60-663: The Sunset Tower Hotel , previously known as The St. James's Club and The Argyle , is a historic building and hotel located on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California , United States. Designed in 1929 by architect Leland A. Bryant , opened in 1931, it is considered one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the Los Angeles area. In its early years, it was the residence of many Hollywood celebrities, including John Wayne and Howard Hughes . After
120-596: A 21-acre (8.5 ha) estate in Bernardsville, New Jersey . They divorced in 1943 after Dorsey's affair with his former singer Edythe Wright . Dorsey's second wife was film actress Patricia Dane in 1943, and they were divorced in 1947, but not before he gained headlines for striking actor Jon Hall when Hall embraced her. Finally, Dorsey married Jane Carl New on March 27, 1948, in Atlanta, Georgia. She had been
180-456: A Broadway musical. A $ 155 bottle of Pinot Noir is uncorked here, chilled oysters delivered there and a bow given every now and then." The New York Times also reported on the transformation of the hotel: "The striped silk-and-walnut Tower Bar restaurant is already a retro clubhouse for the mature Hollywood set (think Brian Grazer and Barbara Walters ), complete with $ 13 martinis and the octogenarian former Sinatra pianist Page Cavanaugh tickling
240-776: A Sinatra vocal; it hit number one in January 1943, as did 'In the Blue of the Evening', another Dorsey record featuring Sinatra, in August, while a third Dorsey/Sinatra release, 'It's Always You,' hit the Top Five later in the year, and a fourth, 'I'll Be Seeing You', reached the Top Ten in 1944." It should be added that these 1943 and 1944 Sinatra hits were older recordings reissued because the 1942–44 musicians' strike prevented Sinatra, now
300-643: A dancer at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City. Tommy and Jane Dorsey had two children, Catherine Susan and Steve. Dorsey died on November 26, 1956, at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut , a week after his 51st birthday. He had begun taking sleeping pills regularly at this time, causing him to become heavily sedated; he choked to death in his sleep after eating a large meal. Jimmy Dorsey led his brother's band until his own death from throat cancer
360-561: A feature attraction. In 1953, the Dorseys focused their attention on television. On December 26, 1953, the brothers appeared with their orchestra on Jackie Gleason 's CBS television show, which was preserved on kinescope and later released on home video by Gleason. The brothers took the unit on tour and onto their own television show, Stage Show , from 1954 to 1956. In January 1956, The Dorseys made rock music history introducing Elvis Presley on his national television debut. Presley, then
420-489: A fee to play at clubs, diminished its appeal to groups, other than as an industry showcase. As of the 2010s, the music industry establishment continues to dominate the clubs on Sunset Strip. In November 1984, voters in West Hollywood passed a proposal on the ballot to incorporate, and the area became an independent city. Increasingly, the western end of Sunset Strip was occupied by office buildings, mostly catering to
480-544: A late-night comedy sketch show performed at a fictional theater on Sunset Strip. Premiering on January 27, 2006, in Los Angeles at Vanguard Hollywood , the Rock of Ages stage production inspired the 2012 film of the same name . Its story line is centered along Sunset Strip in 1987. The opening credits of the HBO TV series Entourage featured shots of Sunset Strip. Los Angeles-based artist Edward Ruscha created
540-545: A level with the tower of the Los Angeles City Hall. Imagine the view!" John Wayne , Howard Hughes , Frank Sinatra , Jerry Buss and novelist James Wohl lived in the penthouse at different times, and Hughes reportedly also rented some of the lower apartments for his girlfriends or mistresses. John Wayne reportedly once brought a cow up to his penthouse apartment at 3 a.m. telling his party guests who were gathering for coffee that they would have to go directly to
600-553: A percentage of Miller's income. When Miller balked at this, the angry Dorsey got even by sponsoring a new band led by Bob Chester , and hiring arrangers who deliberately copied Miller's style and sound. Dorsey branched out in the mid-1940s and owned two music publishing companies, Sun and Embassy. After opening at the Los Angeles ballroom, the Hollywood Palladium on the Palladium's first night, Dorsey's relations with
