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Per almeno un decennio, il jazz si suonava nelle sale da ballo. In alcuni casi le orchestre erano addirittura due, una per lato, e si davano battaglia cercando il consenso di ballerini molto esigenti e capaci.
Ecco un esempio di cosa si suonava in quelle sale.
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"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
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On Jul 27, 1940: Billboard publishes its first singles record chart; "I'll Never Smile Again" by #TommyDorsey, with vocals by #FrankSinatra, is ranked #1.
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"Are You Havin' Any Fun?" is a song with lyrics by #JackYellen and music by #SammyFain. It featured in the Broadway #revue series #GeorgeWhitesScandals in 1939. A popular recording in 1939 was by #TommyDorsey and His Orchestra with vocals by #EdytheWright.
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"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
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#FortnightFridayMusic
Feb 27 2026We were recently #Purple but this week we’re specifically #Violet.
Archie Shepp Quartet, “Violets for Your Furs” from True Ballads (1997)
I’ve recently become somewhat obsessed with saxophonist Archie Shepp.
I cannot get enough of his soulful breathy style and penchant for playing ballads rather than the uptempo bebop favored by so many jazz greats, that neither my intellect nor attention span can handle. Shepp’s playing has a mournful tone that somehow soothes.As luck would have it, I was listening to his album True Ballads yesterday, with final track “Violets for Your Furs.” The song was composed by Matt Dennis with words by Tom Adair in 1941 and first recorded by Frank Sinatra singing with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and been recorded numerous times since, including renditions by folks with names like Coltrane and Holiday.
Like many jazz tracks, it’s longer than your standard pop tune, so settle in and give it a listen - it’s gorgeous, man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-qLcANv9Q
#jazz #saxophone #ArchieShepp #FrankSinatra #Sinatra #TommyDorsey #TommyDorseyOrchestra
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85 years ago today, #FrankSinatra & #TommyDorsey orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me".
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On 2 February 1940: #FrankSinatra performs at the Lyric Theater in Indianapolis, Indiana, his first as featured singer with the #TommyDorsey Orchestra.
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L'orchestra di Tommy Dorsey non fu una delle più innovative ma è molto raffinata. Questo genere di brani si suonavano in grandissime sale da ballo, dove entravano a volte anche migliaia di persone.
Ecco un esempio di questa musica
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"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
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"Are You Havin' Any Fun?" is a song with lyrics by #JackYellen and music by #SammyFain. It featured in the Broadway #revue series #GeorgeWhitesScandals in 1939. A popular recording in 1939 was by #TommyDorsey and His Orchestra with vocals by #EdytheWright.
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#OnThisDay in 1956, #TommyDorsey, American trombonist and big band bandleader ("Opus No. 1"; "I'll Never Smile Again"; "Yes, Indeed!"), died at 51.
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When Swing was King – und eine Punktlandung in Deutschland, 2025 #Swing #Jazz #Music #Musik #MusicMania #MusicHistory #DukeEllington #BennyGoodman #CountBasie #GlennMiller #TommyDorsey #WoodyHerman #ChickWebb #ArtieShaw #EllaFitzgerald #FrankSinatra
https://derw ahlberliner.com/2025/11/21/when-swing-was-king-und-eine-punktlandung-in-deutschland-2025/
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#OnThisDay in 1905, #TommyDorsey, American trombonist and big band bandleader ("Opus No. 1"; "I'll Never Smile Again"), born in Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania (d. 1956).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🪦 -
"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a #popular song with music by #HarryWarren and lyrics by #JohnnyMercer, written in 1938 for the #WarnerBrothers movie #HardToGet, released November 1938, in which it was sung by #DickPowell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by #BingCrosby, with #BobCrosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by #TommyDorsey (with vocal by #EdytheWright) and #RussMorgan.
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Chicago , Chicago...!
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra, vocal by Sy Oliver & the Sentimentalists
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Any Old Thing (feat. Tommy Dorsey) by Swing Republic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfLi3H8MxN0
#SwingRepublic #TommyDorsey #ElectronicMusic #DanceMusic #Music
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Il trombone di Tommy Dorsey ha un timbro quasi flautato, morbidissimo. Il musicista non amava improvvisare, quindi era un jazzista un po' atipico... o forse non lo era affatto?
La sua big band però è di ottima qualità, ecco un esempio.
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Any Old Thing (feat. Tommy Dorsey) by Swing Republic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfLi3H8MxN0
#SwingRepublic #TommyDorsey #ElectronicMusic #DanceMusic #Music
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Via https://thirtiesjazz.com/song-of-india/ where they are keen to know what you know about #TommyDorsey
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"I'm In a Dancing Mood" è un ottimo esempio di musica scritta e suonata prevalentemente per il ballo. Lo spazio per l'improvvisazione è poco, ma molti tra i più grandi jazzisti hanno fatto esperienza in orchestre come queste.
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`1935 HITS ARCHIVE: Take Me Back To My Boots And Saddle - Tommy Dorsey (Cliff Weston, vocal)`
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbK7tNIMuSs
#oldies #Americana #TommyDorsey #thirties #hits #music #records #hitRecord
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#WordPress 6.6.1 "#Dorsey" has been released (#Gutenberg / #CMS / #PHP / #SQL / #MySQL / #MariaDB / #TommyDorsey) https://wordpress.org/
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#WordPress 6.6 "#Dorsey" has been released (#Gutenberg / #CMS / #PHP / #SQL / #MySQL / #MariaDB / #TommyDorsey) https://wordpress.org/
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This week’s vocalist is light baritone Frank Sinatra🇺🇸 who is known for being Frank Sinatra and his excellent phrasing and tone. He collaborated with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra in the late 1930s and early 1940s. You can hear more of their work together here (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn-VdljUZ7KIavgpvwiIYyAGaZHYTk1Ej&si=sGnu3RmOio4BMgRx) and on the 1998 compilation “Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra” available here (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_magME9Ozym9Rs9PpWR3qwg13rj-W8yddk&si=t1xqqtrjy7a_v7yp).
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Frank #Sinatra w/Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra - Avalon Ballroom San Francisco 1945-09-11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPw1VoIHmR8
#SanFrancisco #Jazz #bootleg #jazzBootleg #FrankSinatra #TommyDorsey #Swing #SwingJazz #classic #liveMusic #audio