Publisher's Synopsis
This is the story of Helen Day, her deep love for music, and her tenacious efforts to keep that love alive for more than eighty years.
Helen Day was born in 1923 to a poor family in rural Indiana. Helen dreamt of playing in the school band but had no means to acquire an instrument - until her domestic-worker mom rescued a clarinet from the trash. Two years later Helen's band director lent her the school's saxophone. She fell in love. In 1942, at age 19, Helen began an 11-year career on the road. Even when she left the road to be a 1950s housewife, Helen never left music. It was her everything; her heart and soul. After nearly two decades of practicing and waiting to perform, Helen joined a local pick-up group - and was never without a band again! In 1989 Helen began her second musical heyday that lasted 31 more years. This is Helen's story.
