Dorsey,Jimmy Hits Collection 1935-57 CD

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

1. You Let Me Down 2. What's the Reason (I'm Not Pleasin' You) 3. You 4. Is It True What They Say About Dixie? 5. Welcome Stranger 6. Pennies from Heaven 7. The Love Bug Will Bite You 8. How'd Ja Like to Love Me? 9. I Fall in Love with You Every Day 10. At a Perfume Counter 11. Love Walked in 12. At Your Beck and Call 13. There's a Faraway Look in Your Eyes 14. John Silver 15. I Haven't Changed a Thing 16. Change Partners 17. The Masquerade Is Over 18. Deep Purple 19. I Get Along Without You Very Well 20. Our Love 21. I Poured My Heart Into a Song 22. Especially for You 23. Stairway to the Stars 24. So Many Times 25. I Didn't Know What Time It Was 26. On a Little Street in Singapore 27. The Breeze and I 28. Little Curly Hair in a High Chair 29. Six Lessons from Madame la Zonga 30. Tonight (Perfidia) 31. All This and Heaven Too 32. Where Do You Keep Your Heart? 33. So Do I 34. The Bad Humor Man 35. You've Got Me This Way 36. I Hear a Rhapsody 37. High on a Windy Hill 38. I Understand 39. Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) 40. Turn Left 41. Yours (Quiereme Mucho) 42. Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes) 43. Maria Elena 44. My Sister and I 45. The Things I Love 46. Blue Champagne 47. All Alone and Lonely 48. Time Was (Duerme) 49. Embraceable You 50. Jim 51. Wasn't It You 52. Moonlight Masquerade 53. I Said No 54. This Is No Laughing Matter 55. The White Cliffs of Dover 56. Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry 57. Not Mine 58. Tangerine 59. I Remember You 60. If You Would Build a Better Mousetrap 61. When the Roses Bloom Again 62. Heavenly Hideaway 63. Always in My Heart 64. Jersey Bounce 65. I Threw a Kiss in the Ocean 66. Full Moon 67. If You Are But a Dream 68. Wonder When My Baby's Coming Home 69. My Devotion 70. Sorghum Switch 71. This Is Worth Fighting for 72. Take Me 73. Daybreak 74. Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil) 75. Ev'ry Night About This Time 76. I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep 77. Manhattan Serenade 78. At the Crossroads 79. Let's Get Lost 80. I'll Find You 81. They're Either Too Young or Too Old 82. Star Eyes 83. My Ideal 84. Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) 85. When They Ask About You 86. My First Love 87. Holiday for Strings 88. An Hour Never Passes 89. Moon on My Pillow 90. Sweet Dreams Sweetheart 91. I Should Care 92. Dream 93. There! I've Said It Again 94. Can't You Read Between the Lines? 95. Doin' What Comes Natur'lly 96. The Whole World Is Singing My Song 97. Heartaches 98. Ballerina 99. On Green Dolphin Street 100. Johnson Rag 101. Charley My Boy 102. Rag Mop 103. So Rare 104. June Night 105. Jay-Dee's Boogie Woogie