Posted on 09/08/2021 5:50:10 PM PDT by simpson96
"I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" is a song recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. The words were written by Ned Washington and the music was written by George Bassman. It was first performed in 1932. The original copyright is dated 1933 and issued to Lawrence Music Publishers, Inc. The copyright was assigned to Mills Music, Inc. in 1934. Noni Bernardi, a saxophonist with the Dorsey orchestra arranged this song.
Dorsey was the featured trombone soloist when his orchestra played it. It was first recorded in September 1935. A second recording on October 18, 1935 is the exact arrangement that Tommy would henceforth feature. Frank Sinatra sang this song in the Dorsey Orchestra and also featured it in an album, I Remember Tommy, after Tommy Dorsey's death in 1956.
Tommy Dorsey - "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"
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One of my most favorite versions of one of my most favorite American standards ever. Although I have many. :-)
I’m in the mood
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You--The Dorsey Bros. Orchestra (vocal by Bob Crosby)
Nice. They played as people sang back then. Heavy on the vibrato.
1935. The year my Dad, later a WWII vet, graduated from high school.
Most nights my dad would put a record on the phonograph when we ate dinner.
Dorsey was one of his favorites.
Watched a lot of Mitch Miller back then.
Nice to hear again. Thanks!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I grew up with my folks playing Big Band Era music.
As I look back, I realize that it was really a kinder, gentler time. Wish my kids, grandkids and greats could catch just a glimpse of that era.
Sigh!
The song was Dorsey’s theme song, and he was billed as the “Sentimental Gentleman of Swing”. Mr. Sinatra did not always appreciate Mr. Dorsey’s alleged sentimentality.
I have Alexa play that all the time when I’m doing cooking or housework.........I love that song and only by Tommy Dorsey.....
I have Alexa play that all the time when I’m doing cooking or housework.........I love that song and only by Tommy Dorsey.....
I have Alexa play that all the time when I’m doing cooking or housework.........I love that song and only by Tommy Dorsey.....
beautiful
3 TIMES??????
Nice— and thanks!
A trombone is also capable of playing physical harmony, a feature not possible with a keyed instrument. What makes that kind of harmony real to achieve is by means of unaccompanied vocal music, where the automatic tuning of the chord pitches is by ear alone. And it is that which makes the four-part (melody plus three harmonized parts) of major/minor chord melodies so utterly enchanting, when sung by a "Barbershop Harmony" male quartet.
I once heard this described, about fifty years ago, by a charmed young woman: "The sound is like warm sweet chocolate and honey flowing down a mountain of vanilla ice cream!"
I happened to be the bassist after which she voiced her vision. What a motivation to sing well!
The Big Band sound had two varieties. Dorsey was more of a “sweet” band; Goodman was a strongly “swing” band.
This is a wonderful, classic number.
As a child, I yearned to play trombone; but all that was available was trumpet, and all my parents could afford.
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