Al Martino It seems to me I've heard that song before It's from…
Madison Park How they said That we heart them We turn our heads From thei…
Mills Brother Oh! baby, I'm rackin' my brain, to think of a…
The Four Freshmen I'm racking my brains to think of a name To give…
The Mills Brothers Oh! baby, I'm rackin' my brain, to think of a…
Various Artists Nanananana Nanananana (all together now) Nanananana Nananana…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Tommy Dorsey:

'Deed I Do You're completely unaware, dear, that my heart is in your…
A Ghost Of A Chance I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
A Little in Love Lately, I find myself out gazing at stars, Hearing guitars…
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 String of Pearls Savoy, the home of sweet romance Savoy, it wins you with…
A Tisket A Tasket A-Tisket A-Tasket A green and yellow basket I bought a bas…
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've Gone Now won't you listen honey, while I say, How could…
After You’ve Gone Now won't you listen honey, while I say, How could…
Again I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
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 Of Me You took my kisses and you took my love You taught…
ALL THE THINGS YOU AIN'T 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Daybreak Daybreak, another new day The mist on the meadow is drifting…
Dedicated to You If I should write a book for you That brought me…
DEED I DO You're completely unaware, dear, that my heart is in your…
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 You're completely unaware, dear, that my heart is in your…
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…
Don 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 I guess I'll to dream the rest If you can't remember…
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…
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,…
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…
Fools Rush In Fools rush in where angels fear to tread And so I…
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…
Goodbye Jonah Goodbye, Jonah, goodbye. Take your fare, thee well bowed. Ma…
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 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 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 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 You're completely unaware, dear, that my heart is in your…
I Get a Kick out of You I get no kick from champagne, Mere alcohol, Doesn't thrill…
I Go Rhythm Days can be sunny, with never a sigh Don't need what…
I Got Big Eyes I've got my eyes on you, So best beware where you…
I Guess I I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
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 Tonight I guess I'll to dream the rest If you can't remember…
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 Gettin Sentimental Over You Never thought I'd fall, But now I hear love call, I'm gettin…
I'm in the Mood for Love I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…

and many more tracks by Tommy Dorsey.

The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos

Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@masonmireles9295

@Theressa Murphy thank you so much for the very speedy reply. Normally I don’t expect a response for a week to two weeks. It truly means a lot!

This does help!

I really like Big Band Music, because a friend recently introduced it to me and I’m trying to explore more of it so I can connect with them and share an interest with them.

I really like the Big Band music with only the band and orchestra and no vocals. What would you suggest?

Thanks again for the help! It truly means a lot. Sorry if I wrote a lot.

All comments from YouTube:

@rickstokes2239

1y↑26

I play the alto and tenor saxes and clarinet in a big band in Phoenix and can affirm that people’s enjoyment of the big band era music is alive and well. I’ll be soloing to this piece this weekend.

@blujay9191

1y↑1

Hopefully you broke a leg.

@rickstokes2239

1y↑3

@@blujay9191 The crowd had a great time and we enjoyed ourselves - all that matters.

@1515327E

33w

Great news - I was a UK teenager in the 1970s, loving Glenn Miller and Big Band, not the music of my era. Wonderful classy music will always endure. Thank you!

@tonygumbrell22

6y↑28

This is the zenith of swing music for me. It reached its maximum polish and elegance without losing its jazz roots, verve, and energy. What class.

@TheSchlerm

45w

Same here... For most people "in The Mood" defined the swing era... For me it was Opus One...

@nscalerailfan2457

49w↑12

Love this music. Grew up listening to it. My dad was playing professionally with a regional big band in St. Paul MN back in the late 40s, and while on break, he went up to a nightclub on the top floor of the hotel where the Dorsey band was playing. My dad was invited to sit in with the band, and after a couple of numbers, he was offered a job. Well, he turned the offer down, as he was getting ready to teach music and was also engaged to my future mother at the time. He thought it more important to have a "stable" job and life rather than spend a lot of time on the road, especially with a new wife in his near future. Too bad. But I think it is cool that my dad was good enough to be offered a full time job right there on the spot.

@davidschneider6306

34w↑2

great story.

@patmonaghan08

1y↑8

Wonderful that these big bands played without deafening volume. People could dance, talk, listen without being forced to as is the case these days. MUSIC! 🎷🎸🎼😃

@michaeljayklein500

10y↑52

What a great discovery! Thank you so very much from all of us Dorsey fans!

