Swinging With T.D.! (1999)

About this title: This budget-priced, ten-track collection is notably skimpy, boasting nothing more in its packaging than song titles and times, plus a couple of photographs of Tommy Dorsey. But it also features some of Dorsey's best and best-known numbers, including the number one hits "The Music Goes 'Round and Around," "Marie," and "Music, Maestro, Please!" The million-seller "Boogie Woogie" and other instrumental favorites "Opus One" and "Song of India" are also featured. There are numerous longer and better compilations of Dorsey's music, of course. The idea of this one is that during a trip to the ... read more

Tracks:

1. Boogie Woogie [Smith]
2. The Music Goes 'Round and Around [Farley/Hodgson/Rile]
3. Marie [Berlin]
4. Who? [Hammerstein/Harbach]
5. Opus One [Oliver]
6. Song of India [Rimsky-Korsakov/Tra]
7. Yes, Indeed! [Oliver]
8. Music, Maestro, Please! [Magidson/Wrubel]
9. Chinatown, My Chinatown [Jerome/Schwartz]
10. They Can't Take That Away from Me [Gershwin/Gershwin]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.