Documenting Her Place in the History of Jazz Texas-native Louise Tobin (b.1918) has a remarkable story to tell about her life in jazz. Exhibiting vocal talent at a very early age, by 1934 she was ...

Denton County residents celebrated the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918. The Tobin family in Aubrey had extra reason to celebrate because they welcomed a baby, Mary Louise, during the 1918 Spanish ...

NACOGDOCHES — Louise Tobin, a big band era songstress who released hit records with Benny Goodman and helped discover Frank Sinatra before putting her career on hold to raise her two children, died ...

She was a rising swing era star when she quit to raise children, at the request of her first husband, the bandleader Harry James. But her singing days weren’t over. By Daniel E. Slotnik With the big ...

Louise Tobin, a big-band singer of the 1930s and ’40s who urged her then-husband, trumpet player and orchestra leader Harry James, to hire a promising young man she heard on the radio, a New Jersey ...

Louise Tobin, a jazz vocalist first with Benny Goodman’s orchestra and later with the band of Michael (Peanuts) Hucko, died Saturday at the home of a granddaughter in Carrollton, Texas, her son Harry ...