Fran Warren

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Gene Williams and Fran Warren,
New York City, circa October 1947.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

Fran Warren , born in Frances Wolfe (March 4, 1926 in New York City , † March 4, 2013 in Connecticut ) was an American jazz and pop singer.

Life

Frances Wolfe grew up in the Bronx as the daughter of a Jewish family and started out as a dancer at New York's Roxy Theater . After the Second World War she worked as a singer for the bands of Randy Brooks , Art Mooney , Billy Eckstine and Charlie Barnet , among others ; Eckstine gave her the stage name Fran Warren , which she has used since then. In 1947 she became the singer of the Claude Thornhill Orchestra , with whom she achieved a chart placement for the first time in the same year with A Sunday Kind Of Love .

In 1948 Warren left Thornhill's band to start a solo career with a contract with RCA Records . Her greatest success, however, was I Said My Pajamas And Put On My Prayers in 1950 , a duet with the actor and singer Tony Martin , with whom she also worked in the following years. In the same year, Dearie , a duet with Lisa Kirk from the revue The Copacabana Show of 1950, was released . She later moved to MGM Records , where her last major success, It's Anybody's Heart , appeared in 1953 with Lew Douglas & His Orchestra .

Recently, three albums with recordings by Warren have been released: The Complete Fran Warren With Claude Thornhill (2000), Let's Fall in Love (2003) and Fran Warren With Orchestra (2004); for 2007 Love For Love has been announced on the Flare label .

Discography

Web links

Commons : Fran Warren  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. In: The New York Times , March 11, 2013 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Warren, Fran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolfe, Frances (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2013
Place of death Connecticut , United States