 This was helped along by the willingness of Dorsey's band members (particularly lead alto saxophonist and arranger Sid Cooper, as well as Nelson Riddle, guitarist Bob Bain, Sy Oliver and Buddy Defranco) to write and arrange musical numbers which featured the Sisters' talents to their fullest.The Sisters' "wholesome" good looks and extrovert personalities had endeared them to the members of Dorsey's band, who became their friends, and acted protectively towards them.Peggy Clark Schwartz (the widow of clarinetist Willie Schwartz of the Glenn Miller Orchestra), later recalled, in the Tommy Dorsey biography, authored by Peter J. Levinson, that she and her sisters may have been a little naive when they originally went to work for Dorsey