* 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?

In mid-September 1994, with U. S. troops prepared to enter Haiti by force for Operation Uphold Democracy, President Bill Clinton dispatched a negotiating team led by former President Jimmy Carter to persuade the authorities to step aside and allow for the return of constitutional rule.

This European-held land had been mostly cleared for coconut production, but when they began clearing more land for coconut production, protests began in both Santo and Malekula led by Jimmy Stevens and his kastom movement called " Nagriamel ".

Fears that the violence that marred the previous election led to monitoring by foreign bodies, including Jimmy Carter.

This led to widespread criticism, which included disparaging remarks from Courier and Jimmy Connors.

Jerry's brother Jimmy Alday arrived at the trailer on a tractor and he too was led inside and forced to lay on a couch, then shot.

This American public fame would last four months until the Doolittle Raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, United States Army Air Forces.

In the late 70s and early 80s, there was a new sound emerging with up and coming groups like McAllen's Espejismo, led by songwriter / lead singer Rudy Valdez, and more notably Brownsville natives Joe Lopez, Jimmy Gonzalez y El Grupo Mazz introduced the keyboard sound to Tejano which was influenced by the Disco sound of the era, and during that period, La Mafia became the first Tejano band to put on Rock Style shows for their generation.

Harry Johnston led out a team consisting of: Bert Trautmann ; Tim Ward ; George Hardwick ; Jimmy Hill ; Neil Franklin ; Don Revie ; Stan Mortensen ; Nat Lofthouse ; Jimmy Hagan ; Tom Finney ; and Frank Bowyer ( reserve ).

Walley Barnes led out an opposing team consisting of: Jimmy O ' Neill ; Jimmy Scoular ; Danny Blanchflower ; Jimmy Dickinson ; Hughie Kelly ; Bill McGarry ; Jackie Mudie ; Jackie Milburn ; Jock Dodds ; Ken Barnes ; and Arthur Rowley ( reserve ).

The Treniers were an American R & B and jump blues musical group, led by identical twins Cliff and Claude Trenier with the Gene Gilbeaux Orchestra which included Don Hill on saxophone, Shifty Henry and later James ( Jimmy ) Johnson on bass, Henry ( Tucker ) Green on drums and Gene Gilbeaux on piano, along with the Treniers Twins and later, additional Treniers brothers, joining the group on vocals.

Jimmy Fitzsimmons ran a prospecting support company, which led to mining surveys up Fitzsimmons Valley.

Pitcher Jimmy Anderson led the PCL in winning percentage (. 846, 11 – 2 ).

The influence of their grandfather, Jimmy " Cannonball " Lee, led both boys into amateur boxing, which was at that time a popular pursuit for working class boys in the East End.

This concentration of power in the Nixon White House ( and the criminal activity it enabled ) led presidential candidate Jimmy Carter to campaign in 1976 with the promise that he would not appoint a Chief-of-Staff.

A group led by singer and business mogul Jimmy Buffett attempted to buy and relocate the franchise to Jackson, Mississippi, but the deal fell through.

During the 1970s, McCloskey led the Club's legislative activity — preserving Alaskan lands and eastern wilderness areas, and supporting the new environmental agenda: the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, the Clean Air Act amendments, and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, passed during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

Probably their most successful manager was Jimmy Blackburn who led them to both their Scottish Cup wins as well as West of Scotland Cup and Central League Championship wins.

Bill Hegamin led his wife's accompanying band, called the Blue Flame Syncopators ; Jimmy Wade was a member of this ensemble.

He led many jazz and dance bands, of which the best known was his Victor Recording Orchestra of 1924 – 1929, which included, at various times, Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Chauncey Morehouse, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Bill Rank, Eddie Lang, Frankie Trumbauer, Pee Wee Russell, Steve Brown, Joe Venuti, and arranger Robert Ginzler among others.

