Talk:Portia Nelson

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The Poem on the Portia Nelson page is not correct in the way it has been written, and this would greatly upset Ms. Nelson. I know well, because I was her partner from 1975 until her death in 2001, and she left the right to her creative works to me. I would be happy to help someone correct it. Natalie Tirrell natalie@natalietirrell.com natalietirrell@gmail.com 45.49.240.93 (talk) 18:24, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

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I had to revision-delete most of this page's history as it contained a copyright violation, but this means that non-admins will not be able to look at the content that Teblick (quite reasonably) removed as unsourced and potentially salvage it, so I have copied those claims here.

At the start of "Early life and education":

Nelson was born in Brigham City, Utah on May 27, 1920 and was the youngest of nine children. (The Danish family name of Nielsen had been anglicized before her birth.) Her Mormon family owned a farm; her father was also a railroad worker. At a young age, Nelson taught herself to play piano; after two years at Weber College in Ogden, Utah she quit school and moved to Los Angeles.

At the start of "Early career":

While attending an LDS Church service in L.A. in 1945, Nelson met the King Sisters, the popular swing-era vocal quartet, also from Utah. The sisters were employed by bandleader Alvino Rey; and since Nelson needed a job, they hired her to come on the road as their secretary. In the months that followed, she took one of her first steps as a musician by writing a few vocal arrangements for the group.

At the end of "Early career":

Through Ida Lupino, Nelson met Nick Arden, a lyricist who was planning to open a small nightclub in Sherman Oaks, California. She and Arden teamed to write a song, "It's as Simple as That." Nelson recorded the demo, which reached the hands of singer Jo Stafford; on October 18, 1946, Stafford recorded the ballad for Capitol as the B-side of "September Song." The disc didn't chart, but once his nightclub had opened Arden hired Nelson to make her debut there as a singer. Her accompanist was Walter Gross, a former staff pianist at CBS radio and the composer of a standard written that year, "Tenderly".

At the end of the first paragraph of "Theater and other recordings":

Her other early recorded work include the 1956 album, Autumn Leaves (on the Dolphin label); she wrote arrangements for the album Stritch by Elaine Stritch, released on Dolphin in 1956.

At the end of the second paragraph of "Theater and other recordings":

Tracks from the series would later comprise Nelson's 1994 CD, Sunday in New York, released on the Lockett-Palmer label.

At the end of the first paragraph of "Later life and death":

Within a couple of years she had resumed singing in a low, husky speech-song style, while devoting more attention to her songwriting. By the end of her career Nelson had written hundreds of songs, as well as scores for various book musicals and animated films. All went unproduced, but Nelson was lavished with accolades for her accomplishments.

At the end of the second paragraph of "Later life and death":

In 1996, Nelson's "As I Remember Him" was voted Song of the Year by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC). That same year, Backstage magazine honored her for lifetime achievement at its annual Bistro Awards. Also in 1996, DRG Records issued This Life, a CD of her original songs as sung by cabaret artists Margaret Whiting, Amanda McBroom, Ann Hampton Callaway, Deborah Tranelli, Nancy LaMott, and Nelson herself. DRG also reissued Nelson's three solo albums of the 1950s.

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