[Dixielandjazz] OT-Bing Crosby, Frances Langford?

[Hal Vickery]

Frances Langford was billed in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as "singer."  Back then it was the YMCA that conducted the USO-type shows.  I've also read, but I don't know where, that the "singer" was supposed to be Nora Bayes.  

During the '40s she was the female vocalist (known back then as "girl singer") on the Bob Hope Show on radio.  She was seen in the mid-'50s in "The Glenn Miller Story" singing "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" with the Modernaires.  

Hal Vickery

> From: flinthillsdad at hotmail.com
> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:35:28 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] OT-Bing Crosby, Frances Langford?
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: hvickery_80 at msn.com
> 
> 
> Frances Langford was a very popular singer in the late thirties and the forties.  For example, in the biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy, she was the WWI USO singer with George M Cohan singing "Over There" in an army camp.  She did a lot of real USO tours with Bob Hope.  Here is her page on Internet Movie Data Base: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486387/
> 
>  
> 
> Rich Howard
>  
> > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:12:28 -0500
> > From: meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] OT-Bing Crosby, Frances Langford?
> > CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> > To: flinthillsdad at hotmail.com
> > 
> > Hal:
> > 
> > I don't know Jack, but I'll give him credit for recognizing Judy Garland's
> > voice
> > if that was the case.
> > 
> > I have not been able to determine whether it was Rhonda, but judging by the
> > fact that a CD was issued in 2008 with her singing (24) standards, I have
> > reason to
> > believe that she was not dubbed in the 1949 movie.
> > 
> > If everyone is willing to put their lives on hold until about mid-April
> > (when I can find
> > my way through my VHS archives) I'll try to confirm my previous suspicion by
> > watching "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
> > 
> > I know I will also enjoy viewing it again as I remember William Bendix
> > playing a
> > somewhat overweight Sir Lancelot. It was something like seeing Chester A
> > Riley
> > in Camelot.
> > 
> > Quite frankly, I had even forgotten that Frances Langford was a singer at
> > one time.
> > I remember her best for her role opposite Don Ameche on radio's
> > "Bickersons".
> > 
> > Tides,
> > HC
> > 
> > 
> > On 2/21/10, Hal Vickery <hvickery_80 at msn.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > It all depends on the source of the recording. Bing made a recording of
> > > the song ("Connecticut") with Judy Garland. It might also be from the
> > > "Connecticut Yankee" soundtrack, too, in which case it would either be
> > > Rhonda Fleming (or whoever sang for her).
> > >
> > > Hal Vickery
> > >
> > > > From: Jtnt at aol.com
> > > > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:47:24 -0500
> > > > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] OT-Bing Crosby, Frances Langford?
> > > > CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> > > > To: hvickery_80 at msn.com
> > > >
> > > > Just heard a tune as a lead-in to a radio news program; something like
> > > > "Connecticut Is The Place To Be" with Bing Crosby and a female vocalist;
> > > sounds
> > > > sorta like Frances Langford. Anyone know who it was? Google doesn't.
> > > > Driving me nuts :-)
> > > >
> > > > Jack Thomas
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