Lorrie Peters

Born May 30, 1932, Middletown, Connecticut, USA Lorry (or Lorrie) Peters graduated from Syracuse University where she majored in radio Took coaching lessons when she was three and appeared on kiddie talent shows for several years afterwards While working as a secretary in New York, recorded a jingle for the Ansco Company. Hickory Records signed Lorry Peters to a recording contract in a move taking the traditonally country label further into the pop field. Lorry Peters recorded just one 4-songs session for Hickory in Nashville in late January of 1963 Ray McKinley, director of the New Glenn Miller Orchestra, heard the commercial and asked who had recorded it. Later, when Ray McKinley was looking for a female vocalist, remembered the girl and her voice and he signed Lorry Peters immediately. She can be heard on several tracks from a couple of Glenn Miller Orchestra albums released by RCA Records at the end of the fifties.