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Anne Lenner
Anne Lenner (1912–1997) was a popular English female vocalist, singing with the dance bands of the 1930s and 1940s. She is most closely associated with Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Orpheans, a band who regularly played at the Savoy Hotel in London; she made many studio recordings with this band. The British bands played a softer version of the swing jazz popular in the USA during the 1930s and 1940s.
Early life and education.
Lenner was born Violet Green on 24 December 1912, in Aylestone
years in Edgware, north London, in an uncomfortable flat opposite Edgware station. She spent a lot of her later years caring for her mother, who died at 102 years of age. Despite her previously glamorous life, Lenner never complained about her reduced circumstances in her later years.
Lenner died at the age of 84, on 4 June 1997, at Barnet Hospital.
Gibbons' widow Joan recalls "Anne was a marvellous raconteur, a very quick brain and with a strong sense of humour. She once told