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6. Mai 2019 · Helen Forrest with The Artie Shaw Orchestra. Helen Forrest (born Helen Fogel, April 12, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American singer of traditional pop and swing music.
21. Mai 2011 · Artie Shaw Helen Forrest - Summer Souvenirs 1939. Songs Of Yesteryear Helen Forrest (April 12, 1917 -- July 11, 1999) was one of the most popular female jazz vocalists during...
18. Apr. 2011 · 68.5K subscribers. Subscribed. 5.1K. 648K views 13 years ago. Charted at #8 in 1940. B-side of "All in Fun". Also #3 for Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra in January 1940 (with vocal by Jack Leonard)....
- Childhood
- Early Career
- 1938–1943: Shaw, Goodman, & James
- 1944-1960S: Solo Career
- 1970s-1990s: Later Years and Retirement
- Death
- Relationships
- Quote
- Legacy
- Discography
Forrest was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1917. Her parents, Louis and Rebecca Fogel, were Jewish. Her father died from influenza when Helen was an infant so she was raised by her mother, who often blamed her husband's death on Helen's birth. She believed God had taken her husband because she had wished so much for a baby girl. Hel...
Forrest 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, Forrest was encouraged to change her name from "Fogel" because her name sounded "too Jewish." In 1934, 17-year-...
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 u...
Forrest left Harry James in late 1943 in pursuit of a solo career, saying "three years with a band is enough." She signed a recording contract with Decca and co-starred with Dick Haymes on The Dick Haymes Show on CBS radio from 1944 to 1947. Helen's first Decca disc, "Time Waits For No One", reached second place on the Hit Parade, and the radio sho...
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 simi...
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, Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, in an unmarked grave. Online funding provided her with a grave stone.[citation ...
During her life, Forrest married and divorced three times. In 1960, she (with her third husband, Charles Feinman) gave birth to her only son, Michael Forrest Feinman. Michael resided in southern California until his death on May 1, 2014. In the early 1940s, Forrest had a love affair with bandleader Harry James while she was part of his band. The re...
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 thro...
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 performe...
Original albums
1. Voice of the Name Bands (Capitol Records, 1956), orchestra leaders: Dave Cavanaugh and Billy May
Reissues
1. Artie Shaw, The Uncollected Vol. 4, 1939 (Hindsight Records, 1980), recorded, 1939 2. The Complete Helen Forrest with the Benny Goodman Orchestra (Collector's Choice Music, 2001), recorded, 1940-1941 3. The Complete Helen Forrest with the Harry James Orchestra(Collector's Choice Music, 1999), recorded, ca. 1941-1943, 1946 4. Complete World Transcriptions(Soundies, 1999), recorded, 1949-1950
Helen Forrest, born in 1917, was an American singer of traditional pop and swing music. She served as the “girl singer” for three of the most popular big band leaders of the Swing Era, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James. Helen’s talent earned her a reputation as “the voice of the name bands.” Like Artie Shaw, Helen dropped out ...
Discover America Swings: The Great Artie Shaw by Artie Shaw released in 1987. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
20. Juni 2006 · Listen to Artie Shaw and His Orchestra with Helen Forrest Selected Favorites by Artie Shaw & Helen Forrest on Apple Music. 2006. 12 Songs. Duration: 38 minutes.
