Day said: " During this long, boring period, I used to while away a lot of time listening to the radio, sometimes singing along with the likes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller [...].

In turn Dorsey said his trombone style was heavily influenced by that of Jack Teagarden.

Ted Lewis said that Murray was the greatest clarinetist he ever had in his band — high praise indeed since Jimmy Dorsey and Benny Goodman had also been in Lewis's band.

" No, his name was Gerry Dorsey, and he released songs as Gerry Dorsey ... And then his managers, obviously, said, " We're going to change your name, Gerry!

In his eulogy, Judge Peter Dorsey said in retrospect " the blizzard was the best thing that happened " to Meskill, since it caused him to pursue a judicial career instead of continuing a career seeking elective office

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The following week, veteran road racer Dorsey Schroeder would relieve Allison, but he could only manage a 20th place finish.

Martin's rough-hewn singing style, combined with the enthusiastic physicality of the Holiness church, nearly kept her from working with Dorsey, who looked down on the shouting style of many Holiness singers and was reluctant to hire a singer who could not read music.

Although Coleman was apparently killed in Florida Roadkill, he seems to be a favorite character of author Dorsey ; he appeared in Triggerfish Twist ( set in between chapters of Roadkill ), and it could be argued that Lenny Lipowicz ( from The Stingray Shuffle and Cadillac Beach ) was simply Coleman by another name.

Martin nonetheless persuaded Dorsey, after three auditions, to hire her as part of a trio he had formed to introduce his songs to churches.

Jo Stafford, one of the sisters, joined the Tommy Dorsey band in 1940 and persuaded Dorsey to hire Dennis as arranger and composer.

He defended the title eight times, including a knockout in 11 against Grove in a rematch, a draw against former world champion Stevie Cruz and a split decision against future world champion Troy Dorsey.

* Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers sign with the newly-formed Capitol Records, ( having broken from the Tommy Dorsey band in 1942 )

* Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers join the Tommy Dorsey orchestra.

Others who played with Dorsey were drummers Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Dave Tough saxophonist Tommy Reed, and singers Frank Sinatra, Jack Leonard, Edythe Wright, Jo Stafford with The Pied Pipers, Dick Haymes

and Connie Haines In 1944, Dorsey hired The Sentimentalists who replaced The Pied Pipers.

Around Thanksgiving, 1942, Tommy Dorsey ( who was prone to incidents of bad temper ) became angry at one of the Pipers for sending him in the wrong direction at a railroad station in Portland, Oregon, and fired him.

At that moment, the # 1 record on the charts was There Are Such Things sung by Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers, the last RCA record they did with Dorsey.

Stafford and Weston had first met in 1938, when he was working as an arranger for Tommy Dorsey ; Weston was responsible for getting Stafford's group, the Pied Pipers, an audition with Dorsey for his radio show.

The Four Freshmen is a multiple ( six ) Grammy-nominated American male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmonic jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires ( Glenn Miller ), The Pied Pipers ( Tommy Dorsey ), and The Mel-Tones ( Artie Shaw ), founded in the barbershop tradition.

In the same year, Troup's song " Snootie Little Cutie " was recorded by Frank Sinatra and Connie Haines with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and the Pied Pipers.

MGM released the song to record companies even before shooting was finished on the film, and it became an instant hit dominating the airwaves through the summer and fall of 1945, with versions by Bing Crosby with Six Hits and a Miss, Judy Garland and The Merry Macs, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with the Sentimentalists, and, the most popular, Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers.

Vern and his brother Clark ( guitarist with Mal Halet and Tommy Dorsey vocalist with The Pied Pipers ) grew up singing and playing instruments in Pennsylvania Dutch Country until they were seduced by jazz.

Lewis's clarinet playing barely evolved beyond his style of 1919 which in later years would sound increasingly corny, but Lewis certainly knew what good clarinet playing sounded like, for he hired musicians like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, and Don Murray to play clarinet in his band.

He loses himself in an old Tommy Dorsey love song, the one he would share with Vinnie.

This changed in the mid-1950s, when two breeders, Marion Dorsey of Rai-Mar Cattery in California and Helen Smith of MerryMews Cattery in New York, decided that they would commence a breeding program for these longhaired cats.

