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Artist:

Tommy Dorsey

Song:

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Album: 

Records 1935-1939

Year: 

2000

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Tommy Dorsey's trombone playing was admired across the board; his supremely polished tone could render a sentimental melody as evocative as any...
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madeliaette | MEMORY FROM 2008

House filled with smoke

LOCATION: home , Wollongong,

YEAR: 2008

TAGS: incense, smoke

PUBLISHED: April 25, 2008

I am better acquainted with Vince Welnick's 1999 KPFA version of this song, but this is the version of the tune that I first heard. It comes from the days when I still used a radio as background music throughout most of my day. I used to fill my house with music whenever I was awake and at home. These days, the house is more likely to be filled with the sound of fingers hammering speedily onto the keys of a computer, for both my son and I write for fun, as well as me doing so for a living. The house is also likely to be filled with smoke, which brings me back to this song.

When I first heard the song decades ago, I was trying to play it by copying out notes from a piano script and attempting to play them in a single note tune. Next, I heard this version on radio several times a year, and then I heard Vince's version. Nothing much comes from my first encounter, however I first heard it played on the radio at around the same time that I began to burn incense. Although then providing a slight smile that the song came about at a literal smoky moment, it slipped into the back of my mind. It resurfaced when I began to get interested in incense again, at around the same time I downloaded Vince's version of the song. As the tune now bounces out of my computer speakers into my home - surrounded by the smoke of dipaka, coffee, peach and hindola perfumes - I flash back to when this version played quietly into my rooms - accompanied by rainforest and sandalwood.

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