Tommy Dorsey
Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. (November 19, 1905 - November 26, 1956) … Read Full Bio ↴Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. (November 19, 1905 - November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. Although he was not known for being a notable soloist, his technical skill on the trombone gave him renown amongst other musicians. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely popular and highly successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr., was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the second of four children born to Thomas Francis Dorsey, Sr., and Theresa (née Langton) Dorsey. He and Jimmy, his older brother by slightly less than two years, would become famous as the "Dorsey Brothers". The two younger siblings were Mary and Edward (who died young). Tommy Dorsey initially studied the trumpet with his father, only to later switch to the trombone.
His Father, Thomas F. Dorsey, Sr. died July 13, 1942. Thomas Sr was born in Shenandoah, PA and was a bandleader himself.
At age 15, Jimmy recommended Tommy as the replacement for Russ Morgan in the 1920s territory band "The Scranton Sirens." Tommy and Jimmy worked in several bands, including those of Tal Henry, Rudy Vallee, Vincent Lopez, Nathaniel Shilkret. In 1923, Dorsey followed his brother Jimmy to Detroit to play in Jean Goldkette's band and later returned to New York in 1925 to play with the California Ramblers. In 1927 he joined Paul Whiteman. In 1929, the Dorsey Brothers had their first hit with "Coquette" for OKeh records.
In 1934, the Dorsey Brothers band signed with Decca records, having a hit with "I Believe In Miracles". Future bandleader Glenn Miller was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in 1934 and 1935, composing "Annie's Cousin Fanny", "Tomorrow's Another Day", "Harlem Chapel Chimes", and "Dese Dem Dose", all recorded for Decca, for the band. Ongoing acrimony between the brothers, however, led to Tommy Dorsey's walking out to form his own band in 1935, just as the orchestra was having a hit with "Every Little Moment." Dorsey's orchestra was known primarily for its renderings of ballads at dance tempos, frequently with singers such as Jack Leonard and Frank Sinatra.
Tommy Dorsey's first band was formed out of the remains of the Joe Haymes band, and so began Dorsey's long-running practice of raiding other bands for talent. If he admired a vocalist, musician, or arranger, he would think nothing of taking over their contracts and careers. Dorsey had a reputation for being a perfectionist. He was volatile and also known to hire and fire (and sometimes rehire) musicians based on his mood. The new band was popular from almost the moment it signed with RCA Victor with "On Treasure Island", the first of four hits for the new band in 1935. After his 1935 recording however, Dorsey's manager cut the "hot jazz" that Dorsey had mixed with his own lyrical style and instead had Dorsey play pop and vocal tunes. Dorsey would keep his Clambake Seven as a Dixieland group that played during performances, too. The Dorsey band had a national radio presence in 1936, first from Dallas and then from Los Angeles. Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra took over comedian Jack Pearl's radio show in 1937.
By 1939, Dorsey was aware of criticism that his band lacked a jazz feeling. He hired arranger Sy Oliver away from the Jimmie Lunceford band. Sy Oliver's arrangements include "On The Sunny Side of the Street" and "T.D.'s Boogie Woogie"; Oliver also composed two of the new band's signature instrumentals, "Well, Git It" and "Opus One". In 1940, Dorsey hired singer Frank Sinatra from bandleader Harry James. Frank Sinatra made eighty recordings from 1940 to 1942 with the Dorsey band. Two of those eighty songs are "In The Blue of Evening" and "This Love of Mine". Frank Sinatra achieved his first great success as a vocalist in the Dorsey band and claimed he learned breath control from watching Dorsey play trombone. In turn, Dorsey said his trombone style was heavily influenced by that of Jack Teagarden. Among Dorsey's staff of arrangers was Axel Stordahl who arranged for Frank Sinatra in his Columbia and Capitol records years. Another member of the Dorsey band was trombonist Nelson Riddle, who later had a partnership as one of Sinatra's arrangers and conductors in the 1950s and afterwards. Another noted Dorsey arranger, who in the 1950s, married and was professionally associated with Dorsey veteran Jo Stafford, was Paul Weston. Bill Finegan, an arranger who left Glenn Miller's civilian band, arranged for the Tommy Dorsey band from 1942 to 1950.
The band featured a number of future famous instrumentalists, singers and arrangers in the 1930s and '40s, including trumpeters Zeke Zarchy, Bunny Berigan, Ziggy Elman, Carl "Doc" Severinsen, and Charlie Shavers, pianists Milt Raskin, Jess Stacy, clarinetists Buddy DeFranco, Johnny Mince, and Peanuts Hucko. Others who played with Dorsey were drummers Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Dave Tough saxophonist Tommy Reed, and singers Frank Sinatra, Jack Leonard, Edythe Wright, Jo Stafford with The Pied Pipers, Dick Haymes and Connie Haines. In 1944, Dorsey hired The Sentimentalists who replaced The Pied Pipers. Dorsey also performed with singer Connee Boswell Dorsey hired ex-bandleader and drummer Gene Krupa after Krupa's arrest and scandal for marijuana possession in 1943. In 1942 Artie Shaw broke up his band and Dorsey hired the Shaw string section. As George Simon in Metronome magazine notes at the time, "They're used in the foreground and background (note some of the lovely obbligatos) for vocal effects and for Tommy's trombone."
As Dorsey became successful, he made business decisions in the music industry. He loaned Glenn Miller money to launch Miller's successful band of 1938, but Dorsey saw the loan as an investment, entitling him to a percentage of Miller's income. When Miller balked at this, the angry Dorsey got even by sponsoring a new band led by Bob Chester, and hiring arrangers who deliberately copied Miller's style and sound. Dorsey branched out in the mid-1940s and owned two music publishing companies, Sun and Embassy. After opening at the Los Angeles ballroom, The Hollywood Palladium, on the Palladium's first night, Dorsey's relations with the ballroom soured and he opened a competing ballroom, The Casino Gardens circa 1944. Dorsey also owned for a short time a trade magazine called The Bandstand.
Tommy Dorsey disbanded his own orchestra at the end of 1946. Dorsey might have broken up his own band permanently following World War II, as many big bands did due to the shift in music economics following the war, but Tommy Dorsey's album for RCA, "All Time Hits" placed in the top ten records in February 1947. In addition, "How Are Things In Glocca Morra?", a single recorded by Dorsey, became a top-ten hit in March 1947. Both of these successes made it possible for Dorsey to re-organize a big band in early 1947. The Dorsey brothers were also reconciling. The biographical film of 1947, The Fabulous Dorseys describes sketchy details of how the brothers got their start from-the-bottom-up into the jazz era of one-nighters, the early days of radio in its infancy stages, and the onward march when both brothers ended up with Paul Whiteman before 1935 when The Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra split into two. In the early 1950s, Tommy Dorsey moved from RCA Victor back to the Decca record label.
Jimmy Dorsey broke up his own big band in 1953. Tommy invited him to join up as a feature attraction and a short while later, Tommy renamed the band the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring Jimmy Dorsey. In 1953, the Dorseys focused their attention on television. On December 26, 1953, the brothers appeared with their orchestra on Jackie Gleason's CBS television show, which was preserved on kinescope and later released on home video by Gleason. The brothers took the unit on tour and onto their own television show, Stage Show, from 1955 to 1956. On numerous episodes, they introduced future noted rock musician Elvis Presley to national television audiences, prior to Presley's better known appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Married life
Dorsey's married life was varied and, at times, lurid. His first wife was 16-year-old Mildred Kraft, with whom he eloped in 1922, when he was 17. They had two children, Patricia and Tom (nicknamed "Skipper"). They divorced in 1943 after Dorsey's affair with his former singer Edythe Wright. He then wed movie actress Pat Dane in 1943, and they were divorced in 1947, but not before he gained headlines for striking actor Jon Hall when Hall embraced Dorsey's wife. Finally, Dorsey married Jane Carl New on March 27, 1948, in Atlanta, Georgia. She had been a dancer at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City. Tommy and Jane Dorsey had two children, Catherine Susan and Steve.
