In 1942 Glenn received an officer's commission in the U S Army Air Corps an… Read Full Bio ↴In 1942 Glenn received an officer's commission in the U S Army Air Corps and organized a service band, performed at military camps, and hosted a weekly radio series. In 1944, Glenn took his band to Great Britain, performed for the troops and did radio broadcasts.
On December 15th, 1944, Glenn Miller boarded a transport plane to Paris, never to be seen again. The band was kept together to perform, mainly under the leadership of Tex Beneke.

The Saint Louis Blues March
Glenn Miller and The Army Air Force Band Lyrics

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I hate to see that evening sun go down
I hate to see that evening sun go down
Cause my baby, he's gone left this town

Feelin' tomorrow like I feel today
If I'm feelin' tomorrow like I feel today
I'll pack my truck and make my give-a-way

St. Louis woman with her diamond ring
Pulls that man around by her, if it wasn't for her and her
That man I love would have gone nowhere, nowhere

I got the St. Louis blues, blues as I can be
That man's got a heart like a rock cast in the sea
Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me

I love my baby like a school boy loves his pie

Like a Kentucky colonel loves his mint 'n rye
I love my man till the day I die

Overall Meaning

The St. Louis Blues March by Glenn Miller & The Army Air Force Band is a swinging, up-tempo take on the classic blues song. The lyrics express sadness and heartache as the singer laments the departure of their lover. The opening lines, "I hate to see that evening sun go down, cause my baby, he's gone left this town," set the tone for the rest of the song. The singer is clearly in a state of despair and feels lost without their partner.

The second verse, "Feelin' tomorrow like I feel today, if I'm feelin' tomorrow like I feel today, I'll pack my truck and make my give-a-way," suggests that the singer is considering leaving town in search of a fresh start. However, the lyrics then turn their attention to the St. Louis woman who is responsible for their lover's departure: "St. Louis woman with her diamond ring, pulls that man around by her, if it wasn't for her and her, that man I love would have gone nowhere, nowhere." Despite her anger towards the woman who stole her lover, the singer acknowledges that it is their lover's fault for leaving them.

Overall, the lyrics of The St. Louis Blues March capture the pain and sorrow of lost love. The song's upbeat tempo and lively instrumentation almost create a sense of defiance in the face of heartbreak.

Line by Line Meaning

I hate to see that evening sun go down
I despise the thought of the sun disappearing into the horizon at dusk

Cause my baby, he's gone and left this town
My lover has departed, leaving this place and me behind

Feelin' tomorrow like I feel today
If the circumstances of tomorrow are similar to those of today

If I'm feelin' tomorrow like I feel today
In the event that I experience the same emotions and feelings tomorrow as I am today

I'll pack my truck and make my give-a-way
I intend to load my car and leave this place soon enough

St. Louis woman with her diamond ring
A lady from St. Louis sporting an opulent diamond ring

Pulls that man around by her if it wasn't for her and her, That man I love would have gone nowhere, nowhere
Her influence is strong enough to keep him tied to her, and if it weren't for her power over him, he wouldn't succeed in anything

I got the St. Louis blues, blues as I can be
I am afflicted with the St. Louis blues; more melancholic than ever

That man's got a heart like a rock cast in the sea
My lover has an unbreakable heart as if it were a stone sunk into the depths of the ocean

Or else he wouldn't have gone so far from me
Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone as far away from me as he did

I love my baby like a school boy loves his pie
I love my baby with the intensity of a schoolboy loving his favorite dessert

Like a Kentucky colonel loves his mint 'n rye
With as much ardor as a Kentucky colonel cherishes his mint and rye drinks

I love my man till the day I die
I will cherish and adore my lover all the way until death claims me

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Peermusic Publishing, HANDY BROTHERS MUSIC CO.,INC., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: William Christopher Handy

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Comments from YouTube:

@BillFEILHAUER-bu7go

10w

A professional drummer since 1968, I had the honor of backing up Johnny Desmond in Cincinnati in 77,at the ratskeller .I was raised on his music and couldn't believe I got the call. He was a god givin sweetheart to work with and hang out with. My parents were blown away seeing their kid on that stage. Mom swooned and dad got autographed pictures and took pictures I have to this day. It was the high point of my drumming career.I actually cried when I heard he left us at 65 of cancer. God bless and keep this wonderful human being and thank you Johnny for giving us something all the gold 🥇 in the world can't buy .the most beautiful voice ever created. 😢I'll never forget you my good friend.

