Marjorie Meinert

Artist: Marjorie Meinert

LP: Hi-Fi and Mighty

Song: "A Song of India"
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There's not much info about Ms. Meinert on the web, but I did find a page here that includes a link where you can watch her perform "Flight of the Bumble Bee" on a brand new Wurlitzer on Ken Griffin's 67 Melody Lane television program. Marjorie isn't much of an actress, but she does possess plenty of charm and zip and would probably be the perfect date for a barn dance. A nice drawing and some notes from the back of Meinert's "Hi-Fi and Mighty" LP are included here:

Marjorie Meinert at the Allen Organ

"Meinert may be her name, but major are her talents!"

So wrote an important music critic recently about the musical
skills of Marjorie Meinert, one of the nation's best-loved organists.
And surely when you listen to HI-FI AND MIGHTY, her latest RCA
Victor release, there is no doubt that you too will hail her as an
artist of unsurpassed technique, unhampered expressiveness, and
the uncommon ability to make each one of these beautiful melodies
strike a very personal chord in the hearts of all who hear them.

A native of Clinton, Iowa, Miss Meinert has won renown as a
composer and arranger, one who is as much at home with jazz
as she is with the classics. She began her musical career at
the tender age of three, and gave her first recital when she
was only five. After graduating from the Dubuque (Iowa)
Conservatory of Music and the Sherwood College of Music
in Chicago, the talentetd youn miss was promptly engaged
by radio station KROS in Clinton. Later she joined the staff
of WOC-AM-FM-TV as organist and pianist, and for the past
two years her program, "Musical Moods," has been voted
the top local show by TV Guide.

In addition to performing on her own show, Miss Meinert has
been seen recently as featured soloist with many of television's
most popular personalities, including Arthur Godfrey, Lawrence
Welk, Fred Waring and Kate Smith. Away from the recording and
television studios, she has had the distinction of performing
her own composition, "Dream and Awakening" with the Buffalo
Symphony Orchestra. Other "in person" appearances have
been at Disneyland and at the Lincoln Sesquicentennial
Celebration in Washington, D.C.

[ Marjorie Meinert, 1953 ]