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The Sad Story of Joy Marshall

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Marc Myers
May 04, 2021
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Throughout the 1960s, American singer Joy Marshall was an accomplished jazz-pop vocalist who was and remains virtually unknown in the U.S. Her anonymity here has much to do with her relocation to London in June 1962, at age 25. Marshall said in interviews there that she never considered herself a jazz singer, though her pop recordings clearly have a jaz…

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