GLENN MILLER "Medley"

 

 

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – disappeared December 15, 1944) was an American Big band trombonist, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the Swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best-known big bands.

Glenn Miller Memories

 

 

This episode of Glenn Miller's band is a radio remote from The Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle New York and has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944 missing in action) was an American big band musician, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known Big Bands. Miller's notable recordings include "In the Mood", "Moonlight Serenade", "Pennsylvania 6-5000", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "A String of Pearls", "At Last", "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", "American Patrol", "Tuxedo Junction", and "Little Brown Jug". While he was traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Glenn Miller disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel.

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Miller Memories Links

GMA = Glenn Miller Archives at The University of Colorado, Boulder... Direct Link
ABSIE = American Broadcasting Station in Europe... Direct Link
OWI = American Office of War Information...  Direct Link
AFRS = American (or Armed) Forces Radio Service... Various Links

Major Glenn Miller, Army Air Force Band...
AAF Band
Major Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band on FACEBOOK
AAF Training Command

Glenn Miller A Memorial 1944 - 1969 album

This is a great vinyl album with nearly all of the Miller Band's major hits. A must have for any Glenn Miller fan. All tracks added to LIVE365's radio station called 'Glenn Miller Memories'  Absolutely love it!! I received the record with a note from the seller which was the icing on the cake! Get yours before it sells for bargain price...below:

 

Miller band bassest Trigger Alpert dies December 22, 2013

Herman "Trigger" Alpert (born September 3, 1916) was an American jazz double-bassist. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Alpert attended Indiana University in the late 1930s and moved to New York City, where he played with Alvino Rey in 1940 and with Glenn Miller soon after. Over the course of the 1940s he played with Tex Beneke, Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Ella Fitzgerald, Muggsy Spanier, Roy Eldridge, Louis Armstrong, Ray McKinley, Bernie Leighton (1945–46), Frank Sinatra, Woody Herman, and Jerry Jerome. In the 1950s he worked with Artie Shaw, Coleman Hawkins, the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, Mundell Lowe, Don Elliott, Gene Krupa, and Buddy Rich. He released one album as a bandleader on Riverside Records in 1956, entitled Trigger Happy!. Tony Scott, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Joe Wilder, Urbie Green, and Ed Shaughnessy all appear on the album. In 1970 he left music and took up photography. - Wikipedia