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Introducing Linda Lawson

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Marc Myers
Feb 11, 2013
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Television split a lot of jazz personalities in the 1950s. Dozens of jazz musicians arranged and played in the orchestras of live TV shows in New York and Los Angeles. Some singers who could have been jazz or pop recording artists wound up being actors. One of those was Linda Lawson.

Lawson made only two known album recordings. The first was for Verve in…

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