@he7743

1y↑44

I am currently 15. I have always had a fond love for Glenn Miller’s music and my boyfriend does as well. Unlike many people in the comments, I never had been exposed to it prior from a grandparent or other wise. I discovered it on my own and quickly fell in love. It warms my heart to see older generations sharing beautiful stories of their youth and I hope to see more people from my generation enjoy this music as well :)

@classicalhollywood3254

36w↑4

Same me to I’m also 15

@ingoditrust7784

23w↑1

I was your age forty years ago and liked oldies. Big Elvis fan, too

@steveperry1344

17w

i'm 74 and it was kinda the same for me. we have an ear for good music i'd say.

@DevilDogDen1775

8w↑1

Back in 1975, I began playing Trombone, and then in High School I switched to Trumpet. Our music teacher Mr. Schuster was really into big band music, especially Glen Miller. Anyway he really turned us onto this type of music, and it was a blast to play this type of music when we put on a concert. Hearing this song brings back some really great memories... Thanks, Mr. Schuster.... You were a great teacher, and a great inspiration....❤

@mikebrzostowski8183

4y↑112

I'm 69 years old, have been listening to Glen Miller and big band music for as long as I can remember. He was the greatest and this is the absolute best St .louis Blues march, period. Gooo St. Louis Blues!

@bgdavenport

4y↑1

I'm two years behind you and agreeing with you all the way! Saw the GM Orchestra several times, but the best is when they played the USAF Museum in Dayton, OH with the Airmen of Note doing the vocals .....AND Glenn Miller's son playing his father's trombone which the Museum has on permanent display. Talking about raising the hair on the back of you head. That was in the 80s and I still get the same reaction!

@loydenochs8572

3y↑1

I'm 67 and also has had this music in my ears from childhood. A great version pf the St Louis Blues March. But as a Boston Bruins fan, I'm glad the St Louis Blues took "Gloria" as their theme music and not this ;)

@cherylmaroz5512

3y↑1

Hey Mike I was raised on this Big Band Music hon, I am 64 hearing exactly what you are saying. I dance Swing, care to dance?

@brianneale2006

3y↑1

Yep, he sure was

@stevenpetryk2249

3y↑1

I'm 61 y/o and I've loved big band swing since I was a tender age kid. Miller, Goodman, The Dorsey's....Count Basie, Arrive Shaw...

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@helmuthofmann5596

in my hwole life nobody could compete with this original, all those post Miller bands couldnt. I am now 80 years young....

@arlenestacko3647

2y↑25

Best version of the St. Louis Blues March ever! And I've heard many. He really jazzed it up. He belonged to my parent's generation. It's to bad he died young. There was more talent left in him. Thanks for keeping his music alive for the new generation.

@Poisson4147

1y↑4

He had SO many plans. Based on what I've read from people who knew him, he hoped to:

> Establish a music institute in California where people could study, perform, collaborate, and record.
> Make major concert tours around the US and elsewhere
> Open a chain of music stores that would partner with local schools to offer lessons to the next generation of performers
> Possibly branch out into other genres including classical music.

And it's all gone ... 😢😢😢

@barchen36

44w

Wish that we could have marched to it.

@missyortega8304

4y↑10

I'm a veteran and a widow of a veteran. All of my uncles served during ww2. And they were Glenn Miller fans. And our city's old school doctor was a Glenn Miller fan as well. He also was a fighter pilot during world war 2. He lived to be 99. He passed away last month. Each time I listen to this I am reminded of him. Our beautiful city lost a treasure last month. Dr. Richard J.Langston was one of a kind.
Melinda Maybruck Ortega
St Augustine, Florida

@sheila1013

2y↑13

Loved the expression on the major's face when the band began to veer off the usual
Tune and march formation in The Glen Miller Story.
Fab film and lovely tribute to the late, great, Glenn Miller. ♥️🙏

@Poisson4147

He told them he was going to bring military music into the modern world. And he was a man of his word!