On November 26, 1956, Tommy Dorsey died at age 51 in his Greenwich, Connecticut, home. He had eaten a heavy meal and began choking in his sleep. Dorsey began taking sleeping pills regularly at this time; therefore, he was so sedated that he was unable to awaken and died from choking. Jimmy Dorsey led his brother's band until his own death from lung cancer the following year. At that point, trombonist Warren Covington assumed leadership of the band with Jane Dorsey's blessing as she owned the rights to her late husband's band and name. Billed as the "Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Starring Warren Covington", they topped the charts in 1958 with "Tea For Two Cha-Cha". After Covington led the band for a short period, Sam Donahue led it starting in 1961, continuing until the late 1960s. Buddy Morrow conducted the Tommy Dorsey orchestra until his death on September 27, 2010. Jane Dorsey died of natural causes at the age of 79, in Miami, Florida in 2003. Tommy and Jane Dorsey are interred together in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.
Number one hits
Tommy Dorsey had a run of 286 Billboard chart hits. The Dorsey band had seventeen number one hits with his orchestra in the 1930s and 1940s including: "On Treasure Island", "The Music Goes 'Round and Around", "You", "Marie" (written by Irving Berlin), "Satan Takes a Holiday", "The Big Apple", "Once in a While", "The Dipsy Doodle", "Our Love", "All the Things You Are", "Indian Summer", and "Dolores". He had two more number one hits in 1935 when he was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: "Lullaby of Broadway" (written by Harry Warren), number one for two weeks, and "Chasing Shadows", number one for three weeks. His biggest hit was "I'll Never Smile Again", featuring Frank Sinatra on vocals, which was number one for twelve weeks on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1940. "In the Blue of Evening" was number 1 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1943.
Songs written by Tommy Dorsey
1929: "You Can't Cheat A Cheater" with Phil Napoleon and Frank Signorelli
1932: "Three Moods"
1937: "The Morning After"
1938: "Chris and His Gang" with Fletcher and Horace Henderson; Tommy Dorsey wrote the song "Peckin' With Penguins" for a 1938 Frank Tashlin-directed Porky Pig cartoon, "Porky's Spring Planting" for the studio Warner Bros.
1939: "To You", "This Is No Dream", "You Taught Me to Love Again", "In The Middle Of A Dream", "Night In Sudan"
1945: "Fluid Jive" and "Fried Chicken"
1946: "Nip and Tuck"
1947: "Trombonology"
Co-wrote "Bunch of Beats", "Mid Riff", and "Candied Yams" with Fred Norman.
Honors and posthumous recognition
In 1982, the 1940 Victor recording "I'll Never Smile Again" was the first of a trio of Tommy Dorsey recordings to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. His theme song, "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" was inducted in 1998, along with his recording of "Marie" written by Irving Berlin in 1928.[85] In 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey commemorative postage stamp.
Discography
1961: The One And Only Tommy Dorsey (RCA Camden)
1966: Tommy Dorsey's Dance Party (Vocalion)
1976: Tommy Dorsey (1937 - 1941) (AMIGA)
The Essence of Tommy Dorsey (1935-1949 recordings under RCA, reissued under Phantom Sound & Vision)
This is Tommy Dorsey, Volume 1 (1935-1944 recordings under RCA, reissued by Collectibles)
1988: All-Time Greatest Dorsey/Sinatra Hits, Vol. 1-4 (RCA)
1982: The Dorsey/Sinatra Sessions (RCA)
1990: Yes, Indeed! (Bluebird/RCA)
1991: Music Goes Round and Round (Bluebird/RCA)
1994: Stop, Look and Listen (1994) (ASV/Living Era Records)
1999: The V-Disc Recordings (Collectors' Choice Music)
1999: 1937, Vol. 3
2001: This Is Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Vol. 1 (Collectables Records)
2004: 1939, Vol. 3
2004: Tommy Dorsey: The Early Jazz Sides: 1932 - 1937 (Jazz Legends)
2004: It's D'Lovely 1947-1950 (Hep Records)
V-Disc Recordings
Blue Skies, No. 1B, October, 1943, with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers
Well Get It, No. 86A, December, 1943
April in Paris, No. 134, 1944
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, No. 150B, March, 1944
Hawaiian War Chant and March of the Toys, No. 195B, May, 1944
Paramount on Parade, No. 206, 1944
Minor Goes A'Muggin' and Losers Weepers, No. 220A, 1944
Not So Quiet Please, No. 220B, 1944, with Gene Krupa
Wagon Wheels, No. 222A, 1944
T.D. Chant, No. 222B, with Gene Krupa and Buddy DeFranco
Tess's Torch Song and Milkman Keep Those Bottles Quiet, No. 227A, 1944, with Georgia Gibbs
Irresistible You and I Never Knew, No. 227B, with Bob Allen and The Sentimentalists
Small Fry, No. 269A, 1944, with Bing Crosby
Milenberg Joys, No. 273B, 1944
Sweet and Lovely and The Lamp is Low, No. 320A (Army), November, 1944
Melody in A and Chicago, No. 322A, 1944
Over the Rainbow and I May Be Wrong But I Think You're Wonderful, No. 335A, December, 1944, with Judy Garland
For All We Know and The Lady in Red, No. 347A (Army), January, 1945
Nobody's Baby and Three Little Words, No. 362A, 1945
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, No. 391A, March, 1945
More Than You Know, No. 451A (Army); No. 231A (Navy), June, 1945, with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Brotherly Jump, No. 451B, June, 1945, with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
I'll Never Smile Again, No. 582A (Army), February, 1946, with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipe
Boogie Woogie, No. 877A, January, 1949
Marie, No. 890A, Tommy Dorsey and Band, March, 1949
Filmography
Segar Ellis and His Embassy Club Orchestra (1929)needs citation
Alice Bolden and Her Orchestra (1929)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra appear in the following films for the studios Paramount, MGM, Samuel Goldwyn, Allied Artists and United Artists:
Las Vegas Nights (1941)
Ship Ahoy (1942)
Presenting Lily Mars(1943)
Girl Crazy (1943)
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Thrill of a Romance (1945)
The Great Morgan (1946)
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Disc Jockey (1951)
The Dorsey Brothers appear in the 1953 sixteen-minute Universal-International film called The Dorsey Brothers Encore.
Grammy Hall of Fame
Tommy Dorsey was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr., was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the second of four children born to Thomas Francis Dorsey, Sr., and Theresa (née Langton) Dorsey. He and Jimmy, his older brother by slightly less than two years, would become famous as the "Dorsey Brothers". The two younger siblings were Mary and Edward (who died young). Tommy Dorsey initially studied the trumpet with his father, only to later switch to the trombone.
His Father, Thomas F. Dorsey, Sr. died July 13, 1942. Thomas Sr was born in Shenandoah, PA and was a bandleader himself.
At age 15, Jimmy recommended Tommy as the replacement for Russ Morgan in the 1920s territory band "The Scranton Sirens." Tommy and Jimmy worked in several bands, including those of Tal Henry, Rudy Vallee, Vincent Lopez, Nathaniel Shilkret. In 1923, Dorsey followed his brother Jimmy to Detroit to play in Jean Goldkette's band and later returned to New York in 1925 to play with the California Ramblers. In 1927 he joined Paul Whiteman. In 1929, the Dorsey Brothers had their first hit with "Coquette" for OKeh records.
