Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra recorded "Once In A While" (Bud Green - Michael Edwards) in 1937 and topped the charts. Co-composer Michael Edwards was an organist, violinist and arranger. Bud Green wrote "Sentimental Journey", "Alabamy Bound" and "Flat Foot Floogie (With A Floy Floy)". Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's father, Thomas Dorsey, Sr., was a cornet-playing coal miner who also led the Shenandoah town band and gave music lessons on the side. He was his sons' first teacher. Their mother, Tess Dorsey, would outlive both her sons by several years.

Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler) covered "One In A While" in 1952 and peaked at number nine on Billboard. The single is on her album "The Waltz Queen". Perhaps one of the reasons Patti never married Big Joe Turner ... she would have been known as Big Patti Page Turner.

"Once In Awhile" became a doo wop hit when issued in 1960 and peaked at number eleven on Billboard the next year. This was the first recording released by The Chimes (lead singer Lenny Coco, Joe Croce, Pat DePrisco, Pat McGuire and Richard Mercado).