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...night last week the deputy sheriff opened the jail door, and told Roger that Mister Loy Harrison was there to fetch him. Roger's sister-in-law and her husband George Dorsey, just discharged after service overseas with the Army, both worked on Harrison's farm. At their urging ex-convict (bootlegging) Harrison had put up $600 bail to free Roger; the Dorseys and Roger's wife Dorothy were all waiting outside in the car. Mister Harrison would take care of everything...
...three years with Tommy Dorsey she learned to copy "those long phrases without breathing" from Dorsey's trombone. One of her loyal fans was Songwriter Johnny Mercer. In 1943 Mercer signed her for his Capitol Records...
...this have shot Jo Stafford, the fastest-rising girl singer in the U.S., into the big money. Her rise is typical of.singing stardom in 1946. Three years ago she was just the girl's voice in the Pied Pipers, a screechy quartet that used to sing with Tommy Dorsey. And she was fat. When she was eight, she weighed as much as Frank Sinatra does now. By the time she joined Dorsey's band she weighed...
Identifying any variety of modern hot music as New Orleans white would be a tough job. "Dixieland," as played by Bob Crosby's boys and the Dorsey Clambake Seven contained a few of the ingredients, but the last thirty years have done something to the main features that distinguished the old N.O.W. men. Compare some of those ancient fossilized discs by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings with Crosby and Dorsey if you doubt it. The older numbers were almost always played in a hell-for-leather tempo with a lot of those pogo stick...
...Richard Dorsey '49--Nancy Gillette (Wellesley...