Helen Forrest (April 12, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American singer.
S… Read Full Bio ↴Helen Forrest (April 12, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American singer.
She served as the "girl singer" for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James), thereby earning a reputation as "the voice of the name bands."
Helen was born Helen Fogel in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1917. Her parents, Louis and Rebecca Fogel, were Russian-born Jews.
While she was still an infant, Helen's father died from influenza. Helen was raised by her mother, who often blamed her husband's death on the birth of Helen. She believed that God had taken her husband because she had wished so much for a baby girl. Helen had three older brothers: Harry, Ed, and Sam. The family relocated to Brooklyn when Helen was in her early teenage years. Her mother married a house painter, a man that Helen disliked. Soon, Helen's mother and stepfather turned the family's home into a brothel. At age 14, Helen was nearly raped by her stepfather. Helen defended herself with a kitchen knife, injuring him. Following this, she was permitted by her mother to live with her piano teacher, Honey Silverman, and her family. While learning piano, Honey noticed Helen's singing ability and encouraged her to focus on singing instead. Anxious to find a career in singing, Helen dropped out of high school to pursue her dream.
Helen returned to Atlantic City and began singing with her brother Ed's band. She soon returned to New York City, where she visited song publishers and performed an audition for a 15-minute slot for a local radio show. Around this time, Helen was encouraged to change her name from "Fogel" to "Forrest" because her name sounded "too Jewish." In 1934, 17-year old Helen began singing for WNEW in New York. She also performed for WCBS where she was known as “Bonnie Blue” and “The Blue Lady of Song.” Eventually she found a singing job at the Madrillon Club, in Washington, D.C., where she performed for approximately two years.
After seeing Forrest at the Madrillon, bandleader Artie Shaw asked her to go on tour with him; Shaw was looking for new talent when vocalist Billie Holiday decided to leave the band. Helen was hired in 1938. For a time she and Holiday were both working with Shaw's band. In some venues, African-American performers were required to remain off stage until they performed. When Forrest became aware of this, she stated that like Holiday, she would also not take the stage until she was to sing. She recorded 38 singles with Shaw's band. Two of her biggest hits with Shaw were the songs "They Say" and "All the Things You Are." During her time with Shaw, Helen Forrest became a national favorite. In November 1939, Shaw broke up his band.
Helen joined Benny Goodman in December of 1939, with whom she recorded a number of celebrated songs, including the hit song "The Man I Love." Helen recorded 55 studio recordings with Goodman. She told the Pop Chronicles radio series: "Benny would look right above your eyebrows, in the middle, right on top of the brow. He was a very strange man." Forrest also stated, "The band I joined was sensational, but few special arrangements were written for me. I sang choruses, and made myself fit to the music. Benny used to drive me crazy by "noodling" behind me on clarinet while I sang." Goodman was also reported to have been a perfectionist and a very difficult man to work with. In August 1941, Forrest quit the orchestra "to avoid having a nervous breakdown". After leaving Goodman, Forrest briefly recorded with Nat King Cole and Lionel Hampton.
In 1941, she approached Harry James, offering to work for him under one condition: that she be permitted to sing more than one chorus. Although James was looking for a more jazz-oriented singer, he allowed Forrest to audition. The band voted her in and she was hired. Several decades later, Forrest explained in an interview, "Harry James was wonderful. When I joined him, I said, 'There's only one condition: I don't care how much you pay me, I don't care about arrangements. The one thing I want is to start a chorus and finish it. I want to do verses, so don't put me up for a chorus in the middle of an instrumental.' He said, 'You got it,' and that was it." She also told writer George T. Simon, "I'll always remain grateful to Artie and Benny. But they had been featuring me more like they did a member of the band, almost like another instrumental soloist. Harry, though, gave me just the right sort of arrangement and setting that fit a singer. It wasn't just a matter of my getting up, singing a chorus, and sitting down again." In his book, The Big Bands, Simon explained that Harry James constructed "the arrangements around his horn and Helen's voice, establishing warmer moods by slowing down the tempo so that two, instead of the usual three or more choruses, would fill a record ...many an arrangement would build to a closing climax during Helen's vocal, so that she would emerge as its star." It was with the Harry James Orchestra that Helen recorded what are arguably her most popular numbers, including "I Had the Craziest Dream" in 1942, and 1941's "I Don't Want to Walk Without You."
