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| name = Marion Harris | image = Marionharris.jpg | caption = Harris in 1924 | image_size = | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Mary Ellen Harrison | birth_date = {{Birth date|1896|04|04}} | birth_place = Indiana, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|04|23|1896|04|04}} | death_place = Manhattan, New York City, United States | origin = | instrument = | genre = Jazz, blues, pop | occupation = Singer | years_active = 1914–1934 | label = Victor, Columbia, Brunswick | associated_acts = | website = | current_members = | past_members = }}Marion Harris (April 4, 1896 – April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer who was most successful in the 1920s. She was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.[1] Early lifeShe was born Mary Ellen Harrison on April 4, 1896, probably in Indiana.[2] She first played vaudeville and movie theaters in Chicago around 1914. The dancer Vernon Castle introduced her to the theater community in New York, where she debuted in the Irving Berlin revue Stop! Look! Listen! in 1915. RecordingsIn 1916, she began recording for Victor Records, singing a variety of songs, such as "Everybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues, but I'm Happy", "After You've Gone", "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", "When I Hear That Jazz Band Play" and her biggest success, "I Ain't Got Nobody" (originally titled "I Ain't Got Nobody Much"). In 1920, after the Victor label would not allow her to record W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues", she joined Columbia Records, where she recorded the song successfully. Sometimes billed as "The Queen of the Blues,"[1] she tended to record blues- or jazz-flavored songs throughout her career. Handy wrote of Harris that "she sang blues so well that people hearing her records sometimes thought that the singer was colored."[3] Harris commented, "You usually do best what comes naturally, so I just naturally started singing Southern dialect songs and the modern blues songs."[4] She was briefly married to the actor Robert Williams. They married in 1921 and divorced the following year. Harris and Williams had one daughter, Mary Ellen, who later became a singer in her own right under the name Marion Harris Jr. In 1922 she moved to the Brunswick label. She continued to appear in Broadway theatres throughout the 1920s. She regularly played the Palace Theatre, appeared in Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic and toured the country with vaudeville shows.[6] After her divorce from a marriage that produced two children, she returned in 1927 to New York theater, made more recordings with Victor and appeared in an eight-minute Vitaphone short film, Marion Harris, Songbird of Jazz. After performing in a Hollywood movie, the early musical Devil-May-Care (1929), with Ramón Novarro, she temporarily withdrew from performance because of an undisclosed illness. Later career and deathBetween 1931 and 1933, Harris performed on such NBC radio shows as The Ipana Troubadors and Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour. She was billed by NBC as "The Little Girl with the Big Voice."[5][6] In early 1931 she performed in London, returning for long engagements at the Café de Paris. In London she appeared in the musical Ever Green and broadcast on BBC radio. She also recorded in England in the early 1930s but retired soon afterwards. In 1936, she married Leonard Urry,[7] an English theatrical agent. Their house was destroyed in a German rocket attack in 1941, and in 1944 she travelled to New York to seek treatment for a neurological disorder. She was discharged two months later. She died on April 23, 1944 in a hotel fire that started when she fell asleep while smoking in bed.[8] Hit records
Notes1. ^1 Ward, Elijah (2005). Escaping the Delta. {{ISBN|978-0-06-052427-2}}. {{Wikipedia books|Marion Harris}}2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11262329|title=The year of birth on the gravestone shown under her name at Find-a-Grave is incorrect|website=Findagrave.com|accessdate=2016-11-28}} 3. ^{{cite book |author=W. C. Handy|date=1941|title=Father of the Blues|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0306804212}} 4. ^1922 Columbia Records catalog, quoted in Ward, Elijah (2005). Escaping the Delta. p. 283. {{ISBN|978-0-06-052427-2}}. 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.redhotjazz.com/lyman.html |title=Abe Lyman |website=Redhotjazz.com |date= |accessdate=2016-11-28}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=Gracyk, Tim|date=2000|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895–1925|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1560249931}} 7. ^[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV8D-W35S] {{dead link|date=November 2016}} 8. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.redhotjazz.com/marionharris.html |title=Marion Harris |website=Redhotjazz.com |date= |accessdate=2016-11-28}} 9. ^{{cite book |title=Pop Memories: 1890–1954|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|year=1986|publisher=Record Research|isbn=0-89820-083-0}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://songbook1.wordpress.com/fx/joel-whitburn-criticism-chart-fabrication-misrepresentation-of-sources-cherry-picking/ |title=Joel Whitburn criticism: chart fabrication, misrepresentation of sources, cherry picking | Songbook |website=Songbook1.wordpress.com |date= |accessdate=2016-11-28}} References{{Reflist}}External links{{Commons category}}
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