Doris Drew (born c. 1925) was an American pop and jazz singer in the late 1940s and 1950s.
She was born in San Antonio, Texas. Not much is known about her earlier life until 1949 when she was the band's vocalist with Ziggy Elman in Los Angeles until 1952, performing on tracks such as "The Wedding Samba"; she has also sung with Mel Henke (La Dolce Henke) and The Pied Pipers (Favorite Christmas carols). Under her own name, she released the singles "A Rose Was a Rose" and "Singin' in the Rain" for MGM in mid-1949; Billboard magazine described her vocals as a mix of Kay Starr and Doris Day.
In 1951 she married comedian Larry Allen (Al Leibovitz). That same year, she recorded the song "Sweet Violets" with the Cliff Parman Orchestra and Jack Halloran Chorus; in the early 1950s, she also recorded songs such as "Beautiful Brown Eyes", "Since You Went Away from Me" and "In My Sentimental Heart" for Mercury Records. In 1956, she sang a duet with Mel Tormé on the Tennessee Ernie Ford TV show ("Tea for Two").
In September 1957, Drew recorded an album under her own name (Delightful Doris Drew) for Mode Records, on which she was accompanied by Don Fagerquist, Bob Enevoldsen, Herb Geller, Dave Pell, Marty Paich, Al Viola, Max Bennett and Mel Lewis, and recorded standards such as "I Only Have Eyes For You", "If I Should Lose You", "Something to Remember You By" and "There Will Never Be Another You". In the same year, she performed with Don Fagerquist Octet on the show KABC Stars of Jazz, where she performed the songs "He's My Guy" and "I Cried for You".
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In the field of jazz, she was involved in 20 recording sessions between 1949 and 1957. In addition, she performed on several television variety shows of the day. She also performed on stage with Frank Sinatra at one point. She then released the pop single "I'm Alone But Never Lonely"/"French Fried Potatoes" (Kahill 1025) in 1957 before retiring from the music scene.
The last piece of information I found is that in 1966, she had a singing role in the animated film Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (directed by Alex Lowy), and that dear music lovers is all I can find, no other information about her is available. If anyone has any more to add then please do.
(Edited from Wikipedia, Discogs & Last fm)
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