Jimmy Dorsey Helen O'Connell

[@dudley5533]

Helen O'Connell was one of the most versatile vocalists....she could sing any kind of song, including novelty numbers like this one, and make them work. And oooh those dimples!

[@joeasmythe]

This brings me back to a sweeter, kinder America. They were great days and thank you for giving us this incomparable songbird to see and hear again

[@lottapaws]

To Mr. Wayne Brasler, Please know that your mother is still loved and missed. My father, a WWII veteran, always had an innocent crush on Miss O'Connell, though happily married until his death in '96. He sang her songs all over the house, and they are beautiful memories. She is missed and loved by many, and we thank you for sharing her with us! God bless!!

[@Saxy64]

Helen was cute as a button in this video, and what a classy lady she grew up to be. This music, though it is 80 years or more old, was real music. It took real musicians who started on their instruments as tots and lots of practice to be able to make music of this caliber. Now days, unfortunately, any good-looking sot can cut a record with backing and voice-correct software.

[@starworth1]

I met her when we were doing a telathon in Albuquerque NM. it was in about 72 or 73. I was in awe. she sang beautifully as ever, and looked marvelous too. it was a dream come true for me because I was only 3 years old when she started with Jimmy Dorsey. never thought I'd ever get to meet face to face such an icon

[@roxaneirene]

I met Helen in person. She was so sweet and gracious. What a wonderful singer!

[@pariskatois]

I took my mother to see your mother in 1980 when she was doing "4 GIRLS 4," with Rosemarie, Rosemary Clooney and Margaret Whiting. What a show! I went back alone and watched it again. How blessed you are!

[@fmazzar]

I had a friend named Eddie. He was born in 1921 and grew up a lonely kid with few friends. He memorized the title of every Jimmy Dorsey record, A side and B side and he could sing every one of them.He loved Jimmy Dorsey and the color Green. Because of Eddie I came to listen to the Big Bands and especially Jimmy D. I was born in the 50's but Eddie knew what was best. RIP Eddie.

[@cayetanohawaii]

I used to watch the tv classics channels when I was a kid and saw this video featured all the time with Helen O'Connell. She was incredibly beautiful. This song always made me happy.

[@paulackley2882]

I just love these photos of all the pretty ladies! Wish I could just walk into these photos and not return!

[@JoergEstelmann]

What a beautiful woman (and talented singer) Helen O'Connell was. Thanks for sharing.

[@waynebrasler]

Helen took motherhood very seriously! Raising children while maintaining a high profile show business career is a terrific challenge and Helen had numerous other problems to deal with. She was extremely inventive about getting work--she remained a top-billed singer while moving into television work (including the Today Show of all things) and still traveling to perform. She always looked gorgeous and aged fabulously, in fact never really looking or sounding old. We will always love your Mom!

[@Mirealind]

this is really great to see all of you here enjoying the woman i knew as Mom. she was an amazing woman and a great entertainer. she has been my role model for many many aspects of my life. again, if any of you have questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

[@michaelc.6532]

I saw this clip as a boy between shorts of Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, etc and B afternoon movies on a local station in northern Wisconsin called the “Matinee Money Movie.” The clip makes me happy and nostalgic for my boyhood days.

[@robgrune3284]

so happy to have stumbled upon this clip. Helen had it all: voice, looks, charisma, talent, feminine. The Dorsey band was one of the best. Such a pity the video and audio recording tech back then was so primitive. We are hearing only 10% of the real sound. Singers and instrumentalists like these may never return. Listen to the music: we have nothing like these musicians today.

[@bennyjazzful]

Back again in the middle of yhe Corona virus. WOW--What a great performance by all. From a 76yo Aussie fan.

[@bennyjazzful]

WOW Wonderful performance from a magnificent vocalist & orchstra. From a 72yo Aussie fan.

[@tyronemiller5121]

Even now, I view this era as one of style and class, the way people dressed and their manners.

[@Halo101st]

Helen is so beautiful. Combine that with a perfect voice for Big Band sound and you have a killer combination, and she definitely was that. What a talent. My mother remembers meeting and speaking with her at length one night in one of the hotels where Helen was singing. Mom doesn't remember the name of the hotel, but she said she sat and talked with Helen for a very long time about "girl things." She said Helen was "so sweet and had a wicked sense of humor." Both were in their early 20's, then.

[@Walt222]

What great times those must of been. My parents must of had a ball.

[@LiltinMissTiltonFan1]

Helen's great as usual. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheAgentman32]

Loved Helen O'Connell! She was great!

