These are real musicians. They actually had to learn how to really read music! WOW! what a concept. The kids don't have the patients to learn how to play music.
My parents danced to the big bands live. My mom died at 96 in 2010. I remember listening to this music as a young'n. Mom and Dad partied all night long!
How would or could you dudes and dudettes dance to this boogie woogie?...I cringe when I hear these rappers and their baloney "music"....this is great music as is all of Tommy Dorsey's music...
I FRIGGIN' NEVER GET TIRED OF PLAYIN' THIS SONG! This is one of my most all time favorites! I grew up with this type of music. I thank YouTube & everyone else who gave us this video.
It's music like this that makes you want to return to the ol'days.
I FRIGGIN' NEVER GET TIRED OF PLAYIN' THIS SONG! This is one of my most all time favorites! I grew up with this type of music. I thank YouTube & everyone else who gave us this video.
It's music like this that makes you want to return to the ol'days.
@pwnmonkeyisreal If you're intersted in swing, I would suggest looking at some Benny Goodman ("Don't Be That Way", "Let's Dance", "Down South Camp Meetin'"), Duke Ellington ("Cotton Tail", "It Don't Mean a Thing", "Mood Indigo"), Charlie Barnet ("Cherokee", "Skyliner"), Count Basie ("April in Paris", "One O'Clock Jump", "Lester Leaps In"), Glenn Miller ("Mission to Moscow", "Moonlight Serenade") and Chick Webb ("Liza", "Stompin at the Savoy"). That'll give you a decent variety as a start.
If we were lucky, when we went to our Granparents' house, she would put some records on the 78 Console Record player. This one was one of our favorites, (as well as Robin Hood). Today, my sister has the console radido/record player, and all the 78s. It still works, but we don't get to listen to it often. A few times when I visited in Cleveland, she would play the song. Ah! Sweet Memories!
If you listened to PineTop Smiths record of 1928, (1) Tommy Dorsey played it the way Pinetop had written it. (2) Pinetop makes some remarks that Ray Charles probaby heard if he had listened to Pinetops record. Tommy Dorsey originally recorded this song in 1937 or 1938 and it was a hit again in 1944. I remember listening it played in the candystore jukebox.
@Georgewos When it was a hit in the 40's, it was the SAME recording. The first time it was released it was not a BIG hit. There was a recording ban by the musicians union and RCA/Victor re-released it since they had no NEW Tommy Dorsey recordings.
@Georgewos I was with the TDO conducted by Buddy Morrow from 1988-2003 as vocalist. Buddy was ON the original Boogie Woogie record. Lot's of stories! Also a great book by Peter Levinson on Tommy, "Livin' In A Great Big Way". Excellent read! Checkout my videos here: waltandrus is my channel.
the way music should be. my grandad had the entire glenn miller and tommy dorsey record collection, and he'd always play this song for me. when ever i here it it brings back happy memories. im so happy ive found it you tube, may this song live on for ever and never die.
This is exactly the way Clarence Pinetop Smith played the song in 1928. Some people call him the father of Boogie Woogie. He also said some remarks that Ray Charles pciked up on in some of his records.
First time I ever saw my mother as a 'real person'.
I was 10 yrs old and my mother in her 30s. We went to visit my grandparents - they were 'out' but the front door was open. We went inside and my mother sat at the piano. After a moment said 'You know I was never allowed to play this when I was a girl'. She then wacked out 'Boogie Woogie' on the piano until she heard my grandparents coming up the path. She closed the piano, stood up and gave me a wink as they walked through the door.
I wouldn't worry to much about the count, they won't be playing or listening to todays music in 60 years, Dorsey Goodman Miller Shaw............. will still be played It's good music and fun so much of todays tunes are angry, rude trash it won't last
Tommy Dorsey a well respected talented musician granted it's older music but it clean, fun, happening true and Values
has only 3,546 views
50 cent is a convicted felon drug pusher and just plain old garbage has over 1 million views by kids that dont know good music, It's funny how the kids today listen to this music and vomit on it while they treat 50 cent and other maggots the best..... Truly great time and music True values that our parents had,, such a shame
@ShananagansOnYou : Apparently mig25pd's grandparents didn't think this song had good "Values". They forbade his mother from playing it! So be careful when preaching morality.
