Katie Lee (singer)

Katie Lee
Background information
Birth nameKathryn Louise Lee
Born(1919-10-23)October 23, 1919
Aledo, Illinois, U.S.
DiedNovember 1, 2017(2017-11-01) (aged 98)
Jerome, Arizona, U.S.
GenresFolk music
Occupation(s)Actress, folk singer, writer, photographer, environmental activist
Instrument(s)Vocals
guitar
Websitekatydoodit.com

Katie Lee (October 23, 1919 – November 1, 2017) was an American folk singer, actress, writer, photographer and environmental activist.[1]

From the 1950s, Lee often sang about rivers and white water rafting. She was a vocal opponent of Glen Canyon Dam, which closed its gates in 1963, and called for the canyon to be returned to its natural state. For her environmental activism, she was often called "the Desert Goddess of Glen Canyon."[2]

Her obituary in The New York Times states, "Ms. Lee never forgave the builders of the Glen Canyon Dam and said the only thing that prevented her from blowing it up was that she did not know how."[2]

Early life

Kathryn Louise Lee was born in Aledo, Illinois on October 23, 1919, to decorator Ruth (Detwiler) and architect and homebuilder Zanna Lee. When she was three months old, her family moved to Tucson, Arizona.[2] She graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama.[3] Following her graduation, she left for Hollywood where she studied with two of the most successful folksingers of the 1940s, Burl Ives and Josh White.

Folk singer and author

Lee's early folk music albums, Songs of Couch and Consultation (1957) and Life Is Just a Bed of Neuroses (1960), parody the rising popularity of psychoanalysis at the time.[4] Both albums have long been out of print, but six of her later CDs remain available.[5] She also released three videos, including Love Song to Glen Canyon (DVD, 2007).

In 1964, Lee released an album on Folkways Records, entitled Folk Songs of the Colorado River. In the 1980s, she recorded a cassette-only release, Colorado River Songs, consisting of old songs popular among river runners on the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon, and some original compositions. This release was hailed by Edward Abbey and David Foreman, among others. Colorado River Songs was expanded to include more songs and re-released in 1997 on CD. She released Glen Canyon River Journeys on CD, which mixes music and her narration. She also was featured on the 2005 Smithsonian Folkways compilation album, Songs and Stories from Grand Canyon. In October 2011, Katie Lee was inducted into the Arizona Music Hall of Fame.[6]

She authored five books. Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle: A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story and Verse (1976) is a study of the music, stories, and poetry of the American cowboy, later recorded as an album with Travis Edmonson.[7] Sandstone Seduction, a 2004 memoir, relates Lee's continuing love affair with desert rivers and canyons, and discusses her Lady Godiva-style bicycle ride through downtown Jerome, Arizona, where she lived.[8]

Lee donated her extraordinary collection of photographs, writings, songs and music, letters, and journals to the Cline Library Special Collections and Archives at Northern Arizona University.

Lee published music and books under the label Katydid Books and Music.[9]

Environmental activism

Glen Canyon Dam, to which Katie Lee was a vocal opponent.
Glen Canyon Dam, to which Katie Lee was a vocal opponent

Lee was known for her activism against the damming of rivers, and particularly her opposition to Glen Canyon Dam in Northern Arizona, which opened in 1963.[2] After joining a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon in 1953, she became a regular on river trips on the Colorado River and joined the opposition to the construction of Glen Canyon Dam.[2][10]

In September and October 1955, Tad Nichols, Frank Wright, and she traveled through and documented parts of the canyon that later were to be submerged.[11] This threesome named at least 25 of the side canyons they explored in Glen Canyon.[3] Lee's campaign to protect the canyon included a one-woman protest exhibition of photographs where she posed naked among the canyon's landscape. Her protest was featured in books and folk songs she authored.[12] "When they drowned that place, they drowned my whole guts", Lee said in a 2010 interview. "And I will never forgive the bastards. May they rot in hell."[2] For her environmental activism, Lee was often described as "the Goddess of Glen Canyon."[2]

Lee was a member of the Advisory Board of the Glen Canyon Institute which is a non-profit organization dedicated to the restoration of Glen Canyon and a free flowing Colorado River.

