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Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers

February 06, 2023

Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers were an American smooth harmony[1] popular music singing group of the mid-20th century consisting of Carroll (a female singer) and the Satisfiers (three male singers, Bob Lange, Ted Hansen and Art Lambert[2])[3]

The group in 1948

Helen Carroll was the stage name of Helen Kress (né Fulk) (May 23, 1914, Bloomington, Indiana – February 21, 2011, Rye, New Hampshire)[4] She began her singing career as a teenager on radio in Memphis, Tennessee. Carroll returned to Indiana and enrolled at the Indiana University for college, but left school in her senior year to pursue a career in broadcasting. She settled in New York with hopes of working on Broadway, making her debut in the chorus of the short lived Geoffrey O'Hara musical Rogues and Vagabonds in 1930. Her appearances on Broadway were sporadic, including the roles of Daphne in Arthur Schwartz's Virginia (1937),[5] the Citizen of New Amsterdam in Knickerbocker Holiday (1938-1939), and a woman tourist in Key Largo (1939).[6] She found regular employment performing after auditioning for a group called the Merry Macs.[7] With the Merry Macs, she appeared on Fred Allen's show and in the movie Love Thy Neighbor.[4][8] Carroll left the group when it relocated to California; she signed on with the Satisfiers only after the group promised to remain in New York. Carroll was married to guitarist Carl Kress; the couple had a son, Rick, who became a drummer, and went on to become a professor of harmony at Berklee College of Music.[7]

Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers were regulars on Perry Como's Chesterfield Supper Club[9] which ran from 1944 to 1949.[10] (One of Chesterfield's long-term advertising taglines was "They Satisfy",[11][12] and the Satisfiers were named on this basis.)[10][better source needed] With or without Carroll, the Satisfiers also backed Como on some recordings.[13] Most of the group's recording on their own were made with trumpeter Russ Case's orchestra for instrumental accompaniment.

Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers' recording of "Old Buttermilk Sky" reached #7 on the Billboard top-selling retail records chart for November 23, 1946[14] (there was no unified Billboard Hot 100 chart yet, but the retail sales chart is sometimes (although not always) considered the nearest approximation). Billboard described the record as exhibiting "easy flowing melodies and rhythms" which "fall easy on the ears" making for a "bright and breezy" performance.[15] This recording also appeared on Billboard's chart of songs most played on jukeboxes.[16]

Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers performed the theme song for the Little Lulu theatrical animated shorts. The song was written by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman for the series, of which 26 episodes were produced by Famous Studios for Paramount Pictures between 1943 and 1948.

Helen Carroll with an ad-hoc group called the Swantones backed Frank Sinatra on one 1950 single, "Life is So Peculiar".[17][18]

Discography

Singles
  • "Connee Boswell" with the Satisfiers ("Who'll Lend Me A Rainbow" Decca 18689 and "When I Come Back Crying/You Can't Say I Didn't Try" Coral 60040) -1945
  • "Perry Como with the Satisfiers & Russ Case Orchestra ("Dig You Later" also titled "A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba") Victor 20-1750, October 1945
  • "(L'il Abner) Don't Marry That Girl!" / "The Boogie Woogie Barnyard" (with the Russ Case Orchestra) (Victor 20-1928, 1946)[19]
  • "Let's Sail to Dreamland" / "Ole Buttermilk Sky"[note 1] (with the Russ Case Orchestra) (Victor 20-1952, 1946)[20]
  • "Who'd A Thunk It" / "(Why, Oh Why, Did I Ever Leave) Wyoming?" (with the Russ Case Orchestra) (Victor 20-2191, 1947)[21]
  • "Smoke Dreams"[note 2] / "Do You Love Me Just As Much As Ever?" (with the Russ Case Orchestra) (RCA Victor 20-2300, 1947)[22][23]
  • "Love Is So Terrific (Ouch! Terrific Thing)" / "A Little Consideration" (with the Russ Case Orchestra) (RCA Victor 20-2672, 1948)[24]
  • "Shauny O'Shea" / "Little Lulu" (with the Russ Case Orchestra) (Victor 20-2673, 1948)[25]
  • "Big Brass Band from Brazil" / "The Secretary Song (Bidibi Bot Bot)" (with the Russ Case Orchestra) (Victor, 1948)[26]
  • "Takin' Miss Mary to the Ball"[note 3] / "Walk A Little, Talk A Little" (with the Russ Case Orchestra) (RCA Victor 20-2868, 1948)[27]
  • "Raggedy Ann"[note 4] / "Highway to Love" (Victor 20-2915, 1948)[28]
Compilations
Compilations (Helen Carroll with the Swantones)
  • "Life is So Peculiar"[note 5] (featuring Frank Sinatra) on Frank Sinatra Sings Songs From the Movies (2003, Sony Music Distribution #70081)[32]