[@potdog1000]

snap

[@joeasmythe]

Helen, you are missed very much, I still have the picture of you that you signed for me. I will always adore you and the songs you sang back in the great old days.

[@tifvaughn1]

Sweet girl AND AWESOME VOICE!!

[@seywhut2985]

OMG! I had totally forgotten this song existed!

[@Mirealind]

this is/was my mom!!! thank you for sharing this clip.

[@carvenstud]

Miss O'Connell also co-hosted the Miss Universe Pageant along with Bob Barker from 1972 to 1980. After she left, the pageant had several female co-hosts over the years but none ever came close to matching the charm and elegance that Miss O'Connell had. What a classy lady she was.

[@laurascorpio]

LOVE LOVE LOVE this song

[@AtmaRising]

so good...unreal

[@hebneh]

Aw, heck! You can have the two!

[@Supremesfan1]

Helen O'Connell was a great vocalist.

[@Vercingetorix2006]

Great! Thanks for posting this...the first time I saw her sing this song was a clip from a movie where she was singing for GIs on a bus-if I remember correctly.

[@jaofrd13]

This Lady is my cousin on my fathers side. She also in the early 60's co-hosted a show called Here's Hollywood with Jack Linkletter, I think this was the first such show about movie stars.

[@ShammaAzmi]

Olden day songs are so much more better than nowadays rot.

[@lobo9550]

Swing and Helen O'Connell is really great....

[@taylorpalumbo3667]

My mom used to sing this to me when I was little but for some reason I remember the words being "but don't you tell her I kissed a soldier." Different version, maybe? Great song, anyhow -- I love this music!

[@RUBYSSHOES]

Taylor Palumbo that's how my mom sang it too!

[@drewsagar2634]

My mom too! I like this one better

[@davidhenderson9604]

Drew Sagar it was a war time song. So I suspect they made variations of the song. I remember it as a soldier too.

she is great singer

[@musicis.4045]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwesome!

[@Mirealind]

It was a beautiful red flower. The dress was just like that-no coverup. Mom was a very modest woman at all times. In those days, female singers, unless they were also dancers, were not allowed to move much other than to sway or use hand gestures.

[@RestingScotFace]

Found her in a nightclub at 16....the good ol days when the world had gentlemen and ladies, not perverts and pop stars

[@melchizedek22]

helen o'connell was my Moms baby sister in Toledo

[@olafdavila]

You are right. That big black flower is ridiculous. Such an attractive and very stylish lady wearing that flower is inconceivable. I dont know why your comment was rejected.

[@walleyrt69]

OMG---SHE SAID HECK!

[@nickladey]

@slowpokecat she was butifull RIP Helen nick

[@Vercingetorix2006]

She performed this in a scene on a bus (full of GIs) in a movie? Great song, great singer.

[@mrrxman1]

did helens family ever live in balto,md in the 50's.when i was in my 20's,there was a beautiful lady,who was an entertainer,who would come to visit her parents,across the street.

[@goldenoldiesPete]

Miss O' Connell was a great singer and not to compare her to Ella Fitzgerald who I think is the best female ever, but Helen sounds so great in this song and so much like Ella does when Ella sings A Tisket A Tasket. Rubber Dolly, great song.

[@td1238]

Good song! I like it better when you let her get in her little smile at the end, tho'.

[@523adult]

@9S2774X you're absolutely right!

[@enaj78]

Does anyone have "I Remember You" from the movie "The Fleets In" by Helen and Bob Eberle to post?

[@GeorgePenton-np9rh]

I think Little Richard got both the fella and the dolly.

[@ShammaAzmi]

@slowpokecat I so agree

[@danishjazz]

The titel is My Wubba Dolly, not Rubbar

[@cjaquilino]

John McWhorter

[@paulmark0198]

2:06 conductor forgot words:D

[@walleyrt69]

Thats what it looks like to me.And I am just a casual observer.lol

[@Mirealind]

@melchizedek22 who are you?

[@LiltinMissTiltonFan1]

@slowpokecat Don't forget Miley!

[@walleyrt69]

@slowpokecat Oh,how the world has went backwards.

[@TobyVennard]

I note that a chap accidentally left his toupee attached having just 'motorboated' the young lady moments before she was due on stage...

[@walleyrt69]

Jimmy lost his Tupay in her clevage.Someone should have said something.

[@fastdrive55]

Worth 50 Cents...

[@pain_of_rose]

I was born in the wrong era!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@melchizedek22]

@Mirealind AMI,IAM,s,AMI

[@melchizedek22]

@Mirealind AMI,iAM,s,AMI

[@joeasmythe]

The female singers nowadays, haven't got the class Helen had, progression sucks.