Marian Montgomery

Marion Montgomery (17th November 1934 – 22nd July 2002) was a U.S.-born jazz singer who lived in the United Kingdom. Born Maud Runnells in Natchez, Mississippi, she began her career in Atlanta working clubs, and then in Chicago where singer Peggy Lee heard her on an audition tape and suggested she should be signed up by Capitol Records, releasing three albums for them in the early and mid 1960s. During this early part of her career, she became Marian Montgomery and then later changed the spelling of her first name to Marion