15 Facts About Connee Boswell

Constance Foore "Connee" Boswell was an American vocalist born in Kansas City, Missouri, but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Connee Boswell Sisters became stage professionals that year when they were tapped to fill in for an act at New Orleans' Orpheum Theatre.

In 1935, the Connee Boswell Sisters had a No 1 hit with "The Object of My Affection", the biggest of twenty top 20 records they would enjoy.

Connee Boswell continued to have a successful solo career as a singer for Decca but later recorded for the new Apollo label, RCA Victor, and Decca subsidiary, Design.

Connee Boswell sang in a number of Hollywood films, including It's All Yours, Artists and Models, Syncopation and Swing Parade of 1946, as well as with the Connee Boswell Sisters in 1932's The Big Broadcast and 1934's Moulin Rouge.

Connee Boswell was interviewed via phone by Bill Fisher on WOWO.

The general public was not aware of her condition, although Connee Boswell herself did not keep it a secret.

Connee Boswell was a favorite duet partner of Bing Crosby, and they frequently sang together on radio, as well as recording several hit records as a duo in the 1930s and 1940s.

In 1939, Crosby and Connee Boswell had three hit duet records that each climbed into the top 12 on Billboard; "An Apple for the Teacher" climbed all the way to No 2.

Connee Boswell had several dozen solo hits, including "Moonlight Mood".

Connee Boswell's last charted hit was "If I Give My Heart to You".

Connee Boswell's career slackened in the 1950s, but she still recorded occasionally, and was featured on a number of television broadcasts, including Jazz Party and a regular stint on the 1959 series Pete Kelly's Blues as "Savannah Brown".

Connee Boswell died on October 11,1976, from stomach cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City at age 68.

Connee Boswell was married to Harry Leedy and had no children.

Connee Boswell's life was chronicled in the 2006 documentary short subject Connee Boswell: Life Is a Song, produced by Austin, Texas-based independent filmmaker Randall Riley.