@michaeljayklein500

10y↑4

PS: I'd be remiss in not telling you that you did a wonderful job recreating the visuals on this.

@boink345

10y↑2

Michael Klein Thanks - I just wish that I had the first half of the actual performance of "Opus One" that I used for the end.

@UdoRugiesseigur

7y↑1

Michael Klein, ich kann Dir nur Beiflichten .Diese Musik ist grandios!

@OldDogNewTrick

9y↑21

What a treasure. And I had to wait 71 years to hear this version for the first time!
As I recall, stereo playback only came along in the late 1950s for the mass market.

@boink345

9y↑2

Amazing that they cut this number. Of course, it would have been released in mono, but thank god they saved the multi-track originals!

@kingbee1500

+OldDogNewTrick Right...Mercury Records released the first Westrex-standard true stereo LPs for Christmas, 1957 buyers...Magnavox made the first compatable players available in October 1957. By May, 1958, the stereo craze swept the nation, and all the experimental stereo mixes were being re-mastered into the mono-stereo compatible Westrex disc standard for sale. Like Color TV did for B&W/color video (1953) and FM Stereo for radio (1961), the accepted format played both mono and stereo discs with equal fidelity=compatability to older standards.

@Poisson4147

+OldDogNewTrick Even though consumer playback didn't exist, professional equipment was years ahead technologically. Many studios recorded soundtracks in two (or more) channels on either optical stripes or transcription discs, then used early types of mixer boards to achieve a better balance for the final mono track.

@Phippsta

7y↑48

Such an underrated piece of music- just as good as Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" in my opinion!

@monicabella7894

6y↑1

Forget Glen Miller

@PiccDan

5y↑3

Much more interesting than In The Mood...?

@paulbeard4218

4y↑1

It's BETTER than Miller !

@pamtebelman2321

2y↑1

One of the best jazz tunes ever!

@pamtebelman2321

2y↑1

The Mills Brothers do a great job with this tune, too, you would enjoy!

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@RodSimmonsTheActor

9y↑174

Is this for real?? A Stereo Tommy Dorsey! OMG! This is amazing!! Much as I hate to admit it, I wish I'd been around in that era!!! Thank you for sharing this track!!!

@boink345

9y↑12

Totally real, and totally amazing!

@mariochavez3351

9y↑11

+Rod Simmons I was born in the wrong era myself ♫

@RodSimmonsTheActor

9y↑6

You and me both, Mario!

@mariochavez3351

8y↑3

Guess what, Rod? I've acquired many more Tommy Dorsey vinyl albums since this little discussion ♫

@carolhoffman8915

8y↑2

+Rod Simmons I was just spermatozoa to be born in 1944

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@Johnny35130

1y↑6

I would probably be dead now, but I would love to have been there for that performance, I have a version of that by TD that has more volume on the strings that are subdued in this one, and it was beautiful. I've listened to it over and over. I love the Big Band era!

@dudley5533

3y↑2

This arrangement and overall performance by the band and all the solos are priceless......one of the best of TD's selections. The beat is constant throughout, so it had to be one of the dancers' favorite swing tunes during the 40's.

@pamtebelman2321

Great tune, Love it!

@theressamurphy2996

4y↑22

My parents played this song alot on the record player in the 1940's. They loved to dance and so I do too☺️ The radio was playing many of the Big Band music during the war.

@masonmireles9295

I’m really into this type of music and I was wondering if you had any suggestions for songs or other bands to listen to. Thanks for the help in advance!

@theressamurphy2996

@masonleo_04 how sweet...I am discovering different styles of music everyday on You Tube if you have the time. Start with what you like and explore with You Tube..go to search on You Tube . I hope this will help you.

@theressamurphy2996

Swing...The best of the Big Bands....try this on You Tube...get you started

@theressamurphy2996

@masonleo_04 Swing .. The best of the Big Bands..will get you started

@masonmireles9295

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@fredricpalmieri6825

9y↑20

One of my absolute favorites from the big band era, recorded a year after Mr S left TD to pursue his legendary solo career. Dorsey simply set the bar as the best of the best in an era log gone. Both Mr S & TD were often imitated, but never equalled.

