For Shelly's Fans

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Shelly Cullin shows.

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Congratulations to Shelly Cullin, recipient of a 1998 Dean Goodman Choice Award for Solo Performance/Cabaret!

Says Shelly --

Re: The Anita O'Day Tribute, The Jazz Bakery, L. A. "Hearing The Queen of Jazz say your performance was 'Cool!' was sort of like a Member of Parliament being knighted by The Queen of England! I¹ve never considered myself strictly a jazz singer. My world is cabaret--where I combine some elements of jazz with the intimacy of cabaret. Perhaps that's why, for me, Cabaret/Jazz is a state of mind--an abstract to be shared."

“Hi,

 I met Shelly Cullin and her husband over the Christmas season at Macys and found her to be a delightful person with a very nice voice. 

I was thinking of her and wondering whether she will have any engagements around the Monterey area.  Can you please let me know? Thanks so much,” Jeannine M.

 
“... Shelly Cullin stopped the show last week as a special guest at the San Francisco performance I caught by Richard Skipper,
 the popular New York-based Carol Channing impersonator. Shelly started with September Song, then did a medley 
of You Leave Me Breathless and Breathless... she closed with a very poignant Bill (dedicated to her hubby, Bill).  
After each number--and especially when she'd finished her too-short set--Shelly (no extra "e" in there) got a thunderous ovation
 From an audience I know she didn't pad.” michael@allmusicservices.com, San Francisco, 2002
 
 
“I have to echo Michael's post from the other day...Shelly… who clearly does NOT post enough, was magnificent last Sunday
 with Richard Skipper as Carol Channing. I was unable to attend Monday's show, but heard from a few folks that the 
Plush Room was packed and that the whole show was VERY well received. I had a ball, frankly. Shelly not only looked 
beautiful beyond words (clearly there IS a portrait in her attic), but sang so well, that the audience on Sunday was mesmerized. 
 I can't say enough about her. She deserved every kind thing that folks had to say about her. I'd gladly be first in line
 to give her another standing ‘O’ - it would be well deserved indeed!” Chris M., San Francisco, 2002
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“The show was fabulous...as promised...and your numbers were great!  The audience really loved the way you sing.  It was my

first time seeing you perform and I'm sure it would not be my last.” Stephen M., San Francisco, 2002

"Shelly Cullin was a welcome addition to the New York cabaret scene in April. Her warm voice and emotional delivery was

compelling." Maria D., New York

"...Great website, I feel I know you now. Lovely photo...You look marvelous!" Signed, Stephen.

"Her special combination of cabaret music and jazz is what audiences are looking for." -- Robin McKee, Producing Arti"...Great website, I feel I know you now. Lovely photo...You look marvelous!" Signed, Stephen.

"Her special combination of cabaret music and jazz is what audiences are looking for." -- Robin McKee, Producing Artistic Director Carmel Performing Arts Festival.

"Shelly Cullin was fantastic at the Anita O'Day benefit last Sunday the 17th at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles offering two songs: Gone With the Wind and a Mercer tune Don't You Quit Now - the first to be dedicated to Anita - what a roster! Shelly appeared after Kay Starr, Monica Lewis, Estelle Reiner, Annette Warren, and right before Martha Lorin and Anita - what a show! Shelly was so well received - the first to do an Anita O'Day tune! God love her!" Chris and Jimmy.jdjarret@msn.com

"I just happened to look at your Shelly Cullin website and read her story with interest. She's had quite a career and it's wonderful that the career is continuing. Now my problem -- Why can't I get her CD in one of the larger stores around, like Tower and HMV? It's terrible how good singers and good music is pushed further and further aside in those places. The other problem -- when will she be coming to the East Coast?" Mary and George, Forest Hills, N.Y.

"Jimmy and I attended Shelly's CD release concert at Star Classics last Sunday - she looked fabulous and performed incredibly, went to dinner with Ken, her pianist, Hadda Brooks, and Shelly's husband Bill - that man can tell stories like nobody I've met and has a magnificent twinkle in his eye to boot - what a delightful pair - very much in love, those two.
"Shelly performed Monday night at a benefit concert for the "Blues is Truth" foundation which is a living memorial to Brownie McGhee...She performed right in the middle of the program with her amazing pianist Ken, with the likes of Jimmy McCraklin, Sugar Pie Desanto, Hadda Brooks, Bob Weir, Maria Muldaur, and about 50 other people. She was slated to do two numbers, immediately following Lady Bianca (her first words after taking the stage were "Imagine having to follow that!") Yet, amidst all the assembled talent there, she was one of two performers asked to do an encore! She looked radiant and performed so well, and the bouquet of calla lilies handed to her on stage only enhanced her beauty - the packed house of over 300 loved her, but then, who wouldn't. She and her husband stayed for the rest of the show and had a ball." Chris; Jimmy, and Billy Jarrett, San Francisco.

"A real pro -- she works her craft to perfection. Every performance is a labor of love. I ought to know... I'm her son... the one to whom she sang her lullabies... certainly an earlier "labor of love". "Matt" -- TX.

"Some friendships are born to last. When Shelly and I met in New York, on the rehearsal stage of the national company of Kiss Me, Kate, her last name was Mitchell. She had just finished a run in the original company of Lend an Ear, a Hollywood musical review, where she sang and danced with Carole Channing, Gene Nelson and other young emerging luminaries. Earlier, Shelly was featured soloist with Xavier Cugat, a Paramount Films contract player, television artist, radio personality on her own musical program, and cabaret performer.

"But now we're in New York, and Shelly is being introduced to me as my stand-by. Not an understudy, who steps into any unfilled role, Shelly is my stand-by. Here's a petite, dark-eyed blond... on her tallest day not more than five feet, two-and-a-half inches. I am a grey-eyed brunette, almost six inches taller. Physical opposites! But could she sing? Yes, indeed. That's how she got the job.

"Through the intervening years (and babies!) our friendship continues to grow, regardless of the geographical distances between us. Shelly lives in Carmel, California now, and is married to Bill Cullin. Several years ago, Shelly began to perform again. Welcome back to the fold, Shelly Mitchell Cullin --- where you belong!" -- Julie Wilson, in liner notes of, "I Only Have Eyes For You".

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