Marcie Blane
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Marcie Blane (* 21st May 1944 as Marcia Blank in Brooklyn ) is an American pop singer , with the song Bobby's Girl was successful in the US.
Musical career
Marcia grew up with three siblings in Brooklyn as the daughter of a professional musician and music teacher. She was able to play the piano and guitar as a child. When the family moved to Queens , Long Island , Marcia joined the school band at New York's Jamaica High School and played the flute there. When she was 18 years old, a friend asked her to sing about his composition on a demo tape. When this tape came into the hands of the Seville record company manager Marv Holtzman, he was so impressed by the singer's voice that he offered Marcia a record deal.
As early as September 1962, Seville released the first single with high school student Marcia Blank, who was now called Marcie Blane on the record label. Written by college students Hank Hoffman and Gary Klein, the A-side title Bobby's Girl quickly became a big seller. The US music magazine Billbord first included him on October 20 in its Hot 100 hit list , where he reached the top 10 a month later. On December 1st, Bobby's Girl had its best rating with third place, and the song had been in the Hot 100 for 16 weeks. Marcie Blane was rated even better in the competition magazine Cashbox , where her title came in second and was listed 19 times. Bobby's Girl has sold over a million copies and has been awarded a gold record . The A-side title of their second single What Does a Girl Do? also reached the US hit lists, but with positions 82 (Billboard) and 68 (Cashbox) the success was more modest. London Records also released both titles as singles in Germany, What Does a Girl Do? but in the German version Who once said "A" . Neither record was successful.
By the end of 1963 Seville brought out further singles with Marcie Blane every quarter in the USA, the titles of which were still mostly written by the duo Hoffman / Klein. After the fifth single, which was released in December 1963, the collaboration with Hoffman and Klein ended, and Seville also seemed to have lost interest in Marcie Blane. Two more singles followed in September 1964 and April 1965, after which Marcie Blane ended her career as a record artist and began a new career in the education sector.
US discography (vinyl singles)
| From page | Catalog no. | published |
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| Bobby's Girl / A Time to Dream | 120 | 9/1962 |
| What Does a Girl Do? / How Can I Tell Him? | 123 | 1/1963 |
| Little Miss Fool / Ragtime Sound | 126 | 5/1963 |
| You Gave My Number to Billy / Told You So | 128 | 9/1963 |
| Why Can't I Get a Guy / Who's Going to Take My Daddy's Place | 130 | 12/1963 |
| Bobby Did / After the Laughter | 133 | 9/1964 |
| The Hurtin 'Kind / She'll Break the String | 137 | 4/1965 |
Compact discs
| title | Label | year |
| Bobby's Girl - The Complete Seville Recordings | President | 2009 |
| Bobby's Girl: The Best Of | Master Classics | 2011 |
| Bobby's Girl | Classic | 2011 |
| Together with Tracey Dey | Traditions Alive | 2013 |
literature
- Frank Laufenberg: Rock & Pop Lexicon . Econ Taschenbuch Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-612-26206-8 , Volume 1, p. 149.
- Joseph Murrells, The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie & Jenkins London 1978, ISBN 978-021420512-5 , p. 142.
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| SURNAME | Blane, Marcie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blank, Marcia (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pop singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |