Tommy Dorsey, 'Marie' (Irving Berlin)

The great American jazz trombonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956), known as the 'Sentimental Gentleman of Swing', and his big band, performing in the movie 'The Fabulous Dorseys' (1947), with Sara Allgood (1880-1950) as Mrs. Dorsey, and singers Janet Blair (1921-2007) and Stuart Foster (1918-1968).
'Marie' was written in 1928 by the Russian American composer and lyricist Irving Berlin (1888-1989). He is widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history. His music forms a great part of the Great American Songbook.

[@davidbowles7047]

I remember my Dad humming this song all of my life, I'm crying now because I miss him so much. He was a POW in WW2 Battle of the Bulge.

[@alsuz]

God bless you, David.

[@patricecalacione5052]

My father too, captured in north africa 1942, 3 1/2 years a pow, he didn t know what happened in the world for those years about the war, music etc, so he had alot of catching up to do

[@mrbojangles977]

Your dad must have been a fabulous man ..

[@pilsudski36]

Much respect to your father, and to all who served with him.

[@davidbowles7047]

@@pilsudski36 thank you ❤️

[@profitleads]

Dorsey turned the trombone into a singing instrument. Marvelous breathing control.

[@tobascoheat6582]

No kidding! I'm amazed!!! How did he do it?!

[@bobboscarato1313]

Used circular breathing.

[@tobascoheat6582]

@@bobboscarato1313 Really? On a trombone? It's such a large instrument, that seems impossible!

[@larrylangley9240]

Frank Sinatra said he learned breath control by studying Dorsey’s breathing.

[@marieh8523]

My name is Marie, and all my life 'men' have sung this song to me, since I was born at the end of WW 2. I was very young and didn't always know what was happening, or what singing to me meant, until I got older. Just that I happened to have the name 'Marie', like I'm sure many hundreds as well. I have met several 'Marie's'.

[@Modanogrrrl]

I'm a Marie too, and my parents used to sing this to me when I was young lol... I now listen to it on vinyl when I'm homesick

[@BUKWulfSh0t]

Hello Marie's 👋🏼👋🏼

[@Mikedastud]

I love the name Marie ❤

[@MariePommer]

🎑👁️👁️🔹 Hello Maries' 🎶🎶🎶

[@davidmacleod9313]

My last name is “MacLeod” so I heard “Hey …Hey… Sue ….Sue… get off of MacLeod” lol (grade 4 I had a hard crush on Sue Henderson.)

[@kasha1932]

Very, very popular during WW2!!! I am 83 years of age and I really do remember this time in my life as my mother and aunt were jitterbugging with men in the service as well as their husbands!!! WOW! They were GREAT!! Thanks!!

[@disc1513]

+Kathleen Hazeldine - Great memories

[@OSTARAEB4]

Dear Miss Hazeldine, thanks Mom for keeping the country running at home while our boys young enough to be my sons went off to war. God Bless them and you.

[@berzerker1100]

@@sireugenecourtney5797 the Devil made him do it 👹👿☠💀👽👻

[@jimthompson471]

at 93 still love to hear great talent 😀😊😃😁😎

[@antoniorodolpho6835]

My father loved Tommy Dorsey too, and I continue the tradition.

[@juanleonardomerlosrosales8294]

My father danced to this song with my mother back in the 1940s. I will dance it with my wife María this October when she celebrates her 50th wedding anniversary. At our Golden Weddings.

[@seymourblau6818]

Grew up with this music, thank god!

[@mauirascal]

Me, too! Music will never be up to the standards of those years...the 40's! The greatest years of my life!

[@urlocal_menace]

I’m still at a really young age, (under the age of 20) but I can say I sort of grew up with this music. My parents owned a 1925 victrola and had all kinds of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller records. I heard them using that thing all the time when I was little. Now I know how to use it so I can use whenever I want

[@wesm65]

Great to hear the trumpet section play the legendary Bunny Berigan solo note for note as a section.

[@cricketbat08]

wonderful stuff :)

[@MarcusFerg21]

My parents just celebrated 70 years of Marriage in May of 2021. Their first date was seeing Tommy Dorsey live in Peterborough and dancing to Sentimental Journey. The Journey continues...

[@alsuz]

Amazing, God bless them!

[@michelboudot2882]

I am 87""""and in 1945. Use to play this on the piano. At recital at school. Great one....