@Rezon1043

5y↑1

Ellington was, is, and ever shall be the best of the best. Duke discovered the superb drummer Chick Webb and told Chick he should start his own band, which Webb did and became the house band at the brand new Savoy Ballroom in New York City. Chick discovered Ella Fitzgerald when she was a teenager and became her legal guardian so he could feature her as his vocalist. All the other great bands came through the Savoy ballroom to take part in the weekly “Battle of the Bands” with the guest band on one stage and Chick’s on the other. No one could beat Chick and his band. Goodman came through with Krupa, they did their best and felt good until Chick started playing. Goodman’s men kept looking over at Chick's musicians, shaking their heads in disbelief knowing they had been beaten. When it was all over Krupa went up to Chick and bowed down to him. Later Krupa said, “I was never cut by a better man.” Check out Chick Webb and prepare to be astonished.

@stanochocki8984

4y↑2

@Rezon1043 Ellington a part of the Big band Era--not THE Best of them all..each had their equal share....Ella was good, to Great...but that 'scat'-crap...was clap-trap...

@LimitlessThinker

51w↑4

My father was a WWII Veteran. He played music often. As a child, I heard all the jazz greats. He loved playing his music loud. He had a collection of albums that filled an entire closet and was a couple feet high.
He never complained when I played my rock music loud. We loved music.

@thomtlc2

44w

Same here. But lately, I find myself listening more to pre-rock years than the 60s and 70s I'm used to. But, really it's all great music!

@CNMS501

5y↑3

SOOOO nicely done! THANK YOU for all your time and hard work for the rest of us! The BEST ERA of MUSIC - EVER!

@gavinm3087

5y↑1

Barbara 53 I know imagine how long it must have taken to find this clip

@boink345

Thanks - it was a lot of work. Can't believe they cut it from the movie!

@deedeescrystalblueclassics3973

4y↑5

Totally awesome! Love the big band era! 👍

@timothyhall3545

4y↑108

I worked in a restaurant for years. "Opus One", was one of the most expensive bottles of wine we served. So you'd take notice when one was served. Not long after I left there. I was spending time with my ailing father. Some show he was watching, featured a version of this song. He passed not long after. So I her this. And think of dad, and his love of this music.

@MichaelOnabolu

2y↑6

Rest In Peace to your father. God bless him and you and all loved ones.

@terryolson2431

2y↑2

Ya, me too pal, I have my Dad's coronet by me right now .He passed it on to me and a love for the big bands
Is way down in my heart because of both, my Mom too.

@chewbaccaproductions493

2y↑1

@Terry Olson Bless you friend. That sounds lovely. I hope you are well on this splendid day :)

@muzhikforchaplin1203

6y↑16

One of my favorite Tommy Dorsey songs

@russellcandy9850

4y↑7

I have a 1946 recording of TD doing Opus 1 but this version is superior by far!!

@jamesfox2579

4y↑11

Now THIS ..... is music to the EARS!❤️🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸

@Calicoguy

10y

The sound on this clip is fantastic and a great job of linking it up to visuals. Glenn Miller's musical numbers for 'Orchestra Wives' were also recorded in early stereo. I have them in my collection. The problem was that theatres weren't equipped to play stereo, so the film was released in mono. The same issue that Disney ran into with the multi-channel sound for 'Fantasia', which, after it's inital performances, played world-wide for years with a mono soundtrack.

@MikeBlitzMag

3y↑3

The more early stereo, the better. Magnificent!

@Poisson4147

A lot of musicals were recorded on multiple tracks to let the sound engineers get a better mix on the final mono track. The sad part is that at the time, the separate tracks were usually treated as intermediate steps that could be trashed once the mono track was complete. Every so often somebody finds copies of the separate tracks that escaped destruction, which is how we can listen to these gems!

@gerryamatomusic

1y↑6

Wow! What a great, clean recording. I was wondering what these bands could have sounded like in stereo and without all the typical noise. Thank you so much for posting this!!

@larryshaver3568

49w↑1

some of the first stereo78's were recorded in London at Abbey Road studios

@armandonicoletti7493

3y↑4

QUE HERMOSA LA ORQUESTA DEL GRAN MAESTRO TOMMY DORSEY. EVIDENTEMENTE UNA DE LAS GRANDES BANDAS DE LOS AÑOS DORADOS DEL JAZZ AMERICANO, JUNTO A GLENN MILLER, BENNY GOODMAN Y HARRY JAMES O ARTIE SAW.

