The present Glenn Miller Orchestra was formed in 1956 and has been touring … Read Full Bio ↴The present Glenn Miller Orchestra was formed in 1956 and has been touring consistently since, with various leaders, playing an average of 300 live dates a year all around the world.
Singer Nick Hilscher became the director of the touring band in 2012, replacing previous director Gary Tole. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller_Orchestra
For the original orchestra see Glenn Miller. He was born in Clarinda, Iowa on March 1, 1904, the son of Mattie Lou (née Cavender) and Lewis Elmer Miller.[1][2] He went to grade school in North Platte, Nebraska. In 1915, Miller's family moved to Grant City, Missouri. Around this time, Miller was given his first trombone and then played in the town orchestra. In 1918, the Miller family moved again, this time to Fort Morgan, Colorado where Glenn went to high school. During his senior year, Miller became very interested in a new style of music called "dance band music". Miller enjoyed this music so much that he and some classmates decided to start their own band. 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 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,[5] who is credited with helping Miller create the "Miller sound", and under whose tutelage he himself composed what became his signature theme, "Moonlight Serenade."[6]
In 1926, Miller toured with several groups and landed a good spot in Ben Pollack's group in Los Angeles. During his stint with Pollack, Miller had the opportunity to write several musical arrangements of his own. 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, played in the pit bands of two Broadway shows, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy, his bandmates included Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa. "The consensus there was that Miller was no more than an average trombonist."[7] Despite this, during the late 1920s and early 1930s, Miller managed to earn a living working as a freelance trombonist in several bands. In November of 1929, an original vocalist named Red McKenzie hired Glenn to play on two records that are now considered to be jazz classics: "Hello, Lola" and "If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight". "Not only were [the two songs Miller recorded] considered major musical items, but they also represented one of the major breakthroughs in blacks and whites playing together." [Simon 55] Besides Glenn were clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, guitarist Eddie Condon, drummer Gene Krupa and Coleman Hawkins on tenor saxophone.[8]
In the mid-1930s, Miller also worked as a trombonist and arranger in The Dorsey Brothers ill-fated co-led orchestra.[9] In 1935, he assembled an American orchestra for British bandleader Ray Noble,[10] 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 bandleader Claude Thornhill, Bud Freeman and Charlie Spivak.[11]
Glenn Miller compiled several musical arrangements before forming his first band in 1937. The band failed to distinguish itself from the many others of the era, and eventually broke up. 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."[12]
[edit] Success from 1938 to 1942
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 on the same note, with three other saxophones harmonized within a single octave. George Simon discovered a saxophonist named Wilbur Schwartz for Glenn Miller. Miller hired Schwartz, but instead had him play the lead clarinet. "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." [Simon 122] With this new sound combination, the Miller band found success. Miller was not the first to try this style, but he was the most successful at refining it and making it key to almost his entire repertoire.
In September 1938, the Miller band began making recordings for the RCA Victor Bluebird Records subsidiary.[13] 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. With the Glen Island date, the band began a huge rise in popularity.[14] 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."[15] There were record-breaking recordings such as "Tuxedo Junction", which sold 115,000 copies in the first week.[16] 1939's huge success culminated with the Miller band in concert at Carnegie Hall on October 6, with Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, and Fred Waring also the main attractions.[17]
From 1939 to 1942, Miller's band was featured three times a week during a broadcast for Chesterfield cigarettes.[18] On February 10, 1942, RCA Victor presented Miller with the first gold record for "Chattanooga Choo-Choo".[19] "Chattanooga Choo Choo" was performed by the Miller orchestra with his singers Gordon "Tex" Beneke, Paula Kelly and the vocal group, the Modernaires. Other singers with the civilian orchestra included Marion Hutton[2], Ray Eberle[3] and to a smaller extent, Kay Starr[4], Ernie Caceres[5], Dorothy Claire[6] and Jack Lathrop[7].
