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Jazz singer Marlene Tong

Jazz singer Marlene Tong

Source: https://www.discogs.com/Marlene-Tong-At-The-Colony/release/4360539

“In a 1960 Auckland Star write-up with Marlene at 20 and her Epsom fruiterer father, William Tong, who espoused the love of traditional Chinese music, she said: ‘It’s dreadful. That clang, clang, clang gets on my nerves. Of course, jazz gets on Dad’s nerves, so we’re even. But I think he is secretly proud when he hears me on the radio.’” (Rosa Shiels, 31 Jul 2020, Audio Culture)