Opus One - 1943 Stereo - Tommy Dorsey video free download

Alide van Eerde

I had the impression of being there, fantastic!!!!!

Gregory Kayne

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.

Rod Simmons

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!!!

Fredric Palmieri

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.

Jerry Kennedy

Opus One - 1943 Stereo - Tommy DorseyBroadway Classics

OldDogNewTrick

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.

Robert Kirchhoefer

Tommy Dorsey " Opus One " circa : 1943

Eduardo toledo

beautiful melody, the best music in the world from south america!

Toni Weimer

What a great find!! Thanks!!! Can't quit listening...with head phones...

YaDenamrk

Glad Jazz! Some of the staccato notes make the brass sound like percussion.

RJ McAllister

Disney recorded "Fantasia" in seven-track in 1939-40, so yeah, it could be done. Slightly different from Sy Oliver's arrangement that was recorded for RCA in 1944. By then, TD was touring with a full string section; the band had swelled to as many as 27 members. Hard to believe that, within three years, this was all gone. A great track, a #1 and a favorite. 

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Michael Klein

What a great discovery! Thank you so very much from all of us Dorsey fans!

Jcho Mark

Opus One - 1943 Stereo - Tommy DorseyPut on your headphones and listen to this amazing stereo track that Tommy Dorsey recorded in 1943 for the film "Broadway Rhythm".

Calicoguy

The sound on this clip is fantastic and a great job of linking it up to visuals. Glenn Miller's musical numbers for 'Orchestra Wives' were also recorded in early stereo. I have them in my collection. The problem was that theatres weren't equipped to play stereo, so the film was released in mono. The same issue that Disney ran into with the multi-channel sound for 'Fantasia', which, after it's inital performances, played world-wide for years with a mono soundtrack. 

Hare Bell

Wonderful. Thank you.

JubalCalif

Heavens to Murgatroid! Big Band at it's BEST! THANKS for uploading! If Terrific Tommy and his band were any cooler they'd have been frozen! Strictly from wowsville, daddy-o! You've MADE my day & my week! CHEER, mate~ :-)

sysable

The motion picture industry was the origin of high fidelity recording. Silent films used live orchestras or theater organs (sometimes playing pre-recorded rolls), so the audiences were used to live music. When sound film came along, the studios knew they had to provide sound as close to what the movie-going public was used to, otherwise they could loose their revenue. The automated dialog replacement studio at WB looks like one of todays modern recording studios, yet is was built in the 1930s.

Jim Stark

Excellent example of Sy Oliver's writing and arranging for Dorsey that he brought to the band when Dorsey lured him away from Jimmie Lunceford in 1939. As Chief architect of the Lunceford sound, Oliver brought a new dimension to the Dorsey band and it's new singer, Frank Sinatra.

BOB HELMICH

Some of the BEST music was in this era. Whish i would have been born in the twenty's.

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