Opus One - 1943 Stereo - Tommy Dorsey
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- Put on your headphones and listen to this amazing stereo track that Tommy Dorsey recorded in 1943 for the film "Broadway Rhythm". Starting in the late 30s, most film musicals were recorded in multi-channel sound but mixed down to mono for the film's release. Some of these original multi-track recordings survive and can be remixed to true stereo, as was done here.
The number was cut, so this clip uses footage from other performances. The last half is mostly the Dorsey band actually playing "Opus One".
From the CD "Alive & Kickin' - Big Band Sounds at MGM"
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I worked in a restaurant for years. "Opus One", was one of the most expensive bottles of wine we served. So you'd take notice when one was served. Not long after I left there. I was spending time with my ailing father. Some show he was watching, featured a version of this song. He passed not long after. So I her this. And think of dad, and his love of this music.
Rest In Peace to your father. God bless him and you and all loved ones.
Ya, me too pal, I have my Dad's coronet by me right now .He passed it on to me and a love for the big bands
Is way down in my heart because of both, my Mom too.
@@terryolson2431 Bless you friend. That sounds lovely. I hope you are well on this splendid day :)
My late dad called this "Tail gunner music" as dad had a pal that was a tail gunner in the RAF during WW2. On the return flight home, the radio operator would call out over the intercom , "Skipper, I've got the Light programme on the radio. Can I put on the headphones?" The crew would call out " Yes, skipper!!" And this and many other songs and tunes would help the crew fly back to the UK.
nice story thanx to ur Dad + pals for freeing us from u know who, kind regards from Germany..i woz born 1962 btw
That's a cool story.
Jerry Gray even wrote a tune called Tail End Charlie to honor tail gunners. It was one heck of a critically-important - and REALLY dangerous - position to have.
It was the Forces (later General Forces) Programme in WW2. The Light Programme replaced it in 1946.
@@GrievingForGrace Assuming it's even true.
I play the alto and tenor saxes and clarinet in a big band in Phoenix and can affirm that people’s enjoyment of the big band era music is alive and well. I’ll be soloing to this piece this weekend.
Hopefully you broke a leg.
@@blujay9191 The crowd had a great time and we enjoyed ourselves - all that matters.
Great news - I was a UK teenager in the 1970s, loving Glenn Miller and Big Band, not the music of my era. Wonderful classy music will always endure. Thank you!
I GREW UP IN THE '40'S DURING THE WAR AND LISTENED ON THE RADIO TO THIS, GOODMAN, KRUPA, SHAW, MILLER ET AL.
This is the zenith of swing music for me. It reached its maximum polish and elegance without losing its jazz roots, verve, and energy. What class.
Same here... For most people "in The Mood" defined the swing era... For me it was Opus One...
There is no. Other comparison to Tommy Dorsey’s Opus One! It’s a treasure
Love this music. Grew up listening to it. My dad was playing professionally with a regional big band in St. Paul MN back in the late 40s, and while on break, he went up to a nightclub on the top floor of the hotel where the Dorsey band was playing. My dad was invited to sit in with the band, and after a couple of numbers, he was offered a job. Well, he turned the offer down, as he was getting ready to teach music and was also engaged to my future mother at the time. He thought it more important to have a "stable" job and life rather than spend a lot of time on the road, especially with a new wife in his near future. Too bad. But I think it is cool that my dad was good enough to be offered a full time job right there on the spot.
great story.
what was his instrument.
that's neat!
Is this for real?? A Stereo Tommy Dorsey! OMG! This is amazing!! Much as I hate to admit it, I wish I'd been around in that era!!! Thank you for sharing this track!!!
Totally real, and totally amazing!
+Rod Simmons I was born in the wrong era myself ♫
You and me both, Mario!
Guess what, Rod? I've acquired many more Tommy Dorsey vinyl albums since this little discussion ♫
+Rod Simmons I was just spermatozoa to be born in 1944
My jaw needs to be picked up off the floor.
What a great discovery! Thank you so very much from all of us Dorsey fans!
PS: I'd be remiss in not telling you that you did a wonderful job recreating the visuals on this.
