Mary Louise Tobin (1918-2022) - Find a Grave Memorial

Singer. She was an American jazz singer whose biggest hit was "There'll Be Some Changes Made." It stayed in second place on the charts for 15 weeks in 1941. At the age of 12 that she made her first amateur appearance with the North Texas Stage Band. She started her professional singing career in 1934. She was heard by John Hammond, a jazz critic and producer who introduced her to Benny Goodman. Some of the songs she sang and recorded included "Scatterbrain," "Comes Love," "Love Never Went to College," "What's New?," and "Blue Orchids." After taking some time away from her career to raise her children, she returned and accepted an invitation to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival. She was married to big band leader Harry James and Peanuts Hucko, a big band musician. She donated all of her and Peanuts arrangements, press clippings, programs, recordings, playbills, and photographs to create the Tobin-Hucko Jazz Collection at Texas A&M University-Commerce in 2008.

Bio by: Alan