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18 THE SUNDAY RECORD CALL. PECEMFEU 15, 1063 Helen In That Great Disc Background i Ken 3rt i Wallace -j i 1 i -h 1 A '(! country, top writers, arrangers and brilliant stars. "Bat it's not like being behind footlights. You know, these recording that you're a part if something great yo'j ku.iw s.fneone's going to hear ou but ho knows it's you? They cant t.e you." Will slie go li Bread way and musical tage "I'd go tomorrow if they'd have me." Helen She's part the Operation Talent pro. ram in Teano.k ami docs shows for school clii'-ilren.

She's to do a concert for the Women's Guild of the Bergen Philharmonic in the spring. And does" she think her love of show biz and her husband Hal's close relationships in a kindred field have had an effect en her With Randy, I don't think so," Helen mused. "He hues track and has his mind en gong to college next year. Bat with Jenna! Give her slightest opening and she'll make everyone pay full attention to her. If anything, she's more of a ham than her mother! mmher!" and Hal Miles of Teaneck ten id the tap op ists.

i 1 1 Ml SIC The life of 11 tcrs around music. He's one 1 I a A. -'W O. i'aaMni ii as i kMSsia'T STARTS WED." FAN Helen Miles' first admirer is daughter Jenna, a liani herself, watching mother at a practice seiaii. AREA SHOWING r- a iva! contractor, of-Vred her onpor! unity hivoTn.ru a group Helen and Hal agreed v.ou'd be gM therapy, ie's death.

Hal's i nt.uts helped, tin. but it was atter readings, with Mis inter Borghi a pr.a'e Ufe i that became a part of this select group. Highly Paid Helen is fortunate she tan handle either oprano-or alto-keyed i.iging. which naturally brines her more cat's than a singer with limited range. Pay for the studio group singe is high average is from S17 to S3l an hour, depending upon how large a group is engaged.

That's for recordings. Doing a TV commercial cuts down the hourly pay but because of the residuals the income really rolls in. Being a studio srtuip singer isn't all as easy as it sounds. The singer, first of all. must be a highly-trained technician and an excellent musician.

She must be capable of reading in the spot. Going to a recording session, the singer is expected and better had! provide that choral backup on a minute's notice. In other words, they've got to convert the score shoved under their noses into pleasing musical harmony within seconds. Becaue of the specialization, it's a limited field. Helen's worked with many of the big recording Mars, Kd Ames, Perry Como.

Kohrrf Coulet. just to mention a few and most recently with Her sehel Bernard, -tar of the current "Zorba!" he's worked for big orchestra groups and in several TV commercials, too and now Helen is even doing some contracting on her own. Jem-Vale, for whom her husband Today Ar 130 3 30 "RUMPELSTIUTSKIN" Today A' 5 00 8 00 -d i STARTS WfO. YELLOW Taylor Lilli Palmer I a ill 1111111 'fcufc 1 v.l 0 Shirley MocLaioc ''I an.i ha several people in own lupyiiK sen ice a ir.o; r.ecosarx hr.k between arranger and the whether r. be in show pits, id.r.g for a record, or in any of the kindred i.t Hal has originally been a and played with the Buddy Morrow and Char-be Barnett bands among others.

Tragic Interlude Married to Hal. Helen decided to quit the theater and devote herself to family after the birth of Leslie in 1939. Several years later, Leslie was to be a tragic episode in the life of the Miles; Leslie died at 9, the victim of leukemia. A first grader (the family-lived in Teaneck) when they first discovered his malady, Leslie was seriously ill for 18 months before his death last year. Helen can speak of those sorrowful months in objective terms now.

"It consumed us," she said, telling how the whole family keed itself and steeled for the inevitable. Helen also had a daughter. Jenna, born in and now a first grader at Whittic-r School. Helen had resumed working with the County Players before Lelie became ill and directed, among others. "Dark At The Top of the Stair "Middle of the Night." and "Invitation to a Waltz." and in 1964 she played the lead role for the little theater group in "Kind It was about the time that doctors gave the Mileses the bad news about Leslie.

Helen dropped everything else to devote full time to her son. Helen had wide singing and musical training and education during her career. When puce or iJ 9 tt I MSS. BLOSSOM 40 7 00 10 ts also ri "BEKJAMIK" 2 oo 20 45 jf EXCLUSIVE V. 0 i Ti v.

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Helen takes "there's always somctliing to learn and we must keep on top." she says, adding that hoa-s of practice i believe it or not, operatic arias arc her at home frrte) keep singers in control of diaphagm ar.d throat and stomach muscles. The truth is. however, that Helen's nn; Admittedlv a ham of the NIGHT CF THE MVISG DED" p'u p. "CR WHO AND THE OALEKS" ele: hiss Ci-uf crr-i -i INSANELY fUNNV. JANE FCNOA IN "BARBARELLA" IN TKCH FOR AIH'LK COM WED.

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ma: have a ordered every time joj rteard a h.t record about thoo wonderful but anonymous voces vhich provide the wondrous background music. First discovery is that this is a tight, little colcrie of delicately trained and highly paid specialists. They are zealous professionals, intensely proud of their acceptance into a guarded circle and singers who can make, or break, this lucrative and somewhat wild record-producing market. One of them is Helen Miles of Teaneck. Mrs.

Miles is a pro in every sense of the word. Born in Paterson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Weiss, who still live on Tenth Avenue there, she always wanted a career in show business and right after East Side High graduation she dove head first into show biz. Using the name Helen Whitney for professional purposes, sho got her first job with Max Licb-man (he later did TVs famed "Show of This musical production floundered on the road but it convinced Helen more than ever this was to be her life.

In Several Musicals She's been in it now for nearly a quarter-century. As a singer-dancer-actress, she followed the first venture with jobs in "High Button Shoes," "Miss Liberty," (a Berlin classic), and "Call Me Madam" among them, doing both supporting roles and acting as standby for the stars. It was while in "High Button Shoes" in which she occasionally played the lead although Nanette Fabray was billed as star that she married and it was while in "Call Me Madam" as understudy to Ethel Merman, that she gave birth to her first child, a son Bandy, now 17 and a Teaneck High student who is manager of that school's track team. Living then in Fair Lawn and temporarily out of the professional field, Helen became involved wiith the Bergen County Players. She directed several shows for them but in 1956, with Randy then 5, she went back into pro work and had parts in "Happy Hunting," "Oh Captain," with Tony Randall and Susan Johnson, and in which she took over the lead a year later.

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