One "however" is that the real story of his set-to with the old guard was far sharper than the scene depicted in the movie. Instead of mumbling something to the senior officer and being rescued by another officer, he stopped them cold.

According to biographer George T. Simon the senior officer told Miller something like "We played Sousa in the last war and it was pretty good!". Miller's response? "Sir, are you still flying the same planes that we used in the last war?"

@sheila1013

1y↑1

@@Poisson4147😀 Brilliant story!

@Poisson4147

1y↑1

@@sheila1013 Miller could be a heck of a badass when he felt his integrity was being compromised.

Another story from Simon's bio: when he was just starting out and hurting for money, somebody hooked him up with a promoter who promised some lucrative bookings. The promoter invited several friends to join Miller for dinner at an expensive restaurant. After running up a bill that would be well over a thousand bucks in today's $$, the promoter told the waiter "Mr. Miller will cover the tab."

Glenn handed the bill back to the promoter and said to the effect "If that's what I have to do to get good publicity, forget it" and walked away.

@sheila1013

1y↑1

@@Poisson4147 Good on him! 😄

@stljap242

Man, this takes me back. I remember being a kid from ages 5 to about 12. My dad would let me watch the first 2 periods of the Blues games on tv, then he would make me go to bed after the 2nd. But I would listen to the rest of the game on my radio very softly in my room. After the game, Ron Wilson first, then later Chris Kerber and Kelly chase, this would play as they would thank all the sponsors. This is the most nostalgic thing I’ve ever heard. Simpler times. I’m 29 now, those were good days

@marjoriecolver4887

4y↑56

I'm nearly 80 and I've just bought myself a record player so that I can play all my 78's; 45's ; 33's so Glen Millers ' music will be re-lived and loved

@kimcooper4751

4y↑2

Great 78s were the first way I heard Glen Miller and Tommy Dorsey , Louis Prima and Benny Goodman when everyone was into Rolling Stones l found this and never stopped nothing has the sound of these great bands wife's account and not her opinions and she pretends for me to like it but who doesn't love Perfidia ?

@brianneale2006

3y↑3

Good on you

@johnsarab4500

2y↑1

I discover Miller during the middle of my Beatle time - love them both!

@vglav

2y↑3

I'm 71. The only thing my Dad bought for himself was a Hi Fidelity Stereo to listen to Glen Miller. Me and my brothers heard every album over and over again. It never got old. I still listen to those songs.

@thehummelr

I'm 79 but my story is a carbon copy of yours!

@waynerobert7986

43w↑3

Glenn Miller was the sound track of my early years. Born in 1960. This was the music of my parents generation.

@craigborgardt6396

4y↑8

A real and fun tribute to Mr. Miller and the U.S. Army Air Force and their orchestra as well as to my father-in-law Jerry Zuelsdorf who flew in the Air Corps out of Reims, France 1944-1945. R.I.P. Jerry...gone to heaven April 10, 2014 and I learned to play a keyboard version in your honor. Hope you can hear it! And thanks for your service, Glenn Miller's and all the men & women who literally saved the world from totalitarianism. Job well done !!!

@missyortega8304

4y↑5

My favorite family doctor always had Glenn Miller playing in his office. I was more of a western swing fan, Bob Wills. But, I really appreciated listening to Glenn Miller and I really liked it when I would see my doctor and we'd talk about swing music. My doctor passed away earlier this year. He was 99. I play a lot of Glenn Miller and think about Dr Richard J Langston.

@danna7399

2y↑6

My dad John halliburton played with the army air force band I'm very proud of that

@Poisson4147

Wow! I hope you have some wonderful stories.

If I may, I'd like to recommend the annual Glenn Miller Festival held during the first part of June in his hometown of Clarinda, IA. There are loads of Miller fans, musicians, and historians who I'm sure would love to meet with you.

