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Boulder, Colorado
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Grant City, Missouri
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Al Klink
Al Klink (b. Dec. 28, 1915, Danbury, Connecticut - d. Mar. 7, 1991, Bradenton, Florida) was an American swing jazz tenor saxophonist.
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Anita O'Day
'''Anita O'Day''' (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer.
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Ann Rutherford
Ann Rutherford (born November 2, 1920) is a Canadian-American actress in film, radio, and television. She has had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict on the big screen of the 1930s and 1940s in the Andy Hardy series, and on The Bob Newhart Show as Newhart's character's mother-in-law.
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Artie Malvin
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Artie Shaw
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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Ben Pollack
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Benny Goodman
In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."
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Bill Finegan
William James Finegan (3 April 1917 — 4 June 2008) was an American jazz bandleader, pianist, arranger, and composer. He was an arranger in the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the late late 1930s and early 1940s.
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Billy May
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Bing Crosby
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Bob Chester
Bob Chester (died 1977) was an American jazz and pop music bandleader and tenor saxophonist.
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Bobby Hackett
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Bud Freeman
Lawrence "Bud" Freeman (April 13, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois - March 15, 1991 in Chicago) was a U.S. jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. He had a smooth and full tenor sax style with a heavy robust swing. He was one of the most influential and important jazz tenor saxophonists of the Big Band era. His major recordings were "The Eel", "Tillie's Downtown Now", "Crazeology", "The Buzzard", and "After Awhile", composed with Benny Goodman.
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Charlie Spivak
Charlie Spivak (17 February 1905 or 1907–1 March 1982) was an American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s.
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Claude Thornhill
Claude Thornhill (10 August 1908 at Terre Haute, Indiana – 1 July 1965, New Jersey) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He composed the jazz and pop standard Snowfall.
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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Hawkins was the first important jazz musician to use the instrument. As Joachim E. Berendt explained, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". While Hawkins is most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s,
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Count Basie
William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump" and "April In Paris".
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Dinah Shore
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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Doris Day
Doris Day (born April 3, 1922) is an American actress and singer, and has been an outspoken animal rights activist since her retirement from show business. Day's entertainment career began in her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording , "Sentimental Journey", and, in 1948, appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she has appeared in thirty-nine films, recorded more than six-hundred-fifty songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
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Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and popular singer, and was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Eddie Condon
Albert Edwin Condon (16 November 1905 – 4 August 1973), better known as Eddie Condon, was a jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in the so-called "Chicago school" of early Dixieland, he also played piano and sang on occasion.
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Eddie Durham
Eddie Durham (19 August 1906–6 March 1987) was an American jazz guitarist, trombonist, composer and musical arranger of the swing music medium born in San Marcos, Texas, probably best known for his work with musicians like Cab Calloway, Willie Bryant, Andy Kirk, Glenn Miller, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie, among others. He is the co-composer of the tune "Topsy", recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra and later by many others. He also was the arranger for Glenn Miller's "In the Mood". He is also credited for creating the world's first electric guitar solo with a Gibson ES-150 guitar in 1938.
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Ernie Caceres
Ernesto "Ernie" Caceres (Nov. 22, 1911 - Jan. 10, 1971) was an American jazz musician born in Rockport, Texas.
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Erskine Hawkins
Erskine Ramsay Hawkins (July 26, 1914 – November 11, 1993) was an American trumpet player and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama, dubbed "The 20th Century Gabriel". He is most remembered for composing the jazz standard "Tuxedo Junction" (1939) with saxophonist and arranger Bill Johnson. The song became a popular hit during World War II, rising to #7 nationally (version by the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra) and to #1 nationally (version by the Glenn Miller Orchestra). Vocalists who were featured with Erskine's orchestra include Ida James, Delores Brown and Della Reese. Hawkins was named after Alabama industrialist Erskine Ramsay.
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Ethel Merman
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Frank Sinatra
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Fred Waring
Fredrick Malcolm Waring (June 9, 1900 – July 29, 1984) was a popular musician, bandleader and radio-television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing." He was also a promoter, financial backer and namesake of the Waring Blendor, the first modern electric blender on the market.
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Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was an influential American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.
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Gene Lees
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George Burns
George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
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George Shearing
Sir George Shearing, OBE (born August 13, 1919) is an Anglo-American jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group which recorded for MGM Records and Capitol Records. The composer of over 300 titles, he has had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s.
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George T. Simon
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Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), 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 signature recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
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Gracie Allen
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Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller (born November 22, 1925) is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.
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Hal McIntyre
Hal McIntyre (November 29, 1914, Cromwell, Connecticut - May 5, 1959, Los Angeles, California) was an American saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.
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Harold Arlen
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Harry Morgan
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Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995. His best-known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), the Peter Gunn Theme from the television series, and back-to-back Academy Awards for the songs "Moon River" from the Blake Edwards film ''Breakfast at Tiffany's and "Days of Wine and Roses" from the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses''.
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Jack Oakie
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Jackie Gleason
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James Stewart
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Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (September 20, 1885July 10, 1941), best known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer.
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Jerry Gray
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Jimmy Doolittle
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Joe Garland
Joseph Copeland "Joe" Garland (Aug. 15, 1903, Norfolk, Virginia - April 21, 1977, Teaneck, New Jersey) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger, best known for writing "In the Mood".
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Joe Venuti
Giuseppe (Joe) Venuti (September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.
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Johnny Best
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Johnny Desmond
Johnny Desmond (November 14, 1919 - September 6, 1985) was a popular American singer.
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Joseph Schillinger
Joseph Schillinger (1 September 1895 – 23 March 1943) was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher. He was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (at that time, part of Russian Empire) and died in New York City.
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Junior Collins
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Leonard Feather
Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914–22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.
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Leonard Nimoy
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Louis Armstrong
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Mel Powell
Mel Powell (February 12, 1923 - April 24, 1998) was a jazz pianist and composer of classical music.
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Mel Tormé
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Miles Davis
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Milton Berle
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Norman Leyden
Norman Fowler Leyden (born October 17, 1917) is an American, conductor, arranger, and clarinetist. He has worked in film and television and is perhaps best known as the conductor of the Oregon Symphony Pops orchestra. He co-wrote with Glenn Miller the theme "I Sustain the Wings" in 1943, which was used to introduced the World War II radio series.
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Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.
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Paul Tanner
Paul Tanner (born October 15, 1917) is an American musician.
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Paul Whiteman
Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader and orchestral director.
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Peanuts Hucko
Michael Andrew "Peanuts" Hucko (April 7, 1918
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Pee Wee Russell
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Ralph Flanagan
Ralph Flanagan (born Ralph Elias Flenniken), (April 7, 1914 in Lorain, Ohio – December 30, 1995 in Miami, Florida) was a famed big band leader, conductor, pianist, composer, and arranger for the orchestras of Hal McIntyre, Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, Charlie Barnet, and Alvino Rey.
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Ray Anthony
Ray Anthony (born Raymond Antonini, January 20, 1922, Bentleyville, Pennsylvania) is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor.
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Ray Eberle
Ray Eberle (19 January 1919 Mechanicville, New York - 25 August 1979 Douglasville, Georgia) was a vocalist during the Big Band Era. Eberle sang with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and later became one of the members of the group The Modernaires.
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Red McKenzie
Red McKenzie (Oct. 14, 1899, St. Louis, Missouri - Feb. 7, 1948, New York City) was an American jazz musician. He was the best-known, and one of the only, comb players in jazz history.
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Richard M. Sudhalter
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Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville) creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks, which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" (a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati), "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House", though she would go on to success as a jazz vocalist.
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Tchaikovsky
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Tex Beneke
Gordon Lee Beneke (February 12, 1914 - May 30, 2000), professionally known as Tex Beneke, was an American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader. His career is a history of associations with bandleader Glenn Miller and former musicians and singers who worked with Miller. He also solos on the recording the Glenn Miller Orchestra made of their popular song, "In The Mood" and sings on another popular Glenn Miller recording, "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
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Thelonious Monk
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto; August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.
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Trigger Alpert
Herman "Trigger" Alpert (born September 3, 1916) is an American jazz double-bassist. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Vic Schoen
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Wilbur Schwartz
Wilbur Schwartz (New Jersey, March 17, 1918 – August 3, 1990 in Los Angeles) was a clarinetist and alto saxophonist best remembered today for his work with Glenn Miller.
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William A. Henry III
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This article is about the jazz musician. For other uses, see Glenn Miller (disambiguation).

