Martha Tilton

Martha Ellen Tilton ( called Liltin Miss Tilton, born November 14, 1915 in Corpus Christi, Texas, † December 8, 2006 in Brentwood, California ) was an American singer of swing, mainly known from her time with Benny Goodman

Life

Martha Tilton grew up as the daughter of a banker in a musical family in Los Angeles. After a friend of her father heard her sing he gave her a successful audition at a radio station. She left it to high school, sang in the Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, toured three years with the band of Hal Grayson and 1936 with the popular vocal quartet Three Hits and a Miss. In 1937, she was with Jimmy Dorsey and appeared in the film comedy Topper.

In 1937 she was hired as a chorus singer (including with Jo Stafford) by Benny Goodman for his radio show Camel Caravan. From 1937 to 1939 she was a singer successor of Helen Ward, who had married, in the Benny Goodman Orchestra and also worked at the legendary Carnegie Hall Concert 1938 ( Loch Lomond, With me you're beautiful ) with. In 1939, she had her biggest success in Goodman And the Angels Singing ( Ziggy Elman and Johnny Mercer ). In the same year replaced Goodman, who had been satisfied with any of his singers by Helen Ward, they. By Louise Tobin, wife of Harry James

After that, she was with Paul Whiteman in a radio show and made ​​her first solo recordings. In the early 1940s she had temporarily own radio show on NBC. She played the lead roles in two films (Swing Hostess, 1944; Crime Inc., 1945) and lent stars like Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire with Gene Krupa Drum Boogie 1941 her singing voice. A year later she was taken at the Capitol Records label her friend Johnny Mercer under contract and had hits like I'll Walk Alone (1944 ), I Should Care (1945 ), How are things in Glocca Morra? (1947 ) and A Stranger in Town ( 1945). During the Second World War she was, inter alia, worked with Jack Benny at the troop entertainment. Your time at Capitol Records ended in 1949.

After she married in 1953 a manager in the aerospace industry, a former, so-called flyboy of World War II, she moved largely from the music business. In 1955 she sang in the movie The Benny Goodman Story again their big hit And the Angels Sing and then took even a few albums, including with the singer Curt Massey (We Sing the Old Songs, 1957), with whom she also 1949 to 1953, a radio show called Alka Seltzer Time moderated ( after the same sponsor) and with whom she was in the late 1950s together hosted a TV show in Los Angeles. In the 1980s, she toured with a Swing Revival show by Australia.

Even her sister Liz Tilton was a singer, including Bob Crosby Jan Garber and Buddy Rogers. Martha Tilton was married three times.

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