Michael Klein Thanks - I just wish that I had the first half of the actual performance of "Opus One" that I used for the end.
Michael Klein, ich kann Dir nur Beiflichten .Diese Musik ist grandios!
I enlisted in the Navy in 1943 and took this and GM on my venture.
are you still alive
Robert Stillwagon hey my grandfather served in the navy he’s long gone now but he served the Atlantic and the pacific of ww2
@@Yuhgami More likely the usual internet prank... "I had lunch with Marilyn Monroe. She was sweet and shy." Reply: "OMG, you're so lucky!"
Fishbowl?
Thank you for your service as part of the Greatest Generation ! 🎖
Greatest tune of the greatest era…….!!!!!
Such an underrated piece of music- just as good as Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" in my opinion!
Forget Glen Miller
Much more interesting than In The Mood...?
It's BETTER than Miller !
One of the best jazz tunes ever!
The Mills Brothers do a great job with this tune, too, you would enjoy!
What a treasure. And I had to wait 71 years to hear this version for the first time!
As I recall, stereo playback only came along in the late 1950s for the mass market.
Amazing that they cut this number. Of course, it would have been released in mono, but thank god they saved the multi-track originals!
+OldDogNewTrick Right...Mercury Records released the first Westrex-standard true stereo LPs for Christmas, 1957 buyers...Magnavox made the first compatable players available in October 1957. By May, 1958, the stereo craze swept the nation, and all the experimental stereo mixes were being re-mastered into the mono-stereo compatible Westrex disc standard for sale. Like Color TV did for B&W/color video (1953) and FM Stereo for radio (1961), the accepted format played both mono and stereo discs with equal fidelity=compatability to older standards.
+OldDogNewTrick Even though consumer playback didn't exist, professional equipment was years ahead technologically. Many studios recorded soundtracks in two (or more) channels on either optical stripes or transcription discs, then used early types of mixer boards to achieve a better balance for the final mono track.
My father was a WWII Veteran. He played music often. As a child, I heard all the jazz greats. He loved playing his music loud. He had a collection of albums that filled an entire closet and was a couple feet high.
He never complained when I played my rock music loud. We loved music.
Same here. But lately, I find myself listening more to pre-rock years than the 60s and 70s I'm used to. But, really it's all great music!
This was the beginning of rock music.
Now THIS ..... is music to the EARS!❤️🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸
I WAS there and it was more than super...I once went to a dance at the University of Va. where they has Stan Kenton on one side of the ballroom and Zavier Cugat on the other...what
a spectacular event that was for a young girl not quite out of her teens!
Skip Fretwell omg you are so lucky!!!
My mom played this music for me and I loved it all my life. It never grows old
"Stan Kenton on one side of the ballroom and Zavier Cugat"
They both became famous with the PEANUT VENDOR, didn't they ?
@@henryseidel5469 bellissime musiche. Favolose
@@giovanninadeotto8209 I cannot understand Italian, but luckily these three words are international - like music !
Sono completamente d'accordo con te.
I would probably be dead now, but I would love to have been there for that performance, I have a version of that by TD that has more volume on the strings that are subdued in this one, and it was beautiful. I've listened to it over and over. I love the Big Band era!
This music would work today with all ages. The people are sick of the junk of today's phony TV talent winners. None of whom could have gotten a job with TD. Tip of the hat to Universities and a few bands still keeping the great music of the swing era alive.
One of my favorite Tommy Dorsey songs
i have to thank Tom & Jerry for my taste in music :)
Wrlcome to the club.:)
My parents played this song alot on the record player in the 1940's. They loved to dance and so I do too☺️ The radio was playing many of the Big Band music during the war.
I’m really into this type of music and I was wondering if you had any suggestions for songs or other bands to listen to. Thanks for the help in advance!
@@masonmireles9295 how sweet...I am discovering different styles of music everyday on You Tube if you have the time. Start with what you like and explore with You Tube..go to search on You Tube . I hope this will help you.
Swing...The best of the Big Bands....try this on You Tube...get you started
@@masonmireles9295 Swing .. The best of the Big Bands..will get you started
@@theressamurphy2996 thank you so much for the very speedy reply. Normally I don’t expect a response for a week to two weeks. It truly means a lot!
