Background
June and her older sister, Ina Ray Hutton, both grew up to be entertainers and performers during the Big Band era.
June and her older sister, Ina Ray Hutton, both grew up to be entertainers and performers during the Big Band era.
Hyde Park Academy High School.
She was the younger sister of vocalist Ina Ray Hutton. Hutton"s parents were Marvel Svea Williams and Odie Daniel Cowan. While attending high school, she worked in the dress department at Marshall Fields department store.
After graduating, she quit her job and pursued her singing career.
In her early days, she sang at the "Astor Roof" in New York City. After singing with her sister"s orchestra in 1938, she was part of the Winston Trio, the Quintones, and the Sande Williams Band.
She appeared with the Quintones in Hi Ya, Gentlemen, a failed musical with boxer Max Baer. In 1941, she became the female vocalist for the Stardusters, the singing group of Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra.
After Jo Stafford left The Pied Pipers in 1944, Hutton replaced her, joining the group in May.
She performed with the Pied Pipers for six years, recording several hit records including the song "Dream." In 1950, Hutton left the Pied Pipers, going solo on Decca Records. (However, the trade publication Billboard reported in its December 10, 1949, issue that Hutton had already left the Pied Pipers and signed with Decca Records) Hutton"s post-Pipers solo career included her debut in New York at the Copacabana nightclub November 16, 1950. In 1951, Hutton married Axel Stordahl, a musical arranger for Tommy Dorsey.
She recorded three hit records at Capitol: "Say You"re Mine Again", "Number Stone Unturned", and "Foreign the First Time".
They divorced in 1972. Hutton died on May 2, 1973, at the age of 52.
She is buried beside Stordahl at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Los Los Angeles