Word: dorsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offensive trio is probably the most experienced group on the team with John Taylor, who captained an undefeated JV squad at Andover in his sophomore year; Tom Whedon, and Exeter stalwart; and Jim Dorsey, who played for Gilman in Baltimore, a school noted as a lacrosse power in the country. Dorsey is Pickett's best stick handler and looked very promising in yesterday's scrimmage with the varsity...
Miss O'Connell, a former singer with Jimmy Dorsey's band, is currently costarring with Martin and Lewis at Boston's Metropolitan Theatre. For the past few years she has been recording for Capitol records...
...five to ten years, earn around $10,000 apiece, and are settled family men with permanent homes around Los Angeles. This gives the Band of Renown a respectable pipe & slippers atmosphere, in contrast to the breathless, upper-berth days of the middle '30s, when Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Jimmie Lunceford rocketed around the U.S. with their big bands, collecting frenzied worship. In 15 years the band business has settled down, and chunky Les Brown, who played his first dance date with a clarinet at 16, is one who saw the change coming...
...managed to work up one piece for violin called Melody in A Major, which Fritz Kreisler started playing, made into a concert hit in the early 1900s. In the '40s, Dawes' Melody, as the trade called it, was picked up and recorded, swing-style, by Tommy Dorsey and a few other bandleaders. But like most pop recordings, it soon lost its hold, and finally disappeared from the record catalogues...
...Look at Me Now (Tommy Dorsey; Decca). Trombonist Dorsey first recorded this fine song in 1941 with Frank Sinatra. This time, Bob London and Frances Irvin follow the same vocal arrangement with the Rhythmaires. The orchestra sounds better, but Sinatra's 1941 exuberance is missing...