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Jill Corey, 85, Coal Miner’s Daughter Turned Singing Sensation, Dies
The subject of a Life magazine cover story, she found early fame as a star of ’50s era television and drew comparisons to Judy Garland.
After she broke into the music business through an unlikely series of events, Life magazine chronicled Jill Corey’s auditions, her leaving her hometown and her first night on television.Credit.Gordon Parks/The LIFE Premium Collection, via Getty Images
April 29, 2021
Jill Corey, a torch singer who soared to fame as a teenage television star in the early 1950s, at one point becoming one of Columbia Records’ top vocalists, died on April 3 at a hospital in Pittsburgh. She was 85. ....

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