[@b.r.atkins7714]

The one by a canadian Band is the best.

[@thomasflester]

Michel Boudot. Your generation had the greatest music. I'm 71.I just bought a Trombone. Not to old to learn.

[@mad5479]

I was born in 72 long after this music, but it never goes out. Love it.

[@shesmintygreen]

I'm always a fan of jazz and swing and this is one of my favourites and it has my name in it, Marie

[@denysarcuri1213]

Oh. We all assumed your name was Fred.

[@shesmintygreen]

@@denysarcuri1213 then my last name will be Astaire ;)

[@denysarcuri1213]

@@shesmintygreen 🙂

[@WolfSpirtr]

I LOVE IT WHEN THE BAND SINGS......

[@hurleyfrancois4060]

me too!

[@lenalennon8746]

HEAVEN ❤👍🎶

[@rileysdad1923]

YES!!! I'm looking for more songs. All I know is this and Chicago. Are there others?

[@WolfSpirtr]

@@rileysdad1923 hey daddy danny kaye...ella Fitzgerald has a few...Cab Calloway...to name a few

[@andrewc.2952]

That moment when you start choking up because you belong there...

[@thomasdragosr.841]

My Dad loved this song. He was always singing it...

[@mattszymanski9292]

i saw tommy dorsey at metro beach metropark in the 80s , i grew up listening to honey radio 560 am , good stuff

[@serlistogiette4168]

Wow seeing Stuart Foster live! Incredible!

[@roygregory4741]

They don't make films like that anymore. What a"Fabulous Orchesrta

[@joeasmythe]

One of the great songs from the "greatest era". Sure do miss those wonderful days, and the superb music we had back then.

[@plafkinfarms]

I like to think that this is a tribute to the LeBaron family-Johnny who was a terrific drummer and a good friend. I want to thank Art LeBaron for the many times he sponsored concerts in the South High School Auditorium; many thanks to their family. Roger Plafkin--Plafkin Farms, Ada, Michigan

[@jedmarum]

one of the 20th Century's very finest recordings!

[@MrJaycasey]

Sinatra said about Dorsey's trombone playing ""the sob never takes a breath "

[@bobboscarato1313]

He used circular breathing from the corner of his mouth, thus playing long phrases; you couldn't listen to the air intake either!

[@bethbartlett5692]

lol, *Sounds like Sinatra* 😁 Us Sagittarius folks are honest to a fault 😉 Miss that man.

[@bobboscarato1313]

@@bethbartlett5692 Sinatra had a great voice and learnt from Dorsey circular breathing which allowed him to sing/play long phrases non-stop. I'm a Virgo and only give honest opinions.

[@bethbartlett5692]

@@bobboscarato1313 I trust that, my Dad was as well. Virgo, "craftsmanship" to details. Most worthy. That he did. Sinatra grasp the subject and amazed every vocal artist whom ever listened, with his technique. Sinatra's Folks Managed my husband (we, the husband and I, are no longer under contract, but he remains a superb Vocal Artist) Tony Oppesadino and the late one and only Jilly. Miss the Music and so many dear friends - was truly wonderful, Sinatra too. ❤ Best Wellbeing ...

[@fluffshepnetwork7067]

@@bobboscarato1313 Like you, I'm both a Virgo and a huge fan of Dorsey and Sinatra. I couldn't agree more with your point about Dorsey influencing Sinatra.

[@williamrubinstein3442]

From the Golden Age of American popular music.

[@daveyewart4289]

love it

[@barryrogers3717]

Asked for Count Basie on Alexa and this was included, great memories(I was six)

[@tschakafice898]

These men/women could never imagine the thought of themselves being watched on a small screen someday in front of millions ! 📲 ( I would have loved to be living in this era )

[@luislaplume8261]

My late mother remembered this song on the radio in her friend's house in the 1940s in Havana,Cuba when she was a child.

[@sidv192]

smooth..

[@lanadale1479]

Some of the Greatest Big Band Classic Pioneers of that Music era ...The Turn of the last century throughout the 1960s are truly Unforgettable!!!!!

[@lcs1956]

Living in a great big way...in every way.

[@reyleno926]

This is my favorite song because it seems to evoke what the atmosphere and milieu of the time was like, as if I had lived back then. And the music is beautiful with its fresh excitement and joie de vivre!

