Dorsey Anderson

  • Birth Name

    Dorsey Bald Anderson Junior

  • Born

    December 20, 1915
    South Westville, New Jersey

  • Died

    June 26, 1972 (age 56)

  • Orchestras

    Tony Pastor
     Jan Savitt

Little was written about blond vocalist Dorsey Anderson. A native of the Westville, New Jersey, area, at some point his family reportedly moved to California, where he attended Santa Monica Junior College.[1] Anderson was back on the East Coast by the late 1930s, singing with Jan Savitt in early and mid-1938. He had joined Tony Pastor by November 1940, with whom he recorded.

Drafted in the summer of 1941, Anderson was stationed at Camp Lee, Virginia. He received a weekend furlough in early November to sing with Pastor’s band at nearby Washington and Lee University. Anderson was out of the service in early 1942, rejoining Pastor in March and April. After that, he disappears into the mists of history.

Dorsey Anderson passed away in 1972 at the age of 56.

Notes

  1. Anderson’s family was still in New Jersey in 1930. ↩︎

Sources

  1. Simon, George T. The Big Bands. 4th ed. New York: Schirmer, 1981.
  2. “Crooner and Bandleader Indisposed.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 11 Aug. 1938: 1.
  3. “New Recordings Are Announced.” Berkeley Daily Gazette [Berkeley, California] 7 May 1941: 18.
  4. “Record Buying Guide.” Billboard 6 Sep. 1941: 68.
  5. “Tony Pastor to Play at W. & L.” The Danville Bee [Danville, Virginia] 6 Nov. 1941: 2B.
  6. “Tony Pastor's Band at Plaza Monday.” St. Petersburgh Times [St. Petersburg, Florida] 26 Apr. 1942: 23.
  7. “United States Census, 1920,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M45D-N65 : Sun Mar 10 11:42:32 UTC 2024), Entry for Matilda H Anderson and Dorsey B Anderson, 1920.
  8. “United States Census, 1930,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4D3-2MK : Sun Mar 10 08:45:27 UTC 2024), Entry for Dorsey B Anderson and Florence J Anderson, 1930.
  9. “Pennsylvania, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2SY-X1C3 : Fri Feb 23 23:59:02 UTC 2024), Entry for Dorsey Bald Anderson and Jack Carlton, 04 Nov 1940.
  10. “Find a Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6VRF-KQSB : 12 August 2023), Dorsey Bald Anderson, ; Burial, Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America, Harleigh Cemetery; citing record ID 247613486, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.