@lisabrooks9362

12w

My father served with the US 8th Army Air Force ("The Mighty Eighth") on a B-24 Liberator crew, stationed first at RAF Alconbury and then at RAF Hardwick. His unit was the 409th squadron of the 93rd bomb group. He was a veteran of "Operation Tidalwave", the low-level bombing attack on the Romanian oilfields at Ploesti in 1943. He loved Glenn Miller to the moon and back, and particularly this song--because as he told me, "it was OUR song"!

@victormarrotti2575

20w↑1

The Glenn Miller band is the greatest. If you know music, then you know the Glenn Miller sound

@pennysutch6628

5y↑24

5/24/2019.My dad and I loved Glenn Miller.His band played Wright Patterson Air force base.On Saturday mornings dad would play this on the stereo to wake my sister and I to wake up.Miss my Dad.❤💋

@brianlindsay2206

Sunday after church at my house. we always acted like "not again" we all loved it.

@user-cb7dw1ub7t

1y↑3

my husband was stationed in Germany in the 60's. He toured with the 24th Division band, and said everywhere they played this was one of the songs everyone wanted to hear

@stevenpetryk2249

4y↑4

I've always said I was born 30 years too late. I'm 60 years old and I've loved The Swing Era since I was a youngster.
I especially loved performing with bands (orchestras) which played this style of music.

@ronaldciccone260

3y↑8

Glen Miller My Favorite Big Dance Band Of The Forties. RIP Glenn

@calvindavis4213

3y↑5

Played this during my senior year in high school. Played the trombone.

@ilovesuisse1

3y↑13

I have this on a vinyl record of Glenn Miller’s music. Still love hearing this in 2021.

@inconspicuouslobster1575

3y↑4

Listening to this as I toast my middle school band director who passed today. I for some reason distinctly remember him telling me to listen to this song and I did, and so here I am again, as it only seems fitting. Great music.

@jobyrne6453

23w↑3

The best band ever what a great man 😎👍👍❤️

@flowerpower7389

2y↑2

Reminds me so much of my dad he loved Glenn Miller. Used to accompany the drumming on the kitchen sink !

@jimsupinski9714

7y↑36

been listening to this guy all my life.65 years old and still love the music.

@grantglow4206

5y↑2

Brovo sir

@kimcooper4751

4y↑2

Ditto My father played it for me as a teen and I 45 years later still do big band amazing sound wife's account and not her opinions

@TheSharron

3y↑1

71,and I hear ya,loud and strong.

@brendapainter327

2y↑4

The best band I’ve ever heard. Glenn’s band is fabulous to listen to. Timeless

@debbiepeter9406

8y↑60

glenn miller's orchestra still going strong they still play all over the world when music was music

@gloriacovarrubias558

8y↑7

Hi The Glenn miller Band is comeing to our town this week. I cant wait!! I Hope my Dad will be w us in Spirit!! Its this week 😄

@CharlieBrn

5y↑3

I was born in 68. I have all my granddad's and dad's vinyl as well as some CD s including his seldom hear armed force your pieces pieces. (3 CDs)

@algowan6891

7y↑39

I was in Air Force ROTC in the fifties and our flight had trouble marching in step before we heard this Glen Miller hit. Next thing we knew we, including Dick Gregory, were marching and swinging our arms.

@fdobbs37

3y↑4

This is The Glenn Miller Army Air Corps Band. Probably the best band he ever had. I believe this was recorded in England during the war. A true classic. He was a genius.

@Poisson4147

According to Ed Polic's notes for the album this cut came from, it was recorded in the US from a broadcast performance.

And one quibble: as the album cover shows, the orchestra was known as the Army Air Forces Band. The AAC was reorganized in 1941 as the AAF, which was quasi-independent within the Army. It eventually had its own seat on the JCS and its own commanding general. The AAC did still exist, but it was more of an administrative sub-unit.

@mikeytrains1

3y↑3

play this shit at my funeral.

if it isn’t, i’ll play it myself.