While I agree with you today's sound has very little music in it, and some of the characters are bad, the good ole days weren't that good if parents thought this might lead to dancing which might lead to having fun or even sex, which was universally bad, until you got married and then it was universally boring.
@ShananagansOnYou ...You're right of course...in another fifty years nobody will even remember the name 50 cent but big band swing will be there and people will be listening to it.
@ShananagansOnYou You are wasting your time here. Between the aspartame in soft drinks, fluoride in the drinking water, Monosodium Glutamate in the food, drugs and alcohol the people today have fried brains. You could talk all week and they will not comprehend what you're saying. their brain don't function normally. I work in a major amusement park and see thousands and thousands of people each week the boys are absolutely stupid. I'm sorry this is a monstrous thing to say but it's the truth.
@ShananagansOnYou I wouldn't say I'm normal but it is so nice to have at least one brain out there that understands what I was talking about. Bless you!
It is said this was the greatest generation of Americans and everything they legislated, like Social Security and all the rest is on its way out and some new teabaggar and Neo-Con version is taking the country back before this generation. not so great at keeping what they built for future kids. So I don’t blame the kids I blame the society of parents. So I can see the 50 cents of the world holding forth. I am a big band standards fan but a mess the parents did make of this country. What a mess.
Yes !! you are correct!! I was merely stating that kids today " Not All" dont have the ability to hear what music really is. Yes it is the parents fault 100% it's funny that i play these songs for 10 to 20 years old and their remak is " How Gay" and Lil wayne, Jay Z, 50 Cent Chris Brown, should I go on?? all were drug dealers and crime. with songs that they take from other songs and remix them.. Dorsey, Miller even Liberace Etc has excellent music.. I'm just pointing out. :)
@ShananagansOnYou - Well I do believe we agree 100%, we have a lot of heavy lifting to do but we cannot give up. I confess I do not understand the words of these 50 centers. I hear that they are trying to turn the message positive, which is a good thing. I hope so, though I still cannot understand the words, which bothers me. I can point to many swing bands that knock the roof off the house, but it’s like they never existed. I am baffled and have no ready answer.
@ShananagansOnYou -not all kids, but the vast majority,but im afraid thats why its called pop music. no need to be so bitter, just appreciate the music and be happy that you can appreciate good music, and by the way not all modern music is schite, there are alot of gems out there from all sides.
Back in 1953 as a young boy I heard this song for the first time at my uncle's ranch in Texas, I saw my Dad a WWII vet and my cousin dance to this song it was so funny seeing two guys dancing, that everyone could not stop laughing, sure takes me back!
Les Brown also recorded a great version of "Boogie Woogie," but unfortunately for Les Brown, TD's version hit the airways four days before LB's - and was an instant hit. Nonetheless, LB's version is quite different, but still sensational.
I seem to have an affinity for this song. I can't dance a lick but to this song I can really cut a rug! It is as though the music is talking to me and it just seems so natural. Reincarnation?
Im 12.. fuck dubstep!
StereoLightz 2 weeks ago
Oh those trombones!!!
freereeder 3 weeks ago
These are real musicians. They actually had to learn how to really read music! WOW! what a concept. The kids don't have the patients to learn how to play music.
djlovaglio 5 months ago 2
Like it?