In 1934, the Dorsey Brothers band signed with Decca records, having a hit with "I Believe In Miracles". Future bandleader Glenn Miller was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in 1934 and 1935, composing "Annie's Cousin Fanny", "Tomorrow's Another Day", "Harlem Chapel Chimes", and "Dese Dem Dose", all recorded for Decca, for the band. Ongoing acrimony between the brothers, however, led to Tommy Dorsey's walking out to form his own band in 1935, just as the orchestra was having a hit with "Every Little Moment." Dorsey's orchestra was known primarily for its renderings of ballads at dance tempos, frequently with singers such as Jack Leonard and Frank Sinatra.
Tommy Dorsey's first band was formed out of the remains of the Joe Haymes band, and so began Dorsey's long-running practice of raiding other bands for talent. If he admired a vocalist, musician, or arranger, he would think nothing of taking over their contracts and careers. Dorsey had a reputation for being a perfectionist. He was volatile and also known to hire and fire (and sometimes rehire) musicians based on his mood. The new band was popular from almost the moment it signed with RCA Victor with "On Treasure Island", the first of four hits for the new band in 1935. After his 1935 recording however, Dorsey's manager cut the "hot jazz" that Dorsey had mixed with his own lyrical style and instead had Dorsey play pop and vocal tunes. Dorsey would keep his Clambake Seven as a Dixieland group that played during performances, too. The Dorsey band had a national radio presence in 1936, first from Dallas and then from Los Angeles. Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra took over comedian Jack Pearl's radio show in 1937.
By 1939, Dorsey was aware of criticism that his band lacked a jazz feeling. He hired arranger Sy Oliver away from the Jimmie Lunceford band. Sy Oliver's arrangements include "On The Sunny Side of the Street" and "T.D.'s Boogie Woogie"; Oliver also composed two of the new band's signature instrumentals, "Well, Git It" and "Opus One". In 1940, Dorsey hired singer Frank Sinatra from bandleader Harry James. Frank Sinatra made eighty recordings from 1940 to 1942 with the Dorsey band. Two of those eighty songs are "In The Blue of Evening" and "This Love of Mine". Frank Sinatra achieved his first great success as a vocalist in the Dorsey band and claimed he learned breath control from watching Dorsey play trombone. In turn, Dorsey said his trombone style was heavily influenced by that of Jack Teagarden. Among Dorsey's staff of arrangers was Axel Stordahl who arranged for Frank Sinatra in his Columbia and Capitol records years. Another member of the Dorsey band was trombonist Nelson Riddle, who later had a partnership as one of Sinatra's arrangers and conductors in the 1950s and afterwards. Another noted Dorsey arranger, who in the 1950s, married and was professionally associated with Dorsey veteran Jo Stafford, was Paul Weston. Bill Finegan, an arranger who left Glenn Miller's civilian band, arranged for the Tommy Dorsey band from 1942 to 1950.
The band featured a number of future famous instrumentalists, singers and arrangers in the 1930s and '40s, including trumpeters Zeke Zarchy, Bunny Berigan, Ziggy Elman, Carl "Doc" Severinsen, and Charlie Shavers, pianists Milt Raskin, Jess Stacy, clarinetists Buddy DeFranco, Johnny Mince, and Peanuts Hucko. Others who played with Dorsey were drummers Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Dave Tough saxophonist Tommy Reed, and singers Frank Sinatra, Jack Leonard, Edythe Wright, Jo Stafford with The Pied Pipers, Dick Haymes and Connie Haines. In 1944, Dorsey hired The Sentimentalists who replaced The Pied Pipers. Dorsey also performed with singer Connee Boswell Dorsey hired ex-bandleader and drummer Gene Krupa after Krupa's arrest and scandal for marijuana possession in 1943. In 1942 Artie Shaw broke up his band and Dorsey hired the Shaw string section. As George Simon in Metronome magazine notes at the time, "They're used in the foreground and background (note some of the lovely obbligatos) for vocal effects and for Tommy's trombone."
As Dorsey became successful, he made business decisions in the music industry. He loaned Glenn Miller money to launch Miller's successful band of 1938, but Dorsey saw the loan as an investment, entitling him to a percentage of Miller's income. When Miller balked at this, the angry Dorsey got even by sponsoring a new band led by Bob Chester, and hiring arrangers who deliberately copied Miller's style and sound. Dorsey branched out in the mid-1940s and owned two music publishing companies, Sun and Embassy. After opening at the Los Angeles ballroom, The Hollywood Palladium, on the Palladium's first night, Dorsey's relations with the ballroom soured and he opened a competing ballroom, The Casino Gardens circa 1944. Dorsey also owned for a short time a trade magazine called The Bandstand.
Tommy Dorsey disbanded his own orchestra at the end of 1946. Dorsey might have broken up his own band permanently following World War II, as many big bands did due to the shift in music economics following the war, but Tommy Dorsey's album for RCA, "All Time Hits" placed in the top ten records in February 1947. In addition, "How Are Things In Glocca Morra?", a single recorded by Dorsey, became a top-ten hit in March 1947. Both of these successes made it possible for Dorsey to re-organize a big band in early 1947. The Dorsey brothers were also reconciling. The biographical film of 1947, The Fabulous Dorseys describes sketchy details of how the brothers got their start from-the-bottom-up into the jazz era of one-nighters, the early days of radio in its infancy stages, and the onward march when both brothers ended up with Paul Whiteman before 1935 when The Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra split into two. In the early 1950s, Tommy Dorsey moved from RCA Victor back to the Decca record label.
Jimmy Dorsey broke up his own big band in 1953. Tommy invited him to join up as a feature attraction and a short while later, Tommy renamed the band the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring Jimmy Dorsey. In 1953, the Dorseys focused their attention on television. On December 26, 1953, the brothers appeared with their orchestra on Jackie Gleason's CBS television show, which was preserved on kinescope and later released on home video by Gleason. The brothers took the unit on tour and onto their own television show, Stage Show, from 1955 to 1956. On numerous episodes, they introduced future noted rock musician Elvis Presley to national television audiences, prior to Presley's better known appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Married life
Dorsey's married life was varied and, at times, lurid. His first wife was 16-year-old Mildred Kraft, with whom he eloped in 1922, when he was 17. They had two children, Patricia and Tom (nicknamed "Skipper"). They divorced in 1943 after Dorsey's affair with his former singer Edythe Wright. He then wed movie actress Pat Dane in 1943, and they were divorced in 1947, but not before he gained headlines for striking actor Jon Hall when Hall embraced Dorsey's wife. Finally, Dorsey married Jane Carl New on March 27, 1948, in Atlanta, Georgia. She had been a dancer at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City. Tommy and Jane Dorsey had two children, Catherine Susan and Steve.
On November 26, 1956, Tommy Dorsey died at age 51 in his Greenwich, Connecticut, home. He had eaten a heavy meal and began choking in his sleep. Dorsey began taking sleeping pills regularly at this time; therefore, he was so sedated that he was unable to awaken and died from choking. Jimmy Dorsey led his brother's band until his own death from lung cancer the following year. At that point, trombonist Warren Covington assumed leadership of the band with Jane Dorsey's blessing as she owned the rights to her late husband's band and name. Billed as the "Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Starring Warren Covington", they topped the charts in 1958 with "Tea For Two Cha-Cha". After Covington led the band for a short period, Sam Donahue led it starting in 1961, continuing until the late 1960s. Buddy Morrow conducted the Tommy Dorsey orchestra until his death on September 27, 2010. Jane Dorsey died of natural causes at the age of 79, in Miami, Florida in 2003. Tommy and Jane Dorsey are interred together in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.