His big, blurry sound and graceful style were an integral part of small groups led by the saxophonists Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan and the clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre in the 1950s, as well as a popular quintet he co-led with the trumpeter Clark Terry in the 1960s.

At the height of their popularity the band consisted of singer Jimmy Somerville backed by Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek, both of whom played keyboards and percussion.

There were also underground discotheques in Nazi Germany patronized by anti-Nazi youth called the swing kids .. Jimmy Saville played records of big band music in dance halls in Leeds, England, during World War Two.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

The performers were Jimmy Shand and band, Ian Powrie and his band, Scottish country dancers: Dixie Ingram and the Dixie Ingram Dancers, Joe Gordon Folk Four, James Urquhart, Ann & Laura Brand, Moira Anderson & Kenneth McKellar.

In his book Stairway to Heaven, former Led Zeppelin road manager Richard Cole writes that Jimmy Page considered Moon top of his list as he was looking for a drummer for his new band, which would become Led Zeppelin.

Formed as the New Yardbirds in 1968, the band consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist / keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham.

In 1966, Jimmy Page joined the blues-influenced rock band, The Yardbirds, to replace bassist Paul Samwell-Smith.

Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

* " Work " ( Jimmy Eat World song ), a 2004 song by the rock band Jimmy Eat World

** Jimmy Urine, singer for New York punk band Mindless Self Indulgence.

For their three New York performances, the band members wore exactly the same clothes to facilitate seamless editing of the film, except for John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page who wore different sets of attire on some of the nights, which created continuity problems.

During this year, Haley — without the Comets — recorded a pair of demos in Phoenix, Arizona: a country-western song called " Jealous Heart " for which he was backed by a local mariachi band ( and similar in style to the earlier " Jimmy Martinez ", and late-60s-style rocker called " Rock on Baby " backed by a group called Superfine Dandelion.

Durante was very impressed with the band and invited them to play at a club called the Alamo in Harlem where Jimmy played piano.

Music writers have also applied the term, wrongly in the context of this article, to bands or vocal groups that sold huge numbers of albums, headlined massive concerts or have a high celebrity or media status, regardless of the previous ( or even subsequently acquired ) fame of their individual members, such as the band Led Zeppelin, wherein only Jimmy Page was well known at the time the group formed.

Thompson left the band once more during 1993 to play with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and Bamonte took over as lead guitarist.

Risk is also the first of two studio albums the band recorded with drummer Jimmy DeGrasso.

The album's ' miss-credit errors ' also state band members as " Alex St. Clare Snouffer " ( Alex St. Clare / Alexis Snouffer ), " Antennae Jimmy Simmons " ( Semens / Jeff Cotton ) and " Jerry Handsley " ( Handley ).

Van Vliet had also begun assigning nicknames to his band members, so Harkleroad became " Zoot Horn Rollo ", and Boston became " Rockette Morton ", while John French assumed the name " Drumbo ", and Jeff Cotton became " Antennae Jimmy Semens ".

The new band included: Paul Campbell, Tommy Turrentine, Johnny Letman, Idrees Sulieman, and Joe Newman ( trumpet ); Jimmy Wilkins, Benny Powell, Matthew Gee ( trombone ); Paul Quinichette and Floyd " Candy " Johnson ( tenor sax ); Marshall Royal and Ernie Wilkins ( alto sax ); and Charlie Fowlkes ( baritone sax ).

The band entered the studio with Weatherall, Hugo Nicolson, The Orb and Jimmy Miller producing, and Martin Duffy now full time on keyboards.

He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

Sothira Pheng ( bass and vocals ) and Jimmy Crucifix ( guitar ) now play with Proudflesh, a San Francisco-based " Hard Punk Rock ' n ' Roll " band with drummer Erik Lannon ( Mordred / The Bay City Rollers ).

Guitarist Jimmy A and singer Sharon McCall also performed occasionally with the band, whose repertoire contained a number of songs penned by English poet and fellow Exit Records musician Steve Scott.