Glenn Miller

Background information
Birth name	Alton Glenn Miller
Born	(1904-03-01)March 1, 1904 Clarinda, Iowa, United States
Died	Missing in action over the English Channel, December 15, 1944(1944-12-15) (aged 40)
Genres	Swing music, Big band
Occupations	Bandleader, Musician, Arranger, Composer
Instruments	Trombone
Years active	1923–1944
Associated acts	Glenn Miller Orchestra

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing in action^[1] December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), 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".^[2] 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. The Glenn Miller Orchestra was re-formed after the war and continues to record and perform to this day.

1 Early life and career
2 Success from 1938 to 1942
- 2.1 Bluebird Records and Glen Island Casino
- 2.2 Motion pictures
3 Critical reaction
4 Reaction from musical peers
5 The Army Air Force Band 1942–1944
6 Disappearance
7 Civilian band legacy
8 Army Air Force band legacy
9 Posthumous events
10 Glenn Miller arranging staff and compositions
11 Discography
12 Band alumni
13 See also
14 Notes
15 Bibliography
16 External links

Early life and career [link]

Miller was born on a farm in Clarinda, Iowa, to Lewis Elmer Miller and Mattie Lou (née Cavender).^[3] He went to grade school in North Platte in western Nebraska. In 1915, Miller's family moved to Grant City, Missouri. Around this time, Miller had finally made enough money from milking cows to buy his first trombone and played in the town orchestra. In 1918, the Miller family moved again, this time to Fort Morgan, Colorado, where Miller went to high school. During his senior year, Miller became very interested in a new style of music called "dance band music." He was so taken with it that he formed his own band with some classmates. By the time Miller graduated from high school in 1921, he had decided he wanted to become a professional musician.^[3]

In 1923, Miller entered the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he joined Sigma Nu Fraternity,^[4] but spent most of his time away from school, attending auditions and playing any gigs he could get, most notably with Boyd Senter's band in Denver. He dropped out of school after failing three out of five classes one semester, and decided to concentrate on making a career as a professional musician. He later studied the Schillinger technique with Joseph Schillinger, under whose tutelage he composed what became his signature theme, "Moonlight Serenade".^[5] In 1926, Miller toured with several groups, eventually landing a good spot in Ben Pollack's group in Los Angeles. During his stint with Pollack, Miller wrote several musical arrangements of his own. He also co-wrote his first composition, "Room 1411", written with Benny Goodman and released as a Brunswick 78, 4013, credited to Bennie Goodman's Boys.^[6] In 1928, when the band arrived in New York City, he sent for and married his college sweetheart, Helen Burger. He was a member of Red Nichols's orchestra in 1930, and because of Nichols, Miller played in the pit bands of two Broadway shows, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy (where his bandmates included big band leaders Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa).

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Miller managed to earn a living working as a freelance trombonist in several bands. On a March 21, 1928 Victor session Miller played alongside Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Joe Venuti in the All-Star Orchestra, directed by Nat Shilkret.^[7]^[8]^[9] On November 14, 1929,^[10] an original vocalist named Red McKenzie hired Glenn to play on two records that are now considered to be jazz classics:^[11]^[12] "Hello, Lola" and "If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight". Beside Glenn were clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, guitarist Eddie Condon, drummer Gene Krupa and Coleman Hawkins on tenor saxophone.^[13]

In the early-to-mid-1930s, Miller also worked as a trombonist and arranger in The Dorsey Brothers, first when they were a Brunswick studio group (under their own name and providing accompaniment for many of The Boswell Sisters sessions), and finally when they formed an ill-fated co-led touring and recording orchestra.^[14] Miller composed the song "Annie's Cousin Fanny"^[15]^[16] and "Dese Dem Dose"^[14]^[17] for the Dorsey Brothers Band in 1934 and 1935. In 1935, he assembled an American orchestra for British bandleader Ray Noble,^[14] developing the arrangement of lead clarinet over four saxophones that eventually became the sonic keynote of his own big band. Members of the Noble band included future bandleaders Claude Thornhill, Bud Freeman and Charlie Spivak.

Glenn Miller made his first movie appearance in the 1935 Paramount Pictures release The Big Broadcast of 1936 as a member of the Ray Noble Orchestra performing "Why Stars Come Out at Night".^[18] The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

Glenn Miller compiled several musical arrangements and formed his first band in 1937. The band failed to distinguish itself from the many others of the era, and broke up after playing its last show at the Ritz Ballroom in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 2, 1938.^[19] Benny Goodman said in 1976, "In late 1937, before his band became popular, we were both playing in Dallas. Glenn was pretty dejected and came to see me. He asked, 'What do you do? How do you make it?' I said, 'I don't know, Glenn. You just stay with it.'"^[20]

Success from 1938 to 1942 [link]

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1939 Baltimore Hippodrome Ballroom concert poster.

Discouraged, Miller returned to New York. He realized that he needed to develop a unique sound, and decided to make the clarinet play a melodic line with a tenor saxophone holding the same note, while three other saxophones harmonized within a single octave. George T. Simon discovered a saxophonist named Wilbur Schwartz for Glenn Miller. Miller hired Schwartz, but instead had him play the lead clarinet. According to Simon, "Willie's tone and way of playing provided a fullness and richness so distinctive that none of the later Miller imitators could ever accurately reproduce the Miller sound."^[21] With this new sound combination, Glenn Miller found a way to differentiate his band's style from the many bands that existed in the late thirties. Miller talked about his style in the May, 1939 issue of Metronome magazine. "You'll notice today some bands use the same trick on every introduction; others repeat the same musical phrase as a modulation into a vocal ... We're fortunate in that our style doesn't limit us to stereotyped intros, modulations, first choruses, endings or even trick rhythms. The fifth sax, playing clarinet most of the time, lets you know whose band you're listening to. And that's about all there is to it."^[22]

Bluebird Records and Glen Island Casino [link]

