Hughes is the daughter of bandleader and pianist Frankie Carle, and began her career as a singer in her father's band.
The band had a No.1 hit for six weeks with Hughes' vocals on "Oh, What It Seemed To Be", a song her father had co-written.
[4][5] With the success of that song, Walter Winchell announced that Hughes was actually Carle's daughter.
5: Frankie Carle and His Orchestra with Marjorie Hughes (Jack Scholl, 1948) (mislabeled #6 on the Warner Archive Collection 2010 DVD, Classic Musical Shorts from the Dream Factory), in which she was identified as Carle's daughter (her surname was used only on the opening card), and performs "Sweet and Lovely" an "Oh!
[8] Marjorie married to Hughey Hughes, a pianist with Carle's orchestra in 1945;[9] after four years of marriage, they divorced in 1949.