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Sofia Kalish (13 January 1886 - 9 February 1966)
Known as: the Last of the Red Hot Mamas
Voice Type: Contralto
Vocal Range: B♭2-C5
Significant High Notes:
C5 ("Only the Right Man Can Do Me Wrong!")
B4 ("Me and Myself", "Rose of the Volga", "Some of These Days" 1911 recording / 1926 recording / 1927 recording, "There's Something Spanish in My Eyes")
B♭4 ("Blue Bird, Where Are You?", "Cause I Fell Low Down", "Come On Home", "Egyptian Ella", "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong", "Hula Lou", "If Your Kisses Can't Hold the Man You Love", "I Know That My Baby is Cheating on Me", "I’m Glad My Daddy’s in a Uniform", "Is He My Boyfriend?", "Knock Wood", "Moanin' Low", "My Pet", "On a Balcony in Spain", "Only the Right Man Can Do Me Wrong!", "Reuben Rag", "Stay at Home Papa", "That Man of My Dreams", "There's a Cradle in Caroline", "What Good Am I Without You?", "You Can't Remember What I Can't Forget", "You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama at All)")
A4 ("Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Try to Two-Time Me)", "Away Down South in Heaven", "Blue Bird, Where Are You?", "Blue River", "Cause I Fell Low Down", "Good Morning, Judge", "He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday", "He's a Good Man to Have Around", "I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)", "If Your Kisses Can't Hold the Man You Love", "It's a Pleasure", "I've Got a Cross Eyed Papa", "Knock Wood", "Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long", "Life Begins at Forty", "Makin' Wickey-Wackey Down in Waikiki", "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes (Or Papa Don't Go Out Tonight)", "Me and Myself", "My Husband’s in the City", "Papa Better Watch Your Step", "Phoebe Jane", "Pick Me up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland", "Red Hot Mama", "Reuben Rag", "Rose of the Volga", "Some of These Days", "Stay Out of the South", "That Loving Soul Kiss", "That Lovin’ Rag", "That's What I Call Sweet Music", "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)", "There's a Blue Ridge Round My Heart, Virginia", "There's Something Spanish in My Eyes", "Vamping Sal (The Sheba of Georgia)", "Washin' the Blues from My Soul", "What'll You Do?", "You'll Have to Swing It", "Your Broadway and My Broadway", "You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama at All)")
G♯4 ("After You've Gone", "Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Try to Two-Time Me)", "Come On Home", "Complainin' (It's Human Nature to Complain)", "Conversational Man", "Egyptian Ella", "Everybody Shimmies Now", "Follow a Star", "Good Morning, Judge", "He's Tall, Dark and Handsome", "High Brown Blues", "Hollywood Will Never Be the Same", "Hula Lou", "I Know That My Baby is Cheating on Me", "I'm Doing What I'm Doing for Love", "I’m Glad My Daddy’s in a Uniform", "International Rag", "Louisville Lady", "Make Yourself at Home", "Makin' Wickey-Wackey Down in Waikiki", "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes", "Missouri Joe", "Moanin' Low", "My Pet", "Old King Tut", "On a Balcony in Spain", "One Sweet Letter from You", "That Man of My Dreams", "That's Something to Be Thankful For", "The Bigger the Army and the Navy", "The Man I Love", "There'll Be Some Changes Made", "There's a Cradle in Caroline", "The Traffic Was Terrific", "What Good Am I Without You?", "You Can't Remember What I Can't Forget")
G4 ("After You've Gone", "April in Paris", "Away Down South in Heaven", "Blue Bird, Where Are You?", "Blue River", "Cause I Fell Low Down", "Don’t Put a Tax on Beautiful Girls", "Down By the River", "Everybody Sing", "Follow a Star", "Foolin' with the Other Woman's Man", "He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday", "He's a Good Man to Have Around", "Hula Lou", "I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)", "I Ain't Taking Orders from No One", "I Can Never Think of the Words", "I'm Doing What I'm Doing for Love", "I'm Feathering a Nest (for a Little Bluebird)", "I’m Glad My Daddy’s in a Uniform", "I'm Living Alone and I Like It", "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas", "International Rag", "It's a Pleasure", "I've Got a Cross Eyed Papa", "I Wanna Say Hello" the Ed Sullivan Show, 1952, "Knock Wood", "Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long", "Learning", "Life Begins at Forty", "Louisville Lady", "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes (Or Papa Don't Go Out Tonight)", "Missouri Joe", "My Husband’s in the City", "My Yiddishe Momme", "Oh, You Have No Idea", "Old King Tut", "On a Balcony in Spain", "Papa Better Watch Your Step", "Pick Me up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland", "Red Hot Mama", "Rose of the Volga", "Seven or Eleven-My Dixie Pair O' Dice", "Some of These