Myrtle A. Forcey-Southall (September 12, 1919, Washington D.C., USA -
August 9, 2002, Washington D.C., USA) was a singer and dancer,
aka: Myrtle Wilson; aka: Joyce Jackson.
During her long career, she worked with Duke Ellington, Earl Bostic, Paul Williams and
Leo Parker Ella Fitzgerald, and The Ink Spots. She recorded R&B for Mercury Records.
She recorded two rhythm and blues records with Mercury Records. Around 1954,
as singer “Joyce Jackson,” she traveled to see her husband who was stationed in
Germany, and she performed as part of the “Slamboree” - a multi-genre musical
extravaganza for American service personnel. She returned to the U.S. and continued
singing in various clubs on the East Coast, including Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York
City, Washington, DC, Baltimore, and also in Montréal, Canada. In 1958 she gave birth
to a son, Tommy Jr. (Thomas W. Southall III) in Washington, DC, and retired from
touring and performing. By 1966, when her husband was overseas in Vietnam, she was
living in Washington, DC, and visited with relatives in New York City and her husband’s
brother or perhaps step-brother, in Hawaii.
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She sang or performed with Deek Watson and the Brown Dots; Leo “Mad Lad” Parker;
Earl Bostic; the Paul Wilson Orchestra; and others. She recorded two rhythm and
blues records with Mercury Records.
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24. Juli 1951
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