Career

She was also Frankie Carle"s daughter. After singers Betty Bonney (aka Judy Johnson) and Phyllis Lynne had come and gone, Carle was auditioning new female singers - some in person, and some by means of demo records. Carle"s wife sneaked in a demo of Carle"s daughter recorded from a radio program

She was singing with the Paul Martin band in her first singing job.

The band made a hit recording with Marjorie Hughes on the vocal, entitled "Oh, What lieutenant Seemed To Be." With the success of that song, Walter Winchell announced that Marjorie Hughes was actually Frankie Carle"s daughter. According to Christopher Popa"s Big Band Library.com website, Marjorie Hughes real name was Ede Carle.

Hughes stopped singing with the Carle orchestra in 1948 "because of illness." By 1950, she was "concentrating on television and radio on the west coast."

Hughes was the featured female singer on Your Hit Parade on Parade.