Today’s NY Times reported on the death of Connie Haines, one of the most popular singers of the 1940s and best remembered for her work as a member of Tommy Dorsey’s Pied Pipers. Haines also played a role in Sinatra’s career several years earlier, in 1939, when she accompanied Harry James to hear Sinatra at a roadhouse called, “The Rustic Cabin,” on the fateful evening Sinatra was ‘discovered.’ Several years ago she penned an autobiography, Snootie Little Cutie: The Connie Haines Story.