Claudine Longet

   
Artist: Claudine Longet

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Pop
   Easy Listening
   

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Discography:


   
 Let's Spend the Night Together

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 4


   
 Colours

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Look of Love

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 Love Is Blue

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 Claudine

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11


   
 Sugar Me

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12


   
 Run Wild, Run Free

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 11


   
 We've Only Just Begun

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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Although French chanteuse Claudine Longet recorded a series of bewitchingly ethereal albums which ar often revered by today's aficionados of smooth, sophisticated Sixties pop, among the cosmopolitan public her life history as a performing artist was finally dwarfed by the events of her personal life, most unfortunately the 1976 shooting which killed her fellow, skiing star Spider Sabich. Longet was born in Paris on January 29, 1942; according to an splendid article in the cartridge Girlyhead, she relocated to the U.S. at age 19, settling in Las Vegas and becoming the lead dancer in the Folies Bergère usher. There she met crooner Andy Williams, with whom she'd sooner crossed paths while still a tiddler in Paris; they were matrimonial in 1961, although the 14-year departure in their ages was the source of much tilt among Williams' fans.


During the early geezerhood of her union to Williams, Longet order her career on hold to bug out a home; resurfacing in 1964, she appeared as a edgar Guest star on television series including Combat!, Hogan's Heroes, Unravel for Your Life and The Rat Patrol. Not surprisingly, she was as well regularly featured on The Andy Williams Show. Longet sign-language to A&M Records in 1966, grading a minor hit with her debut single "Meditation; " her start LP, Claudine, appeared the next year, gaining check airplay for "Hello, Hello" and a spread over of the Beatles' "Here, There and Everywhere." The Look of Love appeared later in 1967, and in 1968 Longet issued Love Is Blue; that same year, she co-starred opposite Peter Sellers in the hit cinema The Party.


Likewise in 1968, Longet issued her fourth album for A&M, Colours; after one last endeavour for the label, 1970's Run Wild, Run Free, a year after she jumped to Williams' new Barnaby imprint for We've Only Just Begun -- an ironical title given that the couple's married couple had concluded just months in the first place, although she and their trey children continued appearing on his yearly goggle box Christmas specials for years to pursue as well. Let's Spend the Night Together, from 1972, was Longet's last official outlet, although she recorded an album's worth of tracks for a proposed followup (lastly assembled in 1993 under the title Sugar Me).


As Longet's music career bleached, she became romantically involved with Olympic skiing hero Spider Sabich, in 1974 moving with him to Aspen, Colorado, a lam for the rich and celebrated where their neighbors included the likes of Jack Nicholson and John Denver. On the morning of March 21, 1976, Sabich was shot and killed when his Lüger shooting iron went off in Longet's hand; around Aspen, many demonized the tragedy as a character of cold-blooded off -- rumors around the couple's souring love affair swirled endlessly -- although the resulting trial found Longet shamed only on charges of criminal neglect, for which she served 30 years in gaol. Upon her passing, she after married her defense attorney, Ron Austin, and remained in Aspen, although in the years to pursue she appeared in public only seldom.





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