Marjorie Hughes born 15 December 1925
Marjorie Hughes (born December 15, 1925) is best known as an American band singer from mid 1940’s to 1950.
Hughes was born Marjorie Carlone in Springfield, Massachusetts and her father was bandleader and pianist Frankie Carle. Her first singing job was with the Paul Martin Band in 1945, after which she became 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. Carle liked the singer he heard on the demo, at first unaware that it was Hughes.
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. With the success of that song, Walter Winchell announced that Hughes was actually Carle's daughter. Marjorie married to Hughey Hughes, a pianist with Carle's orchestra in 1945; after four years of marriage, they divorced in 1949.
She appeared in a few musical short movies Moonlight Melodies, Frankie Carle and His Orchestra and Oh What It Seemed to Be, but stopped singing with the Carle orchestra in 1949 “because of illness." That same year she was the featured female singer on Your Hit Parade on Parade. By 1950, she was working in television and radio on the west coast. She recorded a few sides on Columbia records during 1950 with the orchestras of Hugo Winterhalter and Harry Zimmerman.
And that's where her public trail goes cold. I cannot find any trace of her on the internet until her father retired to Mesa, Arizona in the 1980’s to be near his daughter.. She was also mentioned in her father’s obituary in 2001 as being Marjorie Hughes Wahl, so I presume she re-married. According to many Facebook comments she is still with us and is 98 today. (Edited from Wikipedia & IMDb)
Unfortunately there is not much information regarding Marjorie Hughes on the internet, hence the small write-up. If anyone can share any additional news then please do.
*MY GREAT-GREAT-UNCLE;FRANKIE,
*HE MARRIED,
*MY-GRANDFATHER:
*FRANK E.HOUSE II'S *PATERNAL,
*AUNT:
*EDITH HOUSE.
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Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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BELOVED HUSBAND, FATHER, GRANDFATHER
AND GREAT - GRANDFATHER
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Edith House Carle
- Birth
- Massachusetts, USA
- Death
- 12 Jul 1980 (aged 75)Arizona, USA
- Burial
- Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USAShow Map
- Plot
- Sheltering Hills section, Map #C06, Lot 1156, Single Ground Interment Space 4
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Lauretta Spriggs House
- Birth
- Death
- 1951 (aged 80–81)
- Burial
- Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
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Frederick W House
- Birth
- Death
- 1943 (aged 80–81)
- Burial
- Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
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- Birth
- Death
- 1959 (aged 66–67)
- Burial
- Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
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Ellen B House
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For “Marjorie Hughes – Marjorie Magic (2023 From The Vaults)” go here:
https://www.imagenetz.de/fCTfe
Marjorie Magic - Vol. One
01) Frankie Carle - Oh! What It Seemed To Be (1945)
02)) Frankie Carle - Prove It by the Things You Do
03) Frankie Carle - What-'ve You Got To Lose (1946)
04) Frankie Carle & His Orchestra with Marjorie Hughes - It-'s All Over Now
05) Frankie Carle - I-'m Gonna Make Believe
06) Frankie Carle - Without You (Tres Palabras)
07) Frankie Carle and His Orchestra - All the Cats Join In
08) Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes - I-'d Be Lost Without You.
09) Frankie Carle and His Orchestra - Don-'t You Remember Me
10) Frankie Carle - Rumors Are Flying
11) Frankie Carle and His Orchestra - No, Baby, Nobody but You
12) Frankie Carle - Cynthia-'s In Love
13) Frankie Carle - We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together
14) Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes - Roses In The Rain
15) Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes - One More Tomorrow
16) Marjorie Hughes - Little Jack Frost, Get Lost (1947)
17) Frankie Carle - There Goes That Lonely Feeling Again
18) Frankie Carle - Midnight Masquerade.
19) Frankie Carle - I-'ll Hate Myself in the Morning
20) Frankie Carle - Rockin-' Horse Cowboy
21) Frankie Carle - There Goes That Lonely Feeling Again
22) Frankie Carle - Who Were You Kissing
23) Marjorie Hughes - Beg Your Pardon (1948)
24) Frankie Carle - Rue De Romance (1949)
25) Marjorie Hughes - Cruisin´ Down the River
26) Frankie Carle - My Rose Garden
27) Frankie Carle - You Told a Lie
28) Frankie Carle and His Orchestra - Just Reminiscing
Marjorie Magic - Vol 2
01) The Man Who Paints The Rainbows In The Sky (1946)
02) Too Many Times
03) Either It's Love Or It Isn't
04) Unless It Can Happen With You (1947)
05) I Don't Want To Meet Any More People
06) I Never Knew (I Could Love Anybody Like I'm Loving You) (1949)
07) Vieni Su (Say You Love Me Too)
08) You're Heartless
09) I'm Gonna Let You Cry For A Change
10) Tulsa
11) A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
12) The Blossoms On The Bough
13) Crazy He Calls Me
14) The Little Old Church Near Leicester Square
15) You're Mine
16) Over The Mountain, Under The Moon (1950)
17) When You Kiss A Stranger
18) Dearie
19) Somewhere, Somehow, Someday
20) Let's Stay Home Tonight
21) Ho-Hum, It's Spring
22) Mississippi Flyer
Today’s birthday vocalist was suggested by Hit Parade.
Here’s 50 tracks that I found on the web divided up into two volumes.
Volume One is compiled from various digital albums @ 320 kbps
Volume 2 is edited from a playlist by Eddie Styles on YouTube @ 192 kbps
All dates are the years recorded or published as specified by various sources.
wherever she is now i hope she is fine and well truly miss her