The Nancy Lamott Story—1999 TV Tribute, with Margaret Whiting, Michael Feinstein, Kathy Lee Gifford, Plus Her Signature Song, “I’ll be Here with You” (Videos)

Re-posted by N.S.

Nancy Lamott was born on December 30, 1951, and died on December 13, 1995. She lived most of her life under the shadow of Crohn’s Disease, an affliction of the digestive tract.

She died of ovarian or uterine cancer 17 days before she would have turned 44. Lamott and her boyfriend, Peter Zapp, had a priest come into her hospital room and marry them less than one hour before she died.

When she died, Tony Bennett and other friends gave a farewell concert at Manhattan’s St. John the Divine church.

For months (years?) after Lamott’s death, WQEW DJ Jonathan Schwartz, who had promoted her when she was a nobody, closed his every afternoon show with Lamott’s single, “I’ll be Here with You.”

I have no doubt that Schwartz had a crush on her.

“Nancy LaMott was a cabaret singer and recording artist whose career was cut short when she died of uterine cancer in 1995. Nancy began performing in her father’s band in Midland, Michigan, before moving to San Francisco in the late 1970s, where she became a popular chanteuse in the Plush Room and other Bay Area nightclubs. She moved to New York in the early 1980s, where she worked as a waitress until she got her big break performing in a revue called, ‘It’s Better With a Band.’ Battling Crohn’s Disease and other physical ailments throughout her life, her career caught fire in the 1990s after an operation brought her symptoms under control and she could perform regularly in the cabarets and nightclubs in midtown Manhattan as well as releasing an album a year during the final five years of her life.”

- IMDb Mini Biography by Anonymous

“I’ll be Here with You” (Video)