Dee Shipman (born Deanna Pauline Shenderey, September 1942 - 11 June 2020) was a songwriter who worked with Charles Aznavour and Petula Clark.
Shipman began her professional career as an actress and singer, both in the theatre, and on TV, where she appeared in series such as The Avengers (Propellant 23) and Emergency - Ward 10.
During this period, Shipman was signed to Decca Records, and released a cover of Mel Tormé’s hit "Comin' Home Baby" under the name Deanna Shenderey.
Shipman went on to write songs with Marc Wilkinson (for the nude review Carte Blanche, 1976),[2] Werner Becker, George Garvarentz, Albert Van Dam, Ralph Lewin and Herbert Chappell.
The Clark – Shipman partnership produced the original stage musical Someone Like You, which toured the United Kingdom and transferred to the West End in 1990.
In 1989, while continuing to write all Aznavour's English lyrics, and also working on two musicals with Clark, Shipman wrote the script and co-produced the TV docudrama Petain, charting the life of Philippe Pétain.
Aznavour and Shipman together also devised and wrote the songs for a musical workshop of Molly Bloom's Soliloquy from James Joyce’s Ulysses, which was performed at the Edinburgh International Festival by Eartha Kitt.