Biography

Marjorie Hughes was born on December 15, 1925 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Moonlight Melodies (1946), Frankie Carle and His Orchestra (1949) and Oh What It Seemed to Be (1950). She died on October 5, 2025 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.

Daughter of Frankie Carle.

Carle changed his daughter's name to Marjorie Hughes, so that the public wouldn't know she was his daughter until he could be certain she'd make the grade.

Big band vocalist, mainly with the orchestra of her father, Frankie Carle.

After singers Betty Bonney (aka Judy Johnson) and Phyllis Lynne had come and gone, Carle was auditioning new female singers - some in person, and some by means of demo records. Carle's wife sneaked in a demo of their daughter recorded from a radio program, where she was singing with the Paul Martin band in her first singing job. Carle liked the singer he heard on the demo, at first unaware that it was Marjorie. When he decided to give his daughter a chance with his band, Carle changed her name to Marjorie Hughes, so that the public wouldn't know she was his daughter until he could be certain she'd make the grade.

Marjorie Hughes was the featured female singer on Your Hit Parade on Parade (an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1953 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television).