Fran Warren

Fran Warren, born Frances Wolfe ( born March 4, 1926 in New York City; † March 4, 2013 in Connecticut ) was an American jazz and pop singer.

Life

Frances Wolfe grew up as the daughter of a Jewish family in the Bronx and began as a dancer at New York's Roxy Theater. After the Second World War, she worked as a singer, among others, for the bands of Randy Brooks, Art Mooney, Billy Eckstine and Charlie Barnet; Eckstine gave her the stage name of Fran Warren, she used ever since. In 1947, she was a singer of the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, with whom she with A Sunday Kind Of Love reached a chart position in the same year for the first time.

1948 left Warren Thornhill's band to start a solo career with a contract with RCA Records. Her greatest success, however, in 1950 I Said My Pajamas And Put On My Prayers, a duet with actor and singer Tony Martin, with whom she worked also in the subsequent period. In the same year, Dearie, a duet appeared with Lisa Kirk from the revue The Copacabana Show of 1950. Later she moved to MGM Records, where in 1953 her last great success It's Anybody's Heart with Lew Douglas & His Orchestra appeared.

Recently published three albums with recordings Warren: The Complete Fran Warren With Claude Thornhill (2000), Let's Fall in Love (2003) and Fran Warren With Orchestra (2004); 2007 Love For Love is announced by the label flare.

Discography

Roxy Theatre (New York City) Randy Brooks (musician)
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