@marygeorge6544

5y↑5

How befitting listening to this on the eve of the NHL St Louis Blues capturing the Stanley Cup!!!

@Leif0034

LETS
GO
LETS GO BLUES!
LETS
GO
LETS GO BLUES!

@johnrogan6419

4y↑9

One of the greatest marches of all time. We were so cool back then. What happened?

@johnjamesturner5031

7y↑18

i wasn't a fan of swing until i heard this classic song.it still gives me goosebumps today

@scottspitz3536

5y↑8

I listen to this after every big win. LETS GO BLUES!!!

@Clifton_Clowers597

Let's do this!!!

@phaffner4106

LET'S GO BLUES !!!!!! WHOAH!!!!!!!!!

@elainebmack

10y↑75

What a great march! It must have lifted the spirits of those soldiers during that difficult time.

@kimcooper4751

4y↑3

Wife's account but still does at least when I was in

@johnsarab4500

2y↑1

We should send the tunes to the so brave Ukrainians! Miller did more for moral than anyone else!

@mcmahon1953

8y↑63

Love it...especially on the eve of a major STL Blues game...Let's Go Blues!

@Clifton_Clowers597

5y↑1

Let's go Blues!!!!! Game 1!!!

@odafintutuola7553

15w

I like Glenn miller’s music Very much

@nicholas_lee8458

7y↑11

Brought to you by Dobbs. Budweiser. And your ST. Louis Blues!!!

@phildavis3555

1y↑2

In the mid 1960s , a terrific Drum and Bugle Corps from Utica, NY - “the Magnificent Yankees” played this awesome number as part of their field show competition. STUNNINGLY. Great number!
Phil Davis, Grenadier Alum.

@wurly164

6y↑28

How could anyone not like this song

@GlowStick877

3y↑3

liberals who want to defund the army

@wurly164

3y↑3

@@GlowStick877 liberal thinking is cancer to America

@GlowStick877

3y↑2

@@wurly164 Facts
glad someone agrees

@555agray

2y↑2

My Dad, Jerry Gray, did this arrangement. Al Gray.

@edwardofgreene

8y↑30

For me this always reminds me of the hockey broadcasts on KMOX back in the day. They would play the first 30 seconds or so before every Blues game.

@leftwing831

8y↑2

Let's go Blues

@lorraineloskot7806

7y↑2

Edward Schmidt that would be great if they can replay this before the game.

@Kirbyfan87827

6y↑1

I always wondered what they were playing. Now I know!

@bigboyedward

they never won the cup ............shame

@cornonthecob1268

@@bigboyedward they might now.

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@sallyrwilson9744

7y↑27

this song is dedacated to my dad who loved gleen miler love and miss you daddy lovevsally 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

@jfranklin9549

3y↑1

Mine, too!

@johnrogan6419

4y↑2

As far as I am concerned, music does not get any better than this. The best march, the best big band, the best of the music my father raised me on, perfect. What passes for music today is just utter garbage. A shame.

@Railwayman01

3y↑3

Big band Swing.
LOVE IT!!!!!!❤️

@johnbarthram2761

49w↑2

Still brilliant 👏 shivers down my spine, this tune is America loud and proud god bless the yanks that came here in the war and the yanks that never went home, love from the uk 🇬🇧.

@victordieleanora4339

America at its best...please let's remember these boys and sort out our differences!

@curtmartinson5441

Im 56 and love hearing that song . Its timeless for me

@CharlieBrn

5y↑14

Wish they would play this at blues games.

@elijahdepauli950

They do

@kurtkull326

7y↑27

Nothing like a Big Band sound!!!

@luigitessari5816

2y↑1

Glene Miller bellissima questa marcia

@ssv1364

5y↑7

When I heard it live, in the philharmonic society, and even performed by TWO jazz bands, I was just killed

@marysedeseigne9515

4y↑3

j'adore Glenn Miller!!!

@Poisson4147

D'accord, moi aussi.

@j.peters3053

10y↑21

to uncle bud,he loved this music...RIP!

@andiwilberg5396

5y↑9

The greatest song of all times !

@gloriasmall9323

2y↑1

Let us not EVER l Et this one fall off into oblivion!

