Word: dorseylanders
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...wagon began to roll last fall when Jimmy Dorsey played hooky from his big dance band long enough to record Johnson Rag and a Dixieland version of Charley My Boy with an easygoing eight-piece group called the Original "Dorseyland" Jazz Band. The relaxed, free-wheeling music caught the public's ear, and the Dorseylanders quickly followed with an album including such old standards as Jazz Me Blues, South Rampart Street Parade, and High Society. The album soon hit Variety's list of the top-five bestsellers, has stayed there for six weeks...
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