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==Awards and honors== In 1982, the 1940 Victor recording "[[I'll Never Smile Again]]" was the first of a trio of Tommy Dorsey recordings to be inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]].<ref>"[[I'll Never Smile Again]]" was recorded February 17, 1941, with vocals by Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers. see the liner notes to the compact disc ''The Best of Tommy Dorsey '' by Mort Goode, 1991. Bluebird/RCA 51087-2. According to Peter Levinson in ''Livin In A Great Big Way'', "I'll Never Smile Again" was recorded May 23, 1940. "I'll Never Smile Again" had the catalogue number for its initial 78rpm release as Victor 26628. Tommy Dorsey and/or RCA Victor also released the song as a [[V-Disc]], V-Disc 582. See the website "Songs By Sinatra" at http://www.songsbysinatra.com/records/v-discs.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309001510/http://songsbysinatra.com/records/v-discs.html |date=March 9, 2016 }} for discographical information about that V-Disc.</ref> His theme song, "[[I'm Getting Sentimental Over You]]" was inducted in 1998, along with his recording of "Marie" written by [[Irving Berlin]] in 1928.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame#d |title=Grammy Hall of Fame Award |publisher=The Recording Academy |year=2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122042616/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |archive-date=January 22, 2011 }}</ref> In 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey commemorative postage stamp. Tommy Dorsey was posthumously inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame Award|Grammy Hall of Fame]], which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance". {| class=wikitable |- | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;"| '''Tommy Dorsey: Grammy Hall of Fame Awards'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122042616/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame|url-status=dead|title=Grammy Hall of Fame Database|archive-date=January 22, 2011}}</ref> |- ! Year recorded ! Title ! Genre ! Label ! Year inducted ! Notes |- align=center | 1940 | "[[I'll Never Smile Again]]" | Jazz (single) | Victor | 1982 | |- align=center | 1936 | "[[I'm Getting Sentimental Over You]]" | Jazz (single) | Victor | 1998 | |- align=center | 1937 | "Marie" | Jazz (single) | Victor | 1998 | |}
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