Since Tommy Dorsey then hires him as a singer in his own orchestra, he only goes downhill and takes on the great orchestras of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey as role models. "'Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw. Balliamo con the grandi orchestre. The protagonists of that time were Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Harry James and Artie Shaw.