Previous posts for November 11th are here: Ernestine Anderson (2019) , Ernest Ansermet (2020), Jon Batiste (2021), Marlene VerPlanck (2022), and Karl Joseph Toeschi (2023)
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Marlene VerPlanck (11 November 1933 –14 January 2018) was an American jazz and pop vocalist whose body of work centered on big band jazz, the American songbook, and cabaret.
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Jingle work demanded that Marlene always sing with clean and precise diction, and these were hallmarks of Marlene’s style as she developed into one of the leading interpreters of the American songbook. – Karen Fishman, “The Billy and Marlene VerPlanck Collection,” at blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2019/09/the-billy-and-marlene-verplanck-collection/
Few there are who get the tingles
At the thought of singing jingle,
But though it lacks artistic thrills,
It pays the bills.
Forget, for now, aesthetic heights,
Your Muse will wait for those delights,
And for the nonce employ your skills
On lower hills.
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