Tommy Dorsey, byname of Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr., (born November 27, 1905, Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died November 26, 1956, Greenwich, Connecticut), American musician who—both independently and with his brother Jimmy—led several of the most popular big bands of the swing era. He was also
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The BBC Home Service was a British national radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 4. Development Between the 1920s and the outbreak of the Second World War, the BBC developed two