[78-L] Centenarians

[Kristjan Saag]

Here's your last list, Ray, (from 2017):
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Happy 92nd birthday to Marjorie Hughes.
Singer with and daughter of Frankie Carle (OH, WHAT IT SEEMED TO BE, RUMORS ARE FLYING).
Marjorie has been missing from most of our recent big band singers lists.
Here's my last list.  Corrections appreciated.

Doris Day – (Barney Rapp, Jimmy James, Bob Crosby, Les Brown)
Kaye Ballard - (Spike Jones)
Ed Ames - (Russ Morgan)
Bea Wain (Artie Shaw, Larry Clinton)
Vera Lynn (Jay Wilbur, Joe Loss, Charlie Kunz, Bert Ambrose)
Helen Clare (Billy Thorburn, Harry Leader)
RayK

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Marjorie Hughes, Ed Ames & Helen Clare are still with us, but none of them are close to a hundred.
Here's Wikipedia's list of famous centenarians still living:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_centenarians

A few jazz musicians are on the list, including Canadian jazz singer Eleanor Collins. Please note French classical pianist Colette Maze, who, at 107, recorded an album with music by Debussy. But she has been a late starter, recording her first album at 84, in 1998.
Kristjan



On 2021-10-08 23:36, kil at roadrunner.com.invalid wrote:
> I don't have any other centenarians. I did try to find the last list 
> we had of living big band singers, but could not locate it in my old 
> email files. I'm sure it is in the 78-l archive but I don't think it 
> is searchable. It would be interesting to update it. I don't remember 
> Louise Tobin being on it. And I don't think Nancy Norman is on it. She 
> sang with Sammy Kaye (CHICKERY CHICK) and is now 96. RayK 
> -----------------------------------------From: "Kristjan Saag" To: 
> 78-L at 78online.com Cc: Sent: Sunday October 3 2021 5:10:52AM Subject: 
> [78-L] Centenarians With Scottish singer Mary Lee (Mary Ann McDevitt) 
> having turned 100 in August we now have, at least, two vocalists from 
> the Dance Band Era still alive. Louise Tobin (who sang with Will 
> Bradley & Benny Goodman - and married Harry James) is 103 in November. 
> German-born French actress and singer Lilo (Liselotte Johanna Lewin) 
> is also a 100 years old. She starred in Cole Porters musical Can-Can 
> when it premiered on Broadway in 1953, and is featured on some cast 
> recordings both in the US and in France. Mary Lee recorded av early as 
> 1936. Do we know of any other now living artists who recorded earlier? 
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