Ella Mae Morse was one of the most exciting vocalists of the ‘40s and ‘50s, a hard-to-classify, Texas-born white singer whose vocals were deeply influenced by her apprenticeship with a black guitarist ...

Ella Mae Morse, the sultry, swinging pop-jazz singer whose 1942 hit, Cow-Cow Boogie, became the first million seller for the fledgling Capitol Records and helped establish the label, died on Saturday ...

February 21, 2011 • In 1942, the founders of Capitol Records were in urgent need of a hit. It came from a most unlikely place: a young woman named Ella Mae Morse, whose place in pop-music history has ...

On Sept. 12, 1953, U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. Ella Mae Morse (September 12, 1924 – October 16, 1999), was an ...