You hardly ever see this odd looking mute used. It was called a solotone and is available today as a cleartone mute. You can still buy one but a trombone player will rarely ever use it. That mute and Tommy playing extremely high gives it that haunting quality. When heard on record or over the radio I'm sure many listeners back then wondered - what kind of instrument is that? Imagine when you could walk into a club, everyone dressed to the nines and hear music like this? It really happened. There was such a time. Not just a Hollywood movie. Big bands were crisscrossing the US and playing nightly. And people dressed up to go to baseball games - look at the photographs.
I was just thinking - do I need to mention "extremely high" - I was referring to pitch - like the upper stratospheric limits of the tenor trombone. TD loved that range as if to offer a challenge to anyone who wanted to imitate his sound. That challenge is still out there - try it while making it sound smooth and easy. There are always different trends in vibrato and that sweet style is currently out of fashion but Tommy is admired today and always will be by players. It doesn't matter if you play in a band, a studio, or a symphonic orchestra.
Interestingly enough, my great uncle Robert Bob Cusumano is one of the trumpet players on the original recording. He also played on Rose Marie and was one of the trumpters on Buglers Holiday by Leroy Anderson. He also was the lead trumpet for the theme for Death Valley Days TV shows. I think he might be next to Bunny but not 100% sure.
@@kristyskirt9015 The piece is called Song of India and was actually written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from his opera called Sadko which premiered in Moscow in 1898. That is where the haunting melody comes from but of course Nik the Russian didn’t swing it!
My dad loved this music. He was in his teens and 20’s in its heyday, and we were blessed that he introduced it to us. I would love to go back in a Time Machine to one of those clubs. But I would outlaw cigarettes ;)!
Amazing bit of direction and cinematography as our attention is taken from the outside marquis to following two patrons into the establishment then panning a number of other customers until as our attention is piqued we finally see the mighty Dorsey organization in top form performing one of their major hits that brought them fame and fortune.
circular breathing isn't necessary on India...I've been playing the Dorsey book for 50 years and a Solotone allows me to conserve and focus my breath..it isn't that difficult when you've got trombone lungs
You can almost tell at 2:15 the one bartender glances up at the band then walks toward the other bartender (his pal) and says "Ziggy" as his pal looks up with a glorious smile of enjoyment.
One of the greatest tracking shots ever, even for Warner Brothers, finishing with the sweeping pan timed precisely to the puff of smoke from the tuxedo dude.
I actually loved this song as a child at eight years old! Our dance teacher chose to use it for our tap routine. Odd choice, don’t you think? But it intrigued me, I bought the record and played it a lot, and I think my favorite part were the drums.
Hermosa melodia me encanta que recuerdo tan lindo con quien llegue a bailar estos bailes tan elegantes gracias y felicidades por la persona que subió este video
I'm guessing this is from a little seen movie he was in, "Las Vegas Nights" due to the customers wearing cowboy hats. This picture also marked the film debut of Frank Sinatra, who sang with the band. I really loved how Tommy and his guys were given this naturalistic presentation, giving you a real idea of what it was like to go see and hear the Dorsey orchestra back in the day.
The bullhides and bullhorns and the men wearing their hats at table make it clear you are in the Far West. The music is splended. The time between the two great wars, especially before September, 1939 is a romantic time in America. I know a lot of people were still trying to recover from the great economic depression, so it wasn't so rosy for them; but the economy was recovering, the nation was at peace, and people like Dorsey were making the fine music of the swing era. Americans who were fighting the second European war (later Word War) in the century and their families surely looked back on the days of peace and economic recovery with nostalgia.
Probably the apex of the American civilization - as a people we truly had our act together. And the look on drummer Buddy Rich's face says he knows it.
+lcs1956 Can't agree enough. Culturally, we were ripe in the 40's I was born in the mid 60's and I've seen nothing but constant societal upheaval and turmoil.
