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Mary May: This Is What You Are
by Chris Mosey
When Mary May heard Sarah Vaughan sing If I Loved You" it blew her away. She sang in a way I had never heard anyone sing before." Then came Anita O'Day, Nancy Wilson and Marion Montgomery. They all made May yearn to follow in their footsteps. But Scots being--famously--careful people, it took a long time before May would opt for a career as a jazz singer, scarcely the most steady of occupations. She continued ...
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