Urodził się w Shenandoah, Pennsylvania,jako drugi syn Thomasa Francisa Dorsey'a,nauczyciela muzyki i kierownika orkiestry.To właśnie ojciec udzielał im pierwszych nauk;Tommy skupił się na puzonie,grając także na trąbce,głównie na początku kariery.Początkowo grali w lokalnych bandach,a w 1920r sformowali własny Dorsey's Novelty Six.Dwa lata póżniej otrzymują angaż w Baltimore i debiutują w radio jako Dorsey's Wild Canaries.Do połowy lat 20-tych grają w rozmaitych zespołach ; Scranton Sirens, California Ramblers, i orkiestrze Jeana Goldkette i Paula Whitemana. W końcu osiedli w Nowym Jorku i pracowali jako muzycy sesyjni.
W 1927r zaczynają nagrywać dla Okeh Records z własną Dorsey Brothers Orchestra promując swój pierwszy hit "Coquette" z lipca 1928r.Latem nastepnego roku na Top10 trafia utwór "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" z Bingiem Crosby
jako wokalistą.Animozje między braćmi doprowadziły do odejścia
Tommy'ego i sformowania własnego bandu w 1935r z resztek po orkiestrze Joe Haymesa.
Znakiem rozpoznawczym orkiestry było jej delikatne,wygładzone brzmienie
z lirycznym puzonem w tle.Wylansowali swój pierwszy hit-"On Treasure Island" równolegle z podpisaniem kontraktu z RCA Victor.To jeden z 137 przebojów orkiestry obok minn."Marie",
"The Big Apple", "Music, Maestro, Please", "I'll Never Smile Again",
"This Love of Mine", "On the Sunny Side of the Street", "T.D.'s Boogie
Woogie", "Well, Git 'It", "Opus One", "Manhattan Serenade", i "There Are Such Things".Orkiestra Tommy Dorsey'a sprzedała najwięcej płyt w historii RCA Victor,do czasu wejścia na estradę Elvisa Presleya.
Nie bacząc na odnoszone sukcesy,Dorsey w 1939r przeprowadza zmiany w swojej orkiestrze,głównie za sprawą nowych wokalistów.Za Jacka Leonarda przychodzi Frank Sinatra.Długoletnia wokalistka towarzysząca orkiestrze ,Edythe Wright zastąpiona została Connie Haines,pojawia się też Jo Stafford z kwartetem wokalnym Pied Pipers. W orkiestrze grali w tym czasie jedni z najlepszych instrumentalistów,trębacze ; Bunny Berigan, Ziggy Elman, i Charlie Shavers,trębacz,aranżer i kompozytor-Sy Oliver,perkusista Buddy Rich i wokaliści- Jo Stafford, Dick Haymes i Frank Sinatra.
Orkiestra Tommy Dorsey'a obok bandu Glena Millera i brata Jimmy'ego
stanowiła trójkę najwybitniejszych wykonawców ery swingu.Jednym z
członków orkiestry podpatrujących uważnie pracę Sy Olivera był puzonista
Nelson Riddle,póżniejszy aranżer i szef orkiestry towarzyszącej
Frankowi Sinatrze.Wraz z przystąpieniem Stanów Zjednoczonych do II wojny
światowej pojawiły się trudności personalne i związane z podróżowaniem
orkiestry.We wrześniu odchodzi Frank Sinatra aby kontynuowac karierę
solową,a pod koniec roku Pied Pipers.Mimo wszystko orkiestra występuje w
filmie Ship Ahoy,lansując jako hit tytułową
piosenkę.Mimo ograniczenia pracy studiów nagraniowych odnoszą sukcesy na
listach przebojów piosenkami "There Are Such Things" i "In the Blue of the Evening".W międzyczasie Dorsey wykazuje dużą aktywność na niwie filmowej wystepując w 1943r w Presenting Lily Mars, DuBarry Was a Lady, i Girl Crazy.
