Tommy Dorsey
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Biography
From a coal mining family in Pennsylvania, Tommy and his brother Jimmy Dorsey grew up to become two of the most popular US jazz stars of the 1930s, entertaining audiences with up-tempo swing and show tunes and shaping the dance sounds of the era. With Tommy on trombone and Jimmy on saxophone, the siblings worked together in bands as teenagers before uniting as The Dorsey Brothers and scoring hits Coquette, I Believe In Miracles and Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love). Despite numerous rows and disagreements, they successfully ran the orchestra (which included a young Glenn Miller in its ranks) together for years, before Tommy left in 1935 to start his own band and score his first solo hit with single Every Little Moment. A short-fused perfectionist, Tommy went on to score the US Number 1 singles The Music Goes Round And Round, Satan Takes A Holiday, Marie, The Dipsy Doodle and Our Love, but made several changes to the band including hiring a young Frank Sinatra as a vocalist in 1939. Dorsey started playing with his brother again in 1953 and they had a national television series called Stage Show (which once featured Elvis Presley), but he died suddenly in 1956 aged 51 after taking sleeping pills and choking to death in his sleep.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Song Of India
- Imagination featuring Tommy Dorsey
- Yes, Indeed!
- There Are Such Things
- Boogie Woogie
- It's Always You
- I'll Be Seeing You (from "the Royal Palm Revue") featuring Axel Stordahl
- The Song Is You by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
- Birmingham Bounce by Charlie Shavers
- Once In A While
- The Dipsy Doodle
- All the Things You Are
- Our Love
- East Of The Sun
- The Iowa Indian Song featuring Russ Morgan
- I'll Remember April by Tommy Dorsey
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Have You Forgotten So Soon? by Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
- Lost In A Fog
- Yes Indeed by Tommy Dorsey
- Where Do You Keep Your Heart featuring Tommy Dorsey
- Music Maestro Please by Tommy Dorsey
- Little White Lies by Tommy Dorsey
- The Thing I Want
