An American singer, performer, and actress during the 1930s until the 1960s. Helen Grayco was most famous for appearances with husband Spike Jones on The Spike Jones Show in the 1950s and the 1960s. She is also the mother of actor and producer Spike Jones, Jr. and Leslie Ann Jones, a Grammy award-winning recording engineer.

Grayco was born Helen Greco on September 20, 1924 in Tacoma, Washington. She was the tenth of eleven children. Her parents were both Italian. Grayco's father owned a grocery store which bankrupt during the Great Depression. Grayco got her first singing gig when she was 8-years-old in the early 1930s. The gig was singing for a show called The Carnival Hour, a variety show that aired on local Los Angeles radio station KHJ. She was then hired to do an appearance on a local variety program in Seattle, Washington. Shortly after, she was discovered by Bing Crosby. Crosby and his brothers, who were also all natives of Tacoma, heard her on the program and reportedly Crosby said that "...she sings Hollywood!" Crosby gave her a job in Hollywood and soon later her family moved to Los Angeles. She began to earn a weekly income of $75 a week.

After her engagement with Crosby ended, in 1935 Grayco appeared in a non-speaking part in a scene alongside Allan Jones in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film A Night at the Opera starring the Marx Brothers. In 1938, Joe Pasternak of Universal Studios signed 13-year-old Grayco on to replace Deanna Durbin as Universal's leading child star. During the short stay she had at Universal, (she was there for several months before her contract expired), she appeared in a small role in the Durbin-starred film That Certain Age.

Before her famous collaboration, (and eventual marriage), to singer Spike Jones, Grayco had worked with the bands of Chuck Cascalas, Chuck Cabot and Red Nichols. But before Jones, Grayco's big break came when she began traveling with the band of Stan Kenton. She was attending high school at the time when she went with Kenton on a cross-country bus tour. The bus tour took Grayco from Los Angeles to the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. Grayco's first single was not released until 1949. Her two most memorable albums were After Midnight in 1957 and The Lady in Red in 1958, the last album Grayco ever released.

She would continue to sing in various venues for about the next ten years. Her last appearance in the public arena was on a 1968 episode of The Dean Martin Show. Grayco's first marriage was to Spike Jones. in 1949. Spike Jones died on May 1, 1965 due to emphysema, putting an end to their nearly 16 years of marriage. Grayco remarried in 1968 to Bill Rosen. Rosen was a restaurateur who owned a restaurant named "Gatsby's" in New York City. She moved to New York with him. She moved back to Los Angeles with Rosen when he opened a restaurant called "Gatsby's in L.A.". Rosen died in 2002 making Grayco widowed for a second time.

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