Talk:Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers

"Helen Marcovivvi Carroll"?

I have a Helen Carroll appearing with Helen Carroll and the Swantones in a 1950 recording backing Sinatra on one song ("Life is So Peculiar"). It seems likely that this would be our Helen Carroll (Helen Kress, né Fulk) since:

• The style is right, our Helen Carroll would be the type of singer to back Sinatra.
• The time is right, 1950 would fit fine with a time when our Helen Carroll had finished working with the Satisfiers (since the Chesterfield show ended in late 1949) but was still in New York and looking for show business work (before she retired to go into hospital work).
• And AllMusic's Helen Carroll page, sparse as it is, has this song mixed in with songs that we know are by our Helen Carroll.

But on the other hand, at the same AllMusic gives the singer's name for "Life is So Peculiar" as Helen Marcovivvi Carroll. Following that we see there's a separate page for an Andrea Marcovicci ("Marcovivvi" is pretty clearly a misspelling of "Marcovicci"). Andrea Marcovicci is a singer and according to her Wikipedia article her mother is named Helen Marcovicci (né Stuart) and is a singer. And here is an album of her singing that Andrea put out (I think). And based on Andrea Marcovicci being born in 1948, and the picture and track listing on Helen Marcovicci, we could say that:

• The style is right, this seems the kind of singer who could back Sinatra.
• The timing is right, it seems that Helen Marcovicci could easily have been active in 1950.
• And after all, AllMusic's Helen Carroll page does give a "Helen Marcovivvi [sic, presumably] Carroll" as the singer with the Swantones on the Sinatra song.

Still, aside for the one AllMusic entry, there's no other evidence that Helen Marcovicci ever went under the name "Helen Carroll" All in all, I think that AllMusic just made a mistake and I'm pretty confident that the Helen Carroll of Helen Carroll and the Swantones is our Helen Fulk - Kress - Carroll. So that's what I've said in the article. (I don't think that Helen Marcovicci had a recording or other contract in 1950 such that she couldn't use her real name. The record makes might have wanted to anglicize her name, but if that's the case, they could have used her maiden name/previous stage name, which turns out to be "Helen Stuart". (BTW the "Swantones" seem to have existed just for that one recording, which doesn't make looking this up any easier.)

Update: I created the article Helen Stuart for Helen Marcovicci. It doesn't answer the question of who sang backup on the Sinatra record though. Herostratus (talk) 00:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

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