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MP3 Ginny Reilly - Oh, Reilly!

One-half of beloved folk-singing duo embarks on a solo journey into pop territory

10 MP3 Songs in this album (28:23) !
Related styles: Folk: Folk Blues, Easy Listening: American Popular Song, Solo Female Artist

People who are interested in Bessie Smith Peggy Lee Reilly and Maloney should consider this download.


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Ginny Reilly started life in Evanston, Illinois, in 1946. She grew up in nearby Lake Forest, 30 miles north of Chicago, where her family environment fostered a love of music. Though neither parent played an instrument, her father, a lawyer, regretted all his life that he had given up piano lessons as a boy, and made sure that all three of his children learned to play. (Ginny, however, had a great resistance to practicing, and managed the unusual feat of not learning to play the piano in spite of nine years of lessons.) Television was in its infancy then, and one of Ginny''s first memories of singing was to the piano accompaniment of her teen-aged brother Pat; they would imagine they were auditioning for the Arthur Godfrey Talent Hour. When she was twelve, her family moved to a ranch house that had a large recreational basement. Although it had been intended as a place for her parents to entertain their friends, it was mostly used by Ginny as a practice studio; she would spend hours singing along to the records of Peggy Lee, and Nat King Cole, as well as the great Broadway musicals of the 50s and 60s. She learned many songs during this time, some of which appeared in Reilly and Maloney shows, such as "It Had To Be You," "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "Fever," and "Lida Rose" (from The Music Man).

As a teenager she was influenced greatly by the rising popularity of folk music. For her fifteenth birthday, Ginny received a ukulele, and began learning songs by the Kingston Trio and Peter Paul and Mary, though her favorite group was the Chad Mitchell Trio. For her high school graduation she received a guitar; and it took several months to figure out how to form chords with the two extra strings. By the time she enrolled at Trinity College in Washington, DC, she had mastered it, and began singing in the dormitory stairwells (great acoustics). After four years and sufficient encouragement from friends, Ginny made the choice to travel out to San Francisco to try a singing career rather than join the Peace Corps. This was in 1968. She sang in various coffee houses for tips, while working as typist during the day. Her ''big break'' came when she was hired to sing on Wednesday nights at the Drinking Gourd, a club on Union Street devoted exclusively to live acoustic music. It was on one of these nights that she met David Maloney.

From 1970 to 1990, Ginny was part of the Reilly and Maloney duo. In 1978 she married Jack Burg, and they had two children, Emily, born in 1981 and Charlie, born in 1983. These two provided inspiration for David''s song "Emily''s Back," as well as Ginny''s entire Doodle Lee Do''in album. In 1990 the Reilly and Maloney partnership ended, and sadly, Ginny and Jack''s marriage ended in 1996. From 1998 to 2000 Ginny worked as a coordinator of volunteers at Group Health Cooperative. In 2001, she enrolled at Shoreline Community College in the Music Department; she is now finishing up an Associate Degree in Music Performance.

Ginny and her children live in Seattle, at separate residences. Emily divides her time between political activism and the food industry; she is an accomplished caterer, and is also the secretary of the group Jobs for Justice. Charlie is in business for himself as a mortgages refinance loan officer, having recently left Merritt Financial to work independently.

Ginny loves walking, reading, good movies, and Starbucks.


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