In 1942 and 1943, Helen Forrest was voted the best female vocalist in the United States in the Down Beat poll.
Forrest left Harry James in late 1943 in pursuit of a solo career. She signed a recording contract with Decca and co-starred with Dick Haymes on a CBS radio show from 1944 to 1947. Helen's first Decca disc, "Time Waits For No One", reached second place on the Hit Parade, and the radio show achieved top ratings. Haymes was also contracted to Decca, and from 1944 to 1946 the pair recorded 18 duets, 10 of them reaching the Top Ten. Particularly successful were their versions of "Long Ago and Far Away", "It Had To Be You", "Together", "I'll Buy That Dream", "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" and "Oh, What It Seemed To Be". In 1944, she made an appearance in the Esther Williams movie Bathing Beauty with Harry James and his orchestra. She also appeared in the film Two Girls and a Sailor. During the last years of the 1940s, Helen headlined at theatres and clubs.
In 1955, Helen's mother died. In that same year, Helen joined Harry James again in the studio to record a new swing album called, Harry James in Hi-Fi, which became a bestseller. By the end of the 1950s, Helen's solo career waned as rock'n'roll became increasingly popular. Helen's manager, Joe Graydon, said, "She was at an `in-between' stage in her career. Not young enough to be current. Not old enough to be nostalgia."
After a dip in recording in the 1950s, including a stint with the startup Bell Records, Helen sang with Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, led by Sam Donahue, in the early 1960s. Helen continued to make occasional records and perform in concerts and was performing at Lake Tahoe with Frank Sinatra Jr. in 1963 when he was kidnapped.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Forrest performed in supper clubs on "big band nostalgia" tours, including appearances with Harry James and Dick Haymes. In 1977, Helen participated in a television reunion of herself, James, and Haymes on the Merv Griffin Show. This led to a touring production called The Fabulous 40s (1978), followed in 1979 with a similar revue entitled The Big Broadcast of 1944. In 1980, six months following Haymes' death, Helen suffered a stroke, but recovered to resume performing and recording. Her autobiography, Now and Forever, was published in 1982 and is dedicated to her only son. In 1983, Helen released her final album, also titled Now and Forever. She also starred with Vivian Blaine and Margaret Whiting in a stage revue titled, A Tribute to Dick Haymes.
Despite an unhappy childhood, frequent illness, and personal disappointments, Forrest remained dedicated to her musical profession and continued singing until the early 1990s when rheumatoid arthritis began to affect her vocal chords and forced her into retirement. Forrest also suffered scarlet fever as a youngster, which left her with a hearing loss. The loss of her hearing worsened as she became older and she was able to perform her old standards because she remembered where the notes for them were.
Helen Forrest died on July 11, 1999 from congestive heart failure at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. She was 82.
Her final resting place is in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Hollywood Hills, in Los Angeles.
During her life, Helen married and divorced three times. In 1960, Helen (with her third husband, Charles Feinman) gave birth to her only son, Michael Forrest Feinman. Today, Michael resides in southern California.
In the early 1940s, Forrest had a love affair with bandleader Harry James while she was part of his band. The relationship ended shortly before James met the woman he would later marry, actress Betty Grable. Forrest wrote, "I've had three marriages and I never married Harry, but he was the love of my life. Let's face it, I still carry a torch for the so-and-so."
Helen Forrest on her career:
"I live for today, but it is nice sometimes to look back to yesterday. We did not know that we were living through an era - the Big Band Era - that would last only 10 years or so and be remembered and revered for ever...it's hard to believe, but the best times were packed into a five-year period from the late 1930s through the early 1940s when I sang with the bands of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James. The most dramatic moments of my life were crammed into a couple of years from the fall of 1941 to the end of 1943. They seem to symbolize my life...that was when the music of the dance bands was the most popular music in the country, and I was the most popular female band singer in the country and Harry had the most popular band in the country. It didn't last long, but it sure was something while it lasted. Everyone should have something like it at least once in their lives. I'm grateful I did." - Helen Forrest (circa 1982)
At the peak of her career, Helen Forrest was the most popular female singer in the United States. Because of her work with the bands of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James, she is known as "the voice of the name bands" and is regarded by some as the best female vocalist of the swing era. In addition, AllMusic describes Forrest as "a performer that some might not consider a jazz vocalist, but one with exceptional ability to project lyrics and also an excellent interpreter." Also, IMDb describes Forrest: "though Helen was not, perhaps, a jazz singer in the truest sense, she brought to her songs a wistful 'girl-next-door' quality" through her "femininity and warmth of her voice and the clear, emotional phrasing of her lyrics." In his book The Big Bands, writer George Simon wrote, "Helen was a wonderfully warm and natural singer."
