Gail Fisher
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Gail Fisher was an American actress who was one of the first Black women to play substantive roles in American television. She was best known for playing the role of secretary Peggy Fair on the televi
Fisher and Mark Stewart (Mannix, 1970)
Cannonball Adderley
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Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.
Gail Fisher
…a lyricist for a number of jazz songs. With Vincent Levy, she wrote lyrics to Joe Zawinul's "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (first performed without lyrics by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1966). The song was covered by dozens of artists. Fisher wrote lyrics for another Adderley song, "Do Do Do (What Now is Next)," with music by Nat…
Adderley c. 1966
Nat (left) and Cannonball Adderley at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, in 1961