# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louise-tobin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:02:47.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louise-tobin"
name: "Louise Tobin"
slug: "louise-tobin"
description: "Mary Louise Tobin was an American jazz singer and musician. She appeared with Benny Goodman, Bobby Hackett, Will Bradley, and Jack Jenney. Tobin introduced \"I Didn't Know What Time It Was\" with Goodman's band in 1939. Her biggest hit with Goodman was \"There'll Be Some Changes Made\", which was number two on Your Hit Parade in 1941 for 15 weeks. Tobin was the first wife of trumpeter and bandleader Harry James, with whom she had two sons."
tagline: "American singer (1918–2022)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1918-11-11"
deathDate: "2022-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.15
  momentum:             17.36151603498542
  historical:           6.830528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1897657"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "لويز توبين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Tobin"
    title: "Louise Tobin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Tobin"
    title: "Louise Tobin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Tobin"
    title: "Louise Tobin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Tobin"
    title: "Louise Tobin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Tobin"
    title: "Louise Tobin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fa780719-906d-4201-b6b0-8bdfbae18787"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1833209"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump