Jazz / pop vocalist from Washington, D.C. Mary Lou began singing professionally as a teenager. She made appearances on the Bill Herson Show, Jerry Strong Show (WMAR-TV), Les Sands show “Sans Script” (WTTG-TV), and many performances at officer’s clubs throughout the D.C. area with backing by the Royal Tones.
Les Sands became Brewer’s manager and booked her at many supper clubs. He took her to New York in February 1958 where she successfully auditioned for the Arthur Godfrey Talent Show. Godfrey dubbed her “the New Queen of the Red-hot Mamas.” Godfrey’s house band conductor Sy Shaffer arranged and conducted the music for an album with Mary Lou on the Westminster record label. A subsequent single also conducted by Shaffer was the record pressed at the Recordings Incorporated plant in Baltimore.
195*(LP) Westminster 15010 My Man
1960 Segue 1001 All Alone / Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
