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James Francis Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader. He recorded and composed the jazz and pop standards "I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)" and "It's The Dreamer In Me". His other major recordings were "Tailspin", "John Silver", "So Many Times", "Amapola", "Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)", "Pennies from Heaven" with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Frances Langford, "Grand Central Getaway", and "So Rare". He played clarinet on the seminal jazz standards "Singin' the Blues" in 1927 and the original 1930 recording of "Georgia on My Mind", which were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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America's No. 1's of the '40s [2019]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Amapola | 3:24 |
| My Sister and I | 3:02 |
| Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes) | 3:21 |
| Tangerine | 3:11 |
America's Greatest Hits 1944 [2018]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| They're Either Too Young or Too Old | 3:05 |
| Besame Mucho | 3:01 |
Big Band Music Songs, Vol. 3 - Night and Day... and More Hits [2017]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Nearness of You | 3:41 |
The Hits Collection 1937-55 [2017]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Hold Tight, Hold Tight | 3:12 |
| You Don't Know How Much You Can Suffer | 2:58 |
America's Greatest Hits 1940: The First Chart Year [2016]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Breeze and I | 2:58 |
| Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga | 2:59 |
America's Greatest Hits: 1941 [2016]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| High on a Windy Hill | 3:15 |
| Amapola | 3:25 |
| My Sister and I | 3:01 |
| Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes) | 3:21 |
| Yours (Quiereme Mucho) | 3:13 |
| The Things I Love | 3:07 |
| Jim | 3:16 |
| Time Was (Duerme) | 3:20 |
Jazz Journeys Presents High Speed Swing, Vol. 3: 100 Essential Tracks [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga | 3:13 |
| Yours | 3:15 |
Jazz Journeys Presents High Speed Swing, Vol. 5: 100 Essential Tracks [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Begin the Beguine | 2:52 |
| Tangerine | 3:13 |
Jazz Journeys Presents High Speed Swing, Vol. 6: 100 Essential Tracks [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| All of Me | 3:16 |
Jazz Journeys Presents High Speed Swing, Vol. 7: 100 Essential Tracks [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Green Eyes | 3:24 |
| Not Mine | 3:27 |
Jazz Journeys Presents High Speed Swing: The Dorsey Brothers-100 Essential Tracks [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Tangerine | 3:13 |
| Green Eyes | 3:24 |
The Best Years of Our Lives: The Most Popular Songs of 1937 [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming | 2:03 |
The Best Years Of Our Lives: The Most Popular Songs Of 1941 [2012]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) | 3:26 |
| Green Eyes | 3:37 |
Jazz in the Charts 1937, Vol. 3 [2011]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Love Bug Will Bite You (If You Don't Watch Out) | 3:20 |
Jazz in the Charts, Vol. 75: 1943-44 [2011]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Star Eyes | 3:05 |
| Besame Mucho [Kiss Me Much] | 3:01 |
| When They Ask About You | 3:04 |
Jazz in the Charts: 1941, Vol. 2 [2011]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| I Understand | 3:09 |
| My Sister and I | 3:05 |
| Green Eyes | 3:22 |
Cue the Music of Woody Allen [2008]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| They're Either Too Young or Too Old [From Radio Days] | 3:07 |
Over There: Music of World War II [2007]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| I'm Stepping out with a Memory Tonight | 2:44 |
| Begin the Beguine | 2:51 |
Little Things Mean A Lot (Living Era) [2006]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Again) | 3:02 |
| Star Eyes [I Dood It] | 3:05 |
| They're Either Too Young or Too Old [Thank Your Lucky Stars] | 3:07 |
| When They Ask About You | 3:05 |
Little Things Mean a Lot [Jasmine] [2006]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Star Eyes | 3:06 |
| They're Either Too Young or Too Old | 3:06 |
| When They Ask About You | 2:59 |
The Essential Collection [2006]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Green Eyes | 3:20 |
| Tangerine | 3:08 |
| All God's Chillun Got Rhythm | 2:55 |
| Amapola | 3:23 |
| Yours | 3:12 |
The Essential Collection: Classic Swing U.S.A. [2006]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| I Let a Song Go out of My Heart | 3:33 |
Songs That Won the War: When You Wish Upon a Star [2005]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| I'm Stepping Out With a Memory Tonight | 2:44 |
Centenary Issue 1904-2004 [2004]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Begin the Beguine | 2:48 |
| Sing, Sing, Sing | 2:27 |
| Perfidia | 3:12 |