Over the course of her career, Helen Forrest recorded more than 500 songs. In 2001, she was posthumously inducted into the now-defunct Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. According to many of her fans, Forrest is reported to have been a warm, amiable woman who was always willing to chat with her fans and sign autographs. Despite Helen Forrest's legacy, her grave is still marked with a temporary grave marker (as of 2010).
S… Read Full Bio ↴Helen Forrest (April 12, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American singer.
She served as the "girl singer" for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James), thereby earning a reputation as "the voice of the name bands."
Helen was born Helen Fogel in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1917. Her parents, Louis and Rebecca Fogel, were Russian-born Jews.
While she was still an infant, Helen's father died from influenza. Helen was raised by her mother, who often blamed her husband's death on the birth of Helen. She believed that God had taken her husband because she had wished so much for a baby girl. Helen had three older brothers: Harry, Ed, and Sam. The family relocated to Brooklyn when Helen was in her early teenage years. Her mother married a house painter, a man that Helen disliked. Soon, Helen's mother and stepfather turned the family's home into a brothel. At age 14, Helen was nearly raped by her stepfather. Helen defended herself with a kitchen knife, injuring him. Following this, she was permitted by her mother to live with her piano teacher, Honey Silverman, and her family. While learning piano, Honey noticed Helen's singing ability and encouraged her to focus on singing instead. Anxious to find a career in singing, Helen dropped out of high school to pursue her dream.
Helen returned to Atlantic City and began singing with her brother Ed's band. She soon returned to New York City, where she visited song publishers and performed an audition for a 15-minute slot for a local radio show. Around this time, Helen was encouraged to change her name from "Fogel" to "Forrest" because her name sounded "too Jewish." In 1934, 17-year old Helen began singing for WNEW in New York. She also performed for WCBS where she was known as “Bonnie Blue” and “The Blue Lady of Song.” Eventually she found a singing job at the Madrillon Club, in Washington, D.C., where she performed for approximately two years.
After seeing Forrest at the Madrillon, bandleader Artie Shaw asked her to go on tour with him; Shaw was looking for new talent when vocalist Billie Holiday decided to leave the band. Helen was hired in 1938. For a time she and Holiday were both working with Shaw's band. In some venues, African-American performers were required to remain off stage until they performed. When Forrest became aware of this, she stated that like Holiday, she would also not take the stage until she was to sing. She recorded 38 singles with Shaw's band. Two of her biggest hits with Shaw were the songs "They Say" and "All the Things You Are." During her time with Shaw, Helen Forrest became a national favorite. In November 1939, Shaw broke up his band.
Helen joined Benny Goodman in December of 1939, with whom she recorded a number of celebrated songs, including the hit song "The Man I Love." Helen recorded 55 studio recordings with Goodman. She told the Pop Chronicles radio series: "Benny would look right above your eyebrows, in the middle, right on top of the brow. He was a very strange man." Forrest also stated, "The band I joined was sensational, but few special arrangements were written for me. I sang choruses, and made myself fit to the music. Benny used to drive me crazy by "noodling" behind me on clarinet while I sang." Goodman was also reported to have been a perfectionist and a very difficult man to work with. In August 1941, Forrest quit the orchestra "to avoid having a nervous breakdown". After leaving Goodman, Forrest briefly recorded with Nat King Cole and Lionel Hampton.
