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In 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey commemorative postage stamp. Tommy Dorsey was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame , which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance".
Issan Dorsey was born as Tommy Dorsey Jr. in Santa Barbara, California in 1933. [2] He was raised as a Catholic and was the youngest child of ten siblings. [1] As a boy, he aspired to become an entertainer and studied dance and piano. While in junior college, he became dissatisfied with his life, so he left school and joined the U.S. Navy.
Ken Curtis as Festus Haggen and James Arness as Matt Dillon, 1968. Curtis was a singer before moving into acting, and combined both careers once he entered films. [6] Curtis was with the Tommy Dorsey band in 1941, and succeeded Frank Sinatra as vocalist until Dick Haymes contractually replaced Sinatra in 1942.
5 Personal life. 6 Death. 7 References. ... – October 27, 1965) was an American singer who performed from 1935 to 1939 with the band led by Tommy Dorsey. [2] Early life
The Fabulous Dorseys is a 1947 American musical biopic film directed by Alfred E. Green.It tells the story of the brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, from their boyhood in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion. [2]
Dane married bandleader Tommy Dorsey in Las Vegas on April 8, 1943. [9] Dorsey did not want his wife to work, and she took a break from her film career. [10] Her MGM contract lapsed in 1945. Dorsey's biographer described both parties to the marriage as temperamental. [11] Their union was said to be "tempestuous from the start."
In 1950, Jimmy moved to Columbia Records and his brother offered him a seat in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. [1] In 1953, Tommy and Jimmy would rename the band, the "Dorsey Brothers Orchestra." Tommy was the leader of the group, and made Jimmy both the co-leader and featured soloist.
In The Sopranos episode "D-Girl", Christopher Moltisanti tells Jon Favreau the story of Moretti intimidating Tommy Dorsey, which Favreau cites as the inspiration for the Corleone family's efforts to release Johnny Fontane from a contract by Luca Brasi and Vito Corleone "making the band leader who held Johnny's contract an offer he couldn't ...