660-803: A period of decline in the early 1980s, the building was renovated and has been operated as a luxury hotel under the names The St. James's Club, The Argyle, and most recently the Sunset Tower Hotel. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The art deco Sunset Tower is considered one of the finest examples of the Streamline Moderne form of Art Deco architecture in Southern California. In their guide to Los Angeles architecture, David Gebhard and Robert Winter wrote that "this tower
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#1732790757548720-507: A popular singer, from recording new material. The website "Tommy Dorsey A Songwriter's Friend" says, "the orchestra had over 200 top twenty recordings including the No. 1 hits 'The Music Goes Round and Round' (1935), 'Alone' (1936) 'You' (1936), ' Marie ' (1937), 'Satan Takes a Holiday' (1937), 'The Big Apple' (1937), 'Once in a While' (1937), 'The Dipsy Doodle' (1937), 'Music, Maestro, Please' (1938), 'Our Love' (1939), 'Indian Summer' (1939), 'All
780-550: A regional country singer, made six guest appearances on Stage Show promoting his first releases for RCA Victor several months before his more familiar visits to the Milton Berle , Steve Allen , and Ed Sullivan variety programs. Dorsey was married three times. His first wife was 16-year-old Mildred "Toots" Kraft, with whom he eloped in 1922, when he was 17. The couple had two children, Patricia and Thomas F. Dorsey III (nicknamed "Skipper"). In 1935, they moved to "Tall Oaks",
840-504: A run of 286 Billboard chart hits. The Dorsey band had seventeen number-one hits with his orchestra in the 1930s and 1940s including: "On Treasure Island", "The Music Goes 'Round and Around", "You", "Marie" (written by Irving Berlin ), "Satan Takes a Holiday", "The Big Apple", "Once in a While", "The Dipsy Doodle", "Our Love", "All the Things You Are", "Indian Summer", and "Dolores". He had two more number one hits in 1935 when he
900-670: A trial, complete with a media circus, charges were dropped on December 7, 1944. In 1947, Truman Capote wrote in a letter: " I am living in a very posh establishment, the Sunset Tower, which, or so the local gentry tell me, is where every scandal that ever happened happened." Others report that the Sunset Tower was "notorious for having the best-kept call girls in Hollywood." The hotel has also appeared in several feature films, including The Italian Job , The Player , Strange Days , Get Shorty , and Freaky Friday (2003). In
960-684: Is a first class monument of the Zig Zag Moderne and as much an emblem of Hollywood as the Hollywood sign ." It is situated in a commanding location on the Sunset Strip with views of the city and is decorated with plaster friezes of plants, animals , zeppelins, legendary creatures and Adam and Eve . Originally operated as a luxury apartment hotel, it was one of the first high-rise reinforced concrete buildings in California. When it
1020-405: Is known for its boutiques, restaurants, rock clubs, and nightclubs , as well as its array of huge, colorful billboards . Prior to the 1984 incorporation of the city of West Hollywood , the Sunset Strip lay in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County . Because of this, the Sunset Strip and all of West Hollywood gained a reputation for being a loosely regulated area, in large part because it
1080-660: Is often incorrectly cited as the venue for the "Battle of the Balcony," in August 1944, in which bandleader Tommy Dorsey , Dorsey's wife Patricia Dane and Siegel associate Allen Smiley fought actor Jon Hall on the balcony of Dorsey's apartment. The fight actually took place down the street at the Sunset Plaza Apartments, where Smiley had moved after his bookmaking arrest at the Sunset Tower in May. Dorsey, Dane and Smiley were later charged with felonious assault. After
1140-504: Is the Tower Bar's maître d'hôtel. Dmitrov is a sphinxlike figure who knows everything and says nothing. In the six years since Klein, following a suggestion from the designer Tom Ford, rescued Dmitrov from a fading career at drearily elegant places like a local Russian restaurant that featured a harpist, ice swans and a caviar menu, he has become a Hollywood institution. In February 2009, Vanity Fair magazine hosted its Oscar party at
1200-472: The Garden of Allah apartments—Hollywood quarters for transplanted writers like Robert Benchley , Dorothy Parker , and F. Scott Fitzgerald —and Schwab's Drug Store . By the early 1960s, Sunset Strip had lost favor with the majority of movie people, but its restaurants, bars and clubs continued to serve as an attraction for locals and tourists. In the mid-1960s it became a major gathering place for
