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Texas Jazz Singer Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond
Title
Texas Jazz Singer Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond / Kevin Edward Mooney.
ISBN
9781623499662
1623499666
9781623499655
1623499658
Edition
First edition.
Publication
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"At 101 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era in American music. She performed with such notables as Benny Goodman, Harry James (who was her first husband), Louis Armstrong, Johnny Mercer, Lionel Hampton, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and Fletcher Henderson. In this absorbing biography, historian Kevin Mooney offers readers a view of a remarkable life in music, told from the vantage point of the woman who lived it. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, Mary Louise Tobin says of herself, "I fell out of my cradle singing. I never did proper things; I just sang." She was singing in her Denton County church by age seven, and before she was ten, her voice graced the radio advertisements for Metzger's Milk, airing on WDAG in the Texas Panhandle. By age sixteen, she was singing professionally at the Palace Theatre in Dallas. Based on extensive oral history interviews and archival research, "Texas Jazz Singer: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond" recaptures both the glamour and the challenges of life on the road and onstage during the golden age of swing and beyond. With a trajectory that took her from Denton, Texas, to New York, to Hollywood and back again, Louise Tobin's story traces the major outlines of American music during the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 21, 2021
Series
Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; number twenty-five
Contents
Foreword / by James Kaplan
Acknowledgments
Introduction
From Amateur to Professional Songstress, 1918-1935
Harry and Louise: Paying Their Dues, 1935-1939
Singing with the King of Swing, 1939
From Louise Tobin to Mrs. Harry James, 1939-1960
"Can She Still Sing?" 1960-1970
Swinging through the Changes, 1970s-1990s and Beyond
Appendix A: Louise Tobin's Camel Caravan Broadcasts with Benny Goodman, 1939
Appendix B: "Louise Tobin Blues": Chronological List of Lyric Sources.
Subjects
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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