Creativity Quote by Eydie Gorme

There’s a charming, almost showbiz-awkward honesty in how Eydie Gorme reaches for the superlatives and lands on something more revealing than polished: “so very eclectic. Big, tremendous fans.” The phrasing feels like a performer thinking out loud, mid-interview, trying to honor a shift that older pop vocalists had to learn to read in real time: the old monoculture cracked, and suddenly your crowd isn’t one neat demographic but a patchwork.

“Eclectic” does cultural work here. It’s a compliment that doubles as a survival strategy, a way to describe an audience that might include longtime listeners who bought the records when they were new and younger fans who found her through sampling, TV reruns, revival tours, or a parent’s playlist. In that single word, Gorme signals legitimacy across taste tribes: jazz-adjacent, lounge, oldies, Broadway, even retro cool. She’s not saying “we’re relevant” outright; she’s implying it by naming the diversity of the room.

Then she pivots to “Big, tremendous fans,” which isn’t about numbers so much as intensity. The emphasis is devotion, not scale: the kind of audience that shows up, knows the arrangements, treats a standard like scripture. It’s also gentle self-protection. Eclectic audiences can be fickle; “tremendous fans” reassures that the bond is real, not merely nostalgic tourism.

Contextually, it reads like a veteran singer narrating the late-career miracle: not just still working, but being re-heard, re-sorted, and re-valued by a culture that can’t stop remixing its own past.