Birth name Marjorie Carlone Role Singer Name Marjorie Hughes | Years active 1946-1950 Occupation(s) Singer Parents Frankie Carle | |
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Born December 15, 1925Springfield, Massachusetts, United States ( 1925-12-15 ) Similar People Frankie Carle, Francis Craig, Buddy Clark, Eddy Howard, Sammy Kaye |
You're Mine - Marjorie Hughes - 1949
Marjorie Hughes (born Marjorie Carle, December 15, 1925) is a former singer; she was a singer in the Frankie Carle Orchestra. She was also Frankie Carle's daughter. 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 Carle's daughter recorded from a radio program. She was singing with the Paul Martin band in her first singing job. Carle liked the singer he heard on the demo, at first unaware that it was his daughter. When he decided to give his daughter a chance with his band, Carle changed his daughter's name to Marjorie Hughes, so that the public wouldn't know she was his daughter until he could be certain she'd make the grade. The band made a hit recording with Marjorie Hughes on the vocal, entitled "Oh, What It Seemed To Be." With the success of that song, Walter Winchell announced that Marjorie Hughes was actually Frankie Carle's daughter. According to Christopher Popa's Big Band Library.com website, Marjorie Hughes real name was Ede Carle. However, in George T. Simon's The Big Bands, Simon quotes Frankie Carle saying that he plays golf once or twice a week with his wife, Ede.
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- Youre Mine Marjorie Hughes 1949
- Marjorie hughes blues alley november 8th 2012
- Radio
- Personal life
- References
Hughes stopped singing with the Carle orchestra in 1948 "because of illness." By 1950, she was "concentrating on television and radio on the west coast."
Marjorie hughes blues alley november 8th 2012
Radio
Hughes was the featured female singer on Your Hit Parade on Parade.
Personal life
Hughes was married to Hughey Hughes, a pianist with Carle's orchestra. Following four years of marriage, they divorced in 1949.