[1][2] She was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin as Lucille Dollinger.
In 1955, she performed with Bill Evans in New York City, and Dick Marx and Johnny Frigo in 1957.
[3] While a teenager attending Humboldt High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, she started out singing on KSTP radio with a group of four girls, earning $5 per week.
Lucy met her first husband, jazz drummer Joey DeRidder while living in Iron Mountain, Michigan and she performed with his musical group, the Joey DeRidder Orchestra.
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