Patience Ann McIntyre (born August 15, 1942) and Prudence Ann McIntyre (born July 12, 1945), known professionally as Patience and Prudence, are two sisters who were a young vocal duo active from 1956 to 1964.
Career
Patience and Prudence McIntyre were born in 1942 and 1945, respectively, in
Los Angeles, California. Their father, Mark McIntyre was an
orchestra leader,
pianist, and
songwriter who worked with
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular ...
in the 1940s.
Patience was named after a woman who authored poetry for
The Ladies’ Home Journal
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in the 1920s, and her younger sister Prudence’s name was selected as one that fit with her older sister's. As youngsters, the girls studied piano and learned to read music. In the summer of 1956, their father brought 11-year-old Prudence and 14-year-old Patience
into the
Liberty Records
Liberty Records was a record label founded in the United States by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revival ...
studio
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in Los Angeles.
The duo made a
demonstration recording of the
song, "
Tonight You Belong to Me," which had been a
hit for
Gene Austin in 1927, and was
written by
Billy Rose
Billy Rose (born William Samuel Rosenberg; September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. For years both before and after World War II, Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with sh ...
and Lee David. Liberty signed them and immediately released a recording of the girls singing the song as a commercial single (with the
B-side
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, "
A Smile and a Ribbon
"A Smile and a Ribbon" is a song with music by Mark McIntyre and lyrics by Robert Wells. It was recorded by 1950s music act Patience and Prudence (McIntyre's daughters). It appeared as the B-side of the single "Tonight You Belong to Me" in 1956.
...
," a composition with music by Mark McIntyre) and by September the song reached #4 on the ''
Billboard
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charts and #28 in the
UK Singles Chart,
and was the biggest selling
record
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put out by Liberty for two years. It sold over one million copies and reached
gold record status.
It went on to become one of the best-selling in-store singles in the United States in September 1956.
Their song "
Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now
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" reached #11 on the
Billboard
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chart
[ and #22 in the UK;]Perry Como
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Show on television in September of that same year.
Discography
Singles
Extended plays
*''A Smile And A Song '' (1957)
In culture
* The track "Tonight You Belong to Me" is used in the end credits of '' Birth'' (2004).
* The track "Tonight You Belong to Me" is used in the Milka commercial "le dernier carré" in 2013.K-12
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* The track "Tonight You Belong to Me" was used in season 6, episode 7 of '' Fear the Walking Dead''.
* The track "The Money Tree" was used in Season 4, episode 6 of '' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel''.
* Patience & Prudence made their debut in gaming in 2022, when their song "Witchcraft" was used in '' The Quarry''.
See also
* List of Liberty Records artists
References
External links
The Patience and Prudence story
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Sibling musical duos
American women singers
American child singers
Liberty Records artists
Musical groups established in the 1950s