This does help!
I really like Big Band Music, because a friend recently introduced it to me and I’m trying to explore more of it so I can connect with them and share an interest with them.
I really like the Big Band music with only the band and orchestra and no vocals. What would you suggest?
Thanks again for the help! It truly means a lot. Sorry if I wrote a lot.
I have a 1946 recording of TD doing Opus 1 but this version is superior by far!!
God bless both of you, born in 63 . Grandma. Great... love it ..
Simple music can make you sing, a simple hug can make you feel, better, simple things can make you happy, I hope my simple hello will put a smile on your face..
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One of my absolute favorites from the big band era, recorded a year after Mr S left TD to pursue his legendary solo career. Dorsey simply set the bar as the best of the best in an era log gone. Both Mr S & TD were often imitated, but never equalled.
Ellington was, is, and ever shall be the best of the best. Duke discovered the superb drummer Chick Webb and told Chick he should start his own band, which Webb did and became the house band at the brand new Savoy Ballroom in New York City. Chick discovered Ella Fitzgerald when she was a teenager and became her legal guardian so he could feature her as his vocalist. All the other great bands came through the Savoy ballroom to take part in the weekly “Battle of the Bands” with the guest band on one stage and Chick’s on the other. No one could beat Chick and his band. Goodman came through with Krupa, they did their best and felt good until Chick started playing. Goodman’s men kept looking over at Chick's musicians, shaking their heads in disbelief knowing they had been beaten. When it was all over Krupa went up to Chick and bowed down to him. Later Krupa said, “I was never cut by a better man.” Check out Chick Webb and prepare to be astonished.
@@Rezon1043 Ellington a part of the Big band Era--not THE Best of them all..each had their equal share....Ella was good, to Great...but that 'scat'-crap...was clap-trap...
The mystery is solved
The drummers name was Alvin Stoller
Alvin Stoller
Profile:
American jazz drummer.
Born : October 07, 1925 in New York City, New York.
Died : October 19, 1992 in Los Angeles, California.
Alvin Stoller is the "Yankee snare drummer" on Stan Freberg's "Yellow Rose of Texas".
Grant Koeller, Alvin was the first drummer but drummers Moe Purtill and Tommy Gwin are in other clips.
Stoller spent most of his remaining career after World War 2 working for Frank Sinatra for decades, and when he wasn't doing that he was also on staff at Capitol Records.
No it is very addictive I was raised on swing and big bands and I miss my mom and dad and my aunts and uncles who brought me and my brother up on this kind of music keep it alive !!!
Today's generation doesn't know what good music is!
Dinner jackets, ties, pocket handkerchiefs, and first class style.
QUE HERMOSA LA ORQUESTA DEL GRAN MAESTRO TOMMY DORSEY. EVIDENTEMENTE UNA DE LAS GRANDES BANDAS DE LOS AÑOS DORADOS DEL JAZZ AMERICANO, JUNTO A GLENN MILLER, BENNY GOODMAN Y HARRY JAMES O ARTIE SAW.
My folks era; but I love it too!
Tommy Dorsey Was The Top Best Big Band Leader And Will Always Be Remembered.
Unfortunately costs of a big band and lack of interest in dancing (real) disappeared. I lived through it and loved every minute, best way to get a girl in your arms.
This was recorded on film. Film audio had several tracks available, which they mixed down l0000g before the record companies caught on. Film has no audio recording limits. It's only restricted by the electronics, including microphones.
Disney's Fantasia had 8 tracks, plus a ninth to help sync the machinery.
It wasn't so much that the record companies didn't catch on, it was more that the technology to make stereo records for commercial use was more complicated than making two-channel films for theater release. Bell Labs experimented with dual-needle systems, 0º-90º and 45º-45º styli but it proved to be too expensive for home use.
@@Poisson4147 Single needle 45/45 stereo disks for the consumer market didn't come along until 1958.
@Jim Stokes I figured this was sound on film: it would have been the only way to do it "easily" with this quality at that time. Disks would have had to have two concentric tracks cut simultaneously with two cutting heads and this would have made no sense with film available. Magnetic tape would only come into use after the war.