In 1941, she approached Harry James, offering to work for him under one condition: that she be permitted to sing more than one chorus. Although James was looking for a more jazz-oriented singer, he allowed Forrest to audition. The band voted her in and she was hired. Several decades later, Forrest explained in an interview, "Harry James was wonderful. When I joined him, I said, 'There's only one condition: I don't care how much you pay me, I don't care about arrangements. The one thing I want is to start a chorus and finish it. I want to do verses, so don't put me up for a chorus in the middle of an instrumental.' He said, 'You got it,' and that was it." She also told writer George T. Simon, "I'll always remain grateful to Artie and Benny. But they had been featuring me more like they did a member of the band, almost like another instrumental soloist. Harry, though, gave me just the right sort of arrangement and setting that fit a singer. It wasn't just a matter of my getting up, singing a chorus, and sitting down again." In his book, The Big Bands, Simon explained that Harry James constructed "the arrangements around his horn and Helen's voice, establishing warmer moods by slowing down the tempo so that two, instead of the usual three or more choruses, would fill a record ...many an arrangement would build to a closing climax during Helen's vocal, so that she would emerge as its star." It was with the Harry James Orchestra that Helen recorded what are arguably her most popular numbers, including "I Had the Craziest Dream" in 1942, and 1941's "I Don't Want to Walk Without You."
In 1942 and 1943, Helen Forrest was voted the best female vocalist in the United States in the Down Beat poll.
Forrest left Harry James in late 1943 in pursuit of a solo career. She signed a recording contract with Decca and co-starred with Dick Haymes on a CBS radio show from 1944 to 1947. Helen's first Decca disc, "Time Waits For No One", reached second place on the Hit Parade, and the radio show achieved top ratings. Haymes was also contracted to Decca, and from 1944 to 1946 the pair recorded 18 duets, 10 of them reaching the Top Ten. Particularly successful were their versions of "Long Ago and Far Away", "It Had To Be You", "Together", "I'll Buy That Dream", "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" and "Oh, What It Seemed To Be". In 1944, she made an appearance in the Esther Williams movie Bathing Beauty with Harry James and his orchestra. She also appeared in the film Two Girls and a Sailor. During the last years of the 1940s, Helen headlined at theatres and clubs.
In 1955, Helen's mother died. In that same year, Helen joined Harry James again in the studio to record a new swing album called, Harry James in Hi-Fi, which became a bestseller. By the end of the 1950s, Helen's solo career waned as rock'n'roll became increasingly popular. Helen's manager, Joe Graydon, said, "She was at an `in-between' stage in her career. Not young enough to be current. Not old enough to be nostalgia."
After a dip in recording in the 1950s, including a stint with the startup Bell Records, Helen sang with Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, led by Sam Donahue, in the early 1960s. Helen continued to make occasional records and perform in concerts and was performing at Lake Tahoe with Frank Sinatra Jr. in 1963 when he was kidnapped.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Forrest performed in supper clubs on "big band nostalgia" tours, including appearances with Harry James and Dick Haymes. In 1977, Helen participated in a television reunion of herself, James, and Haymes on the Merv Griffin Show. This led to a touring production called The Fabulous 40s (1978), followed in 1979 with a similar revue entitled The Big Broadcast of 1944. In 1980, six months following Haymes' death, Helen suffered a stroke, but recovered to resume performing and recording. Her autobiography, Now and Forever, was published in 1982 and is dedicated to her only son. In 1983, Helen released her final album, also titled Now and Forever. She also starred with Vivian Blaine and Margaret Whiting in a stage revue titled, A Tribute to Dick Haymes.
Despite an unhappy childhood, frequent illness, and personal disappointments, Forrest remained dedicated to her musical profession and continued singing until the early 1990s when rheumatoid arthritis began to affect her vocal chords and forced her into retirement. Forrest also suffered scarlet fever as a youngster, which left her with a hearing loss. The loss of her hearing worsened as she became older and she was able to perform her old standards because she remembered where the notes for them were.
Helen Forrest died on July 11, 1999 from congestive heart failure at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. She was 82.
Her final resting place is in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Hollywood Hills, in Los Angeles.
During her life, Helen married and divorced three times. In 1960, Helen (with her third husband, Charles Feinman) gave birth to her only son, Michael Forrest Feinman. Today, Michael resides in southern California.
In the early 1940s, Forrest had a love affair with bandleader Harry James while she was part of his band. The relationship ended shortly before James met the woman he would later marry, actress Betty Grable. Forrest wrote, "I've had three marriages and I never married Harry, but he was the love of my life. Let's face it, I still carry a torch for the so-and-so."
