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Jimmy Dorsey

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Aliases
Jimmie Dorsey and His Orchestra
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch.
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by The Dorsey Trio
Jimmy Dorsey and His Original "Dorseyland" Jazz Band
Jimmy Dorsey with Orchestra and Chorus
Real name
James Dorsey
Born
February 29, 1904
Died
June 12, 1957
Country
United States
IPI
00008544885 5 works
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
Clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, bandleader and composer. Dorsey died of lung cancer.
Member of
The Dorsey Brothers
The Charleston Chasers [US]
The Californian Ramblers
7 Blue Babies
Alabama Red Peppers
Related
Tommy Dorsey Brother
Herb Ellis
Helen O'Connell O'Connell sang with Dorsey's band from 1939 to 1943.
Joe Venuti Trumpet, clarinet and alto sax in The Blue Five
Roc Hillman Guitarist in Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Kenny Martin [US2]
Teddy Walters Vocalist in Dorsey's Orchestra
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Title Performer Release date Originally by
1940 Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Babbitt
i   1959 Marek Weber und sein Orchester - Solo: Marcel Wittrisch REL, Richard Tauber REC,PRF
listen on Internet Archive March 1941 Tito Schipa, Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Dinah Shore
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Ray Noble and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Howard Phillips
listen on Internet Archive i   1954 Jeanne Aubert & Lawrence Gray PRF, Victor Arden–Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Frank Luther REC,REL
1939 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Jimmy Brown
  April 1936 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC, Stew Pletcher and His Orchestra REL
listen on Internet Archive February 1942 William J. Halley
July 3, 1950 Moon Mullican
April 1936 Freddy Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Elmer Feldkamp
  June 1942 Kay Kyser and His Orchestra REC, Connie Boswell REL
i 1968 Jack Jones
February 1952 Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds
  1935 Margaret Adams PRF, Johnny Green and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Marjory Logan REC
listen on Internet Archive 1940 The Rolling Styles of Reggie Childs and His Orchestra - Vocal by Marion Kaye
listen on Internet Archive November 1935 James Melton
listen on Internet Archive July 1950 American Quartet
i July 1950 Henry Thies and His Hotel Sinton Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Don Dewey
January 1944 Sonny Dunham and His Orchestra - Vocal by Don Darcy
listen on Internet Archive February 1942 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle
listen on Internet Archive 1937 Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy - Vocal Chorus by Pha Terrell
i 1968 Jackie deShannon
i   April 1936 Pinky Tomlin BRD, Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Betty Roth & Pinky Tomlin REC,REL
i 1959 Bob Crosby and His Orchestra featuring Trumpet by Billy Butterfield
April 1936 (unknown)
i 1968 Dionne Warwick
  April 1936 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal refrain by Durelle and Gang REL, Joe Haymes and His Orchestra – Vocal by Cliff Weston and The Headliners REC
1945 The Three Suns
  1937 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenny Sargent REC, Ross Alexander [dubbed by James Newill] & Wini Shaw BRD
1939 Henry Russell and His Romancers
listen on Internet Archive i December 1949 New Orleans Rhythm Kings
listen on Internet Archive June 1941 Cuarteto Caney canto por Juanito y Machito
Covered by (11 artists)
  March 1947 Frank Sinatra BRD, Margaret Whiting with Frank De Vol and His Orchestra REC
listen on Internet Archive i 1930 Original Dixieland Jass Band
listen on Internet Archive 1948 Richard Bold and Rosalind Fuller
June 1954 Frank Sinatra with Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
listen on Internet Archive December 1941 Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Garry Stevens and The Stardusters
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Tommy Dorsey and His Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Jack Leonard
1939 Ethel Merman
i 1968 Danny Williams [ZA]
  1937 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra BRD, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Ozzie Nelson REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive October 1938 Fred Astaire with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive   1937 Ginger Rogers BRD, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Edythe Wright REC
listen on Internet Archive 1951 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive January 1942 Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lynne Richards
i 1959 Fred Astaire
listen on Internet Archive October 1946 Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl
April 1941 (unknown), Jan Savitt and His Top Hatters - Vocal Refrain by Allan DeWitt
February 1947 Isham Jones' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Woody Herman
