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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.
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.
The 1954 10" album Glenn Miller Plays Selections from the film "The Glenn Miller Story" was number one for eleven weeks on the Billboard albums chart in 1954, released on LP as RCA Victor LPT 3057. [1] This collection featured the original RCA Victor, Bluebird and broadcast recordings by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra. [2]
The Glenn Miller Story is a 1954 soundtrack album released on Decca Records with songs from The Glenn Miller Story, the film biography of Glenn Miller, starring James Stewart and June Allyson. The collection had eight songs from the film recorded under the direction of Joseph Gershenson.
Pure Gold is a 1975 compilation album of 10 studio recordings by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded between 1939 and 1942 by RCA Victor. [1] The recordings were all originally issued as 78 RPM records on the RCA Bluebird and Victor labels and was certified Gold by the RIAA.
Previously, the first Glenn Miller Orchestra was a financial failure. But the new orchestra had 23 No. 1 hits — more than Elvis Presley (18) and the Beatles (20) would be able to muster.
The 1959 recording appeared on the 2002 Best of New Glenn Miller Orchestra in 2002 on BMG. The Glenn Miller Orchestra under Musical Director Larry O'Brien released a recording on the album On the Air, (CD, 2002, XM Radio). A new recording by the Glenn Miller Orchestra conducted by Wil Salden appeared on the 2005 album Meets the Giants of Jazz ...
Eighty years ago on Aug. 27th, 1944, the great American bandleader Glenn Miller performed at a base some 60 miles north of London, RAF Twinwood, the hub and airfield he frequently flew in and out ...
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