Marion Keene (also known as Marion Davis, born Marion Davison, c. 1933) was a British

big band A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s ...

singer in the early 1950s with British bands such as the

Jack Parnell John Russell Parnell (6 August 1923 – 8 August 2010) was an English musician and musical director. Biography Parnell was born into a theatrical family in London, England. His uncle was the theatrical impresario Val Parnell. During hi ...

Orchestra and

Oscar Rabin Band The Oscar Rabin Band was a popular British dance band in the first half of the twentieth century. Formation Oscar Rabin formed his first band with Harry Davis, the Romany Five at the Palace Hotel in Southend in 1924 in which Rabin played violi ...

. Keene replaced

Alma Cogan Alma Angela Cohen Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the "Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. C ...

in the

1959 Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest 1959 was the fourth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, held on Wednesday 11 March 1959 at the in Cannes, France, and hosted by French television presenter Jacqueline Joubert. Organised by the European B ...

British heats, but was not selected to become the British entry in the final, held later the same year.

Recordings

Parlophone Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German–British record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 192 ...

Marion Davis with

*F 2344 March 1949 " A Little Bird Told Me" *F 2369 July 1949 "Put Your Shoes On Lucy" *F 2400 February 1950 "

Jealous Heart "Jealous Heart" is a classic C&W song written by American country music singer-songwriter Jenny Lou Carson. In the mid 1940s it spent nearly six months on the Country & Western charts. It was subsequently recorded by several pop singers. E ...

" (with Marjorie Daw) *F 2404 March 1950 "Why Not Now" (with Dennis Hale) / " Don't Cry Joe" *F 2435 December 1950 " Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" (with Marjorie Daw) *F 2455 April 1951 "Listenin' To The Green Grass Grow" (with Marjorie Daw) Nixa Marion Davis with

Eric Winstone Eric Winstone (born 1 January 1913 in London, died 2 May 1974 in Pagham, Sussex) was an English big band leader, conductor and composer. Biography and career Playing piano in his spare time from a job as Westminster Gas and Coke Company led hi ...

Orchestra *NY 7742 "Turn Back The Hands Of Time" (with The Stagecoachers) / "Easy Come, Easy Go" (with Franklyn Boyd) *NY 7743 March 1952 "I Don't Care"

HMV Sunrise Records and Entertainment, trading as HMV (for His Master's Voice), is a British music and entertainment retailer, currently operating exclusively in the United Kingdom. The first HMV-branded store was opened by the Gramophone Company ...

*HMV POP 203 / 7M 395 April 1956 "Fortune Teller" / "A Dangerous Age" *HMV POP 375 July 1957 "

In The Middle Of An Island "In the Middle of an Island" is a popular song written by Nick Acquaviva and Ted Varnick and published in 1957. Tony Bennett version The recording by Tony Bennett was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 40965. It first reached the Bi ...

" / "

It's Not For Me To Say "It's Not for Me to Say" is a 1957 popular song with music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman. It was written for the 1957 movie '' Lizzie'' (starring Eleanor Parker), and was sung by Johnny Mathis in the film. Mathis' recording of the so ...

" (with orchestra cond. by

Frank Cordell Frank Cordell (1 June 1918 – 6 July 1980) was a British composer, arranger and conductor, who was active with the Institute of Contemporary Arts. He also composed music under the name Frank Meilleur or Meillear (Meillear being his mother's ma ...

)

RCA The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Comp ...

*RCA LOP 1001 1958 "

Rose-Marie ''Rose-Marie'' is an operetta-style musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. The story is set in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and concerns Rose-Marie La Flemme, a ...

" (with Julie Andrews) Cast Member - RCA LOP 1001 (RD-27143 in England)

References

External links

Ron Simmonds's web site "jazzprofessional" for more details on big bands and Marion Davis
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