Editing Lee Wiley (section)

==Biography==
Wiley was born in [[Fort Gibson, Oklahoma]].<ref name="Yanow2000"/> At fifteen, she left home to pursue a singing career, singing on New York City radio stations.<ref name="enm">{{cite book |last=Wright-McLeod |first=Brian |title=The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TkBIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA209 |accessdate=13 September 2019 |date=30 January 2018|publisher=University of Arizona Press|isbn=978-0-8165-3864-5|pages=209–}}</ref> Her career was interrupted by a fall while horseback riding. She suffered temporary blindness but recovered. At the age of 19 she was a member of the [[Leo Reisman]] Orchestra, with whom in 1931 she recorded three songs: "Take It from Me", "Time On My Hands", and her composition "Got the South in My Soul".<ref>[[Stanley Green (historian)|Stanley Green]], Liner Notes, Lee Wiley Sings Rodgers and Hart and Harold Arlen, Monmouth-Evergreen Record, LP MES/6807</ref>

Wiley began her radio career at [[KTSB (AM)|KVOO]] in Tulsa, Oklahoma.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stuart |first1=William L. |title=Listen to the Echo of a Distant Drum |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34507423/lee_wiley/ |accessdate=3 August 2019 |work=Detroit Free Press |date=September 6, 1936 |location=Michigan, Detroit |page=55|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> She sang on the ''Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt'' program on NBC in 1932,<ref name="rp">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows |date=1999 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0-7864-4513-4 |page=236}}</ref> and was featured on [[Victor Young|Victor Young's]] radio show in 1933.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hoffman |first1=J. |title=Air Briefs |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/30s/1933/BB-1933-09-30.pdf#page=13 |accessdate=3 August 2019 |magazine=Billboard |date=September 30, 1933 |page=13}}</ref> From June 10, 1936, until September 2, 1936, she had her own show, ''Lee Wiley'', on [[CBS]].<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22Lee+Wiley,+singer%22&pg=PA390 | last=Dunning| first=John| authorlink=John Dunning (detective fiction author)| title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio| date=1998| publisher=Oxford University Press| location=New York, NY| isbn=978-0-19-507678-3| page=390| edition=Revised| accessdate=2019-09-28}}</ref>

In 1939, Wiley recorded eight [[George Gershwin|Gershwin]] songs on [[Gramophone record#78 rpm disc size|78s]] with a small group for [[Liberty Music Shop Records]]. The set sold well and was followed by 78s dedicated to the music of [[Cole Porter]] (1940) and [[Richard Rodgers]] & [[Lorenz Hart]] (1940 and 1954), [[Harold Arlen]] (1943), and 10" LPs dedicated to the music of [[Vincent Youmans]] and [[Irving Berlin]] (1951).

She sang with [[Paul Whiteman]] and later, the [[Casa Loma Orchestra]]. A collaboration with composer [[Victor Young]] resulted in several songs for which Wiley wrote the lyrics, including "Got the South in My Soul" and "Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere."<ref>John Chilton, Who's Who in Jazz, 1978 Time-Life, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-188159.</ref>

On October 11, 1963, ''Bob Hope Theater'' on [[NBC]]-TV presented "Something About Lee Wiley". [[Piper Laurie]] portrayed Wiley in the episode, which was produced by [[Universal Television#Revue Studios|Revue Studios]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Witbeck |first1=Charles |title=N.B.C. To Feature Jazz Singer of '30's, Lee Wiley's Life, on Bob Hope Theater |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34501532/lee_wiley/ |accessdate=3 August 2019 |work=The Journal News |date=October 11, 1963 |location=New York, White Plains |page=21|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Wiley's singing voice was provided by Joy Bryan.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stern |first1=Harold |title=Hope Missed Chance To Feature Lee Wiley |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34506918/lee_wiley/ |accessdate=3 August 2019 |work=The Troy Record |date=October 22, 1963 |location=New York, Troy |page=8|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>