[@thomasdragosr.841]

People had to have a joyful attitude, there was so much bad stuff going on.

[@PatentClerk]

I have heard that the sackbut (the trombone's ancestor) was used to accompany vocal ensembles, so absolutely! Any good trombonist can, though perhaps not always as well as Dorsey does.

[@serferten]

Charm and elegance, so cool with the whole band doing the vocal back up.

[@nononrusciolelli2034]

Sensational !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@nycdweller]

My song!!! Marie is a beautiful name!

[@thegigilemay]

Swing is back too! My kids learn it today.

[@Kinseydsp]

They Played so Good and Had great fun doing it.

[@nba2kchannel490]

What a great piece of music. For a song nearly 80 years ago.

[@TR3XProductions1stChannel]

Fantastic! :-)

[@kellymccain3403]

I often come back to this when I am in a bad mood. It never fails to make me feel better, whether it's Tommy's breathtaking talent, Stuart Foster's voice or Janet Blair's hilarious comedic dancing, I always leave this video with a big smile in my heart. Thanks for posting this one. 💙😊

[@alsuz]

You're very welcome, Kelly, take care, God bless you.

[@charleshodges1483]

My Mother's name was Marie. Dad had a tremendous collection of big band and jazz records from the 20's, 30's 40's and later. Born in1937 I grew up listening to those great sounds. I heard Marie many times..Still love it. ❤😊

[@Kingtrombone100]

For those of you that are curious, Tommy played a series of trombone makes; Conn, Martin, Reynolds, but he mostly played a King 2B special order for him with a gold/Silvertone finish for a number of years prior to his death.

[@jassbone1573]

I am curious how you know which brands of trombone TD played. I have been looking into this for years and have never seen any documentation.

[@Kingtrombone100]

Read it on Twitter some moths ago. Try International Trombone Society, they might have reference to this too.

[@putzgadol]

the tone on a King bone is terrific. I have been playing a 3B since 1952

[@carlenger9707]

Jassbone In this particular recording, he's playing his King. If you watch his Song of India video, he's playing it there too. You can tell because of the curved slide brace and the very sharp enpiece on the crook. As well as possibly the sound. Kings have an extremely distinct sound.

[@corlyssd]

@Gavin Rice I swear it sounds like velvet. I wouldn't want it in the Berlioz or Verdi Requiems but it is the most attractive trombone I've ever heard, almost like a beefier cor angelis.

[@marcoantonioAbbagnara]

scovato da poco ma credo che sia stato davvero un grande!!!

[@TheDaftazz]

unbeliveable song....... Great

[@armyoldsweat]

By goodness, what touching happy memories this version gives me. My wife and I learnt to quick-step to this at Molly Dodds school of dancing at Shepshed, Leicestershire, England in 1952. Many, many thanks.

[@MrQuintonia]

Flipping Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@EricJamesHanson]

The Trumpet section did a wonderful and fitting tribute to Bunny Berigan, with this scored version of his original off the cuff fabulous solo in this song.

[@mariadivaferreira67]

💖🎶Tommy Dorsey 🎺🎺✨ é á mais maravilhosa emoçoes que eu tinto ao ouvir meú nome uma linda música...é uma canção de nina...🎶🎺🎺✨💖

[@richard4677]

Great, a wonderful music, I wish that time comes back!

[@WSenator1]

minus World War II, of course. . .

[@Annettesmusic]

@@WSenator1 hahahaha

[@bambinoandmore46]

this is so American.. Pettin in the park. The English version in the 60s was so tame . thanks for uploading

[@dennismason3740]

I first heard this song at a coffee shop in the fifties. Big band music was huge in coffee shop ambience and I bloody miss it. The version I heard a thousand times was an instrumental version and I never grew tired of it. I am still searching for the chorus (band singing) lyrics.

[@Delfidash]

What beautiful old days and delightful music, I love it !!! Marie.....

[@shirleybalinski4535]

Marie, the dawn is breaking....one of my Dad's favorites.

[@aloysiusschrom5625]

Great song

[@nilasanders2044]

Beautiful music. Timeless!!!!!!

[@tony08826]

One of the greatest ever!

[@lilawatch2724]

Pure joy! Have loved this song for years. The last half, all musical, is especially fine. It's like the "Layla" of swing music!

