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Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. (November 19, 1905 - November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely popular and highly successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s.
Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr. was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the second of four children born to Thomas Francis Dorsey, Sr. and Theresa (née Langton) Dorsey. The Dorsey brothers' two younger siblings were Mary and Edward (who died young). At age 15, Jimmy Dorsey recommended his brother Tommy as the replacement for Russ Morgan in the germane 1920s territory band "The Scranton Sirens." Tommy and Jimmy worked in several bands, including those of Tal Henry, Rudy Vallee, Vincent Lopez, Nathaniel Shilkret, and especially Paul Whiteman. In 1929, the Dorsey Boys had their first hit with "Coquette" for OKeh records. The Dorsey Brothers band signed with Decca records in 1934, having a hit with "I Believe In Miracles". Future bandleader Glenn Miller was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in 1934 and 1935, composing "Annie's Cousin Fanny" and "Dese Dem Dose" both recorded for Decca for the band. Ongoing acrimony between the brothers, however, led to Tommy Dorsey's walking out to form his own band in 1935, just as the orchestra was having a hit with "Every Little Moment."
Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of American music that developed in the early 1930s and became a distinctive style by 1935. Swing uses a strong rhythm section of double bass and drums as the anchor for a lead section of brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets, and sometimes stringed instruments such as violin and guitar, medium to fast tempos, and a "lilting" swing time rhythm.The name swing came from the phrase ‘swing feel’ where the emphasis is on the off–beat or weaker pulse in the music ( unlike classic music). Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of big bands and bandleaders such as Benny Goodman and Count Basie was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1945, a period known as the Swing Era.
The verb "to swing" is also used as a term of praise for playing that has a strong rhythmic "groove" or drive.
The styles of jazz that were popular from the late teens through the late 1920s were usually played with rhythms with a two beat feel, and often attempted to reproduce the style of contrapuntal improvisation developed by the first generation of jazz musicians in New Orleans. In the late 1920s, however, larger ensembles using written arrangements became the norm, and a subtle stylistic shift took place in the rhythm, which developed a four beat feel with a smoothly syncopated style of playing the melody, while the rhythm section supported it with a steady four to the bar.
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra, /sɨˈnɑːtrə/, (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and film actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.
He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 (finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".
Tommy Dorsey - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Tommy Dorsey & Artie shaw (Swingstation) Two original mono album with new stereo sound
Tommy Dorsey, "Marie"
"SONG OF INDIA" BY TOMMY DORSEY
Opus One - 1943 Stereo - Tommy Dorsey
TOMMY DORSEY- BOOGIE WOOGIE
Boogie Woogie - Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey : OPUS ONE
Tommy Dorsey Swing Band 1943
Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra - THE ONE I LOVE
I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN ~ Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra (1940)
Song Of India - Tommy Dorsey
Frank Sinatra - Blue Skies 1941 Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Tommy Dorsey - Manhattan Serenade
Actors: Robert Nichols (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), George Chandler (actor), Dick Gilbert (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Jerome Cowan (actor), Gil Frye (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Tom Drake (actor), Michael Ross (actor), Norm Prescott (actor),
Plot: A radio disc jockey is about to lose his program's sponsor because the sponsor believes that television viewing is cutting down the size of the listening audience for radio programs, and those featuring platter-spinning radio disc jockeys. He sets out to prove otherwise and calls on twenty-eight disc jockeys in major cities across the United States to help prove his contention.
Keywords: 1950s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-name-with-character, actress-shares-last-name-with-character, archive-footage, atlanta-georgia, audience-competitionActors: Danny Kaye (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Roy Darmour (actor), Louis Armstrong (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Hugh Herbert (actor), William Haade (actor), Felix Bressart (actor), J. Edward Bromberg (actor), Edward Biby (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Nolan Leary (actor), Paul Langton (actor),
Plot: Gangster's moll Honey Swanson goes into hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. Where better to hide than a musical research institute staffed entirely by lonely bachelors? She gets more than she bargained for when the head of the institute Professor Hobart Frisbee starts to fall for her.
Keywords: remake, remake-by-original-directorActors: George Murphy (actor), Louis Mason (actor), Eddie Lee (actor), Wilbur Mack (actor), Charles Judels (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Arno Frey (actor), Ben Blue (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Dell Henderson (actor), Robert Emmett O'Connor (actor),
Plot: Broadway producer Johnny Demming courts big-name talent for his upcoming musical show, oblivious to the talent all around him, in his family and friends. When Johnny finally lands Hollywood star Helen Hoyt for his cast, Helen herself tries opening Johnny's eyes to the talents of his dad and sister. But Johnny remains adamant. Will his family and friends launch their own show, in competition with Johnny's?
