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==Recording==
Barton's first appearance on record was as part of a V-Disc 12" issued for servicemen, where she sang two cuts ("
Her first appearance on a normal record available to the general public was "They Say It's Wonderful" (b/w "You Brought A New Kind of Love To Me") for Mercury in 1946. After cutting a second single ("As If I Didn't Have Enough On My Mind" b/w "One-zy Two-zy") she recorded one single for [[Capitol Records]], "Would You Believe Me?" (b/w "A Thousand And One Nights") (catalog number 402), with the orchestra of [[Skitch Henderson|Lyle "Skitch" Henderson]], in 1948.
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After the success of this record, she became a [[nightclub]] and stage performer, appearing at all the important clubs in [[New York City]] and many others. In the 1950s, she was a featured singer with [[Guy Lombardo]] and his orchestra.<ref>{{cite news|title=Guy Lombardo Discovers Singers Are Expensive Item|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3237886/newport_daily_news/|agency=Newport Daily News|date=August 13, 1952|page=7|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate = September 16, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref>
She moved to [[Coral Records]] in 1951 and charted with some cover versions of songs that were bigger hits for other artists, such as "[[Cry (Churchill Kohlman song)|Cry]]", "[[Sway (Luis Demetrio song)|Sway]]", "Pretend", and others.
In 1956, Barton
She also appeared in motion pictures and television, and continued to perform live until the early 1980s.
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