POLK, LUCY ANN

Homebase: Sandpoint, ID / Spokane , WA
Stats: May 16, 1927 - October 10, 2011
Misc Notes: "Perhaps the most talented female vocalist in the later part of the big band era, Lucy Ann Polk left her mark on music history as a singer for Tommy Dorsey and Les Brown in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Polk began her career at a young age as part of the Town Criers vocal group, emerging in the mid-1940s as a breakout star. She mixed solo and group work for several years before leaving the Criers in 1948 and concentrating on her own career. Polk was voted best female band singer for four years in a row—1951, 1952, 1953, and 1954—by Down Beat magazine readers before leaving Brown’s orchestra to focus on home life and solo work. Her solo career never really took off due to her disinterest in touring." [Text courtesy of BandChrips website. READ MORE]
ALSO SEE:
1.) FOUR POLKS, The

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