  1937 Bing Crosby with Orchestra under the direction of John Scott Trotter BRD, Mildred Bailey and Her Orchestra REC
The Mem'ry Of A Rose Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberly 1941 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
i   1968 Dusty Springfield REL, Stan Getz REC
listen on Internet Archive August 1939 Lionel Hampton and Orchestra
The High and the Mighty Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra featuring Jimmy Dorsey - vocal by Lynn Roberts (Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey) 1954 Unverified
i The Great Lie Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra October 1944 Unverified
August 1938 Six Brown Brothers
April 1940 (unknown)
Covered by (32 artists)
i 1959 Mr. Herbert Payne (Ernest Pike)
listen on Internet Archive i 1950 Prince's Band
1940 The Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk - Vocal Chorus by Parnell Grina
  1942 Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra REC, Bob Eberly, Helen O'Connell, and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra BRD
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Chick Bullock and His Levee Loungers
listen on Internet Archive 1940 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive October 1946 The Radiolites [Ben Selvin]
i Sweetie-Cakes Lee Castle and the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra 1959 Unverified
i 1950 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive October 1944 Kitty Carlisle with Orchestra directed by Victor Young
listen on Internet Archive i September 1940 (unknown)
i December 1949 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
listen on Internet Archive i 1930 Prince's Band
i 1959 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
July 1939 Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra, Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Harry Babbitt
listen on Internet Archive i December 1949 Bob Crosby and His Orchestra
i July 1942 "Doc" Wheeler and his Sunset Orchestra
1957 Carl Ravell (The Singing Maestro) and His Orchestra
Sampled by Buchanan and Goodman
listen on Internet Archive i 1938 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive June 1942 Alberta Hunter and Ray's Dreamland Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive May 1942 Eric Coates and Symphony Orchestra, Tony Martin with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young
  1937 Fred Astaire BRD, Joe Haymes and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Cliff Webster REC
May 1940 (unknown)
1936 Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang
September 1936 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
July 1942 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle and The Modernaires
i 1968 Dionne Warwick
listen on Internet Archive i 1939 John Boles
1936 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1950 Henry "Red" Allen and Orchestra featuring J. C. Higginbotham, Johnny Lee Wills and His Boys
listen on Internet Archive i September 1940 Orquesta de Los Hermanos Domínguez
listen on Internet Archive   October 1936 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lew Sherwood REC, Bing Crosby BRD
listen on Internet Archive   1936 Bing Crosby BRD, Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lew Sherwood REC
i December 1949 Friar's Society Orchestra
1938 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
listen on Internet Archive October 1936 Bing Crosby with Georgie Stoll and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Annette Hanshaw
  August 1940 Mitchell Ayres and His Fashions-in-Music - Vocal Refrain by Mary Ann Mercer REL, Mary Small - Orchestra under the direction of Nat Brandywynne REC
1939 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Frank Sinatra
i   April 1945 Alfred Drake with Oklahoma Orchestra under direction of Jay Blackton REL, Alfred Drake PRF
listen on Internet Archive My Little Cousin Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Helen O'Connell April 1942 Unverified
  1944 Maurice Chevalier REC,BRD
listen on Internet Archive 1938 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
July 1942 (unknown)
i December 1949 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
  1943 Betty Hutton BRD, Gene Krupa and His Orchestra REC
i 1959 Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
  February 1945 Deanna Durbin BRD, George Paxton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Alan Dale REL
listen on Internet Archive   March 1942 Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra REC, Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra REL
1941 Hermanos Castilla, Adolph Hofner and His Texans
1942 Victor Salon Orchestra (Nathaniel Shilkret), (unknown)
1954 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive   1938 Jan Garber and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Russ Brown REC, Kenny Baker [US1] BRD
1947 (unknown)
1946 Jeanette MacDonald
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Harry Babbitt
1954 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Pinky Tomlin – Orchestra under direction of Cy Feuer
June 1954 Sam Lanin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Paul Small
i March 1937 John Yorke Atlee