💞✨🎶🎷Quero que fique claro ,eu pesso desculpas aos bons maestros atuais,não quero jenearizar jenearizar ,mas é pena que não são tão divulgados como no passado era assim nem precisava dedilhar as orquestras era os entredimentos de todos em salãos de bailes era maravilhoso ...🎶🎷✨💞
I play this with "Last of the Summer Wind", a Bolton UK based dance band (average age 80 years), We play this proper music for our own enjoyment. I use an identical tube mute with my Benge trombone.
9 dislikes....now let me see...........I'm trying to picture these 9 people..........oh, I know; disgruntled, no friends, short, loin-challenged, lost to mediocre 2018 so-called pop, partially deaf, no girl/boy friends, phone fiddlers........nothing a good analyst couldn't sort out.
💞✨🎶🎷Por favor ouve está música ,ela além de ser linda ela tem sabor ,vc se imajina saboriando á mais deliciosa colosemas aí vc se desliza na dança ,com uma elegância única...💞✨🎶🎷
In the original studio recording of Song of India, yes. A lot of these movie songs are "lip-synced" with the original recording used in the sound track, and it shows when you watch closely. This one, though, doesn't look like one of those, unless Tommy Dorsey is a sync magician with the trombone slide. And Berigan was long gone from TD's band by 1941. IMDb's full cast lists the clarinetist (Johnny Mince) and the drummer (Buddy Rich), but no Bunny. I'm just guessing, though. I wondered, too.
TOMMY DORSEY WAS A GREAT TROMBONIST BUT SORTA NOT A JAZZ PLAYER, MORE OF A MELODY MAN ON A VERY TOUGH INSTRUMENT. JACK TEAGARDEN OR J.J.JOHNSON WERE JAZZ PLAYERS.
Tommy happened to be an excellent jazz trombonist! He chose to play the sweet style that he originated...but he could stand toe to toe with any trombonist on ANY type of playing...and everyone knew that...with the possible exception of you....if you doubt that, listen to some of the 'Clambake 7'.....
Peter Farrar: Tommy Dorsey's jazzy version of one of the most beautiful music classics in the world, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Song Of India," was brutally decimated by Tommy Dorsey's murderous execution of classical music of Rimsky-Kosakov. Yet, TH-cam opens viewer's comments on this r idiculous jazzy version, & bocks the outstanding & incomparable recordings by Annunzio Mantovani & Percy Faith's orchestras, that raised this most beautiful & classical music, Rimsky-Korsakov's "Song Of India," to supreme heavenly heights. This injustice by YT is beyound all comprehension. Words of disgust by Peter E. Farrar.
You hardly ever see this odd looking mute used. It was called a solotone and is available today as a cleartone mute. You can still buy one but a trombone player will rarely ever use it. That mute and Tommy playing extremely high gives it that haunting quality. When heard on record or over the radio I'm sure many listeners back then wondered - what kind of instrument is that?
Imagine when you could walk into a club, everyone dressed to the nines and hear music like this? It really happened. There was such a time. Not just a Hollywood movie. Big bands were crisscrossing the US and playing nightly. And people dressed up to go to baseball games - look at the photographs.
I was just thinking - do I need to mention "extremely high" - I was referring to pitch - like the upper stratospheric limits of the tenor trombone. TD loved that range as if to offer a challenge to anyone who wanted to imitate his sound. That challenge is still out there - try it while making it sound smooth and easy. There are always different trends in vibrato and that sweet style is currently out of fashion but Tommy is admired today and always will be by players. It doesn't matter if you play in a band, a studio, or a symphonic orchestra.
Interestingly enough, my great uncle Robert Bob Cusumano is one of the trumpet players on the original recording. He also played on Rose Marie and was one of the trumpters on Buglers Holiday by Leroy Anderson. He also was the lead trumpet for the theme for Death Valley Days TV shows. I think he might be next to Bunny but not 100% sure.
What kind of instrument is that? I would have guessed English Horn or some kind of oboe. A well played trombone can also sound like a French Horn.
@@kristyskirt9015 The piece is called Song of India and was actually written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from his opera called Sadko which premiered in Moscow in 1898. That is where the haunting melody comes from but of course Nik the Russian didn’t swing it!
@@brucekuehn4031 Yes! I was wondering what Rimsky-Korsakov would have thought about this arrangement.
