Robert Haymes also known under the stage name

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s Robert Stanton and Bob Stanton, was an American

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 singer, songwriter

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, actor

Actor

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 and radio

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 and television host. He is best remembered today for co-writing the song "That's All

That's All

"That's All" is a 1952 song written by Alan Brandt and Bob Haymes. It has been covered by many jazz and blues artists. The song is part of the Great American Songbook...

", considered part of the Great American Songbook

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. He was the younger brother of singer and actor Dick Haymes

Dick Haymes

Richard Benjamin "Dick" Haymes was an Argentine actor and one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, who was an actor, television host, and songwriter....

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Haymes was born in White Plains, New York

White Plains, New York

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 to parents of Irish

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 descent from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He had an older brother by seven years, Dick Haymes, who was born when the family was still in Argentina, and who would later achieve great fame as an actor and singer.
Haymes began his career in the early 1940s as a vocalist in the bands of Carl Hoff and Bob Chester

Bob Chester

Bob Chester was an American jazz and pop music bandleader and tenor saxophonist.Chester's stepfather ran General Motors's Fisher Body Works. He began his career as a sideman under Irving Aaronson, Ben Bernie, and Ben Pollack. He formed his own group in Detroit in 1939, with a Glenn...

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In 1942 Haymes began work, under the name "Bob Stanton", for the radio show Gillette Cavalcade of Sports

Gillette Cavalcade of Sports

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