Tommy Dorsey birthday November 19

1905 - Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane Pa, orch leader

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 Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely popular band from the late '30s into the 1950s. Dorsey had a reputation for being a perfectionist. He was volatile and also known to hire and fire (and sometimes rehire) musicians based on his mood.

William E. "Billy" May (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter.

William E. "Billy" May (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet (1966), Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1967),and Naked City (1960) and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among others.
May also wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney and Ella Mae Morse.
As a trumpet player, during the 1940s big-band era, May recorded such songs as "Measure for Measure", "Long Tall Mama", and "Boom Shot", with Glenn Miller and His Orchestra,and "The Wrong Idea", "Lumby", and "Wings Over Manhattan" with Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra.With his own band, he had a hit single, "Charmaine" and released an album, Sorta-May.

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Benny Goodman Earle Theater Philadelphia PA

Benny Goodman Camel Caravan radio show from Earle Theatre Philadelphia 02/14/1939. With Johnny Mercer and Martha Tilton.
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Sunnybrook Ballroom in Pottstown PA

Sunnybrook Ballroom has been host to some of the greatest bands in the world for the past 60 plus years. Designed before microphones and PA systems the hall is an acoustic marvel. You can REALLY hear a pin drop on the stage from any spot on it's gigantic wooden dance floor. Louis Armstrong to Maynard Ferguson and every band you can think of has played this magnificent ballroom.

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Camel caravan Script of a Vaughn Monore Broadcast from Sunnybrook

Phil Spitalny and his all girl orchestra

Phil Spitalny (November 7, 1890, Tetiev, Ukraine (territory of Russian Empire) – October 11, 1970, Miami Beach, Florida) was a musician, music critic, composer and bandleader heard often on radio during the 1930s and 1940s. He rose to fame after he brought together an orchestra with only female musicians, a novelty at the time.

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Jan Garber, November 5, 1894 – October 5, 1977 American bandleader

Garber was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He had his own band by the time he was 21 (around 1917). He became known as "The Idol of the Airwaves" in his heyday of the 1920s and 1930s, playing jazz in the vein of contemporaries such as Paul Whiteman and Guy Lombardo. Garber played violin with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra after World War I and formed the Garber-Davis Orchestra with pianist Milton Davis from 1921–1924. After parting with Davis, he formed his own orchestra, playing both "sweet" and "hot" 1920s dance music. He was hit hard by the Great Depression, and in the 1930s, he refashioned his ensemble into a big band and recorded a string of successful records for Victor. During World War II, Garber began playing swing jazz, a rather unexpected turn; his arranger during this time was Gray Rains and his vocalist was Liz Tilton. The recording restrictions in America during the war eventually made his ensemble unfeasible, and he returned to "sweet" music after the war, continuing to lead ensembles nearly up until the time of his death in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1977.

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