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."
Cheek to Cheek
Tommy Dorsey Lyrics
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Billy Eckstine Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Billy Eckstine & Sarah Vaughan Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Billy Eckstine Sarah Vaughan Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Billy Eckstine; Sarah Vaughan Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Billy Holiday Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Billy May Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Bing Crosby (Бинг Кросби) Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so…
Bing Crosby Buddy Bregman Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Bing Crosby/Buddy Bregman Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Buddy Bregman Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Buddy Rich Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Buddy Rich & His Buddies Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Buddy Rich And His Buddies Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Buddy Rich Ella Fitzgerald Herb Ellis Louis Armstrong Oscar Peterson & Ray Brown Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
C. Angelini A Kiss On The Cheek - Charles P. Hurowitz…
Camarata And His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Carmen McRae Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I can hardly…
Carmen McRae & Sammy Davis Jr. Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I can har…
Carmen McRae feat. Sammy Davis Jr. Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I can hardly…
Carol Sloane Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Cecilia Dale Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I Can hardl…
Cheek To Cheek Booty ba Booty ba Booty! Booty ba Booty ba Booty! Booty ba…
Chet Atkins Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Chucho Zarzosa and His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Coleman Hawkins and His All-Stars Baby girl Close your eyes and come with me Close the doors…
Connee Boswell Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Count Basie Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Dazz Band We drink to our youth, for the days come and…
Desi Arnaz Heaven, I'm in heaven and my heart beats so that I…
DJ Diss and Betina Bager Feat. Fred Astaire Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so…
DJ Disse & Betina Bager Feat. Fred Astaire Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that…
DJ Disse And Betina Bager Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so…
Don Lamond and His Orchestra When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the…
Donnie Vanzetti Heaven, I'm in heaven, And my heart beats so that…
Doris Day Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Doris Day & Frank De Vol And His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Doris Day & Frank DeVol & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Doris Day with Frank DeVol & His Orchestra When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the…
Doris Day [feat. Frank De Vol And His Orchestra] Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Doris Day; with Frank De Vol & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
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Doris Day;Frank De Vol;Frank De Vol & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
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Dr Victor Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so…
Dr. Victor Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that…
Dual Sessions Cheek To Cheek Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so…
E. Fitzgerald L. Armstrong Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Eddie Fisher (Vocal) Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Eddy Duchin & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Ella Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong Oscar Peterson Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Erich Kunzel & Rochester Pops Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Esra Zeynep Yücel Heaven, I'm in heaven, And my heart beats so that I…
Eva Cassidy Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Eydie Gorme Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Flip Phillips and His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Fred & Ginger Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that…
Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so…
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that…
Fred Astaire & Leo Reisman And His Orchestra When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the…
Fred Astaire & Leo Reisman's Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven, And my heart beats so…
Fred Astaire & Oscar Peterson Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that…
Fred Astaire (From The Film "Top Hat") Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that…
Fred Astaire And Ginger Rogers Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so…
Fred Astaire And Oscar Peterson Heaven, I'm in heaven, And my heart beats so…
Fred Astaire feat. Ginger Rogers Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Fred Astaire Feat. Johnny Green & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that…
Fred Astaire Leo Reisman When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the…
Fred Astaire Leo Reisman & Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that…
Fred Astaire/Leo Reisman & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Gabriel Yared Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Gabriel Yared/Ella Fitzgerald Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Gene Kelly & Fred Astaire Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that…
George Eps Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
George Van Eps Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Ginger Rodgers & Fred Astaire Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that…
Ginger Rogers Fred Astaire Heaven, I'm in heaven, And my heart beats so…
Good Lovelies Put your cheek next to mine While our fingers intertwine S…
Guy Lombardo & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
I.Berlin Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Irving Berlin Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
J.J. Oliveros Hey you with the butt cheeks the butt cheeks Hey you…
J.J. Oliveros "El Jilguero De Centro Habana" J-Five Told my nigga put down his balaclava Would you not ra…
Jack Hylton and His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Joe Loss & His Orchestra When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the…
