Stuart Foster

Stuart Foster (born Tamer Aswad, born June 30, 1918 in Binghamton , New York , † February 7, 1968 ) was an American crooner .

Foster had Armenian ancestry. In the early 1940s he sang in the band of Ina Ray Hutton (with whom he performed in the roof garden of the Astor Hotel in New York). In 1944 he teamed up with Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians . In 1945 he was the winner of the survey by the jazz magazine Down Beat regarding the questioning of the reader polls related to band singers. From 1945 he sang for three and a half years in Tommy Dorsey's band , with whom he also recorded the song Something's Gotta Give .

He played himself in the 1947 film The Fabulous Dorseys . In the 1950s, he worked with composer and arranger Gordon Jenkins .

Since 1946 Foster was married to Patricia "Bubbles" Louie of the Kim Loo Sisters (also known as the Chinese Andrew Sisters ), with whom he had a son. The artist died of a heart attack at the age of 49.

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↑ Life data according to Internet Movie Database. Dates of birth also according to Kinkle The complete encyclopedia of Pop Music and Jazz 1900-1950 , 1974, Library of Congress . Other dates are also given for the date of death; January 1968 is given in the US Social Security Index .
↑ George Simon The Big Bands , Schirmer 1981, p. 261

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SURNAME	Foster, Stuart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Aswad, Tamer (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American crooner
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Binghamton , New York
DATE OF DEATH	7th February 1968

[1] Life data according to Internet Movie Database. Dates of birth also according to Kinkle The complete encyclopedia of Pop Music and Jazz 1900-1950 , 1974, Library of Congress . Other dates are also given for the date of death; January 1968 is given in the US Social Security Index .

[2] George Simon The Big Bands , Schirmer 1981, p. 261