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The Jack Million Band recorded it on the album In the Mood for Glenn Miller, Vol. 2. "Boom Shot" was included on the 1959 double LP released by Twentieth Century Fox entitled Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, TCF 100–2, which included music from the Orchestra Wives and Sun Valley Serenade movies. In May, 1959, "Boom Shot" was released as a 7 ...
Between 1938 and 1944, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra released 266 singles on the monaural ten-inch shellac 78 rpm format. Their studio output comprised a variety of musical styles inside of the Swing genre, including ballads, band chants, dance instrumentals, novelty tracks, songs adapted from motion pictures, and, as the Second World War approached, patriotic music.
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Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was an American swing dance band that was formed by Glenn Miller in 1938. Arranged around a clarinet and tenor saxophone playing melody, and three other saxophones playing harmony, the band became the most popular and commercially successful dance orchestra of the swing era and one of the greatest singles charting acts of the 20th century.
Including "Chattanooga Choo Choo", five songs played by Miller and His Orchestra were number one hits for most of 1942 and can be found on the List of Billboard number-one singles of 1942. [6] In four years, Miller scored 16 number one records and 69 top 10 hits, more than Elvis Presley (40) [7] and the Beatles (35) in their careers.
The movie short Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Band was released by RKO pictures in 1947 with Lillian Lane, Artie Malvin and The Crew Chiefs vocal group performing. [19] In a slightly sarcastic article in Time magazine from June 2, 1947, [20] [21] the magazine notes that the Beneke-led Miller orchestra was playing at the same venue the ...
Miller died in 1944. In 1946, Miller's widow had a new band formed under the name Glenn Miller Orchestra, led by Miller's saxophonist and vocalist Tex Beneke. [1] [2] Many members of Miller's Army Air Forces Orchestra joined the band, which until 1948 featured a large string section as had Miller's Army Air Forces band (but unlike the original ...
The collection Evolution of a Band (Columbia CD CK-48831) contains an unissued, alternate take, mx-22974-2. The song is also on the 2008 compilation The Swing of Things on Werner Last's Favourites Swing, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra: 1935-1938, Classics, 2004, and the 2009 album Big Bands: The Giants of the Swing Big Band Era on Documents.