Opus One - 1943 Stereo - Tommy Dorsey
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2012
- 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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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 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 :)
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!
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.
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.
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...
Now THIS ..... is music to the EARS!❤️🤸🤸🤸🤸🤸
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..
Hello!!! How are you doing today, please
pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I
just wanted to know if you're a fan ? Have a
great day.. Stay Safe 😊😊
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.
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 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 ! 🎖
One of my favorite Tommy Dorsey songs
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.
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 RUclips 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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
Dinner jackets, ties, pocket handkerchiefs, and first class style.
My jaw needs to be picked up off the floor.
What a great song to listen to on a lazy Saturday afternoon.
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."
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 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!
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.
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
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.
I have a 1946 recording of TD doing Opus 1 but this version is superior by far!!
Tommy Dorsey Was The Top Best Big Band Leader And Will Always Be Remembered.
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!
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?
great editing!
Thanks!
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.
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!
Absolutely wonderful!!! Great find..Thank you, Broadway Classics!!! Cheers..Marilyn..
Totally awesome! Love the big band era! 👍
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.
Cheered me right up...blown the blues away. Thanks. Xx
Before my time but I love Swing. Thanks for sharing.
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!
Swing Music is the very best music! Love this tune.
it is. play when a day 's been sad!
marvelous.... sounds so good!!! Tks for sharing Greetings from Canada
Very good sound .. and the melody is a classic... For dancing is perfect
Thank you for giving us a beautiful memory!
I had the impression of being there, fantastic!!!!!
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
Wonderful. Thank you.
It's amazing! The version played by T.D.'s Orchestra is my favorite but I love very much The Mills Brothers's one too because I like the words and they were very good singers! Thank you for sharing this tune.
Love the late 40's tunes. I have a 1953 Seeburg jukebox that's full of the 45rpm's of the big band. Fun, happy tunes!
What a great find!! Thanks!!! Can't quit listening...with head phones...
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!
Je n oublierai jamais ce chanteur il est ma jeunesse 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👵🏻💕💕💕🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇫🇷
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.
WOW! is all I can say! Thank you for sharing
Totally fantastic, like wow!
Those were the days! I was born too late! xxx
I adore all this music..Such talented musicians WOW!!
My favorite Dorsey tune! Used in the movie "A Separate Peace" - the first one.
Wonderful as always
Quality, like good style, NEVER dates. Seventy years on, and here we are, as entranced as ever.
Oh' What an era for wonderful swing music.
LOVE THIS...ALSO MANY GLENN MILLER SONGS FROM HIS PICTURES ARE AVAILABLE IN STEREO....
Great swing jazz song to dance with the best friend on the dance floor.😎 Cool 😎
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.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING GREETINGS FROM CANADA
Отличный, профессиональный аудио монтаж!
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
Fantastic music!
Great post...... thanks
Wonderful thanks so much
Wow Great Mixdown !
The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with strings- it don't get much better!
Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic
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.
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.
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.
completely awesome !!!
There is no. Other comparison to Tommy Dorsey’s Opus One! It’s a treasure
Fantastic tune
beautiful melody, the best music in the world from south america!
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.
I love big bands!!
extremely enjoyable...
IT'S FANTASTIC SWING MUSIC AND TOMMY IS ONE OF THE BEST
Some of the BEST music was in this era. Whish i would have been born in the twenty's.
Opus#1 was still being played @ Prom dances in the 1950's!!
Think it was pretty high on the popularity charts too. 😍💖🌟🌟🌟🌟🖖
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....
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.
Fantastic!
THANK YOU FOR THE INFO
Great upload!
Bud Lehn has come
I MISSED THE ERA LIVE BUT NOT IN VENUES LIKE THIS...LUCKY MOI!!! SOOO SAD IT'S GONE....
This Tommy Dorsey tune..was used as the theme music for WTTG TV Ch.5,Washington,D.C.'s and Mr.Milt Grant's "Record Hop Show".
Wow!
Oldie but a goodie.
WOW Just FANTASTIC
Nice edit!
So Cool!
Swing music is awesome!