June Hutton
{{Short description|American singer (1919–1973)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2014}}
{{Infobox person
| image = June Hutton 1951.jpg
| caption = Hutton in 1951
| birth_name = June Marvel Cowan
| birth_date = {{birth date|1919|8|11}}
| birth_place = Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1973|05|02|1919|8|11}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|occupation=Singer
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Axel Stordahl|1951|1963|end=died}}
- {{marriage|Kenneth Tobey|1968}}
}}
| children = 2 }}
June Hutton (born June Marvel Cowan; August 11, 1919 – May 2, 1973) was an American vocalist, popular with big bands during the 1940s. She was the younger sister of Ina Ray Hutton.
Early years
Hutton was born in Bloomington, Illinois. Her parents were Marvel Svea Williams and Odie Daniel Cowan. She and her older sister, Ina Ray Hutton, both grew up to be entertainers and performers during the Big Band era.{{Citation needed |date=March 2022}}
When she was 15, she left home to join her sister in pursuit of a singing career.{{cite news |title=Listen -- With Rowe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41925179/june_hutton/ |accessdate=January 8, 2020 |work=The Times-Dispatch |date=April 2, 1950 |location=Virginia, Richmond |page=10 D|via = Newspapers.com}}
Career
In her early days, she sang at the Astor Roof in New York City. After singing with her sister's orchestra in 1938, she was part of the Winston Trio, the Quintones, and the Sande Williams Band. She appeared with the Quintones in Hi Ya, Gentlemen, a failed musical with boxer Max Baer. In 1941, she became the female vocalist for the Stardusters, the singing group of Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra.{{cite news|title=June Hutton|newspaper=The Circleville Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3021999/the_circleville_herald/|agency=The Circleville Herald|date=November 26, 1943|page=7|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = August 15, 2015}} {{Open access}}
After Jo Stafford left The Pied Pipers in 1944, Hutton replaced her, joining the group in May.{{cite news|title=Pied Pipers Down Beat Award Winners|newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3022108/santa_cruz_sentinel/|agency=Santa Cruz Sentinel|date=September 20, 1947|page=22|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = August 15, 2015}} {{Open access}} She performed with the Pied Pipers for six years, recording several hit records including the song "Dream." In 1950, Hutton left the Pied Pipers, going solo on Decca Records. (However, the trade publication Billboard reported in its December 10, 1949, issue that Hutton had already left the Pied Pipers and signed with Decca Records.{{cite news|title=Hutton Inks Pact With Decca; Signs Gastel Management|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/40s/1949/Billboard%201949-12-10-OCR-Page-0015.pdf|accessdate=16 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=December 10, 1949|page=15}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }})
Hutton's post-Pipers solo career included her debut in New York at the Copacabana nightclub November 16, 1950.{{cite news|title=Music as Written: New York|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1950/Billboard%201950-11-11-OCR-Page-0040.pdf|accessdate=16 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=November 11, 1950|page=42}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
In 1951, Hutton married Axel Stordahl, a musical arranger for Tommy Dorsey. In 1952, she went to Capitol Records, backed by an orchestra led by her husband. She recorded three hit records at Capitol: "Say You're Mine Again", "No Stone Unturned", and "For the First Time". They also recorded a well-regarded 1955 album, Afterglow, featuring lush arrangements and the vocal group Boys Next Door.