Helen Forrest on her career:
"I live for today, but it is nice sometimes to look back to yesterday. We did not know that we were living through an era - the Big Band Era - that would last only 10 years or so and be remembered and revered for ever...it's hard to believe, but the best times were packed into a five-year period from the late 1930s through the early 1940s when I sang with the bands of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James. The most dramatic moments of my life were crammed into a couple of years from the fall of 1941 to the end of 1943. They seem to symbolize my life...that was when the music of the dance bands was the most popular music in the country, and I was the most popular female band singer in the country and Harry had the most popular band in the country. It didn't last long, but it sure was something while it lasted. Everyone should have something like it at least once in their lives. I'm grateful I did." - Helen Forrest (circa 1982)
At the peak of her career, Helen Forrest was the most popular female singer in the United States. Because of her work with the bands of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James, she is known as "the voice of the name bands" and is regarded by some as the best female vocalist of the swing era. In addition, AllMusic describes Forrest as "a performer that some might not consider a jazz vocalist, but one with exceptional ability to project lyrics and also an excellent interpreter." Also, IMDb describes Forrest: "though Helen was not, perhaps, a jazz singer in the truest sense, she brought to her songs a wistful 'girl-next-door' quality" through her "femininity and warmth of her voice and the clear, emotional phrasing of her lyrics." In his book The Big Bands, writer George Simon wrote, "Helen was a wonderfully warm and natural singer."
Over the course of her career, Helen Forrest recorded more than 500 songs. In 2001, she was posthumously inducted into the now-defunct Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. According to many of her fans, Forrest is reported to have been a warm, amiable woman who was always willing to chat with her fans and sign autographs. Despite Helen Forrest's legacy, her grave is still marked with a temporary grave marker (as of 2010).
They Didn't Believe Me
Helen Forrest Lyrics
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Elvis Costello And when I told them how beautiful you are They didn't…
Ernestine Anderson Got the cutest little way Like to watch you all the…
Frank Sinatra Got the cutest little way Like to watch you all the…
Joe Williams Got the cutest little way Like to watch you all the…
Johnny Hartman I'm blind-folded on this carriage ride that they call life k…
Johnny Mercer And when I told them how beautiful you are, They didn't…
Julie London And when I told them how wonderful you are They didn′t…
Ken Dodd Got the cut-est lit-tle way, Like to watch you all the…
Marvin Gaye And when I told them how beautiful you are They didn't…
Norman Wisdom And when I told them how wonderful you are They didn't…
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We have lyrics for these tracks by Helen Forrest:
A Ghost Of A Chance I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
A Hundred Years From Today Life is such a great adventure Learn to live it as…
After I Say I'm Sorry I don't know why, I made you cry I'm sorry sweetheart…
After I Say I'm Sorry' I don't know why, I made you cry I'm sorry sweetheart…
After I Say I'm Sorry? I don't know why, I made you cry I'm sorry sweetheart…
Ain't Misbehavin' No one to talk with All by myself No one to walk…
All The Things You Are You are the promised kiss of springtime That makes the lonel…
All Through The Day All Through The Day, I dream about the night, I dream about…
Any Old Time Any old time you want me I am yours for the…
Anywhere Anywhere, as long as you are there Anywhere, just start the…
Baby Come Home I took a choo-choo-choo-choo Fast as I could take a choo-cho…
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea I don't want you, but I'd hate to lose you You've…
Bewitched She's a fool and don't I know it But a fool…
Bidin' My Time Well, what do you know, he smiled at me in…
Blue Skies I was blue, just as blue as I could be Ev'ry…
But Not For Me Old man sunshine listen you Never tell me dreams come true …
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to…
Come Rain or Come Shine I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you, Come rain…
Comes Love Come a rain storm put your rubbers on your feet, Comes…
Dancing On The Ceiling He dances overhead On the ceiling near my bed In my sight Th…
Day In Day in, day out The same old hoodoo follows me about The…
Deep in a Dream I dim all the lights and I sink in my…
Deep Purple When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the…
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking Did you ever see a dream walking? Well, I did.…
Do I Love You I wish I didn't love you so My love for you…