I Love IT!
oldshadecorp 6 months ago
My parents danced to the big bands live. My mom died at 96 in 2010. I remember listening to this music as a young'n. Mom and Dad partied all night long!
lilarose1941 6 months ago 2
Could not have been a better artist, even though older than I. Still Love this style of music. Kids these days do not know what they are missing.
jandijackusnret 7 months ago 2
love that stuff
flowage5 8 months ago
I'll never forget learning how to do the Lindy Hop to this tune. That was way back in junior high in 1958 at a teentown dance.
larrybiring 8 months ago
How would or could you dudes and dudettes dance to this boogie woogie?...I cringe when I hear these rappers and their baloney "music"....this is great music as is all of Tommy Dorsey's music...
jvsandrin1 8 months ago
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I FRIGGIN' NEVER GET TIRED OF PLAYIN' THIS SONG! This is one of my most all time favorites! I grew up with this type of music. I thank YouTube & everyone else who gave us this video.
It's music like this that makes you want to return to the ol'days.
Hard Tymes ~~ Minneapolis, Mn ~ USA
RichardTymes 9 months ago
I FRIGGIN' NEVER GET TIRED OF PLAYIN' THIS SONG! This is one of my most all time favorites! I grew up with this type of music. I thank YouTube & everyone else who gave us this video.
It's music like this that makes you want to return to the ol'days.
Hard Tymes ~~ Minneapolis, Mn ~ USA
RichardTymes 9 months ago
@pwnmonkeyisreal If you're intersted in swing, I would suggest looking at some Benny Goodman ("Don't Be That Way", "Let's Dance", "Down South Camp Meetin'"), Duke Ellington ("Cotton Tail", "It Don't Mean a Thing", "Mood Indigo"), Charlie Barnet ("Cherokee", "Skyliner"), Count Basie ("April in Paris", "One O'Clock Jump", "Lester Leaps In"), Glenn Miller ("Mission to Moscow", "Moonlight Serenade") and Chick Webb ("Liza", "Stompin at the Savoy"). That'll give you a decent variety as a start.
PowerToasty 9 months ago
@PowerToasty thank you so much. i also enjoyed duke ellington's "Take the 'A' train" and "Sing Sing Sing" by Goodman and Prima
pwnmonkeyisreal 8 months ago
Can anyone suggest to me some big band songs? i love the style and the completeness of big band swing. Thank you
pwnmonkeyisreal 9 months ago
¡Es el PINE'S TOP BOOGIE WOOGIE que PINE TOP SMITH había grabado antes en 1928 con su voz y su piano !
LEONCODAJJ 1 year ago
Seminal recording... R'n'B before they had a name for it.
Dorsey's solo at the end, non-improvised though it is, is the best use of the blues hexatonic scale I have ever heard.
tuxguys 1 year ago
I'll bet that most can't remember or have even heard.
jamesrfraser1 1 year ago
If we were lucky, when we went to our Granparents' house, she would put some records on the 78 Console Record player. This one was one of our favorites, (as well as Robin Hood). Today, my sister has the console radido/record player, and all the 78s. It still works, but we don't get to listen to it often. A few times when I visited in Cleveland, she would play the song. Ah! Sweet Memories!
RedDogMamaHD 1 year ago
Now that's what I call a great piece of music!
throstle67 1 year ago
If you listened to PineTop Smiths record of 1928, (1) Tommy Dorsey played it the way Pinetop had written it. (2) Pinetop makes some remarks that Ray Charles probaby heard if he had listened to Pinetops record. Tommy Dorsey originally recorded this song in 1937 or 1938 and it was a hit again in 1944. I remember listening it played in the candystore jukebox.
Georgewos 1 year ago
@Georgewos When it was a hit in the 40's, it was the SAME recording. The first time it was released it was not a BIG hit. There was a recording ban by the musicians union and RCA/Victor re-released it since they had no NEW Tommy Dorsey recordings.
waltandrus 1 year ago
@waltandrus Thanks for the info. You certainly know your Tommy Dorsey history.
Georgewos 1 year ago
@Georgewos I was with the TDO conducted by Buddy Morrow from 1988-2003 as vocalist. Buddy was ON the original Boogie Woogie record. Lot's of stories! Also a great book by Peter Levinson on Tommy, "Livin' In A Great Big Way". Excellent read! Checkout my videos here: waltandrus is my channel.
waltandrus 1 year ago
what great memories is brings back of my teenage so many years ago.
