[1] She was noted for performances with Tommy Dorsey (1939), Leo Reisman (1940–41), Artie Shaw (1940), Nat King Cole (1941–44), Jerry Wald (1942–43) and Hoagy Carmichael (1945).
She finally settled in the Miami area with her second husband, saxophonist, composer, audio engineer and mouthpiece maker Bobby Dukoff.
She began as a singer on the WMSK radio station in Dayton, Ohio, before enrolling in a voice course at Northwestern University in Chicago.
After briefly singing with Nat Shilkret from April 1940 and Leo Reisman from July 1940, in the September she joined Artie Shaw's band.
Boyer rejoined Reisman early in 1941, made several solo recordings, including "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" for Pal Joey,[5] and featured on CBS and NBC radio.
[9] While performing with Wald's band in Cleveland, Ohio the same month, $1800 in jewelry, $100 in war bonds, and two bankbooks were stolen from her room at the Carter Hotel.
After several performances with CBS, she left the industry for about a year, only briefly filling in as replacement vocalist for Helen Ward with the Hal McIntyre orchestra in the October.
In the summer of 1944 Boyer was singing with Jimmy Dorsey's band, and in the November she relocated to California with her husband, so he could pursue a composing career and radio work.
[2] Boyer and her husband finally settled in the Miami area, where Dukoff found work as both a musician and audio engineer,[13] opening a studio at their home in Kendall, Florida.