Do You Love Me How come you do me like you do do do? How…
Don Don't worry 'bout me I'll get along Forget about me Just be …
Don't Want To Walk Without You All our friends keep knocking at the door They've asked me…
Don't Worry 'bout Me Don't worry 'bout me I'll get along Forget about me Just …
Don't Worry Bout Me Don't worry 'bout me I'll get along Forget about me Just be …
East Of the Sun East of the sun and west of the moon We'll build…
Embraceable You Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you! Embrace me, you irrepl…
Every Day Of My Life Every day of my life you′ll be near to me Though…
For You For Me For Evermore You were meant for me, I was meant for you Nature…
Girl Crazy: But Not for Me Old man sunshine listen you Never tell me dreams come true J…
He's Funny That Way Once she dressed in silks and lace, Owned a Rolls…
He's My Guy Harry James He's my guy, I don't care what he…
He's My Guy (Remastered) Harry James He's my guy, I don't care what he does 'Cause…
he’s my guy Harry James He's my guy, I don't care what he…
How Come You Do Me Like You Do How come you do me like you do do do? How…
How Deep Is the Ocean How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie How…
How High Is the Moon Somewhere there's music How faint the tune Somewhere there's…
I I may be wrong but I think you're wonderful I may…
I Can't Begin to Tell You I can't begin to tell you How much you mean to…
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
I Can't Give You Anything But Love Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Remastered) Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
I Can't Love You Any More Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
I Can't Love You Anymore Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
I Can't Resist You I can't begin to tell you How much you mean to…
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
I Concentrate On You I'm glad I waited for you But then, what else could…
I Cried For You I remember other days how I used to weep Over…
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
I Don't Want to Walk Without You All our friends keep knocking at the door They've asked me…
I Don’t Want to Walk Without You All our friends keep knocking at the door They've asked me…
I Had the Craziest Dream In a dream the strangest and the oddest things appear And…
I Hadn't Anyone Till You I hadn't anyone till you, I was a lonely one 'til…
I Have Eyes My love must be a kind of blind love I can't…
I Heard You Cried Last Night I heard you cried last night and I know why I…
I Love You Much Too Much I love yo much too much I know it from the…
I May Be Wrong I may be wrong but I think you're wonderful I may…
I Only Have Eyes for You My love must be a kind of blind love I can't…
I Remember You Oh, give me something to remember you by When you are…
I Surrender Dear Pride, sad, splendid liar, Sworn enemy of love Kept my…
I Wish I Didn't Love You So I wish I didn't love you so My love for you…
I Won't Tell A Soul I won′t tell a soul I love you I won't even…
I'll Be Seeing You Ill be seeing you; In all the old, familiar places; That thi…
I'll Get By I'll get by As long as I have you Though there be…
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows I'm always chasing rainbows Watching clouds drifting by My s…
I'm beginning to see the light I never cared much for moonlit skies I never wink back…
I'm Confessin' That I Love You Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
I'm Glad I Waited For You I'm glad I waited for you But then, what else could…
I'm In The Mood For Love I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…
I'm Nobody's Baby I'm nobody's baby I wonder why Each night and day I pray…
I've Heard That Song Before It seems to me I've heard that song before It's from…
In Love In Vain It's only human for anyone to want to be in…
It Had to Be You It had to be you, it had to be you. I…
It's Been a Long Long Time Kiss me once, then kiss me twice Then kiss me once…
I’m Confessin’ That I Love You Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
I’ve Got A Crush On You I′ve got a crush on you, sweetie pie All the day…
Last Night I heard you cried last night and I know why I…
Little White Lies The moon was all aglow But heaven was in your eyes The…
Long Ago Long ago and far away I dreamed a dream one day And…
Love me Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
Mad About the Boy I'm mad about the boy And I know it's stupid to…
Make Love to Me Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
Mister Five By Five Well twirl my turban, man alive Here comes Mister Five by…
More Whether you are here or yonder, Whether you are false…
More Than You Know Whether you are here or yonder, Whether you are false…
Mr Five-By-Five Well twirl my turban, man alive Here comes Mister Five by…
My Foolish Heart The night is like a lovely tune Beware my foolish heart How…
My Man It's cost me a lot But there's one thing that I've…
