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In 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey commemorative postage stamp. 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".
In January 1937, Tommy Dorsey recorded an instrumental jazz arrangement featuring Bunny Berigan on trumpet, which became a jazz standard. [2] [3] Coupled with "Marie", the 78 rpm disc (Victor #25523) was a major hit for Dorsey, containing two of his most enduring recordings on one record, and which helped make him and his band into a household name as a popular music artist in the United States.
Music Goes Round and Round is a Tommy Dorsey album of Dixieland recordings from 1935 to 1947, that predated the New Orleans revival in 1940. [1] Track listing
The Tommy Dorsey-Edythe Wright recording (they actually mention each other in the song) is played over the ending credits of Me and Orson Welles (2009). Danny Kaye performed a version of the song with Susan Gordon in the 1959 film The Five Pennies. It was included on the 1961 Ella Fitzgerald album Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (Verve).
The song was a number one hit for the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra with Bob Eberly on vocals. [2] The recording was made on March 19, 1941 by Decca Records as catalog number 3698. The flip side was "Green Eyes". The record first reached the Billboard charts on May 16, 1941 and lasted 17 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 1 on June 14, 1941.
Edythe Wright (August 16, 1916 [1] – October 27, 1965) was an American singer who performed from 1935 to 1939 with the band led by Tommy Dorsey. [ 2 ] Early life
Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with vocalist Jack Leonard had a hit with it in the late 1930s; their arrangement was patterned after Dorsey's 1937 recording of "Marie". Judy Garland sang the song in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer biopic Till the Clouds Roll By , loosely based on the life of Jerome Kern.
This Is Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Vol. 1 is the first of two volumes originally released in a 1971 series by RCA Victor, which was created in response to a resurgence in big band recreations during the late '60s and early '70s, and is a reissue of 20 famous recordings by Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra.