Marjorie Hughes (born Marjorie Carle, December 15, 1925)[1] is an American singer.
Marjorie Hughes | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Marjorie Carlone |
| Born | December 15, 1925 Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Genres | Big band, easy listening, pop standard |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 1946–1950 |
Career
editHughes is the daughter of bandleader and pianist Frankie Carle, and began her career as a singer in her father's band. After singers Betty Bonney (aka Judy Johnson) and Phyllis Lynne had come and gone, Carle was auditioning new female singers – some in person, and some by means of demo records. Carle's wife sneaked in a demo of their daughter recorded from a radio program, where she was singing with the Paul Martin band[2] in her first singing job. Carle liked the singer he heard on the demo, at first unaware that it was Hughes.[3] When he decided to give his daughter a chance with his band, Carle changed her name to Marjorie Hughes, so that the public would not know she was his daughter, until he could be certain she would make the grade. The band had a No.1 hit for six weeks with Hughes' vocals on "Oh, What It Seemed To Be", a song her father had co-written.[4][5] With the success of that song, Walter Winchell announced that Hughes was actually Carle's daughter.[3] She appeared in Martin Block's Musical Merry-Go-Round No. 5: Frankie Carle and His Orchestra with Marjorie Hughes (Jack Scholl, 1948) (mislabeled #6 on the Warner Archive Collection 2010 DVD, Classic Musical Shorts from the Dream Factory), in which she was identified as Carle's daughter (her surname was used only on the opening card), and performs "Sweet and Lovely" an "Oh! What It Seemed to Be."
Hughes stopped singing with the Carle orchestra in 1948 "because of illness."[6] In 1949, she was the featured female singer on Your Hit Parade on Parade.[7] By 1950, she was working in television and radio on the west coast.[8]
Personal life
editMarjorie married to Hughey Hughes, a pianist with Carle's orchestra in 1945;[9] after four years of marriage, they divorced in 1949.[10]
References
edit- ^ "RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Ancestors & Kin of Susan Crosby Finizia a Rhode Island Based Family ~Newman, McConnell, Cahir, Dunlevy, Crosby~". Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ "Paul Martin Is Scheduled For Dance Tonight". Oregon, La Grande. La Grande Observer. March 20, 1944. p. 3. Retrieved February 26, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Gilliland, John (1994). Pop Chronicles the 40s: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40s (audiobook). ISBN 978-1-55935-147-8. OCLC 31611854. Tape 3, side B.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1994). Joel Whitburn's Pop hits, 1940-1954 : compiled from Billboard's pop singles charts 1940-1954. Internet Archive. Menomonee Falls, Wis. : Record Research. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-89820-106-2.
- ^ Benjamin, Bennie; Carle, Frankie; Weiss (1945). Oh! What it seemed to be. Santly-Joy, Inc.
- ^ Gwynn, Edith (September 1, 1948). "Hollywood". Pennsylvania, Pottstown. Pottstown Mercury. p. 4. Retrieved February 27, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Your Hit Parade On Parade". Maine, Portland. Portland Press Herald. June 5, 1949. p. 33. Retrieved February 26, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Mattox, Margaret (May 21, 1950). "Frankie Carle Deplores Lack of Romantic Songs". Ohio, Mansfield. News-Journal. p. 30. Retrieved February 27, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chick With The Band Sings Of Two Teasing Wolves". Maryland, Hagerstown. The Morning Herald. June 24, 1939. p. 6. Retrieved February 26, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Carle's Daughter Weds". Tennessee, Kingsport. Kingsport Times. July 29, 1949. p. 10. Retrieved February 27, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
