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O'Connell also was the featured singer on The Russ Morgan Show on CBS TV in 1956. In 1957, she had her own 15-minute program, The Helen O'Connell Show, twice a week on NBC. O'Connell was one of the first "girls" on NBC's The Today Show, commenting at the time: "I wasn't hired as a singer, I was hired as a talker, a pleasant switch."
- Singer, actress, hostess
- September 9, 1993 (aged 73), San Diego, California, U.S.
- May 23, 1920, Lima, Ohio, U.S.
10 set 1993 · Helen O'Connell, the big-band singer whose recordings of "Green Eyes" and other songs made her one of the most popular female vocalists in the nation in the early 1940's, died today at a...
24 set 2020 · Take Helen O’Connell for example, one of the finest big-band singers of the day in an era when top-class girl band singers were thick on the ground. Born in Lima, Ohio, 23 May 1920, she grew up in Toledo and began singing there as a 15-year-old on local radio, graduating to minor bands like Jimmy Richards and Arthur Wylie.
Biografia. O'Connell si unì al gruppo musicale di Jimmy Dorsey nel 1939 ed ottenne i maggiori successi nei primi anni quaranta con Green Eyes, Amapola, Tangerine e Yours. In ognuno dei propri numeri, Bob Eberly canticchiava la canzone che poi Helen riprendeva in un arrangiamento up-tempo. O'Connell fu scelta dai lettori di Down Beat come ...
Helen O'Connell. Actress: I Dood It. Big-band vocalist of the 1940's who, duetting with singer Bob Eberly for the bandleader Jimmy Dorsey, was responsible for such million-selling recordings as "Green Eyes" and "Tangerine" as well as hit solo performances for Dorsey like "Six Lessons from Madame LaZonga." This vivacious blonde appeared with Dorsey and his orchestra in a few early-40's films ...
- May 23, 1920
- September 9, 1993
O'Connell, Helen (1920–1993)American big-band singer of the early 1940s. Name variations: Helen DeVol. Born in Lima, Ohio, on May 23, 1920; died of cancer on September 9, 1993, in San Juan Capistrano, California; dropped out of school after her sophomore year; later received diploma from Hollywood High School; married Clifford Smith, Jr. (a Navy aviator and heir to a Boston investment ...
10 set 1993 · Helen O'connell, Big-Band Singer | The Seattle Times. Sep 10, 1993. AP. SAN DIEGO - Helen O'Connell, the quintessential big-band singer of the 1940s, died yesterday at age 73. She died...