@PiccDan

8y↑2

Electrifying! Incredible sound and performance. If only there was a stereo version of Sunny Side of the Street, which is also Big Band perfection. Perhaps there IS....?

@lowellelliott6276

6y↑1

Wonderful, I miss TD and his trombone

@skipfretwell9710

7y↑100

I WAS there and it was more than super...I once went to a dance at the University of Va. where they has Stan Kenton on one side of the ballroom and Zavier Cugat on the other...what
a spectacular event that was for a young girl not quite out of her teens!

@LolaClo

6y↑6

Skip Fretwell omg you are so lucky!!!

@carolinecorman2240

6y↑4

My mom played this music for me and I loved it all my life. It never grows old

@henryseidel5469

5y↑3

"Stan Kenton on one side of the ballroom and Zavier Cugat"
They both became famous with the PEANUT VENDOR, didn't they ?

@giovanninadeotto8209

5y↑1

@Henry Seidel bellissime musiche. Favolose

@henryseidel5469

5y↑2

@Giovannina Deotto I cannot understand Italian, but luckily these three words are international - like music !

Sono completamente d'accordo con te.

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@simocontugi4237

It's amazing! The version played by T.D.'s Orchestra is my favorite but I love very much The Mills Brothers's one too because I like the words and they were very good singers! Thank you for sharing this tune.

@topazioazulazul

I adore all this music..Such talented musicians WOW!!

@ddkoda

4y↑3

High fidelity stereo in 1943. Who knew? Spectacular arrangement and performance also.

@Poisson4147

4y↑1

There were some incredible recordings made as early as the late 1920s - search for "early hi fi", "early stereo", and "high fidelity 78s". Also Bell Labs produced some experimental stereo recordings in late 1931 and early 1932. The problem was cost and complexity prevented the technology's use except in rare cases. Home playback equipment would have been out of reach of all but the wealthiest listeners, and even most theatres couldn't afford to install the extra speakers and amplifiers needed. Disney famously developed a multi-channel system called "Fantasound" that was used for the film Fantasia but it was so complex only a handful of movie houses showed it in its complete form.

By the early 40s things had improved enough that larger movie studios were recording soundtracks using either dual optical tracks or synchronized high-fidelity discs. Even there, though, a lot's now lost: the 2-channel tracks were often simply fed through a primitive sound board to get better balance in the final mono mix. Fortunately a few of the originals survive, including this one, some by Artie Shaw, and of course parts of Glenn Miller's two movies.

@ddkoda

4y↑1

@Poisson Volant Thanks so much much. Very enlightening. Apparently there was more going on regarding high fidelity in the early part of the 20th century than one might have imagined

@Poisson4147

4y↑1

@ddkoda Thanks for the compliment! I've always been fascinated with how technology developed, and what was known experimentally (or even accidentally) before particular discoveries were commercialized. E.g. I found out that Edison inadvertently invented the vacuum tube but didn't understand what he'd stumbled on, so it languished for years. Can you imagine if electronic amplifiers had been available at the start of the 20th century?

@kwc7391

5y↑1

Love the late 40's tunes. I have a 1953 Seeburg jukebox that's full of the 45rpm's of the big band. Fun, happy tunes!

@k.patriciahutt2979

Opus#1 was still being played @ Prom dances in the 1950's!!
Think it was pretty high on the popularity charts too. 😍💖🌟🌟🌟🌟🖖

@allenjohnson9967

36w↑2

God bless both of you, born in 63 . Grandma. Great... love it ..

@ChristianMan-yr6bj

35w

Simple music can make you sing, a simple hug can make you feel, better, simple things can make you happy, I hope my simple hello will put a smile on your face..

Hello!!! How are you doing today, please
pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I
just wanted to know if you're a fan ? Have a
great day.. Stay Safe 😊😊

@fineart10

4y↑1

Very good sound .. and the melody is a classic... For dancing is perfect

@jimdooner4375

3y↑3

No it is very addictive I was raised on swing and big bands and I miss my mom and dad and my aunts and uncles who brought me and my brother up on this kind of music keep it alive !!!

@pamtebelman2321

2y↑1

Today's generation doesn't know what good music is!

@AnnieVanAuken

5y↑4

Magnificent! Don't you wish all the great swing bands had recorded in stereo?

