Lee Wiley~Take It From Me (I'm Takin' to You)~1931, w/Leo Reismann Orch

Lee Wiley was born in Cherokee County, Oklahoma in 1908. She left home as a teen to sing with the Reisman Orchestra. Lee was forced to take several years off to recover from a serious horse riding accident-the recovery included regaining her sight. She returned to Reismans, still only 19 and soon moved up the ladder of success to sing with Paul Whiteman's Orch., and then with the Casa Loma Orch. Lee wrote several songs with the brilliant composer Victor Young (Around the World in 80 Days), etc. who worked with Brunswick Records in the 1930s where he arranged classical and popular music. Lee performed as vocalist for Young's Orch. and was involved with him professionally and personally. Lee followed Young to California in 1935 to remain near him at great sacrifice to her own career, when Young moved west to become musical director for Paramount Studios. Lee recorded several Gershwin songs in 1939 for exclusive sale through Liberty Music Shops in New York. Liberty specialized in highly sophisticated music for its' savvy customers. The Gershwin sets were successful and were followed by sets of the music of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Harold Arlen, Vincent Youmans and Irving Berlin. The musicians for these sets were Max Kaminsky, Bud Freeman, Fats Waller, Bobby Hackett, Stan Freeman, Bunny Berrigan and Jess Stacey to whom she was married. Lee also had an affair with Berrigan which was disastrous for both. Lee opened the 1954 Newport Jazz Festival with Bobby Hackett
Lee recorded throughout the 1950s and retired in 1960. Her final appearance was at Carnegie Hall in 1972'
Take It From Me ~I'm Takin' to You; Victor Records 22757, matrix BRC 69993, recorded at Victor Studio 2, New York, June 30, 1931.