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    two years, became known as the Dorsey Brothers. The two younger siblings were Mary and Edward, who died young. Tommy Dorsey studied the trumpet with his...
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  • The Dorsey Brothers were an American studio dance band, led by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. They started recording in 1928 for OKeh Records. The Dorsey Brothers...
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    teacher and marching-band director. Both Jimmy and his younger brother, Tommy Dorsey, were musically active during their childhoods and by the age of seven...
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    1939 he left James to replace Jack Leonard as the lead singer of the Tommy Dorsey band. Sinatra earned $125 a week, appearing at the Palmer House in Chicago...
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  • became the official song of the U.S. State of Ohio. In January 1937, Tommy Dorsey recorded an instrumental jazz arrangement featuring Bunny Berigan on...
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    quartet The Hoboken Four and with the orchestras of Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, launched a solo career in 1943, signing with Columbia Records; his debut...
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  • song in 1940 for both The Ink Spots on Decca and Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra on RCA Victor, both versions reaching No. 3 in Billboard in...
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  • Fabulous Dorseys is a 1947 American musical biopic film directed by Alfred E. Green. It tells the story of the brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, from their...
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    playing jazz in 1937, working with acts such as Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Harry James. From 1942 to 1944, Rich served in the...
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  • Thomas Dorsey may refer to: Tom Dorsey (1927-1939), Pseudonym for Columbia Recording Artist Dan Hornsby Tommy Dorsey (1905–1956), bandleader and jazz...
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    Little Cutie" was recorded by Frank Sinatra and Connie Haines with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and the Pied Pipers. In 1946, Nat King Cole had a hit with...
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  • I Remember Tommy... is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1961. It was recorded as a tribute to bandleader Tommy Dorsey, and consists of re-recorded...
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  • by Roy Del Ruth, starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, and Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. It is based on the 1939 stage musical of the same...
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    American singer who performed from 1935 to 1939 with the band led by Tommy Dorsey. Wright grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey. Wright debuted on radio...
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    suggestive manner". Impeccable with his dress and cleanliness, while with the Tommy Dorsey band he developed the nickname "Lady Macbeth", because of frequent showering...
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  • on South Street (1953). By 1949, versions by Vic Damone, Doris Day, Tommy Dorsey, Gordon Jenkins, Vera Lynn, Art Mooney, and Mel Tormé all made the Billboard...
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  • Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Earl Hines, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, Glenn Miller...
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    popularity, by 1936, RCA Victor pressed a double-sided version that featured Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman on respective sides. By 1940 the song was considered...
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    throughout the 1940s, both under their own name and in association with Tommy Dorsey, with Johnny Mercer and with Frank Sinatra. Originally, the group consisted...
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    Selling Retail Records number-one single was "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. Featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra and the vocal group...
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  • needed] By the 1930s, Swing bands such as Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Louis Jordan all had boogie hits. By the 1950s, boogie became incorporated...
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  • including one by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (vocal by Jack Leonard) recorded on May 1, 1939 on Victor Records (catalog No. 26259). The Dorsey version was...
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    originally hosted on alternate weeks by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Produced by Jackie Gleason, it included the first national television...
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    such as Frank Sinatra and Connie Haines with Tommy Dorsey, Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, Billie Holiday...
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  • I'm Getting Sentimental over You (category Tommy Dorsey songs)
    "I'm Getting Sentimental over You" is a song recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. The words were written by Ned Washington and the music was written...
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  • Ryan Keith Dorsey (born July 19, 1983) is an American actor, known for playing Earl on Justified and Duquesne “Dime Bag” Baker on Ray Donovan. His personal...
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    backed by the Brunswick Studio Orchestra directed by Victor Young, with Tommy Dorsey on trombone and Larry Gomar on drums. The song was first published on...
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  • it featured a stellar supporting cast of musical legends, including Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman (with Al Hendrickson as cameo), Louis Armstrong, Lionel...
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    billed second to Van Heflin. Dane married bandleader Tommy Dorsey in Las Vegas on April 8, 1943. Dorsey did not want his wife to work, and she took a break...
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  • Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra is a 1998 compilation album by the American singer Frank Sinatra. The three-CD set contains recordings from...
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