In the late 1930s, bandleader Steve Swedish let the dance crowd decide who his new soloist would be.
Three singers auditioned that night — two men and a young woman. Swedish put a hand over each one and listened for the applause.
The young woman...
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2008 with 119 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning star is Uranus. The evening stars are Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo....
The Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., got back to normal Thursday. The convention concluded with the speech by Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee. It will likely give Republicans a...
It’s one thing when your kidnapper has to borrow gas money from you; it’s another when they ask for a ransom so low that the family volunteers to quadruple it.
Frank Sinatra, Jr., or Frankie as his father called him, was an accomplished pianist...
The Stardusters Swing Band will perform at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Opera House at Seventh and Brook streets in Mitchell.
The band performs music by Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Brian Setzer and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Vocalist Sarah Flint has a...
Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs, has died. She was 90.
Stafford died of congestive heart failure on Wednesday at her Century City...
This article originally ran in the May 15, 1998 edition of the New York Daily News.
Frank Sinatra served a long and fruitful apprenticeship under the classy musical umbrella of the big-band era. He hustled his way into his first public gig, a...
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Tommy Dorsey (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was the younger brother of Jimmy Dorsey. His lyrical trombone style became one of the signature sounds of his band and of the Swing Era.
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