Here is "Tangerine", played by Jimmy Dorsey with his orchestra with 21-year-old Helen O'Connell from the 1942 Paramount film "The Fleet's In". It was recorded on December 10, 1941 at Decca Studios NYC for the movie soundtrack. It was released in January 1942 by Decca Records [Catalog #4123]. The record first reached the Billboard charts on April 10, 1942. It shot up to #1 for 6 weeks and lasted 15 weeks on the chart. Enjoy my Video Restoration and DES [Digitally Extracted STEREO] of this great wartime movie scene.
"Tangerine" is a pop song with music written by Victor Schertzinger and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
The song was published in 1941 and soon became a jazz standard.
"Tangerine" was in...