1260-763: The Whisky a Go Go , the Roxy , Pandora's Box and the London Fog . In July 1965 Go-Go dancers also began performing. The Hyatt West Hollywood (now known as the Andaz West Hollywood) became a popular hotel. Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco , influenced by Britain's glam rock movement, opened in 1972. It became a hangout for musicians, including the Stooges and the New York Dolls . Clubs on
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#17327907575481320-511: The artist's book Every Building on the Sunset Strip in 1966, later 12 Sunsets website for the Getty Research Institute . Tommy Dorsey Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist , composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. His theme song
1380-704: The counterculture and was the scene of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in November 1966, involving police and crowds of young club-goers. Those riots inspired the Buffalo Springfield song " For What It's Worth ". Sunset Strip became popular with rock musicians and their fans. Bands such as Led Zeppelin , the Doors , the Byrds , Love , the Seeds , Frank Zappa , and others played at clubs like Gazzarri's ,
1440-667: The Dorsey Brothers band signed with Decca , having a hit with "I Believe in Miracles". Glenn Miller was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in 1934 and 1935, composing " Annie's Cousin Fanny ", " Tomorrow's Another Day ", " Harlem Chapel Chimes ", and " Dese Dem Dose ", all recorded for Decca, for the band. Acrimony between the brothers led to Tommy Dorsey walking out to form his own band in 1935 as
1500-469: The Dorsey band. Two of those eighty songs are " In the Blue of Evening " and " This Love of Mine ". Sinatra achieved his first great success as a vocalist in the Dorsey band and claimed he learned breath control from watching Dorsey play trombone. Sy Oliver and Sinatra did a posthumous tribute album to Dorsey on Sinatra's Reprise records. I Remember Tommy appeared in 1961. Dorsey said his trombone style
1560-589: The Pied Pipers , Dick Haymes , and Connie Haines . In 1944, Dorsey hired the Sentimentalists , name with which he renamed the already known vocal band The Clark Sisters asking them not to reveal their identity. They replaced the Pied Pipers. Dorsey also performed with singer Connee Boswell He hired ex-bandleader and drummer Gene Krupa after Krupa's arrest for marijuana possession in 1943. In 1942, Artie Shaw broke up his band, and Dorsey hired
1620-646: The Scranton Sirens, a territory band in the 1920s. Tommy and Jimmy worked in bands led by Tal Henry , Rudy Vallee , Vincent Lopez , and Nathaniel Shilkret . In 1923, Dorsey followed Jimmy to Detroit to play in Jean Goldkette 's band and returned to New York in 1925 to play with the California Ramblers . In 1927, he joined Paul Whiteman . In 1929, the Dorsey Brothers had their first hit with "Coquette" for OKeh Records . In 1934,
1680-709: The Screen Actors Guild magazine read: "Faultless in Appointment-The Ultimate in Privacy . . . Hollywood's Most Distinguished Address." In 1933, the Los Angeles Times ran an article about the trend toward luxurious penthouse apartments in the city and noted that Sunset Tower boasted the city's highest penthouse: "It is the highest in the city and due to the location of the fifteen-story structure that supports it, its tenants live on
1740-528: The Shaw string section. As George T. Simon in Metronome magazine observed at the time: "They're used in the foreground and background (note some of the lovely obbligatos) for vocal effects and for Tommy's trombone." Dorsey made further business decisions in the music industry. He loaned money to Glenn Miller enabling him to launch his band of 1938, but Dorsey saw the loan as an investment, entitling him to
1800-436: The Sunset Strip at that time, Rodney Bingenheimer's in particular, were notorious for allowing teenage patrons. "Nobody carried or cared about ID's. Thirteen-year-old girls could walk in dressed like sexy 25-year-olds, and kids could sidle up to the bar and order a cocktail, so it wasn't a big stretch for us to get up and play there", recalled Quiet Riot founder Kelly Garni . The 1979 Donna Summer song " Sunset People ", from
1860-457: The Sunset Tower. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Sunset Strip The Sunset Strip is the 1.7-mile (2.7 km) stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through the city of West Hollywood, California , United States. It extends from West Hollywood's eastern border with the city of Los Angeles near Marmont Lane to its western border with Beverly Hills at Phyllis Street. The Sunset Strip
