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- Georgia_Carr abstract "Georgia Carr (born Mary Louise Thomas, June 20, 1925 – July 4, 1971) was an African-American singer and actress who performed and recorded between the 1940s and 1960s.She was born in Los Angeles, and worked as a secretary with the Los Angeles Housing Authority while studying nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and establishing herself as a singer. In 1946, after winning a talent contest, she began a residency in the Club Royal in San Francisco where, in 1952, she was heard by bandleader Stan Kenton. He suggested that she change her name to Georgia Carr, and won her a recording contract with Capitol Records. She appeared in top clubs in New York, Chicago and elsewhere, and released several singles on Capitol, with arrangements by Nelson Riddle, including "Softly" and "I Dream of You" (both 1952), "Is That Bad" and "Lonely" (both 1953). At the end of 1953, she began working as a disc jockey on radio station WOV in New York.She continued to record for Capitol and make club appearances, and in 1957 appeared as a calypso singer in the film Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. After a residency in Las Vegas, she had to give up her singing career temporarily because of severe laryngitis, from which she recovered without surgery. In 1958 she released the LP Songs by a Moody Miss on Tops Records; she was credited on the album sleeve as "America's Foremost Night Club Singer". Soon afterwards she signed for Dot Records, who issued further singles including "Don't Go".A report in the Chicago Defender in 1963 described her as possessing "beauty, personality, 'class,' and a warm, husky voice of intimate styling", and said that she was intending to front a new business, American Negro Commercials, Inc., to make "television and theatrical commercials utilizing Negro actors and models." From 1964, she recorded for Vee-Jay Records, and that year released her best known album, Rocks In My Bed, a collection of songs by Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Peggy Lee and others. She also appeared in the film Handle With Care, an all African-American musical comedy. A soundtrack album was released on the Preview label.She acted in the television series Marcus Welby, M.D. in 1969. In later years, she ran a catering company with her sister. She died in Los Angeles in 1971, of a stroke at the age of 46.A compilation of her early recordings, Softly Baby, was released in 1985.".
- Georgia_Carr activeYearsEndYear "1970".
- Georgia_Carr activeYearsStartYear "1946".
- Georgia_Carr background "solo_singer".
- Georgia_Carr birthDate "1925-06-20".
- Georgia_Carr birthPlace Los_Angeles.
- Georgia_Carr birthYear "1925".
- Georgia_Carr deathDate "1971-07-04".
- Georgia_Carr deathPlace Los_Angeles.
- Georgia_Carr deathYear "1971".
- Georgia_Carr genre Jazz.
- Georgia_Carr genre Rhythm_and_blues.
- Georgia_Carr genre Traditional_pop_music.
- Georgia_Carr recordLabel Capitol_Records.
- Georgia_Carr recordLabel Dot_Records.
- Georgia_Carr recordLabel Tops_Records.
- Georgia_Carr recordLabel Vee-Jay_Records.
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- Georgia_Carr background "solo_singer".
- Georgia_Carr birthName "Mary Louise Thomas".
- Georgia_Carr birthPlace "Los Angeles, California, US".
- Georgia_Carr dateOfBirth "1925-06-20".
- Georgia_Carr dateOfDeath "1971-07-04".
- Georgia_Carr deathDate "1971-07-04".
- Georgia_Carr deathPlace "Los Angeles".
- Georgia_Carr genre Jazz.
- Georgia_Carr genre Rhythm_and_blues.
- Georgia_Carr genre Traditional_pop_music.
- Georgia_Carr instrument "Vocals".
- Georgia_Carr label Capitol_Records.
- Georgia_Carr label Dot_Records.
- Georgia_Carr label Tops_Records.
- Georgia_Carr label Vee-Jay_Records.
- Georgia_Carr name "Carr, Georgia".
- Georgia_Carr name "Georgia Carr".
- Georgia_Carr occupation "Singer, actress".
- Georgia_Carr placeOfBirth "Los Angeles, California, US".
- Georgia_Carr placeOfDeath "Los Angeles".
- Georgia_Carr shortDescription "African-American singer and actress".
- Georgia_Carr yearsActive "1946".
- Georgia_Carr description "African-American singer and actress".
- Georgia_Carr description "African-American singer and actress".
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- Georgia_Carr subject Category:20th-century_American_actresses.
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- Georgia_Carr subject Category:Actresses_from_Los_Angeles,_California.
- Georgia_Carr subject Category:Capitol_Records_artists.
- Georgia_Carr subject Category:Singers_from_Los_Angeles,_California.
- Georgia_Carr subject Category:Torch_singers.
- Georgia_Carr subject Category:Traditional_pop_music_singers.
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- Georgia_Carr comment "Georgia Carr (born Mary Louise Thomas, June 20, 1925 – July 4, 1971) was an African-American singer and actress who performed and recorded between the 1940s and 1960s.She was born in Los Angeles, and worked as a secretary with the Los Angeles Housing Authority while studying nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and establishing herself as a singer.".
- Georgia_Carr label "Georgia Carr".
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- Georgia_Carr wasDerivedFrom Georgia_Carr?oldid=642367551.
- Georgia_Carr givenName "Georgia".
- Georgia_Carr givenName "Mary Louise Thomas".
- Georgia_Carr isPrimaryTopicOf Georgia_Carr.
- Georgia_Carr name "Carr, Georgia".
- Georgia_Carr name "Georgia Carr".
- Georgia_Carr surname "Carr".