Ziggy Elman and Buddy Rich soloing are something marvellous,and the tune is a gem!!thank you so much!
Im 83 and it gets better every time I hear it fantastic music keep listening
I lo veo triste music, it is for ever
th-cam.com/video/oJEU_DeGWEg/w-d-xo.html original is russian
I'm 88. I totally agree.
@@ronaldstrange8981 I'm 86 and play this video frequently. Love it.
Great to see Buddy Rich on Song Of India .
A touch of the 40’s. Almost feels as if I’m there.
I am sorry I missed that cultural age.
Young Gene Krupa on drums
Ageless wonder..
My sentiments, too. It's like I'm there inside the club. What a trip.
The great Rimsky Korsakov meets the great Tommy Dorsey!
I'm 75 and only now did I know of the RK connection.
It’s so wonderful to hear this number played & sung so well. Just like it was written. No jazzing it up. 🎵🎶👌😃
Reminds me of dancing with my Dad in the living room. Just wonderful. Love this film, a different time. Thanks
Tommy and Buddy Rich. Doesn't get any better.
Amo esta música.Agradezco q siempre se los recuerde.Son orquestas inolvidables, q nos nutren con sus hermosas melodías.
Long live the big band era
My dad loved this music. He was in his teens and 20’s in its heyday, and we were blessed that he introduced it to us. I would love to go back in a Time Machine to one of those clubs. But I would outlaw cigarettes ;)!
The quality of the recording makes it sobering to think how far ahead America was in those days!
a big favorite in the 40s what a piece of dance music a master piece
The song is from 1937 but it's still a favourite of all time
1930s-40s era
Awesome, the cool full musical feel of big band at it's best.
Tommy Dorsey and his band truly captured the beauty of this classic haunting Rimsky-Korsakov composition.
The great Buddy Rich on drums. Watched him on Carson many time. Thank you for posting.
+laserbeam 002 Thought so!
Amazing bit of direction and cinematography as our attention is taken from the outside marquis to following two patrons into the establishment then panning a number of other customers until as our attention is piqued we finally see the mighty
Dorsey organization in top form performing one of their major hits that brought them fame and fortune.
Three negative votes?!?!? Why? What could possibly be negative about this classic piece of early exotica. Get me a time machine!
Must be socialists, no humour, no appreciation of the arts, no soul.
WOW ! what a classic moment of earth time . feel very lucky to get to see this masterpiece !
Three of the greatest soloists of all time! Dorsey, Elman, and Rich!
Lets not forget Tommy's use of circular breath which allowed him to play a melody seamlessly!
circular breathing isn't necessary on India...I've been playing the Dorsey book for 50 years and a Solotone allows me to conserve and focus my breath..it isn't that difficult when you've got trombone lungs
I heard this song but I did not see the video. It is great, the picture of humanity at its best!
You can almost tell at 2:15 the one bartender glances up at the band then walks toward the other bartender (his pal) and says "Ziggy" as his pal looks up with a glorious smile of enjoyment.
Martín Scorcese did a great re-creation of this number at the beginning of his movie “New York, New York”.
One of the greatest tracking shots ever, even for Warner Brothers, finishing with the sweeping pan timed precisely to the puff of smoke from the tuxedo dude.
I actually loved this song as a child at eight years old! Our dance teacher chose to use it for our tap routine. Odd choice, don’t you think? But it intrigued me, I bought the record and played it a lot, and I think my favorite part were the drums.
Delightful.. what a joy to watch, and it does bring a sense of joyous-ness with it. Lovely post.. thank you.
WF
Truely this little snipet captures a beautiful moment in time!
Buddy Rich had it in his blood, his bone marrow and in every cell of his body.
Wish I lived in this era
Beautiful song Oooouuuyeaaaa, 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
A big thank you from Amsterdam. Where has sophistication gone?
Brilliant!