Personal life

Records indicate that Lee seems to have been married three times. She was first married to Charles Eld,[13] who was mentioned in her book Sandstone Seduction. She wrote that she "...went to work for the war effort at Davis Monthan Field, married a shavetail in '42, got pregnant, had a son, [and] got divorced in '45." This son is identified as Ronald Eld in the New York Times obituary from November 10, 2017. Charles was awarded full custody of Ronald in 1950. A son is mentioned (not by name) briefly with some regret, as 10 years old in her journal from the 1954 trip. There are pictures of Katie and a young "Ronnie" in the NAU Cline Library Colorado Plateau digital archives.

The N.Y. Times obituary mentions a second husband named Eugene Busch (sic), Jr. An article in the Arizona Daily Star on June 16, 2015 includes a reprint of an article from 1959 where Mrs. Gene Bush (Katie) is interviewed in Holmdel NJ. Katie married Bush in 1958. The marriage lasted 3 years and then Katie moved to Aspen, Colorado from New Jersey in 1961.

She met her "last and best husband",[citation needed] Edwin Carl "Brandy" Brandelius, Jr. — to whom her book Sandstone Seduction is dedicated — on a trip to Baja California.[14] in 1968. Brandy had an emphysema and was staying at this location in Mexico when the two met.[13] When they married Katie Lee became the step-mother to "Brandy's" children Jerilyn Lee Brandelius, Ken, Susie and John Brandelius.[2]

Brandy was a war veteran, a race car driver, announcer, and good friend of Turk Murphy. Lee noted Brandy as the prime influence on finishing and publishing her first book, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle. Brandy died in 1973 while they were married.

Lee lived in Jerome, Arizona from 1971 until her death in 2017; she died in her sleep at her home there on November 1, 2017, aged 98.[15][10] Lee's partner, Joey van Leeuwen, whom she met in 1979 in Australia while on a round-the-world trip, died by suicide the day after her death.[2]

Katie and Joey were cremated and their ashes were scattered on the San Juan River.[13]

Chronicles of Lee's adventures in Baja California appear in the book Almost An Island by Bruce Berger. In 2016, a short documentary entitled Kickass Katie Lee was screened at Telluride Mountainfilm,[16] a documentary film festival where Lee was a regular guest.[17] Lee featured prominently in "Cry Me A River", a radio episode by The Kitchen Sisters, which explored the damming of American rivers.[18]

Lee's song, "Gunslinger", from Songs of Couch and Consultation, was translated to Swedish in 1965 and was recorded by Per Myrberg as "Skjutgalen". It also was recorded by the Limeliters on their 1961 album, The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters. This may still be available on a BMG Collectibles CD. Utah Phillips praised Katie Lee and Songs of Couch and Consultation on the 1996 album, The Past Didn't Go Anywhere on the track, "Half a Ghost Town".

Discography

Studio albums

  • Spicy Songs for Cool Knights (Specialty, 1956)[19]
  • Songs Of Couch And Consultation (Commentary, 1957)[2]
  • Life Is Just A Bed Of Neuroses (RCA Victor, 1960)[4]
  • Folk Songs of the Colorado River (Folkways, 1964)[20]
  • Love's Little Sisters (Katydid, 1975)[2]
  • Colorado River Songs (Katydid, 1976)
  • Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle (Katydid, 1977, featuring Travis Edmonson, Earl Edmunson and David Holt)
  • Fenced! (Katydid, 1978)
  • His Knibbs & the Badger (Katydid, 1992, with Ed Stabler)
  • Glen Canyon River Journeys (Katydid, 1998)[A]
  • Folksongs from the Fifties (Katydid, 2009)[B]

Live albums

  • The Best of Katie Lee: Recorded Live at the Troubadour (Essential Media, 1962)

Bibliography

Lee published five books:[22]

  • Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle: A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story & Verse (1976)
  • All My Rivers are Gone: A Journey of Discovery through Glen Canyon (1998)[2][C]
  • Sandstone Seduction: Rivers and Lovers, Canyons and Friends (2004)
  • Ballad Of Gutless Ditch (2010)
  • The Ghosts of Dandy Crossing (2014)

References

Notes

  1. ^ Consists of readings and songs from Lee's book All My Rivers are Gone.[21]
  2. ^ The songs on this album were recorded in February 1955.[21]
  3. ^ Later republished as Glen Canyon Betrayed: A Sensuous Elegy, with an afterword by Lee.[7]