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1920-561: The Things You Are' (1939), 'I'll Never Smile Again' (1940), 'Dolores' (1941), 'There are Such Things' (1942), and 'In the Blue of the Evening' (1943)." Written with Fred Norman In 1982, the 1940 Victor recording " I'll Never Smile Again " was the first of a trio of Tommy Dorsey recordings to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame . His theme song, " I'm Getting Sentimental Over You " was inducted in 1998, along with his recording of "Marie" written by Irving Berlin in 1928. In 1996,
1980-431: 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". Tommy Dorsey appeared in the following movies and film shorts Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra appear in
2040-505: The Whisky a Go Go and The Roxy, became home to numerous LA-based heavy metal bands such as Van Halen , Quiet Riot , Mötley Crüe , Ratt and Guns N' Roses . The scene became synonymous with glam metal , with many fans mimicking the hair and clothing worn by the bands. The many heavy metal fans who would congregate outside the clubs along the strip became a defining feature. The adoption of "pay to play" policies, in which bands were charged
2100-496: The album Bad Girls , was about the nightlife on Sunset Boulevard. Sunset Strip continued to be a major focus for punk rock and new wave music during the late 1970s. During the latter part of the 1970s and well into the 1980s, the Sunset Strip would become synonymous with the Los Angeles heavy metal movement, commonly referred to as the West Coast Metal Explosion. The clubs on the Sunset Strip such as
2160-516: The ballroom soured and he opened a competing ballroom, the Casino Gardens circa 1944. Dorsey also owned for a short time a trade magazine called The Bandstand . Tommy Dorsey disbanded his own orchestra at the end of 1946. Dorsey might have broken up his own band permanently following World War II , as many big bands did due to the shift in music economics following the war, but Tommy Dorsey's album for RCA Victor , "All Time Hits" placed in
2220-817: The band, tenor saxophonist Sam Donahue led it from 1961, continuing until 1966. Frank Sinatra Jr. made his professional singing debut with the band at Dallas Memorial Theater in Texas in 1963. Later, trombonist and bandleader Buddy Morrow led the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra from 1977 until his death on September 27, 2010. Jane Dorsey died of natural causes at the age of 79, in Miami, Florida, in 2003. Tommy and Jane Dorsey are interred together in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. Tommy Dorsey had
2280-663: The building into the first American branch of his luxury hotel chain, the St. James's Club. David Gray's firm handled the restoration, and in 1988 the Los Angeles Conservancy gave the owners an award for their work in preserving the Sunset Tower. The exterior and interior lighting design (excluding fixtures) was completed by ex-Disney designers Shawn Barrett, Gary Bell and William Sly. The St. James's Club operated an upscale hotel for several years, popular with celebrities, including David Bowie . The Lancaster Group purchased
2340-406: The entertainment industry, as well as hotels. During the 1990s, the center of the alternative music activity in Los Angeles shifted further east to areas like Echo Park , Silver Lake and Los Feliz . 77 Sunset Strip , a 1958–1964 TV series, was set on Sunset Strip between La Cienega Boulevard and Alta Loma Road. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was a behind-the-scenes television drama of
2400-636: The following year. At that point, trombonist Warren Covington became leader of the band with Jane Dorsey's blessing as she owned the rights to her late husband's band and name. Billed as the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Starring Warren Covington , they reached #7 on the Billboard charts and earned a gold record in the fall of 1958 with the hit single "Tea for Two Cha-Cha". The band was also fronted by Urbie Green after Dorsey's death in 1956. After Covington led
2460-526: The hotel from de Savary in 1992, renaming it the Argyle. In 2004, Jeff Klein and Peter Krulewitch purchased the hotel. Klein hired designer Paul Fortune to renovate the hotel, adding more modern amenities, and restored its original name. In 2006, Toronto's The Globe and Mail reviewed the renovated Sunset Tower and noted: "This isn't a place that needs to declare itself 'hip' because its grand history speaks for itself—and has been successfully carried forward to
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2520-407: The ivories. On a Friday night in mid-December, Anjelica Huston and Courtney Love swanned by to dine with a 30-something crowd far more sophisticated than the teenyboppers roaming Sunset Boulevard outside." Other celebrities visiting the Tower Bar include Sean Penn , Victoria Beckham , Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lopez . Dmitri Dmitrov, a 60-year-old Macedonian immigrant with Rudolph Valentino hair,
