Biography
Tommy Tucker Time
Effective period / Period of releases: 1939 - 1946
Members: Don Brown (2), Tommy Tucker (2), Kerwin Somerville
Big band dance band popular in the 1940's. The band charted in the U.S. five times from 1940-1945, their top hit being “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire,” with Amy Anrell singing vocals, which reached #4 in the U.S.Band members Don Brown (vocals) and Billy Dee (saxophonist) were killed on May 20, 1951--in an auto accident while still with Tommy Tucker Orchestra.