In 2004, Glenn Miller orchestra bassist Herman "Trigger" Alpert explained the band's success: "Miller had America's music pulse.[...] He knew what would please the listeners."[20] Although Miller had massive popularity, many jazz critics of the time had their misgivings, believing that the band's endless rehearsals and "letter-perfect playing" diminished excitement and feeling from performances.[21] They also felt that Miller's brand of swing shifted popular music away from the "hot" jazz bands of Benny Goodman and Count Basie towards commercial novelty instrumentals and vocal numbers. Miller was often criticized for being too commercial. His answer to the criticism was, "I don't want a jazz band".[11] Many modern jazz critics still harbour similar antipathy toward Miller.[22] In an article written by Gary Giddins for The New Yorker in 2004, Giddins felt 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?"[22] Miller and his band appeared in two Hollywood films, 1941's, Sun Valley Serenade and 1942's Orchestra Wives, the latter featuring Jackie Gleason playing a part as the group's bassist. Miller insisted on a believable script before he'd go before Twentieth-Century Fox cameras. Miller also demanded that the band become an integral part of the story and not just be thrown into some inconsequential scene. He had achieved star status and he was now demanding and getting star treatment.[23]
[edit] The Army Air Force Band 1942-1944
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 he could better serve those in uniform by joining the war effort. At 38 years old, Miller was too old to be drafted, and first volunteered for the Navy but was told that they didn’t need his services. [Simon 309-310] Miller then wrote to the Army’s Brigadier General Charles Young on August 12 1942. Miller persuaded the Army to accept him so he could in his own words, "be placed in charge of a modernized army band." [Simon 312] After being accepted in the Army, Glenn’s civilian band played their last concert in Passaic, New Jersey on September 27, 1942.[3]
He initially formed a large marching band that was to be the core of a network of service orchestras, but his attempts at modernizing military music were met with some resistance from tradition-minded career officers. An example is the arrangement of "St. Louis Blues March", combining blues and jazz with the traditional military march. This was recorded on October 29, 1943 at the Victor studios in New York City.[24] Miller's striking innovations and his adaptations of Sousa marches for the AAF band prompted Time magazine to claim that he had rankled traditionalists in the field of Army music and had desecrated the March King. The magazine also criticized Miller's injection of casual enjoyment into the disciplined cadences of military music, stating that the Army was 'swinging its hips instead of its feet.'"[25] But by the time of Miller's death, opinion had changed. General Jimmy Doolittle[8] said, “[...]next to a letter from home, that organization was the greatest morale builder in the European Theater of Operations.”[9]
[edit] Disappearance
Miller's monument in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, ConnecticutOn December 15, 1944, Miller, now a major, was to fly from the United Kingdom to Paris, France, to play for the soldiers who recently had liberated Paris. His plane departed from RAF Twinwood Farm, in Clapham, Bedfordshire, but disappeared over the English Channel.[26] Miller's remains and the wreckage of the plane (a single-engine Noorduyn Norseman UC-64, USAAF Tail Number 44-70285) have never been found.
Since Miller's disappearance more than sixty years ago, there have been many theories about what happened. Buddy DeFranco, one of the leaders of the post-war Glenn Miller orchestra, told biographer George T. Simon of the many theories of Miller's disappearance that were told to him while he was leading the band in the 1970s. DeFranco said "If I were to believe all those stories, there would have been about twelve thousand four hundred and fifty eight people there at the field in England seeing him off on that last flight!"[27]
Miller's plane may have been bombed accidentally by Royal Air Force aircraft over the English Channel after an abortive air raid on Germany. One hundred and thirty-eight Lancaster bombers, short on fuel, were jettisoning approximately 100,000 incendiaries in a designated area before landing, per standing orders.[28] The logbooks of Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw record that a small single-engined monoplane was seen spiralling out of control and crashed into the water. If this was indeed Miller's plane, then the RAF crews jettisoning ordnance to facilitate safe landing conditions could not have been to blame for Miller's plane's straying into their designated drop zone.[29][30]
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.