@@reecenewton3097 Correct. Things like low-mass pickups, small-radius styli, etc. weren't physically and/or financially practical before that time. However a lot of record companies started making stereo master tapes years before in anticipation of eventual release on disk. Somewhere deep in my LP collection I have a stereo symphonic recording that was taped in 1952 but only available as a mono disk until years later.
All said, the 1931-32 Bell tracks were and are effectively isolated experiments.
Amazing, I'm hearing the string instruments section to the orchestra, but there were none in the moving pictures.
The footage is lost, so I pulled the video from other performances.
Fabulous job of editing! The film audio recording is superior to the "classic" record released where the rhythm section sounds tubby. THANKS!
TD was indeed ahead of his time, but not in this regard. Starting in the late 30s, most film musicals were recorded in multi-channel sound but mixed down to mono for the film's release.
Some of these original multi-track recordings survive and can be remixed to true stereo, as was done here.
Check out my clip of TD in stereo from "Girl Crazy" - search this channel for:
Tommy Dorsey 1943 Stereo - Fascinating Rhythm - Girl Crazy
The audio was blocked, so click the link to hear it at vimeo.
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(Traduced).great.music😂😊😊😊
Wonderful that these big bands played without deafening volume. People could dance, talk, listen without being forced to as is the case these days. MUSIC! 🎷🎸🎼😃
Someday there will be a TH-cam video of old music without somebody feeling like they have to crap all over current music rather than just appreciate the old stuff in its own right. Today is not that day, and I feel sometimes I will never live to see that day.
LOVE THIS...ALSO MANY GLENN MILLER SONGS FROM HIS PICTURES ARE AVAILABLE IN STEREO....
How wonderful to get this sound quality from 1943!
True Stereo no less! Movie sound tech was way ahead of shellac 78s for sure.
@@erichanson3961 The studio engineers also understood sound dynamics far better than the record companies.They had open sound stages with decent reverb instead of cramped rooms with absorbing panels on the wall (/groan).
You have to wonder what sounds might have been preserved if the record companies had done their jobs better.
My dad loved this music too.
By Sy Oliver btw.
What a great song to listen to on a lazy Saturday afternoon.
If you think this is good, check out the version by Gene Krupa's band with Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge. It will knock your socks off.
Agreed. "Come on, latch on and jump, hey, hey, hey!"
Gene Krupa, had a good band and was probably the most famous drummer of the Swing Era. But he got into covering a lot of things that other bands made into hits in his own quest for popularity; I.E. being commercial enough to keep his own band working. For 2nd and 3rd tier bands like Krupa's it was always a financial strain to keep a band going with 15-17 musicians on a payroll week-in and week-out. (It's virtually impossible now.) I like Krupa's band but I'm not big on all the covers he did, although I understand why he got into doing it.
Je n oublierai jamais ce chanteur il est ma jeunesse 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👵🏻💕💕💕🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇫🇷
I have a 45 record of this song and Buddy Rich is the drummer.
Recorded in 1944.
@pnotunerl Your 45 is a reissue of the 1944 78 rpm Victor original recording. Probably, in this cutted 1943 audio Buddy Rich is also the drummer.
Who is the women waiting to dance towards the end?
That’s a young ALVIN STOLLER behind the drums in that fitst scene!
"Stoller", but yeah. He was one super drummer!
@@Poisson4147 : Yes thank you I know the spelling it’s just such a stupid dictation feature on this phone it sucks ! and I didn’t catch the mistake! yeah he was a bitch Alvin Stoller was
Only have 23 years old but i like this music, its perfect
You have great taste!
I'm three times your age, and this makes me feel your age.
My Uncle Sy Olivers tune
"Organ Grinder's Swing" is a fave of mine, Deb. Gunther Schuller, who wrote the definitive book on swing (The Swing Era), turned me on to how talented your uncle was.
Well, as a child I used to look on my fathers record to see who composed these great tunes and many times it was, no surprise, Sy Oliver. Even as a 14 year old, I knew he was a talented man.
