In 1945 Wills ' dances were outdrawing those of Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, and he had moved to Fresno, California.

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 [...].

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist from the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943.

This version of the film follows the same plot but pays more attention to popular jazz music and includes such jazz legends as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter playing themselves.

* 1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader ( d. 1956 )

* 1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader ( b. 1905 )

* Tommy Dorsey

* November 26 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist and bandleader ( b. 1905 )

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.

* Tommy Dorsey

Though she was dubbed in this film by Marjorie Lane, Eleanor recorded " You Are My Lucky Star " with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra ( Victor 25158 ).

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.

Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Shep Fields and, later, Glenn Miller far eclipsed other bands in popularity from the middle of the decade.

On a March 21, 1928 Victor session Miller played alongside Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Joe Venuti in the All-Star Orchestra, directed by Nat Shilkret.

De Franco was already the veteran of bands like Gene Krupa and Tommy Dorsey in the 1940s.

Bandleaders like Tommy Dorsey, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, and Count Basie continued to innovate.

* Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey-famous jazz musicians and bandleaders were born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.

Former wife of bandleader Tommy Dorsey.

* Buddy Morrow, leader of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra

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.

Notable artists and companies who have performed at SOPAC include Paquito D ' Rivera, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Olympia Dukakis, Richie Havens, Yo-Yo Ma, James Marsters, Eddie Palmieri, Madeleine Peyroux, Paula Poundstone, Anoushka Shankar, Phoebe Snow, Angie Stone, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Dionne Warwick, and Nancy Wilson.

Presley made his national television debut on January 28, appearing on CBS's Stage Show, starring Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.

Also interred within Kensico Cemetery and Gate of Heaven Cemetery are the big band leader Tommy Dorsey ; the New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno ; the former CBS News president Fred Friendly ; the legendary New York Yankees star Lou Gehrig ; the film star and comedian Danny Kaye ; the virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor, Sergei Rachmaninoff ; the author Ayn Rand ; NBC founder David Sarnoff ; and the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, James E. West.

But, as he snarled unhappily when the inning was over, `` not a sonofabitch in the place would tell me '', so little Tommy ran all the way home.

if Tommy sat long enough, she would be sure to see all the young officers she had met in San Diego and Long Beach.

Charlton and teammate Dennis Viollet swapped places with Tommy Taylor and David Pegg, who had decided they would be safer at the back of the plane.

In 1965, the Indians traded pitcher Tommy John, who would go on to win 288 games in his career, and 1966 Rookie of the Year Tommy Agee to the White Sox to get Colavito back.

Jacksonville mayor Tommy Hazouri offered Adams a city-backed guarantee that the " Jacksonville Oilers " would sell out every game in the 82, 000 seat Gator Bowl for the first ten years.

* 1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.

Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, writers of many of The Monkees ' songs, observed quickly that when brought in to the studio together, the four actors would try to crack each other up.

The club's coach during this time, Tommy Svensson, would later move on to coach Sweden to a bronze medal in the 1994 World Cup.

At hip hop nightclubs, often owned and run by Africans, one would find clubbers wearing hip hop clothing typical of American youth such as oversized shirts, Tommy Hilfiger jeans and baseball caps.

Brown's brother Tommy would later say after that moment, Brown took " his career, schooling, his whole life more seriously.

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

Therefore, the public would never consider Tommy the real champion unless he fights a worthy opponent.

Said Dr. Putt ," Unless we are prepared to say that Tommy Woodcock was a downright liar, which even today, decades after the loveable and respected horseman's death, would ostracise us with the Australian racing public, we must accept him on his word ," Dr Putt says.

Its most prominent early spokesperson was Tommy Herron, however Andy Tyrie would emerge as leader soon after.

In May of that year, the UDA's pressured leader Tommy Herron decided that responsibility for acts of violence committed by the UDA would be claimed by the " UFF ".

In the early 1970s, Colombo mobster Ralph Spero, brother of Shorty, became jealous of Gravano's success, fearing that he would become a made man before his son Tommy.

Interestingly, about eight months after The Crazy World of Arthur Brown was issued, Lambert's primary clients the Who would release the landmark double-album rock opera Tommy.

He set career highs with 222 hits, 136 runs, 580 at-bats, and 52 steals, the latter a team record which would stand until Tommy Harper stole 54 bases in 1973.

Tommy and Annika's mother, Mrs. Settergren, often disapproves of Pippi's manners and lack of education, but eventually comes to appreciate that Pippi would never put Tommy and Annika in danger, and that Pippi values her friendship with the pair above almost anything in her life.

Through a series of streaming web video updates, frontman Max Cavalera revealed on November 13, 2009 that the album would be called Omen and would feature guest appearances by Tommy Victor of Prong and Greg Puciato of The Dillinger Escape Plan.

Manager Tommy Gorman of the Montreal Canadiens stated that if the trophy was awarded to his team, that the manner of awarding the trophy to Bibeault or Durnan would be decided by his management.

That fall, several players led by Tommy Brookins formed a team called the " Globe Trotters " which would tour Southern Illinois that spring.