Another white Quad Cities musician, Louie Bellson (born "Luigi Ballasoni") of nearby Moline, Illinois, the son of a music store owner, played drums for the Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington bands, and married Pearl Bailey.
An adjacent north-bordering area known as Paradise Valley contained night clubs where famous Blues, Big Band, and Jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie regularly performed.
In his early 20's Chuck performed on Broadway in Hello Dolly with Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway, Purlie, Lost in the Stars, Via Galactica, Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope and as an original member of the Broadway musical A Chorus Line, back when Broadway was starting to open up its doors to African American performers.
The film version, which stars Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey, substitutes an African American family for a Jewish family.
He made his concert debut with his father’s band at age two and a half, playing at Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh and in 1966 he performed with Pearl Bailey on the Mike Douglas Show.
She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor is a 1940 comic song by Don Raye and Hugh Prince and was recorded by Dick Robertson, Pearl Bailey and the British bandleader and clarinetist Harry Roy.
Only four episodes are known to exist - the pilot, the premiere with Lockhart and Crane, the June 24 episode with Florence Henderson and Ray Milland, and the July 22 episode with Pearl Bailey and Mel Brooks.
Pearl Harbor | Pearl Jam | Attack on Pearl Harbor | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Bill Bailey | attack on Pearl Harbor | Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus | Pearl Bailey | Pearl | Kay Bailey Hutchison | Derek Bailey (guitarist) | Derek Bailey | Old Bailey | Rumpole of the Bailey | Pearl S. Buck | Pearl River Delta | David Bailey | pearl | Matthew Pearl | Bailey | Pearl Cleage | Pearl River | F. Lee Bailey | David Bailey (photographer) | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Corinne Bailey Rae | Bailey Road | Richard W. Bailey | Pokémon Diamond and Pearl | ''Pokémon Diamond'' and ''Pearl'' |
He was an excellent impressionist — targeting, somewhat scandalously for the time, many white actors such as John Wayne and Walter Brennan rather than solely black stars such as Bill Cosby and Pearl Bailey — and, for a man of his ample girth, an unexpectedly agile dancer.
He was the leader of the house band at the Apollo Theater during the early 1940s, and he recorded duets with Pearl Bailey on "The Hucklebuck" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in 1949.
Their father joined them and "Hines, Hines & Dad" performed on a regular basis in New York, Las Vegas, and throughout Europe and on many television shows, including The Pearl Bailey Show, The Hollywood Palace, and The Tonight Show.
In the third section, "Conversational Portraits", Capote recalls his encounters with Pearl Bailey, Bobby Beausoleil, Willa Cather, Marilyn Monroe and others.
He impersonated many famous actresses and singers including Pearl Bailey, Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Fanny Brice, Carol Channing, Cher, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Phyllis Diller, Hermione Gingold, Hildegarde, Eartha Kitt, Ethel Merman, Barbra Streisand, Kay Thompson, and Mae West.