References

  1. ^ "Record Reviews". Billboard. Vol. 59, no. 23. June 14, 1947. p. 119. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  2. ^ The Radio Annual. Radio Daily. 1948. p. 845. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  3. ^ Macfarlane, Malcolm; Crossland, Ken (2012). Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record (Reprint ed.). McFarland. p. 46. ISBN 978-0786471669.
  4. ^ a b "Helen Kress". Remick & Gendron Funeral Home-Crematory. 2011. Archived from the original on April 7, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  5. ^ Brooks Atkinson (September 3, 1937). THE PLAY: 'Virginia' Opens the Season With a Large Musical Drama at the Center Theatre Theatre Units' Plays Tonight. The New York Times. p. 13.
  6. ^ Eugene Burr (December 9, 1939). "Legitimate: New Plays on Broadway - BARRYMORE". Billboard. Vol. 51, no. 49. p. 15.
  7. ^ a b "Helen Carroll Quits Indiana University For Career In Radio". The Lincoln Star. April 19, 1948. p. 40. Retrieved December 31, 2014 – via Newspapers.com. 
  8. ^ Helen Carroll at IMDb
  9. ^ "Perry Como and Jo Stafford Invite You To America's Biggest Weekly Radio Audience". Life. Vol. 22, no. 2. January 13, 1947. p. 78. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  10. ^ a b Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0195076783. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  11. ^ "Chesterfield Ads". Vintage Ads and Stuff. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  12. ^ Jim Shaw. "A source of Satisfaction". Jim's Burnt Offerings. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  13. ^ Macfarlane & Crossland 2012, Appendix A:Perry Como On Record.
  14. ^ "Retail Record Sales". Billboard. Vol. 58, no. 47. November 23, 1946. p. 26. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  15. ^ "Record Reviews and Possibilities". Billboard. Vol. 28, no. 41. October 12, 1946. p. 29. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  16. ^ "Juke Box Record Plays". Billboard. Vol. 58, no. 50. December 14, 1946. p. 30. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  17. ^ Hombach, Jean-Pierre (2012). Frank Sinatra. Hombach. p. 478. ISBN 978-1471631269. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  18. ^ Life is So Peculiar at AllMusic. Retrieved January 2014.
  19. ^ "Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers (advertisement)". Billboard. Vol. 58, no. 29. July 20, 1946. p. 28. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  20. ^ "Advance Information". Billboard. Vol. 58, no. 40. October 5, 1946. p. 30. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  21. ^ "Advance Information". Billboard. Vol. 59, no. 10. March 8, 1947. p. 29. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  22. ^ "Setting New Records (advertisement)". Billboard. Vol. 59, no. 21. May 31, 1947. p. 1. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  23. ^ "Advance Information". Billboard. Vol. 59, no. 21. May 31, 1947. p. 34. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  24. ^ "This Week's RCA Victor Release (advertisement)". Billboard. Vol. 60, no. 2. January 10, 1948. p. 19. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  25. ^ "This Week's RCA Victor Release (advertisement)". Billboard. January 24, 1948. p. 49. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  26. ^ "Record Reviews". Billboard. Vol. 60, no. 9. February 28, 1948. p. 34. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  27. ^ "This Week's RCA Victor Release (advertisement)". Billboard. Vol. 60, no. 23. June 5, 1948. p. 21. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  28. ^ "Musical Events". The New Yorker. Vol. XXIV, no. 29. September 11, 1948. p. 80.
  29. ^ "The Very Best Of Beryl Davis (product description)". Amazon.com. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  30. ^ American record guide. Vol. 14–15. Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. 1947. p. 358. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
  31. ^ Adapting the Classics at AllMusic. Retrieved January 2015.
  32. ^ Frank Sinatra Sings Songs From the Movies at AllMusic. Retrieved January 2015.

