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Claudine Georgette Longet (born 29 January 1942) is a French singer, actress, dancer and recording artist who was popular during the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975. She has maintained a private profile since 1977, following her conviction for misdemeanor negligent homicide in connection with the death of her boyfriend, former Olympic skier Spider Sabich. ==Career== Her first appearances as an actress on television were in two 1963 episodes of the comedy series ''McHale's Navy''. She also acted in the 1964 theatrical feature film of the same title. Many of her acting roles during the 1960s were in episodes of television adventure series that included ''Twelve O'Clock High'', ''Combat!'', ''The Name of the Game'', ''The Rat Patrol'' and ''Hogan's Heroes Episode #20: It Takes a Thief ... Sometime''. Longet was cast as Sharhri Javid in the 1965 episode, "The Silent Dissauders", of the NBC education drama series, ''Mr. Novak'', starring James Franciscus. She appeared many times on ''The Andy Williams Show'' series and specials. She also occasionally appeared as a singer on other variety and music programs, including those of singers Bobby Darin and Tom Jones. Williams called Longet — a beautiful, athletic, slender, petite brunette with large doe eyes — "my favorite French singer". Her career breakthrough occurred in 1966. She had a guest-starring role in the season-one finale of the NBC television adventure series ''Run for Your Life'', which starred Ben Gazzara. In the episode "The Sadness of A Happy Time" she performed her English-French bilingual rendition of Jobim's bossa nova song "Meditation" ("Meditação"), singing with a very soft angelic voice filled with longing and melancholy but also with a cheerful optimism. The episode was first broadcast on 16 May 1966. A&M Records cofounder Herb Alpert was among the viewers whom Longet charmed with her performance of "Meditation". When Alpert met Longet by happenstance at a club in New Orleans later in 1966, he offered her a recording contract with his company. Longet recorded singles, and five albums, for A&M Records between 1966 and 1970. "Meditation" was Longet's first single release for A&M. Other Jobim compositions that she has recorded include "A Felicidade", "How Insensitive" ("Insensatez"), and "Dindi". In 1968, Longet costarred with Peter Sellers in the MGM motion picture ''The Party'', a box office hit that Blake Edwards wrote, produced, and directed. Longet sang "Nothing to Lose" (music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Don Black) in the film. In 1971, she joined Williams' Barnaby Records label. She released singles and two albums for Barnaby, ''We've Only Just Begun'' in 1971 and ''Let's Spend the Night Together'' in 1972. She also recorded songs for a projected third album for Barnaby that went unreleased. Many of the songs for the planned third album finally appeared on the 1993 compact disc release titled ''Sugar Me'', after the Lynsey de Paul song that Longet covered in the early 70's but the masters for some of the other songs are missing and presumed lost. In 1975, she appeared as "The Flower" (a nonsinging role) with Richard Burton, Jonathan Winters, and others, on the children's album ''The Little Prince'', based on the Antoine de Saint Exupéry novel. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children in 1976. She has enjoyed success on the music popularity charts. Her 1967 debut album, ''Claudine'', peaked at #11 on the ''Billboard'' pop albums chart in the United States. ''Claudine'' became a RIAA-certified gold album, selling more than 500,000 copies. Subsequent albums ''The Look of Love'' peaked at #33 in 1967 and ''Love is Blue'' peaked at #29 in 1968 on the Billboard pop albums chart in the U.S. Longet's musical cohort on her charting albums was arranger Nick De Caro. He also arranged her other two albums on A&M, ''Colours'' (1968) and ''Run Wild, Run Free'' (1970), and ''We've Only Just Begun'' on Barnaby. She also has had hit singles in America on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Her charting singles include "Here, There and Everywhere" (music and lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney), "Hello, Hello" (composed by Terry MacNeil and Peter Kraemer), "Good Day Sunshine" (composed by Lennon and McCartney), "Small Talk" (music and lyrics by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon), and "Love is Blue" (music by André Popp and French lyrics by Pierre Cour (Lemaire )). Another song, "Wanderlove" (music and lyrics by Mason Williams), went to #7 on the singles charts in Singapore and still occasionally gets airplay on Asian radio. She remains popular in Japan, where all of her original albums were reissued on compact disc. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claudine Longet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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