New York Times:
Connie Haines, a peppy, petite, big-voiced singer with a zippy, rhythmic style who most famously teamed up with Frank Sinatra as lead vocalists with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, then went on to a prolific career of her own, died on Monday in Clearwater Beach, Fla. She was 87. click for article
Washington Post
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) _ Big-band singer Connie Haines, who performed with Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1940s, has died. She was 87. Haines died Monday of a neuromuscular disease, according to Unity Church of Clearwater. Haines was born Yvonne Marie Antoinette JaMais in Savannah, Ga. She started singing when she was 5. As a teenager, she teamed with Sinatra on "Oh, Look at Me Now," "Snootie Little Cutie" and "You Might Have Belonged to Another" with the Dorsey band. Haines also made movies, appearing in "The Duchess of Idaho" in 1950. In the mid-1940s, she toured with comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. She also performed for presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. click for article
L.A. Times
Connie Haines, a petite and dynamic big band singer who performed alongside Frank Sinatra in the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey orchestras, died Monday in Clearwater, Fla. The cause of death was myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease. She was 87. Haines was best known as a singer with a knack for rhythm, and many of her most successful recordings -- 25 of which each sold more than 50,000 copies -- featured her crisp, swinging vocal style. click for article
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