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In 1926 he was signed for Ziegfeld’s Palm Beach Nights in Florida. Then he went on his own to London, Paris and Berlin and gained international stardom. In 1929 he made the movie Syncopation where he sang the hit song “I’ll Always Be in Love With You” to his co-star Barbara Bennett who would soon become his wife. He eventually made two other films but moviemaking was not his style. Radio became his claim to fame. In the 1930’s he signed with CBS. He was the featured singer at the New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940 and the following year he signed with the Coca-Cola Company for a daily radio program, singing with the Raymond Paige Orchestra. In 1952 he signed an exclusive five-year contract with Coca-Cola that covered all of his radio and TV appearances. At the peak of his career in the middle 1930’s Morton was receiving over 95,000 fan letters a week and earning, with nightclub and theatre appearances, as much as $250,000 a year.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMorton Downey was born in 1901 to Irish immigrant parents in Wallingford CT. By the age of 15 he quit school and sold candy on trains, acted in small time vaudeville, and was an agent for Victor Records. From 1923 to 1926 he sang with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra where he was the first band vocalist. He first recorded in 1923 for Edison Records under the pseudonym Morton James. In 1926 he was signed for Ziegfeld\u0026rsquo;s Palm Beach Nights in Florida. Then he went on his own to London, Paris and Berlin and gained international stardom. In 1929 he made the movie Syncopation where he sang the hit song \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ll Always Be in Love With You\u0026rdquo; to his co-star Barbara Bennett who would soon become his wife. He eventually made two other films but moviemaking was not his style. Radio became his claim to fame. In the 1930\u0026rsquo;s he signed with CBS. He was the featured singer at the New York World\u0026rsquo;s Fair of 1939-1940 and the following year he signed with the Coca-Cola Company for a daily radio program, singing with the Raymond Paige Orchestra. In 1952 he signed an exclusive five-year contract with Coca-Cola that covered all of his radio and TV appearances. 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