@larryshaver3568

5y↑1

there was some recording done in stereo in England in the 30's

@AnnieVanAuken

@Larry Shaver Yes but were these recordings true stereo with a phantom center channel, or discrete two channel sound, which is completely different. Over headphones the latter has a hole in the center. Kinda like FANTASIA (1940), which was both two channel discrete, and ping pong simulated stereo. And then I'd like to know how those British stereo recordings were made. Did they record to film track, like this Dorsey one?

@larryshaver3568

@Annie Van Aukentrue stereo i'm sure the recordings were made with three microphones so there is a phantom channel

@AnnieVanAuken

You don't need three mics for a phantom channel, just two, properly spaced. I'd love to know how they recorded in stereo back then if not on film audio track.

@billcobbett9259

5y↑1

@Larry Shaver Those would be the experiments done by Alan Blumlein and EMI

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@chuckgray9058

2y↑1

Fall concert 1977 in high school, the orchestra which I played in was making our way offstage, and the jazz band was telling us "great job!" We sat and watched them erupt into TD's Opus One, and I though, "Who are they kidding?! This is fantastic."

@christopherfisher6293

2y↑71

My late dad called this "Tail gunner music" as dad had a pal that was a tail gunner in the RAF during WW2. On the return flight home, the radio operator would call out over the intercom , "Skipper, I've got the Light programme on the radio. Can I put on the headphones?" The crew would call out " Yes, skipper!!" And this and many other songs and tunes would help the crew fly back to the UK.

@MissHellfire

1y↑3

nice story thanx to ur Dad + pals for freeing us from u know who, kind regards from Germany..i woz born 1962 btw

@GrievingForGrace

1y↑4

That's a cool story.

@Poisson4147

Jerry Gray even wrote a tune called Tail End Charlie to honor tail gunners. It was one heck of a critically-important - and REALLY dangerous - position to have.

@esmeephillips5888

1y↑2

It was the Forces (later General Forces) Programme in WW2. The Light Programme replaced it in 1946.

@johnpancoast3236

@GrievingForGrace Assuming it's even true. <wink>

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@jimstokes6742

8y↑7

Fabulous job of editing! The film audio recording is superior to the "classic" record released where the rhythm section sounds tubby. THANKS!

@user-ht9jj2xq4b

7y↑2

Отличный, профессиональный аудио монтаж!

@rjmcallister1888

10y↑1

Disney recorded "Fantasia" in seven-track in 1939-40, so yeah, it could be done. Slightly different from Sy Oliver's arrangement that was recorded for RCA in 1944. By then, TD was touring with a full string section; the band had swelled to as many as 27 members. Hard to believe that, within three years, this was all gone. A great track, a #1 and a favorite.

@boink345

10y↑1

Multi-channel recording mixed down to mono was pretty standard for film music since the mid-30s, and fortunately many of those tracks have survived. No one got to hear them in stereo back then, but I'm so glad we can!

@commanderstraker1082

The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with strings- it don't get much better!

@imploud

11y↑4

Fantastic music!

@jslasher1

3y↑1

Alfred Newman, the famous composer-conductor and head of the 20th Century-Fox music department, took such a liking to the multi-channel recordings in Disney's "Fantasia", that shortly thereafter he saw to it that most Fox soundtracks were recorded on two separate channels on interlocked variable-density optical film. It was possible to remix these to stereo, as was done on such films as "Captain from Castile", "How Green Was my Valley" and "Day the Earth Stood Still", among others.

@Hot80s

8y↑2

Absolutley lovely.

Hit the dance floor, grab a broad & a drink with one hand free & have the world so easily.

@windstorm1000

Love it!

@milliedunston7129

4y↑2

Great swing jazz song to dance with the best friend on the dance floor.😎 Cool 😎

@gladysmchone1991

2y↑1

My husband and I danced a lot of dances to this song. I remember the very first song I ever heard that I can remember I was probably about 4 or 5 years old was by Tommy Dorsey and it was Tommy dorsey's Boogie Woogie and it was playing on the car radio as my family was traveling and there was one more that I remember hearing back then and it was called smoke smoke that cigarette. It's amazing I can remember things from when I was three four five six years old and I can't remember what I ate for breakfast day before yesterday

@rjmcallister1888

7y↑1

It's also sonically better, because motion picture film captured more fidelity than shellac. Dorsey recorded this with a 27-or-28 piece band, as he did on the 78. This is great, but the 1944 RCA 78 has so much more energy; one of TD's best recordings.

