Marcy Tigner | |
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 Marcy Tigner with "Little Marcy" | |
| Born | Marcellaise Hartwick August 24, 1921 Wichita, Kansas, US |
| Died | May 17, 2012 (aged 90) Redmond, Oregon, US |
| Occupation(s) | Christian ventriloquist, recording artist |
| Years active | 1958–1982 |
Marcy Tigner (born Marcellaise Hartwick, August 24, 1921 – May 17, 2012) was an American Christian children's entertainer, who released numerous albums for several prominent Christian record labels in the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. She used her natural voice, which had a very unnatural childlike quality. She developed the Little Marcy ventriloquist's doll to aid her performances to give a congruent visual aid to match her voice, and thus toured the United States for several years under the Little Marcy guise for evangelistic crusades and solo concerts. Her last album appeared in 1982, after which she made a few local appearances in Oregon. By the mid-1990s she was entirely retired, but it was about this time that record collectors specializing in "weird" music brought about a re-interest in her output.