Margie Day

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Margie Day (Margaret Hoffler, Norfolk, Virginia, 1926), now Margie Day Walker, is an American former R&B singer who had success in the 1950s and 1960s. Margaret Hoffler was born and brought up in Norfolk, Virginia, one of four children. She grew up listening to the gospel, opera, swing and jazz records bought by her brothers or played on the radio, and took piano lessons. After graduating from high school, she went to Virginia State College to study music, but soon decided that that was not what she wanted. She returned home to work in a cafeteria at a local military base, where she met a soldier who played piano, and occasionally sang with him. He introduced her to local musician Luther Wilson, whose band she joined in 1945. After a few months she relocated to New York, and began singing at a lounge in Newark, New Jersey. During this period she began using the stage name Margie Day. She joined a vocal quartet, "Four Bars and a Melody", and recorded a single, "Near You", with them on the Savoy label in 1947. Shortly afterwards, she married and returned to Norfolk to have a baby. In early 1950, she was approached by the Griffin Brothers, a popular local band, and invited to join them. She did so, and sang with them in Virginia and North Carolina before they received a recording deal with Dot Records. Their first record billed together as Margie Day with the Griffin Brothers Orchestra, "Street Walkin' Daddy" / "Riffin' With Griffin", became a # 7 hit on the Billboard R&B chart

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Experience

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Queens of Rhythm & Blues, Vol. 2

Dawn Of A New Day

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Girls Go Zonk!!

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Girls Go Zonk

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Jumping The Shuffle Blues: Jamaican Sound System Classics 1946-1960

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Born to Hustle

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Teen Queens from the 50's and 60's

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50s R&B Classics

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Men Are Like Street Cars - Women Blues Singers 1928 - 1969

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Girls Go Zonk (US BEAT CHICKS!!!)

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The R&B Years: 1953 (Cd4)

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