[@peterfarrar9015]

Peter Farrar:- Irving Berlin's delightful & enchanting romantic ballad "Marie," enticingly & covertly casts it's magnetic Web to lure romantics into experiencing the unique & addictive explosive sensation of the liaison of love & romance. Multi talented Tommy Dorsey with his golden trombone & his superb swing & jazz orchestra elevated this musical episode to supreme heavenly heights. Golden words with suspicion that master musical genius Irving Berlin, once upon a time Very long ago, knew a girl named 'Marie.' Words by a real romantic, Peter E. Farrar.

[@alsuz]

Very well described, Peter, God bless you!

[@preese43]

This is one of my very favorite songs. It has a good beat and there is a fantastic instrumental in the middle.

[@maryhague607]

Birder Reese

[@maryhague607]

Louie prima keely smith

[@runndove1]

My Aunt Marie just passed this morning and I found this song to cope with this news.

[@fluffshepnetwork7067]

I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope this song helped.

[@1928missbliss]

This song was in my dad's 'singing' in the car repertoire in the 40s when I was growing up.

[@paolonatalini4184]

Great upload

[@roygregory4741]

can't stop watching it !

[@kartikeyajuneja4925]

A top notch song. As a college going student, I love big band music and Tommy Dorsey

[@mariebirosak2488]

Beautiful!

[@mariadivaferreira67]

💞🎶Á que emoção ter meu nome em uma linda melodia como💖Tonny Do🎺

[@ZdzislawKolekcja]

Piękne, cudowne, wspaniałe!!!

[@johnpeel2300]

My MOTHER used to sing this song to me. She had a GREAT voice too. Could have been a pro.

[@desertpair2]

I could a been a contenda.

[@elisabetyyy8260]

Amo esta música. Siempre los recordaré con profundo respeto y admiración.Los llevo en el corazón. Agradezco sinceramente q se los recuerde siempre.

[@Hatsmoff39]

I love the funny sequences | parts. The music? Quite allright.

[@leelarson6534]

Greatest trombonist ever.

[@fluffshepnetwork7067]

Dorsey's excellent for sure. Glenn Miller also has an argument.

[@danvanlandingham3854]

This movie was fabulously unreal.I knew a man who was on the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in 1934 and '35 then stayed on after TD left the band in May of '35.His name was Skeets Herfurt.He stayed on after Jimmy Dorsey took the band over then left Jimmy in the summer of 1937 to play for Tommy until 1939.He joined Alvino Rey in 1939 playing lead alto sax as he did for Tommy.Skeets was with Rey until 1942 when he entered the Army and Rey joined the Navy around the same time.Skeets later became a noted studio reedman in Hollywood.He died in 1992 at the age of 80.He would have been 81 on 28 May of that year.

[@alsuz]

Thank you for this amazing piece of history, Dan, take care, God bless you!

[@ffighera]

A gem, a real gem. The movie was wonderful but the music is timeless

[@Micelli1947]

Heard this many times on the juke box at the Little Fishers Bar, good times then.

[@BrianJohnson-eu2on]

Written by the top composer and played by the best trombonist.what more could you want.

[@mikewarren1401]

He really was! No one has ever gotten that same tone as he could

[@emlm60]

I recently learned on finding my Biologial father, that he named me after this song, 59 years ago, his favourite band. I carried this gift through life, and never knew. It was a Magical meeting on Anzac Day all round. he is 80yrs old.

[@alsuz]

Nice to know that, Maree, you are blessed!

[@billbright1755]

Marie, the sun in the morn, the moon by night, one of the most lovely of all the lady names. My mother’s dear friend, though afflicted by polio , was the most beautiful positive uplifting person, her name, Marie.

[@wilrobles5392]

Raw musical talent refined into intoxicating and uplifting music.

[@orchardist1965]

The sweetest trombone ever,the wonderful arrangement ,the harmony typical of the time just superb. Thank you for posting.

[@KosaiAvonej]

Your the only one who has this up! The other guy took his videos down!! Thank you!

[@mariadiva9074]

💕🌷🎶💕Á sinto tanta saudades destas maravilhosas orquestas...🎺🎻🎶💕💋

[@antoinettevambe239]

Stuart Foster's beautiful voice ⭐

[@Kristoker420]

God Bless you Grammy, i love you forever

[@r.scougal4696]

If your toes aren't tapping to this one, have someone check you for a pulse - you must be deceased!

