Bob Eberly

Bob Eberly ( born July 24, 1916 in Mechanicsville, New York as Robert Eberle, † November 17, 1981 in Glen Burnie, Maryland) was an American big band singer, known as the vocalist of the band of Jimmy Dorsey. His romantic baritone voice influenced the style of presentation later crooner.

Life and work

Eberly won an amateur contest in the radio show by Fred Allen and sang in clubs around his hometown of Hoosick Falls. When he sang in the show by Milton Berle and the announcer constantly uttered his name wrong, he changed it so that it could be easier to pronounce .. The Dorsey Brothers heard him and replaced him with the retiring Bob Crosby in their Big Band. From 1935 to 1943 singer was in the band of Jimmy Dorsey ( who had his brother Tommy recently left ). He was a singer very popular, but resisted all temptations to leave the band and was also a close friend of Jimmy Dorsey. Some of the duets he sang with Helen O'Connell, became hits ( " Maria Elena ", " Amapola ", " Green Eyes" and "Brazil" and in the feature film The Fleet 's In (1942 ) " Tangerine "); according to O'Connell's departure from the band he sang with her ​​successor Kitty Kallen "Star Eyes", which came down to third place in the charts. In 1944, he and Dorsey had a number-one hit with " Besame Mucho. " His singing career was interrupted by conscription for military service, where he sang in the band by Wayne King. After the Second World War, he could not able to return to his old successes, but continued singing in small clubs. In 1947, he starred in the musical film The Fabulous Dorseys; In the early 1950s he was a regular in the television show "TV 's Top Tunes". From the mid- 1950s he had a record deal on the cheap label Grand Award. With the orchestra of Enoch Light, he also played some rock 'n ' roll pieces a ( "Rock And Roll Rag "). He died of a heart attack.

His younger brother, Ray Eberle was also a singer ( in the big band of Glenn Miller and his own band ).