In September 1938, the Miller band began making recordings for the RCA Victor, Bluebird Records subsidiary.^[23] Cy Shribman, a prominent East Coast businessman, began financing the band, providing a much needed infusion of cash.^[24] In the spring of 1939, the band's fortunes improved with a date at the Meadowbrook Ballroom in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, and more dramatically at the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, New York. The Glen Island date according to author Gunther Schuller attracted "a record breaking opening night crowd of 1800..."^[25] With the Glen Island date, the band began a huge rise in popularity.^[26] In 1939, TIME magazine noted: "Of the twelve to 24 discs in each of today's 300,000 U.S. jukeboxes, from two to six are usually Glenn Miller's."^[27] There were record-breaking recordings such as "Tuxedo Junction" which sold 115,000 copies in the first week.^[28] Miller's huge success in 1939 culminated with his band appearing at Carnegie Hall on October 6, with Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, and Fred Waring also the main attractions.^[29]

From 1939 to 1942, Miller's band was featured three times a week during a quarter-hour broadcast for Chesterfield cigarettes on CBS,^[30] first with the Andrews Sisters and then on its own.^[31] On February 10, 1942, RCA Victor presented Miller with the first gold record for "Chattanooga Choo-Choo".^[32] "Chattanooga Choo Choo" was performed by the Miller orchestra with his singers Gordon "Tex" Beneke, Paula Kelly and the vocal group, the Modernaires.^[33] Other singers with this orchestra included Marion Hutton,^[34] Skip Nelson,^[35] Ray Eberle^[36] and to a smaller extent, Kay Starr,^[37] Ernie Caceres,^[38] Dorothy Claire^[39] and Jack Lathrop.^[40] Pat Friday ghost sang with the Miller band in their two films, Sun Valley Serenade and Orchestra Wives with Lynn Bari lip synching.^[41]

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First gold record award for "Chattanooga Choo Choo" is presented to Glenn Miller by W. Wallace Early of RCA Victor with announcer Paul Douglas on far left, February, 1942.

Motion pictures [link]

Miller and his band appear in two Twentieth Century Fox films. In 1941's Sun Valley Serenade they are major members of the cast, which also features comedian Milton Berle.^[42] The Miller band returned to Hollywood to film 1942's Orchestra Wives,^[43] featuring Jackie Gleason playing a part as the group's bassist, Ben Beck. Miller had an ailment that made laughter extremely painful. Since Jackie Gleason was a comedian, Miller had a difficult time watching Gleason more than once, because Miller would start laughing.^[44] Harry Morgan appears as Cully Anderson, the unrequited love interest of Ann Rutherford's character, Connie Ward.^[45]^[46]^[47] Miller was contracted to do a third movie for Fox, Blind Date, but as he entered the U.S. Army, this never panned out.^[48]

Critical reaction [link]

In 2004, Miller orchestra bassist Herman "Trigger" Alpert explained the band's success: "Miller had America's music pulse ... He knew what would please the listeners."^[49] Although Miller had massive popularity, many jazz critics of the time had misgivings. They believed that the band's endless rehearsals and according to critic Amy Lee in Metronome magazine, "letter-perfect playing", diminished any feeling from performances.^[50] They also felt that Miller's brand of swing shifted popular music away from the "hot jazz" bands of Benny Goodman and Count Basie toward commercial novelty instrumentals and vocal numbers.^[51] For years, even after Miller died, the Miller estate maintained an unfriendly stance toward critics that derided the band during Miller's lifetime.^[52] Miller was often criticized for being too commercial. His answer to the criticism was, "I don't want a jazz band".^[53]^[54] Many modern jazz critics still harbor similar antipathy toward Miller.^[55]^[56] Jazz critics Gunther Schuller^[57] (1991) and Gary Giddins^[58] (2004) have separately defended the Miller orchestra for whatever deficiencies earlier critics have found. In an article written for The New Yorker in 2004, Gary Giddins says he feels that these early critics erred in denigrating Glenn Miller's music, and that the popular opinion of the time should hold greater sway. The article states: "Miller exuded little warmth on or off the bandstand, but once the band struck up its theme, audiences were done for: throats clutched, eyes softened. Can any other record match 'Moonlight Serenade' for its ability to induce a Pavlovian slaver in so many for so long?"^[58] Schuller, notes, "[The Miller sound] was nevertheless very special and able to penetrate our collective awareness that few other sounds have..."^[59] He compares it partially to "Japanese Gagaku [and] Hindu music" in its purity.^[59] Schuller and Giddins do not take completely uncritical approaches to Miller. Schuller says that Ray Eberle's "lumpy, sexless vocalizing dragged down many an otherwise passable performance."^[59] However finally Schuller notes: "How much further [Miller's] musical and financial ambitions might have carried him must forever remain conjectural. That it would have been significant, whatever form(s) it might have taken, is not unlikely."^[59]

Reaction from musical peers [link]

Louis Armstrong thought enough of Miller to carry around his recordings transferred to seven-inch tape reels when he went on tour. "[Armstrong] liked musicians who prized melody, and his selections ranged from Glenn Miller to Jelly Roll Morton to Tchaikovsky."^[60] Jazz pianist George Shearing's quintet of the 1950s and 1960s was influenced by Miller: "with Shearing's locked hands style piano (influenced by the voicing of Miller's saxophone section) in the middle [of the quintet's harmonies]."^[61]^[62] Frank Sinatra and Mel Tormé held the orchestra in high regard. Tormé credited Miller with giving him helpful advice when he first started his singing and song-writing career in the 1940s. Mel Tormé met Glenn Miller in 1942, the meeting facilitated by Tormé's father and Ben Pollack. Tormé and Miller discussed "That Old Black Magic" which was just emerging as a new song by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen. Miller told Tormé to pick up every song by Mercer and study it and to become a voracious reader of anything he could find, because "all good lyric writers are great readers."^[63] In an interview with George T. Simon in 1948, Sinatra lamented the inferior quality of music he was recording in the late forties and in comparison with "those great Glenn Miller things"^[64] from eight years earlier.^[65]^[66] With the opposite opinion, fellow bandleader Artie Shaw frequently disparaged the band after Miller's death: "All I can say is that Glenn should have lived, and 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' should have died."^[67] ^[68] Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco surprised many people when he led the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the late sixties and early seventies. De Franco was already the veteran of bands like Gene Krupa and Tommy Dorsey in the 1940s. He was also a major exponent of modern jazz in the 1950s.^[69] He never sees Miller as leading a swinging jazz band, but DeFranco is extremely fond of certain aspects of the Glenn Miller style. "I found that when I opened with the sound of 'Moonlight Serenade,' I could look around and see men and women weeping as the music carried them back to years gone by."^[70]^[71] De Franco says, "the beauty of Glenn Miller's ballads [...] caused people to dance together."^[72]

The Army Air Force Band 1942–1944 [link]

Bust outside the Corn Exchange in Bedford, where Miller played in World War II.