@strappernick9891

8y↑2

My favorite Dorsey tune! Used in the movie "A Separate Peace" - the first one.

@skipfretwell9710

7y↑3

Yes, Opus One and Boogie Woogie, among others were great to jitterbug to...not too fast and not too slow---perfect tempo. I learned on them and taught others what I'd learned. A great time...about 1945 and '46, perhaps a little longer. I'm now almost 88 and thoroughly enjoy hearing this music again...and speaking of again...Again was a wonderful song once sung by Ida Lupino. Listen to One O'clock Jump and Two O'clock Jump...super.

@boink345

I have to own up to the fact that I sped up the original recording (while keeping the pitch the same). Sacrilege, I know - but it was way too slow for me! I think this tempo is perfect.

@terrywells4790

Same here!

@wendyhoward8652

Wonderful as always

@wijkideeteam

I had the impression of being there, fantastic!!!!!

@c.d.robinson3090

love it!

@captainswing4487

Cheered me right up...blown the blues away. Thanks. Xx

@bullwinkledamoose1

6y↑1

I love big bands!!

@marilynstevenson865

5y↑2

Absolutely wonderful!!! Great find..Thank you, Broadway Classics!!! Cheers..Marilyn..

@josephcostello695

Wasn’t this used in a tv shows theme song? Not quite sure I know it’s been used in movies and tv shows as background music. Beautiful

@boink345

4y↑1

No TV show that I know of.

@glennkoons1560

42w↑1

I GREW UP IN THE '40'S DURING THE WAR AND LISTENED ON THE RADIO TO THIS, GOODMAN, KRUPA, SHAW, MILLER ET AL.

@richardscally694

5y↑1

Oh' What an era for wonderful swing music.

@jimstokes6742

8y↑16

This was recorded on film. Film audio had several tracks available, which they mixed down l0000g before the record companies caught on. Film has no audio recording limits. It's only restricted by the electronics, including microphones.

@billcobbett9259

4y↑2

Disney's Fantasia had 8 tracks, plus a ninth to help sync the machinery.

@Poisson4147

4y↑1

It wasn't so much that the record companies didn't catch on, it was more that the technology to make stereo records for commercial use was more complicated than making two-channel films for theater release. Bell Labs experimented with dual-needle systems, 0º-90º and 45º-45º styli but it proved to be too expensive for home use.

@reecenewton3097

4y↑1

@Poisson Volant Single needle 45/45 stereo disks for the consumer market didn't come along until 1958.

@reecenewton3097

4y↑1

@Jim Stokes I figured this was sound on film: it would have been the only way to do it "easily" with this quality at that time. Disks would have had to have two concentric tracks cut simultaneously with two cutting heads and this would have made no sense with film available. Magnetic tape would only come into use after the war.

@Poisson4147

@Reece Newton Correct. Things like low-mass pickups, small-radius styli, etc. weren't physically and/or financially practical before that time. However a lot of record companies started making stereo master tapes years before in anticipation of eventual release on disk. Somewhere deep in my LP collection I have a stereo symphonic recording that was taped in 1952 but only available as a mono disk until years later.

All said, the 1931-32 Bell tracks were and are effectively isolated experiments.

@toniweimer8291

10y

What a great find!! Thanks!!! Can't quit listening...with head phones...

@barryhill9343

IT'S FANTASTIC SWING MUSIC AND TOMMY IS ONE OF THE BEST

@LyraKeltica61

2y↑1

Swing music is awesome!

@wndy59

8y↑3

Totally fantastic, like wow!

@andresalvarado3319

1y↑1

Fantastic tune

@tessamorgan7076

3y↑1

Pure magic

@davidhegarty9994

Quality, like good style, NEVER dates. Seventy years on, and here we are, as entranced as ever.

@zaettav

4y↑1

marvelous.... sounds so good!!! Tks for sharing Greetings from Canada

@justineward5996

2y↑1

Swing Music is the very best music! Love this tune.

@Viking-rd7ps

completely awesome !!!

@irish00011

45w↑1

Amazing, I'm hearing the string instruments section to the orchestra, but there were none in the moving pictures.

@boink345

41w↑1

The footage is lost, so I pulled the video from other performances.

