Helen Forrest

Helen Forrest (actually Helen Fogel, born April 12, 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, † July 11, 1999 in Woodland Hills, California ) was an American singer.

Through its involvement in the most famous orchestras of the Swing era it was regarded as " The Voice of the bands with the name" ( "the voice of the name bands" ).

Life

Helen Forrest was born into a Jewish family in Atlantic City. At the age of ten she made ​​her first appearance as a singer with the band of her brother. Your singing career, she later began on radio station CBS under the name Bonnie Blue.

Larger gained fame Forrest 1939, when the band leader Artie Shaw hired her as a singer after Billie Holiday had a year before leaving his orchestra. With Shaw Forrest took in a short time to 38 singles; the best known include They Say, Comes Love and All the Things You Are. The end of 1939 Forrest joined Benny Goodman's band, with whom she recorded a number of successful plays, including Perfidia and The Man I Love. 1940 was followed by recordings with Nat King Cole and Lionel Hampton. With the orchestra of Harry James, who hired her in 1941, she had her biggest successes of his time, including I Had the Craziest Dream and I Do not Want to Walk Without You. At James entertained Forrest also a private relationship before this Betty Grable, his future wife met.

End of 1943, Forrest left Harry James' orchestra, and aspired to pursue a solo career. In summer 1944, she succeeded entitled Time Waits For No One a hit, the # 2 on the Pop Charts. The late 1940s, she appeared as a singing partner of Dick Haymes on whose radio show. With him, she sang, among others, the duet Some Sunday Morning. After it had become silent in the 1950s for her, Forrest joined the early 1960s with the orchestra of Tommy Dorsey under the direction of Sam Donahue reappear. In addition, she continued to have numerous vocal performances in the evening restaurants. In 1983, she released her last album.

Until the early 1990s, when arthritis forced her to retire, Helen Forrest joined as a singer in front of an audience. Throughout her career she had recorded more than 500 pieces. Forrest was involved in various musical films, including Bathing Beauty ( 1944) and Two Girls and a Sailor (1944). She was active in addition, an advocate of civil rights. Helen Forrest was married three times and as often divorced. She has a son, Michael Forrest Feinman.

At the age of 82 years Helen Forrest died in California from a heart disease. She is buried in the cemetery of Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles.

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