Joe Loss and His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Johnnie Johnston & K. Grayson Tongue in cheek You cut your teeth Picking out the catchy tu…
Johnny Douglas & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Johnny Smith & George Van Eps Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Joy Cheek to cheek, and you should know: You're in my heart,…
Jr. Sammy Davis and Carmen McRae Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I can hardly…
Judy Garland/Fred Astaire Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that…
Julie Andrews Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Ken Thorne and his Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Kiri Te Kanawa Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Leo Reisman Heaven, I'm in heaven, And my heart beats so…
Leo Reisman & his Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Lew Davies & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Lew Davies and His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Lew Stone & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Lew Stone and his Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
LIVING ROOM - Ella Fitzgerald Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Los Twist Que profunda emoción, recordar el ayer Cuando toda Venecia …
Louis Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Louis Prima Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Louis Prima And His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Lowell George George-Kibbee-Parks Rosarita I laid on your beach Dre…
Maliq I know that you are my destiny, And I know that…
Mark Murphy Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Marty And His Rockin' Comets Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Marty Paich and His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Max Raabe Palast Orchester Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can…
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I can har…
Max Raabe Palast Orchester Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can…
MEENOI One, two One, two three, four Heaven, I'm in heaven And my …
Mel Tormé Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Mel Tormé Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the…
Nancy LaMott Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I can…
Nicole Henry Heaven, I'm in heaven cnd my heart beats so that I…
Ofln - Fred Astaire Heaven, I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that…
Oscar Peterson Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so…
Oscar Peterson Barney Kessel Ray Brown Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Oscar Peterson Trio Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so…
Ozzie Nelson & His Orchestra When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the…
Paper Lace A-a-a-h, a-a-a-h Cheek to cheek - dancing, dancing Cheek t…
Pasadena Roof Orchestra Heaven, Im in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Peggy Lee Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Raabe Max Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can…
Ray Anthony and His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Ray Conniff and His Orchestra When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the…
Richard Maltby & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Roger Cicero & Yvonne Catterfeld Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can…
Rosemary Clooney Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Sahara Hotnights Face to face cheek to cheek Do you hear the pounding…
Sammy Davis Jr. Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Sammy Davis Jr. Carmen McRae Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I can hardly…
Sammy Davis Jr. & Carmen McRae Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I can har…
Sammy Davis Jr. [feat. Carmen McRae] Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I can hardly…
Sanjaya Malakar Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats So that I Can hardl…
Sara Gazarek Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Sarah Vaughan Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Sarah Vaughan %26 Billy Eckstine Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Secret Castle Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Soundtrack Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so…
Stanley Black & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Starting Line Bound to say something, eyes closed, It's cold, and I'm…
Starting Line The Bound to say something, eyes closed, It's cold, and I'm…
Steve & Eydie Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Taco Chichi con c-con con chichi chichi con c-con) (Chichi con c-…
TEPLYAKOV Heaven, I’m in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
The Billy May Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
The Boswell Sisters Heaven, I′m in heaven My heart beats so that I can…
The International Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
The Oscar Peterson Trio Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so…
The Pasadena Roof Orchestra Heaven, Im in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Heaven...I'm in Heaven And my heart beats so that I can…
The Starting Line Bound to say something, eyes closed, It's cold, and I'm…
The Winchester's Heaven, I′m in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
thestartingline Bound to say something, eyes closed, It's cold, and I'm…
Thomas Newman Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so…
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Tony Bennett Heaven I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can…
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Tyrell Steve Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Vic Damone Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Wolf Prize way too long taken down right before you i gotta get up…
Woody Allen Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so…
Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
Billie Holiday Irving berlin Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so t…
Ella Fitzgerald Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I…
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…
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,…
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 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 Gettin Sentimental Over You Never thought I'd fall, But now I hear love call, I'm gettin…
and many more tracks by Tommy Dorsey.
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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.