Jul 5, 2021 · Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses Foxtrot Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra Vocals: Ken Curtis & The Pied Pipers Writers: John Openshaw (M), Leslie Cooke (L) Instrumentation: 5 Saxophones, 4...

Curtis was with the Tommy Dorsey band in 1941, and succeeded Frank Sinatra as vocalist until Dick Haymes contractually replaced Sinatra in 1942. Curtis may have served simply as insurance against Sinatra's likely defection, and it was Dorsey who suggested that Gates change his …

Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses - (Ken Curtis Pied Pipers) Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra RCA Victor Records #27782 1940...more

Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra vocal refrain by Ken Curtis and the Pied Pipers and Connie Haines. Songs:Love Sends a Little Gift of RosesWhat is this thing called Love?

Jul 11, 2024 · Ken was just a temporary fill-in for Sinatra; he then joined the Shep Fields Band when Sinatra returned to Dorsey. Ken's career went on hold in 1943 when he joined the U.S. Army, serving in Italy during World War II. He was awarded a Bronze Star and was discharged in …

Jul 19, 2018 · Performer: Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra; Ken Curtis and The Pied Pipers Writer: Leslie Cooke; John Openshaw. Fox Trot; Vocal refrain. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. They are 3.5mil truncated eliptical, 2.3mil truncated conical, 2.8mil truncated conical, 3.3mil truncated conical.

Curtis' brief time with Dorsey was mentioned in the November 26, 1941 issue of Variety: "Ken Curtis, singer, who recently made couple sides with Tommy Dorsey in place of Frank Sinatra, replaces Pat Foy with Shep Fields' band." YouTube has a video of Curtis singing with the Shep Fields band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzVj6crkpl4

Apr 28, 1991 · Singer, actor and musician from Colorado. In the early 1940s he was a big band singer with Tommy Dorsey and Shep Fields. After the end of World War II he began a career as an actor in Western films and television.

Jan 19, 2017 · Most of us remember Ken Curtis as Festus on the long-running "Gunsmoke" TV series. But prior to that he played many similar roles in memorable John Wayne movies ("Rio Grande," "The Searchers," etc.) and prior to that he joined the Tommy Dorsey big band group as a vocalist, taking Frank Sinatra's ...

Nov 6, 2020 · Ken Curtis was an actor (best known for Gunsmoke and supporting/bit roles in a few John Ford/John Wayne movies) and an outstanding singer. I've read that he was an interim singer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra following Frank Sinatra's departure and that he even made some recordings with the band.