Good morning WA2K audience.
edgar, Don't know Jane Morgan, but I recall that song. What a surprise to find out about her background.
She is a relative of Nathaniel Currier, the 19th century lithographer. Her father was first cellist for Boston Symphony Orchestra and led an orchestra and string quartet when the Orchestra was out of season. At five, Morgan began training as an opera singer under her mother's guidance. Her first professional role was not in opera, but a melodrama in her brother's playhouse in Kennebunkport, Maine at the age of seven,
Her father died while she was young, and she and her mother moved to Daytona Beach, Florida. There Morgan won musical competitions. After high school, she attended Juilliard School of Music in New York, studying opera by day and performing in nightclubs and at parties. The bandleader, Art Mooney, heard one performance and invited her to sing with his orchestra. He gave her the stage name 'Janie Morgan,' but she preferred 'Jane.
A French singer, violinist, and orchestra leader, Bernard Hilda, had a nightclub in Paris, and Morgan went there to work for over four years at Hilda's 'Club des Champs Elysées' and other clubs in Europe. In Paris she made her first recordings with Hilda's orchestra, and some became hits in France. In the summer, she performed in other European countries, and became fluent in Spanish and Italian, as well as French. Morgan then sang at the St. Regis Hotel in New York..
Ah, I do know Tommy Edwards' All in the Game. Yep, a lot of folks want to play that game.
er, Mr. Wizard. Who is Gene Kelly and what is that song?
Wow! The Brit just made me rediscover Alison Krauss, y'all. She went down to the river to pray in O Brother Where Art Thou.
Ah, Love Child for a Day with Cat and David, buddy, and somehow, I know that Motown song by the Temptations. Nite, Brit.
Couple of song this morning, folks.
First, Alison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1FQqSGxBso&feature=related
Now, for our Raggedy, Ronnie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a30R_drH2GA
