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Dorothy Carless
12+ albums
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Dorothy Carless was born in 1921. Her sisters were Pearl Carr, born 1923 , who had a popular singing partnership in the U.K with Teddy Johnson, and Carole Carr, 1928 - 1997, who also sang with bands such as Geraldo, as did Dorothy. Through the late 1930s , the 1940s and into the 1950s she continued singing with various bands. A good pianist, she got her break with Ray Noble's Orchestra in the 1930s, moving on to other bands such as Ambrose and Geraldo, making radio appearances regularly. She married violinist Eugene Pini in 1939, and between 1940 - 1944 recorded over 50 songs with Geraldo's Orchestra. She moved to the USA in 1946 with second husband Henry Hull Jr, appearing in cabaret and on TV shows. She traveled to London in 1953 to perform concerts and radio shows, and recorded various albums before returning to the USA by the 1960s, where she lived until her death on October 18, 2012 in Cambria, California. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
