Ta niepozorna blondynka stała się ucieleśnieniem ery jazzu,a wiele jej piosenek zawiera w tytule słowo "jazz" ,jak chociażby "When I Hear That Jazz Band Play","Jazz Baby", "Take Me to the Land of Jazz" i "I'm A Jazz Vampire".
Mało wiadomo o jej początkach,poza tym że latach 10-tych śpiewała w
wędrownych trupach i vodewilach.Do Nowego Jorku ściągnął ją znany
broadwa'owski producent Charles B. Dillingham,proponując jej niewielką
rolę w wystawianym w Globe Theater musicalu "Stop! Look! Listen!" w grudniu 1915r.W 1918r występuje na Broadway'u w musicalu "Listen Lester" wystawianym przez Knickerbocker Theatre.
Karierę nagraniową zaczyna w 1916r pod skrzydłami wytwórni Victor.W 1920r przenosi się do Columbii,gdy macierzysta wytwórnia nie chciała nagrać jej wersji "St. Louis Blues",by w końcu w 1923r wylądować w wytwórni Brunswick. Harris pojawiała się często w radio i na Broadway'u,grając minn. w Zeigfeld's Midnight Frolic.Wychodzi w tym czasie zamąż i zostaje matką dwojga dzieci,by w 1928r rozwieść się.
W 1928r zagrała w ośmiominutowym filmie Marion Harris, Songbird of Jazz,grając też póżniej w pełnometrażowych filmach,"Gems of M-G-M" z 1930r i "Trouble Ahead"
w 1936r.W 1931r wyjechała do Londynu,gdzie ostatecznie postanowiła się
osiedlić na stałe,zostając gwiazdą tamtejszych kabaretów [London's Café
de Paris] i występując w radiowych show BBC.Nagrywała do 1934r dla Decca
i Columbii,by przejść na artystyczną emeryturę wychodząc zamąż za
angielskiego agenta teatralnego Leonarda Urry.W 1944r powraca do Stanów
Zjednoczonych i tragicznie ginie podczas pożaru we własnym łóżku od
palącego się papierosa.
| Tytu³ | Wykonawca | Data wydania | UK | US | Wytwórnia [US] |
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| There's a Bit of Bad in Every Good Girl / I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia [Billy Murray / Marion Harris] | Marion Harris | 12.1916 | - | 8[2] | Victor 18 143 | |
| I ain't got nobody much | Marion Harris | 01.1917 | - | 5[4] | Victor 18 133 | [written by Roger Graham / Spencer Williams] |
| Paradise Blues / My Syncopated Melody Man | Marion Harris | 02.1917 | - | 7[2] | Victor 18 152 | [written by Walter Hirsch / Spencer Williams] |
| They Go Wild, Simply Wild Over Me / Some Sweet Day | Marion Harris | 12.1917 | - | 2[5] | Victor 18 343 | [written by Joe McCarthy / Fred Fisher] |
| Everyone's Gone Crazy 'Bout the Dog-gone Blues But I'm Happy / In the Land of Yamo Yamo [by Van and Schenck] | Marion Harris | 05.1918 | - | 3[5] | Victor 18 443 | [written by Henry Creamer / J. Turner Layton] |
| When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France / I'm Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind [by Peerless Quartet] | Marion Harris | 09.1918 | - | 4[4] | Victor 18 486 | [written by Alfred Bryan / Cliff Hess / Edgar Leslie] |
| There's a Lump of Sugar Down in Dixieland / Storybook Ball [Billy Murray / Marion Harris] | Marion Harris | 09.1918 | - | 8[2] | Victor 18 482 | [written by Alfred Bryan / Jack Yellen / Albert Gumble] |
| After You've Gone / I'm Glad I Can Make You Cry [by Henry Burr] | Marion Harris | 01.1919 | - | 1[3][9] | Victor 18 509 | [written by Henry Creamer / J. Turner Layton] |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find / For Johnny and Me | Marion Harris | 05.1919 | - | 2[9] | Victor 18 535 | [written by Eddie Green] |
| Jazz baby | Marion Harris | 07.1919 | - | 3[7] | Victor 18 555 | [written by Blanche Merrill / M.K. Jerome] |
| Take Me to the Land of Jazz / Got No Time to Have the Blues [by B.Murray - E.Smalle] | Marion Harris | 09.1919 | - | 5[4] | Victor 18 593 | [written by Edgar Leslie / Bert Kalmar / Pete Wendling] |
| Left all alone again blues | Marion Harris | 07.1920 | - | 5[3] | Columbia 2939 | [written by Jerome Kern][piosenka z musicalu na Broadway'u "The night boat"] |
| St. Louis Blues / Homesickness Blues | Marion Harris | 08.1920 | - | 1[3][9] | Columbia A 2944 | [written by W.C. Handy] |
