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Backgrounder: Marge Dodson - 'Lovely Way to Live'

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Marc Myers
May 23, 2025
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Vocalist Marge Dodson recorded just three albums. Her first two for Columbia were straightforward songbook efforts: In the Still of the Night (1959) and New Voice in Town (1960). But her third, for Decca, was way more interesting and so 1960s!


A Lovely Way to Live
(1968) was swinging, brash and groovy, from the psychedelic cover art to the arrangements b…

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