Monica Lewis

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Monica Lewis (born May Lewis; May 5, 1922 – June 12, 2015) was an American jazz singer and film actress. Lewis was the longtime voice of Chiquita Banana in the company's animated ad campaign, beginning in 1947. Early life Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 5, 1922, the youngest of three children. Her father, Leon, was a pianist and composer and her mother, Jessica, was a singer with the Chicago Opera Company. Career At the age of seventeen, she started working as a singer for a radio show called Gloom Dodgers. With the help of Benny Goodman she began to establish her career through nationally broadcast shows such as The Revere Camera Show and Beat the Band. Lewis was dubbed "America’s Singing Sweetheart" during this time. Some of her songs included "Put the Blame on Mame", "I Wish You Love", and "Autumn Leaves." In 1947 Lewis started providing the singing voice for "Miss Chiquita Banana", a cartoon television commercial character. In 1948 she appeared in the first ever Ed Sullivan Show, which was created and produced by her brother Marlo Lewis. In 1950 she was signed a contract with MGM. Some of her films included The Strip, Everything I Have Is Yours, and Affair with a Stranger, and she later appeared in some 1970s disaster films such as Earthquake (1974), Rollercoaster (1977), and both Airport '77 (1977) and The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979). Personal life Lewis was married twice. Her first husband was the American record producer Bob Thiele. They married

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Sings Songs Of Love

Fools Rush In

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Best Jazz Vocal 100 [Disc 2]

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Best Jazz Vocal 100 [Disc 4]

Sing It To The Marines

But Beautiful

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Best Jazz Vocal 100

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Never Let me Go

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Jet Stream Summer Flight

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Best Jazz Vocal 100 [Disc 4] [ためいき～ミッドナイト・スタンダーズ]

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Female Voices of the Silver Screen

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Best Jazz Vocal 100 [Disc 2] [ときめき ～ティータイム･スタンダーズ～]

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