Teal Joy

Teal Joy was a nightclub singer born Elsie Itashiki in Washington, state. On her first record Ted Steele Presents Miss Teal Joy (1957) she sings in Japanese, Yiddish, Italian, French and Spanish as well as English, which she pulls off well. Three years later in 1960 she released Mood in Pink. She released no other record albums as Teal Joy. In 2017 Mood in Mink was re-released on cd. The cover described her as "The Oriental Billie Holiday."