Just love it
chicoco308 1 year ago
the way music should be. my grandad had the entire glenn miller and tommy dorsey record collection, and he'd always play this song for me. when ever i here it it brings back happy memories. im so happy ive found it you tube, may this song live on for ever and never die.
yogiyogibear83 1 year ago
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I just downloaded this mp3 at mp3iffy. Check that site out - its sick. Google mp3iffy
gradualci 1 year ago
This is exactly the way Clarence Pinetop Smith played the song in 1928. Some people call him the father of Boogie Woogie. He also said some remarks that Ray Charles pciked up on in some of his records.
Georgewos 1 year ago
@Georgewos impossible; pinetop smith died around the time ray charles was born
jllorigins 1 year ago
im related to tommy dorsey i think he was my great, great uncle? or somthing like that and i do enjoy his music
filmz101 1 year ago
i REMEMBER LISTENING TO AFN UNDER THE BEDCLOTHES AFTER EVERYONE HAD GONE TO BED. GREAT MUSIC. WE NEED IT BACK.
(American Forces Network, Stuttgard).
throstle67 1 year ago 3
splendid!!
labancory83 2 years ago 5
Wow! think i'm beginning to understand why the Dorsey's are legends
keltyk 2 years ago 4
Now THIS is the real thing!!! Great !
boatracer39 2 years ago 3
First time I ever saw my mother as a 'real person'.
I was 10 yrs old and my mother in her 30s. We went to visit my grandparents - they were 'out' but the front door was open. We went inside and my mother sat at the piano. After a moment said 'You know I was never allowed to play this when I was a girl'. She then wacked out 'Boogie Woogie' on the piano until she heard my grandparents coming up the path. She closed the piano, stood up and gave me a wink as they walked through the door.
mig25pd 2 years ago 67
@mig25pd Wow, I love that story. Thanks for making me laugh.
fiandrhi 1 year ago
@mig25pd what an utterly charming story
wingedvenus 1 year ago
@mig25pd That memory is a keeper!
mobuzzboy 1 year ago
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that memory is a keeper!
mobuzzboy 1 year ago
@mig25pd
That memory is a keeper! Put a smile on my face!
mobuzzboy 1 year ago
@mig25pd
i think that is one of the best stories i have heard in a long time! love it!
allotmentfreak18 1 year ago
I wouldn't worry to much about the count, they won't be playing or listening to todays music in 60 years, Dorsey Goodman Miller Shaw............. will still be played It's good music and fun so much of todays tunes are angry, rude trash it won't last
pgbpelspp 2 years ago 9
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I first heard this great music in a 1950s Soviet Russia propaganda film about how decadent the west was.
DouglasUrantia 2 years ago
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DouglasUrantia 2 years ago
Tommy Dorsey a well respected talented musician granted it's older music but it clean, fun, happening true and Values
has only 3,546 views
50 cent is a convicted felon drug pusher and just plain old garbage has over 1 million views by kids that dont know good music, It's funny how the kids today listen to this music and vomit on it while they treat 50 cent and other maggots the best..... Truly great time and music True values that our parents had,, such a shame
ShananagansOnYou 2 years ago 66
@ShananagansOnYou : Apparently mig25pd's grandparents didn't think this song had good "Values". They forbade his mother from playing it! So be careful when preaching morality.
While I agree with you today's sound has very little music in it, and some of the characters are bad, the good ole days weren't that good if parents thought this might lead to dancing which might lead to having fun or even sex, which was universally bad, until you got married and then it was universally boring.
Baritone45 1 year ago
@ShananagansOnYou ...You're right of course...in another fifty years nobody will even remember the name 50 cent but big band swing will be there and people will be listening to it.