My Reverie Our love is a dream, but in my reverie I can…
Night Over Shanghai Night over Shanghai, moon on the rise Pale yellow faces, wit…
Nobody I'm nobody's baby I wonder why Each night and day I pray…
Oh What It Seemed to Be It was just a neighborhood dance That's all that it was,…
Oh! What It Seemed to Be It was just a neighborhood dance That's all that it was,…
On the Sunny Side of the Street Walked with no one and talked with no one And I…
Once In A While Once in a while will you try to give One little…
One I Love I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…
Over The Rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that…
Paradise And then she holds my hand, mm And then I understand.…
People Will Say We're In Love Why do they think up stories that link my name…
Say It Isn't So Say it isn′t so Say it isn't so Everyone is saying you…
Skylark Skylark Have you anything to say to me Won't you tell me…
Skylark (Remastered) Midler Bette Bette Midler Skylark Skylark, have you anything…
Somebody Loves Me When days are long and nights are lonely And all my…
Someone to Watch Over Me There's a saying old says that love is blind Still were…
Something To Remember You By Oh, give me something to remember you by When you are…
Takin' A Chance On Love Here I go again, I hear those trumpets blow again. All…
Taking a Chance On Love (Remastered) Here I go again, I hear those trumpets blow again. All…
Thanks for Ev'rything Thanks for everything. Every word, every sigh, every kiss. T…
That's for Me Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
That's My Desire To spend one night with you in our old rendezvous, And…
That’s My Desire To spend one night with you in our old rendezvous, And…
The Breeze & I The breeze and I are saying with a sigh That you…
The Lady from 29 Palms She left twenty-nine broken hearts Broken in twenty-nine par…
The Man I Love I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…
The One I Love When days are long and nights are lonely And all my…
The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else When days are long and nights are lonely And all my…
They Say They say you have no lips for a fool such…
This Is It Overture, curtains, lights, This is it, the night of nights …
Till the End of Time Till the end of time, Long as stars are in the…
Till We Meet Again Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu When the clouds…
Time Waits for No One Time waits for no one, It passes you by. It rolls on…
Together We strolled the lane together, Laughed at the rain together,…
Too Marvelous For Words You're just too marvelous, too marvelous for words Like glo…
Under A Blanket Of Blue Under a blanket of blue Just you and I beneath the…
Waitin' For The Train To Come In Waitin′ for the train to come in Waitin' for my man…
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry I don't know why, I made you cry I'm sorry sweetheart…
What's the Matter With Me? WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH ME (Deborah Allen - Rafe VanHoy -…
When the Sun Comes Out When the sun comes out And that rain stops beatin' on…
Why Is It? Overture, curtains, lights, This is it, the night of nights …
Worry Worry Worry Don't worry 'bout me I'll get along Forget about me Just be …
You Belong to Me How come you do me like you do do do? How…
You Go To My Head You go to my head And you linger like a haunting…
You Made Me Love You Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
You Stole My Heart You stole my heart Yeah you packed it up And you took…
You Were Meant For Me You were meant for me, I was meant for you Nature…
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To You'd be so nice to come home to You'd be so…
You'll Never Know You'll never know just how much I miss you You'll never…
You're in Love With Someone Else Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
Yours Yours is my heart alone And without you, life holds no…
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Trombonology Erstwhile
Jerome Kern -- known to his contemporaries in the field as "The Dean," because they considered him the best of them all -- is certainly one of my favourite composers. I'd place the beautiful "They Didn't Believe Me" in my Kern Top Three. Dick's reading of the Herbert Reynold's lyric is flawless! As always, he employs a restraint, which actually gives the reading greater power.
💜 Lisa Loves Summer Time 🌞
Dick Haymes has such a romantic voice. 💕🩵😉
One Army
I particularly like Dean Martin's version of this song and "Where or When" as done on his variety show.
Bugleboy 452
Dick Haymes voice is just perfect, I prefer it to Bing
gyp darin
Dick Haymes i think was unfortunate since he was competing against the more pushed and popular Bing and then the younger heartthrob, also with more range, Frankie Sinatra. It was close imo.
Great Vocals
@gyp darin Frank was actually slightly older than Dick. As far as vocal range goes, Haymes won that battle, especially in the 1940's. 9 Gold records while singing on his own.