Po wyczerpaniu archiwalnych nagrań orkiestry Dorsey'a w 1944r przez RCA Victor,ta ostatnia decyduje się na edycję wznowień nagrań z 1938r- "Boogie Woogie" i 1940r-"I'll Be Seeing You" [z Frankiem Sinatrą].Dorsey pozostał w Hollywood wystepując w Broadway Rhythm.Po zakończeniu strajku związku muzyków [początek sierpień 1942r]w 1945r zespół powraca do studia nagraniowego lansujac kolejnych sześć hitów na listach przebojów.Widząc upadającą renomę zespołu,Dorsey decyduje się na reorganizację orkiestry w 1947r,która wystąpiła w biograficznym filmie The Fabulous Dorseys.
Po kilkuletniej serii udanych nagrań przechodzi do wytwórni Decca kontynując serię udanych singli.W maju 1953r Tommy Dorsey rozwiązuje band i reaktywuje z bratem wspólny projekt Dorsey Brothers Orchestra wzbudzając wielki aplauz publiczności.Przypadkowa śmierć w wyniku komplikacji po zażyciu tabletek nasennych w 1956r przerwała nagle jego karierę.Niedługo po tym w 1957r umiera jego brat Jimmy.Mimo tego orkiestra występowała nadal pod dyrekcją Warrena Covingtona.
| Tytuł | Wykonawca | Data wydania | UK | US | Wytwórnia [US] |
Komentarz |
| All The Things You Are/That Lucky Fellow | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 01.1940 | - | 3[8] | Victor 26401 | [written by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd, Jerome Kern][utwór z musicalu na Broadway'u "Very Warm For May"] |
| Indian summer | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 02.1940 | - | 2[12] | Victor 26390 | [written by Al Dubin/Victor Herbert] |
| I'll Never Smile Again / Marcheta | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 07.1940 | - | 1[12][18] | Victor 26628 | [gold-US][vocals:Frank Sinatra & Pied Pipers][written by Ruth Lowe][#25 hit for The Platters in 1961] |
| Imagination | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 07.1940 | - | 8[1] | Victor 26581 | - |
| Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)/Devil May Care | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 08.1940 | - | 17[2] | Victor 26 593 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra][written by Rube Bloom/Johnny Mercer][#12 hit for Rick Nelson in 1963] |
| All This And Heaven Too/Where Do You Keep Your Heart? | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 08.1940 | - | 15[2] | Victor 26 653 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra][written by Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen][tytułowa piosenka z filmu] |
| The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else)/And So Do I | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 08.1940 | - | 15[4] | Victor 26 660 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra][written by Gus Kahn, Isham Jones][tytułowa piosenka z filmu][#2 hit for Al Jolson in 1924] |
| Love lies/The call of the canyon | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 08.1940 | - | A:17[1];B:18[3] | Victor 26 678 | [A:written by Carl Sigman, Joseph Meyer & Ralph Freed][B:written by Billy Hill][vocals:Frank Sinatra][B:tytułowa piosenka z filmu] |
| Only Forever/Trade wins | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 10.1940 | - | A:7[3];B:10[4] | Victor 26666 | [A:vocal:Alan Storr][B:vocal:Frank Sinatra][A:written by Johnny Burke, James V. Monaco][B:written by Cliff Friend, Charlie Tobias][A:piosenka z filmu "Rhythm on the river"] |
| I Could Make You Care/The call of the canyon | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 10.1940 | - | 18[1] | Victor 26 717 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra][ piosenka z filmu "Ladies must live"]] |
| Our Love Affair / That's for Me | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 11.1940 | - | 5[3] | Victor 26 736 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra][written by Roger Edens/Arthur Freed][piosenka z filmu "Strike up the band"] |
| Two Dreams Met | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 11.1940 | - | 16[2] | Victor 26 764 | [vocals:Connie Haines][written by Harry Warren & Mack Gordon][piosenka z filmu "Down Argentine Way"] |
| We three [My echo,my shadow of me]/Tell Me At Midnight | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 11.1940 | - | 3[5] | Victor 26747 | [vocals: Frank Sinatra][written by Nelson Cogane, Sammy Mysels & Dick Robertson] |