Days", "Sophie Tucker For President", "Stay at Home Papa", "Stay Out of the South", "That Loving Soul Kiss", "That Lovin’ Rag", "That Lovin’ Two-Step Man", "That's What I Call Sweet Music", "That's Where the South Begins", "The Lady is a Tramp", "The Man I Love", "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)", "There's Something Spanish in My Eyes", "Twelve O'Clock at Night", "Vamping Sal (The Sheba of Georgia)", "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee", "Washin' the Blues from My Soul", "What'll You Do?", "When a Lady Meets a Gentleman Down South", "White Christmas", "Who Wants Them Tall, Dark and Handsome", "Why Go to Havana", "Won’t You Be a Dear, Dear Daddy to a ‘Itta Bitta Doll Like Me?", "You'll Have to Swing It", "Your Broadway and My Broadway", "You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama at All)")
F♯4 ("Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Try to Two-Time Me)", "Blue River", "Come On Home", "Complainin' (It's Human Nature to Complain)", "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong", "He's a Good Man to Have Around", "I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)", "If Your Kisses Can't Hold the Man You Love", "It’s All Over Now", "Jig Walk", "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes", "Me and Myself", "Moanin' Low", "My Husband’s in the City", "My Yiddishe Momme", "Phoebe Jane", "There's a Blue Ridge Round My Heart, Virginia", "The Traffic Was Terrific", "When a Lady Meets a Gentleman Down South", "You Can't Remember What I Can't Forget", "You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama at All)")
F4 ("After You've Gone", "Aren't Women Wonderful", "Blue Bird, Where Are You?", "Conversational Man", "Curse of an Aching Heart", "Darktown Strutters' Ball", "Don’t Put a Tax on Beautiful Girls", "Down By the River", "Down South", "Entertaining Papa", "Everybody Sing", "Foolin' with the Other Woman's Man", "He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday", "He's Tall, Dark and Handsome", "High Brown Blues", "Hollywood Will Never Be the Same", "Hula Lou", "I Ain't Taking Orders from No One", "I Can Never Think of the Words", "If I Had My Life to Live Over", "I Know That My Baby is Cheating on Me", "I'm Feathering a Nest (for a Little Bluebird)", "I’m Glad My Daddy’s in a Uniform", "I'm Having More Fun Since I'm Sixty", "I'm Living Alone and I Like It", "I'm Starting All Over Again", "I'm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas", "Is He My Boyfriend?", "It’s All Over Now", "It's Never Too Late (To Have a Little Fun)", "I've Got a Cross Eyed Papa", "Knock Wood", "Learning", "Make Him Say Please", "Make Yourself at Home", "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes (Or Papa Don't Go Out Tonight)", "Missouri Joe", "Moanin' Low", "Mr. Siegel", "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes", "Nobody Loves a Fat Girl But Oh How a Fat Girl Can Love", "No One Man is Ever Going to Worry Me", "No One Woman Can Satisfy Any One Man All the Time", "Old King Tut", "One Sweet Letter from You", "Only the Right Man Can Do Me Wrong!", "Pick Me up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland", "Red Hot Mama", "Seven or Eleven-My Dixie Pair O' Dice", "Sophie Tucker For President", "Sophie Tucker School for Red Hot Mamas", "That Man of My Dreams", "That's Something to Be Thankful For", "That's What I Call Sweet Music", "That's Where the South Begins", "The Grizzly Bear", "The Lady is a Tramp", "The Middle Age Mambo", "The Older They Get, the Younger They Want 'Em", "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)", "There'll Be Some Changes Made", "Too Much Lovin'", "Twelve O'Clock at Night", "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee", "Washin' the Blues from My Soul", "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?", "White Christmas", "Why Go to Havana", "Won’t You Be a Dear, Dear Daddy to a ‘Itta Bitta Doll Like Me?", "You Can't Sew a Button on a Heart", "You've Got to Be Loved to Be Healthy")
Significant Low Notes:
G3 ("April in Paris", "Bill", "Blue Bird, Where Are You?", "Blue River", "Curse of an Aching Heart", "Down South", "Follow a Star", "Hello, My Baby", "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm", "I'm Doing What I'm Doing for Love", "I'm Feathering a Nest (for a Little Bluebird)", "I'm Living Alone and I Like It", "In the Good Old Summertime", "Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long", "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes", "Oh, You Have No Idea", "Papa Better Watch Your Step", "That Lovin’ Rag", "That Lovin’ Two-Step Man", "That's What I Call Sweet Music", "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)", "There's a Cradle in Caroline", "There's No Business Like That Certain Business", "There's Something Spanish in My Eyes", "Twelve O'Clock at Night", "When a Lady Meets a Gentleman Down South", "Won’t You Be a Dear, Dear Daddy to a ‘Itta Bitta Doll Like Me?", "You'll Have to Swing It", "Your Broadway and My Broadway", "You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama at All)")