listen on Internet Archive   1936 Ginger Rogers BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Maxine Tappan REC
listen on Internet Archive 1940 Henry King and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Tony Russell
  1943 Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra REC,REL, Mary Martin BRD
listen on Internet Archive   1937 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra REC, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers BRD
1950 Sam Lanin and His Famous Players
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Hal Derwin
1940 "Boodle It" Wiggins
November 14, 1952 Hadda Brooks
1938 Nellie Casman, Andrews Sisters
January 1950 (unknown)
Jim Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. September 1941 Unverified
i 1942 Earl Hines and His Orchestra
i December 1949 Lucille Hegamin accompanied by Harris' Blues and Jazz Seven
July 1942 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton and The Modernaires
listen on Internet Archive November 1945 Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive It's the Natural Thing to Do Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Don Matteson (Jimmy Dorsey) 1937 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Ink Spots
  July 3, 1950 Harry Fay REC, Ted Yorke REL
1939 Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante
listen on Internet Archive   May 1942 Shep Fields and His New Music - Vocal Refrain by Marie Greene REL, Tommy Tucker Time - Vocal Chorus by Amy Arnell and Voices Five REC
1954 Nat "King" Cole with Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
listen on Internet Archive I Still Get Jealous Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal by Bill Lawrence and Dee Parker (Jimmy Dorsey, Bill Lawrence [US1], Dee Parker) 1947 Unverified
I Speak to the Stars Tommy Dorsey & Orchestra featuring Jimmy Dorsey, vocal by Bill Raymond (Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey) 1954 Unverified
  1945 Bob Allen and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra BRD, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bonnie Lou Williams and The Sentimentalists REC
listen on Internet Archive July 1939 Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights - Vocal Chorus Larry Cotton & Heidt's High Lights
listen on Internet Archive July 1939 Tommy Dorsey and His Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Jack Leonard
April 1941 (unknown)
i 1950 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
In A Little Hula Heaven Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra 1937 Unverified
I'm Stepping Out with a Memory Tonight Jimmy Dorsey - vocal by Helen O'Connell (Jimmy Dorsey, Helen O'Connell) 1977 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive   1936 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers BRD, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Refrain by Carmen Lombardo REC,REL
i 1930 Lottie Gee and Chorus
August 1936 Bing Crosby, Leonid Kinskey, Martha Raye, Bob Burns and Louis Prima with The Sons of the Pioneers
listen on Internet Archive   1936 Al Jolson and Cab Calloway BRD, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive I'll Always Be in Love with You Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal by Dee Parker 1948 Unverified
February 1952 Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly with Orchestra conducted by Harold Mooney
1941 Mary Healy
listen on Internet Archive I Hadn't Changed A Thing Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by June Richmond 1938 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Ray Noble and His Orchestra featuring Tony Martin
listen on Internet Archive   January 1942 Ivie Anderson PRF, Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ivie Anderson REL
  March 1939 (unknown), Dick Powell PRF, Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain REC
listen on Internet Archive If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do) Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by June Richmond 1938 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive April 1942 (unknown)
Covered by (36 artists)
1946 Perry Como with Russ Case and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1939 The Piccadilly Players [GB]
  1940 Grace Moore PRF, Jimmie Ague REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive February 1938 Abe Lyman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frank Parrish
listen on Internet Archive   November 1939 Marcy Westcott and Richard Kollmar PRF, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Louise Tobin REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive i 1938 The Boardwalk Orchestra (Ben Selvin)
listen on Internet Archive I Can't Resist You Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberly 1940 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
listen on Internet Archive August 1936 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra featuring Jerry Cooper
1940 Abe Lyman and His Californians – Vocal Refrain by Frank Parrish
December 1938 Sidney Bechet and His Orchestra
i December 1949 "Standard Band"
January 1941 Gene Krupa and His Orchestra
  May 1942 The Four King Sisters with The Rhythm "Reys" REC, Sonny Dunham and His Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Ray Kellogg REL
