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US jazz singer and pianist prominent in the 1940s and 1950s. Somehow she managed to retain the publishing rights to the songs she wrote, unlike so many of her contemporaries. She recorded a few boogies and here’s one:

Here’s a one hour tv special which, although jazz numbers, I’m including as its can be quite difficult sometimes to see film footage of these artists: