The Best of Tommy Dorsey

Artist: Tommy Dorsey
Label: RCA
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 078635108729
EAN: 0078635108729
ASIN: B000002WEE

Release Date: 1992-05-22

Related Categories:

General

| Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General

| Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Classic Big Band

| Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Contemporary Big Band

| Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General

| Pop | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Marie
Star Dust
Little White Lies
I'll Never Smile Again
Royal Garden Blues
Boogie Woogie
Opus One
Song Of India
Who?
Yes Indeed
Once In A While
I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You
Indian Summer
You
Delores

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Customer Reviews:

Half-hearted effort from RCA.......2005-11-29

All of the tracks on this CD are classics--but you already knew that. TD's biggest-selling records from 1935-1944 are included, several featuring young Frank Sinatra. The disc is a little on the short side, with only 15 tracks and 48 minutes of music, and I'm disappointed that a few essential TD tracks were left out ("The Dipsy Doodle" and "The Music Goes 'Round And 'Round," for example). The sound quality is disappointing too; why do record companies still insist on drenching these old records in artificial reverb? This disc sounds like many of those unauthorized cheap import CDs of big band music. I have original 78s for all of the selections on this disc, and in every case, those 65-year-old records sound brighter and clearer than this CD (albeit with a little bit of surface noise). The casual listener may not be as bothered by the sound as I am, but knowing how good these things *can* sound, it's frustrating that it's so difficult to find decent transfers on CD (another RCA TD compilation, "The Seventeen Number Ones," suffers from the same muddy, echoey sound as this disc). The liner notes to this CD are short and difficult to read--they're choppy, and consist of 1-3 sentence anecdotes about each piece. Overall, this is another forgettable rehash of classic Tommy Dorsey material. Keep looking, there must be a better CD of this stuff out there.

Great Swing Band-one of the best. But,.......1999-12-14

This stuff really swings. These are the original recordings. But, RCA has done such a crummy job trying to clean this material up, that it sounds like the band is down the hall, in a gymnasium.

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