@juanmanuelparadacontreras9565

12w

Estupendas melodías de este genial conductor de orquestas en quedar perpetuado por siempre.

@user-pu7dk4fk8n

3y↑4

Как всегда Гленн Миллер верен себе: необычайная ритмичность и мелодийность создают атмосферу праздника и желание потанцевать!

@psimondk

8y↑9

Played this in a marching / symphony band in elementary school - such fond memories :)

@rudolphparayo2158

6y↑10

Would have loved to have heard this during our "pass and review" when I was in ROTC in college.

@lastgreg8488

5y↑16

2019 playoffs LETS GO BLUES!!!

@Clifton_Clowers597

5y↑2

The cup!!!!!

@mikebarryjr4782

8y↑18

love it. go blues.

@voltbloo

5y↑11

LETS GO BLUES

@christianebastien858

8y↑15

J'ai une très forte émotion quand j'entends ce morceau de musique cela me rappelle le bruit des bottines de marche lors d'exercices de parfois longue distance lorsque j'executais mon service militaire au Chasseur Ardennais à Spich en Allemagne fin des années soixante

@user-up8wt4to9u

2y↑2

Я рыдаю .....!!! Вернись ! Мы тебя ждем ,наш Гленн!!!

@jean-francoisvillasis5729

6y↑11

Music to my ears.

@3505fama

8y↑18

Final scene in 1984 "Soldier's Story" has the troops marching off post to this tune. Great movie.

@michaelalexander43

...as the all black platoon marches in preparation for their deployment to the European theatre.

@daveaspen6775

8y↑8

Deborah, Glenn's band kept on going for many years after his passing. Ray and Tex, kept the band "ALIVE!!!!"

@Poisson4147

7y↑2

The Miller Estate hired Tex to keep the orchestra going postwar. Initially it was a slimmed-down version of the AAF Band with about 2/3 of its musicians being alumni of the civilian and/or AAF groups. Tex knew Glenn wouldn't have stood still musically and wanted to move forward with newer arrangements, but the Estate kept pushing him to play the same music over and over. In 1950 they relieved Tex of his leadership and he went out on his own.

There was no official Glenn Miller Orchestra until 1956 when Helen Miller and the execs at RCA decided to re-form the band under Ray McKinley's leadership. That group has performed continuously since under a number of music directors including Buddy Morrow, Peanuts Hucko (AAF lead clarinet), Buddy DeFranco and Larry O'Brien. The current leader is vocalist Nick Hilscher; he's done an unbelievable job of scholarship in bringing back many of the songs that haven't been heard since were performed by the original band.

@daveaspen6775

7y↑1

Thank you Poisson Volant. I guess that The Miller Estate would keep a tight rein on the ORIGIONAL Glenn Miller "DOT'S" as that was what, I guess, the Glenn Miller fans wanted to hear, as I did. The only TRUE tribute to Glenn, here in the UK, was Syd Lawrence. He took all of the "DOT'S" from the origional 78 RPM records, to re-create Glenn's sound. I saw Syd "LIVE" in concert twice, it was just like listening to Glenn. It is ok to say Glenn's music would have " MOVED ON" and I accept that, BUT! I love to listen to Glenn, as Glenn was.

@daveaspen6775

Please email me on doddydave@googlemail.com as I would like to keep our conversations a bit private. I don't really like posting to the world.

@adrienneshearer4284

Saw Tex Beneke and The Glenn Miller Band at Disneyland ABOUT 1970!!!

@robertmcgowan4312

6y↑6

This is one of the very first songs I learned to play on the drums

@georgeh5075

Used to play this in the band, it was always my and the lads favourite march. Thanks for uploading it.

@eveningstar3230

3y↑2

Amazing!!

@debbennett7125

8y↑7

love this

@Kelly-nm4kw

Hello Deb, How are you doing?

@gloriacovarrubias558

8y↑10

Glenn Millers Band Plays On!! Tonite in our town. I cant wait. Dad be with us Ok!! I know your in Heaven come on Down for alittle bit.