@RoadReptile

There's a similar song to "Opus One", but I don't know its title. You can hear it in the movie, 'The Natural', when Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is introduced to Gus Sands (Darren McGavin) by Max Mercy (Robert Duvall) at the nightclub. The band is playing the song at about 1 hour into the Director's Cut of the movie.

@tombasye1016

Tommy Dorsey Was The Top Best Big Band Leader And Will Always Be Remembered.

@wilrobles5392

6y↑4

What a great song to listen to on a lazy Saturday afternoon.

@infectedlion1000

Where did you find this track? It sounds incredible!

@boink345

6y↑1

It's from the CD "Alive & Kickin' - Big Band Sounds at MGM". But I increased the tempo on this clip, to match the video.

@RedmanSlapz

i found it playing fallout 76 on playstation 5...

@TheeSeer

4y↑1

This music would work today with all ages. The people are sick of the junk of today's phony TV talent winners. None of whom could have gotten a job with TD. Tip of the hat to Universities and a few bands still keeping the great music of the swing era alive.

@TheSchlerm

6y↑1

Well done.. The first piano cut is off. I'm a professional pianist and I can tell it's off.. The second cut is spot on... You did an excellent job!!!

@boink345

5y↑1

There is no actual film of the entire song. I used film footage of the band performing other songs.

@TheSchlerm

3y↑1

@Classic Clips .. Well done! Excellent!!!

@TheSchlerm

2y↑1

@Classic Clips To me this is the tune that defines the swing era... Well done.. Thanks for posting!!!!!!

@boink345

11y↑5

TD was indeed ahead of his time, but not in this regard. Starting in the late 30s, most film musicals were recorded in multi-channel sound but mixed down to mono for the film's release. Some of these original multi-track recordings survive and can be remixed to true stereo, as was done here. Check out my clip of TD in stereo from "Girl Crazy" - search this channel for: Tommy Dorsey 1943 Stereo - Fascinating Rhythm - Girl Crazy The audio was blocked, so click the link to hear it at vimeo.

@CharlottePrattWilson

Thank you for giving us a beautiful memory!

@billbeck1157

5y↑1

I love swing music

@chatrinite4819

1y↑1

Je n oublierai jamais ce chanteur il est ma jeunesse 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👵🏻💕💕💕🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇫🇷

@bobhelmich711

11y↑1

Some of the BEST music was in this era. Whish i would have been born in the twenty's.

@Thorsten369

Such a shame that those people never know that this song is very popular in the game: Fallout 76 for more then 4 years, always tune in on Appalachia radio (in game) and waiting for this sound track.

@Poisson4147

* "more than ". Hope that helps!

@juyounglee7547

8y↑1

my high school jazz band played this and i finally found it!

@stephend.jenkins1876

+Jerome Lee Yea, schools do it all the time, but it's a shame there aren't more students forming their own group and going freelance like this nowadays.

@juyounglee7547

Stephen Jenkins well in my district, students do that all the time for our talent show! the 2 main groups are a group called Atlas and i forgot the other... my friends meet up every now and then and play and we're thinking about making an official band. i know a bass player, drum player, and guitar player who are all VERY talented that made their own band, and they've already been offered paid performances.

@stephend.jenkins1876

I guess it just depends on where a person can find talent then. Colleges are a good place to find horn players, but they usually will not stay faithful on the basis of friendship alone. Some talent has to be hired if one wants his own band. I read somewhere that Benny Goodman hired his.

@brucekuehn4031

Dancing to a live band can't be beat. I think there is still a market out there. This is just plain FUN. There are very talented musicians everywhere - get together, practice - If you build it, they will come!

@MissHellfire

1y↑1

this really swings!

@nolablanchespaulding-tope6434

11y↑1

How did Dorsey come up with this idea? Stereo had not been invented yet. I know the man was ahead of his time, but WOW!

@Poisson4147

Please check the many other posts above. TD didn't invent stereo. The idea had been around for over a decade but its use on records was prevented by its cost and complexity. Movies were another matter, though because it was much easier to put two tracks on film than it was to get them into a record groove. A lot of 1930s and 1940s musicals were recorded on multi-channel optical tracks that were mixed down for final mono release. Not all of those tracks survive but those that do can be reconstructed.

@bblegacy

38w

The movie studios were recording in HiFi (not necessarily stereo), but at least full frequency range HiFi for at least a decade before record companies finally started doing it. Audio Engineers were experimenting with full frequency range recording and sound reproduction in the 1930's.

