Helen O'Connell
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Helen O'Connell was an American singer, actress, and hostess, described as "the quintessential big band singer of the 1940s".
O'Connell, c. 1943
Jimmy Dorsey
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James Francis Dorsey was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and big band leader. He recorded and composed the jazz and pop standards "I'm Glad There Is You " and "It's the Dreamer in
Helen O'Connell
…launched her career as a big-band singer with Larry Funk and his Band of a Thousand Melodies. She was singing with Funk's band in Greenwich Village when Jimmy Dorsey's manager discovered her. O'Connell joined the Dorsey band in 1939 and achieved her best selling records in the early 1940s with "Green Eyes", "Amapola…
Dorsey in 1943
Jimmy Dorsey playing alto saxophone in The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
Jimmy (right) and Tommy Dorsey in 1955