References

  1. ^ "APTV". Aftenposten.no. January 1, 1980. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Sandomir, Richard, "Katie Lee, Folk Singer Who Fought to Protect a Canyon, Dies at 98", The New York Times, November 13, 2017, p. B7
  3. ^ a b "XTF: Search Results". www.azarchivesonline.org. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  4. ^ a b "Katie Lee" Space Age Pop. Archived November 22, 2017.
  5. ^ "Welcome to Arizona's Real Katie Lee web site... | MUSIC". Katydoodit.com. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  6. ^ "An Arizona Legend: Jerome's Katie Lee to be inducted into Arizona Music Hall of Fame – The Verde Independent – Cottonwood, Arizona". Verdenews.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  7. ^ a b "Glen Canyon's 'goddess' Katie Lee passes at 98" Grand Canyon News, November 14, 2017. Archived November 22, 2017.
  8. ^ Lee, Katie (2004) Sandstone Seduction: Rivers and Lovers, Canyons and Friends. Big Earth Publishing, ISBN 1-55-566338-9
  9. ^ "Katie Lee". azmusichalloffame.org. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
  10. ^ a b Gillian Ferris (2017) "Katie Lee, 'Goddess of Glen Canyon,' Dies at Age 98", KNAU Arizona Public Radio, November 1, 2017.
  11. ^ "Forgotten Canyon – Aerial view, September/October 1955: Colorado Plateau Archives". Archive.library.nau.edu. September 23, 1955. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  12. ^ "Katie Lee". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  13. ^ a b c "Family and Friends – Full Circle". Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  14. ^ Katie Lee (2004). Sandstone Seduction: Rivers and Lovers, Canyons and Friends. Big Earth. p. 151. ISBN 9781555663384. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  15. ^ Dan Engler and Vyto Starinska (2017) "Arizona icon, Jerome's Katie Lee, dies at age 98", Verde Independent, November 1, 2017; archived November 2, 2017.
  16. ^ "Kickass Katie Lee" Telluride Mountainfilm official website. Archived November 22, 2017.
  17. ^ "Remembering Katie, Fred and Ross" Telluride Mountainfilm official website. November 6, 2017. Archived November 22, 2017.
  18. ^ "Cry Me A River" The Kitchen Sisters Present, Accessed 2 November 2017.
  19. ^ "Spicy Songs for Cool Knights" Billboard, December 16, 1957, p34. Accessed November 22, 2017.
  20. ^ "Folk Songs of the Colorado River" Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Archived December 22, 2017.
  21. ^ a b "Katie's Historical Discography" Katie Lee official website. Archived November 22, 2017.
  22. ^ Corina Vanek (2017) "Singer, Arizona activist Katie Lee dies at 98" Arizona Daily Sun. November 1, 2017. Archived November 2, 2017.

Read other articles:

Nyurba

Lambang kota Nyurba Nyurba (Rusia: Нюрба) merupakan sebuah kota di Republik Sakha, Rusia, terletak di Sungai Vilyuy. Terletak 846 km dari barat laut Yakutsk. Menjadi status sebagai kota sejak tahun 1998. Penduduknya berjumlah 10.309 jiwa (2002), 11.934 jiwa (1989). Pranala luar Сайт администрации Нюрбинского улуса Diarsipkan 2013-05-18 di Wayback Machine. Нюрба в энциклопедии «Мой город» Форум выпускников ...

 

Cigarette holder

Fashion accessory held for smoking Cigarette holderTypeFashion accessoryMaterialSilver, jade, or plastic Cleo Trumbo, wife of novelist Dalton Trumbo, smokes with a holder during House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in 1947 A cigarette holder is a fashion accessory, a slender tube in which a cigarette is held for smoking. Most frequently made of silver, jade or bakelite (popular in the past but now wholly replaced by modern plastics), cigarette holders were considered an essential p...

