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* 1904 – Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader ( d. 1957 )
* 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American musician, composer, and bandleader ( The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers ) ( b. 1904 )
* Jimmy Dorsey
** Jimmy Dorsey, American jazz musician ( b. 1904 )
* February 29 – Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader ( d. 1957 )
On his last recording session, in New York, on September 15, 1930, Beiderbecke played on the original recording of Hoagy Carmichael's new song, " Georgia on My Mind ", with Carmichael doing the vocal, Eddie Lang on guitar, Joe Venuti on violin, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet and alto saxophone, Jack Teagarden on trombone, and Bud Freeman on tenor saxophone.
Competition was also intensifying, as African-American and white swing bands began to receive popular attention, including those of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Benny Carter, Earl Hines, Chick Webb, and Count Basie.
* Jimmy Dorsey with Spike Hughes
The popularity of many of the major bands was amplified by star vocalists, such as Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey, Helen O ' Connell and Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, Billie Holiday and Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie, Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest with Harry James, Doris Day with Les Brown, Toni Arden and Ken Curtis with Shep Fields and Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman.
* Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey-famous jazz musicians and bandleaders were born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.
* Charlie Turner-Trumpeter who played for and with many great musicians, including Jimmy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra.
Cedar Grove was once home to Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook Ballroom, located on Route 23, which regularly hosted well-known bands and vocalists, including Buddy Rich, Glenn Miller, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, and Jo Stafford.
Presley made his national television debut on January 28, appearing on CBS's Stage Show, starring Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.
* Jimmy Dorsey, big band leader.
Artists signed to American Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Charlie Kunz, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan ( the No. 1 R & B artist of the 1940s ), Bob Crosby, Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers ( and subsequently Jimmy Dorsey after the brothers split ), Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the original ' soul sister ' of recorded music.
Included in this group are Bing Crosby's original recording of ' White Christmas ' and thousands more by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, the Andrews Sisters and other famous and lesser-known musicians who recorded during this time period.
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.
Nevertheless, they found instant appeal with teenagers and young adults who were engrossed in the swing and jazz idioms, especially when they performed with nearly all of the major big bands, including those led by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Joe Venuti, Freddie Slack, Eddie Heywood, Bob Crosby ( Bing's brother ), Desi Arnaz, Guy Lombardo, Les Brown, Bunny Berigan, Xavier Cugat, Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis, Nelson Riddle and mood-master Gordon Jenkins, whose orchestra and chorus accompanied them on such successful soft and melancholy renditions as " I Can Dream, Can't I?

Jimmy and broke
Bands such as Seattle's Sunny Day Real Estate and Mesa, Arizona's Jimmy Eat World broke out of the underground, attracting national attention.
Disputes soon broke out, and King Tom's successor, King Jimmy, burnt the settlement to the ground in 1789.
Disputes soon broke out, and King Tom's successor, King Jimmy, burnt the settlement to the ground in 1789.
When President Jimmy Carter in 1979 broke off relations with the ROC in order to establish relations with the PRC, Congress responded by passing the Taiwan Relations Act that maintained relations, but stopped short of full recognition of the ROC.
Mexico increased its international presence during López Portillo: in addition to becoming the world's fourth oil exporter, Mexico restarted relations with the post Franco-Spain in 1977, allowed Pope John Paul II to visit Mexico, welcomed American president Jimmy Carter and broke relations with Somoza and supported the Sandinista National Liberation Front in its rebellion against the United States supported government.
Emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s, with the platinum-selling success of Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American ( 2001 ) and Dashboard Confessional's The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most ( 2003 ).
Tommy broke off to form his own band in 1935 after a musical dispute with Jimmy.
Although Sky had received a modest amount of acclaim, including being produced by Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller, the band broke up without having any chart success.
A famous fight broke out between them in Jimmy Smith's Squirrel Hill home on Beechwood Boulevard.
Desaparecidos broke up in 2002 while the band was attracting an increasingly large following, especially touring with Jimmy Eat World and The Promise Ring and being the feature of an MTV You Hear it First episode.
* Jimmy Claxton, Black baseball pitcher who broke the U. S. baseball color line
In the 22 December 1984 Billboard magazine interview, Houston admitted to "' no real commercial success ' since the single ' Don't Leave Me This Way ' broke on the Pop charts in late 1976 " indicating that the disco backlash had left her with " no real base of audience support " and that her current album Qualifying Heat, executive produced by Houston herself, was a concentrated initiative to restore her as a viable chart presence ; the album featured three cuts from Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis-including the single " You Used to Hold Me So Tight "-and production work from Glen Ballard, Dennis Lambert, Cliff Magness and-in his first known recording work-Lenny Kravitz ( then billed as Romeo Blue ), who each produced a cut apiece.
" During a feud teaming with his old protégé Jimmy Snuka against Lou Albano and Ray Stevens, Rogers broke his hip and retired from wrestling for good.
Additionally, numerous former players with the Negro Leagues played in the Senior Intercounty Baseball League after the Negro Leagues gradually folded after Jackie Robinson broke the " colour barrier " in 1947, including pitcher Ted Alexander of the Kansas City Monarchs and the Homestead Grays ( 1950-51 London Majors ); Wilmer Fields ( Brantford Red Sox ); Jimmy Wilkes ( retired jersey # 5 for the Brantford Red Sox, later became a City league umpire after a decade with Brantford ); Gentry ( Geep ) Jessup ( Galt Terriers ); Larry Cunningham ( Galt Terriers, Hamilton Cardinals ); Ed Steele ( Galt ) and Shanty Clifford ( Galt and Brantford ); Luther Clifford ; Max Manning ; Lester Lockett ; Bob Thurman and Stanley Glenn ( St. Thomas Elgins ); all made numerous appearances at Labatt Park in the 1950s.
Jimmy Fallon often broke character, which became one of his trademarks.
In he broke Jimmy Dykes ' franchise mark for career at bats ( 6023 ), and in he broke Dykes ' mark for games played ( 1702 ), as well as Al Simmons ' Athletics record of 1827 career hits.
When he broke to the Majors with the St. Louis Browns, Larsen started violating a time-limit curfew that was set by managers Marty Marion and then Jimmy Dykes.
On May 28, 1916, British Columbian Jimmy Claxton temporarily broke the professional baseball color barrier when he played two games for the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League.
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey broke up the Dorsey Brothers ' Orchestra in 1935 but reunited on March 15, 1945 to record a V-Disc at Liederkranz Hall in New York City.
And the narration informs that their time was nine minutes and 43 seconds which broke the record set by Jimmy Johnson of San Francisco.
Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the platinum-selling success of Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American ( 2001 ) and Dashboard Confessional's The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most ( 2003 ).
Following the Cowboys ' Super Bowl victory in 1993, Bayless wrote The Boys, which broke the story that coach Jimmy Johnson and owner Jerry Jones were not " best friends " and correctly predicted that Jones would fire Johnson no matter how much success the team had.
* 1979 -- Designed by New York architect Paul Rudolph ( whose father Keener Rudolph was a member of Candler's first graduating class in 1915 ), Cannon Chapel broke ground in August 1979 — President Jimmy Carter spoke at the ceremony — and was officially consecrated in September 1981.

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