Jeri Southern
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Genevieve Lillian Hering, known professionally as Jeri Southern, was born on August 5, 1926, in Royal, Nebraska. She began playing piano at age three and started her career performing at the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha before joining a US Marine recruitment tour during World War II. Southern signed with Decca Records in 1951, achieving success in both pop and jazz genres. She recorded "When I Fall in Love" in April 1952, becoming the first to do so. Her single "An Occasional Man" reached Number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1955. Southern passed away from a heart attack on August 4, 1991, in Los Angeles, just one day before her 65th birthday.
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- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye by Charlie Haden Quartet West
- If I Had You
- I Hadn't Anyone Till You
- Are These Really Mine
- Porgy
- Isn't This a Lovely Day?
- Coffee, Cigarettes, Memories by Lennie Hayton
- I Like the Likes of You
- Detour Ahead by Lennie Hayton
- Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?
- Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year by Lennie Hayton
- Yesterdays by Lennie Hayton
- Give Me Time
- The Song Is Ended by Lennie Hayton
- The Man That Got Away
- Just Got To Have Him Around
- I'm Stepping Out With A Memory Tonight by Lennie Hayton
- Deep in a Dream by Lennie Hayton
- Speak Softly To Me
- Get Ouot of Town
- Yesterday's Gardenias by Lennie Hayton
- What Good Am I Without You
- That Ole Devil Called Love
- Can I Forget You?
