Artie Shaw ft Helen Forrest – Deep In A Dream (1938)

Words & Music by Eddie DeLange & Jimmy Van Heusen Recorded by Artie Shaw, 1938, Helen Forrest Vocals.

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 — December 30, 2004), commonly known by his stage name, Artie Shaw, was an American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. Also an author, Shaw wrote both fiction and non-fiction. Widely regarded as “one of jazz’s finest clarinetists,” Shaw led one of the United States’ most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the early 1940s. Their signature song, a 1938 version of Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine”, was a wildly successful single and one of the era’s defining recordings. Musically restless, Shaw was also an early proponent of Third Stream, which blended classical and jazz, and recorded some small-group sessions that flirted with be-bop before retiring from music in 1954.

Helen Forrest (April 12, 1917 — July 11, 1999) was an American singer. She served as the “girl singer” for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James), thereby earning a reputation as “the voice of the name bands.”