Quote:
Originally Posted by Noircitydame
[/URL]
|
[Frankie Carle held auditions for a new singer. He auditioned singers in person and on records. While he was listening to some records of singers, his wife slipped in a recording from a local radio broadcast. Frankie liked the singer on that record and, after he played it several times, decided that she was the singer he wanted for his band.
"
Lo and behold", Frankie later exclaimed to
Down Beat correspondant Harvey Siders, "
who was singing on that record but my daughter, Margie. Unbeknownst to me while I was on the road she had been studying with Mary Martin's singing coach."
To avoid charges of nepotism, he billed her as "Marjorie Hughes" and kept her relationship to him a secret. It stayed secret for several months until she had her first big hit with the band, "
Oh What it Seemed to Be" Then, feeling that she had established her right to sing with the band, he let the cat out of the bag"]
Quoted from the CD Circle CCD-146 Frankie Carle and his Orchestra 1944-1949 Notes by John S. Wilson