| Star Dust/Swanee River | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 01.1941 | - | 7[1] | Victor 27 233 | [vocals: Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers][written by Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish ][ #1 hit for Isham Jones in 1931] |
| You've Got Me This Way | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 01.1941 | - | 14[1] | Victor 26 770 | [vocals: The Pied Pipers][written by Johnny Mercer & Jimmy McHugh][piosenka z filmu "You'll Find Out"] |
| Oh! Look At Me Now/ You Might Have Belonged To Another | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 03.1941 | - | A:2[12];B:16[1] | Victor 27 274 | [vocals: Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines & the Pied Pipers][A:written by Joe Bushkin & John DeVries][B:written by Pat West & Lucille Harmon] |
| Do I Worry?/Little Man With A Candy Cigar | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 04.1941 | - | 4[3] | Victor 27 338 | [vocals: Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers][written by Stanley Cowan & Bobby Worth] |
| Dolores / I Tried | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 04.1941 | - | 7[2] | Victor 27 317 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra & Pied Pipers][written by Louis Alter/Frank Loesser][piosenka z filmu "Las Vegas Night"] |
| Everything Happens to Me | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 05.1941 | - | 9[1] | Victor 27 359 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra][written by Tom Adair & Matt Dennis] |
| Let's Get Away From It All-Part 1/Let's Get Away From It All-Part 2 | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 05.1941 | - | 7[2] | Victor 27 377 | [vocals:Pied Pipers][written by Tom Adair & Matt Dennis] |
| Yes Indeed! | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 07.1941 | - | 4[14] | Victor 27 421 | [vocals: jo stafford & sy oliver][written by Sy Oliver] |
| You and I | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 08.1941 | - | 16[3] | Victor 27 532 | [vocals: Frank Sinatra][written by Meredith Willson] |
| Kiss the Boys Goodbye | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 09.1941 | - | 16[2] | Victor 27 461 | [vocals: Connie Haines][written by Frank Loesser & Victor Schertzinger][tytułowa piosenka z filmu] |
| I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 10.1941 | - | 15[3] | Victor 27 526 | [vocals: Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers][written by Martin Block, Bud Green & Mickey Stoner] |
| This Love of Mine / Nelaini | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 10.1941 | - | 3[16] | Victor 27 508 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra][written by Sol Parker/Henry W. Sanicola, Jr./Frank Sinatra] |
| Two in Love/ A Sinner Kissed an Angel | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 12.1941 | - | A:9[1];B:20[1] | Victor 27 611 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra][A:written by Meredith Willson][B:written by Larry Shayne & Mack David] |
| How About You? / Winter Weather | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 02.1942 | - | 16[3] | Victor 27 749 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra][written by Ralph Freed/Burton Lane][piosenka z filmu "Babes on Broadway"] |
| What Is This Thing Called Love?/Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 03.1942 | - | 16[1] | Victor 27 782 | [vocals: Connie Haines][written by Cole Porter][piosenka z musicalu na Broadway'u "Wake up and dream"] |
| The Last Call for Love | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 06.1942 | - | 20[1] | Victor 27 849 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers][written by E. Y. Harburg, Margaret Cummings & Burton Lane][piosenka z filmu "Ship ahoy"] |
| Just As Though You Were Here/Street Of Dreams | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 07.1942 | - | 3[9] | Victor 27 903 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers][written by John Benson Brooks & Eddie DeLange] |