Such style n classy era ❤
Hermosa melodia me encanta que recuerdo tan lindo con quien llegue a bailar estos bailes tan elegantes gracias y felicidades por la persona que subió este video
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I'm guessing this is from a little seen movie he was in, "Las Vegas Nights" due to the customers wearing cowboy hats. This picture also marked the film debut of Frank Sinatra, who sang with the band. I really loved how Tommy and his guys were given this naturalistic presentation, giving you a real idea of what it was like to go see and hear the Dorsey orchestra back in the day.
Brilliant cinematic story telling by director Murphy. Did he know of and elaborate upon Hitchcock's "Young and Innocent" restaurant scene of 1937?
I'm going to dance to the 'Song of India' at my wedding.
We are their!!!
The bullhides and bullhorns and the men wearing their hats at table make it clear you are in the Far West. The music is splended. The time between the two great wars, especially before September, 1939 is a romantic time in America. I know a lot of people were still trying to recover from the great economic depression, so it wasn't so rosy for them; but the economy was recovering, the nation was at peace, and people like Dorsey were making the fine music of the swing era. Americans who were fighting the second European war (later Word War) in the century and their families surely looked back on the days of peace and economic recovery with nostalgia.
💞🎶✨🌹Á que pena ,que não temos mais músicas como á estas,de muito bom gosto,,,🌹👄💞
Love big band music
Love seeing Ziggy and Buddy in the same shot
Probably the apex of the American civilization - as a people we truly had our act together. And the look on drummer Buddy Rich's face says he knows it.
+lcs1956 Can't agree enough. Culturally, we were ripe in the 40's I was born in the mid 60's and I've seen nothing but constant societal upheaval and turmoil.
TDB Things started going downhill when they gave women the vote and blacks rights.
You are so right
The greatest music ever
Amazing arrangement of this tune to make it so haunting! ❤️❤️
This is the "coolest" version yet! Dig, those crazy ol' bartenders! Man, they don't make-um like that anymore . . .
Great song. I had to play the Dorsey part. Took a lot of effort, I wasn't into circular breathing back then!
Neither was Tommy! Those were ONE breath phrases!
Sinatra got his phrasing from Tommy!
Never heard a muted trombone till now. So different in tone! Far away!
💞🎶Que linda está orquestra encanta os leva á um mundo de sonhos bons ...🎶✨🌷💞
💞✨🎶🎷Quero que fique claro ,eu pesso desculpas aos bons maestros atuais,não quero jenearizar jenearizar ,mas é pena que não são tão divulgados como no passado era assim nem precisava dedilhar as orquestras era os entredimentos de todos em salãos de bailes era maravilhoso ...🎶🎷✨💞
¡ Maravilloso !
Mellow Big Band sound of Tommy Dorsey playing Song of India from Las Vegas Nights (1941).
Would have loved w b there wow at that venue
I play this with "Last of the Summer Wind", a Bolton UK based dance band (average age 80 years), We play this proper music for our own enjoyment. I use an identical tube mute with my Benge trombone.
Fantastic!!!!
Noted Buddy Rich great drummer had the good fortune to see him at the London Palladium with the great Sammy Davis
Amazing how much that trombone mute modifies the sound.
Buddy Rich!
🌈🤍 AGAIN TY SO MUCH FOR PUTTING THIS ON UTUBE🌾
Checkout a young Buddy Rich on Drums.
Cool
Johnny Mercer wrote lyrics for this Classical piece....tenor Mario Lanza sang.....Very melodius and inspiring..
I defy anyone not to be entertained by this superb arrangement. England, September, 2024.
I play this song with my bigband on a solotone too.
Обожаю эту мелодию!
Браво!
Ah.....Music...Do you remember it?....Where did it go?......
I think Ziggy Elman is the trumpet soloist
+Hyslop65 Absolutely!!
I like the solo that Bunny Berigan played better.
NICE!
Kind of gives you an idea what it was really like in those days.
Buddy Rich en la batería, se consideró el #1 en su época.
Que música 🎵🎼🎶 mas suave y linda
They like their John B. Stetson hats.
Martín Scorcese did a great re-creation of this number at the beginning of his movie “New York, New York”.
super hit
This guy should've done a song with Glenn Miller. That would've been awesome.
they did in 1935...more than one! Glenn worked for Tommy & Jimmy back then!
