Jane Morgan - The Second Time Around

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 29:39
Size: 67.9 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:24] 1. The Second Time Around
[2:43] 2. My Favorite Things
[2:04] 3. Our Language Of Love
[2:49] 4. Romantica
[2:20] 5. The Twilight Waltz
[2:04] 6. The Angry Sea
[2:04] 7. Somebody
[2:32] 8. Love Is A Simple Thing
[3:09] 9. Odyssey
[2:48] 10. I Am A Heart
[2:02] 11. Why Should I Cry Over You
[2:35] 12. The Bells Of St. Mary's

Morgan was born Florence Catherine Currier in Newton, Massachusetts on May 3, 1924, one of five children born to musicians Olga (Brandenburg) and Bertram Currier. When she was four years old, the Currier family moved to Daytona Beach, Florida. At five she began vocal lessons while continuing piano lessons. During the summers, she took on child roles and appeared in theater productions at the Kennebunkport Playhouse in Kennebunkport, Maine, which her brother had founded. In 1941, she was listed as the Treasurer of the Kennebunkport Playhouse. While attending grade school, Morgan actively engaged in singing and competing against other students throughout Florida and the Southeast. After graduating from Seabreeze High School, she and her multiple musical talents were promptly accepted into New York's prestigious Juilliard School of Music. Intending to become an opera singer, she studied opera by day and performed whenever possible.

Morgan sang popular songs in nightclubs and small restaurants, and at bar mitzvahs and other private parties, to help pay her tuition expenses at Juilliard. Eventually she was hired as a singer at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan with the house second band for $25 a week, six nights a week. While she was still at Juilliard (1944), orchestra leader Art Mooney heard her perform and hired her. Mooney changed her name to Jane Morgan by taking the first name of one of his vocalists, Janie Ford, and the last name of another, Marian Morgan

The Second Time Around   

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