[@hemingway458]

Reminds me of my parents.

[@ddivar8149]

I love the swingy ending .

[@theirishhammer9108]

What a great movie! As a former trombonist I used to listen to this movie a lot. Dorsey is just unbelievable! My trombone teacher, Bill Grande, played with Dorsey and a number of other big bands. He told me that Sinatra grew as a singer learning how to sing like Dorsey played the trombone. Great video. Thanks for posting!

[@alsuz]

You're very welcome, Thelrish, God bless you.

[@robertthomas2001]

at a time of black and white and nothing in between and concurrent with a war for the ages...and along came the backdrop of the most beautiful music ever written...and there we were...

[@Kinseydsp]

Alex Suzano thanks so much for this They were good People and love seeing his Mom there with them. They were very much family people!

[@richardvoogd705]

I remember listening to this song way back in the 1960s

[@gvaillancourt1]

Une de mes chansons préférées d'Irving Berlin. Voir aussi La version de Louis Armstrong et des Mills Brothers. One of my prefered songs of Irving Berlin. Look also for the version by Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers.

[@javierjorgefernandezlozano4561]

Marie , es y fue una de las mejores canciones cuando tenia 20 años en 1957 de casualidad ,encontre un disco abandonado por mi hermana y de ahi en adelante tengo una gran coleccion de T:Dorsey y de Jimmy asi como de las Grandes Bandas,tanto de peliculas y discos,VALIOSISIMOS POR SUPUESTO DE COLECCION.GRACIAS .

[@bennyjazzful]

Wonderful clip of some musical geniuse at their top form. Well done.

[@playamaya]

De Nada. Always LOVED the Big bands.

[@jkcoyle1030]

A beautiful song about a beautiful name.

[@alanpoi44]

Its a song about seduction and a girl regretting it, probably date rape.

[@samkaplan7679]

Alan Hunter Probably? You have info?

[@samkaplan7679]

Alan Hunter Let's pursue this a little further. The song speaks of the tenderness of the night before and Marie "surrenders". There's no hint of coercion, no hint of force. It sounds like a seduction. It sounds as if she's romantically carried away. To impute rape to the guy (completely unmentioned) has no basis but your bias - and a complete indifference to the presumption of innocence. So why not enjoy the music and save your prejudices for elsewhere? I write this without any sympathy for coercive sex but quite a lot both for the music of that era and for the principle that people (even men) are innocent until proven guilty.

[@cherokeeviking1280]

Sam Kaplan Date rape? Alan Hunter are you nuts? My wife's name is Marie and I was thrilled to find it on you tube, it reminds me of her. Thank you Sam for posting this wonderful song. There is always one in the crowd. A song from my Granny's time about date rape, from a time when true romance still existed. Alan come out of the street before you get run over.

[@alanpoi44]

I like this song too, I even sing it, but the seduction techniques of yesteryear, are at times questionable, and certainly unacceptable in todays climate, it is after all a song about a girl regretting getting screwed and the implication that she wasn't exactly an altogether willing participant and seducer exhibits an air of triumphalism. Date rape in Grannies time was probably as prevalent as today, and has been since we were apes. This romantic view of he past is crap. I did qualify it with "probably" and I stand by my assertion that it is questionable. Another song that I actually call the Date Rape song is from "Grease" "Summer Nights" "did she put up a fight", need I go on, there are several popular songs in this category, which you can find yourself. By the way I am 70 years old so I have accumulated a bit of savvy.

[@TheBernie2201]

jAlways liked this by TD, good music.

[@IamDottieDandridge]

They played this song to calm the burning crowd in the Rhythm Club Fire of 1940. How sad.

[@plafkinfarms]

The LeBaron family sponsored the Tommy Dorsey show; Tommy and his drummer, Louis Bellson, paid a visit to the LeBaron home at 33 Fair Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan; this was the high light of Johnny's high school career. Roger Plafkin-Plafkin Farms, Ada, Michigan

[@tobascoheat6582]

It's like this amazing music is no sweat off of their brows. They're just up there having fun!! Totally awesome talent!

[@geenerbob]

The band was HOTT

[@jointheconversation5517]

My dad loved this song and he used it as his theme song for his band back in the 50's in the club he owned. Every time I hear this I think of my singing this to my mother. She was an awesome dancer & taught me how to

[@purpleslog]

Big Band Swing is a type of jazz.