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Source: NPR "Weekend Edition - Saturday"

Roundup

A 'Great Big' Biography of Tommy Dorsey [11min]

A major big band leader is the subject of a new book: Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way. With his brother Jimmy, Dorsey helped define American popular music from the 1920s through the mid 1950s. Peter Levinson tells Linda Wertheimer about his biography.

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