Sylvia Murphy was a popular singer on radio and television programs on the CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

 in Canada

Canada

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  from 1950 to 1964. Born in Montreal

Montreal

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 she got her start in nightclubs, and then was the featured singer on the radio programs Coca-Cola Refreshment Time and Club O'Connor. She moved to television with a break on Cross Canada Hit-Parade and later became the singer for Jack Kane

Jack Kane (composer)

Jack Kane was a Canadian arranger, conductor, clarinetist, and composer of English birth. His 1958 recording Kane is Able was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra. He was highly active as an arranger and music director for Canadian...

's Orchestra on the Jack Kane Show, Music Makers and Music '60. She also was a regular on the Wayne and Shuster

Wayne and Shuster

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 Hour.

Murphy was married to Charles Templeton

Charles Templeton

Charles Bradley Templeton was a Canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author. He was born and died in the same city, Toronto, Canada...

. Her children include comic-book artist Ty Templeton

Ty Templeton

Ty Templeton is a popular Canadian comic book artist and writer who has drawn a number of popular mainstream titles, TV-associated titles and his own series.-Biography:Templeton was born on May 9, 1962...

; internet entrepreneur Brad Templeton

Brad Templeton

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; TV host and director Deborah Burgess; and prominent tax attorney Michael Templeton. She later married William C. Tate, GM of Garrett Manufacturing Limited, a leading aerospace manufacturer.