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The Jimmy Dorsey Hits Collection 1935-57
The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Styles: Easy Listening, Jazz
Catalogue Number: ACFCD7511
Clarinetist and saxophonist Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy led two of the most popular and successful big bands through the swing era of the late ‘30s and through the war years into the post-war decade until popular music changed in the new socio-economic climate. Jimmy took over leadership of The Dorsey Brothers orchestra in 1935 when Tommy left to form his own band, and over the next two decades maintained a remarkably consistent presence in the pop charts, capturing the zeitgeist of the times with instrumental hits that provided the favoured style of dance music and vocal hits which encapsulated the sentimental, optimistic and escapist themes which kept people going through the difficult times of the war or reflected the upbeat mood of later years – when he died from cancer in 1957, aged just 53, his final hit was still in the charts. During this time, his band featured a number of different male and female singers, who were variously featured on most of the records, including Kay Weber, Helen O’Connell, Bob Eberly, June Richmond, Kitty Kallen, Gladys Tell, Teddy Walters, Jean Cromwell, Bob Carroll and Dee Parker. This great-value 105-track 5-CD set comprises his entries in Billboard, Cash Box and the other US charts which existed before the Billboard record sales charts began in 1940, and includes the No. 1 hits “Is It True What They Say About Dixie?”, “Change Partners”, “The Breeze and I”, “Amapola”, “Green Eyes”, “My Sister and I”, “Maria Elena”, “Blue Champagne”, “Tangerine” & “Besame Mucho”. It’s a thorough and entertaining overview of the music that made his orchestra such a fixture in the pop music landscape of the time. |
Disk 1: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
You Let Me Down |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Kay Weber |
2 |
What's The Reason (I'm Not Pleasin' You) |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra |
3 |
You |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
4 |
Is It True What They Say About Dixie? |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
5 |
Welcome Stranger |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Kay Weber |
6 |
Pennies From Heaven |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
7 |
The Love Bug Will Bite You |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Ray McKinley |
8 |
How'd Ja Like To Love Me? |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Dave Matthews |
9 |
I Fall In Love With You Every Day |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
10 |
At A Perfume Counter |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
11 |
Love Walked In |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
12 |
At Your Beck And Call |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
13 |
There's A Faraway Look In Your Eye |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
14 |
John Silver |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, |
15 |
I Haven't Changed A Thing |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by June Richmond |
16 |
Change Partners |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
17 |
The Masquerade Is Over |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
18 |
Deep Purple |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
19 |
I Get Along Without You Very Well |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
20 |
Our Love |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
Disk 2: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
I Poured My Heart Into A Song |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
2 |
Especially For You |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Helen O'Connell |
3 |
Stairway To The Stars |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
4 |
So Many Times |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
5 |
I Didn't Know What Time It Was |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
6 |
On A Little Street In Singapore |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
7 |
The Breeze And I |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
8 |
Little Curly Hair In A High Chair |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Helen O'Connell |
9 |
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell |
10 |
Tonight (Perfidia) |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra |
11 |
All This And Heaven Too |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
12 |
Where Do You Keep Your Heart |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
13 |
So Do 1 |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Helen O'Connell |
14 |
The Bad Humor Man |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Helen O'Connell |
15 |
You've Got Me This Way |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
16 |
I Hear A Rhapsody |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
17 |
High On A Windy Hill |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
18 |
I Understand |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
19 |
Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
20 |
Turn Left |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra |
21 |
Yours (Quiereme Mucho) |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell |
Disk 3: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes) |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell |
2 |
Maria Elena |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
3 |
My Sister And I |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
4 |
The Things I Love |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
5 |
Blue Champagne |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
6 |
All Alone And Lonely |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
7 |
Time Was (Duerme) |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell |
8 |
Embraceable You |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Helen O'Connell |
9 |
Jim |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell |
10 |
Wasn't It You |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
11 |
Moonlight Masquerade |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
12 |
I Said No |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Helen O'Connell & Bob Eberly |
13 |
This Is No Laughing Matter |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
14 |
The White Cliffs Of Dover |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
15 |
Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Helen O'Connell |
16 |
Not Mine |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell |
17 |
Tangerine |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell |
18 |
I Remember You |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly; hit for Ada Jones in 1909 |
19 |
If You Would Build A Better Mousetrap |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell |
20 |
When The Roses Bloom Again |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
21 |
Heavenly Hideaway |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
Disk 4: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Always In My Heart |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
2 |
Jersey Bounce |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra |
3 |
I Threw A Kiss In The Ocean |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Helen O'Connell |
4 |
Full Moon |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
5 |
If You Are But A Dream |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
6 |
Wonder When My Baby's Coming Home |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Helen O'Connell |
7 |
My Devotion |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
8 |
Sorghum Switch |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra |
9 |
This Is Worth Fighting For |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
10 |
Take Me |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Helen O'Connell |
11 |
Daybreak |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell |
12 |
Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil) |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
13 |
Ev'ry Night About This Time |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
14 |
I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
15 |
Manhattan Serenade |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
16 |
At The Crossroads |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
17 |
Let's Get Lost |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
18 |
I'll Find You |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
19 |
They're Either Too Young Or Too Old |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Kitty Kallen |
20 |
Star Eyes |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen |
21 |
My Ideal |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly; hit for Maurice Chevalier in 1931 |
Disk 5: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen |
2 |
When They Ask About You |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Kitty Kallen |
3 |
My First Love |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Eberly |
4 |
Holiday For Strings |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, with Si Zentner on trombone |
5 |
An Hour Never Passes |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Gladys Tell |
6 |
Moon On My Pillow |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Teddy Walters |
7 |
Sweet Dreams Sweetheart |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Teddy Walters |
8 |
I Should Care |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Teddy Walters |
9 |
Dream |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Teddy Walters |
10 |
There! I've Said It Again |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Teddy Walters |
11 |
Can't You Read Between The Lines? |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Jean Cromwell |
12 |
Doin' What Comes Natur'lly |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Dee Parker |
13 |
The Whole World Is Singing My Song |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Carroll |
14 |
Heartaches |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Carroll & Dee Parker |
15 |
Ballerina |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bob Carroll |
16 |
On Green Dolphin Street |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Bill Lawrence |
17 |
Johnson Rag |
Jimmy & His Original Dorseyland Jazz Band |
18 |
Charley My Boy |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Vocals by Claire "Shanty" Hogan & Charlie Teagarden |
19 |
Rag Mop |
Jimmy & His Original Dorseyland Jazz Band |
20 |
So Rare |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra |
21 |
June Night |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra |
22 |
Jay-Dee's Boogie Woogie |
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra |