Marion Harris

American singer (1896-1944)

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Born: 1925
Works: 20

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1947-04-02

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Discography

Gliding Bird1970
Pieces of the Sky1975
Elite Hotel1975
Luxury Liner1977
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town1978
Blue Kentucky Girl1979
Light of the Stable: The Christmas Album1979
Roses in the Snow1980
Cimarron1981
Evangeline1981

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Listeners: 24,404
Total plays: 125,249

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Marion Harris (April 4 1896 — April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer, most successful in the 1920's. She was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs. Born Mary Ellen Harrison, probably in Indiana, she first played vaudeville and movie theaters in Chicago around 1914. Dancer Vernon Castle introduced her to the theater community in New York where she debuted in a 1915 Irving Berlin revue, Stop! Look! Listen! In 1916 <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Marion+Harri

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Family name: Harris
Gender: female
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Pigeon Township
Place of death: Manhattan
Spouse: Robert Williams
Occupation: Ziegfeld girl
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Genre: pop music
Instrument: voice
Record label: Brunswick Records
Image: Marionharris.jpg

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Commons category: Marion Harris
date of birth: 1896-04-04
date of death: 1944-04-23
place of burial: Kensico Cemetery
name in native language: Marion Harris
start of work period: 1914-00-00
birth name: Mary Ellen Harrison
writing language: English language

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