Fran Warren
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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
- Mr. Imperium , 1951
- Mood Indigo , 1956
- Hey there! Here's Fran Warren with Mel Lewis , Bob Enevoldsen , Don Fagerquist , Marty Paich , 1957
- Something's Coming , 1960
Web links
- Fran Warren in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Interlude Era. Biography
- The Iceberg. Biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary. In: The New York Times , March 11, 2013 (English)
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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 |