Claudine Georgette Longet is a French-American singer, actress, dancer, and recording artist. She was married to American singer and television entertainer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975. She has maintained a private profile since 1977, following her conviction for negligent homicide in connection with the death of her boyfriend, former Olympic skier Spider Sabich.
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Claudine Georgette Longet is a French-American singer, actress, dancer, and recording artist popular during the 1960s and 1970s. She was married to American singer and television entertainer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975. She has maintained a private profile since 1977, following her conviction for negligent homicide in connection with the death of her boyfriend, former Olympic skier Spider Sabich. Longet recorded singles, and five albums, for A&M Records between 1966 and 1970. Her 1967 debut album, Claudine, peaked at #11 on the Billboard pop albums chart in the US. She remains popular in Japan, where all of her original albums were reissued on CD. She had hit singles in America on Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Her cover version of “Here, There and Everywhere” gained fourth place in the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest. In 1975, she appeared as The Flower on the children’s album The Little Prince, based on the novel by Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
The album won the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children in 1976. In 1968, Longet costarred with Peter Sellers in The Party, a box-office hit that Blake Edwards wrote, produced, and directed. In 1971, she joined Williams’s 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. Many of the songs for the planned third album appeared on the 1993 CD titled Sugar Me, after the Lynsey de Paul song that Longet covered in the early 1970s, but the masters for some of the other songs are missing and presumed lost. She appeared in two 1963 episodes of McHale’s Navy. She acted in the 1964 theatrical feature film of the same title. Many of her acting roles were in episodes of TV adventure series that included Twelve O’Clock High, Combat!, The Name of the Game, The Rat Patrol and Hogan’s Heroes.
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