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Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. [1]
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 Miller estate wanted a band that was primarily associated with Glenn Miller, playing the Glenn Miller songs in the "Glenn Miller style." By 1950, Beneke and the Miller estate parted ways and the band dissolved. [3] [4] Beneke formed his own band, "Tex Beneke and His Orchestra: Playing the Music Made Famous by Glenn Miller" [5] [2]
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.
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 ...
Anthony was born to an Italian family in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, but moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he studied the trumpet.He played in Glenn Miller's band from 1940 to 1941 [2] and appeared in the Glenn Miller movie Sun Valley Serenade before joining the U.S. Navy during World War II as Miller joined the Army, organizing another famous military band before his 1944 ...
Members of the American big band the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Pages in category "Glenn Miller Orchestra members" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
The Crew Chiefs were a vocal group popular in the 1940s, known for accompanying Tex Beneke, Glenn Miller, and Ray McKinley. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Member Artie Malvin co-wrote the song " I'm Headin' For California " with Glenn Miller in 1944.