Louise Tobin, big-band singer who helped discover Frank Sinatra, dies at 104

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Breaking news: Louise Tobin dies at 104. The big-band singer helped discover Frank Sinatra in 1939.

but quit the group to raise two sons she had with James. “We were more trying to establish Harry than we were trying to establish me,” she recalled to the Dallas Morning News.James had recently left the Goodman band to start his own outfit and needed a male singer. One day in June 1939, Tobin was in a Manhattan hotel room, listening to a radio hookup from an Englewood Cliffs, N.J., roadhouse called the Rustic Cabin. She roused her husband from his nap.

James caught the broadcast the next night and went to the club looking for the vocalist with the creamy voice. “We don’t have a singer,” the manager told him quizzically. “But we have an emcee who sings a little bit.”

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Wow amazing long life rest in peace.

I’ll bet she had some stories. RIP Louise.

Was she also caught masturbating on zoom during Covid like her son was?!

Tobin encouraged her bandleader-husband, Harry James, to hire Sinatra, then an unknown young singing waiter, after hearing him on the radio.

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