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Theresa Maria Stabile, 3 February 1919, Newark, New Jersey, USA, d. 12 December 2002, Englewood, New Jersey, USA. Dawn was a versatile, personable singer, popular during the 30s and early 40s, equally at home with ballads and uptempo material. In 1935 she replaced Loretta Lee with George Hall’s Band, which was based at New York’s Hotel Taft during the 30s. Dawn became so close to Hall that, after some time, he adopted her. She featured on many of the band’s hit records, including ‘Every Minute Of The Hour’, ‘When the Poppies Bloom Again’, ‘Oh! Ma-Ma (The Butcher Boy)’, ‘Says My Heart’, and ‘My Own’, also featuring on their broadcasts from the hotel. Dawn became so popular that Hall often promoted and recorded the band under the name, Dolly Dawn And Her Dawn Patrol. He felt that the band had more potential under her leadership, and in a ceremony at New York’s Roseland Ballroom on 4 July 1941,...
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