Toni Harper
About the artist
Toni Harper (born June 8, 1937 [1]) (aka Toni Dunlap) is a former child singer, who retired from performing at the age of 29. After learning dance under Maceo Anderson, Harper was cast by the choreographer Nick Castle in Christmas Follies, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in 1945. She later went on to perform on stage with Herb Jeffries and Cab Calloway. Harper recorded "Candy Store Blues" in 1946, which became a platinum record, appeared twice on Talk of the Town (later the Ed Sullivan Show) in 1949
Top songs
- Just A Sittin' And A Rockin'
- A Foggy Day
- Gone With The Wind
- Can't We Be Friends
- Singin' In The Rain
- Can't We Be Friends?
- Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
- I Could Write A Book
- Love For Sale
- You Don't Know What Love Is
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- Jingle Bells
- Like Someone In Love
- Little Girl Blue
- You Took Advantage Of Me
- The Velvet Hammer
- Lady Lonely
- In the Still of the Night
- 'Round Midnight
- Paradise
- Petals On the Pond
- The Meaning of the Blues
- Just Go
- Night After Night
- The Melancholy Trumpet
- Heavenly love
- I Love The Blues
- In The Dark Of The Night
- My Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
- You Taught Me How To Cry
- A Sleepin' Bee
- My Ship
- He Was A Man
- Snowy White Snow And jingle Bells
- Where Flamingos Fly
- You and the Night and the Music
- Blue It Grows
- River Weep
- Just a-Sittin' And a-Rockin'
- The Other Woman
- Taking A Chance On Love
- Nobody Home But The Blues
- The Lack Of Love
- Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
- Just A Sittin' And A-Rockin'
- Busy Blues
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
- Love Has Come, Love Has Gone
- Candy Store Blues
- Love Is A Wonderful Thing
- I Telephoned, I Telegraphed
- Them There Eyes
- Lady Lonely - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- Bewitched (Bothered And Bewildered)
- Play Me The Blues
- Bewitched
- We've Got To Live, Got To Grow
- My Memory Book
- My Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
- Get Goin', Engineer!
- Saturday Night
- He Was a Man - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- In the Dark of the Night - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week) [from the album "Night Mood"]
- The Velvet Hammer - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- Fallin'
- In the Still of the Night - from the album "Night Mood"
- Bewitched, Bothered And Bewild
- The Lack of Love - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- The Meaning of the Blues - from the album "Night Mood"
- Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
- In The Dark Of Night
- Paradise - from the album "Night Mood"
- The Other Woman - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- I Love the Blues - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- River Weep - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- You Taught Me How to Cry - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- Just Go - From the album "Night Mood"
- Jingle Bells -- Toni Harper
- 'Round Midnight - from the album "Night Mood"
- Where Flamingos Fly - From the album "Night Mood"
- Blue It Grows - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- Sam´s Song
- Love Has Come, Love Has Gone - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- My Ship - From the album "Night Mood"
- Busy Blues - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- You And The Night And The Musi
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, July 3, 1949
- Night After Night - From the album "Night Mood"
- BEWITCHED-BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED
- A Sleepin' Bee - From the album "Night Mood"
- Nobody Home but the Blues - from the album "Lady Lonely"
- You and the Night and the Music - From the album "Night Mood"
- That's What I Want For Christmas
- Get Goin' Engineer!
- Get Goin', Engineer
- Round Midnight
- Singin In The Rain
- Get Coin', Engineer!
- The Muffin Man
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