In 1942, at the peak of his civilian career, Miller decided to join the war effort. At 38, Miller was too old to be drafted, and first volunteered for the Navy but was told that they did not need his services.^[73] Miller then wrote to Army Brigadier General Charles Young. He persuaded the United States Army to accept him so he could, in his own words, "be placed in charge of a modernized Army band."^[3] After being accepted into the Army, Glenn’s civilian band played its last concert in Passaic, New Jersey, on September 27, 1942.^[3]

At first placed in the United States Army, Glenn Miller was transferred to the Army Air Force.^[74] Captain Glenn Miller served initially as assistant special services officer for the Army Air Forces Southeast Training Center at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1942. He played trombone with the Rhythmaires, a 15-piece dance band, in both Montgomery and in service clubs and recreation halls on Maxwell. Miller also appeared on both WAPI (Birmingham, Alabama) and WSFA radio (Montgomery), promoting the activities of civil service women aircraft mechanics employed at Maxwell.^[75]

Miller initially formed a large marching band that was to be the core of a network of service orchestras. Miller's attempts at modernizing military music were met with some resistance from tradition-minded career officers. For example, Miller's arrangement of "St. Louis Blues March", combined blues and jazz with the traditional military march.^[76] Miller's weekly radio broadcast "I Sustain the Wings", for which he co-wrote the eponymous theme song, moved from New Haven to New York City and was very popular. This led to permission for Miller to form his 50-piece Army Air Force Band and take it to England in the summer of 1944, where he gave 800 performances.^[75] While in England, now Major Miller recorded a series of records at HMV- (now EMI-) owned Abbey Road Studios. HMV at this time was the British and sometime European distributor for the American record company that handled and originated Glenn Miller's recordings, RCA Victor.^[77] The recordings the AAF band made in 1944 at Abbey Road were propaganda broadcasts for the Office of War Information. Many songs are sung in German by Johnny Desmond and Glenn Miller speaks in German about the war effort.^[78] Before Miller's disappearance, his music was used by World War II AFN radio broadcasting for entertainment and morale as well as counter-propaganda to denounce fascist oppression in Europe with even Miller once stating on radio:

"America means freedom and theres no expression of freedom quite so sincere as music".^[79]^[80]-Glenn Miller

Also, the Miller-led AAF Orchestra recorded songs with the American singer Dinah Shore. These were done at the Abbey Road studios and were the last recorded songs made by the band while being led by Miller. They were stored with HMV/EMI for fifty years, never being released until their copyright expired in Europe in 1994.^[81] ^[82] In summarizing Miller's military career, General Jimmy Doolittle said, “next to a letter from home, that organization was the greatest morale builder in the European Theater of Operations.”^[83]

Disappearance [link]

U.S. Army Air Force UC-64

Miller's monument in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut

Miller spent his last night alive at the Hall in Milton Ernest, on the outskirts of Bedford. On December 15, 1944, Miller was to fly from the United Kingdom to Paris, France, to play for the soldiers there. His plane (a single-engined UC-64 Norseman, USAAF serial 44-70285) departed from RAF Twinwood Farm in Clapham, Bedfordshire and disappeared while flying over the English Channel.^[84] No trace of the aircrew, passengers or plane has ever been found. Miller's status is missing in action.

There are three main theories about what happened to Miller's plane, including the suggestion that he might have been hit by Royal Air Force bombs after an abortive raid on Siegen, Germany. One hundred and thirty-eight Lancaster bombers, short on fuel, jettisoned approximately 100,000 incendiaries in a designated area before landing. The logbooks of Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw^[85] recorded that he saw a small, single-engined monoplane spiraling out of control and crashing into the water. However, a second source, while acknowledging the possibility, cites other RAF crew members flying the same mission who stated that the drop area was in the North Sea. Further research by British scholars also seems to indicate that this is the most likely probability, making Miller's death a "friendly fire" incident.^[86]^[87]

In his 2006 self-published book I Kept My Word: The Personal Promise Between a World War II Army Private and His Captain About What Really Happened to Glenn Miller, Clarence B. Wolfe — a gunner with Battery D, 134th AAA Battalion, in Folkestone, England — claims that his battery shot down Miller's plane.^[88] Another book by Lt. Col. Huton Downs,^[89] a former member of Dwight D. Eisenhower's personal staff, argues that the U.S. government covered up Miller's death. Downs suggested that Miller had been enlisted by Eisenhower to covertly attempt to convince some German officers to end the war early. The book goes on to suggest that Miller was captured and killed in a Paris brothel, and his death covered up to save the government embarrassment.^[90]

When Glenn Miller disappeared, he left behind his wife, the former Helen Burger, originally from Boulder, Colorado, and the two children they adopted in 1943 and 1944, Steven and Jonnie.^[91] Helen Miller accepted the Bronze Star medal for Glenn Miller in February 1945.^[92]

Civilian band legacy [link]

The Miller estate authorized an official Glenn Miller "ghost band" in 1946. This band was led by Tex Beneke, former lead saxophonist and a singer for the civilian band. It had a make up similar to the Army Air Force Band: it had a large string section.^[93] The orchestra's official public début was at the Capitol Theatre on Broadway where it opened for a three week engagement on January 24, 1946.^[94] Future television and film composer Henry Mancini was the band's pianist and one of the arrangers.^[95] This ghost band played to very large audiences all across the United States, including a few dates at the Hollywood Palladium in 1947, where the original Miller band played in 1941.^[96] In a website concerning the history of the Hollywood Palladium, it is noted "[e]ven as the big band era faded, the Tex Beneke and Glenn Miller Orchestra concert at the Palladium resulted in a record-breaking crowd of 6,750 dancers."^[97] By 1949, economics dictated that the string section be dropped.^[98]

This band recorded for RCA Victor, just as the original Miller band did.^[98] Beneke was struggling with how to expand the Miller sound and also how to achieve success under his own name. What began as the "Glenn Miller Orchestra Under the Direction of Tex Beneke" finally became "The Tex Beneke Orchestra". By 1950, Beneke and the Miller estate parted ways.^[99] The break was acrimonious^[100] and Beneke is not currently listed by the Miller estate as a former leader of the Glenn Miller orchestra.^[101]

When Glenn Miller was alive, various bandleaders like Bob Chester imitated his style.^[102] By the early 1950s, various bands were again copying the Miller style of clarinet-led reeds and muted trumpets, notably Ralph Flanagan,^[103] Jerry Gray,^[104] and Ray Anthony.^[105] This, coupled with the success of The Glenn Miller Story (1953),^[106] led the Miller estate to ask Ray McKinley to lead a new ghost band.^[98] This 1956 band is the original version of the current ghost band that still tours the United States today.^[107] The official Glenn Miller orchestra for the United States is currently under the direction of Nick Hilscher.^[108] The officially sanctioned Glenn Miller Orchestra for the United Kingdom has toured and recorded with great success under the leadership of Ray McVay.^[109] The official Glenn Miller Orchestra for Europe has been led by Wil Salden since 1990.^[110]

Army Air Force band legacy [link]

In the mid-1940s, after Miller's disappearance, the Miller-led Army Air Force band was decommissioned and sent back to the United States. "The chief of the European theater asked [Warrant Officer Harold Lindsay] Lin [Arinson] to put together another band to take its place, and that's when the 314 was formed." According to singer Tony Bennett who sang with it while in the service, the 314 was the immediate successor to the Glenn Miller led AAF orchestra.^[111] The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band's long term legacy has carried on with the Airmen of Note, a band within the United States Air Force Band. This band was created in 1950 from smaller groups within the Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. and continues to play jazz music for the Air Force community and the general public.^[83]

Posthumous events [link]

Glenn Miller's widow, Helen, died in 1966.^[112] Herb Miller, Glenn Miller's brother, led his own band in the United States and England until the late 1980s.^[113] Herb's son, John continues the tradition leading a band playing mainly Glenn Miller style music.^[114] In 1989, Glenn Miller's daughter Jonnie purchased her father's house where he was born. The Glenn Miller Foundation was created to oversee the subsequent restoration.^[115]