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deb venti Sy Oliver was a super musician and arranger. You are a so fortunate to be related to him
deb venti Your uncle was one of the greatest writers of music.....ever. God bless him, RIP.
Wow!
Yes, Opus One and Boogie Woogie, among others were great to jitterbug to...not too fast and not too slow---perfect tempo. I learned on them and taught others what I'd learned. A great time...about 1945 and '46, perhaps a little longer. I'm now almost 88 and thoroughly enjoy hearing this music again...and speaking of again...Again was a wonderful song once sung by Ida Lupino. Listen to One O'clock Jump and Two O'clock Jump...super.
I have to own up to the fact that I sped up the original recording (while keeping the pitch the same). Sacrilege, I know - but it was way too slow for me! I think this tempo is perfect.
Same here!
Great swing jazz song to dance with the best friend on the dance floor.😎 Cool 😎
なつかしい曲をありがとう
Electrifying! Incredible sound and performance. If only there was a stereo version of Sunny Side of the Street, which is also Big Band perfection. Perhaps there IS....?
Wonderful, I miss TD and his trombone
Before my time but I love Swing. Thanks for sharing.
High fidelity stereo in 1943. Who knew? Spectacular arrangement and performance also.
There were some incredible recordings made as early as the late 1920s - search for "early hi fi", "early stereo", and "high fidelity 78s". Also Bell Labs produced some experimental stereo recordings in late 1931 and early 1932. The problem was cost and complexity prevented the technology's use except in rare cases. Home playback equipment would have been out of reach of all but the wealthiest listeners, and even most theatres couldn't afford to install the extra speakers and amplifiers needed. Disney famously developed a multi-channel system called "Fantasound" that was used for the film _Fantasia_ but it was so complex only a handful of movie houses showed it in its complete form.
By the early 40s things had improved enough that larger movie studios were recording soundtracks using either dual optical tracks or synchronized high-fidelity discs. Even there, though, a lot's now lost: the 2-channel tracks were often simply fed through a primitive sound board to get better balance in the final mono mix. Fortunately a few of the originals survive, including this one, some by Artie Shaw, and of course parts of Glenn Miller's two movies.
@@Poisson4147 Thanks so much much. Very enlightening. Apparently there was more going on regarding high fidelity in the early part of the 20th century than one might have imagined
@@ddkoda Thanks for the compliment! I've always been fascinated with how technology developed, and what was known experimentally (or even accidentally) before particular discoveries were commercialized. E.g. I found out that Edison inadvertently invented the vacuum tube but didn't understand what he'd stumbled on, so it languished for years. Can you imagine if electronic amplifiers had been available at the start of the 20th century?
This is the real thing - Tommy Dorsey Opus One.
Fantastic performance, mind you that's to be expected with TD, super quality stereo sound which CD IS THIS FROM, Girl Crazy CD jsut came,CB
Those were the days! I was born too late! xxx
This was a very early and somewhat successful attempt at stereo. With one microphone in each of the sections, the sound was recorded on film. then the volume levels would be manipulated or "mixed"; something new! then the whole thing would be re-recorded and synchronized to the image. the same thing was done with Glenn Miller's movie, " Orchestra Wives", the year before. Thank God! These kind of recordings are the only "stereo" we have of the original big bands and they are very good.
Gregory Kayne Actually, the technique was not new in 1943. Beginning in the late 1930s, many film musicals were recorded on multi-channel masters which were then mixed down to mono for the film's release. A number of these stems have survived and been remixed to stereo, as this number was. I don't know the year this technique was first used, but this clip I made includes some earlier examples. th-cam.com/video/xymM0Vw3z_g/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the info!
+Gregory Kayne 100 percent right on, Gregory! This recording is far superior to the horribly tubby sounding Decca recording of this that's supposed to be a classic. The Decca record sounded like they recorded the band in an acoustically dead room. Decca was the last holdout to go into that newfangled hi-fi. Their first hi fi record was Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock LP.
+Gregory Kayne I also understood that _Sun Valley Serenade_ and _Orchestra Wives_ were both recorded directly to film. However Alan Cass from the Glenn Miller Archive showed me a set of 16" transcription discs that he said held the original tracks for later transfer to optical form. As time permits I'll see if I can find more information.