 

República Checa en la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2006

República Checa19.º puesto Titular Alternativo Datos generales Asociación FAČR Confederación UEFA Seudónimo Národní Tým (La selección nacional) Ranking FIFA 2.º lugar (mayo de 2006) Participación 9.ª Mejor resultado Subcampeón (1934, 1962) Entrenador Karel Brückner Estadísticas Partidos 3 Goles anotados 3 (1 por partido) Goles recibidos 4 (1.33 por partido) Goleador Tomáš Rosický (2 goles) Cronología Anterior Italia 1990 Siguiente Por definir La selección de la República...

العلاقات الجيبوتية الفنلندية

العلاقات الجيبوتية الفنلندية جيبوتي فنلندا   جيبوتي   فنلندا تعديل مصدري - تعديل   العلاقات الجيبوتية الفنلندية هي العلاقات الثنائية التي تجمع بين جيبوتي وفنلندا.[1][2][3][4][5] مقارنة بين البلدين هذه مقارنة عامة ومرجعية للدولتين: وجه المقارنة ج

 

Kofola

KofolaJenisMinuman ringanProdusenKofola, a.s.Negara asalCekoslowakiaDiperkenalkan1960Produk terkaitCoca-Cola, Pepsi Kofola adalah minuman ringan berkarbonasi yang diproduksi oleh perusahaan Kofola yang bermarkas di Krnov, Republik Ceko. Minuman ini merupakan saingan utama Coca-Cola dan Pepsi di Republik Ceko dan Slowakia. Kofola pertama kali ditemukan di Institut Penelitian Tumbuhan Pengobatan Cekoslowakia di Praha pada tahun 1959. Pada dasawarsa 1960-an dan 1970-an, minuman ini menjadi sanga...

 

Tobin Bell

Tobin Bell Tobin Bell (lahir 7 Agustus 1942) merupakan seorang aktor berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Dia menjadi terkenal saat bermain di film utamanya seperti Seinfeld, La Femme Nikita, The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Alias, The West Wing, The Pretender, The Sopranos, NYPD Blue, 24, ER dan Walker Texas Ranger. Dia dilahirkan di Queens, New York. Dia berkarier di dunia film sejak tahun 1988. Filmografi Film Tahun Judul Peran Keterangan 1979 Manhattan Man on Street Uncredited 1981 Tales of Ordinary...

ألفونس دو لامارتين

ألفونس دو لامارتين (بالفرنسية: Alphonse de Lamartine)‏  معلومات شخصية اسم الولادة (بالفرنسية: Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine)‏  الميلاد 21 أكتوبر 1790(1790-10-21)ماكون الوفاة 28 فبراير 1869 (78 سنة)باريس مواطنة فرنسا  عضو في أكاديمية اللغة الفرنسية[1]،  وأكاديمية ماكون  [لغات أخرى]‏&...

 

Pemilihan umum Presiden Venezuela 2013

Pemilihan umum Presiden Venezuela 20132012201814 April 2013 (2013-04-14)Kehadiran pemilih79.68%Kandidat   Calon Nicolás Maduro Henrique Capriles Radonski Partai Partai Sosialis Bersatu Venezuela Primero Justicia Aliansi Gran Polo Patriótico Mesa de la Unidad Democrática Negara bagian Distrik Ibukota Venezuela Miranda Negara bagian 15 + Distrik Ibukota Venezuela 8 Suara rakyat 7.587.579 7.363.980 Persentase 50,6% 49,1% Peta persebaran suara Peta hasil pemilu.Merah d...

 

Avtozavodsky constituency

Avtozavodsky single-member constituency Constituency of the Russian State DumaDeputyNatalia NazarovaUnited RussiaFederal subjectNizhny Novgorod OblastDistrictsArdatovsky, Bogorodsky (Aleshkovsky, Bogorodsk, Doskinsky, Dudenevsky, Khvoshchevsky, Shapkinsky), Kulebaki, Navashino, Nizhny Novgorod (Avtozavodsky), Pavlovsky, Sosnovsky, Vachsky, Voznesensky, Vyksa[1]Voters537,043 (2021)[2] The Avtozavodsky constituency (No.131[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Niz...

Jennifer Hudson discography

Jennifer Hudson discographyHudson in 2013Studio albums3Music videos12Singles20Soundtrack albums1Album appearances8Soundtrack appearances22 American singer and actress Jennifer Hudson has released three studio albums, sixteen singles (including two as a featured artist), five promotional singles and ten music videos. She has also made various contributions to other artist's albums and has appeared on the soundtrack for the 2006 musical film, Dreamgirls. Hudson's music incorporates a range of m...