He and Jimmy, his older brother by slightly less than two years, would become famous as the " Dorsey Brothers ".

For several months, Jimmy continued leading the band, keeping the Dorsey Brothers name, hoping that his younger brother would return, but he did not.

After work they would go back to Memphis, where they would perform those and other songs at local bars, with a varying array of sidemen, including another former Golden Gloves champion named Paul Burlison, whom Dorsey had met at an amateur boxing tournament in Memphis in 1949.

Dorsey had provided that, after Davis ' death, Beauvoir would go to his daughter.

Grimaldis in particular shows his small scale table pieces and works in bronze, which, as noted by John Dorsey in the Baltimore Sun, " is in a line of work that descends from the 1960s and that grew out of Caro's desire to create table pieces that would not be seen as merely smaller versions of large sculptures.

On 1981-01-23, the Angels traded him to the Boston Red Sox along with Jim Dorsey and Joe Rudi for Steve Renko and Fred Lynn ( whom the Red Sox worried they would lose to free agency due to paperwork errors ).

Tommy Dorsey would have seventeen number one hits while Jimmy Dorsey would have ten after they formed their own orchestras in 1935.

In August 2008, it was reported that the Bengals were interested in trading Johnson for a " top receiver " to shore up their battered receiving corps, which would leave Chris Perry as the new feature back and either Kenny Watson or DeDe Dorsey as his backup.

Burke went on to train other point and figure gurus, such as Thomas Dorsey who would go on to write authoritative texts on the subject.

Vern left home two weeks before high school graduation to go on the road with Floyd Mills and the Marylanders and would subsequently play with many big bands, including Tal Henry, Bob Chester, Tony Cabot, Casa Nova, Red Nichols, Chico Marx, Tommy Dorsey, and Boyd Raeburn.

In an interview with columnist Tom Dorsey of The Courier-Journal just prior to the end of his radio show in 1993, Metz would only say, " Let's just say I'm older than Diane Sawyer and younger than Mike Wallace.

During the 1870s, the gang would include some of the most notorious gangsters of the era, including Red Rocks Farrell, Slops ( also sometimes known as Clops ) Connolly, " Big " Josh Hines, Hoggy Walsh, Piker Ryan, Dorsey Doyle, Bull Hurley, Fig McGerald, and Googy Corcoran.

Six months later Dorsey would conclusively avenge that blemish in a very one-sided rematch which effectively ended Garcia's 8 year reign and ushering him into retirement.

Dorsey would drop Demenchuk no less than 6 times before finally knocking his opponent out.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

His early band was considered to be more jazz-oriented than his brother's, and recordings of some instrumental swing classics soon followed: Dorsey Stomp, Tap Dancer's Nightmare, Parade of the Milk Bottle Caps, John Silver, and Dusk in Upper Sandusky.

Scotty, Bill and DJ also provide vocals for the chorus, as can be seen clearly in the recordings of the broadcast, rather than the Jordanaires, who began working with Elvis after he left Sun for RCA, but months after the Dorsey Brothers performance.

In the scene set in the principal's office, the Harry Dorsey Gough ( see Perry Hall Mansion ) coat-of-arms that once hung in the main lobby can be seen through the doorway.

With the return of the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade in an updated form along with the brand new Walt Disney World Main Street Electrical Parade, a new version of Jean Jeaque Perry & Gershgon Kingsley's " Baroque Hoedown " was created in 1977 to be used with both parades respectively featuring an updated rendition of Barque Hoedown recorded by Don Dorsey.

The original line can be heard in several early recordings of the song, such as a recording made by Dorsey Brothers & their Orchestra ( featuring a vocal by a young Bing Crosby ), Rudy Vallée, both in 1928, and a version of the song by the singer and well-known broadway star Mary Martin ( with Ray Sinatra's orchestra ), recorded in 1944.

Among his productions, How I Got Over ( Columbia ) by Mahalia Jackson has won a Grammy Award ; Prayer Changes Things ( Atlantic ) by Marion Williams has won a Grand Prix du Disque ; and Precious Lord: The Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey ( Sony ) was the first gospel album to be included in the Library of Congress ' National Directory.