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The Dorsey Brothers

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Aliases
Bob Snyder and His Orchestra
Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra
Dorsey Brothers and Their Concert Orchestra
Dorsey Brothers & Their Orchestra
Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra
The Travelers
Country
United States
Members
Jimmy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
Don Matteson Trombone, vocals
Herbert Spencer [US2] Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet
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Originals

Title Performer Release date Covered by
listen on Internet Archive 1932 (3 artists)
listen on Internet Archive 1934 (14 artists)
 REC September 1935 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen
Originally by Bing Crosby BRD
1932 (9 artists)
1932 (16 artists)
listen on Internet Archive 1932 (401 artists)
1932 (11 artists)
December 1934 (2 artists)
August 1931 (3 artists)
listen on Internet Archive 1935 (14 artists)
listen on Internet Archive 1935 (8 artists)
Singing A Happy Song Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra December 28, 1934 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1932 The Norman Luboff Choir
January 1935 (2 artists)
1934 (74 artists)
 REC,REL February 1935 (3 artists)
Originally by Dick Powell BRD

Covers by The Dorsey Brothers

Title Performer Release date Originally by
listen on Internet Archive December 1934 William Gaxton & Bettina Hall
  1929 Ethel Waters BRD,REC,REL
December 1934 Ethel Merman
1929 Bing Crosby
  April 1932 Aida Ward PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC,REL
December 1934 Freddy Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Terry Shand
1929 George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Fran Frey
  1929 Buddy Golden and His Michigan Wolverines - Vocal Chorus by Irving Kaufman REC, Jack Haley and Zelma O'Neal PRF
1928 McKinney's Cotton Pickers
April 1928 Broadway Bell-Hops
Doin' the Uptown Lowdown Mildred Bailey with Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1933 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive October 1934 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
Down Among the Sheltering Palms The Boswell Sisters with The Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1932 Unverified
1931 Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive   1934 Ethel Merman BRD, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive i 1937 Friar's Society Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive April 1932 Aileen Stanley
Every Little Movement Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kay Weber 1935 Unverified
  1931 Joe Cook and Alice Boulden PRF, Victor Arden–Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Frank Luther REC
1935 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen
1928 Peggy English
  1933 Ruby Keeler & Dick Powell BRD, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Skinny Ennis REC
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Love Mildred Bailey with Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra November 1933 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1932 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1934 Lucienne Boyer, Lud Gluskin and His Continental Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Buddy Clark
1930 Art Gillham (The Whispering Pianist)
i   October 1934 Ethel Waters PRF,REC,REL
January 1935 Al Mitchell and His Orchestra
1934 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenneth Sargent
listen on Internet Archive October 1934 Joe Haymes and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Gene Traxler
  December 1934 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain Ramona REC, William Gaxton & Ethel Merman PRF
listen on Internet Archive 1929 Gene Austin
1934 Isham Jones and His Orchestra
1929 George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Bob Borger
listen on Internet Archive 1935 Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
September 1934 Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Jean Bowes
listen on Internet Archive 1937 Stewart Hamony Singers
1932 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
August 1931 Buddy Campbell and His Orchestra (Ben Selvin)
  1935 Archie Bleyer and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Durelle Alexander REC, June Knight, Robert Taylor and Chorus BRD
  September 1935 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday REC,REL, Bing Crosby BRD
  September 1935 Enric Madriguera and His Orchestra REC,REL, Bing Crosby BRD
i 1934 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
June 1933 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Walter Hunt
listen on Internet Archive   1929 Irving Aaronson and His Commanders REC, Irene Bordoni and Arthur Margetson PRF
listen on Internet Archive October 1934 Gloria Grafton
  1934 Pickens Sisters REC, Bing Crosby BRD
  February 1935 Dick Powell with Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra REC, Wini Shaw BRD
1929 Ruth Etting
1929 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Scrappy Lambert
listen on Internet Archive i 1934 New Orleans Rhythm Kings
1932 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
1933 The Jungle Band [Duke Ellington]
March 1933 The Virginians
March 1929 Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians
  May 1928 Walter Scanlan (Walter Van Brunt) REC,REL, William Frawley PRF
1935 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
listen on Internet Archive 1934 Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees - Vocal Refrain by Rudy Vallée and Do Re Mi Trio
1934 Eddie Cantor
listen on Internet Archive 1935 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen
listen on Internet Archive 1932 Victor Arden–Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Sylvia Froos and Frank Luther
listen on Internet Archive October 1934 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Kenneth Sargent
listen on Internet Archive i 1928 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive October 1932 Baron Lee and His Blue Rhythm Band – Vocal Chorus by Billy Banks
  1933 Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Skinny Ennis REC, Ruby Keeler, Clarence Nordstrom, Ginger Rogers, Una Merkel and Chorus BRD
  1929 Cliff Edwards, Brox Sisters, Rounders and MGM Chorus BRD, The Rounders [US1] REC
listen on Internet Archive 1935 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
1933 The Three Keys
1932 The Three Keys
listen on Internet Archive i 1934 Prince's Band
listen on Internet Archive April 1932 (unknown)
  September 1935 Enric Madriguera and His Orchestra REC,REL, Bing Crosby BRD
listen on Internet Archive October 1934 Henry King and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Joseph Sudy
1935 Lew Stone and His Band
listen on Internet Archive The Gold Diggers' Song (We're In The Money) Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers 1933 Unverified
April 1932 Ethel Waters and The Jazz Masters
June 1933 George Hall and His Hotel Taft Orch. - Vocal Chorus by Loretta Lee
listen on Internet Archive 1929 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians with Milton Charles
April 1928 Savoy Orpheans
listen on Internet Archive   November 1949 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by The Rhythm Boys BRD,REC
September 1935 Bing Crosby
listen on Internet Archive 1928 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus George Beaver
1932 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive i 1935 Louisiana Five
listen on Internet Archive 1932 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians ‑ Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo
November 1934 Pedro Via y su orquesta, Jimmie Ague
listen on Internet Archive 1931 Melotone Boys
  1934 Eddie Cantor BRD, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
listen on Internet Archive 1937 Bud Billings (Frank Luther)
  September 1935 Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Bob Allen REC,REL, Bing Crosby BRD
listen on Internet Archive 1935 Archie Bleyer and His Orchestra
1934 Little Jack Little & His Orchestra
1935 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lew Sherwood
  December 1934 William Gaxton & Ethel Merman PRF, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Peggy Healy & John Hauser REC
listen on Internet Archive 1934 George Hall and The Hotel Taft Orch. – Vocal Refrain by Allen Church
  1929 Charles King BRD, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REC