2580-470: The jazz era of one-nighters, the early days of radio in its infancy stages, and the onward march when both brothers ended up with Paul Whiteman before 1935 when The Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra split into two. In the early 1950s, Tommy Dorsey moved from RCA Victor back to Decca. He was promised $ 2,000 if he switched to their label. However, he was reported to have collected $ 2,500 instead. Jimmy Dorsey broke up his big band in 1953. Tommy invited him to join as
2640-482: The orchestra was having a hit with "Every Little Moment". Dorsey's orchestra was known primarily for its renderings of ballads at dance tempos, frequently with singers such as Jack Leonard and Frank Sinatra . In 2009, Buddy De Franco recalled recording "Opus One" with Dorsey in the 1940s, commenting on Dorsey's desire to be precise and exact. Expanding on De Franco's opinions about Dorsey, writer Peter Levinson said, "He wanted things to be done his way." The band
2700-601: The present." As part of the 2006 restoration, the Tower Bar was reconfigured to have a more turn-of-the-century ambience. After the Tower Bar opened in 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported that it had become one of the trendiest in Los Angeles: "On a recent night at the intimate Tower Bar, Jennifer Aniston dines 10 feet away from Joaquin Phoenix and white-coated waiters weave between tables like players in
2760-715: The radio with comedian Jack Pearl, then became the host. By 1939, Dorsey was aware of criticism that his band lacked a jazz feeling. He hired arranger Sy Oliver away from the Jimmie Lunceford band. Sy Oliver's arrangements include " On the Sunny Side of the Street " and "T.D.'s Boogie Woogie"; Oliver also composed two of the new band's signature instrumentals, "Well, Git It" and " Opus One ". In 1940, Dorsey hired singer Frank Sinatra from bandleader Harry James . Sinatra made eighty recordings from 1940 to 1942 with
2820-408: The source if they wanted cream. Other former residents include Clark Gable , Errol Flynn , Marilyn Monroe , Michael Caine , Quincy Jones , Roger Moore , Zsa Zsa Gabor , Billie Burke , Joseph Schenck , Paulette Goddard , Zasu Pitts , George Stevens , Preston Sturges , Carol Kane , and River Phoenix . In 1944, Bugsy Siegel , described by the Los Angeles Times as a "Hollywood sportsman,"
2880-431: The television show Cannon , the titular character (portrayed by William Conrad ) resided at the tower, and the building's exterior was featured prominently throughout the series. The hotel is also used for exterior shots of LUX in the series Lucifer . By 1982, a plan to convert the building to condominiums failed, and construction was halted abruptly with residents still living there. The building had deteriorated and
2940-574: The top ten records in February 1947. In addition, " How Are Things in Glocca Morra? ", a single recorded by Dorsey, became a top-ten hit in March 1947. As a result, Dorsey was able to re-organize a big band in early 1947. The Dorsey brothers were also reconciling. The biographical film The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) describes sketchy details of how the brothers got their start from-the-bottom-up into
3000-727: Was Paul Weston . Bill Finegan , an arranger who left Glenn Miller's civilian band, arranged for the Tommy Dorsey band from 1942 to 1950. The band featured a number of instrumentalists, singers, and arrangers in the 1930s and '40s, including trumpeters Zeke Zarchy , Bunny Berigan , Ziggy Elman , Doc Severinsen , and Charlie Shavers , pianists Milt Raskin , Jess Stacy , clarinetists Buddy DeFranco , Johnny Mince , and Peanuts Hucko . Others who played with Dorsey were drummers Buddy Rich , Louie Bellson , Dave Tough saxophonist Tommy Reed , and singers Sinatra, Ken Curtis , Jack Leonard, Edythe Wright , Jo Stafford with
3060-698: Was " I'm Getting Sentimental Over You ". His technical skill on the trombone gave him renown among other musicians. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey . After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s. He is best remembered for standards such as " Opus One ", " This Love of Mine " (no. 3 in 1941) featuring Frank Sinatra on vocals, " Song of India ", "Marie", "On Treasure Island", and his biggest hit single, " I'll Never Smile Again " (no. 1 for 12 weeks in 1940). Born in Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania , Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr.