[edit] Ghost Bands 1946 to the Present
The Miller estate authorized an official Glenn Miller "ghost band" in 1946. This band was led by Tex Beneke, former lead saxophonist and singer for the civilian band. It had a make up similar to the Army Air Force Band: it had a large string section.[31] 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.[32] Henry Mancini was the band's pianist and one of the arrangers.[10] 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.[33] Even 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.[11] By 1949, economics dictated that the string section be dropped.[34]
This band recorded for RCA Victor, just as the original Miller band did.[35] 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.[36] The break was acrimonious and Beneke is not currently listed by the Miller estate as a former leader of the Glenn Miller orchestra.[37]
When Glenn Miller was alive, various bandleaders like Bob Chester imitated his style.[38] By the early 1950s, various bands were again copying the Miller style of clarinet led reeds and muted trumpets, notably Ralph Flanagan,[39] Jerry Gray,[40] and Ray Anthony.[41] This, coupled with the success of The Glenn Miller Story (1953)[12], led the Miller estate to ask Ray McKinley to lead a new ghost band.[42] This 1956 band is the original version of the current ghost band that still tours the United States today.[43] The official Glenn Miller orchestra for the United States is currently under the direction of Larry O'Brien.[13] The officially sanctioned Glenn Miller Orchestra for the United Kingdom has toured and recorded with great success under the leadership of Ray McVay[14].The official Glenn Miller Orchestra for Europe has been led by Wil Salden since 1990.[15]
The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band's legacy has carried on with the Airmen of Note, a band within the United States Air Force. 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.[16]
[edit] Legacy
In 1953, Anthony Mann directed The Glenn Miller Story for Universal Pictures starring James Stewart and June Allyson[17]. The fictionalized biographical film was a popular success. Miller's mother said of the movie that actor James Stewart 'wasn't as good looking as my son'.[44]
Glenn Miller's widow, Helen, died in 1966.[45] Herb Miller, Glenn Miller's brother, led his own band in the United States and England until the late 1980s.[46] Herb's son, John continues the tradition leading a band playing mainly Glenn Miller style music.[47]
In mainly the United States and England, there are a few archives that are devoted to Glenn Miller. At the University of Colorado at Boulder, Alan Cass heads their Glenn Miller archive, that includes the original manuscript to Miller's theme song, "Moonlight Serenade", among other items of interest.[18] In 2002, the Glenn Miller Museum opened to the public at the former RAF Twinwood Farm, in Clapham, Bedfordshire, England.[48]
In 2003, Miller posthumously received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[49]
The entire output of cigarette sponsored radio programs Glenn Miller did between 1939 and 1942 were recorded by the Glenn Miller organization on acetate discs.[50] In the 1950s and afterwards, RCA-Victor distributed many of these on long playing albums and compact discs. A sizeable representation of the recording output by the band is almost always in circulation by Sony/BMG Music and the Universal Music Group, the successor labels to RCA-Victor, Bluebird, Columbia and Decca. Glenn Miller remains one of the most famous and recognizable names of the big band era of 1935 to 1945.
Singer Nick Hilscher became the director of the touring band in 2012, replacing previous director Gary Tole. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller_Orchestra
For the original orchestra see Glenn Miller. He was born in Clarinda, Iowa on March 1, 1904, the son of Mattie Lou (née Cavender) and Lewis Elmer Miller.[1][2] He went to grade school in North Platte, Nebraska. In 1915, Miller's family moved to Grant City, Missouri. Around this time, Miller was given his first trombone and then played in the town orchestra. In 1918, the Miller family moved again, this time to Fort Morgan, Colorado where Glenn went to high school. During his senior year, Miller became very interested in a new style of music called "dance band music". Miller enjoyed this music so much that he and some classmates decided to start their own band. 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 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,[5] who is credited with helping Miller create the "Miller sound", and under whose tutelage he himself composed what became his signature theme, "Moonlight Serenade."[6]
In 1926, Miller toured with several groups and landed a good spot in Ben Pollack's group in Los Angeles. During his stint with Pollack, Miller had the opportunity to write several musical arrangements of his own. 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, played in the pit bands of two Broadway shows, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy, his bandmates included Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa. "The consensus there was that Miller was no more than an average trombonist."[7] Despite this, during the late 1920s and early 1930s, Miller managed to earn a living working as a freelance trombonist in several bands. In November of 1929, an original vocalist named Red McKenzie hired Glenn to play on two records that are now considered to be jazz classics: "Hello, Lola" and "If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight". "Not only were [the two songs Miller recorded] considered major musical items, but they also represented one of the major breakthroughs in blacks and whites playing together." [Simon 55] Besides Glenn were clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, guitarist Eddie Condon, drummer Gene Krupa and Coleman Hawkins on tenor saxophone.[8]
In the mid-1930s, Miller also worked as a trombonist and arranger in The Dorsey Brothers ill-fated co-led orchestra.[9] In 1935, he assembled an American orchestra for British bandleader Ray Noble,[10] 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 bandleader Claude Thornhill, Bud Freeman and Charlie Spivak.[11]
Glenn Miller compiled several musical arrangements before forming his first band in 1937. The band failed to distinguish itself from the many others of the era, and eventually broke up. 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."[12]
[edit] Success from 1938 to 1942
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 on the same note, with three other saxophones harmonized within a single octave. George Simon discovered a saxophonist named Wilbur Schwartz for Glenn Miller. Miller hired Schwartz, but instead had him play the lead clarinet. "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." [Simon 122] With this new sound combination, the Miller band found success. Miller was not the first to try this style, but he was the most successful at refining it and making it key to almost his entire repertoire.
