Sometimes I think I've found my hero, but it's a queer romance

Heavens... Although it is always poignant to discover that yet another glittering chanteuse has shimmied off to Fabulon, we should pay due homage to the fact she outlived just about every one of her contemporaries - RIP Jane Morgan, aged 101!

Facts:

• She was born Florence Catherine Currier into a musical family, who actively encouraged her performing career.
• Jane made her big break in showbiz in Club des Champs Elysées in Paris, where prominent composers like Charles Trenet dedicated songs to her.
• Although American, she was a contender to sing the UK Eurovision entry in 1959.
• She was the first to have a hit with What Now My Love?, the English version of an old French chanson, which became one of Dame Shirley Bassey's signature numbers.
• She took over the lead in Mame on Broadway from Angela Lansbury in 1969, but mostly retired from performing in 1973.
• In later life she worked as a production assistant to her husband Jerry Weintraub on films such as the 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven with George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
• In 2022, a major exhibition of her stage costumes Jane Morgan: In My Style was curated by her fromer personal assistant in New York.

Without further ado, let's feature some of the lady's finest moments, starting with this one - where she takes histrionics to a higher level in a marvellous "whore medley":

Jane Morgan - Ten Cents a Dance/Hey, Big Spender

And coincidentally, after having made a big thing about the wonderful world of Scopitones in my Tacky Music Monday post yesterday - it was, inevitably, a world to which Jane was strangely drawn...

Jane Morgan - C'est Si Bon

Jane Morgan - Under Paris Skies

Our loss, Fabulon's gain...