Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, starring Warren Covington

Another one that for the life of me I can’t remember where I picked it up.

This isn’t Tommy Dorsey. That’s key. Dorsey was a major swing practitioner and he died in 1956. His orchestra was taken over by trombonist Warren Covington, and that’s where their one and only post 1955 hit comes from.

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Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, starring Warren Covington:

• Tea For Two Cha Cha – This is a straggler, and traditional jazz arrangement of a 20s pop standard, written for the musical No No Nanette. There are probably thousands of versions, and it’s a cute song, too cute maybe, and an anachronism by the fall of 1958, when it hit the top 10.