Later years
Stordahl died in 1963,{{cite news|title=Music Arranger Dies|newspaper=Daily Independent Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3022040/daily_independent_journal/|agency=Daily Independent Journal|date=August 31, 1963|page=2|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = August 15, 2015}} {{Open access}} and Hutton married actor Kenneth Tobey in 1968.{{Cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69754379/kenneth-tobey-and-june-hutton-marriage/ |title=Singer, TV Actor Wed in Las Vegas |date=February 4, 1968 |agency=United Press International (UPI) |work=Oakland Tribune |page=29 |via=Newspapers.com |location=Las Vegas |quote=Vocalist June Hutton was married Friday night during a brief ceremony to television actor Kenneth Tobey.}} Hutton died in Encino, Los Angeles, on May 2, 1973, at the age of 53.{{Citation needed |date=December 2021}} She is buried beside Stordahl at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Scott |year=2016 |title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons |url={{GBurl |FOHgDAAAQBAJ |p=364 }} |edition=3rd |publication-place=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=364 |isbn=978-0786479924 |access-date=December 15, 2021 |via=Google Books }}
Partial discography
- If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time/Tear Drops From My Eyes (1950, Decca #27329 with the Lee Gordon Singers.){{cite news|title=(Decca Records advertisement)|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1950/Billboard%201950-12-30-OCR-Page-0007.pdf|accessdate=16 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=December 30, 1950|page=7}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- My Sweetie Went Away/More Than I Should (1950, Decca 27061){{cite news|title=Record Reviews|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1950/Billboard%201950-11-11-OCR-Page-0040.pdf|accessdate=16 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=July 8, 1950|page=114}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- All the Bees Are Buzzin' Round My Honey/For You, My Love (1950, Decca 24056){{cite news|title=Record Reviews|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1950/Billboard%201950-02-18-OCR-Page-0030.pdf|accessdate=16 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=February 18, 1950|page=32}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Nothing/Bye, Honey, Bye-Bye (1951 Decca 27833){{cite news|title=Record Reviews|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1951/Billboard%201951-11-10-OCR-Page-0094.pdf|accessdate=16 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=November 10, 1951|page=94}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Keep It a Secret/I Miss You So (1952, Capitol 2268){{cite news|title=Reviews of This Week's New Records: Popular|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1952/Billboard%201952-11-15-OCR-Page-0040.pdf|accessdate=17 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=November 15, 1952|page=48}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- For the First Time/If It's the Last Thing I Do (1953, Capitol 2667){{cite news|title=Popular Record Reviews|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1953/Billboard%201953-12-12-OCR-Page-0038.pdf|accessdate=17 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=December 12, 1953|page=40}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953 Capitol with Gordon MacRae){{cite news|title=By the Light of the Silvery Moon|newspaper=Tucson Daily Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3022299/tucson_daily_citizen/|agency=Tucson Daily Citizen|date=June 27, 1953|page=31|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = August 15, 2015}} {{Open access}}
- Full Dimensional Sound -- A Study in High Fidelity (1953 Capitol) Hutton was one of several artists included on a long-playing album to "demonstrate to audiophiles the full range and capabilities of sound reproducing systems."{{cite news|title=Capitol Hi-Fi Album Release|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1953/Billboard%201953-09-26-OCR-Page-0017.pdf|accessdate=17 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=September 26, 1953|pages=21, 54}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- The Lights of Home/You Are My Love (1953 Capitol 2369){{cite news|title=Buyboard|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1953/Billboard%201953-02-21-OCR-Page-0033.pdf|accessdate=18 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=February 21, 1953|page=37}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- I Had a Little Too Much to Dream Last Night/Song of the Sleigh Bells (1953 Capitol 2318){{cite news|title=Reviews of This Week's New Records|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1953/Billboard%201953-01-03-OCR-Page-0018.pdf|accessdate=18 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=January 3, 1953|page=24}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Coney Island Boat/Open Your Arms (1954 Capitol 2784){{cite news|title=Buyboard|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1954/Billboard%201954-04-24-OCR-Page-0031.pdf|accessdate=18 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=April 24, 1954|page=33}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Gee/Too Little Time (1954 Capitol 2727){{cite news|title=Buyboard|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/50s/1954/Billboard%201954-02-20-OCR-Page-0027.pdf|accessdate=18 August 2015|agency=Billboard|date=February 20, 1954|page=31}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0404635|name=June Hutton}}
- {{Find a Grave|11514|accessdate=December 11, 2013}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041213121209/http://parabrisas.com/d_huttonj.html Solid!] page on June Hutton
- [http://hollywoodlandforever.blogspot.com/2014/04/sisters-secrets-ina-ray-and-june.html Sisters, Secrets? Ina Ray and June Hutton's Real History]
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Category:Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
Category:20th-century American singers
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