People had so much more class back then than today. For example, I always wonder why some people show up at graduations in picnic shorts.
TRUMPET SOLO THE GREAT ZIGGY ELMAN.
chaussee123 Chaussee Bunny was dead by the time this was recorded
TEAM HUMANITY! BRAvO!!!!
I wonder if we are dreaming the same thing. Dyer, no I am not dreaming
The Exorcist 3 !!!
🤩👏👏👏👏
🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
Bunny Berigan on Trumpet??
ziggy
Breath control!
9 dislikes....now let me see...........I'm trying to picture these 9 people..........oh, I know; disgruntled, no friends, short, loin-challenged, lost to mediocre 2018 so-called pop, partially deaf, no girl/boy friends, phone fiddlers........nothing a good analyst couldn't sort out.
they were looking fir rap shit noise
💞✨🎶🎷Por favor ouve está música ,ela além de ser linda ela tem sabor ,vc se imajina saboriando á mais deliciosa colosemas aí vc se desliza na dança ,com uma elegância única...💞✨🎶🎷
In the original studio recording of Song of India, yes. A lot of these movie songs are "lip-synced" with the original recording used in the sound track, and it shows when you watch closely. This one, though, doesn't look like one of those, unless Tommy Dorsey is a sync magician with the trombone slide. And Berigan was long gone from TD's band by 1941.
IMDb's full cast lists the clarinetist (Johnny Mince) and the drummer (Buddy Rich), but no Bunny.
I'm just guessing, though. I wondered, too.
They rarely or most likely never used the original records. the songs were recorded separately and added in later.
They are not hiding the several microphones so perhaps we are hearing the session that was filmed.
See if you can see Tommy take a breath on his solos. And believe me , it's not "Trick Photography" .
he doesn't!
Sinatra got his phrasing breath control watching Tommy! He couldn't figure out where is boss was breathing on the trombone!
Before Las Vegas was “Vegas.” In 1941, I bet you didn’t have to go far to see cowboys a horseback.
TOMMY DORSEY WAS A GREAT TROMBONIST BUT SORTA NOT A JAZZ PLAYER, MORE OF A MELODY MAN ON A VERY TOUGH INSTRUMENT. JACK TEAGARDEN OR J.J.JOHNSON WERE JAZZ PLAYERS.
Tommy happened to be an excellent jazz trombonist! He chose to play the sweet style that he originated...but he could stand toe to toe with any trombonist on ANY type of playing...and everyone knew that...with the possible exception of you....if you doubt that, listen to some of the 'Clambake 7'.....
is this still jazz? it sounds like Rock n' Roll but I don't know much about Western music from those days
Rock and roll? We're from different planets, Sawrattan.
Western music?? And rock?????
idiotic comment!
Que película es esta?? Se puede ver entera??
Peter Farrar: Tommy Dorsey's jazzy version of one of the most beautiful music classics in the world, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Song Of India," was brutally decimated by Tommy Dorsey's murderous execution of classical music of Rimsky-Kosakov. Yet, TH-cam opens viewer's comments on this r idiculous jazzy version, & bocks the outstanding & incomparable recordings by Annunzio Mantovani & Percy Faith's orchestras, that raised this most beautiful & classical music, Rimsky-Korsakov's "Song Of India," to supreme heavenly heights. This injustice by YT is beyound all comprehension. Words of disgust by Peter E. Farrar.
Also sprach Zarathustra.
was that a young buddy rich on the drums?
Looks like it!
Indeed it was
Yes, and not-quite-as-young Ziggy Elman on trumpet.
Tommy Dorsey menettelee aina
idiot
Bunny Berigans solo was unsurpassed.
That’s Ziggy Elman
Was the trumpet player Bunny Berigan?
Chuck Casey No, it was Ziggy Elman.
@@jamesoleary8198 thanks, I wasn't sure. Keep safe
You too. His real name was Harry Finkleman.
2:25 - Buddy Rich ?
Born late '52.
Buddy Rich, igual o mejor Drummer de la época, más que Gene Kruppa.