@frankiessidewalkstar5118

4y↑1

Ahaaaa Haaaaaa!!!!! It's Absolutely Beautiful!!!!!!😊🎭

@jdinhuntsvilleal4514

3y↑1

My ringtone (after the lead-in) for all my contacts in St. Louis.

@alexviev4330

My grand was fighting together with former our friends,alian and partners,8-th US Air Force . I was small boy,and i remember all time in grand house this March. Now,54 year old i remember my grand,when i listening March. With many thanks- for USA WWII veterans.

@terryrussel523

9y↑34

Oh for the days when the good guys and the bad guys were self-evident . . .

@alanfox7312

5y↑22

I discovered Glenn miller through the James Stewart movie

@Poisson4147

The film gives wonderful performances of his hit songs and is a loving tribute to his marriage to Helen ... but it's also famous for the liberties the screenwriters took with his life story (e.g. the whole "Little Brown Jug" fantasy!) If you can find a copy, read the bio of Miller's life and career by George T. Simon. GTS was both a writer and musician, and knew Miller very well.

@ConservativeChristian

True patriotic music. Glen Miller was a true American Patriot ✊

@randallriley

6y↑3

Aside from Miller's soundtrack recordings for "Sun Valley Serenade," and "Orchestra Wive," these AAF recordings have the best fidelity of virtually any of the original GM recordings. An amazing performance.

@Poisson4147

Most of them were broadcast transcription discs that were made with state-of-the-art equipment. Beyond that over half of the recordings were made at the Vanderbilt Theatre which offered far better acoustics than the dry, cramped studios where the civilian band recorded. And thank heavens for that!

@dougaulabaugh7457

LET'S GO BLUES!!!!

@charlesbabcock1530

This the version KMOX used back in the 70's when Dan Kelly was broadcasting the games...

@lorraineloskot7806

7y↑7

This music reminds me of my mom!

@MisatoBestWoman

This particular song, in the Glen miller story movie has me admittedly sad seeing the soldiers marching off but it is such a beautiful song!

@julieshepherd1476

5y↑2

Kids today have no clue what real music is, let alone dance to it.

@haroldvarnes6455

iam 70 and that’s great music

@mikedecicco9594

Music from 1938 to 1948 the best decade ever

@ethansenter5298

5y↑2

Gloria!

@antonioromanoneto1242

5y↑3

Espetacular.

@elainebmack

9y↑5

This is s tough jam! Love it!

@thisoldchevy2371

8y↑1

+E Mack that's 1941 for you...

@Poisson4147

7y↑1

'43, actually

@mickmcleod5621

8y↑14

I jitterbugged to his music during the war, while I was in Highschool Mick McLeod

@TralfazConstruction

9y↑15

The staccato of trombones at 1:44 goes right through me like an ultrasound scan. Where are my khakis? Wanna march now.

@zhr75frag59

Спасибо Брат!

@helios7034

Swing at it's best.

@MyJudyKim

4y↑1

WW2 great marching music by Glenn Miller

@michaelbrooks9647

9y↑2

Great Post, MsCatreona! Thanks!

@BrendanTheGent

9y↑58

if the NHL team the St Louis Blues don't use this song they are doing it wrong..
truly a masterpiece

@zachbarker7394

9y↑27

They play it before and after every game. We were actually named after the song. Sid Saloman, our first owner, knew that there was a rich tradition for the blues genre in St. Louis and the song by W.C. Handy just served as further inspiration.

@BrendanTheGent

9y↑9

Zach Barker that's awesome! I didn't know that, the countless times ive watched the blues on center ice never heard it played. thank you for the heads up, good luck to you and your blues!

@ferdiahunt327

+Zach Barker Were st louis blues not founded in the 1960s and this song was made in the 40s?

@zachbarker7394

9y↑7

Ferdia Hunt This song was actually first published in the 1910s by W.C. Handy. It was during the big band era and World War II that Glenn Miller reproduced it. Like I said before, the genre of Blues music was big in St. Louis back then and the name of the song was a perfect fit for the team and the history of the St. Louis music scene.