- Longtime husband Eric Blau died at age 87 of complications from pneumonia and a stroke at age 87 on February 17, 2009. Their three sons are named Matthew, John and Peter.
- One of the first Americans to sing Jacques Brel's songs in English.
- Understudied Barbra Streisand as Miss Marmelstein in the New York Broadway show "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" in 1962.
- Brel's music was introduced to Elly and Eric by a friend who worked for a record company. In 1961, she appeared in a minor New York musical revue entitled "O, Oysters!" written and produced by second husband Eric Blau. The revue was based on the translation of Brel's songs.
- Besides the "Jacques Brel..." Original Cast and Soundtrack recordings, she released her self-titled "Elly Stone" on Columbia Records. She also recorded a variety of "Jewish Folk Songs" on the Tikva label in which she sang and played guitar. In the late 1970s she released an album on Eebee Records entitled "The Spirit of 76".
- She began her career in the 1950s singing in a variety of off-beat venues ranging from carnivals and dives to striptease and burlesque shows. Her first husband was an itinerant magician and they traveled the road together until their eventual split.
- One of the original stars of the 1968 Off-Broadway revue "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris," which was co-written by her second husband, Hungarian-American Eric Blau. She remained with the Off-Broadway production for two years, and appeared with Brel in the 1970 French television special. She then starred in the 1972 Broadway version and later appeared in the 1975 motion picture version, produced by the American Film Theatre.
- Piaf-like American concert and cabaret chanteuse best known for her raw and soulful interpretations of Belgium-born composer Jacques Brel's music.
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