 

Diverticulosis

Condition of the wall of the intestine Not to be confused with Diverticulitis. See also: Segmental colitis associated with diverticulosis Medical conditionDiverticulosisOther namesDiverticular disease of the colonDiverticulosis as seen endoscopicallySpecialtyGeneral surgery Diverticulosis is the condition of having multiple pouches (diverticula) in the colon that are not inflamed. These are outpockets of the colonic mucosa and submucosa through weaknesses of muscle layers in the colon wall.&#...

 

British People's Party (1939)

1939–1954 British far-right political party For other uses of British People's Party, see British People's Party (disambiguation). British People's Party AbbreviationBPPLeaderJohn BeckettChairpersonLord TavistockFounderJohn Beckett, Lord TavistockFounded1939Dissolved1954NewspaperThe People's PostIdeologyBritish fascismUltranationalismSocial CreditPacifismPolitics of the United KingdomPolitical partiesElections The British People's Party (BPP) was a British far-right political party founded ...

Atletismo nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020 - Maratona feminina

Maratona feminina nosJogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020 Tóquio, Japão Dados Participantes 88 de 44 CONs Sede Sapporo Data 7 de agosto de 2021 Dias de competição 1 Medalhistas Ouro Peres JepchirchirKEN Quênia Prata Brigid KosgeiKEN Quênia Bronze Molly SeidelUSA Estados Unidos ◄◄ 2016 2024 ►► Atletismo nosJogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020 Provas de pista 100 m masc fem 200 m masc fem 400 m masc fem 800 m masc fem 1500 m masc fem 5000 m masc fem 10000 m masc fem 100 m com barreira...

 

Anita Morris

American actress, singer, and dancer (1943-1994) Anita MorrisMorris in 1982BornAnita Rose Morris(1943-03-14)March 14, 1943Durham, North Carolina, USDiedMarch 2, 1994(1994-03-02) (aged 50)Los Angeles, California, USResting placeMaplewood Cemetery, Durham, North CarolinaOccupation(s)Actress, singer, dancerYears active1971–1994Spouse Grover Dale ​(m. 1973)​ChildrenJames Badge Dale Anita Rose Morris (March 14, 1943 – March 2, 1994) was an American actres...

 

Armor Holdings

Armor Holdings, Inc.TypeSubsidiaryIndustryDefenseFoundedJanuary 1, 1996HeadquartersJacksonville, Florida, United StatesOwnerBAE SystemsParentBAE Systems Land and ArmamentsDivisionsacquired vehicle division of Stewart & StevensonWebsitewww.armorholdings.com Armor Holdings, Inc. was an American manufacturer of military, law enforcement, and personnel safety equipment. It was acquired by BAE Systems on July 31, 2007[1] and renamed BAE Systems Mobility & Protection Systems. The di...

B.K. School of Business Management

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article's lead section may be too long. Please read the length guidelines and help move details into the article's body. (June 2017) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: B.K. School of Business Management – ne...

 

Kemerovo constituency

Legislative constituency in Russia Kemerovo single-member constituency Constituency of the Russian State DumaDeputyAnton GorelkinUnited RussiaFederal subjectKemerovo OblastDistrictsAnzhero-Sudzhensk, Beryozovsky, Chebulinsky, Izhmorsky, Kemerovo (Kedrovka, Kirovsky, Promyshlennovsky, Rudnichny, Tsentralny), Kemerovsky (Arsentyevskoye, Shcheglovskoye), Mariinsky, Tayga, Tisulsky, Tyazhinsky, Yashkinsky, Yaysky, Yurga[1]Voters485,753 (2021)[2] The Kemerovo constituency (No.101&#...

 

Johnny Allen (EastEnders)

Fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. (October 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article needs additional citati...

LeRoy Bell

American Musician This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.Find sources: LeRoy Bell – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) LeR...

 

MTX Audio

American consumer audio company This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: MTX Audio – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) MTX AudioTypeConsumer and prosumer manufacturerIndustryAudioFounded1979FounderLoyd IveyHeadquartersWinsl...

 

Strategi Solo vs Squad di Free Fire: Cara Menang Mudah!