Number one hits
Tommy Dorsey had a run of 286 Billboard chart hits. The Dorsey band had seventeen number one hits with his orchestra in the 1930s and 1940s including: "On Treasure Island", "The Music Goes 'Round and Around", "You", "Marie" (written by Irving Berlin), "Satan Takes a Holiday", "The Big Apple", "Once in a While", "The Dipsy Doodle", "Our Love", "All the Things You Are", "Indian Summer", and "Dolores". He had two more number one hits in 1935 when he was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra: "Lullaby of Broadway" (written by Harry Warren), number one for two weeks, and "Chasing Shadows", number one for three weeks. His biggest hit was "I'll Never Smile Again", featuring Frank Sinatra on vocals, which was number one for twelve weeks on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1940. "In the Blue of Evening" was number 1 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1943.
Songs written by Tommy Dorsey
1929: "You Can't Cheat A Cheater" with Phil Napoleon and Frank Signorelli
1932: "Three Moods"
1937: "The Morning After"
1938: "Chris and His Gang" with Fletcher and Horace Henderson; Tommy Dorsey wrote the song "Peckin' With Penguins" for a 1938 Frank Tashlin-directed Porky Pig cartoon, "Porky's Spring Planting" for the studio Warner Bros.
1939: "To You", "This Is No Dream", "You Taught Me to Love Again", "In The Middle Of A Dream", "Night In Sudan"
1945: "Fluid Jive" and "Fried Chicken"
1946: "Nip and Tuck"
1947: "Trombonology"
Co-wrote "Bunch of Beats", "Mid Riff", and "Candied Yams" with Fred Norman.
Honors and posthumous recognition
In 1982, the 1940 Victor recording "I'll Never Smile Again" was the first of a trio of Tommy Dorsey recordings to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. His theme song, "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" was inducted in 1998, along with his recording of "Marie" written by Irving Berlin in 1928.[85] In 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey commemorative postage stamp.
Discography
1961: The One And Only Tommy Dorsey (RCA Camden)
1966: Tommy Dorsey's Dance Party (Vocalion)
1976: Tommy Dorsey (1937 - 1941) (AMIGA)
The Essence of Tommy Dorsey (1935-1949 recordings under RCA, reissued under Phantom Sound & Vision)
This is Tommy Dorsey, Volume 1 (1935-1944 recordings under RCA, reissued by Collectibles)
1988: All-Time Greatest Dorsey/Sinatra Hits, Vol. 1-4 (RCA)
1982: The Dorsey/Sinatra Sessions (RCA)
1990: Yes, Indeed! (Bluebird/RCA)
1991: Music Goes Round and Round (Bluebird/RCA)
1994: Stop, Look and Listen (1994) (ASV/Living Era Records)
1999: The V-Disc Recordings (Collectors' Choice Music)
1999: 1937, Vol. 3
2001: This Is Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Vol. 1 (Collectables Records)
2004: 1939, Vol. 3
2004: Tommy Dorsey: The Early Jazz Sides: 1932 - 1937 (Jazz Legends)
2004: It's D'Lovely 1947-1950 (Hep Records)
V-Disc Recordings
Blue Skies, No. 1B, October, 1943, with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers
Well Get It, No. 86A, December, 1943
April in Paris, No. 134, 1944
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, No. 150B, March, 1944
Hawaiian War Chant and March of the Toys, No. 195B, May, 1944
Paramount on Parade, No. 206, 1944
Minor Goes A'Muggin' and Losers Weepers, No. 220A, 1944
Not So Quiet Please, No. 220B, 1944, with Gene Krupa
Wagon Wheels, No. 222A, 1944
T.D. Chant, No. 222B, with Gene Krupa and Buddy DeFranco
Tess's Torch Song and Milkman Keep Those Bottles Quiet, No. 227A, 1944, with Georgia Gibbs
Irresistible You and I Never Knew, No. 227B, with Bob Allen and The Sentimentalists
Small Fry, No. 269A, 1944, with Bing Crosby
Milenberg Joys, No. 273B, 1944
Sweet and Lovely and The Lamp is Low, No. 320A (Army), November, 1944
Melody in A and Chicago, No. 322A, 1944
Over the Rainbow and I May Be Wrong But I Think You're Wonderful, No. 335A, December, 1944, with Judy Garland
For All We Know and The Lady in Red, No. 347A (Army), January, 1945
Nobody's Baby and Three Little Words, No. 362A, 1945
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, No. 391A, March, 1945
More Than You Know, No. 451A (Army); No. 231A (Navy), June, 1945, with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Brotherly Jump, No. 451B, June, 1945, with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
I'll Never Smile Again, No. 582A (Army), February, 1946, with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipe
Boogie Woogie, No. 877A, January, 1949
Marie, No. 890A, Tommy Dorsey and Band, March, 1949
Filmography
Segar Ellis and His Embassy Club Orchestra (1929)needs citation
Alice Bolden and Her Orchestra (1929)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra appear in the following films for the studios Paramount, MGM, Samuel Goldwyn, Allied Artists and United Artists:
Las Vegas Nights (1941)
Ship Ahoy (1942)
Presenting Lily Mars(1943)
Girl Crazy (1943)
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Thrill of a Romance (1945)
The Great Morgan (1946)
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Disc Jockey (1951)
The Dorsey Brothers appear in the 1953 sixteen-minute Universal-International film called The Dorsey Brothers Encore.
