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Also known as The Sentimentalists while working with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, the Clark Sisters were a close harmony singing quartet consisting of sisters Jean Clark, Ann Clark, Peggy Clark, and Mary Clark from Grand Forks, North Dakota.

The oldest three sisters, Jean, Ann, and Peggy, began performing together as children, known as The Clark Kiddies. Achieving local fame in the 1930s, the sisters appeared on local radio and eventually moved to New York City, where they were featured on "The Major Bowes Amateur Hour". They toured with a USO show for several months in the early 1940s. (Teenage Mary, the youngest of the four, joined the group in New York at some point.)

The quartet was signed by bandleader Tommy Dorsey in 1944 to replace departed vocalists The Pied Pipers. The four sisters were between the ages of seventeen and twenty-three at the time. Under the name The Sentimentalists, they recorded several hits with Dorsey and his band, including "Chicago" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street".

Outside of their association with Tommy Dorsey, the Clark Sisters recorded under their own name for Capitol Records in the late 1940s, including a string of recordings with crooner Jack Smith.

The sisters finally left Dorsey's band (and the "Sentimentalists" moniker) in 1953. The group moved to California and recorded (once again as the Clark Sisters) for the Dot Records and Coral Records labels, releasing a handful of albums in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The quartet was made up of the four oldest of six total Clark sisters. Two younger sisters (Judi Clark and Susan Clark) were born in the 1930s after the widowed W.J. Bryan Clark (the Clark Sisters&#39; father) remarried.

A female close harmony singing quartet consisting of sisters Jean Clark, Ann Clark, Peggy Clark, and Mary Clark from Grand Forks, North Dakota. Known as The Sentimentalists while associated with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1177561/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Tommy Dorsey &amp; His Orchestra</a>, the group was known, before and since, as the Clark Sisters.

Not to be confused with the gospel group <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0803124/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Clark Sisters</a>.

Known for instrumental-like vocal harmonies, sometimes contributing vocals without any sung lyrics.

Signed with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1177561/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Tommy Dorsey &amp; His Orchestra</a> in 1944 to replace the popular <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0969928/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Pied Pipers</a> after they quit Dorsey&#39;s band to go out on their own.

Lillian Ventimiglia (aka &quot;Lillian Clark&quot;) became an honorary &quot;fifth Clark Sister&quot;, joining the group for a time in the mid-1940s after Mary Clark moved to California with her husband. (Lillian later married jazz musician and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0234186/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Tommy Dorsey</a> collaborator <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0647011/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Sy Oliver</a>.).

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