In 1953, Universal-International pictures released The Glenn Miller Story, starring James Stewart.^[116] In 1953, Glenn Miller was voted into the Down Beat magazine Jazz Hall of Fame in the Readers' Poll. In 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Glenn Miller postage stamp.^[117] The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammys), honored Glenn Miller by including three of his recordings in their Hall of Fame: In 1983, "In The Mood", Bluebird B-10416-A, was inducted. The recording of "Moonlight Serenade", Bluebird B-10214-B, was also honored by the Grammys in similar fashion in 1991. "Chattanooga Choo Choo", Bluebird B-11230-B, was inducted in 1996.^[118] In 2003, Miller received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.^[119]

In the United States and England, there are a few archives that are devoted to Glenn Miller.^[120] The University of Colorado, Boulder, has an extensive Glenn Miller Archive, which houses many of Miller's recordings, gold records and other memorabilia, which is open to scholarly research and the general public.^[121] This archive, formed by Alan Cass, includes the original manuscript to Miller's theme song, "Moonlight Serenade", among other items of interest.^[122] In 2002, the Glenn Miller Museum opened to the public at the former RAF Twinwood Farm, in Clapham, Bedfordshire, England.^[123] Miller's surname resides on the 'Wall of Missing' at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial. A monument stone was also placed in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut next to the campus of Yale University.^[124]

Glenn Miller arranging staff and compositions [link]

Miller had a staff of arrangers who wrote originals like "String of Pearls" (written and arranged by Jerry Gray)^[125] or took originals like "In The Mood" (writing credit given to Joe Garland)^[126] and arranged by Eddie Durham^[127]) and "Tuxedo Junction" (written by bandleader Erskine Hawkins)^[128] and arranged by Jerry Gray)^[129]) and arranged them for the Miller band to either record or broadcast. Glenn Miller's staff of arrangers in his civilian band, that handled the bulk of the work were Jerry Gray (a former arranger for Artie Shaw), Bill Finegan (a former arranger for Tommy Dorsey),^[130] Billy May^[131] and to a much smaller extent, George Williams,^[132] who worked very briefly with the band as well as Andrews Sisters arranger Vic Schoen^[133]^[134] According to Norman Leyden, "[s]everal others [besides Leyden] arranged for Miller in the service, including Jerry Gray, Ralph Wilkinson, Mel Powell, and Steve Steck."^[135] In 1943, Glenn Miller wrote Glenn Miller's Method for Orchestral Arranging, published by the Mutual Music Society in New York,^[136] a one hundred sixteen page book with illustrations and scores that explains how he wrote his musical arrangements.

Discography [link]

Main article: Glenn Miller discography

Glenn Miller composed individually or in collaboration with others at least fourteen songs that are available on recordings. He added lyrics to an additional tune. These and many other songs were recorded by Miller with his pre-war civilian bands and his Army Air Force band.

Band alumni [link]

Many of the Miller musicians went on to studio and touring careers in Hollywood and New York after World War II. Musicians who went from the Miller bands to important reputations afterwards include:

George Siravo, 1916–2000^[137] was an arranger with Glenn Miller's first band in the late 1930s. Siravo went on to become a staff arranger with Columbia Records in the 1940s, working with Frank Sinatra^[138] and Doris Day.^[139]

Billy May, 1916–2004^[140] a trumpeter and an arranger for the civilian band,^[141]^[142] became a much-coveted arranger and studio orchestra leader after that band broke up, going on to work with Frank Sinatra,^[143] Rosemary Clooney,^[144] Anita O'Day,^[145] and Bing Crosby,^[144] among other singers of the post-war era.

Cornetist Bobby Hackett,1915–1976^[146] solos on "A String of Pearls", with Miller in 1941, for Bluebird records.^[147] "^[148]^[149] Hackett went on to work with Jackie Gleason and Dizzy Gillespie.^[150]

Johnny Desmond, 1919–1985^[151] a lead vocalist from the Army Air Force Band, became a popular singer in the 1950s, and appeared on Broadway in the 1960s in Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand.^[152]

Kay Starr, b. 1922^[153] became a pop, jazz and country singer in the post-war period. In 1939, Marion Hutton, the regular "girl singer", became sick and sixteen year old Kay Starr was flown in to replace her.^[154] Kay Starr's two recordings with Glenn Miller were two 1939 sides, "Baby Me" and "Love With a Capital You".^[155]

Artie Malvin, 1922–2006^[156] Glenn Miller's AAF Band had a vocal group called "The Crew Chiefs". Artie Malvin was the baritone of the four men. After World War II and Miller's death, Malvin became heavily immersed in the popular music of the forties and fifties, being involved in everything from children's music to the nascent beginnings of rock to jingles for commercials.^[156] By the 1970s Artie Malvin was involved with "The Carol Burnett Show"^[157] doing special musical material.^[158]

Paul Tanner, b. 1917^[159] trombonist for the civilian band, went on to create the electrotheremin and perform on songs such as Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys^[160]

Some of the Army Air Force members went on to notable careers in classical music and modern jazz. Three such are:

Norman Leyden b. 1917^[161] an arranger from the Army Air Force Band^[162] later became a noted arranger in New York, composing arrangements for Sarah Vaughan,^[163]^[164] among other artists. His long career culminated with his highly regarded work for the Oregon Symphony, now as Laureate Associate Conductor.^[165]^[166]

Mel Powell, 1923–1998,^[167] was the pianist and one of the arrangers in the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band. Gary Giddins comments on "[Miller's] splendid forty-two-piece Army Air Force Band’s startling performance of 'Mission to Moscow.'”^[168] "Mission to Moscow" was arranged by Mel Powell, the former pianist for the Benny Goodman orchestra before he was drafted into the service and subsequently joined the Miller orchestra. "Pearls on Velvet" with the Air Force Band is also one of his compositions.^[169] "In 1949, he decided on a radical change of direction, setting aside jazz and enrolling as a pupil of the composer and teacher Paul Hindemith at Yale University."^[167] Powell started teaching at the California Institute for the Arts in Los Angeles in 1969.^[170]

Addison Collins, Jr. played French Horn in the service band. He is featured as "Junior" Collins on the Miles Davis Birth of the Cool recordings of 1949–50.^[171]

Drummer and biographer:

George T. Simon 1912–2001. George Simon knew and worked with Glenn Miller from his early sideman days to the days of leading his civilian band and finally, worked with him when he was stateside with the Army Air Force band. Simon was a drummer for some of the Miller bands. He helped his friend Glenn Miller with personnel using the connections that Simon had as editor with the now defunct Metronome magazine.^[172] George Simon wrote the liner notes for eleven Miller reissues, among them: Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band, 1955, Glenn Miller On The Air, 1963, and Glenn Miller: A Legendary Performer, 1974.^[173] During a long career, he also wrote articles with topics ranging from Miller and Frank Sinatra to Thelonious Monk. In 1974, Simon won a Grammy award for his liner notes for the RCA record: Bing Crosby: A Legendary Performer.^[174]

Notes [link]

