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Jaye P. Morgan - 100% match to Jane Morgan

Mary Margaret Morgan, 3 December 1931, Mancos, Colorado, USA. Morgan performed with the Morgan Family Variety Troupe until her father’s death in 1945. At 18, her voice had matured to the husky contralto that would land her a job as featured singer with Frank DeVol’s orchestra and then that of Hank Penny, an RCA Records recording artist. Through Penny, the company s Read more

Georgia Gibbs - 89% match to Jane Morgan

Fredda Lipschitz, 17 August 1919, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, d. 9 December 2006, New York City, New York, USA. When Gibbs was six months old, her father died and she was placed in an orphanage for some six years. Reclaimed by her mother, she then took as her surname, her mother’s new married name, Gibson. When building her career in the 50s, Gibbs was unfairly malig Read more

Joni James - 81% match to Jane Morgan

Giovanna Carmella Babbo, 22 September 1930, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Growing up during the Depression years, James attended drama and dance lessons and organized a ballet club in high school. Following graduation, she worked as a dancer and began singing. In 1952 she recorded her first tracks for MGM Records, with the second single, ‘Why Don’t You Believe Me’, Read more

Joan Weber - 65% match to Jane Morgan

1936, Paulsboro, New Jersey, USA, d. 13 May 1981, Ancora, New Jersey, USA. Weber had a number 1 hit in the USA in January 1955, but was unable to follow up that success. The record was ‘Let Me Go Lover’, released on Columbia Records. Weber was 18 when she met manager Eddie Joy, who brought her to Charles Randolph Grean who worked in A&R at the famed Brill Build Read more

Frankie Laine - 43% match to Jane Morgan

Francesco Paolo LoVecchio, 30 March 1913, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 6 February 2007, San Diego, California, USA. Laine had been a chorister at the Immaculate Conception Church in his city’s Sicilian quarter before entering showbusiness proper on leaving school. For nearly a decade he travelled as a singing waiter, dancing instructor (with a victory in a 1932 dance mara Read more

Connie Stevens - 42% match to Jane Morgan

Concetta Ann Ingolia, 8 August 1938, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Stevens was an actress and singer, whose antecedents are said to have been Italian, Irish, English and Mohican. Stevens entered showbusiness at the age of 16 and in 1959, after making several appearances on the Warner Brothers’ hit television series 77 Sunset Strip, had a chart hit with the novelty, ‘Koo Read more

Frankie Vaughan - 41% match to Jane Morgan

Frank Abelson, 3 February 1928, Liverpool, England, d. 17 September 1999, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. While studying at Leeds College Of Art, Vaughan’s vocal performance at a college revue earned him a week’s trial at the Kingston Empire music hall. Warmly received, he went on to play the UK variety circuit, developing a stylish act with trademarks that Read more

Kitty Kallen - 41% match to Jane Morgan

Patti Page - 40% match to Jane Morgan

Clara Ann Fowler, 8 November 1927, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. A popular singer who is said to have sold more records during the 50s than any other female artist, Page’s total sales (singles and albums) are claimed to be in excess of 60 million. One of eight girls in a family of 11, Clara Fowler started her career singing country songs on radio station KTUL in Tulsa, and play Read more

The Four Preps - 39% match to Jane Morgan

Formed in the early 50s in Hollywood, California, USA, the Four Preps were a vocal group consisting of Bruce Belland, Glen Larson, Marvin Inabnett and Ed Cobb (d. 1999, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA). Recording for Capitol Records, they placed 13 singles in the US charts between 1956 and 1964, two of which made the Top 5 in 1958. The quartet began singing together during their high-sch Read more

Frank Ifield - 38% match to Jane Morgan

Buddy Greco - 36% match to Jane Morgan

Armando Greco, 14 August 1926, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Greco is a singer and pianist known for his swinging, ultra-hip interpretations of classy songs. The son of a music critic who had his own radio show on station WPEN, Buddy himself appeared on WPEN at the age of five, initially making his mark as a singer and actor. Later on, like his two brothers, he studied to Read more

Dave Berry - 36% match to Jane Morgan

David Holgate Grundy, 6 February 1941, Woodhouse, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. With his long-serving backing group, the Cruisers, Berry was signed to Danny Betesh’s Manchester-based Kennedy Street Enterprises, and, after signing to Decca Records, found success with a version of Chuck Berry’s ‘Memphis Tennessee’ in 1963. Cover versions of Arthur Crudup&# Read more

Don Cornell - 33% match to Jane Morgan

Luigi Francisco Varlaro, 21 April 1919, New York City, New York, USA, d. 23 February 2004, Aventura, Florida, USA. During the late 30s Cornell sang and played guitar with several bands, including Lennie Hayton, Red Nichols and Mickey Alpert, before joining Sammy Kaye, mainly as a guitar player, in 1942. He stayed with Kaye until 1950, with a break for military service, and s Read more

Eddie Fisher - 32% match to Jane Morgan

Edwin Jack Fisher, 10 August 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Fisher was a ‘bobby sox idol’, one of the most popular US singers of the 50s, with a strong, melodic voice. He sang with the bands of Buddy Morrow and Charlie Ventura at the age of 18, and his nickname was ‘Sonny Boy’ because of his affection for Al Jolson songs. In 1949 he gained nationw Read more