Marge Dodson

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Marge Dodson (* around 1935) is an American pop and jazz singer .

Live and act

Dodson played her debut album In the Still of the Night for Columbia Records in 1959 , accompanied by Mike Colicchio (piano); the arrangements were u. a. by Coleridge Parkinson . Then she interpreted popular standards , mostly ballads like “ Someone to Watch Over Me ”, “But Not for Me”, “ Speak Low ” or “ These Foolish Things ”. 1960 followed - also with Columbia - the LP New Voice in Town , on which she sang songs like " You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to ", " 'Round Midnight " or " Alone Together ". After the pop single "Somehow It Got to Be Tomorrow (Today) / Feeling Good" (with Sammy Lowe and His Orchestra, Apt Records 1965), Decca Records released her last album in 1968 , the more funk / soul- oriented production A Lovely Way to Live , with the single "Be Your Baby" (# 32306). In the early 1960s she had engagements in various New York nightclubs such as Mister Kelley's (with Mort Sahl ) and Duplex in Greenwich Village ; In 1963 she toured Europe. In the early 1970s she was still performing with her trio at The Needle's Eye jazz club . Dodson's first two albums, In the Still of the Night / New Voice in Town , were re-released on Fresh Sound Records in 2013 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 13, 2016)
  2. ^ Billboard August 29, 1960, p. 22
  3. ^ Billboard August 3, 1963
  4. ^ Billboard August 24, 1963
  5. ↑ New York Magazine June 26, 1972
personal data
SURNAME Dodson, Marge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pop and jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1935