Phoebe Snow
{{Short description|American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1950–2011)}}
{{About|the singer-songwriter|other uses|Phoebe Snow (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Phoebe Snow
| image = Phoebe-Snow 240.jpg
| alt = A black-and-white photo of Snow posing for the camera
| caption =
| image_size =
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Phoebe Ann Laub
| alias =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1950|7|17|mf=yes}}{{cite news|last=Thursby|first=Keith|date=April 27, 2011|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-phoebe-snow-20110427,0,5216521.story|title=Phoebe Snow dies at 60; singer of 1974 hit 'Poetry Man'|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 27, 2011}}{{cite news|first=Matt|last=Schudel|date=April 27, 2011|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/phoebe-snow-powerful-singer-of-1970s-hit-poetry-man-dies-at-60/2011/04/27/AFxN5x1E_story.html |title=Phoebe Snow, powerful singer of 1970s hit 'Poetry Man,' dies at 60|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date= April 27, 2011}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|New York City, U.S.}}
| origin =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|04|26|1950|07|17|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Edison, New Jersey, U.S.
| genre = Blues,{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/san-francisco-bay-blues-mt0009236274|title=Phoebe Snow San Francisco Bay Blues|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=1 August 2022}} folk, gospel, jazz, R&B, roots rock, soul
| occupation = Singer-songwriter
| instrument = Guitar, vocals
| years_active = 1972–2010
| label = Shelter, Columbia, Mirage, Elektra, Eagle, House of Blues
| associated_acts = Sisters of Glory
}}
Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 17, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "Poetry Man" and "Harpo's Blues", and her credited guest vocals on Paul Simon’s "Gone at Last".{{cite web|title=Phoebe Snow Chart History|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/phoebe-snow/chart-history|website=Billboard.com|access-date=January 9, 2020}} She was described by The New York Times as a "contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeping over four octaves".{{cite news|author=Abdella, Fred T.|title=Singing Her Way Back to the Top|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/02/nyregion/new-jersey-q-a-phoebe-snow-singing-her-way-back-to-the-top.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 2, 1989|access-date=April 27, 2011}} Snow also sang numerous commercial jingles for many U.S. products during the 1980s and 1990s, including General Foods International Coffees, Salon Selectives, and Stouffer's. Snow experienced success in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s with five top 100 albums in that country.{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=280}} In 1995 she recorded a gospel album with Sisters of Glory.
Early life and education
Phoebe Ann Laub was born in New York City in 1950, and raised in a musical household in which Delta blues, Broadway show tunes, Dixieland jazz, classical music, and folk music recordings were played around the clock. Her father, Merrill Laub, an exterminator by trade, had an encyclopedic knowledge of American film and theater and was also an avid collector and restorer of antiques. Her mother, Lili Laub, was a dance teacher who had performed with the Martha Graham group.{{cite web|url=http://www.donshewey.com/music_articles/phoebe_snow.html|title=The Blues of Phoebe Snow|website=DonShewey.com|first=Don|last=Shewey|publisher= Don Shewey|access-date=January 9, 2020}} She was Jewish.{{cite news|author=Holden, Stephen|date=October 21, 1983|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/21/arts/things-are-looking-up-again-for-phoebe-snow.html|title=Things Are Looking Up Again for Phoebe Snow|work=The New York Times|accessdate=August 23, 2008}}{{cite news|first=Steve|last=North|url=https://jewishjournal.com/culture/lifestyle/obituaries/91739/|newspaper=Jewish Morning Journal|date=May 3, 2011|title= Remembering my friend, Phoebe Snow|format=obituary}}
Snow was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and graduated from Teaneck High School in 1968.{{cite news|author=Nash, Margo|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/nyregion/still-singing-still-a-fan-of-trains.html|title=Still Singing, Still a Fan of Trains|work=The New York Times|date=June 22, 2003|accessdate=February 13, 2020}} She subsequently attended Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois, but did not graduate.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20066289,00.html|magazine=People|title=Named for a Train, Phoebe Snow Is on the Right Track|access-date=September 9, 2010}} As a student, she carried her prized Martin 000-18 acoustic guitar from club to club in Greenwich Village, playing and singing on amateur nights. Her stage name came from an early 1900s fictional character featured in Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ads. In painted and later photographic print images, the young woman 'Phoebe Snow' was dressed all in white to emphasize the cleanliness of the line's passenger trains. (Lackawanna's locomotives at the time burned anthracite coal which created less soot than bituminous coal.){{cite news|last=Kadden|first=Jack|title=On a Train Back To a Golden Age|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E4DF173EF933A25757C0A9639C8B63|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 10, 2005|access-date=April 27, 2011}}
Career
It was at The Bitter End club in 1972 that Denny Cordell, co-owner (with Leon Russell) of Shelter Records, was so taken by the singer that he signed her to the label and produced her first recording, recording at The Church Studio.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} She released an eponymous album, Phoebe Snow, including "San Francisco Bay Blues" and "Poetry Man", in 1974, featuring guest performances by The Persuasions, Zoot Sims, Teddy Wilson, David Bromberg, and Dave Mason.
