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October 23, 1997

JEWISH NEWS

Singer Julie Budd debuts a new CD
of "Pure Imagination."

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ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER
Special to The Jewish News

`Where Do I Go From Here?', but
they are songs that haven't been done
to death."
he has been likened to
Considering she has been perform-
Barbra Streisand, with her
ing and headlining on stage, televi-
dynamic style, appearance
sion and in cabarets for nearly three
and powerful voice. And
decades, it's surprising that this is only
now Julie Budd is about to add
Budd's fifth recording. "For someone
another musical accomplishment to
who has been in the business as long
her already full resume: a new CD
as I have, I haven't put out a lot of
called Pure Imagination, which has
products," admits the veteran singer,
just been released by Touchwood
who has been performing since she
Records.
was a child. "I just never focused on a
"It's loaded with American stan-
record career, which I know is unusu-
dards," says Budd. "I sing all these
al for a musical act."
wonderful songs that everyone knows,
Her focus, however, has been on
such as 'Never, Never Land' and
her live performances. She has opened
for, and starred with, some of the
Alice Burdick Schweiger is an Ann
—/
greatest talent of our time, including
-\
Arbor-based freelance writer.
George Burns, Frank Sinatra, Don
Rickles, Jack
Benny and Bill
Cosby.
"I loved working
with the fabulous
old-timers and
singing in front of
a live audience,"
she says. "And I
still enjoy perform-
ing in clubs."
It was Budd's own
tenacity that cata-
pulted her into the
limelight. At age
12, while spending
the summer at
Tamarack Lodge in
the Catskill
Mountains, she
entered a talent
contest and won.
The master of cere-
monies told Budd
that Herb
Bernstein, a big
record producer,
visited on week-
ends, and Budd
Julie Budd will be honored next week as the American Jewish
Congress' "Entertainer of the Year."
made it her mis-

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