Sweet & Simple ORIGINAL available on February 13 2018 from Amazon for 8.41
Helen Forrest & Artie Shaw Orchestra - Sweet And Simple (Vol.2) available on January 13 2015 from Base for 7.89
UPC bar code 604988255928 ξ1 registered February 13 2018
UPC bar code 604988255928 ξ2 registered September 27 2014
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Jazz Audio
Manufacturered by Jasmine Music
Product weight is 0.2 lbs.
On 11th July 1999, Helen Forrest died of heart failure at the Motion Picture Country Home & Hospital in Los Angeles, she was 82. Thus 'the voice of the big bands', which sustained many a grieving heart through the later depression years and the Second World War, was stilled forever. Born Helen Fogel on 12th April 1918 in Atlantic City, her childhood was not a happy one. Her father died in the great influenza epidemic which rampaged through America in the year of her birth, and her mother's subsequent remarriage resulted in a stepfather best confined to fiction. Published in 1982, he autobiography (actually co-written with Bill Libby) 'I Had The Craziest Dream', chronicles the sad story. The family moved to New York and Helen eventually found refugee with a neighbour. Her natural singing talent surfaced and in her later teens it enabled her to make some kind of living working with local bands and performing on radio.
