A youthful Frank Sinatra spent two years and 9 months in Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra as part of a musical variety show from 1940-1942. Female background singers were also employed called The Pied Pipers, whom included Jo Stafford and Connie Haines. Other noable band members included trumpeters Bunny Berigan & Ziggy Elman, alto saxman Bob Shine, and drummer Buddy Rich. The group toured the country playing vaudeville era theaters, ballrooms, dance halls, numerous radio shows and even appeared in some films beginning with their first "Las Vegas Nights" in 1941.

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