Grammy Hall of Fame
Tommy Dorsey was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
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'Deed I Do You're completely unaware, dear, that my heart is in your…
20.East Of The Sun East of the sun (bathed in the brightness) And west of…
A Ghost Of A Chance I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
A Little in Love On a little street in Singapore, We'd meet beside a lotus-co…
A Little White LIghthouse The moon was all aglow But heaven was in your eyes The…
a room with a view A room with a view, I've got a room with…
A Sinner Kissed An Angel Stars in the sky were dancing One night perfect for romancin…
A Song Was Born Spending these lonesome evenings With nothing to do But to l…
A String of Pearls Savoy, the home of sweet romance Savoy, it wins you with…
A Sweetheart I'm out. Bye! I'm out. I'll see you next time. you I'm …
A Tisket A Tasket A-Tisket A-Tasket A green and yellow basket I bought a bas…
A-Tisket A-Tasket ["Basket, Basket, Who's Got the Basket?" by The Baskets play…
About You When I go for a walk And meet old friends…
After I Say I'm Sorry I don't know why, I made you cry I'm sorry sweetheart…
After You My darling, I'm lonely, now that you're gone. Please come ba…
After You're Gone Now won't you listen honey, while I say, How could…
Again It started all over again The moment I looked in your…
Ain't She Sweet Ain't she sweet? See her walking down that street. Yes I…
All God's Chillun Got Rhythm Chillun', listen here to me This is my philosophy To see me…
All I Remember Is Ou I don't remember the day we met; Time and places are…
All Of Me You took my kisses and you took my love You taught…
All The Thigns You Are You are the promised kiss of springtime That makes the lonel…
All This And Heaven Too You give me your lips and your lips are so…
All Through The Night The day is my enemy, the night my friend, For I'm…
Alone Alone, alone with a sky of romance above Alone, alone…
Always Whenever it's early twilight I watch 'til a star breaks thro…
Am I Blue Just me, it's very morning And I keep on thinking…
Am I Blue? I snore in my sleep, I'm always late for dinner, And…
Am I Proud? Oh, how am I to know if it's really love…
Amapola Amapola My pretty little poppy You're like that lovely flowe…
Angel Fools rush in where angels fear to tread And so I…
Angels With Dirty Faces (Verse 1) They call them angels With dirty faces But they're…
Annie Laurie Maxwell, Maxwell turns bangs to our Bonnie, Where early fall…
Anything Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
april played the fiddle Oh, how am I to know? If its really love that…
Aren't You Glad You Are You You are the promised kiss of springtime That makes the lonel…
As Long As You Live I'll get by As long as I have you Though there be…
Back to Back You went away I let you We broke the ties that bind I…
Basin Street Blues Won't you come along with me To the Mississippi We'll take a…
Be Careful It's My Heart Be careful, it's my heart, It's not my watch you're holding,…
Beale Street Blues Won't you come along with me To the Mississippi We'll take a…
Blue Blazes (Verse 1) I'm in love with a blue blaze She's the prettiest…
Blue Moon Blue moon you saw me standing alone Without a dream in…
Blue Skies Blue skies, smilin' at me Nothin' but blues skies do I…
Blues in the Night In the blue of evening when you appear close to…
Blues Skies Blue skies, smilin' at me Nothin' but blues skies do I…
Boogie Woogie He was a famous trumpet man from out chicago way. He…
Brothers Brother Brother it is so good to be brothers Brother Brother…
Bugle Call Rag You're bound to fall for the bugle call; You're gonna brag…
Bye Bye Baby (Verse 1) Bye, bye, baby, I love you So much it hurts…
Can't I Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
Can't I? (Dream on, dream on) I can see No matter how near you'll…
Candy Some say that love is sweet as a rose, Some say…
Caravan Night and stars above that shine so bright The myst'ry…
Careless Love was the thing that you wanted That's why we answered…
Cha Cha (Verse 1) I'm discontented with homes that are rented So I h…
Chasing Shadows Chasing Shadows The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra by Benny Davis…
Cherokee When they begin the beguine It brings back the sound…
Cocktails For Two He: I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I…
Coquette Hear me, why you keep fooling Little coquette, making fun of…
Corazon De Melon (Verse 1) Tengo un corazon de melon Que se me parte en…
Cowboy From Brooklyn Just a little shaver back in Brooklyn I always thought…
Cross Roads (Verse 1) At the crossroads of life Where two roads meet I s…
Dardanella Cha Cha (Verse 1) I'm discontented with homes that are rented So I h…
Darn That Dream (Verse 1) Darn that dream, I dream each night You say you…
Day By Day And day by day, my love seems to grow. There isn't…
Daybreak Daybreak, another new day, The mist on the meadow is driftin…
Dedicated to You If I should write a book for you That brought me…
DEED I DO (Verse 1) I've loved you ever since I can remember And I'll…
Deep in a Dream Just me, it's very morning And I keep on thinking…
Deep Night Deep night, stars in the sky above Moonlight, lighting our p…
Did I Remember The night was filled with sweet surrender I had a million…
Dig Down Deep You better get up and do it now, you better…
Dinah Carolina Gave me Dinah; I'm the proudest one Beneath t…
Dinah Cha Cha (Verse 1) I'm discontented with homes that are rented So I h…
Dipsy Doodle The dipsy doodle is the thing to beware The dipsy doodle…
Do Do Do How's your love life, How's your heartbeat, How do you do wi…
Do I Love You Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
Do I Worry (Verse 1) I've loved you ever since I can remember And I'll…
Do it Yourself Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's…
Do You Know Why We use to say our love will stay until the…
Dolores How I love the kisses of Dolores Aye-aye-aye Dolores Not Mar…
Don Don't ever change, Just stay the way you are tonight …
Don't Ever Change Don't ever change, Just stay the way you are tonight …
Don't Look Now I'm not the guy who cared about love And I'm not…
Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
Don't Take Your Love From Me Tear a star from out the sky and the sky…
Don't Worry 'bout Me Don't worry 'bout me I'll get along Forget about me Just be …
Dream You're completely unaware, dear, that my heart is in your…
Dream of You [INTRO:] You're completely unaware, dear, that my heart is i…
Dream Weaver Strands of gold I weave. I'm a dream weaver come…
East of the Sun East of the sun (bathed in the brightness) And west of…
Easy To Love I know too well that I'm just wasting precious time In…
Ebb Tide (Verse 1) Ebb tide, ebb tide Running out to sea Taking all m…
Emaline Don't you hear my heart whisper thru your window, Emaline? I…
Embraceable You Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you! Embrace me, you irrepl…
Everybody Grab your coat Don't forget your hat But leave your worri…
Everybody's Cha Cha He: I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I…
Everything Happens To Me Black cats creep across my path Until I'm almost mad I must…
Exactly Like You I used to have a perfect sweetheart Not a real one,…
Farewell (Verse 1) There's a far-off place I'm dreaming of Where the …
Feels So Good I feel so smoochie When I hold your hand and…
Fine And Dandy Please forgive this platitude But I like your attitude You a…
Fools Rush In Fools rush in where angels fear to tread And so I…
For All We Know For all we know We may never meet again Before we go Make…
Frenesi Some time ago I wandered down into old mexico While I was…
Funny Little Pedro (Verse 1) Funny little Pedro, he's a comical sight, With his…
Getting Sentimental Over You Never thought I'd fall, But now I hear love call, I'm gettin…
Good Mornin (Verse 1) Good mornin', sunshine, It's time to get up And st…
Good-Bye Jonah Goodbye, Jonah, goodbye. Take your fare, thee well bowed. Ma…
goodnight%2C my beautiful (Verse 1) I'll see you in my dreams, dear, Just the way…
Goofus I was born on a farm out in Ioway A flaming…
Green Eyes Your green eyes with their soft lights, Your eyes that promi…
guess i'll go back home Yes, I'll go back home this summer Should have gone…
Happy Birthday to Love (Verse 1) Happy birthday to love May it live long and prospe…
Happy Feet Happy Feet! I′ve Got Those Hap-Hap-Happy Feet! Give Them A L…
Have You Got Any Castles Baby Have you got any castles That you want me to build…
Hawaiian War Chant There's a sunny little funny little melody That was started …
Hawaiin War Chant There's a sunny little funny little melody That was started…
Hawian War Chant There's a sunny little funny little melody That was started …
