SULLIVAN, MAXINE

SULLIVAN, MAXINE (née MARIETTA WILLIAMS)Jazz singer (13 May 1911 in Homestead, Pennsylvania). She began her professional career singing with a group called The Red Hot Peppers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and on radio shows. In 1937 she made her recording debut with Claude Thornhill . Thereafter she performed with John Kirby (to whom she was married during the years 1938-41) and recorded with him the song that brought her wide attention, a swing version of Loch Lomond(1937). She...