| Oh Judge (He Treats Me Mean) / He Done Me Wrong | Marion Harris | 10.1920 | - | 11[1] | Columbia 2968 | [written by James Hanley] |
| Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad) / I Told You So | Marion Harris | 12.1920 | - | 4[6] | Columbia 3300 | [written by Rose / Little / Frost] |
| I'm a Jazz Vampire / Never Let No One Man Worry Your Mind | Marion Harris | 02.1921 | - | 8[2] | Columbia 3328 | [written by Carey Morgan] |
| Grieving for you | Marion Harris | 03.1921 | - | 7[2] | Columbia 3353 | [written by Gibson / Ribaud / Gold] |
| Look for the Silver Lining / I'm Gonna Do It If I Like | Marion Harris | 04.1921 | - | 1[3][10] | Columbia 3367 | [written by Jerome Kern][piosenka z musicalu na Broadway'u "Sally"] |
| I Ain't Got Nobody / Where Is My Daddy Now Blues | Marion Harris | 06.1921 | - | 3[7] | Columbia 3371 | [written by Roger Graham / Spencer Williams] |
| I'm nobody's baby | Marion Harris | 10.1921 | - | 3[8] | Columbia 3433 | [written by Benny Davis / Lester Santley / Milton Ager] |
| Beale Street Blues / The Memphis Blues | Marion Harris | 12.1921 | - | 5[4] | Columbia 3474 | [written by W.C. Handy] |
| Some sunny day | Marion Harris | 06.1922 | - | 3[52] | Columbia 3593 | - |
| Nobody lied [When they said that I cried over you] | Marion Harris | 10.1922 | - | 4[5] | Columbia 3646 | [written by Edwin J. Weber] |
| I'm Just Wild About Harry/My Cradle Melody | Marion Harris | 10.1922 | - | 4[5] | Brunswick 2309 | [written by Noble Sissle / Eubie Blake][piosenka z musicalu na Broadway'u "Shuffle along"] |
| Sweet Indiana Home / Blue | Marion Harris | 10.1922 | - | 5[3] side B:7[3] | Brunswick 2310 | [written by Walter Donaldson] |
| Carolina in the morning | Marion Harris | 01.1923 | - | 4[4] | Brunswick 2329 | [written by Gus Kahn / Walter Donaldson] |
| Agravattin' Papa | Marion Harris | 03.1923 | - | 3[6] | Brunswick 2345 | [written by Roy Turk / J.Russell Robinson] |
| Rose of The Rio Grande | Marion Harris | 04.1923 | - | 3[6] | Brunswick 2370 | [written by Warren / Gorman] |
| Beside a Babbling Brook / Dearest | Marion Harris | 07.1923 | - | 7[4] | Brunswick 2421 | [written by Gus Kahn / Walter Donaldson] |
| Who's Sorry Now? / Waitin' for the Evenin' Mail | Marion Harris | 09.1923 | - | 5[4] | Brunswick 2443 | [written by Bert Kalmar / Harry Ruby / Ted Snyder] |
| Dirty Hands! Dirty Face!/Someone Else Walked Right In | Marion Harris | 10.1923 | - | 6[3] | Brunswick 2458 | [written by James Monaco / Al Jolson / Edgar Leslie] |
| It Had to be You/How Come You Do Me Like You Do? | Marion Harris | 07.1924 | - | 3[5] side B:5[4] | Brunswick 2610 | [written by Isham Jones / Gus Kahn] |
| Jealous / Hey Hey and Hee Hee (I'm Charleston Crazy) | Marion Harris | 09.1924 | - | 3[6] | Brunswick 2622 | [written by Malie / Finch / Little] |
| There'll Be Some Changes Made/I Can't Get the One That I Want | Marion Harris | 10.1924 | - | 7[3] | Brunswick 2651 | [written by Higgins / Overstreet] |
| Somebody loves me | Marion Harris | 01.1925 | - | 7[2] | Brunswick 2735 | [written by Buddy De Sylva / George Gershwin][piosenka z musicalu na Broadway'u "George White's Scandals of 1924"] |
| Tea for Two / The Blues Have Got Me | Marion Harris | 01.1925 | - | 1[3][11] | Brunswick 2747 | [written by Irving Caesar / Vincent Youmans][piosenka z musicalu na Broadway'u "No,No,Nanette"] |
| I'll see you in my dreams | Marion Harris | 03.1925 | - | 4[5] | Brunswick 2784 | [written by Isham Jones / Gus Kahn] |
| When You and I Were Sixteen/No One | Marion Harris | 06.1925 | - | 11[1] | Brunswick 2836 | - |
| The man I love/Did you mean it? | Marion Harris | 03.1928 | - | 4[7] side B:14[2] | Victor 21 116 | [written by Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin][piosenka z musicalu na Broadway'u "Lady,Be good"] |
| Nobody's Using It Now/Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do | Marion Harris | 01.1930 | - | 20[1] | Brunswick 4663 | [written by Grey / Schertzinger] |
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