| I'll Take Tallulah/Not So Quiet Please | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 08.1942 | - | 18[1] | Victor 27 869 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers][written by Burton Lane & E. Y. Harburg] |
| Well Git It!/Somewhere A Voice Is Calling | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 08.1942 | - | 20[1] | Victor 27 887 | [written by Sy Oliver] |
| Take Me/Be Careful, It's My Heart | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 09.1942 | - | A:5[3];B:15[3] | Victor 27 923 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra][A:written by Rube Bloom & Mack David][B:written by Irving Berlin][B:piosenka z filmu "Holiday Inn"] |
| Manhattan Serenade/Blue Blazes | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 10.1942 | - | 15[3] | Victor 27 962 | [vocals:Jo Stafford][written by Harold Adamson / Louis Alter] |
| There Are Such Things / Daybreak | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 11.1942 | - | A:1[5][24];B:10[2] | Victor 27 974 | [gold-US][vocals:Frank Sinatra & Pied Pipers][A:written by Stanley Adams,Abel Baer,George Meyer][B:written by Harold Adamson / Pee Wee Crayton / Ferd Grofe] |
| It Started All Over Again/Mandy, Make Up Your Mind | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 02.1943 | - | 4[13] | Victor 20-1522 | [vocals: Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers][written by Bill Carey & Carl Fisher] |
| In the Blue of the Evening /It's always you | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 07.1943 | - | - | Victor 20-1530 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra ][A:written by Tom Adair / Alfred A. DArtega][A:written by Tom Adair / Alfred A. DArtega][B:written by Johnny Burke & Jimmy Van Heusen][B:piosenka z filmu "The Road To Zanibar"] |
| Boogie Woogie/Song Of India | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 10.1943 | - | 5[6] | Victor 26 054 | [gold-US][written by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith] |
| Embraceable You | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 01.1944 | - | 18[1] | Victor 27 638 | [written by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin][vocal:jo stafford & the pied pipers] |
| Another One Of Them Things/The Night We Called It A Day | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 03.1944 | - | 19[1] | Victor 20-1553 | [written by Sy Oliver] |
| I'll Be Seeing You/Let's Just Pretend | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 05.1944 | - | 4[17] | Victor 20-1574 | [vocals:Frank Sinatra ][written by Sammy Fain & Irving Kahal][piosenka z musicalu na Broadway'u "Right This Way"] |
| Will You Still Be Mine? | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 11.1944 | - | 24[1] | Victor 20-1576 | [vocals: Connie Haines][written by Tom Adair & Matt Dennis] |
| I Dream Of You (More Than You Dream I Do)/Opus No. 1 | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 01.1945 | - | A:4[9];B:8[3] | Victor 20-1608 | [gold-US][vocals: Freddie Stewart][written by Marjorie Goetschius & Edna Osser] |
| Sleigh Ride in July | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 02.1945 | - | 15[2] | Victor 20-1622 | [vocals: Bonnie Lou Williams][written by Johnny Burke & Jimmy Van Heusen][piosenka z filmu "Belle Of The Yukon"] |
| More And More/You're Drivin' Me Crazy | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 03.1945 | - | 10[4] | Victor 20-1614 | [vocals: Bonnie Lou Williams][written by Jerome Kern & E. Y. Harburg][piosenka z filmu "Can't Help Singing"] |
| I Should Care/Please Don't Say No | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 04.1945 | - | 11[3] | Victor 20-1625 | [vocals: Bonnie Lou Williams][written by Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston & Sammy Cahn][piosenka z filmu "Thrill Of The Romance"] |
| Out of This World / June Comes Around Every Year | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 07.1945 | - | 12[1] | Victor 20-1669 | [vocals:Stuart Foster ][piosenka tytułowa z filmu][written by Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer] |
| A Friend Of Yours/There's No You | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 07.1945 | - | 9[1] | Victor 20-1657 | [vocals:Stuart Foster ][piosenka z filmu "The Great John L."][written by Johnny Burke & Jimmy Van Heusen] |