Releases

Singles

Title Performer Release date Label
Am I Blue? - The One in the World The Travelers - Ed Loyd & His Orchestra 1929 OKeh
Anything Goes Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra December 1934 Decca
Apache Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra December 1934 Decca
Blame It on My Youth Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra December 1934 Decca
Breakaway The Travelers 1929 OKeh
Button Up Your Overcoat Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra - Vocal Refrain Smith Ballew with Quartet 1929 OKeh
Coquette Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra April 1928 OKeh
Crying for the Carolines - Have a Little Face in Me Clicquot Club Eskimos - The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra 1930 Perfect [US1]
Doggone I've Done it The Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers 1932 Brunswick
Don't Let It Bother You Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra October 1934 Decca
Down on the Delta The Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers October 1932 Brunswick
Dream Man Make Me Dream Some More Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1934 Decca
Earful of Music Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1934 Decca
Eccentric Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1937 Decca
Evening Star (Help Me Find My Man) Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra 1928 OKeh
Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody but Me) The Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers April 1932 Brunswick
Fine and Dandy The Travelers 1931 OKeh
Footloose and Fancyfree Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1935 Decca
Forty Second Street The Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers 1933 Brunswick
Four or Five Times - Cherry The Little Aces - The Big Aces 1928 OKeh
Heat Wave Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra October 1934 Decca
Home Ties Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra January 1935 Decca
How Can You face Me? Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1934 Decca
If I Had You - My Kinda Love Sam Lanin and His Famous Players - Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra March 1929 OKeh
If It Ain't Love The Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by Dorsey Brothers 1932 Brunswick
I'll Never Say ''Never Again'' Again Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1935 Decca
(I'm Gettin') Sentimental over You Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1932 Brunswick
I'm Gettin' Sentimental over You Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra September 1934 Decca
Indian Cradle Song Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra May 1928 OKeh
I Only Want a Buddy Not a Sweetheart Sally Foster and The Travelers 1937 Decca
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) The Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers 1932 Brunswick
I Thank You, Mr. Moon The Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers 1932 Brunswick
It's You Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers August 1931 Brunswick
I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1935 Decca
I've Got a Sweet Somebody to Love Me The Travelers 1931 Melotone
I Wished on the Moon Bing Crosby with Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra September 1935 Decca
I Wish I Were Aladdin Bing Crosby with Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra September 1935 Decca
Judy Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1934 Brunswick
Lazy Bones Mildred Bailey with Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra June 1933 Brunswick
Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra 1929 OKeh
Lost in a Fog Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Crosby October 1934 Decca
Love Is Just Around the Corner Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Crosby 1934 Decca
Lullaby of Broadway Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra February 1935 Decca
Mary Ann Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra 1928 OKeh
Maybe! Who Knows? – Miss You Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra – Smith Ballew and His Orchestra 1929 OKeh
Milenberg Joys Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1934 Decca
Mood Indigo – Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere The Boswell Sisters with The Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra – The Mills Brothers 1933 Brunswick
My Very Good Friend—The Milkman Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1935 Decca
Nasty Man Bob Snyder and His Orchestra 1934 Vocalion [US]
Okay, Toots Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1934 Decca
Ooh That Kiss Dorsey Brothers & Their Orchestra 1932 Columbia [US]
Out in the Cold Again Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Crosby October 1934 Decca
Rhythm of the Rain Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1935 Decca
Singin' in the Rain Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra 1929 OKeh
Solitude Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1935 Decca
Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Jean Bowes 1932 Brunswick
Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn Bing Crosby with Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1933 Brunswick
The Gentleman Obviously Doesn't Believe Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1935 Decca
There'll Be Some Changes Made The Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers April 1932 Brunswick
Three Little Words Ethel Smith – Vocal Chorus by The Travelers November 1949 Decca
Was It a Dream? Dorsey Brothers and Their Concert Orchestra 1928 OKeh
Was That the Human Thing to Do The Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers 1932 Brunswick
What a Diff'rence a Day Made Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra November 1934 Decca
When I Take My Sugar to Tea The Boswell Sisters - Accomp. by The Dorsey Brothers 1931 Brunswick
Where the Shy Little Violets Grow – She's Funny That Way Milt Shaw and His Detroiters – Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra 1929 OKeh
Without a Word of Warning Bing Crosby with Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra September 1935 Decca
You Are My Lucky Star Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra 1935 Decca
You Oughta Be in Pictures The Boswell Sisters - Accompanied by The Dorsey Brothers 1934 Brunswick
You're the Top Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra December 1934 Decca

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