Volume 188: The Brothers Dorsey Shine

Let’s get back to some of the big band and early swing my dad listened to a lot. And this record is a real find because of the two main musicians.

One played a brass instrument, one played reeds. One ended up just a little more famous than the other. But they were brothers. And they had their famous beginnings in a band with the family name that recorded in the early to mid-1930s.

So get ready to hear a compilation of some of the last studio recordings for this sibling duo that began on 78 RPM Shellac and ended up on this 33 ⅓ RPM Vinyl in Volume 188: The Brothers Dorsey Shine.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

The Dorsey Brothers' Original Orchestra – Their Shining Hour
Label: Design Records – DLP 20
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz

We will play 7 of the 11 songs from this album.

By Heck
music by S. R. Henry

Solitude
written by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange

Rhythm Of The Rain
written by Jack Meskill, Jack Stern

Night Wind
Written-By – Bob Romberg, Dave Pollock and Harry Link

Eccentric is actually cut 3
written by J. Russel Robinson

Sugar Foot Stomp
written by Louis Armstrong, King Oliver

The Weary Blues
written by Artie Matthews

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.