Notes

  1. ^ From the film Canyon Passage
  2. ^ Adapted from the Chesterfield Supper Club theme.
  3. ^ From the film On an Island with You
  4. ^ From the 1923 musical Stepping Stones
  5. ^ From the movie Mr. Music

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Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers were an American smooth harmony 1 popular music singing group of the mid 20th century consisting of Carroll a female singer and the Satisfiers three male singers Bob Lange Ted Hansen and Art Lambert 2 3 The group in 1948 Helen Carroll was the stage name of Helen Kress ne Fulk May 23 1914 Bloomington Indiana February 21 2011 Rye New Hampshire 4 She began her singing career as a teenager on radio in Memphis Tennessee Carroll returned to Indiana and enrolled at the Indiana University for college but left school in her senior year to pursue a career in broadcasting She settled in New York with hopes of working on Broadway making her debut in the chorus of the short lived Geoffrey O Hara musical Rogues and Vagabonds in 1930 Her appearances on Broadway were sporadic including the roles of Daphne in Arthur Schwartz s Virginia 1937 5 the Citizen of New Amsterdam in Knickerbocker Holiday 1938 1939 and a woman tourist in Key Largo 1939 6 She found regular employment performing after auditioning for a group called the Merry Macs 7 With the Merry Macs she appeared on Fred Allen s show and in the movie Love Thy Neighbor 4 8 Carroll left the group when it relocated to California she signed on with the Satisfiers only after the group promised to remain in New York Carroll was married to guitarist Carl Kress the couple had a son Rick who became a drummer and went on to become a professor of harmony at Berklee College of Music 7 Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers were regulars on Perry Como s Chesterfield Supper Club 9 which ran from 1944 to 1949 10 One of Chesterfield s long term advertising taglines was They Satisfy 11 12 and the Satisfiers were named on this basis 10 better source needed With or without Carroll the Satisfiers also backed Como on some recordings 13 Most of the group s recording on their own were made with trumpeter Russ Case s orchestra for instrumental accompaniment Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers recording of Old Buttermilk Sky reached 7 on the Billboard top selling retail records chart for November 23 1946 14 there was no unified Billboard Hot 100 chart yet but the retail sales chart is sometimes although not always considered the nearest approximation Billboard described the record as exhibiting easy flowing melodies and rhythms which fall easy on the ears making for a bright and breezy performance 15 This recording also appeared on Billboard s chart of songs most played on jukeboxes 16 Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers performed the theme song for the Little Lulu theatrical animated shorts The song was written by Buddy Kaye Fred Wise and Sidney Lippman for the series of which 26 episodes were produced by Famous Studios for Paramount Pictures between 1943 and 1948 Helen Carroll with an ad hoc group called the Swantones backed Frank Sinatra on one 1950 single Life is So Peculiar 17 18 Discography EditSingles Connee Boswell with the Satisfiers Who ll Lend Me A Rainbow Decca 18689 and When I Come Back Crying You Can t Say I Didn t Try Coral 60040 1945 Perry Como with the Satisfiers amp Russ Case Orchestra Dig You Later also titled A Hubba Hubba Hubba Victor 20 1750 October 1945 L il Abner Don t Marry That Girl The Boogie Woogie Barnyard with the Russ Case Orchestra Victor 20 1928 1946 19 Let s Sail to Dreamland Ole Buttermilk Sky note 1 with the Russ Case Orchestra Victor 20 1952 1946 20 Who d A Thunk It Why Oh Why Did I Ever Leave Wyoming with the Russ Case Orchestra Victor 20 2191 1947 21 Smoke Dreams note 2 Do You Love Me Just As Much As Ever with the Russ Case Orchestra RCA Victor 20 2300 1947 22 23 Love Is So Terrific Ouch Terrific Thing A Little Consideration with the Russ Case Orchestra RCA Victor 20 2672 1948 24 Shauny O Shea Little Lulu with the Russ Case Orchestra Victor 20 2673 1948 25 Big Brass Band from Brazil The Secretary Song Bidibi Bot Bot with