Billy Daniels - Trivia

Trivia

• Daniels recorded a disco version of "That Old Black Magic" in 1975.
• Daniels' daughter, Yvonne, followed in her father's footsteps by entering the music field as a disc jockey, known as Chicago's "First Lady of Radio." She was notable for her 1973-82 stint at WLS. Her urban midday radio show on Gannett-owned WGCI-FM Radio from 1982-1989 was ranked #1 in the Chicago market's Arbitron ratings. She finished her broadcast career co-hosting morning drive with Ramsey Lewis on Chicago's WNUA-FM Radio, a smooth jazz station. After she died of breast cancer in 1991, a street in downtown Chicago was named for her. Like her father, Yvonne was a barrier-breaker, but even more so because she broke the gender as well as the racial barrier, being the first woman to host a music show on a major Chicago radio station in the 1970s.
• Daniels was married three times: Florence Clotworthy (died 1947); Martha Braun (divorced 1953); and Pierrette (from 1955 to his death in 1988).
• Pierrette H. Daniels, Billy's wife (deceased 2011), founded a non-profit organization, the Billy Daniels Foundation, raising money for Performing Arts in her late husbands name.
• In the original script for the movie Goodfellas (working title: "Wiseguys") the narration of the character Karen Hill was to include, "One night, Billy Daniels sent us champagne. There was nothing like it." However in the final version of the movie, the name was changed to Bobby Vinton.
• Daniels English son Jack, from a between marriage relationship with English cabaret singer Rae Croft, only discovered his true fathers identity aged 40;'I'm a Jack Daniels' ran the headline in 'The Sun' newspaper.