@@jimstokes6742 You must be refering to American Decca.English Decca were into hi fi recording in the forties with their famous ffrr recordings which went up to a top limit of 14 khz.
great editing!
Thanks!
Magnificent! Don't you wish all the great swing bands had recorded in stereo?
there was some recording done in stereo in England in the 30's
@@larryshaver3568 Yes but were these recordings true stereo with a phantom center channel, or discrete two channel sound, which is completely different. Over headphones the latter has a hole in the center. Kinda like FANTASIA (1940), which was both two channel discrete, and ping pong simulated stereo. And then I'd like to know how those British stereo recordings were made. Did they record to film track, like this Dorsey one?
@@AnnieVanAukentrue stereo i'm sure the recordings were made with three microphones so there is a phantom channel
You don't need three mics for a phantom channel, just two, properly spaced. I'd love to know how they recorded in stereo back then if not on film audio track.
@@larryshaver3568 Those would be the experiments done by Alan Blumlein and EMI
Wow! What a great, clean recording. I was wondering what these bands could have sounded like in stereo and without all the typical noise. Thank you so much for posting this!!
some of the first stereo78's were recorded in London at Abbey Road studios
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Alfred Newman, the famous composer-conductor and head of the 20th Century-Fox music department, took such a liking to the multi-channel recordings in Disney's "Fantasia", that shortly thereafter he saw to it that most Fox soundtracks were recorded on two separate channels on interlocked variable-density optical film. It was possible to remix these to stereo, as was done on such films as "Captain from Castile", "How Green Was my Valley" and "Day the Earth Stood Still", among others.
Gave Elvis his first TV shot!
"Stage Show" - 1955 or '56 IIRC.
As long as know body's watching, you can run the vacuum sweeper . And have a good time ⌚! OF COURSE BEFORE WHATS CUMS HOME ..HAHA DOMESTIC ENGENERING .. HAHA
It's also sonically better, because motion picture film captured more fidelity than shellac. Dorsey recorded this with a 27-or-28 piece band, as he did on the 78. This is great, but the 1944 RCA 78 has so much more energy; one of TD's best recordings.
My husband and I danced a lot of dances to this song. I remember the very first song I ever heard that I can remember I was probably about 4 or 5 years old was by Tommy Dorsey and it was Tommy dorsey's Boogie Woogie and it was playing on the car radio as my family was traveling and there was one more that I remember hearing back then and it was called smoke smoke that cigarette. It's amazing I can remember things from when I was three four five six years old and I can't remember what I ate for breakfast day before yesterday
SOOOO nicely done! THANK YOU for all your time and hard work for the rest of us! The BEST ERA of MUSIC - EVER!
Barbara 53 I know imagine how long it must have taken to find this clip
Thanks - it was a lot of work. Can't believe they cut it from the movie!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! This was everyone's favorite to jitterbug!!!! Just GREAT!!! I can just see the dance floors jumin' and jivin' !!!! And yes, I learned to jitterbug too!!! What fun we had!! Thanks!
Love the clarinet glissando he adds, not on the 78.
Fantastic music!
Fall concert 1977 in high school, the orchestra which I played in was making our way offstage, and the jazz band was telling us "great job!" We sat and watched them erupt into TD's Opus One, and I though, "Who are they kidding?! This is fantastic."
Remember this from AFN radio in 1950s. In UK we got AFN Frankfurt in the late evenings on Medium Wave.
Swing Music is the very best music! Love this tune.
it is. play when a day 's been sad!
Here is the answer to the mystery of the "AS" initials on the bass drum.
As drummers of a certain age all know, one could get their initials set inside the crest as seen on the head.All the drum factories offered this service.
Thus ,"AS", obviously being the drummerrs initials. NOT ARTIE SHAW'S.
In the case as shown here the "AS" is smaller than the "TD" representing TOMMY DORSEY WHO "AS" WORKED FOR. Not all bandleaders would have been generous enough to let the drummer have a spot on a drum head, highly visible on the bandstand and a prime advertising space for the LEADERS NAME.