He's A Gypsy From Poughkeepsie He's a gypsy from Poughkeepsie In his trailer he's…
Head On My Pillow Head on my pillow just thinking of you Head on my…
Hear My Song Violetta Hear my song, Violetta, hear the song that's in my…
Hold Tight Hold tight hold tight hold tight hold tight Foo-ra-de-ack-a-…
Honeysuckle Rose Every honey bee fills with jealousy, When they see you out…
Hong Kong Blues (Verse 1) It's the story of a very unfortunate colored man W…
How About You I like New York in June, how about you? I…
How About You? Tommy Dorsey I like New York in June, how about…
How Am I to Know Oh, how am I to know if it's really love…
How Are Things In Glocca Mora I hear a bird, Londonderry bird, It well may be he's…
How Are Things in Glocca Morra I hear a bird, Londonderry bird, It well may be he's…
How Can I Sleep When I'm Deep in the Blue Just me, it's very morning And I keep on thinking…
How Come You Do Me Like You Do How come you do me like you do do do? How…
How Could You I like New York in June, how about you? I…
How Could You? (Verse 1) How could you do it to me? After all I've…
How Deep Is the Ocean How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie How…
How Do I Rate With You How do I rate with you? How high do I stand? Am…
How Do You Do Without Me How's your love life, How's your heartbeat, How do you do wi…
How Lucky You Are You are my lucky star I saw you from afar Two…
How Many Times (Verse 1) Into each life some rain must fall, But too much…
I I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
I Am Loved Of you time and again I would try to Hell you,…
I Can Dream Can't I (Dream on, dream on) I can see No matter how near you'll…
I Can'T Give You Anything But Love Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
I Concentrate on You I'll be seeing you In all the old, familiar places That this…
I Could Make You Care I could make you care if only you'd let me, I…
I Don All our friends keep knocking at the door They've asked me…
I Dream Of You [INTRO:] You're completely unaware, dear, that my heart is i…
I Get a Kick out of You I get no kick from champagne, Mere alcohol, Doesn't thrill…
I Go Rhythm I let a song go out of my heart It was…
I Got Big Eyes I've got my eyes on you, So best beware where you…
I Guess I I'll be seeing you In all the old, familiar places That this…
I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest I guess I'll to dream the rest If you can't remember…
I Had the Craziest Dream In a dream the strangest and the oddest things appear And…
I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You I hadn't anyone till you, I was a lonely one 'til…
I Haven't the Time to Be a Millionaire By a country road wild roses grow that need my…
I Know That You Know You and I know love has found us Why does…
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart I let a song go out of my heart It was…
I May Be Wrong I may be wrong but I think you're wonderful I may…
I Never Knew I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
i poured my heart into a song I let a song go out of my heart It was…
I Remember You I remember you, oh You're the one who made my dreams…
I Should Care I Should Care -Artist: Nat King Cole -Words and Music by Sa…
I Think of You In the hush of evening As shadows steal across my lonely…
I Tried I tried, Tried to impress you, My love, I gave…
I Wished On The Moon I wished on the moon, for something I never knew Wished…
I'd Know You Anywhere I'd know you anywhere, I'd know that grin, I'd know you…
I'd Like To Take Orders From You (Verse 1) I'd like to take orders from you Just for a…
I'll Be Seeing You I'll be seeing you In all the old, familiar places That this…
I'll Be There There you have Maria, played by Tommy Dorsey, and sang…
I'll Dream Some More You're completely unaware, dear, that my heart is in your…
I'll Dream Tonight I guess I'll to dream the rest If you can't remember…
I'll Get By I'll get by As long as I have you Though there be…
I'll Know Side of her face how I care how I care…
I'll Never Say Never Again Again I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
I'll Remember April This lovely day will lengthen into evening We'll sigh goodby…
I'll See You In My Dreams (Verse 1) I'll see you in my dreams, dear, Just the way…
I'll Stand By I'll get by As long as I have you Though there be…
I'll Take Tallulah Have you met Dolores? She's queen of the forest Have you…
I'll Walk Alone I'll walk alone because to tell you the truth I'll…
I'm Following You Never thought I'd fall, But now I hear love call, I'm gettin…
I'm Nobody's Baby I'm nobody's baby I wonder why Each night and day I pray…
I'm Sleeping Out With A Memory Tonight I've been carrying a torch so long, I look like the…
I'm So Weary Of It All (Verse 1) I'm so weary of it all, I'm so tired of…
I'm The One Who Loves You Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
I've Got A Crush On You I've got my eyes on you, So best beware where you…
I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' You are a picture no artist could paint But you're a…
I've Got a Note I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a…
I've Got A Restless Spell Days without you when there's so much to tell, What to…
I've Got My Eyes On You I've got my eyes on you, So best beware where you…
I've Got The World On A String I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a…
If I Forget You I could show the world how to smile I could be…
If I Loved You Of you time and again I would try to Hell you,…
If You Ever Should Leave If you ever should leave, why would I want to…
If You Should Ever Leave If you ever should leave Why would I want to live? Darling,…
Ill Never Smile Again I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
Ill Remember April This lovely day will lengthen into evening We'll sigh goodby…
Ill See You in My Dreams (Verse 1) I'll see you in my dreams, dear, Just the way…
Im So Weary Of It All (Verse 1) I'm so weary of it all, I'm so tired of…
Imagination Imagination is funny, it makes a cloudy day sunny Makes a…
In a Little Spanish Town Evenings are crowded with memories Thrilling me again Like t…
In A Sentimental Mood In A Sentimental Mood I can see the stars come…
In My Meditations Here was I, a Gypsy Looking for a world to roam…
In The Blue Of Evening In the blue of evening When you appear close to me,…
In The Blue Of The Evening In the blue of evening, when you appear close to…
In the Middle of a Dream (Verse 1) I'll see you in my dreams, dear, Just the way…
In the Mood In A Sentimental Mood I can see the stars come…
In The Still Of The Night In the still of the night As I gaze from my…
Indian Love Call The moment has come, I hear a drum Or is it…
Indian Summer Summer, you old Indian Summer You're the tear that comes aft…
Introduction / What Is This Thing Called Love I was a hum-drum person Leading a life apart When love flew…
It I'm so tired of this dull routine Up to town on…
It All Begins and Ends With You GEEEAAAASEEE And dreams I pray that sings to the birds, th…
It Came to Me It's all so new to me to have you care A…
It Started All over Again It started all over again The moment I looked in your…
It's A Hundred To One (Verse 1) I'm so weary of it all, I'm so tired of…
It's A Hundred To One I'm In Love I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…
It's A Lovely Day Today It's a lovely day tomorrow Tomorrow is a lovely day Come and…
It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow It's a lovely day tomorrow, tomorrow is a lovely day, Come…
It's Always You Whenever it's early twilight I watch 'til a star breaks thro…
It's Delovely The night is young, the skies are clear So if…
It's Written in the Stars It′s written in the stars, Those tiny little stars, That you…
Ive Got A Restless Spell Days without you when there's so much to tell, What to…
I`ll never smile again I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
I`m Getting Sentimental Over You Never thought I'd fall, But now I hear love call, I'm gettin…
I´ll Be Seeing You I'll be seeing you In all the old, familiar places That this…
I´ll never smile again I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
I´m Getting Sentimental Over You Never thought I'd fall, But now I hear love call, I'm gettin…
J.D.'s Boogie Woogie He was a famous trumpet man from out chicago way. He…
Ja Da You've heard all about your raggy melody Everything from ope…
Josephine There never was a gal I could love, like I…
Judgment Is Coming I just came back from a lovely trip along the…
Just As Though You Were Here I'll wake each morning, and I'll promise to laugh I'll say…
Kappa Sigma Sweetheart (Verse 1) Oh, Kappa Sigma sweetheart, You're the fairest one…
Keep An Eye On Your Heart I found your lips tonight But where do you keep your…
