Co-hosts
Nick Clooney and
Peter Marshall look back at the big band period of the 1930s-1950s, with vintage performance footage of the great singers - the boy "crooners" and the girl "canaries". Among those who got their start singing with big bands were
Frank Sinatra (singing with the
Harry James and
Tommy Dorsey Orchestras, among others),
Peggy Lee (with
Benny Goodman),
Doris Day (with
Les Brown),
Perry Como (with
Ted Weems) and
Jo Stafford (with
Tommy Dorsey).
—PBS