SpeedyNeutrino43 1 year ago 2
@ShananagansOnYou You are wasting your time here. Between the aspartame in soft drinks, fluoride in the drinking water, Monosodium Glutamate in the food, drugs and alcohol the people today have fried brains. You could talk all week and they will not comprehend what you're saying. their brain don't function normally. I work in a major amusement park and see thousands and thousands of people each week the boys are absolutely stupid. I'm sorry this is a monstrous thing to say but it's the truth.
Hutzjohn 1 year ago
@Hutzjohn
Well I love the fact you are normal and it's scary that we think the same
I know what you are speaking about I wish that we our own click can stay together because if we venture out they will kill us lol
ShananagansOnYou 1 year ago
@ShananagansOnYou I wouldn't say I'm normal but it is so nice to have at least one brain out there that understands what I was talking about. Bless you!
Hutzjohn 1 year ago
Grand-parents... My grnadparents... :)
czechnoob 1 year ago
It is said this was the greatest generation of Americans and everything they legislated, like Social Security and all the rest is on its way out and some new teabaggar and Neo-Con version is taking the country back before this generation. not so great at keeping what they built for future kids. So I don’t blame the kids I blame the society of parents. So I can see the 50 cents of the world holding forth. I am a big band standards fan but a mess the parents did make of this country. What a mess.
persevere4 1 year ago
@persevere4
Yes !! you are correct!! I was merely stating that kids today " Not All" dont have the ability to hear what music really is. Yes it is the parents fault 100% it's funny that i play these songs for 10 to 20 years old and their remak is " How Gay" and Lil wayne, Jay Z, 50 Cent Chris Brown, should I go on?? all were drug dealers and crime. with songs that they take from other songs and remix them.. Dorsey, Miller even Liberace Etc has excellent music.. I'm just pointing out. :)
ShananagansOnYou 1 year ago
@ShananagansOnYou - Well I do believe we agree 100%, we have a lot of heavy lifting to do but we cannot give up. I confess I do not understand the words of these 50 centers. I hear that they are trying to turn the message positive, which is a good thing. I hope so, though I still cannot understand the words, which bothers me. I can point to many swing bands that knock the roof off the house, but it’s like they never existed. I am baffled and have no ready answer.
Good Night and Good Luck
persevere4 1 year ago
@ShananagansOnYou -not all kids, but the vast majority,but im afraid thats why its called pop music. no need to be so bitter, just appreciate the music and be happy that you can appreciate good music, and by the way not all modern music is schite, there are alot of gems out there from all sides.
signedasanonymous 8 months ago
Back in 1953 as a young boy I heard this song for the first time at my uncle's ranch in Texas, I saw my Dad a WWII vet and my cousin dance to this song it was so funny seeing two guys dancing, that everyone could not stop laughing, sure takes me back!
joevet66 2 years ago 4
The one the only, Boogie Woogie - Tommy Dorsey. Ladies and gentleman.
Pipiltribe777 2 years ago 7
thanx 4 posting. i love this song. they
don't make em like they used to.
again thanx!!!!! :-) 2:39 is the best
part .
bjc19199 2 years ago
Les Brown also recorded a great version of "Boogie Woogie," but unfortunately for Les Brown, TD's version hit the airways four days before LB's - and was an instant hit. Nonetheless, LB's version is quite different, but still sensational.
drzarkov39 2 years ago
This is the best orchestrol boogie ever.
For best piano, listen to Floyd Cramer's, "Just me and my piano"", TD's Boogie".
res0854d 2 years ago 2
Listen to Boogie Woogie Stomp by Albert Ammons ' Rhythm Kings recorded for Decca in 1936, please ?
Bumblebee38 2 years ago
I seem to have an affinity for this song. I can't dance a lick but to this song I can really cut a rug! It is as though the music is talking to me and it just seems so natural. Reincarnation?
clymanotis 2 years ago 3
I've been looking for this for months. Oh, boy, does it take me back! Thanks for posting it!
browningpgc 2 years ago 4
" Anyone care to boogie"
joevet66 2 years ago 2
Now this is the version I remember that played on all the juke boxes !!
boatracer39 2 years ago 4