This Is No Dream

1939 sheet music cover, Bregman, Vocco, and Conn.

"This Is No Dream" is a 1939 song co-written by Tommy Dorsey with Benny Davis and Ted Shapiro and released as a 78 single by his orchestra.^[1]

Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra released the song as a Victor 78, 26234, featuring Jack Leonard on vocals in 1939. According to the tsort.info database, "This Is No Dream" reached No. 9 on the Billboard singles chart in 1939.^[2] The song was published by Bregman, Vocco, and Conn in New York.

Recordings

The song was recorded by Harry James and His Orchestra featuring Frank Sinatra on vocals. Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra also recorded the song on RCA Bluebird. 10273, with Judy Ellington on vocals.

References

↑ Peter J. Levinson, Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way: a Biography (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2005).
↑ "Song artist 24 - Tommy Dorsey". Tsort.info. Retrieved 2015-06-25.

Sources

Peter J. Levinson, Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way: a Biography (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2005) ISBN 978-0-306-81111-1
Robert L. Stockdale, Tommy Dorsey: On The Side (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1995) ISBN 978-0-8108-2951-0

External links

Tommy Dorsey 1939 recording on the Jazz Anthology website

Tommy Dorsey

Studio albums	The One And Only Tommy Dorsey (1961) Tommy Dorsey's Dance Party (1966) Tommy Dorsey (1937 – 1941) (1976) Yes Indeed! (1990)

Compilation albums	All-Time Greatest Dorsey/Sinatra Hits, Vol. 1-4 (1988) The Dorsey/Sinatra Sessions (1982) Music Goes Round and Round (1991) Stop, Look and Listen (1994) This Is Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Vol. 1 (2001) It's D'Lovely 1947–1950 (2004)

Songs	"East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "For Sentimental Reasons" "I Can Dream, Can't I?" "I'll Never Smile Again" "Imagination" "In the Middle of a Dream" "Indian Summer" "The Morning After" "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" "Once in a While" "This Is No Dream" "To You" "You Taught Me to Love Again"

The Dorsey Brothers	"Annie's Cousin Fannie" "Tomorrow's Another Day" "Harlem Chapel Chimes" "Dese Dem Dose"

Related	Jimmy Dorsey The Fabulous Dorseys Getting Sentimental over Tommy Dorsey I Remember Tommy

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