(Helen Morgan Sings The Songs she Made Famous On the Audio...)
Helen Morgan Sings The Songs she Made Famous On the Audio Rarities Label 2330 Vinyl and Jacket are Near Mint The Lp is from the Gene Shaw Record Collection Jazz Box10
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Performer: Mary Martin, Helen Morgan, Ella Logan, Judy Holliday, Julie Andrews, et al.
Conductor: Ray Charles
Composer: Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Burton Lane, Jule Styne, Frederick Loewe, et al.
Audio CD (March 9, 1993)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Sony Cmg Mkt Group
(18 great tracks by Helen Morgan
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The Glory of Helen Morgan: The Original Torch Singer, 1920s-1930s
(The Original Torch Singer (1920's-1930's)
23 Track total....)
The Original Torch Singer (1920's-1930's)
23 Track total.
Track Listing:
1. Me and My Shadow
2. When I Discover My Man
3. Just Like a Butterfly (That's Caught in the Rain)
4. You Remind Me of a Naughty Springtime Cuckoo
5. Possibly
6. Lazy Weather
7. Maybe
8. Do-Do-Do
9. Who Cares What You Have Been?
10. Mean to Me
11. What Wouldn't I Do for That Man?
12. More Than You Know
13. Why Was I Born?
14. Don't Ever Leave Me
15. Body and Soul
16. Something to Remeber You By
17. Bill
18. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
19. Frankie and Johnny
20. Winter Overnight
21. I See Two Lovers
22. The Little Things You Used to Do
23. I Was Taken By Storm
Helen Morgan, original name Helen Riggins, was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage.
Background
Helen Morgan was born on August 2, 1900, in Danville, Illinois, the only child of Frank Riggins of Danville and Lulu Lang, a teacher from Iowa. While Helen was still a small child, her mother divorced Riggins and married Thomas Morgan. They separated a few years later, and Mrs. Morgan eventually moved to Chicago.
Education
Helen attended Crane Technical High School in Chicago, which she left around 1918.
Career
Then she took a job packing crackers and then as a manicurist. Investing her wages in singing and dancing lessons, she began performing in Chicago speakeasies and was recruited by a talent scout for the chorus of a Broadway musical, Sally (1920), produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. She then returned for another stint in small Chicago night clubs. Accounts of the next few years vary.
Making her way again to New York, reportedly on the basis of winning a beauty contest at a winter carnival in Montreal, she secured a small singing part in George White's Scandals of 1925. She also sang that year at Billy Rose's Backstage Club, in a room so small and crowded she had to sit on the piano, a perch which became her trademark. Undoubtedly influenced by Fanny Brice, Dorothy Jardon, and Marion Harris, but quite unique, her small, throbbing, high contralto was ideally suited to the new "torch song" and crooning styles she did much to develop and popularize. With a subtle suggestion of Negro urban blues, she conveyed the bitter frustration of the city girl keyed up to the potential of romance, then let down. She was becoming a star for the times; the public was wearying of stentorian vaudeville singers, rowdy or grandiloquent but always loud. Her artless crooning suited the new milieu of electrical recording: talkies, radio, the intimate revue (the 1926 revue, Americana, was her next step to stardom), and above all, the speakeasy.
Over the next decade, her plaintive voice wafted gently through the indulgent alcoholic haze of "the clubs" which were her natural habitat. But she had much wider appeal. She triumphed as the mulatto Julie LaVerne in Jerome Kern's Show Boat (1927 - 1928), where her greatest number, "Bill" (lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse), was a theme song for the "emancipated" but lonely city girl who desperately needed a man. She immortalized the Gershwins' "The Man I Love" ("Someday he'll come along").
Her hit songs in the Kern-Hammerstein musical of 1929, Sweet Adeline, in which she starred - "Don't Ever Leave Me" and "Why Was I Born?" - reiterated her theme of alienation and isolation. So did the Victor Young-Ned Washington "Give Me a Heart to Sing To" from her 1935 film Frankie and Johnny.
She followed her 1929 film debut in Applause with half a dozen other movies, including the film version of Show Boat (1936), and also appeared on Broadway (Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 and George White's Scandals of 1936) and on radio.
Until moving to Hollywood in 1935 she continued to work in Manhattan night clubs she partly owned. By the late 1930's, with swingy, nonchalant band vocalists crowding older individual song stylists, her career was passing its zenith. However, her soft delivery was now in the mainstream of popular singing, and she was still a headliner on tour in Chicago at the time of her death there on October 8, 1941, from cirrhosis of the liver and hepatitis, at the age of forty-one. A Roman Catholic convert in her last illness, she was buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois.
Helen Morgan was a naively trusting, warmly emotional, extravagant - and extravagantly generous - woman who could spend an entire yearly income of $177, 000 on impulsive gifts, charities, and $600 dresses. She sometimes relinquished her proceeds to supporting casts caught by an early closing.
Connections
Helen Morgan was married to a fan, Lowell Army, she had met at a stage door while she was performing in Sally.
On June 25, 1926, in Springfield, Illinois, Morgan had a baby girl (Elaine Danglo) whom she gave up for adoption.
On May 15, 1933, Morgan married Maurice Maschke, Jr. of Cleveland, law student son of the city's Republican leader, floundered during her constant engagements in New York, London, and Paris. They divorced several years later.
On July 27, 1941, she married Lloyd Johnson, a Los Angeles auto dealer. They divorced the same year as well.