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The Seventeen Number Ones

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Download links and information about The Seventeen Number Ones by Tommy Dorsey. This album was released in 1990 and it belongs to Jazz genres. It contains 17 tracks with total duration of 52:18 minutes.

Artist: Tommy Dorsey
Release date: 1990
Genre: Jazz
Tracks: 17
Duration: 52:18
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Marie (featuring Bunny Berigan, Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra, Jack Leonard) 3:17
2. The Music Goes 'Round and Around (featuring His Clambake Seven, Edythe Wright) 3:21
3. Alone (featuring Cliff Weston, Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra) 3:36
4. On Treasure Island (featuring Edythe Wright, Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra) 3:26
5. Satan Takes a Holiday (featuring Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra) 3:19
6. You (featuring Edythe Wright, Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra) 2:49
7. The Big Apple (featuring His Clambake Seven, Edythe Wright) 2:41
8. Music, Maestro, Please (featuring Edythe Wright, Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra) 2:54
9. All the Things You Are (From "Very Warm for May" and "Broadway Rhythm") (featuring Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra, Jack Leonard) 3:19
10. The Dipsy Doodle (featuring Edythe Wright, Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra) 3:09
11. Our Love (featuring Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra, Jack Leonard) 2:45
12. Once In a While (featuring Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra, The Four Esquires) 2:39
13. Indian Summer (featuring Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra, Jack Leonard) 3:27
14. Dolores (featuring The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra) 2:54
15. I'll Never Smile Again (featuring The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra) 3:09
16. There Are Such Things (featuring The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra) 2:40
17. In the Blue of Evening (featuring Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra) 2:53

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Contrary to what one might think from the coverage he gets, Tommy Dorsey enjoyed more than a dozen chart-topping hits before Frank Sinatra ever went to work for him. This mid-priced 1990 vintage CD, covering Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra's biggest hits from 1935 through 1942, remains the best overview of Dorsey's work in his prime years that one can buy, at least short of going for the Collector's Choice three-CD V-Disc Recordings set, which is a lot less organized and a lot more expensive. The Dorsey orchestra was a sweet band, no question, but they had first-rate players who were as precise and skilled as any in the business, and even on their pop sides you can hear a virtuoso ensemble — and some of these sides, including "Marie" and "The Big Apple," really swing; even the real pop numbers, like "Alone" (a cover of the big featured Brown/Freed love ballad from the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera), and dance numbers, like "The Dipsy Doodle," are worth the price of admission for '30s pop and novelty music at its best. There are just four sides featuring Sinatra, but the other vocalists are more than competent and Edythe Wright, in particular, has a lot to offer. There's no personnel information other than the singers, but that's easy enough to get hold of for anyone who really cares, and the sound is more than decent for a 1990 release, marred only by some surface noise in the sources and a bit more compression than would be ideal.