Marjorie Hughes born 15 December 1925

 

Marjorie Hughes (born December 15, 1925) is best known as an American band singer from mid 1940’s to 1950. 

Hughes was born Marjorie Carlone in Springfield, Massachusetts and her father was bandleader and pianist Frankie Carle. Her first singing job was with the Paul Martin Band in 1945, after which she became a singer in her father's band. 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 their daughter recorded from a radio program, where she was singing with the Paul Martin band. Carle liked the singer he heard on the demo, at first unaware that it was Hughes. 

                                   

When he decided to give his daughter a chance with his band, Carle changed her name to Marjorie Hughes, so that the public would not know she was his daughter, until he could be certain she would make the grade. The band had a No.1 hit for six weeks with Hughes' vocals on "Oh, What It Seemed To Be", a song her father had co-written. With the success of that song, Walter Winchell announced that Hughes was actually Carle's daughter. Marjorie married to Hughey Hughes, a pianist with Carle's orchestra in 1945; after four years of marriage, they divorced in 1949.  

She appeared in a few musical short movies Moonlight Melodies, Frankie Carle and His Orchestra and Oh What It Seemed to Be, but stopped singing with the Carle orchestra in 1949 “because of illness." That same year she was the featured female singer on Your Hit Parade on Parade. By 1950, she was working in television and radio on the west coast. She recorded a few sides on Columbia records during 1950 with the orchestras of Hugo Winterhalter and Harry Zimmerman. 

And that's where her public trail goes cold. I cannot find any trace of her on the internet until her father retired to Mesa, Arizona in the 1980’s to be near his daughter.. She was also mentioned in her father’s obituary in 2001 as being Marjorie Hughes Wahl, so I presume she re-married. According to many Facebook comments she is still with us and is 98 today.   (Edited from Wikipedia & IMDb)  

Unfortunately there is not much information regarding Marjorie Hughes on the internet, hence the small write-up. If anyone can share any additional news then please do.