Jimmy Dorsey & Helen O'Connell - Embraceable You, 1941

Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with Helen O'Connell -- Embraceable You (G.& I.Gershwin), Decca 1941 (USA)

NOTE: Helen O'CONNELL (b.1920 in Lima, Ohio -- d.1993 in San Diego, CA) American singer, actress and dancer. In 1939 she joined the Jimmy Dorsey's band and achieved her best selling records in the early 1940s (. "Green Eyes", "Brazil", "Amapola," "Tangerine", "Yours"). In each of these Latin-influenced numbers, Bob Eberly crooned the song which Helen then reprised in an up-tempo arrangement. O'Connell was selected by Down Beat readers as best female singer in 1940 and 1941 and won the 1940 Metronome magazine poll for best female vocalist. However, being on peak of her career O'Connell retired from show business upon her first marriage, in 1943. When her marriage ended in 1951, she made comeback appearances on tv. She was one of the first "girls" on NBC's The Today Show, and she had her own NBC program, Here's Hollywood, conducting interviews with celebrities, often in their own homes. Later, she also recorded duets with Bing Crosby, Johnny Mercer, and Dean Martin.

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[MaisSimples]

I need to save this video ...I can't put it in the channel today!

Wonderful! Absolutely fantastic!

[240252]

@MaisSimples Than k you - and Ok, I promise I will keep this film in situ for you until tomorrow :-))) And even, a few years longer (it this world will still be here)! :-))

[fredjmp]

How wonderful!!!!

[240252]

@fredjmp Thank you :-)

[tango3721]

Hello Grzegorz - Helen O'Connell - always classy and gorgeous - in her appearance and her artistry - even in her advanced years. Your photographic artwork - as always super terrific. Clark Gable - an eternal "hearththrob" looked great even at his old age - so he always looked absolutely fabulous on the silver screen. However - according to an article about his famous smile - it claimed that the whitener for his teeth - was - frequently - hard to endure in tight close-ups. Thanks whole bunch!!

[240252]

@tango3721 My favourite one from the whole collection in this clip is Grace Kelly. I think, she was on eof greatest American film actresses. Her acting in A Girl From the Province is one of the greatest female roles in whole film history. And such a beauty, such talent - wasted on these royal palace's parquet floor, under these tons of pearls and diamonds she had to wear on her from dawn till dusk. All, what excuses her was apparently true love, that tied prince Rainer to her.

[soulwho]

@240252 It's Jo Stafford, and you're right, this one is better. Helen had a knack for making a big connection with the audience, whether on stage, film or record. You're also right about Jimmy, what a gorgeous solo. And the arrangement here, with the jazzy trumpet opening, probably an allusion to Bobby Hacket, is perfect.

[Ana2010Claudia]

Lovely... fascinating.. wonderderfully romantic....thank you!

[MaisSimples]

@240252 Oh! my friend! Is in the channel already! I have a folder for these videos!

And you'll be here for a long, long time ....

[240252]

@munecojim Oh, she ALWAYS looks magnifique!! I like that photo of her and Clark - they two look like they do enjoy being on the show together!

[240252]

@XxXEMOBOYx Rzeczywiście, jest tu trochę obecny klimat "cinema noir" z lat 1940. Zresztą, uwielbiam tamto kino - Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G.Robinson, no i oczywiście, absolutnie cudowna Veronica Lake!

[240252]

@Trombonology One of YouTubers wrote that she over-emphasised and had a manered stylistics..Well, I do not think so. Like so many of us, here, I am also very sensitive to all kinds af artificiality in artistic interpretations. I think, she does have some sort of discreet exaggeration which however had been built-in her expression , making her voice even more fascinating.Besides, I sense bitterness in her voice - just as if she already noticed problems that'd soon break her career.