February 1947 Jacques Renard & His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive Hear My Song, Violetta Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberly 1940 Unverified
1941 María Cervantes PRF, Adolfo Utrera - Nilo Menéndez y E. Lecuona al piano REC, George Metaxa
listen on Internet Archive i 1954 Pedro Vargas con orquesta
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Martha Tilton
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Edythe Wright
i 1936 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive April 1942 Maria Luisa Llarvi con la Orq. de Gonzalo Curiel, (unknown)
June 1940 Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Mary Ann McCall
listen on Internet Archive i September 1940 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
listen on Internet Archive Falling Leaves Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberly 1940 Unverified
Every Night About This Time Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberly September 1942 Unverified
Especially for You Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal by Helen O'Connell (Helen O'Connell, Jimmy Dorsey) 1939 Unverified
  1941 Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns PRF, Majestic Dance Orchestra [Lou God] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman REC
i 1968 Dionne Warwick
i 1938 Chick Webb and His Orchestra
May 1946 Ethel Merman & Art Barnett
listen on Internet Archive i September 1936 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
1939 Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra, Dick Todd with Orchestra
October 1942 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Frank Sinatra
1939 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Connie Haines
listen on Internet Archive July 1950 The Goofus Five
i December 1949 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
i 1936 American Standard Orchestra
August 17, 1951 André Claveau avec Jo Boyer et son orchestre, Georgia Gibbs with Orchestra conducted by Glenn Osser
listen on Internet Archive i September 1940 Spud Murphy and His Orchestra
January 1950 Puritan Novelty Orchestra
i Charleston Alley Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra 1941 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive   October 1938 Fred Astaire with Ray Noble and His Orchestra REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
i 1977 Willie & Eugene Howard
October 1942 Francisco Alves com Radamés Gnattali e sua Orquestra REC,REL, Araci Cortes PRF
Covered by (78 artists)
May 1940 Gene Krupa and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Irene Daye
1939 Jack Hylton and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i   June 1942 Belle Baker PRF, Imperial Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Arthur Fields REC
listen on Internet Archive 1940 Yerkes' S. S. Flotilla Orchestra
December 1938 (unknown)
1944 Emilio Tuero PRF, Los Cadetes del Swing REC,REL
Covered by (137 artists)
i   1959 J. Harold Murray PRF, Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash REC,REL
1941 (unknown), Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
1942 (unknown)
Covered by (4 artists)
  December 1948 Bert Kaplan and His Collegians REC, George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Bob Borger, Fran Frey, Bob Rice REL
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Dick Todd with Orchestra and "The Three Reasons"
listen on Internet Archive February 1942 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Dick Haymes
January 1942 Betty Hutton and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Leonard
listen on Internet Archive i 1939 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive   October 1939 Ella Logan PRF, Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm - Vocal Refrain by Hal Derwin REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive Any Bonds Today Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen O'Connell & Bob Eberly (Jimmy Dorsey, Helen O'Connell, Bob Eberly) 1941 Unverified
December 1948 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
 REL February 1941 Spanish Dance Orchestra, Connie Boswell with Orchestra directed by Victor Young REC
Covered by (31 artists)
i Amapola Lee Castle & The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra 1959 Unverified
  1939 Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Harry Babbitt REC, Bing Crosby BRD
1937 Bing Crosby with Orchestra under the direction of John Scott Trotter
1940 Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Larry Taylor
All of Me Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - Vocal by Claire Hogan 1981 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive June 1939 (unknown)
  1937 Ivie Anderson BRD, Dick McDonough and Carl Kress Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Barry McKinley REC
i 1968 Cilla Black
August 17, 1951 (unknown), Kay Brown
listen on Internet Archive   1940 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle REC,REL, Virginia Grey [dubbed by Elvida Rizzo] & Dan Dailey [dubbed by Morton Scott] BRD
i 1930 Campbell and Burr
  1960 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Foster and The Sentimentalists REL, Bing Crosby REC