Jane Morgan

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Jane Morgan (born Florence Catherine Currier; May 3, 1924) is an American singer.

Morgan initially found success in France and the UK before achieving recognition in the US. She received six gold records.

She was a frequent nightclub and Broadway performer, and also appeared numerous times on American television, both as a singer and as a dramatic performer.

Early life

Morgan was born Florence Catherine Currier in Newton, Massachusetts, on 3 May 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 was accepted into New York's Juilliard School of Music. Intending to become an opera singer, she studied opera by day and performed whenever possible.

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Early career

Morgan performed famous songs in nightclubs and small restaurants, as well as at bar mitzvahs and other private functions to help pay her tuition fees at Juilliard. She was eventually hired as a singer at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan with the house second band, which was worth $25 a week, six nights a week. When she was still at Juilliard (1944), orchestra conductor Art Mooney heard her perform and hired her. Jane Morgan changed her name to Jane Morgan by adopting Janie Ford's first name and Marian Morgan's last name.

Bernard Hilda, a French impresario, was chosen to accompany him in Paris in 1948. Hilda, a popular French society bandleader, needed a teenage singer to appear at a nightclub that he planned to open near the Eiffel Tower. Morgan began to appear regularly at the Club des Champs-Elysées, playing (two shows per night) American songs to mainly French audiences. Her mother had been taught French and Italian, so she quickly became fluent in French and performed her best in French, singing Cole Porter, George Gershwin, French songs, and twentieth-century standards. Morgan became a celebrity in Paris, accompanied by Hilda and his gypsy violin, she became popular throughout France. The French café culture flocked to Hilda's posh club, which was likened to the Copacabana in New York. Several French songwriters, including Charles Trenet, were regulars at the club, and they produced several songs that were later hit recordings for Morgan. Morgan and Hilda began a new weekly television show in 1949, on the French Polydor label as well as Parlophone, Philips, and others.

Morgan came from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and opened at the Ritz-Carlton Montreal as a soloist with a bilingual performance incorporating French and English. She performed in upscale nightclubs and her own radio show on NBC, backed by the 50-piece NBC Symphony Orchestra, and she also appeared at the St. Regis New York. She returned to Europe in 1954 to appear in a London West End review with comedian Vic Oliver, and later at the Savoy Theatre and London Palladium.

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