Keepin Don't even go to a movie show If you're not by…
Keepin' Out of Mischeif Now Don't even go to a movie show If you're not by…
Kidney Stew Crazy 'bout you baby I just can't stand the price Crazy 'bou…
Kiss If you hear A song in blue Like a flower crying For the…
let I'm so tired of this dull routine Up to town on…
let's do it Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's…
Let's Get Away I'm so tired of this dull routine Up to town on…
Let's Have a Party What's this, baby? I got an idea. What's this? Let's…
Light A Candle Light a candle in the chapel At the closing of each…
Little Brown Jug Me and my wife live all alone In a little…
Little White Lies The moon was all aglow But heaven was in your eyes The…
Lonesome Road Look down, look down that lonesome road Before you travel on…
Long Ago And Far Away Long ago and far away I dreamed a dream one day And…
Looking For A Boy Looking for yesterday, most any day I spent with you, One…
love for sale The moment has come, I hear a drum Or is it…
Love Is The Sweetest Thing I was a hum-drum person Leading a life apart When love flew…
Love Lies Love lies have a way of sounding true, When love…
Love Me As I Am I snore in my sleep, I'm always late for dinner, And…
Love Thy Neighbor Up and say how be you gee but I'm glad…
Love Walked in Love walked right in and drove the shadows away Love walked…
Love You Didn Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
Love You Didn't Do Right By Me Planned a romance that just hadn't a chance and I'm…
Lovely Lady LOVELY LADY Tommy Dorsey Lovely lady I'm falling madly in …
Lover You went away I let you We broke the ties that bind I…
Lucky Star You are my lucky star I saw you from afar Two…
Lullaby Of Broadway Come on along and listen to, the lullaby of Broadway The…
Lullaby of the Leaves Rustling of the leaves used to be my lullaby, In the…
Magnolias In The Night In the still of the night As I gaze from my…
Make Love To Me I snore in my sleep, I'm always late for dinner, And…
Maria Elena Maria Elena You're the answer to a prayer Maria Elena Can't …
Marie Marie (oh, Marie), the dawn is breaking Marie, you'll soon b…
May I I may be wrong but I think you're wonderful I may…
Melancholy Serenade Melancholy serenade every time I hear it played Right out of…
Moments In The Moonlight How can you forget moments in the moonlight, Moments of a…
More and More More and more this heart of mine confesses More and more…
More Than Ever Whether you are here or yonder, Whether you are false…
Most Beautiful Girl In The World The most beautiful girl in the world Picks my ties out She…
Music Maestro Please Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom When the jungle…
My Cabin of Dreams (Verse 1) I'll see you in my dreams, dear, Just the way…
My Foolish Heart The night is like a lovely tune Beware my foolish heart How…
My Friend The Ghost Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-…
My Kinda Love My kinda love, your kinda love Keeps me believing, although …
My Love For You Now back to the Dorsey's along with Tommy Mercer who…
My Magic Heart Be careful, it's my heart, It's not my watch you're…
My My MY OWN Tommy Dorsey My own let me call you my own Let…
never again I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
Nice Work If You Can Get It The man who only lives for making money Lives a life…
Night And Day Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom tom When the…
Night in sudan In the still of the night As I gaze from my…
No Regrets No regrets altho' our love affair has gone astray No regrets…
NOBODY I'm nobody's baby I wonder why Each night and day I pray…
Nobody's Baby I'm nobody's baby I wonder why Each night and day I pray…
nos-conseils-de-lecture-pour-cet-ete.html No regrets altho' our love affair has gone astray No regrets…
Not So Long Ago Not so long ago you were my lover, not so…
Now It Can Be Told Now it can be told Told in all its glory Now that…
Oh Look At Me Now Oh, Look at Me Now Tommy Dorsey Him: I'm not the guy…
Oh Promise Me I'm not the guy who cared about love And I'm not…
OH YOU CRAZY MOON When they met, the way they smiled, I saw that I…
Oh! Look At Me I'm not the guy who cared about love And I'm not…
Old Black Joe Old black magic has me in its spell Old black magic…
On the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Do ya hear that whistle down the line? I figure that…
On The Sunny Side Of The Street Walked with no one and talked with no one And I…
On Treasure Island I sailed away to Treasure Island And my heart stood still…
Once a While Once in a while will you try to give One little…
One I Love The glow of sunset in the summer skies, the golden…
One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else The The one I love belongs to somebody else She means her…
Only Forever Do I want to be with you as the years…
Our Love Our love I feel it everywhere Through the nighttime It is…
Our Love Affair Here we are two very bewilder'd people Here we are two…
Over the Rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that…
Pennies from Heaven Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven Don't you…
Perfidia To you my heart cries out, Perfidia, For I found…
Polka Dots And Moonbeams A country dance was being held in a garden I felt…
Poor You Poor you, I'm sorry you're not me, for you will…
Prelude To A Kiss If you hear A song in blue Like a flower crying For the…
Rain April showers, overhead offer me a chance To protect her fro…
Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes See bring home a instead of deep and my mom…
Sally of My Dreams (Verse 1) I'll see you in my dreams, dear, Just the way…
San Francisco It only takes a tiny corner of This great big world…
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town I just came back from a lovely trip along the…
Satan Takes a Holiday Stop, look, and listen to me, Last night at a quarter…
Say It Say it over and over again, Over and over again,…
Says My Heart When most us saddle up for the old trail for…
Sentimental Journey Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows…
Serenade in Blue When I hear that Serenade in blue I'm somewhere in another…
Shadows In The Sand There were shadows on the sand closely mingled, Just two lov…
Shake Down Shake down the stars, pull down the clouds Turn off the…
She's A Home Girl You're a- So... Hey, bro. Kill me. What's in the Look a…
She's Funny That Way Once she dressed in silks and lace, Owned a Rolls…
Sheik Of Araby "I'm the Sheik of Araby, Your love belongs to me. At…
Sing Sing, sing, sing, sing everybody start to sing like dee…
Sky Fell Down The sky fell down when I met you The green of…
Sleep Sleep, sleep, sleep How we love to sleep At the close of…
Sleepy Lagoon A sleepy lagoon, a tropical moon and two on an…
Snootie Little Cutie She's a snooty little cutie, she's a burgulous skirt, She's …
So In Love Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's…
So Long Sally Not so long ago you were my lover, not so…
So Rare What is so rare as a day in June? 'Till now…
Solitaire (Verse 1) I've been playing solitaire, Trying to win your he…
Somebody Loves Me Somebody loves me, I wonder who I wonder who he can…
Somewhere a Voice Is Calling Dusk and the shadows falling o'er land and sea Somewhere a…
Song of India I can feel you sweet song of summer Your music comforts…
St. Louis Blues I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate…
Star Dust And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the…
Stardust And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the…
Stardust On The Moon Sometimes I wonder why I spend The lonely night dreaming of…
Stop Look And Listen It's Never Too Late Too Late To Stop Look Listen To…
Street of Dreams Midnight, you heavy laden, it's midnight Come on and trade i…
Sunny Side Of The Street Grab your coat Don't forget your hat But leave your worries…
Swanee River Way down upon the Swanee River, Far, far away That's where m…
Sweet and Lovely Sweet and lovely Sweeter than the roses in May Sweet and lov…
Sweet Eileen I'm out. Say she has a pair of sad eyes That's…
Sweet Lorraine Everything is set, skies are blue, Can't believe it yet, but…
Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi (Verse 1) Oh, Kappa Sigma sweetheart, You're the fairest one…
Swing That Music It don't mean a thing If it ain't got that swing (doo…
T.D.'s Boogie Woogie He was a famous trumpet man from out chicago way. He…
Take Me Take me, I'm yours if you'll take me Please darling, awake…
Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle Take me back to my boots and saddletommy dorsey take…
Take the Stop, look, and listen to me, Last night at a quarter…
Taking a Chance On Love Here we go again, I hear those trumpets blow again All…
Tangerine Tangerine, She is all they claim With her eyes of night and…