File:WMMS Presents Jackson Browne - 1975 print ad.jpg
The album spawned a top five 1975 single on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Poetry Man" and was itself a top-five album in Billboard, for which she received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/471865/phoebe-snow-poetry-man-singer-dies|title=Phoebe Snow, 'Poetry Man' Singer, Dies|magazine=Billboard|date=April 26, 2011}} The cover of Rolling Stone magazine followed, while she performed as the opening act for tours by Jackson Browne and Paul Simon. (She provided credited guest vocals backing Simon on the gospel-tinged hit single "Gone at Last" later in 1975—#23 on the Hot 100.) The same year, 1975, also brought the first of several appearances as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live, on which Snow performed both solo and in duets with Simon and Linda Ronstadt. During the 1975 appearance, she was seven months pregnant with her daughter, Valerie. Her backup vocal is heard on Simon's hit song "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," along with Valerie Simpson and Patti Austin, from 1975. Both "Gone at Last" and "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" appear on Simon's Grammy-winning 1975 album Still Crazy After All These Years.
Legal battles took place between Snow and Shelter Records. Snow ended up signed to Columbia Records. Her second album, Second Childhood, appeared in 1976, produced by Phil Ramone. It was jazzier and more introspective, and was a RIAA Certified Gold Album for Snow, with the Gold Album awarded on July 9, 1976.{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database|title=Recording Industry Association of America|publisher=RIAA|access-date=April 25, 2012}} She moved to a more rock-oriented sound for It Looks Like Snow, released later in 1976 with David Rubinson producing. 1977 saw Never Letting Go, again with Ramone, while 1978's Against the Grain was helmed by Barry Beckett. After that, Snow parted ways with Columbia; she would later say that the stress of her parental obligations compromised her ability to make music effectively. In 1979, she toured extensively throughout the US and Canada with noted guitarist Arlen Roth as her lead guitarist and musical director. Her January 1979 cover of the Paul McCartney song "Every Night" reached No. 37 in the UK.{{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=511}} In 1981, Snow, then signed with Mirage Records, released the album Rock Away, but the album disappointed music critic Geoffrey Himes.{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/05/01/phoebe-snow-i-cant-complain-house-of-bluesplatinum/7d46bdde-b2f5-4bcc-b174-246a4f062877/
|title=Phoebe Snow I Can't Complain House of Blues/Platinum
|first=Geoffrey
|last=Himes
|date=1 May 1998
|website=WashingtonPost.com
| access-date=6 August 2022}}
The 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide summed up Snow's career to that point by saying: "One of the most gifted voices of her generation, Phoebe Snow can do just about anything stylistically as well as technically. … The question that's still unanswered is how best to channel such talent."
