Marlene ver planck biography

VerPlanck was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey , the eldest of three siblings. Pampinella, operated a gasoline station there, and her mother was Pauline A. Biase, whose family ran an Italian restaurant. William "Billy" VerPlanck — in , and he became her musical collaborator and champion. VerPlank graduated from Bloomfield High School , and considered a career in journalism.

Marlene Paula VerPlanck (née Pampinella; November 11, – January 14, ) was an American jazz and pop vocalist whose body of work centered on big band jazz, the American songbook, and cabaret.

A prolific studio vocalist for commercial jingles during the s and s, [ 3 ] Ver Planck was once dubbed "the New York jingle queen" by Los Angeles Times jazz writer Leonard Feather. She later told the press that the latter was highly lucrative for her, because she put a "Yeah! Her jingle work allowed her to hone the clarity of her diction when singing, and she became known for her ability to enunciate the lyrics of songs clearly even while investing them with emotion.

Despite her long and successful career in jingles and as a studio backing vocalist, her second solo album, This Happy Feeling , was not recorded and released until , 14 years after her first album.

Marlene Paula VerPlanck was an American jazz and pop vocalist whose body of work centered on big band jazz, the American songbook, and cabaret.

Her solo career then began in earnest, and she released more than 20 albums, [ 3 ] mostly on the Audiophile label, and toured extensively as a soloist. She specialized in the Great American Songbook , especially the works of Irving Berlin , Jerome Kern , Johnny Mercer , Cole Porter , and Richard Rodgers , and gained a reputation as one of the most accomplished interpreters of the genre.

The album included two vocal tracks — " Chattanooga Choo-Choo " and " I've Got a Gal In Kalamazoo ", and VerPlanck was invited to sing the female vocals in a recreation of the singing group The Modernaires , which consisted of one female and four male vocalists, and to bring four male colleagues with her to sing the four male vocal parts.

The album's producers expected her to bring unknown session and back-up singers with her, but she surprised and delighted the producers and the orchestra by arriving with Julius LaRosa , Mel Torme, Michael Mark , and Marty Nelson for the recording session on January 20, Olivet cemetery in Bloomfield. With the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

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