death_place death_date children birth_place cause_of_death birth_date spouse background article_title name
hollywood , california , usa 11 december 1965 nicki lee foster long island , new york , usa hemorrhaged ulcer 28 may 1912 peggy lee 1943-1951 divorced non_vocal_instrumentalist dave barbour
 dave barbour
dave barbour

dave barbour -lrb- may 28 , 1912 -- december 11 , 1965 -rrb- was an american musician .
he was a jazz banjoist and guitarist , a pop songwriter , an actor , and the husband of peggy lee for nine years .
barbour was born in long island , new york started off as a banjoist with adrian rollini in 1933 and then wingy manone in 1934 .
he switched to guitar in the middle of the decade and played with red norvo in 1935-1936 .
he found much work as a studio musician and played in ensembles with teddy wilson and billie holiday -lrb- 1937 -rrb- , artie shaw -lrb- 1939 -rrb- , lennie hayton , charlie barnet -lrb- 1945 -rrb- , raymond scott , glenn miller , lou holden , and woody herman -lrb- 1949 -rrb- .
he also recorded with andré previn in 1945 .
he played with benny goodman in 1942 , and while a member of goodman 's ensemble , he fell in love with lead singer peggy lee , and the pair quit the group to marry in 1943 .
soon after they moved to los angeles , johnny mercer put them to work as a songwriting team , and they wrote a number of lee 's hits , such as `` mañana -lrb- is soon enough for me -rrb- '' and `` it 's a good day '' .
the couple had a daughter , nicki , in 1943 .
barbour was an alcoholic and had domestic troubles with lee ; this eventually split apart their marriage , which ended in 1951 .
dave barbour and his orchestra had the best-selling version -lrb- usa -rrb- of the peppy song `` mambo jambo . ''
barbour 's remaining career was far less successful than lee 's -lrb- who would marry three more times -rrb- .
his songwriting royalties sustained him , as the tunes he co-wrote with lee were covered by many hitmakers of the 1950s .
he acted in the films `` the secret fury '' and `` mr. music '' , and occasionally performed , including with benny carter in 1962 .
he died in 1965 of a hemorrhaged ulcer in malibu beach , california , aged 53 .
he was survived by peggy lee , and their daughter nicki lee foster .
