Bob Allen

An American big band singer from the '30s and '40s, Bob Allen is most well-known for his role in the orchestra of Hal Kemp, where he was the so-called "power" vocalist, perhaps secondary in audience appeal to the "intimate" vocalist in the group. But it was enough of a launching pad for a subsequent series of his own ventures as a leader, none of which proved to be long running. The Bob Allen ...more