1938 Tommy Dorsey - I Never Knew (instrumental)

Other versions posted here of this 1920s song hit:
Roger Wolfe Kahn (instrumental) • 1925 Roger Wolfe Kahn ...
Gene Austin • 1926 HITS ARCHIVE: I N...
Yasha Bunchuk Swing Symphony (1936 instrumental) • 1936 Yasha Bunchuk Swi...
Teddy Wilson (1940 instrumental) • 1940 Teddy Wilson - I...
Sam Donahue/Bill Lockwood (1947) • 1947 HITS ARCHIVE: I N...
Pete Kelly’s Orchestrion (1955) • 1955 Pete Kelly's Orch...
Original 78 issue on Victor 25813 - I Never Knew (Gus Kahn-Ted Fiorito) by Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra, recorded in NYC March 10, 1938
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[@jlassie]

It's hard to believe that Victor allowed Benny Goodman to recording a swing instrumental version of this same tune just one month later - and featuring a trombone solo lead (by Vernon Brown) no less! That arrangement had been in the BG band book for several years already (since it was first cut at their June 1935 transcription session). But it can't possibly be a coincidence that BG decided to dust it off again so soon after TD had cut the same tune 3 years later - and right after he'd snagged his tenor star Bud Freeman (who's present on both versions, though he only solos on this one).

[@Trombonology]

I must say, I've always much preferred this Fio Rito "I Never Knew," with its jazz-friendly harmonic structure to the 1919 Pitts-Egan-Marsh "I Never Knew (I Could Love Anybody Like I'm Loving You)", which, in fairness, is pretty good. This side is one of my favourite Dorsey instrumentals of its period. Ol' reliable Paul Weston again comes up with a sharp arrangement with plenty of kick. Solo-tone muted TD leads to Bud Freeman, an inspired Johnny Mince and Pee Wee Erwin. George "Pee Wee" claimed he didn't try to copy Bunny, but ... I don't know -- sounds as if he's attempting to mimic some Beriganisms here.

[@generationll]

Mitch Miller did this same song back in early 1960s