YouTube History of Music: Birth of Modern Jazz 5: Song
She first recorded in 1942 ('Old Black Magic') with the Freddie Slack Orchestra, signed to Capitol in its youngest days by one of its cofounders, Johnny Mercer. Unable to perform her last engagement of the series due lung cancer, she returned home to California for treatment where she died in April 1990, refusing the further troubles of chemotherapy
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