Snow spent long periods away from recording, often singing commercial jingles for AT&T, General Foods International Coffees, Salon Selectives, Stouffer's, Hampton Bay Ceiling Fans, and others to support herself and her daughter.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957579-2,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604065934/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957579-2,00.html|title=Music: Throwing in the Crying Towel|magazine=Time|date=May 1, 1989|archive-date=June 4, 2011}} Snow recorded the theme song for the first season of the TV series 9 to 5. (Dolly Parton's vocals were used for the rest of the show's run.) Snow also sang the theme song for NBC's A Different World during the show's first season (1987–88).
In 1988, a duet with Dave Mason, called "Dreams I Dream," reached No. 11 on the US adult contemporary charts. Snow returned to recording with Something Real in 1989 and gathered a few more hits on the Adult Contemporary charts. Also, Snow composed WDIV-TV (Detroit)'s "Go 4 It!" campaign in 1980. She sang "Ancient Places, Sacred Lands", composed by Steve Horelick, on Reading Rainbow's tenth episode, The Gift of the Sacred Dog. The episode was based on the book of the same name by Paul Goble and was narrated by actor Michael Ansara. It was shot in Crow Agency, Montana, in 1983.
Snow performed in 1989 on stage at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, as part of Our Common Future: a five-hour live television broadcast originating from several countries.{{cite news|last=Pareles|first=Jon|title=Review/Television; The Pop World Wrestles With 'Our Common Future'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/05/arts/review-television-the-pop-world-wrestles-with-our-common-future.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 5, 1989}} Also that year, Snow sang the jingle for "Colon Blow", a breakfast cereal commercial parody featured on Saturday Night Live.{{cite web |url=https://popdose.com/listmania-popdoses-favorite-snl-sketches/ |title=Listmania: Popdose's Favorite "SNL" Sketches |last=Dunphy |first=Dw |website=Popdose |date=January 27, 2011 |access-date=February 10, 2024}}
In 1990, she contributed a cover version of the Delaney & Bonnie song "Get Ourselves Together" to the Elektra compilation Rubáiyát, which included Earth Wind & Fire guitarist Dick Smith. In 1992, she toured with Donald Fagen's New York Rock and Soul Revue and was featured on the group's album recorded live at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Throughout the 1990s, she made numerous appearances on the Howard Stern radio show. She sang live for specials and birthday shows. In 1997, she sang the Roseanne theme song a cappella during the closing moments of the final episode.{{cite web|url=http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/roseanne/|title=Roseanne: Episode 221 & 222 – Into That Good Night (part one and two)|website=Tvseriesfinale.com|accessdate=May 16, 2013}}
In 1995, Snow participated in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True at the Lincoln Center in New York City, singing a distinctive medley of "If I Only Had a Brain; a Heart; the Nerve". In addition, the concert featured performances by Jewel, Joel Grey, Roger Daltrey, and Jackson Browne, among others. An album of the concert was released on compact disc on Rhino Records as catalog number R2 72405.
Snow joined with the pop group Zap Mama, who recorded its own version of Snow's "Poetry Man" in an impromptu duet on the PBS series Sessions at West 54th. Hawaiian girl group Nā Leo Pilimehana also had a hit on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1999 with its cover version of "Poetry Man".
In May 1998, Snow received the Cultural Achievement Award from New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Snow performed for US President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and his cabinet at Camp David in 1999.
In 2003, Snow released her album Natural Wonder on Eagle Records, containing 10 original tracks, her first original material in 14 years. Snow performed at Howard Stern's wedding in 2008, and made a special appearance in the film Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom as herself. Some of her music was also featured on the soundtrack of the film. Her Live album (2008) featured many of her hits as well as a cover of "Piece of My Heart".{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}}
Personal life and death
Between 1975 and 1978 Snow was married to Phil Kearns (who later came out as gay).{{cite news|last1=O'Donnell|first1=Lisa|title=Ex-husband of Phoebe Snow leads a musical life out of the closet in Winston-Salem|url=http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_fd3a1b91-d7c5-5b2b-8dbd-ca716db4b176.html|access-date=June 23, 2014|newspaper=Winston-Salem Journal|date=September 1, 2011}} She had a daughter, Valerie Rose, who was born with severe brain damage. Snow resolved not to institutionalize Valerie, and cared for her at home until Valerie died on March 19, 2007, at the age of 31. Snow's efforts to care for Valerie nearly ended her career. She continued to take voice lessons, and she studied opera informally.{{cite news|last=Friedman|first=Roger|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,260381,00.html|title=Saying goodbye to Valerie|publisher=Fox News Channel|website=Fox News|date=March 22, 2007|access-date= August 23, 2008}}
Snow resided in Bergen County, New Jersey, and in her later years she embraced Buddhism.
