10pc Vintage Albums By Joni James (1930-2022)

Signed with MGM Records at a young age,
Albums are untested and in original covers. Covers show shelf wear consistent with age. Bit musty.

Bio: Giovanna Carmella Babbo was born to an Italian-American family in Chicago, Illinois in 1930 as one of six children supported by her widowed mother. As an adolescent, she studied drama and ballet, and on graduating from Bowen High School, located in the South Chicago neighborhood, went with a local dance group on a tour of Canada. She then took a job as a chorus girl in the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. She later decided to pursue a singing career, and picked the stage name Joni James at the urging of her managers. In 1952, she was spotted and signed by MGM. Her first hit, "Why Don't You Believe Me?" sold over two million copies. Joni James had seven Top 10 hits on any of the different Billboard charts that existed previously to the Hot 100.

She was the first American to record at London's Abbey Road Studios and recorded five albums there and was also very popular across parts of the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in the Philippines where she performed at Manila's now defunct EM Club in 1957. She also scored a big hit in Manila with Filipino composer Salvador Asuncion's work titled "In Despair".

Notes: Albums are untested and in original covers. Covers show shelf wear consistent with age. Bit musty.

Consistent with age and use.

Music & Musical Instruments, Vinyl Records

18%

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Friday, 10/28, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Saturday, 10/29, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

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