the Russ Case Orchestra Victor 1948 26 Takin Miss Mary to the Ball note 3 Walk A Little Talk A Little with the Russ Case Orchestra RCA Victor 20 2868 1948 27 Raggedy Ann note 4 Highway to Love Victor 20 2915 1948 28 Compilations Auld Lang Syne featuring Beryl Davis with Russ Case amp His Orchestra on The Very Best of Beryl Davis 2012 Stardust Records 29 30 I m Always Chasing Rainbows featuring Perry Como on Adapting the Classics 2013 Sounds of Yesteryear 31 Perry Como At the Supper Club Perry Como At the Supper Club Part II Perry Como At the Supper Club Part III Jo Stafford at the Supper Club Jo Stafford at the Supper Club Part II Jo Stafford at the Supper Club Part IIICompilations Helen Carroll with the Swantones Life is So Peculiar note 5 featuring Frank Sinatra on Frank Sinatra Sings Songs From the Movies 2003 Sony Music Distribution 70081 32 References Edit Record Reviews Billboard Vol 59 no 23 June 14 1947 p 119 Retrieved December 28 2014 The Radio Annual Radio Daily 1948 p 845 Retrieved January 9 2017 Macfarlane Malcolm Crossland Ken 2012 Perry Como A Biography and Complete Career Record Reprint ed McFarland p 46 ISBN 978 0786471669 a b Helen Kress Remick amp Gendron Funeral Home Crematory 2011 Archived from the original on April 7 2011 Retrieved December 29 2014 Brooks Atkinson September 3 1937 THE PLAY Virginia Opens the Season With a Large Musical Drama at the Center Theatre Theatre Units Plays Tonight The New York Times p 13 Eugene Burr December 9 1939 Legitimate New Plays on Broadway BARRYMORE Billboard Vol 51 no 49 p 15 a b Helen Carroll Quits Indiana University For Career In Radio The Lincoln Star April 19 1948 p 40 Retrieved December 31 2014 via Newspapers com Helen Carroll at IMDb Perry Como and Jo Stafford Invite You To America s Biggest Weekly Radio Audience Life Vol 22 no 2 January 13 1947 p 78 Retrieved December 28 2014 a b Dunning John 1998 On the Air The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio Oxford University Press p 152 ISBN 978 0195076783 Retrieved January 2 2015 Chesterfield Ads Vintage Ads and Stuff Retrieved January 2 2015 Jim Shaw A source of Satisfaction Jim s Burnt Offerings Retrieved January 2 2015 Macfarlane amp Crossland 2012 Appendix A Perry Como On Record Retail Record Sales Billboard Vol 58 no 47 November 23 1946 p 26 Retrieved December 28 2014 Record Reviews and Possibilities Billboard Vol 28 no 41 October 12 1946 p 29 Retrieved December 28 2014 Juke Box Record Plays Billboard Vol 58 no 50 December 14 1946 p 30 Retrieved December 28 2014 Hombach Jean Pierre 2012 Frank Sinatra Hombach p 478 ISBN 978 1471631269 Retrieved January 2 2015 Life is So Peculiar at AllMusic Retrieved January 2014 Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers advertisement Billboard Vol 58 no 29 July 20 1946 p 28 Retrieved December 28 2014 Advance Information Billboard Vol 58 no 40 October 5 1946 p 30 Retrieved December 28 2014 Advance Information Billboard Vol 59 no 10 March 8 1947 p 29 Retrieved December 28 2014 Setting New Records advertisement Billboard Vol 59 no 21 May 31 1947 p 1 Retrieved December 28 2014 Advance Information Billboard Vol 59 no 21 May 31 1947 p 34 Retrieved December 28 2014 This Week s RCA Victor Release advertisement Billboard Vol 60 no 2 January 10 1948 p 19 Retrieved December 28 2014 This Week s RCA Victor Release advertisement Billboard January 24 1948 p 49 Retrieved December 28 2014 Record Reviews Billboard Vol 60 no 9 February 28 1948 p 34 Retrieved December 28 2014 This Week s RCA Victor Release advertisement Billboard Vol 60 no 23 June 5 1948 p 21 Retrieved December 28 2014 Musical Events The New Yorker Vol XXIV no 29 September 11 1948 p 80 The Very Best Of Beryl Davis product description Amazon com Retrieved December 29 2014 American record guide Vol 14 15 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation 1947 p 358 Retrieved January 1 2015 Adapting the Classics at AllMusic Retrieved January 2015 Frank Sinatra Sings Songs From the Movies at AllMusic Retrieved January 2015 Notes Edit From the film Canyon Passage Adapted from the Chesterfield Supper Club theme From the film On an Island with You From the 1923 musical Stepping 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