^ The website for Arlington National Cemetery refers to Glenn Miller as "missing in action since Dec. 15, 1944" see "Major Glenn Miller", Arlington National Cemetery by Kathryn Shenkle. Accessed March 2012.
^ Glenn Miller had 23 number one records and 72 top ten hits from 1939 to 1943 see "Song artist 6 - Glenn Miller", Tsort, Accessed March 2012, more than Elvis Presley (18 #1s, 38 top 10s) and The Beatles (20 #1s, 33 top 10s) had in their careers. See "The Glenn Miller story", GlennMillerOrchestra.se. See "How many songs did Glenn Miller write?", Wiki.Answers.com. See Overview of Achievements, Elvis Presley Enterprises inc. Accessed 2011-09-09.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Glenn Miller History". Glenn Miller Birthplace Society. http://www.glennmiller.org/history.html. Retrieved March 8, 2011.
^ "Famous Sigma Nu's", Oregonstate.edu. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ "Who Is Joseph Schillinger?", The Schillinger System.
^ "Benny Goodman's Boys", Red Hot Jazz.
^ Conner, D. Russell, and Warner W. Hicks, BG-Off the Record, Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York, 1969. ISBN 87000-059-4
^ Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Niel Shell and Barbara Shilkret, Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5128-8.
^ Stockdale, Robert L., Tommy Dorsey on the Side, Studies in Jazz, No. 19, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey, 1995.
^ "Red McKenzie and his Mound City Blowers". Wayne Brandtner contributor. unknown date published. http://www.redhotjazz.com/mound.html. Retrieved March 2012.
^ Simon, George T. (1980). Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, p. 42. De Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80129-9.
^ Simon (1980) says in Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, on page 42, when he asked Miller years later what recordings he made were his favorites, he specifically singled out the Mound City Blue Blowers sessions.
^ Twomey, John. "Who Was Glenn Miller?". Jazzsight.com. http://www.jazzsight.com/jazzsightprofiles.html. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c Simon (1980), pp. 65–66.
^ Simon (1980), p. 9.
^ "Annie's Cousin Fanny" was recorded for Decca and Brunswick, a total of three times. The Brunswick release is catalogued Brunswick 6938 and one of the Decca recordings is catalogued Decca 117-A. These recordings are from the summer of 1934. See the website "Dorsey Brothers Orchesta", RedHotJazz.com for more information about dates
^ "Dese Dem Dose" was recorded February 6, 1935 and released on the Decca label. For more information and where the preceding sentence was taken from, see "Dorsey Brothers Orchesta", RedHotJazz.com
^ The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935) – Full cast and crew list., Internet Movie Database.
^ George Thomas Simon, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, New York: Crowell, 1974, ISBN 978-0-690-00470-0, p. 105.
^ Spink, George. "Music in the Miller Mood". http://www.tuxjunction.net/glennmiller.htm.
^ Simon (1980), p. 122.
^ Simon, George T. (1971). Simon Says: The Sights and Sounds of the Swing Era. New York: Galahad Books. p. 491. ISBN 0-88365-001-0. http://books.google.com/?id=G354PAAACAAJ&dq=simon+says+the+sights+and+sounds+of+the+swing+era.
^ Simon (1980), p. 143.
^ Twomey, Jazzsight.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Schuller, Gunther (1991). The swing era: the development of jazz, 1930–1945. New York: Oxford University. p. 667. ISBN 0-19-507140-9. http://books.google.com/?id=Zc4Lh9KC2MIC.
^ Simon (1980), p. 170.
^ "New King". Time Magazine. November 27, 1939. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762896,00.html.
^ Glennmillerorchestra.com. Glennmillerorchestra.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Simon (1980), p. 91.
^ The entire output of Chesterfield-sponsored radio programs Glenn Miller did between 1939 and 1942 were recorded by the Glenn Miller organization on acetate discs.
^ Simon (1980), pp. 197, 314.
^ Miller, Glenn, A Legendary Performer, RCA, 1939/1991.
^ "Band Bio", The Modernaires (October 20, 2000). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ "Marion Hutton, 67, Vocalist With Glenn Miller Orchestra". The New York Times: p. 1. January 12, 1987. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFDA1338F931A25752C0A961948260. Retrieved May 3, 2010.
^ Glenn Miller » Biography, Legacy Recordings (copyright 2011). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ "Ray Eberle", Solid!.
^ Kay Starr Biography, Members.tripod.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Ernie Caceres, Landing.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Solid! – Dorothy Claire, Parabrisas.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Liner notes to RCA Vi LPT 6701, also see ''Moonlight Serenade'' by John Flower. (PDF) . Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ King ?, Pete. "Lynn Bari's Ghost Singer Pat Friday". Big Band Buddies. p. 1. http://www.bigbandbuddies.co.uk/Pat-friday.htm.
^ Sun Valley Serenade (1941), Internet Movie Database.
^ Orchestra Wives (1942), Internet Movie Database.
^ Henry, William A. (1993). The Great One: The Life and Times of Jackie Gleason. New York: Pharos. p. 4. ISBN 0-8161-5603-4. http://books.google.com/?id=aqw3AAAACAAJ&dq=THe+Great+One:+The+Life+and+Legend+of+Jackie+Gleason.
^ "DVD Savant Review: Orchestra Wives". DvD Talk. October 27, 2005. http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1787wive.html.
^ Harry/Henry Morgan was also cast in 1953's The Glenn Miller Story as Miller's pianist, Chummy MacGregor. See "The Glenn Miller Story", TCM.com.
^ Miller co-wrote with Billy May the instrumental "Boom Shot" for the Orchestra Wives soundtrack. See Moonlight Serenade, p. 428, for catalogue listing by 20th Century Fox and writing credits.
^ Variety, September 16, 1942.
^ "Glenn Miller: 'A Memorial, 1944–2004'", Big Band Library. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Simon (1980), p. 241.
^ For an example, see a mention in Time magazine from November 23, 1942. "U.S. jive epicures consider the jazz played by such famous name bands as Tommy Dorsey's or Glenn Miller's a low, commercial product.", Time, web: "Music: Jive for Epicures", Time.
^ Zammarchi, Fabrice (2005). A Life In The Golden Age of Jazz: A Biography of Buddy De Franco. Seattle: Parkside. pp. 232–234. ISBN 0-9617266-6-0. http://books.google.com/?id=TFlmAAAACAAJ.
^ Albertson, Chris, Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Force Band, 1943–1944, Bluebird/RCA, 1987. Liner notes.
^ Another reference by Miller's friend George T. Simon, states "[Glenn Miller] resented critics who focused almost entirely on his band's jazz or lack of it. (Leonard Feather was a pet peeve)[...]." see Simon (1971), p. 275.
^ As recently as 1997 on a website administered by JazzTimes, Miller is listed as an example of an overrated jazz musician by Doug Ramsey. "Miller was a businessman who discovered a popular formula from which he allowed little departure. A disproportionate ratio of nostalgia to substance keeps his music alive." see http://jazztimes.com/articles/24803-who-s-overrated-who-s-underrated for Ramsey's credentials see http://jazztimes.com/contributors/27-doug-ramsey
^ "Stride and Swing: The Enduring Appeal of Fats Waller and Glenn Miller". The New Yorker. 2004. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/31/040531crmu_music.
^ Among Gunther Schuller's credentials are Professor of Composition at Yale University, Artist in Residence at the University of Wisconsin Madison and former president of the New England Conservatory of Music. He is also the past recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. See Wisc.edu URL: Wisc-schuller.
^ ^a ^b Gary Giddins is a New York based jazz and film critic who has written for the Village Voice and the New York Sun. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Visions of Jazz: The First Century. See "Biography", GaryGiddins.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Schuller, pp. 662, 670, 677.
^ Armstrong, Louis. "Reel to Reel." The Paris Review. Spring 2008: 63.
^ Zwerin, Mike. (August 17, 1995) ''George Shearing at 76:Still Holding His Own''. International Herald Tribune. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Keepnews, Peter (February 14, 2011). "George Shearing, ‘Lullaby of Birdland’ Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91", The New York Times The article says: "What [Shearing] was aiming for [...] was 'a full block sound, which, if it was scored for saxophones, would sound like the Glenn Miller sound. And coming at the end of the frenetic bebop era, the timing seemed to be right.'"
^ Torme, Mel (1988). It Wasn't All Velvet. New York: Penguin. pp. 42–44. ISBN 0-86051-571-0. http://books.google.com/?id=7eeuPQAACAAJ&dq=mel+torme+it+wasn%27t+all+velvet.
^ Simon (1971), p. 359.
^ Frank Sinatra's recording sessions from the late forties and early fifties use some Miller musicians. Trigger Alpert, a bassist from the civilian band, Zeke Zarchy for the Army Air Force Band and Willie Schwartz, the lead clarinetist from the civilian band back up Frank Sinatra on many recordings. see "Frank Sinatra Discography: The Columbia Years — 1942 - 1946", Steve-Albin.com for Sinatra record sessions for Columbia and Capitol that use these musicians.
^ Ernie Caceres, the Miller band's baritone saxophonist also appears on several Frank Sinatra recordings. For one example see [1] October 22, 1947.
^ Susman, Gary (2005). "Goodbye: Jazz titan Artie Shaw dies. The clarinet master and top swing-era bandleader was 94". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1013447,00.html.
^ For another source which intercuts critiques by Gary Giddins and Artie Shaw about Glenn Miller, see Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns. Episode Five. Dir. Ken Burns. 2000. DVD. Florentine Films, 2000.
^ "Buddy DeFranco Biography". CYber SItes Inc. Date published unknown. http://www.buddydefranco.com/bio.html.
^ Zammarchi 238
^ DeFranco's favorite Miller recordings are "Skylark" and "Indian Summer" see Zammarchi 237
^ Zammarchi 237
^ Simon (1980), pp. 309–310.
^ Simon (1980), p. 324.
^ ^a ^b They Served Here: Thirty-Three Maxwell Men, "Glenn Miller", pp. 37–38. Benton, Jeffrey C. (1999). Air University Press.
^ "War Two: The Stars Wore Stripes", Ftmeade.army.mil. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music. EMI, expert-level blog by Donald Clarke (writer)
^ Hugh Palmer. ''Glenn Miller: The Lost Recordings''. Tarcl.com (April 30, 1944). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Kater, Michael (2003) [1992]. Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany. US: Oxford University Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-19-516553-1.
