Maxine Sullivan
- MatchMaxine Sullivan
- 100%Dorothy Dandridge
- 46%Lee Wiley
- 44%Carol Sloane
- 42%Jeanie Bryson
- 41%Irene Kral
- 36%Louis Armstrong
- 31%Helen Humes
- 31%Martha Tilton
- 30%Bobby Troup
- 28%Sylvia Syms
Biography
Marietta Williams, 13 May 1911, Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 7 April 1987, New York City, New York, USA. Sullivan began singing in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before travelling to New York in 1937. She joined the Claude Thornhill band and made a hugely successful record of Loch Lomond. The popularity of this recording led to her making several more jazzed-up folk songs, including Annie Laurie, which, for all their frequent banality, she sang with effortless... Read more