Loulie Jean Norman

Loulie Jean Norman (1913-2005) was a singer who performed with several groups, as a session singer, and as a dubbing or off-camera vocalist in film and television. As a member of vocal arranger Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires, she was a regular on radio's The Stan Freberg Show and sang backup on most of his recordings, including those used on Sam and Friends. She worked with Spike Jones on the album Spike Jones in Stereo (featured solos as Vampira opposite Paul Frees as Dracula) and other records likewise played on Sam and Friends, as were some of her other recordings.
Norman's long and busy career extended from the 1930s (when she was heard regularly on Fred Waring's program) through the early 1980s, highlighted by her wordless soprano vocals on the theme song to Star Trek. With the Rhythmaires, she backed Bing Crosby and sang occasional duets with him on his series for Philco and Chesterfields, as well as the Disney animated feature The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" segment). Since Jud Conlon was a frequent vocal arranger for Disney, Norman was also heard in Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, as well as the shorts Melody and Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom. Later animation assignments included two Babar specials and feature films for Hanna-Barbera (Heidi's Song and Rock Odyssey, the latter unreleased in the US save one film festival). 
Norman dubbed Diahann Carroll in Porgy and Bess, Juliet Prowse in G.I. Blues, and Stella Stevens in Too Late Blues. She was part of the chorus or brief solo lines in MGM musicals The Harvey Girls, Easter Parade, and Brigadoon and for the choral version of the romantic theme in the Blake Edwards film The Great Race. On record, Norman took the title role in Frankie Laine's 1950 single Swamp Girl and sang backup for Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Judy Garland (on the Gordon Jenkins' album The Letter), and Tennessee Ernie Ford. She sang on The Dean Martin Show and occasionally appeared in sketches. For Disney theme parks, she was the opera ghost in The Haunted Mansion and Bubbles in the Country Bear Jamboree.
==Records used==
:Often used in more than one episode, or on other early Muppet appearances
*1956: "They'll Never Out-Fox The Fox" (1955), sung by Danny Kaye, backing vocals as one of the Jud Conlon Singers.Shemin, Craig. Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson's First Television Show. p. 269.
*1956: "Too Young" (1951), Spike Jones with Sara Berner and Paul Frees, vocals with the Jud Conlon Choir.
*1959: "The Great Pretender" (1956) performed by Stan Freberg, vocals with the Rhythmaires as the Toadsibid. p. 337
*1959: "Sh-boom" (1954) by Freberg, vocals with the Rhythmaires as the Toadsibid. p. 342
*1959: "Wun'erful, Wun'erful!" (1957) by Freberg, vocals as one of the Lemon Sisters.ibid. p. 391 
*1959: "Rock Around Stephen Foster" by Freberg, backing vocalsibid. p. 438
*1959, 1960: "Myrtle" from Terribly Sophisticated Songs (1958), sung by Joe Pryor with Norman as Myrtle.ibid. p. 325.
*1959: "(All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings" from Spike Jones in Stereo (1959), as Vampiraibid. p. 391
*1960: "Ya Got Trouble" (1958) by Freberg, backing vocals with the Jud Conlon Singersibid. p. 457.
*1960: "I Only Have Eyes for You" from Spike Jones in Stereo as Vampira.ibid. p. 471.
*1960: "Ah-1, Ah-2, Ah-Sunset Strip" from Spike Jones' Omnibust (1960), vocalsibid. p. 475.
==Sources==
==External links==
*Discogs.com listing
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