Tweet   Bottle of red wine and music from 80 years ago. Perfect monday evening. :) Proost! Marion Harris was an American popular singer, most successful in the 1920s. She was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.  W.C. Handy wrote of Harris that "she sang blues so well that people hearing her records sometimes thought that the singer was colored." Harris commented, "Yo More..u usually do best what comes naturally, so I just naturally started singing Southern dialect songs and the modern blues songs."