Track Listing

1. Opus One
2. Song of India
3. Once in a While
4. Marie
5. Little White Lies
6. Stardust - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
7. I'm Getting Sentimental over You
8. Indian Summer
9. You
10. Music Goes 'Round and Around
11. All the Things You Are
12. Our Love
13. In the Blue of Evening - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
14. Song Is You
15. I'm in the Mood for Love
16. Summertime
17. Birmingham Bounce

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2566 in Music
• Brand: RCA
• Released on: 1996-07-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Customer Reviews

Great sound quality, superb music
So many "greatest hits" compilations miss the mark either in quality or song selection. But this disc lives up to its billing as the "Best" of the Dorsey orchestra. It kicks off with one of the stellar and swingiest tunes of the Big Band era, "Opus Number One" (though this version is inferior to the more famous "single" version). It's hard to listen to this song and not appreciate the brilliant arrangement and musicianship displayed here. Along with Goodman's "Sing, Sing Sing" and Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" this has got to be in the top three of any Big Band all-time greatest list.

It's a pity that Dorsey has been somewhat forgotten today and shoved aside in preference of Benny, Glenn and Artie. Was he as good as those giants? No, but this disc shows that his band could swing, had a phenomenal young vocalist named Sinatra and that Tommy's trombone playing wasn't half bad. This is a must have album for anyone serious about the Big Band era.

I just can't get enough of this CD!
This CD is one of the finest collections of Tommy Dorsey music I have ever heard! It mixes great swing with some of the most romantic ballads ever written. All of the cuts are original recordings and the sound quality is fantastic. As my review title states, this CD never leaves my player. I just never tire of hearing this stuff, and, being a 40's fanatic at 36, it takes me back to a time that I wished I could have known....even though there was a World War going on!
Great music!!!!!!!!!!!!

absolutely marvellous!
They're all here, his big hits and some more: "Opus one", "Indian Summer" and of course "Song of India", and they were songs to get us through a very dark decade. And we thank English radio broadcasting for bringing these tunes to a country where German Schlagers were all over the airwaves in the early 40's. If you loved these tunes by Tommy Dorsey then, you'll find the sound on this CD just wonderful. Bittersweet memories of friendship, our country united in a struggle against a huge enemy, and finally resisting occupation so that our children could enjoy that awful music called rock & roll in the 50's... Only kidding, some of the rock stuff was endurable, but nothing can beat the beat of a real big band like Tommy Dorsey's!