^ Erenberg, Lewis (1999). Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture. US: University Of Chicago Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-226-21517-4.
^ Visit Abbey Road. ''1940s'', Abbeyroad.com (September 16, 1944). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ James H. "Jimmie" Doolittle – Outstanding Man of Aviation. Centennialofflight.gov. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Legendary bandleader Glenn Miller disappears over the English Channel", History.com.
^ Butcher, pp. 203–205.
^ "The Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller". BBC. July 20, 2004. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2654822.
^ The Glenn Miller Story
^ Roth, Howard. "The Glenn Miller Mystery". http://www.mboss.force9.co.uk/twinwood/roth/index.htm.
^ "Miller book 'garbage,' expert says", RockyMountainNews.com.
^ The Glenn Miller Conspiracy The Secret Story of His Life – and Death.. Creative Book Pub Intl. 2008. ISBN 0-9779131-6-3.
^ "The Glenn Miller Conspiracy The Secret Story of His Life – and Death in the Editorial Reviews section". Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.. http://www.amazon.com/Glenn-Miller-Conspiracy-Never-Before-Told-Story/dp/0977913163/. "While Downs' research has some merit, his breathlessly written suppositions sometimes read like the worst JFK assassination books."
^ Simon (1980), pp. 354, 434.
^ Simon (1980), p. 433.
^ Simon (1980), pp. 437–39.
^ Butcher, p. 262.
^ Henry Mancini at All About Jazz, Allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Simon (1980), p. 258.
^ "Developer Buying Hollywood Palladium ", Yehoodi.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c Butcher, page 263
^ Simon (1980), p. 439.
^ George Simon (1980) in Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, p. 439, says it happened in December of 1950.
^ "Former Leaders". Glennmillerorchestra.com. http://www.glennmillerorchestra.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=5. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
^ Solid!, Bob Chester biography/filmography, Parabrisas.com (March 20, 1908). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Ralph Flanagan, Bigbandlibrary.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ "Jerry Gray", Bigbandlibrary.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Solid!, Ray Anthony biography/filmography, Parabrisas.com (January 20, 1922). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ The Glenn Miller Story (1953) at the Internet Movie Database
^ "Ray McKinley", Drummerworld.
^ [2].
^ BBC – Devon Theatre – Review – Glenn Miller Orchestra at Plymouth Pavilions, BBC. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Glenn Miller Orchestra :: Portrait Wil Salden, Glenn-miller.de (October 20, 2010). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Bennett, Tony (1998). The Good Life. New York: Pocket Books. p. 312. ISBN 0-671-02469-8. http://books.google.com/?id=BYSYAAAACAAJ&dq=the+good+life+tony+bennett.
^ Simon, page 434. ^{[Full citation needed]}
^ "Big Bands Database Plus", Nfo.net. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Johnmillerorchestra.org.uk, Johnmillerorchestra.org.uk (March 27, 2010). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ retrieved January 4, 2009, "Glennmiller.org" (June 10, 2010). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Ray Eberle, Marion Hutton and Tex Beneke do not appear in or are referred to in this movie. "Perhaps the only faults The Glenn Miller Story can be cited for are the obvious liberties that were taken with the band leader's career and a tendency to become overly sentimental at times.", see [3] Richard Steiner, The Glenn Miller Story.
^ "Glenn Miller Biography", Internet Movie Database.]
^ "Grammy Hall of Fame". The Recording Academy. 2009. http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame.
^ "Glenn Miller", Colorado.edu.
^ In June 2009, it was announced that the Glenn Miller Birthplace Society in Clarinda, Iowa, was building a 5,600 foot museum to house "memorabilia from [Glenn Miller's] musical career." The museum in Glenn Miller's birthplace has been in the works since 1990, according to the USA Today article.
^ "Glenn Miller Archive". University of Colorado. http://music.colorado.edu/departments/amrc/gma/.
^ "CU-Boulder's Glenn Miller Archive Receives Major Gift Including Seldom-Heard Music", University of Colorado at Boulder (May 1, 2007). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
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^ [5], All About Jazz. ''Bill Finegan Arranger for Dorsey, Miller Bands Dies'']. Allaboutjazz.com (June 9, 2008). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Augustand, Melissa (February 2, 2004). "DIED. BILLY MAY, 87". Time magazine. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993262,00.html.
^ Obituaries. ''George Williams, Musical Arranger, 71.'']. New York Times (April 21, 1988). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Gottlieb, Jeff (January 8, 2000). "Vic Schoen, Musician and Composer, Dies at 83". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/08/local/me-52090.
^ Years later he married Miller singer Marion Hutton see [6].
^ "Glenn Miller, part two", Big Band Library. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ "PBS – JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography – Glenn Miller". PBS. Date published unknown. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_miller_glen.htm.
^ "'Space Age Musicmaker George Siravo' George Siravo biography/" retrieved September 3, 2009.
^ For example, see the recording session of November 7, 1946.[7] and October 19, 1947 [8]
^ See [9], three songs are listed as collaborations between Day and Siravo, beginning with "It's Magic", recorded in 1947.
^ "Billy May biography", Internet Movie Database. retrieved November 17, 2008.
^ "Billy May Biography", Swingmusic.net. Swingmusic.net. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Billy May was hired from Charlie Barnet's band by Glenn Miller and joined in 1940. Miller and May had a wary relationship with each other. According to Will Friedwald, by 1942, May was ready to resign from the Miller band. A few reasons were, Miller refused to record half of May's arrangements and May objected to the regimented style of Miller's band. But since Miller was joining the military, he convinced May to stay on until the band broke up. May finally said around 1995, after a life of heavy drinking and going to rehabilitation for alcoholism, that working with Glenn Miller "helped me immensely. I learned a lot from Glenn. He was a good musician and an excellent arranger." see Sinatra! The Song Is You. Will Friedwald, p. 280.
^ "Spacepop.com. ''Billy May''", Spaceagepop.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Fancy Meeting You Here - Bing Crosby". AllMusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/fancy-meeting-you-here-r1409939/credits. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
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^ Simon 267^{[Full citation needed]}
^ Other Miller recordings Hackett appears on include an aircheck of "Vilia", an aircheck of "April in Paris" and the studio recording of "Serenade in Blue". Richard M. Sudhalter in his book Lost Chords feels that Hackett's best work with Miller is in an aircheck version of "Little Brown Jug" from 1942 where he plays off the "muscularity" of Tex Beneke's saxophone solo. Sudhalter sees this version as done in a "slower, more rocking tempo than on the 1939 Bluebird recording". Before, during and after the time Miller hired Hackett, Hackett had a large reputation in the jazz community. George Simon says in the same book, that whenever Hackett soloed with the band,"fellow sidemen 'obviously as excited as the dancers, stopped to listen to Bobby solo'." All aircheck information from Sudhalter, Richard (1999). Lost Chords. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 928. ISBN 0-19-505585-3. http://books.google.com/?id=rqckHQAACAAJ&dq=Lost+Chords.
^ "Bobby Hackett", Space Age Music Maker, Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
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^ The songs Starr sang were in Hutton's key and Starr said she sounded like a "a jazzed up Alfalfa" since they weren't in her range. "'They would ask me, 'is that in your range? and I didn't know so I just said yes because I only knew two kinds of ranges-one of them you cooked on and the other was where the cows were.[...] I just loved music and I thought as long as I start and end with the band I've done my job." Kay Starr to Will Friedwald, A Biographical Guide To The Great Jazz and Pop Singers, 2010, New York, Pantheon Books, p. 443.
^ Who is Kay Starr?: A short biography, Members.tripod.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Artie Malvin", Spaceagepop.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ [11].
^ He won an Emmy for the Burnett show parody of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies: Hi-Hat.[12] The Burnett show does a tribute to The Glenn Miller Story which opens with Burnett singing "Moonlight Serenade". [undated]
^ "Paul Tanner", Spaceagepop.com (October 15, 1917). Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ "The Paul Tanner Electrothermin Page". David S. Miller. 1997–2007. http://www.electrotheremin.com/PTE-TPage.html.
^ Norman Leyden's Big Band Birthday | OregonLive.com. Blog.oregonlive.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Norman Leyden at the Internet Movie Database
^ Specifically, in the liner notes for The Divine Sarah Vaughan The Columbia Years 1949–1953 (1988 Columbia C2K 44165) written by Gene Lees the discography refers to "Thinking of You", "Perdido" and "I'll Know" as three Leyden arrangements for Vaughan from 1950. See page 10 of the enclosed booklet.
^ "Inspired from Leslie Gourse's biography of Sarah Vaughan", Michaelminn.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ "News Release", February 27, 2004. Oregon Symphony. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
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^ Giddins, Gary. (January 7, 2009) "Stride and Swing", The New Yorker. Retrieved on July 29, 2011.
^ Allmusic at www.allmusic.com
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^ "The Jazz Horn". Harlan Feinstein. 2006. http://feinsteins.net/music/jazzhorn.html.
^ "Critics, Journalists and Other Writers: George T. Simon". Chris Popa. 2004. http://www.bigbandlibrary.com/georgetsimon.html.
^ see Chris Popa
^ see Chris Popa for list of liner notes authored by George Simon.^{[Full citation needed]}

