Harry James & Helen Forrest, Mister Five By Five

From the three disc set Harry James & His Orchestra, Bandstand Memories 1938-1948.
Hindsight Records.
1994.
Recorded on September 29, 1942 from a live broadcast of the Chesterfield Time show in New York.
The Harry James Legacy.
The recordings in this boxed set were made available by Sal Monte and Viola Monte from a private collection of broadcast transcriptions her husband, PeeWee had made during the years he was Harry James band manager and good friend. They were recorded on 10 inch, 12 inch and 16 inch transcription disks.

she was one off the best band singer from this era I love her

[@dudley5533]

Helen Forrest was such a great singer able to handle any song. with any band, including a novelty number like this one. Good video. Thanks.

[@MrRJDB1969]

Whether it be with Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, or Harry James, Helen Forrest was excellent. I can't think of one bad recording she ever made . I have just about all her recordings on Bluebird Records with Artie Shaw and 90% of her Columbia Records recordings, with both the Goodman & James Orchestra's, all on 78 rpm and to me they are all equally great ! With that said though, and I also posted this same recording up here on RUclips, the Slack / Morse version is great as well.

[@AKLDGUY]

Singer Jimmy Rushing was nicknamed Mr Five by Five on account of his physique. The nickname inspired this 1942 tune.

[@javibaltar1]

Maravillosa. Hace poco que la he descubierto

[@edwardconway27]

Helen Forrest is the best female swing singer!

[@rjwintl]

U betcha !!!

[@dianedavis2976]

Love the Oldies but can't find the most popular version of Deep Purple.

[@theminecrafthaag1609]

It is by Artie Shaw

[@EricZern]

Hello pretty lady! I love your comments

[@TheParksable]

Gangster Squad!

[@vash47]

@edwardconway27 Damn right!