Profile
Louise Tobin
Singer + Trumpeter + Bandleader
Female
Mary Louise Tobin is an American singer born in Aubrey, Texas. She appeared with Benny Goodman, Bobby Hackett, Will Bradley, and Jack Jenney. Tobin introduced “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” with Benny Goodman’s band in 1939. Her biggest hit with Goodman… Read More
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Singer Knows About Sinatra, And Sounds Like Him Too Your Houston NewsGoogle News - Jun 11, 2011
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Louise Tobin.
CHILDHOOD
1918
Birth
Born in 1918.
TEENAGE
1932
14 Years Old
In 1932 Tobin won a CBS Radio Talent Contest and, after touring with society dance orchestras in Texas, joined Art Hicks and his Orchestra in 1934.
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TWENTIES
1939
21 Years Old
Tobin brought Frank Sinatra to James' attention in 1939 after hearing Sinatra sing on the radio.
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1940
22 Years Old
In 1940 Tobin recorded “Deed I Do” and “Don’t Let It Get You Down,” with Will Bradley and His Orchestra.
1943
25 Years Old
Tobin and James were divorced in 1943.
1945
27 Years Old
In 1945 she recorded “All through the Day” with Tommy Jones and His Orchestra, and “June Comes Every Year” with Emil Coleman and His Orchestra.
1946
28 Years Old
In 1946 she performed with Skippy Anderson’s Band at the Melodee Club in Los Angeles, and in 1950 she recorded “Sunny Disposish” with Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra.
FORTIES
1962
44 Years Old
After a long hiatus spent raising her two boys, Tobin accepted an invitation from jazz critic and publisher George Simon to sing at the 1962 Newport Jazz Festival, where she met her future husband, clarinetist Peanuts Hucko.
1967
49 Years Old
The Whitney Balliett review of the festival published in The New Yorker included the statement: “Louise Tobin sings like the young Ella Fitzgerald.” Peanuts and Louise began to perform regularly together, including at the Gibson-inspired Odessa Jazz Parties and a regular engagement at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. They married in 1967 and moved to Denver, Colorado, where they were co-owners and the house band of the Navarre Club.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2008
90 Years Old
In 2008 Tobin donated her extensive collection of original musical arrangements, press clippings, programs, recordings, playbills and photographs to create the Tobin-Hucko Jazz Collection at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
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