| On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe / In the Valley | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 08.1945 | - | 6[6] | Victor 20-1682 | [vocals:Sentimentals][written by Johnny Mercer/ Harry Warren][piosenka z filmu "The Harvey's Girls"] |
| Boogie Woogie/There You Go | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 09.1945 | - | 4[4] | Victor 20-1715 | [written by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith] |
| Hong Kong Blues/You Came Along (From Out Of Nowhere) | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 10.1945 | - | 8[3] | Victor 20-1722 | [written by Hoagy Carmichael][piosenka z filmu "To have and Have Not"] |
| Aren't You Glad You're You?/A Door Will Open | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 01.1946 | - | A:14[1];B:15[4] | Victor 20-1728 | [vocals:Stuart Foster ][A:written by Johnny Burke/Jimmy Van Heusen][B:written by Don George & John Benson Brooks][piosenka z filmu "The bells of St.Mary's"] |
| The Moment I Met You | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 01.1946 | - | 11[3] | Victor 20-1761 | [written by Buck Ham & Gail Meredith] |
| I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)/Remember Me | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 07.1946 | - | 16[5] | Victor 20-1901 | [written by Fred E. Ahlert & Roy Turk][vocals:Stuart Foster ][#2 hit for Wayne King in 1931] |
| How Are Things In Glocca Morra?/When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 03.1947 | - | 9[5] | Victor 20-2121 | [written by Burton Lane & E. Y. Harburg][vocals:Stuart Foster ][piosenka z musicalu na Broadway'u "Finian's Rainbow"] |
| Until / After Hour Stuff | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 09.1948 | - | 4[21] | RCA Victor 20-3061 | [written by Jack Fulton, Bob Crosby & Hunter Kahler] |
| Down By The Station/How Many Tears Must Fall | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 01.1949 | - | 11[9] | RCA Victor 20-3317 | [written by Lee Ricks & Slim Gaillard][#13 hit for Four Preps in 1960] |
| The Huckle-Buck/Again | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 06.1949 | - | A:5[21];B:6[15] | RCA Victor 20-3427 | [A:written by Andy Gibson][B:written by Lionel Newman & Dorcas Cochran][vocals: Marcy Lutes][A:#14 hit for Chubby Checker in 1960][piosenka z filmu "Road House"] |
| Tea for Two Cha Cha / My Baby Just Cares for Me | Tommy Dorsey Orchestra starring Warren Covington | 09.1958 | 3[19] | 7[20] | Decca 30 704 | [#1 hit for Marion Harris in 1925][written by Vincent Youmans & Irving Caesar] |
| I Want to Be Happy Cha Cha / Spooky Takes a Holiday | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 12.1958 | - | 70[3] | Decca 30790 | [written by Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar ][#2 hit for Vincent Lopez in 1925][piosenka z musicalu na Broadway'u "No No Nanette"] |
| Tytuł | Wykonawca | Data wydania | UK | US | Wytwórnia [US] | Komentarz |
| Getting sentimental with Tommy Dorsey | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 03.1945 | - | 4[3] | Victor 80 | - |
| Jerome Kern's "Showboat" | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 02.1946 | - | 2[10] | Victor 152 | - |
| Tommy Dorsey All Time Hits | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 02.1947 | - | 2[16] | RCA Victor 163 | - |
| Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 10.1948 | - | 3[8] | RCA Victor 220 | - |
| And The Band Sings Too | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 10.1949 | - | 9[1] | RCA Victor 247 | - |
| Tommy Dorsey Plays Cole Porter for Dancing | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 04.1950 | - | 3[15] | RCA Victor 263 | - |
| Tommy Dorsey's Dixieland for Dancing | Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra | 07.1950 | - | 6[5] | RCA Victor 279 | - |
| The Fabulous Dorseys in Hi-Fi | Tommy Dorsey & Jimmy Dorsey | 05.1958 | - | 15[6] | Columbia 1190 | - |
| Tea for Two Cha Chas | Tommy Dorsey & Jimmy Dorsey | 05.1959 | - | 38[2] | Decca 8842 | - |
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