Keywords: actress, backstage, barn, based-on-stage-musical, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, broadway-musical, brother-sister-relationship, connecticut, contortionist, danceActors: Ben Hall (actor), Christian J. Frank (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Sig Arno (actor), Jack Byron (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), William Forrest (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Edward Cooper (actor), Maurice Costello (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Harry Hayden (actor),
Plot: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Keywords: 18th-century, aristocrat, arrow, based-on-play, cake, character-name-in-title, chase, cigarette-girl, coat-check, crushActors: Henry O'Neill (actor), George Offerman Jr. (actor), Peter Lawford (actor), Richard Kipling (actor), Spec O'Donnell (actor), Roger Moore (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Guy Kibbee (actor), Howard Freeman (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Fred Coby (actor), Frank Jaquet (actor), Victor Potel (actor),
Plot: Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray (Garland), who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...
Keywords: american-indian, american-southwest, arizona, automobile, based-on-stage-musical, beauty-contest, birthday, birthday-cake, birthday-party, boxingActors: James Flavin (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Mark Daniels (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Jack Daley (actor), Russ Clark (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Jules Cowles (actor), Joel Fluellen (actor),
Plot: Constance Shaw is a dance star on Broadway, Joseph Rivington Reynolds is a keen fan of her. After she is fed up with her friend, she meets Joseph and marries him, because she thinks he is the owner of a mine. But that's a missunderstanding, he works at a cleaning shop. After disturbing rehearsals he is thrown out of the theater, but when he sneaks in again, he discovers his boss talking about a bomb they want to set in the theater to blow up an ammunition store next door.
Keywords: actor, bomb, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, bumbler, charity-bazaar, chase, class-distinction, dancer, deception, druggingActors: Henry Sylvester (actor), Gus Schilling (actor), Al Murphy (actor), Richard Carlson (actor), Leonid Kinskey (actor), Carl M. Leviness (actor), Alberto Morin (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Frank Coghlan Jr. (actor), Bill Cartledge (actor), Van Heflin (actor), Wally Cassell (actor), Charles Walters (actor), William Tannen (actor),
Plot: Talented small-town girl Lily Mars hounds producer John Thornway for a part in his new play, but he doesn't want anything to do with stage-struck amateurs. But when Lily follows him to New York, he gets to know her better and his opinion of her changes for the better. Then, when the leading lady of the play walks out, Lily gets her big break on Broadway.
Keywords: actress, ambition, ballet, based-on-novel, boardinghouse, character-name-in-title, charwoman, dancer, doorknob, empire-state-building-manhattan-new-york-cityActors: Russell Hicks (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Martin Garralaga (actor), Baldwin Cooke (actor), Philip Ahn (actor), Harry Depp (actor), John Dilson (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor), James Conaty (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), Mark Daniels (actor), Arthur Stuart Hull (actor),
Plot: Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved. The enemy agents got the plan from a pulp novel written by Kibble, who is also on the ship and falls for her. But then she overhears his new novel and believes that he is talking about her. So when they leave the boat, she ignores him, but somehow, the bags get switched and he gets the magnetic mine - which she must later retrieve. It is mainly a Tommy Dorsey showcase with Sinatra singing - Powell dancing - and a small plot.
Keywords: author, bandleader, big-band, coin, dancer, doctor, eavesdropping, gunfire, hotel, hotel-detectiveActors: Richard Keene (actor), Brandon Hurst (actor), Payne B. Johnson (actor), Warren Hymer (actor), Harry Barris (actor), John Gallaudet (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Brian Donlevy (actor), Louis Armstrong (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor), Duke Ellington (actor), Roscoe Ates (actor), Cecil Kellaway (actor),
Plot: Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Keywords: african-american, cultural-conflict, jazz, movie-theater, murder, musician, new-orleans-louisiana, scat-singingActors: Victor Potel (actor), Earle Hodgins (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Henry Kolker (actor), Jack Mulhall (actor), Bob Perry (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Richard Carle (actor), Jimmie Dundee (actor), Fred Graham (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), William Hall (actor), John Sheehan (actor), Ralph Sanford (actor),
Genres: Musical,