TD's Boogie Woogie He was a famous trumpet man from out chicago way. He…
Tea for two He: I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I…
Tea For Two Cha Cha I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I have…
Tea For Two Cha-Cha He: I'm discontented with homes that are rented so I…
Tell Me At Midnight Tell me at midnight before the moon starts fading Tell me…
Thanks a Million Thanks a million, a million thanks to you For everything…
That That's how it goes when you're in love with someone, And…
That Old Black Magic Old black magic has me in its spell Old black magic…
That's How It Goes That's how it goes when you're in love with someone, And…
The Big Apple DORSEY: Hiya fellahs, what′s new? THE BAND: Not much! DORSEY…
The Dipsy Doodle The dipsy doodle is the thing to beware The dipsy doodle…
The Kappa Sweetheart (Verse 1) Oh, Kappa Sigma sweetheart, You're the fairest one…
The Lamp Is Low Dream beside me in the midnight glow, the lamp Is…
The Lamplighter's Serenade A moment after dark around the park An old-fashion gent come…
The Last Call For Love The moment has come, I hear a drum Or is it…
The Lonesome Road Look down, look down that lonesome road Before you travel on…
The Man I Love Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
The Most Beautiful Girl In The world The most beautiful girl in the world Picks my ties out She…
The Music Goes I blow through here The music goes 'round and around Whoa-ho…
the music goes ‘round and around THE MUSIC GOES ROUND AND ROUND Tommy Dorsey I blow through …
The Music Goes Round & Round I blow through here The music goes 'round and around Whoa-ho…
The Music Goes Round and Around THE MUSIC GOES ROUND AND ROUND Tommy Dorsey I blow through …
The Music Goes ‘Round And Around I blow through here The music goes 'round and around Whoa-ho…
The Night We Called It A Day There was a moon out in space But a cloud drifted…
The One I Love The glow of sunset in the summer skies, the golden…
The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else The one I love belongs to somebody else She means her…
The Sheik of Araby "I'm the Sheik of Araby, Your love belongs to me. At…
The Sky Fell Down The sky fell down when I met you The green of…
The Song is For You I hear music when I look at you A beautiful theme…
The Song Is You I hear music when I look at you, A beautiful theme…
The Sunny Side of the Street Grab your coat Don't forget your hat But leave your worries…
The Sunshine Of Your Smile Dear face that holds no sweeter smile for me, Were you…
The Thing I Want The glow of sunset in the summer skies, the golden…
The World Is In My Arms Here was I, a Gypsy Looking for a world to roam…
Theme: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You Never thought I'd fall, But now I hear love call, I'm gettin…
Then You've Never Been Blue If you've never had to count a million sheep Then you've…
Thera Are Such Things A heart that's true, there are such things A dream for…
There Are Such Thing's A heart that's true There are such things A dream for two Th…
There You Go There I go, leading with my heart again And there I…
They When I go for a walk And meet old friends…
They're Either Too Young Or Too Old You marched away and left this town As empty as can…
this is it This is it, my great romance, I want to hang on…
This Is No Dream This is no dream That's what my heart keeps saying This is…
This Is Romance This is it, my great romance, I want to hang on…
This Love of Mine This love of mine goes on and on, Though life is…
Three Little Words Three little words Oh, what I'd give for that wonderful phra…
Tiger Rag Where's that tiger! Where's that tiger! Where's that tiger! …
Time on my Hands When the day fades away into twilight The moon is my…
Time Was Time was when we had fun On the school yard…
Tin Roof Blues (Verse 1) Sunny, yesterday my life was filled with rain Sunn…
to you You are the promised kiss of springtime That makes the lonel…
Too Romantic I'm so afraid of night 'cause I'm too romantic. Moonlight an…
Trade Winds Down where the trade winds play, Down where you lose the…
Trumpet Cha Cha Cha (Verse 1) I'm discontented with homes that are rented So I h…
Two In Love Lately, I find myself out gazing at stars, Hearing guitars…
Violets It was winter in Manhattan Falling snow flakes filled the ai…
Wasting My Love on You Now back to the Dorsey's along with Tommy Mercer who…
We Three We three, we're all alone, living in a memory My echo,…
We'll Git It There was a moon out in space But a cloud drifted…
Weary (Verse 1) I'm so weary of it all, I'm so tired of…
Well All Right Well all right, well all right, dig, dig, dig Well all…
Well Get It I'm so tired of this dull routine Up to town on…
Well, All Right Well all right, well all right, dig, dig, dig Well all…
What Can I Say I don't know why, I made you cry I'm sorry sweetheart…
What Is This Thing Called Love I was a hum-drum person Leading a life apart When love flew…
What'll I Do You're completely unaware, dear, that my heart is in your…
What'll It Do Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's…
When When I go for a walk And meet old friends…
When You Awake When you awake, the day takes a bow at your…
Where Am I I snore in my sleep, I'm always late for dinner, And…
Where Are You You are the promised kiss of springtime That makes the lonel…
Where Do You Keep Your Heart I found your lips tonight But where do you keep your…
WHERE IS MY HEART Yours is my heart alone And without you, life holds no…
Where Oh Where Fools rush in where angels fear to tread And so I…
Where or When It seems we stood and talked like this before We looked…
Whispering Don't worry I'm not looking at you Gorgeous and dressed in…
Who'll Be The One This Summer Yes, I'll go back home this summer Should have gone…
Why Do I Love You Why do robins sing in December Long before the Springtime is…
Why Shoudn't I? Spending these lonesome evenings With nothing to do But to l…
With All My Heart You're breaking my heart all over again. Oh why did we…
Without a Song Without a song the day would never end Without a song…
Yearning Yearning just for you, that's all I do, my dear. Learning…
Yes Indeed Yes, indeed! [Chorus:] Yes, indeed! Yes, indeed! Get t…
Yesterdays Looking for yesterday, most any day I spent with you, One…
You My darling, I'm lonely, now that you're gone. Please come…
You and I Darling you and i know the reason why a summer…
You And I Know You and I know love has found us Why does…
You Are My Everything Now back to the Dorsey's along with Tommy Mercer who…
You Are My Lucky Star You are my lucky star I saw you from afar Two…
You Couldn't Be Cuter You couldn't be cuter, Plus that you couldn't be smarter, …
You DO Something To Me How's your love life, How's your heartbeat, How do you do wi…
You Leave Me Breathless You leave me breathless, you heavenly thing, You look so won…
You Might Have Belonged to Another You might have belonged to another, We might never have met,…
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby You must have been a beautiful baby, You must have…
You Think of Ev'rything In the hush of evening As shadows steal across my lonely…
You Took Advantage of Me When a girl has the heart of a mother It must…
You Took My Love Now back to the Dorsey's along with Tommy Mercer who…
You're Breaking My Heart All Over Again You're breaking my heart all over again. Oh why did we…
You're Here You're There You're Everywhere I'll wake each morning, and I'll promise to laugh I'll say…
You're Lonely And I Am Lonely You're lonely and I'm lonely So why can't we be lonely…
You're Lonely and I'm Lonely You're lonely and I'm lonely, So why can't we be lonely…
You're My Desire You're breaking my heart all over again. Oh why did we…
You're Part of My Heart You're part of my heart And now that you've gone The stars…
You're Precious to Me When a girl has the heart of a mother It must…
You're The Cause Of It All GEEEAAAASEEE And dreams I pray that sings to the birds, th…
You're the One You're lonely and I'm lonely So why can't we be lonely…
Yours Yours till the stars have no glory Yours till the birds…
Yours Is My Heart Alone Yours is my heart alone And without you, life holds no…
You’re Here You’re There You’re Everywhere I'll wake each morning, and I'll promise to laugh I'll say…
Zonky (Verse 1) I met a Zonky in the zoo He was a…
Necromonger27
on A HIGH HAT, A PICOLO AND A CANE
Who stole my gal away with a minor stay?
A high hat, a piccolo, and a cane!
Who made my honey say my love gave her a pain?
A high hat, a piccolo, and a cane!
A high salutin', crap shootin', piccolo tootin' high brow! (x2)
He played a little bell and raised a literal hell, then her head went 'round and 'round.
Whoah!
She thought I was okay, at least that thought betrayed.