Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube
Skip to YouTube video

Loading player…

Scrobble from Spotify?

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Connect to Spotify

Dismiss

King Pleasure

  • Listeners

    23.9K

  • Scrobbles

    107K

  • Listeners

    23.9K

  • Scrobbles

    107K

  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User

Join others and track this artist

Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account

Sign Up to Last.fm
Born
24 March 1922
Born In
Oakdale, Morgan County, Tennessee, United States
Died
21 March 1981 (aged 58)
King Pleasure (March 24, 1922 - March 21, 1981) was a jazz vocalist and a pioneer of the 'Vocalese' style of Jazz singing. Born Clarence Beeks in Oakdale, Tennessee, he moved to New York City in the mid-1940s. Pleasure first achieved popularity by winning a talent show at the Apollo Theater in New York with the vocalese classic 'Moody's Mood for Love'. He influenced numerous other vocalists with his inovation, among then Mark Murphy, Jon Hendricks and Manhattan Transfer. Pleasure fell out of prominence in the early 1960s and died in Los Angeles, California … read more
King Pleasure (March 24, 1922 - March 21, 1981) was a jazz vocalist and a pioneer of the 'Vocalese' style of Jazz singing. Born Clarence Beeks in Oakdale, Tennessee, he moved to New York City in the mid-1940s. Pleasure first achieved popularity by winning a talent show at the Apollo… read more
King Pleasure (March 24, 1922 - March 21, 1981) was a jazz vocalist and a pioneer of the 'Vocalese' style of Jazz singing. Born Clarence Beeks in Oakdale, Tennessee, he moved to New York City in the mid-1940s. Pleasure first achieved popularity by winning a talent show at the Apollo Theater in New York with the vocalese classic 'Moody's Mood f… read more

Related Tags

Add tagsView all tags

Similar To

  1. Avatar for Arthur Prysock

  2. Avatar for Dorothy Dandridge

  3. Avatar for Kevin Mahogany
View all artists

Top Tracks

Rank Play Album Loved Track name Buy Options Listeners
1 Play track Golden Days Moody's Mood for Love
  • Loading
 73 listeners
2 Twisted Twisted
  • Loading
 8 listeners
3 Play track Blue Valentines -From Blue Note With Love I'm In The Mood For Love
  • Loading
 8 listeners
4 I'm In The Mood For Love - 1962 Version / Stereo I'm In The Mood For Love - 1962 Version / Stereo
  • Loading
 7 listeners
5 Farmer's Market Farmer's Market
  • Loading
 6 listeners
6 Golden Days Parker's Mood
  • Loading
 5 listeners
7 Play track Moody's Mood For Love Jazz Jump
  • Loading
 3 listeners
8 Play track Golden Days: Moody's Mood For Love (Digitally Remastered) Moody's Mood
  • Loading
 2 listeners
9 Play track Golden Days Tomorrow is Another Day
  • Loading
 2 listeners
10 D.B. Blues D.B. Blues
  • Loading
 2 listeners

View all tracks

Albums

  1. 10,055 listeners

    14 Jun 1960 · 9 tracks

    Golden Days
    • Loading

  2. 3,970 listeners

    1972 · 8 tracks

    Moody's Mood For Love
    • Loading

  3. 508 listeners

    1968 · 12 tracks

    Original Moody's Mood
    • Loading

  4. 466 listeners

    14 Jun 1960 · 9 tracks

    Golden Days: Moody's Mood For Love (Digitally Remastered)
    • Loading

View all albums

Scrobble Stats

What is scrobbling?

Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.

Learn more

Recent Listening Trend

Day Listeners
20
23
20
19
13
24
29
19
10
24
19
18
19
18
11
18
24
26
12
21
19
19
16
15
24
14
12
14
16
20
23
19
20
18
24
17
21
16
16
25
10
28
23
15
21
19
23
13
16
15
17
20
11
16
24
19
12
18
21
15
13
15
19
12
22
25
23
27
20
29
32
13
19
17
30
26
25
18
11
21
21
32
22
23
19
14
16
9
16
17
18
18
15
19
20
38
21
26
33
15
18
23
18
23
20
24
27
29
16
19
20
16
11
15
19
17
27
18
21
26
11
16
17
16
24
20
19
26
16
17
22
24
16
24
19
24
17
20
15
23
12
19
11
14
14
19
18
10
22
20
12
9
14
17
14
9
18
15
22
12
12
17
18
19
10
15
15
15
15
15
16
18
17
14
21
14
14
17
16
31
20

Upcoming Events

We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now.

Add event View all events

Photos

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Shoutbox

Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page

Similar Artists

  1. 22,820 listeners

    Avatar for Arthur Prysock

  2. 35,461 listeners

    Avatar for Dorothy Dandridge

  3. 23,834 listeners

    Avatar for Kevin Mahogany

  4. 13,683 listeners

    Avatar for Babs Gonzales

  5. 18,787 listeners

    Avatar for Sue Raney

  6. 12,053 listeners

    Avatar for Breno Mello

View all similar artists

Trending Tracks

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

View all trending tracks

API Calls