Gordon MacRae

Genres:	Comedy • Drama • Holiday & Seasonal • Musicals & The Arts • Vocals • Westerns
Descriptive "tags":	jazz • male vocalists • classic hollywood • smooth jazz • male jazz vocal • new jersey • musicals • gordon macrae
Decades Active:	1950s • 1960s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	Wikipedia

Biography

12 March 1921, East Orange, New Jersey, USA, d. 24 January 1986, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. A popular singer on record, radio and in films during the 50s, MacRae was the son of local radio celebrity Wee Willie MacRae, and often worked on radio as a child actor before joining the Millpond Playhouse in New York. There he met actress Sheila Stephens who became his first wife in 1941. After winning an amateur singing contest at the 1939/40 New York World’s Fair, he sang for two weeks with the Harry James and Les Brown bands. While working as a pageboy at NBC Radio, he was heard by band leader Horace Heidt who signed him for two years, during which time he appeared with Heidt, James Stewart and Paulette Goddard in a movie about Heidt’s radio giveaway show, Pot O’ Gold. After serving in the US Army Air Force Corps in World War II, MacRae returned to New York to take a singing role in the 1946 Broadway revue Three To Make Ready, starring Ray Bolger. In 1947,...

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