| I'm Stepping out with a Memory Tonight | 2:40 |
| All or Nothing at All | 3:17 |
| Green Eyes | 3:19 |
| All of Me | 3:10 |
| In a Little Spanish Town | 3:09 |
| Star Eyes | 3:03 |
| Blueberry Hill | 2:32 |
Essential Collection [West End] [2004]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| I'm an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande) | 2:43 |
| Too Marvelous for Words | 3:09 |
Those Fabulous Dorseys [2004]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Amapola | 3:26 |
| Green Eyes | 3:16 |
| All of Me | 3:11 |
| Time Was | 3:20 |
| Yours | 3:10 |
| Deep Purple | 3:15 |
| Tangerine | 3:12 |
| Embraceable You | 3:13 |
| They're Either Too Young or Too Old | 3:05 |
| Besame Mucho | 3:02 |
| Change Partners | 3:07 |
| My Sister and I | 3:07 |
| High on a Windy Hill | 3:13 |
| Star Eyes | 3:06 |
| When They Ask About You | 2:58 |
A Centennial Anthology of His Decca Recordings [2003]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) | 2:40 |
But in the Morning, No: Cole Porter, Vol. 2 [2002]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Rap Tap on Wood [From Born To Dance] | 2:29 |
Stop Look and Listen: The Less Familiar Dorsey [2002]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Hold Tight, Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama) | 3:17 |
| In a Sentimental Mood | 3:03 |
| I Got Rhythm | 3:21 |
| Ain't Misbehavin' | 3:10 |
Transcriptions 1935 [2001]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| You Are My Lucky Star | 3:27 |
| East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) | 3:25 |
| I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' | 3:27 |
| I Wished on the Moon | 3:07 |
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Andrews Sisters [2000]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama) | 3:13 |
Amapola [ASV/Living Era] [2000]
Anything Goes: The Songs of Cole Porter [2000]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| I've Got You Under My Skin | 3:12 |
| Easy to Love | 2:46 |
Dancing in the Dark [ASV/Living Era] [2000]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| They're Either Too Young or Too Old [From "Thank Your Lucky ...] | 3:09 |
The Haunted House: 20 Tracks to Make You Jump in the Night [Nimbus] [2000]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Skeleton in the Closet | 3:06 |
Woody's Winners: Classic Tracks From the Films of Woody Allen [2 CD] [2000]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| They're Either Too Young or Too Old [From Radio Days] | 3:06 |
The Dorsey Brothers [Avid] [1999]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Green Eyes | 3:19 |
| Cherokee | 3:18 |
| Tangerine | 3:08 |
| All God's Chillun Got Rhythm | 2:55 |
| Amapola | 3:23 |
| Yours | 3:12 |
Greatest Hits: The 60th Anniversary Collection [1998]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama) |
Too Marvelous for Words: 24 Songs of Johnny Mercer [1997]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Too Marvelous for Words | 3:07 |
| I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) | 2:42 |
| Tangerine | 3:12 |
The Old Music Master [1996]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Too Marvelous for Words | 3:04 |
| I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) | 2:42 |
| Tangerine | 3:14 |
Songs that Won the War, Vol. 9: Rosie the Riveter [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| They're Either Too Young or Too Old |
The Andrews Sisters [Pavilion] [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama) | 3:13 |
| Billy Boy | 3:12 |
The Songs that Won the War, Vol. 2: Hollywood Canteen [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| They're Either Too Young or Too Old | 2:20 |
Pennies from Heaven [1991]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Love Bug Will Bite You (If You Don't Watch Out) | 3:16 |
| In a Sentimental Mood | 3:01 |
| Pennies from Heaven | 2:54 |
These Were Our Songs: Musical Memories of the War Years [Cema 3 Disc] [1991]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Tangerine | 3:11 |
22 Original Recordings [1988]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Blueberry Hill | 2:36 |
| Fools Rush In | 3:23 |
| Tangerine | 2:58 |
| I'm Stepping Out With a Memory Tonight | 2:46 |
| The Nearness of You | 3:43 |
The Uncollected Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Vol. 1 (1939-1940) [1977]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Fools Rush In | 3:20 |
| I'm Stepping Out With a Memory Tonight | 2:44 |
| The Nearness of You | 3:41 |
| Blueberry Hill | 2:34 |
Jimmy Dorsey's Greatest Hits [Project 3] [1971]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Tangerine | |
| Yours | |
| Green Eyes | |
| Amapola | |
| I Understand | |
| All or Nothing at All |
Unknown Album
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Tangerine | 3:14 |
| Green Eyes | 3:37 |
| They're Either Too Young or Too Old [From Radio Days] | 3:06 |
| Besame Mucho | 3:01 |
| Devil May Care | 2:55 |
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