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Marion Harris (born Mary Ellen Harrison; April 4, 1896 – April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer who was most successful in the late 1910s and the 1920s.She was the first widely-known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.
A very popular singer in the 1920’s, Marion Harris recorded into the 1930’s with over 130 recordings to her credit. She performed with the Isham Jones Orchestra and at the Cafe de Paris in London in the early 1930’s. Marion became a very popular vaudeville performer playing numerous engagements at the Palace in New York during the 1920’s.
Marion Harris. Singer, Actress. (1896 - 1944) Marion Harris was a star of vaudeville in the 1920’s and the first white female singer to record jazz and blues, featuring a lot of material by African American composers. Among her hundreds of recordings, some of her best from 1917 through the ‘20s are “ St. Louis Blues ,” “ Beale Street ...
Marion Harris (born Mary Ellen Harrison; April 4, 1896 – April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer who was most successful in the late 1910s and the 1920s.She was the first widely-known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.
Marion Harris. A hitmaker who was recording before the end of World War I, Marion Harris sang a Broadway version of the blues several years before it had cracked the commercial consciousness, near the end of the 1910s.…. Read Full Biography.
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