Biography
A multifaceted performer as singer, songwriter, and actress, Jan Daley built an early foundation through stage musicals, television guest roles, and featured vocal work alongside Bob Hope on the road before she turned her attention to a recording career of her own. Her buttery, resonant vocal tone anchors interpretations of Great American Songbook standards as well as original material that has charted in the jazz realm.
Born in Inglewood, California, Daley studied piano and voice from childhood and stepped onto musical-theater stages at a young age. Crowned Miss California during the 1960s, she parlayed that visibility into lead parts in productions such as Oklahoma, Anything Goes, and Carousel, along with appearances on variety programs that included The Joey Bishop Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. She also warmed up audiences for comedians George Burns, Rodney Dangerfield, Don Rickles, and Bob Hope, eventually joining the latter on worldwide tours that encompassed the Bob Hope Christmas Tour for U.S. troops in Vietnam. In 1970 the Riz Ortolani and Arthur Hamilton composition “Til Love Touches Your Life,” drawn from the film Madron, earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.
After raising a family she resumed professional engagements in Branson, Las Vegas, Europe, and the Los Angeles area while also appearing in dozens of television commercials. Her original composition “Eat Your Heart Out” was placed in the 1997 independent feature The Ride. In 2003 the Hope family invited her to perform “Thanks for the Memory” at Bob Hope’s memorial service; she later recorded the 2009 tribute album Where There’s Hope with Les Brown, Jr.’s Band of Renown on Encore Music, subtitled A Tribute to the Love Songs from Bob Hope’s Legacy.
Two devotional projects followed—His Light in 2010 and Live in 2012—while the Christmas collection There’s Nothing Like Christmas appeared the same year. October 2016 brought the five-track standards EP When Sunny Gets Blue on LOG Records, which she expanded six months later by adding six original songs to create The Way of a Woman; the resulting album reached number two on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.
Born in Inglewood, California, Daley studied piano and voice from childhood and stepped onto musical-theater stages at a young age. Crowned Miss California during the 1960s, she parlayed that visibility into lead parts in productions such as Oklahoma, Anything Goes, and Carousel, along with appearances on variety programs that included The Joey Bishop Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. She also warmed up audiences for comedians George Burns, Rodney Dangerfield, Don Rickles, and Bob Hope, eventually joining the latter on worldwide tours that encompassed the Bob Hope Christmas Tour for U.S. troops in Vietnam. In 1970 the Riz Ortolani and Arthur Hamilton composition “Til Love Touches Your Life,” drawn from the film Madron, earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.
After raising a family she resumed professional engagements in Branson, Las Vegas, Europe, and the Los Angeles area while also appearing in dozens of television commercials. Her original composition “Eat Your Heart Out” was placed in the 1997 independent feature The Ride. In 2003 the Hope family invited her to perform “Thanks for the Memory” at Bob Hope’s memorial service; she later recorded the 2009 tribute album Where There’s Hope with Les Brown, Jr.’s Band of Renown on Encore Music, subtitled A Tribute to the Love Songs from Bob Hope’s Legacy.
Two devotional projects followed—His Light in 2010 and Live in 2012—while the Christmas collection There’s Nothing Like Christmas appeared the same year. October 2016 brought the five-track standards EP When Sunny Gets Blue on LOG Records, which she expanded six months later by adding six original songs to create The Way of a Woman; the resulting album reached number two on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.
Albums
The Girl's in Love
2025
The One She's Been Waiting For
2024
The Way Of A Woman - The Remixes
2023
The Best of Jan Daley
2021
How I Love the Rain
2021
The Christmas Song (Remastered)
2020
Broadway Memories
2019
The One She's Been Waiting For (Memorial Day Version)
2017
Don't Ever Let Go
2016
A Time for Hope
2016
My Little Angel
2015
Live
2012
His Light
2010
Where There's Hope
2009
Singles
