The Resume

(May 26, 1920-January 21, 2002)
Hits include 'Manana,' 'Lover,' 'Fever,' 'It's a Good Day,' 'I Don't Know Enough About You,' 'Is That All There Is?' and 'Why Don't You Do Right'
Sung in Benny Goodman's Band (1940's)
Provided voices in 'Lady And The Tramp'

Why she might be annoying:

She was divorced four times.
She smoked.
She was a perfectionist and suffered pneumonia twice in the late 50s.

Why she might not be annoying:

She had an abusive childhood.
She has a rose named after her.
She sold out London’s Royal Festival Hall in 1994, despite being wheelchair-stricken.
She kept performing until she had a stroke in the late 1990's.
She ranked #93 on VH1's Top 100 Women of Rock & Roll.

Credit: Voice of Fashion

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• A Rose was Named in My Honor
• Andy Williams Show Guests [1962-71]
• Burt Bacharach Wrote My Song
• Carol Burnett Show Guests
• Crooners
• Dean Martin Show Guests [L-Z]
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• Fag Hags [Women Loved by Gay Men]
• Grammy for Best Pop Female (Ranked: 1970)
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (Ranked: 1995)
• I am Norwegian-American
• I Appeared on Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon [L]
• I Attended the Hollywood Premiere of ‘Giant’ [October 17, 1956]
• I Attended the Premiere of 'A Star is Born' [1954]
• I Covered Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Smile’
• I Covered 'Danny Boy'
• I Covered Eden Ahbez's 'Nature Boy'
• I Covered 'Fever'
• I Covered 'I'll Be Seeing You'
• I Covered 'Mack the Knife'
• I Covered Simon and Garfunkel's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'
• I Died in 2002 (Ranked: 81)
• I Had a Stroke [Cerebral Vascular Accident]
• I Had Pneumonia
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[J-L]
• I Have Diabetes
• I Have Meniereas Disease
• I Lived in Beverly Hills
• I Performed on American Bandstand [L-Q]
• I Portrayed a Disney Villain
• I Portrayed Both the Hero and the Villain in the Same Movie
• I Recorded '(Ghost) Riders in the Sky'
• I Recorded ‘A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes’
• I Recorded ‘I Don’t Know How to Love Him’ (from ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’)
• I Recorded 'Summertime'
• I Sing About Coffee
• I Sing About Knifes
• I Sing About Miami
• I Sing About Peaches
• I Underwent a Heart Bypass Operation
• I'm Buried at Pierce Brothers' Westwood Memorial Park [Calif]
• Judy Garland Show Guests
• MCA's 20th Century Master Artists
• Musicians Who Act
• My Mom was Violent/Abusive
• My Music was Lost in the 2008 Universal Studios Fire
• My Song Hit #1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Songs Chart [1960s] (Ranked: 1969)
• My Song is on Sony's 'Soundtrack for a Century'
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1998)
• NPR's 50 Greatest Jazz Vocals [2013] (Ranked: 10)
• Profiles 6501-6750 (Ranked: 6525)
• Red Skelton Show Guests
• Stage Door Canteen [1943]
• The Chipmunks Covered My Song
• This is Your Life Honorees [L-Z]
• VH-1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock [July 1999] (Ranked: 93)
• Voice of Fashion's Profiles
• Voices of Disney
• What's My Line - Mystery Guests [1950-1967]
• Women with Beauty Marks [Facial Moles]
• World War II Pin-up Girls

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 20 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 37 Votes: 48.65% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 9 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 72 Votes: 51.39% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 63 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 36.84% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 72 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 32 Votes: 46.88% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 122 Votes: 35.25% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 100 Votes: 36.00% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 225 Votes: 44.00% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 154 Votes: 40.26% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 663 Votes: 59.73% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 736 Votes: 60.33% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 701 Votes: 42.94% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 113 Votes: 38.94% Annoying