Knoxville’s child singing sensation: Jeanne Ellison Butcher

Knoxville’s child singing sensation: Jeanne Ellison Butcher

Jeanne Ellison Butcher (May 25, 1925 – April 9, 2007) was born in Knoxville at Riverside-Ft. Sanders Hospital. Showing an early affinity for music, she sang 200 songs she heard on the radio when she was 2 and, by age 3, sang in public for civic groups and family members’ weddings, covered by The Knoxville Sentinel. In 1929, Jeanne sang often on WNOX, which had its studio on the top floor of the Andrew Johnson Hotel. As her family moved around th…