Helen Ward (1913-1998) was a singer of swing music perhaps best known for singing in Benny Goodman's first band. She would be one of the first popular swing "girl singers", as they were then called, and among Goodman's most popular. Before working with Goodman her father had taught her piano and she appeared on radio. While performing with Benny Goodman she and Benny had a brief romance and he came very close to proposing marriage to her in either 1935 or 36 but, according to Ward in the documentary Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing, he called it off at the last minute, citing his career.

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