Mary MacGregor was born on May 6,1948 and is an American singer.
11 Facts About Mary MacGregor
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Mary MacGregor is best known for singing the 1976 song "Torn Between Two Lovers", which topped the Billboard charts for two weeks.
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Mary MacGregor began studying piano at age six, and was singing with bands by the time she was a teenager.
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Mary MacGregor soon joined Yarrow, singing backup on a solo tour, and made an appearance on his Love Songs album.
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Mary MacGregor admitted in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson that she hated her own chart-topper, chiefly because she had little sympathy for the narrator of "Torn Between Two Lovers", a woman who confesses to her husband that she is having an affair, but pleads with her husband to stay with her and accept the situation.
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Mary MacGregor said that the song indirectly led to the breakup of her own marriage, because her career kept her away from home so often that her relationship with her husband strained, and they decided to separate.
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Mary MacGregor did acknowledge that the song was successful because it appealed to listeners who had found themselves in the situation described in the lyrics.
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Mary MacGregor released several more albums, and had three more minor chart singles.
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In 1980, Mary MacGregor won best song and best performance at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan with "What's the Use" which she had co-written with David Bluefield.
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In 1983, Mike Love and Mary MacGregor performed "Do You Hear What I Hear" from Scrooge's Rock N Roll Christmas.
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Mary MacGregor is mentioned in the liner notes of 1976's The Steamboat Album as doing vocals for one of the tracks, "Rabbit Ears".