Tommy Dorsey

Frank Sinatra was an actor, producer, and singer in the 20th century. He was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants. He had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck, and ear, and perforated his ear drum, damage that remained for life. Due to his injuries at birth, his baptism at St. Francis Church in Hoboken was delayed until April 2, 1916. A childhood operation on his mastoid bone left major scarring on his…

Bruce Swedien was born in Minneapolis Minnesota. By age 14, he was already recording and setting up his own radio station. 5 years later Bruce was working for Tommy Dorsey and using an old cinema in Minneapolis to set up his own commercial studio. Bruce then went on to record the Chicago Syphony Orchestra professionsally for RCA Victor, before the following year where he went on to Universal Studios to join Bill Putnam in his early stereo and multitrack technique experiments. Shortly after Bruce…

restaurant with connections to the radio. After hearing Sinatra on the radio, band leader Harry James asked him join his band. Frank recorded his first album with the band, but was no chart topper. But this was all just a stepping stone to the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. In 1939, Frank joined the Orchestra and married Nancy. Nancy would struggle with Frank’s various affairs through their marriage until their divorce in…

out every time. He sang seemingly without pause for breath in that he once spent abundant efforts on learning and practicing breathing from a trombonist, Tommy Dorsey. At first, he found that “Dorsey could effortlessly play musical passages that stretched for many bars in a smooth and continuous line”. Then Sinatra was trying to figure out how Dorsey timed his breathing. Sinatra decided to invent his own breathing style. “He began taking long swims, holding and modulating his breath underwater…

an Icon of American culture of the 20th century Frank Sinatra wanted to go to a place where no other artist has before. Frank Sinatra had his first big break singing with a local group: Hoboken Four. Sinatra then became the lead singer the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. There he quickly got a reputation of a versatile performer. He had two major setbacks but they would pave the way for further success for Sinatra and they were through the movies. Between 1953-1968…

to Sammy had a wide variety of music to play and he made every party entertaining. According to some of his music was the “ standards of the ‘30s and ‘40s (Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Fats Waller), Big Band music (Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington), ‘50’s Rock & Roll (Elvis Presley, The Platters, Bill Haley & the Comets, The Big Bopper, Fats Domino), pop classics of the ‘60s and ‘70s (Billy Joel, Elton John, Barry Manilow, The Carpenters, Neil Diamond, The Beatles),…

Frankie Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra a actor/singer from Hoboken, New Jersey, started off with nothing but a ukulele and his back yard, to bright lights and all the fame a man could want. (“Frank Sinatra Biography”) Frank Sinatra was a mastermind when it came to singing and acting, he was one of the most famous men in the world. He was called the “Swing Eras” (1935-1946) best singer and actor (“Frank Sinatra Biography Film Actor, Singer”). Frank Sinatra was known by everyone back then, everyone…

gatherings put their endeavors into amusing troops, particularly in the US. Jazz, huge band, and swing were still strongly prominent with specialists, for example, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Count Basie, Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Dorsey Brothers, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ella Fitzgerald making…

through the radio waves. In 1939 Frank Sinatra worked at clubs around NYC, later that year he was approached by a trumpeter named Harry James who was looking for a singer asked if he would join him, he later left the band after seven months to join Tommy Dorsey's orchestra. When he joined Dorsey’s band his success flourished, in 1941 the bands single titled “i’ll never smile…

Numerous stories of swing musicians are dominated by ethnic, racial, and gendered situations; stories that played an important role in the development of swing. Examples include Artie Shaw’s childhood years on the Lower East Side of New York City where he spent time with migrant children from Eastern Europe and Trummy Young’s youth in the Yamacraw section in Savannah, Georgia where the community that he grew up in was dominated by blacks, Italians, and Chinese. As a decisive player in the…