Phoebe Snow suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on January 19, 2010, and slipped into a coma, enduring bouts of blood clots, pneumonia and congestive heart failure. She died on April 26, 2011, at age 60 in Edison, New Jersey.{{cite news|author=Holden, Stephen|title=Phoebe Snow, Bluesy Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 60|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/phoebe-snow-bluesy-singer-songwriter-dies-at-58.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 26, 2011|access-date=April 26, 2011}}
Discography
=Albums=
=Compilations=
- 1981: The Best of Phoebe Snow
- 1995: P.S.
- 2001: The Very Best of Phoebe Snow
- 2012: Playlist: The Very Best of Phoebe Snow
=Singles=
| class="wikitable" |
| scope="col" rowspan="2"| Year
! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Song ! scope="col" colspan="9"| Peak chart positions |
|---|
| style="font-size:smaller;"
! style="width:35px;"| US Adult ! style="width:35px;"| US R&B ! style="width:35px;"| US Pop |author-link=Joel Whitburn|title=The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits|publisher=Billboard Publications|date=October 5, 2010|isbn=978-0823085545}}{{cite book|title=Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|authorlink=Joel Whitburn|year=2013|publisher=Record Research|page=782}} ! style="width:35px;"| UK ! style="width:35px;"| AUS ! style="width:35px;"| CAN ! style="width:35px;"| NZL |
| rowspan="3"| 1974
| "Good Times (Let the Good Times Roll)" | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| "Poetry Man"
| align=center | 1 | align=center | ― | align=center | 5 | align=center | ― | align=center | 60 | align=center | 4 | align=center | 28 |
| "Harpo's Blues"
| align=center | 20 | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| rowspan="1"| 1975
| "Gone at Last" (with Paul Simon) | align=center | 9 | align=center | ― | align=center | 23 | align=center | ― | align=center | 95 | align=center | 29 | align=center | ― |
| rowspan="3"| 1976
| "Two-Fisted Love" | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| "All Over"
| align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| "Shakey Ground"
| align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | 70 | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | 6 |
| rowspan="3"| 1977
| "Teach Me Tonight" | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| "Never Letting Go"
| align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| "Love Makes a Woman"
| align=center | ― | align=center | 87 | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| rowspan="2"| 1978
| "In My Life" | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| "Every Night"
| align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | 37 | align=center | 22 | align=center | — | align=center | 6 |
| rowspan="3"| 1981
| "Games" | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | 46 | align=center | ― | align=center | 95 | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"
| align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | 52 | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| "Baby Please"
| align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| rowspan="1"| 1988
| "Dreams I Dream" (with Dave Mason) | align=center | 11 | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| rowspan="2"| 1989
| "If I Can Just Get Through the Night" | align=center | 13 | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | — | align=center | 85 | align=center | 63 | align=center | ― |
| "Something Real"
| align=center | 29 | align=center | ― | align=center | — | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― | align=center | ― |
| colspan="12" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
=With other artists=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;" |
| Year
| Single | Album | Other Artist | Note |