Nowhere in history would Artie Shaw have entertained a "MERGER" advertised on a drum head and not in the least, where his initials were subordinated by ANYONE.EVER. ANYWHERE.
Regarding the track as posted here, I have to believe that it is a genuine early stereo recording. The instrumental separation is slightly different than stereo as commonly understood. Although if you listen to the hi hats in the mix, they seem to move in different sections from left to center to right starting in the first clarinet solo.
Mostly the drums are panned left, much like a George Martin mix c. 1963
The surface noise is also that associated with tape or mag stripe as opposed to disc. Also, the signal to noise ratio would seem to favor something done on the WE Mirrorphonic system rather than the RCA Photophone system, a less HI FI approach.
Opus One is an extremely clean studio recording which to me has always sounded "better than 1944" anyway, and to hear an alternate version as presented here is a treat plus it is STEREO!
+PJ Riverdale Thanks for the info. The autio was recorded on multi-track 35mm optical film. When most nitrate film was destroyed in the 1950s, many of these stems were transferred to 1/2" magnetic tape. Since they were never meant to be released in stereo, some of the mic placement might be a little odd. But it is a true multichannel recording.
And again a great look at a great song preserved in true stereo.
Alvin Stoller?
@@vintage31 Just finished a biography of Dorsey. "After Buddy Rich left Tommy Dorsey's orchestra during World War II, Dorsey, a man of equally violent, temper, replaced him with Alvin Stoller, a close friend of Rich's. Dorsey found that some of Rich's characteristics, which had led to constant flare‐ups between the two men, had apparently rubbed off on Stoller.
“There are three rotten bums in this world,” Dorsey eventually told Stoller. “Buddy Rich, you and Hitler-and have to have two of them in my band.”
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Absolutely wonderful!!! Great find..Thank you, Broadway Classics!!! Cheers..Marilyn..
My favorite Dorsey tune! Used in the movie "A Separate Peace" - the first one.
The more early stereo, the better. Magnificent!
A lot of musicals were recorded on multiple tracks to let the sound engineers get a better mix on the final mono track. The sad part is that at the time, the separate tracks were usually treated as intermediate steps that could be trashed once the mono track was complete. Every so often somebody finds copies of the separate tracks that escaped destruction, which is how we can listen to these gems!
Heard this in stranger things, what a good pick.
This arrangement and overall performance by the band and all the solos are priceless......one of the best of TD's selections. The beat is constant throughout, so it had to be one of the dancers' favorite swing tunes during the 40's.
Great tune, Love it!
I was watching Live with Kelly & Ryan and they were discussing the worst and best song we have to listen to when on hold w/ a company. Opus One came up as number one and they played a segment of it. This was not the song. lol. The worst song was really terrible.. Thank God I have never had to listen to that one. I'll have to keep looking to see if there is another part of the song that matches the on hold music that I love.
So now we have stereo recordings from Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. Makes me wonder how many more of these undiscovered gems are still hidden away....
Hey, how about 40s 50s raves in a disused warehouse must be one somewhere!!! None of the druggy crap we see in recent times❤❤❤
SWING ERA CLASSIC…….!!!!!
Great bandleader in the 40s but what he did to Sinatra contract was the worst & meanest thing a boss can do . And this was after Harry James let him go to make more money with Dorsey
Absolutley lovely.
Hit the dance floor, grab a broad & a drink with one hand free & have the world so easily.
Love it!
The MOUS wrist leash BRAVO so simple yes so smart. BRAVO
Fallout 76!!!!!
How did MGM cut this number out? Of course, it wasn’t the classic we admire at that time.
Hep cats go
Very good sound .. and the melody is a classic... For dancing is perfect
The track is from "Alive & Kickin’ - Big Band Sounds At M-G-M".
marvelous.... sounds so good!!! Tks for sharing Greetings from Canada
Totally fantastic, like wow!
Woody Allen's ''Radio Days'' brought me here. Remarkable song! Great that we've got a stereo version.
Dalila Boechat , adoro!!
clássico de minha adolescência.
Rodrigo Sputter jazz é vida!
+Dalila Boechat The music is life.
Отличный, профессиональный аудио монтаж!