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.

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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

v t e 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	Up Swing (1944) Smoke Rings (1944) Starmaker (1944) 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	"Boogie Woogie" "Dolores" "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "For Sentimental Reasons" "The Hucklebuck" "I Can Dream, Can't I?" "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Never Smile Again" "Imagination" "In the Blue of Evening" "In the Middle of a Dream" "Indian Summer" "It's Always You" "Just as Though You Were Here" "Let's Get Away from It All" "The Morning After" "Oh! Look at Me Now" "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" "Once in a While" "Only Forever" "Our Love Affair" "Sleep" "Stardust" "Take Me" "There Are Such Things" "This Is No Dream" "This Love of Mine" "To You" "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" "Yes, Indeed!" "You Taught Me to Love Again"
The Dorsey Brothers	"Annie's Cousin Fannie" "Tomorrow's Another Day" "Harlem Chapel Chimes" "Dese Dem Dose"
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