| rowspan="3"| 1975
| "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" | Still Crazy After All These Years | only backing vocals |
| "Gone at Last"
| Still Crazy After All These Years | |
| "Hymn"
| |
| 1976
|"Smile" | |
| 1977
|"Everybody Has a Dream" | Billy Joel | Only background vocals |
| 1978
|"Reelin'" |One-Eyed Jack | |
| 1980
|"Sometimes Love Forgets" |Hot Spot | |
| rowspan="3"|1982
| "You Really Got a Hold on Me" | |
| "Hammer & Nails"
| Experiment in White | |
| "Whether or Not the World Gets Better"
| Roll It | |
| rowspan="4"| 1984
| "Gravity's Angel" | Only background vocals |
| "Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe"
|You're Gettin' Even While I'm Gettin' Odd | Only background vocals |
| "Thankful N'Thoughtful"
| |
| "Between Old and New York"
| Night Lines | Dave Grusin | |
| rowspan="2"| 1987
| "The One" |
| "Dreams I Dream" |
| 1990
| "Don't Piss Me Off" | Funk of Ages | |
| rowspan="3"| 1991
| "Club Soul City" | Scene of the Crime | Killer Joe |
| "Tossin' and Turnin'"
| Johnnie Be Back | |
| "Don't Like the Way You Look at My Love"
| Russ Irwin | Only background vocals |
| 1992
| "Knock on Wood" | The New York Rock and Soul Revue |
| rowspan="3"| 1993
| "A Lover's Question" | Portrait of the Blues | |
| "Inner City Blues"
| The World's Most Dangerous Party |Paul Shaffer & the Party Boys of Rock 'N' Roll | |
| "My Emotion"
| "Yuri" Original Soundtrack | |
| 1994
| "The Feeling" | Robotix | Program 2 | |
| rowspan="2"| 1996
| "Baby I'm Yours" | Naked City | Avenue Blue feat. Jeff Golub |
| "Three Little Birds"
| One World! | |
| 1997
| "People Get Ready" | Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Friends | |
| rowspan="4"| 1999
| "Fugitive of Love" | The Importance of Being | Ernest Kohl | |
| "The Best Thing"
| In My Head | |
| "Swept Away"
| In My Head | |
| "One Too Many Mornings"
| |
| rowspan="3"| 2003
| "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" | rowspan="3"| Harmony | rowspan="3"| Will & Rainbow | rowspan="3"| |
| "For the Love of You" |
| "Trouble in Mind" |
| 2004
| "B-itch/Dumb A-ss" | |
| 2008
| "Pray for the USA" | Maria Muldaur, Women's Voices For Peace Choir | |
| 2009
| "Monkey Around" | Etruscan Soul | |
| 2018
| "Oh Happy Day" | Christmas at the Vatican | CeCe Peniston & Thelma Houston | Recorded Live at The Aula Paolo VI, Vatican City. |
=Various-artists compilations=
- 1982: "9 to 5" (9 to 5 TV programs theme song (1982–1983, 1986–1988) First Season Opening Theme) – Dolly Parton cover
- 1989: "Darling Be Home Soon" ([Rude Awakening Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album) — The Lovin' Spoonful cover
- 1990: "Get Ourselves Together" (Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary album) — Delaney, Bonnie & Friends cover
- 1995: "Merry Christmas Baby" (Winter Fire & Snow album) — Johnny Moore's Three Blazers cover
- 1997: "Time and Love" (Time and Love – The Music of Laura Nyro album) — Laura Nyro cover
- 2002: "Single Again" (Sincerely -Mariya Takeuchi Songbook- album) — Mariya Takeuchi cover
- 2002: "Always Here for You" (Once in a Lifetime -Mayo Okamoto Songbook- album) — Mayo Okamoto cover, Original song title "Dear..."
- 2003: "Beams of Heaven" (Shout, Sister, Shout! – a Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe album) — Sister Rosetta Tharpe cover
- 2012: "In My Girlish Days" (....First Came Memphis Minnie album) — Memphis Minnie cover
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.vdebolt.com/phoebehome/ Unofficial fan site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070502104842/http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-3997-7 Soul Covers by Michael Awkward featuring research on Phoebe Snow]
- [http://www.phoebesnow.com/ Phoebe's tribute to Valerie]
- {{IMDb name|811309}}
- {{allMusic|id=phoebe-snow-mn0000696015}}
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