F♯3 ("He's a Good Man to Have Around", "I Wanna Say Hello", "Me and Myself", "Pick Me up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland", "The Traffic Was Terrific")
F3 ("A Bird in a Gilded Cage", "Be As Big As the World You Live In", "Down By the River", "Fifty Golden Years", "Follow a Star", "I Ain't Taking Orders from No One", "I Can Never Think of the Words", "I Don't Want to Get Thin", "If He's Good Enough to Fight", "Life Upon the Wicked Stage", "Moanin' Low", "Myron", "Never Let the Same Dog Bite You Twice", "Reuben Rag", "Some of These Days", "That Loving Soul Kiss", "That's What I Call Sweet Music", "The Lady is a Tramp", "The Middle Age Mambo", "There'll Be Some Changes Made", "There's No Business Like That Certain Business", "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?", "You Can't Sew a Button on a Heart", "You're Only As Good As Your Last Kiss")
E3 ("After You've Gone" Cabaret Days version, "April in Paris", "Bill", "He's a Good Man to Have Around", "If Your Kisses Can't Hold the Man You Love", "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry", "I’m Waiting for Ships That Never Come In", "Life Upon the Wicked Stage", "Margie", "Mr. Siegel", "The Middle Age Mambo", "When a Lady Meets a Gentleman Down South", "Who Wants Them Tall, Dark and Handsome", "You Can't Sew a Button on a Heart" Sensations of 1945 version)
E♭3 ("Hi-Ya, Soph!", "I Remember It Well", "Make Him Say Please", "Max From the Income Tax", "Me and Marie", "Stay at Home Papa", "That Man of My Dreams", "The Bigger the Army and the Navy")
D3 ("Hollywood Will Never Be the Same", "I Can Never Think of the Words", "I Don't Want to Get Thin", "If I Had My Life to Live Over", "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry", "It's Never Too Late (To Have a Little Fun)", "Makin' Wickey-Wackey Down in Waikiki", "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes", "My Mother's Sabbath Candles", "My Yiddishe Momme", "No One Man is Ever Going to Worry Me", "Some of These Days" Cabaret Days version, "You're Only As Good As Your Last Kiss")
C♯3 ("Me and Marie")
C3 ("Fifty Golden Years", "I'm As Modern As Tomorrow and As Old As Yesterday", "I'm Bigger and Better Than Ever", "I Remember It Well", "Life Upon the Wicked Stage", "The Older They Get, the Younger They Want 'Em", "You Too Can Be a Red Hot Mama")
B2 ("Vitamins, Hormones And Pills")
B♭2 ("I Remember It Well", "You're Only As Good As Your Last Kiss")
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Blue marks notes sung in head voice.
Underlines marks notes found in harmonies and backing vocals.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.
{Questionable notes}B♭2 ("Open Your Heart, Open Your Mind" [3], "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes" [1])
A2 ("No One Man is Ever Going to Worry Me" [1][3])
G2 ("Entertaining Papa" [3])
F2 ("I'm As Modern As Tomorrow and As Old As Yesterday" [1])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
A2 ("No One Man is Ever Going to Worry Me" [1][3])
G2 ("Entertaining Papa" [3])
F2 ("I'm As Modern As Tomorrow and As Old As Yesterday" [1])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
{Discography}
Origins of the Red Hot Mama (1910-1922) - F3-B4
Vintage Sophie Tucker Vol. 1 (1922-1927) - F3-B4
Vintage Sophie Tucker Vol. 2 (1928-1929) - D3-B4
Vintage Sophie Tucker, Vol. 3 (1929-1937) - D3-B♭4
Some of These Days: The Last of the Red Hot Mamas (1930-1937) - D3-B♭4
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) - G3-A4
A Collection of Songs She Has Made Famous (1944) - C3-G4
Follow the Boys (1944) - E♭3-G♯4
Sensations of 1945 (1944) - E3-F♯4
Golden Jubilee (Fifty Golden Years) (1954) - B2-F4
Cabaret Days (1954) - D3-G4
Bigger and Better Than Ever (1956) - C3-E4
Her Latest and Greatest Spicy Saucy Songs / My Dream (1956) - D3-G4
The Spice of Life (1956) - D3-G4
Sophie Tucker in Person (1960) - B♭2-F4
Origins of the Red Hot Mama (1910-1922) - F3-B4
Vintage Sophie Tucker Vol. 1 (1922-1927) - F3-B4
Vintage Sophie Tucker Vol. 2 (1928-1929) - D3-B4
Vintage Sophie Tucker, Vol. 3 (1929-1937) - D3-B♭4
Some of These Days: The Last of the Red Hot Mamas (1930-1937) - D3-B♭4
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) - G3-A4
A Collection of Songs She Has Made Famous (1944) - C3-G4
Follow the Boys (1944) - E♭3-G♯4
Sensations of 1945 (1944) - E3-F♯4
Golden Jubilee (Fifty Golden Years) (1954) - B2-F4
Cabaret Days (1954) - D3-G4
Bigger and Better Than Ever (1956) - C3-E4
Her Latest and Greatest Spicy Saucy Songs / My Dream (1956) - D3-G4
The Spice of Life (1956) - D3-G4
Sophie Tucker in Person (1960) - B♭2-F4