HiFi does not imply stereo, it only has to do with the frequency range being captured and processed by microphones. It can be single track (mono) or any degree of multi track.

@toledo2068

10y

beautiful melody, the best music in the world from south america!

@harebell6850

10y↑3

Wonderful. Thank you.

@gregorykayne6054

9y↑5

This was a very early and somewhat successful attempt at stereo. With one microphone in each of the sections, the sound was recorded on film. then the volume levels would be manipulated or "mixed"; something new! then the whole thing would be re-recorded and synchronized to the image. the same thing was done with Glenn Miller's movie, " Orchestra Wives", the year before. Thank God! These kind of recordings are the only "stereo" we have of the original big bands and they are very good.

@boink345

9y↑2

Gregory Kayne Actually, the technique was not new in 1943. Beginning in the late 1930s, many film musicals were recorded on multi-channel masters which were then mixed down to mono for the film's release. A number of these stems have survived and been remixed to stereo, as this number was. I don't know the year this technique was first used, but this clip I made includes some earlier examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xymM0Vw3z_g

@gregorykayne6054

Thanks for the info!

@jimstokes6742

8y↑1

+Gregory Kayne 100 percent right on, Gregory! This recording is far superior to the horribly tubby sounding Decca recording of this that's supposed to be a classic. The Decca record sounded like they recorded the band in an acoustically dead room. Decca was the last holdout to go into that newfangled hi-fi. Their first hi fi record was Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock LP.

@Poisson4147

+Gregory Kayne I also understood that Sun Valley Serenade and Orchestra Wives were both recorded directly to film. However Alan Cass from the Glenn Miller Archive showed me a set of 16" transcription discs that he said held the original tracks for later transfer to optical form. As time permits I'll see if I can find more information.

@briangallagher7776

@Jim Stokes You must be refering to American Decca.English Decca were into hi fi recording in the forties with their famous ffrr recordings which went up to a top limit of 14 khz.

@derektownsend3569

4y↑2

Before my time but I love Swing. Thanks for sharing.

@DALILABOECHAT

9y↑3

Woody Allen's ''Radio Days'' brought me here. Remarkable song! Great that we've got a stereo version.

@Rodrigo_Sputter

9y↑1

Dalila Boechat , adoro!!
clássico de minha adolescência.

@DALILABOECHAT

9y↑1

Rodrigo Sputter jazz é vida!

@DiegoFerreira-ok1wl

+Dalila Boechat The music is life.

@WC0125

4y↑1

WOW! is all I can say! Thank you for sharing

@sysable

11y

The motion picture industry was the origin of high fidelity recording. Silent films used live orchestras or theater organs (sometimes playing pre-recorded rolls), so the audiences were used to live music. When sound film came along, the studios knew they had to provide sound as close to what the movie-going public was used to, otherwise they could loose their revenue. The automated dialog replacement studio at WB looks like one of todays modern recording studios, yet is was built in the 1930s.

@pamtebelman2321

Sensational!!

@cea319

I love swing!!!!

@user-jc9rd1bd8v

Браво!

@erichanson3961

How wonderful to get this sound quality from 1943!

@erichanson3961

1y↑1

True Stereo no less! Movie sound tech was way ahead of shellac 78s for sure.

@Poisson4147

@Eric Hanson The studio engineers also understood sound dynamics far better than the record companies.They had open sound stages with decent reverb instead of cramped rooms with absorbing panels on the wall (/groan).
You have to wonder what sounds might have been preserved if the record companies had done their jobs better.

@derpywolfybananaproduction7904

8y↑1

My jazz band is playing this in our concert.

@lostvocals8

+Ali Woolf Listen and learn how it's done!

@skyliner7333

6y↑1

Now, that's music!

@juliamcintyre5012

Fantastic!

@Zenth93

I will let it be known that I've listened to this song for years before fallout 76 popularized it for gamers. What I'm saying is "I liked this song before it was cool!"

@stephenkiefer

8y↑2

Stereo in wartime??? AMAZING!!!!

@Poisson4147

Stereo existed long before WWII. The Philadelphia Orchestra experimented with stereo discs in 1931-32, and within a few years many movie companies were using either multi-channel optical tracks or standard discs. Almost invariably the tracks were miked and mixed by the engineers for better balance on a final mono release; affordable playback equipment for home use was more than a decade in the future.