Benny Goodman Orch. & Louise Tobin - There'll Be Some Changes Made, 1939
Benny Goodman et son Orchestre [with Vocal chorus by Louise Tobin] – There’ll Be Some Changes Made (Words: Billy Higgins – Music: W. Benton Overstreet; Arrangement: F.Henderson) Columbia 1939 (Recorded in USA, French product).
NOTE: (Mary) Louise TOBIN (born 1918 in Aubrey, Texas) is an American jazz singer. She appeared with Benny Goodman, Bobby Hackett, Will Bradley, and Jack Jenney. Tobin introduced I Didn't Know What Time It Was with Benny Goodman’s band in 1939. Her biggest hit with Goodman was There'll Be Some Changes Made, which was number two on the Hit Parade for 15 weeks. In 1932 Tobin won a CBS Radio Talent Contest at just 14 years old -, she was so small that she had to stand on a box to reach the microphone. The contest took her on a tour with society dance orchestras, during which the band leader Art Hicks heard Tobin sing, and invited her to perform with his orchestra. When she joined the band, Tobin met a young trumpet player named Harry James, and the two got married in 1935. They had two sons: Harry and Tim. In 1939 when Tobin was singing with trumpeter Bobby Hackett in the Village, jazz critic and producer John Hammond heard her and brought Benny Goodman to a performance. Tobin joined the Benny Goodman band and went on to record There'll Be Some Changes Made, Scatterbrain, Comes Love, Love Never Went to College, What's New? and Blue Orchids. Tobin’s biggest hit with Goodman was “There’ll Be Some Changes Made,” a song that was number two on the Hit Parade in 1941 for 15 weeks. It was around this time that one day, during the couple’s time in New York, Tobin heard the voice of a young Frank Sinatra singing on the radio. She suggested that Harry go listen to him. He did, and shortly after, Harry signed Sinatra to a one-year contract at $75 a week In 1943 Tobin and James were divorced in Juárez, Mexico. In 1945 she recorded with Tommy Jones and His Orchestra, and with Emil Coleman and His Orchestra. In 1946 she performed with Skippy Anderson’s Band at the Melodee Club in Los Angeles, and in 1950 she recorded Sunny Disposish with Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra.
Jazz, USA, swing, 1930s, Benny Goodman, Louise Tobin, gramophone record, dance orchestra, 78 rpm, After a long hiatus spent raising her sons, Tobin appeared again at the 1962 Newport Jazz Festival, where she met her future husband, clarinetist Peanuts Hucko. After her performance The New Yorker wrote: \"Louise Tobin sings like the young Ella Fitzgerald.\" Peanuts and Louise married in 1967 and moved to Denver, Colorado, where they were co-owners of the Navarre Club. Peanuts Hucko died in 2003. In 2008 Tobin donated her collection of original musical arrangements, press clippings, programs, recordings and photographs to create the Tobin-Hucko Jazz Collection at Texas A&M University.
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This record is a French product, so I completed a slideshow from the photos of elegant and sophisticated life in Paris during the last year before the 2nd World War, 1939. It’s when the capital of France was considered also a capital of jazz in Europe, with several international jazz giants living there, like Django Reinhardt, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Sidney Bechet or Cole Porter. I think, the sophistication of these photographs match this elegant recording of the Goodman – Tobin music.
