Mary Ann McCall was born on May 4, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, she overcame rickets through dance classes, which led her to pursue a performing career. In the late 1930s, McCall began singing with various jazz bands, including those led by Charlie Barnet and Tommy Dorsey. By 1949, she had won the Down Beat Readers' Poll for "Girl Singer (With Band)". Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, McCall released several albums, including An Evening with Charlie Ventura and Mary Ann McCall (1954) and Easy Living (1957). She toured with Stan Kenton's Festival of Modern American Jazz in 1954. McCall passed away on December 14, 1994, in Los Angeles, California.
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