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Compositions	Moonlight Serenade Room 1411 (Goin' to Town) Sold American Solo Hop Introduction to a Waltz Annie's Cousin Fanny Dese Dem Dose When Icky Morgan Plays the Organ Doin' the Jive Community Swing Sometime Boom Shot Seven-O-Five I Sustain the Wings I'm Headin' For California I Swung the Election Wings on Parade: The Flaming Sword of Liberation After Tonight Morning Mood The Technical Training Command Basin Street Blues

Billboard hit records	Solo Hop (1935) Every Day's a Holiday (1938) The Woodpecker Song (1940) Pennsylvania 6-5000 (1940) Tuxedo Junction (1940) In the Mood (1940) Stardust (1940) Danny Boy (1940) Crosstown (1940) The Nearness of You (1940) The Song of the Volga Boatmen (1941) It Happened in Sun Valley (1941) Chattanooga Choo Choo (1941) Elmer's Tune (1941) I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem (1941) (I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo (1942) A String of Pearls (1942) That Old Black Magic (1943) Here We Go Again (1944)

Band alumni	Tex Beneke Ray McKinley George Siravo Billy May Bobby Hackett Johnny Desmond Kay Starr Artie Malvin Paul Tanner Norman Leyden Mel Powell Addison Collins, Jr. Hal McIntyre Charlie Spivak Ray Eberle Al Klink Johnny Best Wilbur Schwartz Ernie Caceres Ray Anthony Peanuts Hucko Jerry Gray Trigger Alpert

Filmography	Sun Valley Serenade (1941) Orchestra Wives (1942)

Related articles	Discography Bluebird Records The Glenn Miller Story

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Name	Miller, Glenn
Alternative names	Miller, Alton Glenn
Short description	Jazz musician
Date of birth	(1904-03-01)March 1, 1904
Place of birth	Clarinda, Iowa, U.S
Date of death	December 15, 1944(1944-12-15)
Place of death	English Channel (assumed)

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Early life and career [link]

Success from 1938 to 1942 [link]

Bluebird Records and Glen Island Casino [link]

Motion pictures [link]

Critical reaction [link]

Reaction from musical peers [link]

The Army Air Force Band 1942–1944 [link]

Disappearance [link]

Civilian band legacy [link]

Army Air Force band legacy [link]

Posthumous events [link]

Glenn Miller arranging staff and compositions [link]

Discography [link]

Band alumni [link]

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