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#17327907575483120-479: Was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: "Lullaby of Broadway" (written by Harry Warren ), number one for two weeks, and "Chasing Shadows", number one for three weeks. His biggest hit was "I'll Never Smile Again", featuring Frank Sinatra on vocals, which was number one for twelve weeks on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1940. "RCA Victor ... scored with 'There Are Such Things', which had
3180-466: Was charged with placing bets via long distance in the Sunset Tower apartment of his associate, Allen Smiley. Also at Smiley's apartment that day were A-list actor George Raft and Siegel's sister's husband, Sol Solloway. Neither Raft nor Solloway was arrested. Siegel called it "a bum rap," and witnesses testified that Siegel and his friends were only playing "a friendly game of gin rummy." Siegel and Smiley later pleaded guilty, paid $ 250 fines. The building
3240-483: Was completed in August 1931 at a cost of $ 750,000, the Los Angeles Times reported: "What is described to be the tallest apartment-house in Los Angeles County, rising 15 stories or 195 feet, was completed last week at Kings Road and Sunset Boulevard by W.I. Moffett, general contractor, for E.M. Fleming, owner." Marketing the building to Hollywood celebrities, an advertisement in the February 1938 issue of
3300-445: Was described as "like something from a war-ravaged land." At the time, resident Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink from Hogan's Heroes ) said of the building: "Welcome to Beirut West." The building was saved from deterioration and possible demolition when it was purchased in 1985 from architect David Lawrence Gray, FAIA by Peter de Savary who promised to "lovingly restore" the building to its former glory by spending $ 25 million to convert
3360-463: Was heavily influenced by Jack Teagarden . Among Dorsey's staff of arrangers was Axel Stordahl who arranged for Sinatra in his Columbia and Capitol years. Another member of the Dorsey band was trombonist Nelson Riddle , who later had a partnership as one of Sinatra's arrangers and conductors in the 1950s and afterwards. Another noted Dorsey arranger, who, in the 1950s, married and was professionally associated with Dorsey veteran Jo Stafford ,
3420-487: Was not under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Police Department . Gambling was illegal in the city of Los Angeles, but legal in unincorporated Los Angeles County, which fostered the development of rather wilder nightlife in West Hollywood than was found within the city limits. In the 1920s a number of nightclubs and casinos moved in along Sunset Strip, which attracted movie people; alcohol
3480-437: Was popular almost from the moment it signed with RCA Victor for "On Treasure Island", the first of four hits in 1935. After his 1935 recording, however, Dorsey's manager dropped the "hot jazz" that Dorsey had mixed with his own lyrical style, and instead had Dorsey play pop and vocal tunes. Dorsey kept his Clambake Seven as a Dixieland group that played during performances. Dorsey became the co-host of The Raleigh-Kool Program on
3540-669: Was served in back rooms during Prohibition . In the 1930s and the 1940s, restaurants and nightclubs on Sunset Strip, like Sherry's, Ciro's , the Mocambo and the Trocadero , were patronized by people working in the movie industry. Some of its expensive nightclubs and restaurants were said to be owned by gangsters like Mickey Cohen and Bugsy Siegel , earning Sunset Strip a place in Raymond Chandler 's 1949 Philip Marlowe novel, The Little Sister . Also on Sunset Strip are
3600-427: Was the second of four children born to Thomas Francis Dorsey Sr., a bandleader, and Theresa (née Langton) Dorsey. He and Jimmy, his older brother by slightly less than two years, became known as the Dorsey Brothers. The two younger siblings were Mary and Edward, who died young. Tommy Dorsey studied the trumpet with his father but later switched to trombone. At age 15, Jimmy recommended Tommy to replace Russ Morgan in
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