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

  1. Just A Sittin' And A Rockin'
  2. A Foggy Day
  3. Gone With The Wind
  4. Can't We Be Friends
  5. Singin' In The Rain
  6. Can't We Be Friends?
  7. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
  8. I Could Write A Book
  9. Love For Sale
  10. You Don't Know What Love Is
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  1. Jingle Bells
  2. Like Someone In Love
  3. Little Girl Blue
  4. You Took Advantage Of Me
  5. The Velvet Hammer
  6. Lady Lonely
  7. In the Still of the Night
  8. 'Round Midnight
  9. Paradise
  10. Petals On the Pond
  11. The Meaning of the Blues
  12. Just Go
  13. Night After Night
  14. The Melancholy Trumpet
  15. Heavenly love
  16. I Love The Blues
  17. In The Dark Of The Night
  18. My Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
  19. You Taught Me How To Cry
  20. A Sleepin' Bee
  21. My Ship
  22. He Was A Man
  23. Snowy White Snow And jingle Bells
  24. Where Flamingos Fly
  25. You and the Night and the Music
  26. Blue It Grows
  27. River Weep
  28. Just a-Sittin' And a-Rockin'
  29. The Other Woman
  30. Taking A Chance On Love
  31. Nobody Home But The Blues
  32. The Lack Of Love
  33. Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
  34. Just A Sittin' And A-Rockin'
  35. Busy Blues
  36. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
  37. Love Has Come, Love Has Gone
  38. Candy Store Blues
  39. Love Is A Wonderful Thing
  40. I Telephoned, I Telegraphed
  41. Them There Eyes
  42. Lady Lonely - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  43. Bewitched (Bothered And Bewildered)
  44. Play Me The Blues
  45. Bewitched
  46. We've Got To Live, Got To Grow
  47. My Memory Book
  48. My Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  49. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
  50. Get Goin', Engineer!
  51. Saturday Night
  52. He Was a Man - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  53. In the Dark of the Night - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  54. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week) [from the album "Night Mood"]
  55. The Velvet Hammer - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  56. Fallin'
  57. In the Still of the Night - from the album "Night Mood"
  58. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewild
  59. The Lack of Love - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  60. The Meaning of the Blues - from the album "Night Mood"
  61. Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
  62. In The Dark Of Night
  63. Paradise - from the album "Night Mood"
  64. The Other Woman - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  65. I Love the Blues - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  66. River Weep - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  67. You Taught Me How to Cry - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  68. Just Go - From the album "Night Mood"
  69. Jingle Bells -- Toni Harper
  70. 'Round Midnight - from the album "Night Mood"
  71. Where Flamingos Fly - From the album "Night Mood"
  72. Blue It Grows - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  73. Sam´s Song
  74. Love Has Come, Love Has Gone - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  75. My Ship - From the album "Night Mood"
  76. Busy Blues - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  77. You And The Night And The Musi
  78. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, July 3, 1949
  79. Night After Night - From the album "Night Mood"
  80. BEWITCHED-BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED
  81. A Sleepin' Bee - From the album "Night Mood"
  82. Nobody Home but the Blues - from the album "Lady Lonely"
  83. You and the Night and the Music - From the album "Night Mood"
  84. That's What I Want For Christmas
  85. Get Goin' Engineer!
  86. Get Goin', Engineer
  87. Round Midnight
  88. Singin In The Rain
  89. Get Coin', Engineer!
  90. The Muffin Man

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