Marian Montgomery

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Marion Montgomery (17th November 1934 – 22nd July 2002) was a U.S.-born jazz singer who lived in the United Kingdom. Born Maud Runnells in Natchez, Mississippi, she began her career in Atlanta working clubs, and then in Chicago where singer Peggy Lee heard her on an audition tape and suggested she should be signed up by Capitol Records, releasing three albums for them in the early and mid 1960s. During this early part of her career, she became Marian Montgomery and then later changed the spelling of her first name to Marion, having previously gone by the nickname of Pepe. In 1965 she came to England to play a season with John Dankworth and met and married English pianist and musical director Laurie Holloway, thus beginning a long and productive association in which they both became very well known to British jazz, cabaret and television audiences. She numbered amongst her admirers Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, and British chat show host Michael Parkinson, on whose show she became resident singer in the 1970s. She also famously collaborated with composer and conductor Richard Rodney Bennett for a series of concerts and albums in the 1980s and early 1990s. Montgomery's recording of the song "Maybe the Morning" (on her 1972 album Marian in the Morning), was used by Radio Luxembourg each evening to close the station in the late 1960s and early 1970s and again as the final song to be heard on the station when it closed in 1992. She is judged to have been amongst the very best

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Lovin' Is Livin'

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Let There Be Love, Let There Be Swing, Let There Be Marian Montgomery/Lovin' Is Livin' and Livin' is Lovin'

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Let There Be Love, Let There Be Swing, Let There Be

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Collection Francis Lai - Inédits, Vol. 5 (Bandes originales de films)

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STAN SELECTIONS from AVANTI 【VERDE】

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Let There Be Love, Let There Be Swing, Let There Be Marian Montgomery

Marian In The Morning

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For Swingers Only

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Let There Be Love, Let There Be Swing, Let There Be Marian Montgomery/Lovin' Is Livin' and

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Let There Be Love, Let There Be Swing, Let There Be Marion Montgomery/Lovin' Is Livin'

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Lovin' Is Livin' And Livin' Is Lovin'

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