In September 1938, the Miller band began making recordings for the RCA Victor Bluebird Records subsidiary.[13] 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. With the Glen Island date, the band began a huge rise in popularity.[14] 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."[15] There were record-breaking recordings such as "Tuxedo Junction", which sold 115,000 copies in the first week.[16] 1939's huge success culminated with the Miller band in concert at Carnegie Hall on October 6, with Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, and Fred Waring also the main attractions.[17]
From 1939 to 1942, Miller's band was featured three times a week during a broadcast for Chesterfield cigarettes.[18] On February 10, 1942, RCA Victor presented Miller with the first gold record for "Chattanooga Choo-Choo".[19] "Chattanooga Choo Choo" was performed by the Miller orchestra with his singers Gordon "Tex" Beneke, Paula Kelly and the vocal group, the Modernaires. Other singers with the civilian orchestra included Marion Hutton[2], Ray Eberle[3] and to a smaller extent, Kay Starr[4], Ernie Caceres[5], Dorothy Claire[6] and Jack Lathrop[7].
In 2004, Glenn Miller orchestra bassist Herman "Trigger" Alpert explained the band's success: "Miller had America's music pulse.[...] He knew what would please the listeners."[20] Although Miller had massive popularity, many jazz critics of the time had their misgivings, believing that the band's endless rehearsals and "letter-perfect playing" diminished excitement and feeling from performances.[21] They also felt that Miller's brand of swing shifted popular music away from the "hot" jazz bands of Benny Goodman and Count Basie towards commercial novelty instrumentals and vocal numbers. Miller was often criticized for being too commercial. His answer to the criticism was, "I don't want a jazz band".[11] Many modern jazz critics still harbour similar antipathy toward Miller.[22] In an article written by Gary Giddins for The New Yorker in 2004, Giddins felt 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?"[22] Miller and his band appeared in two Hollywood films, 1941's, Sun Valley Serenade and 1942's Orchestra Wives, the latter featuring Jackie Gleason playing a part as the group's bassist. Miller insisted on a believable script before he'd go before Twentieth-Century Fox cameras. Miller also demanded that the band become an integral part of the story and not just be thrown into some inconsequential scene. He had achieved star status and he was now demanding and getting star treatment.[23]
[edit] The Army Air Force Band 1942-1944
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 he could better serve those in uniform by joining the war effort. At 38 years old, Miller was too old to be drafted, and first volunteered for the Navy but was told that they didn’t need his services. [Simon 309-310] Miller then wrote to the Army’s Brigadier General Charles Young on August 12 1942. Miller persuaded the Army to accept him so he could in his own words, "be placed in charge of a modernized army band." [Simon 312] After being accepted in the Army, Glenn’s civilian band played their last concert in Passaic, New Jersey on September 27, 1942.[3]
He initially formed a large marching band that was to be the core of a network of service orchestras, but his attempts at modernizing military music were met with some resistance from tradition-minded career officers. An example is the arrangement of "St. Louis Blues March", combining blues and jazz with the traditional military march. This was recorded on October 29, 1943 at the Victor studios in New York City.[24] Miller's striking innovations and his adaptations of Sousa marches for the AAF band prompted Time magazine to claim that he had rankled traditionalists in the field of Army music and had desecrated the March King. The magazine also criticized Miller's injection of casual enjoyment into the disciplined cadences of military music, stating that the Army was 'swinging its hips instead of its feet.'"[25] But by the time of Miller's death, opinion had changed. General Jimmy Doolittle[8] said, “[...]next to a letter from home, that organization was the greatest morale builder in the European Theater of Operations.”[9]
[edit] Disappearance
Miller's monument in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, ConnecticutOn December 15, 1944, Miller, now a major, was to fly from the United Kingdom to Paris, France, to play for the soldiers who recently had liberated Paris. His plane departed from RAF Twinwood Farm, in Clapham, Bedfordshire, but disappeared over the English Channel.[26] Miller's remains and the wreckage of the plane (a single-engine Noorduyn Norseman UC-64, USAAF Tail Number 44-70285) have never been found.
Since Miller's disappearance more than sixty years ago, there have been many theories about what happened. Buddy DeFranco, one of the leaders of the post-war Glenn Miller orchestra, told biographer George T. Simon of the many theories of Miller's disappearance that were told to him while he was leading the band in the 1970s. DeFranco said "If I were to believe all those stories, there would have been about twelve thousand four hundred and fifty eight people there at the field in England seeing him off on that last flight!"[27]
Miller's plane may have been bombed accidentally by Royal Air Force aircraft over the English Channel after an abortive air raid on Germany. One hundred and thirty-eight Lancaster bombers, short on fuel, were jettisoning approximately 100,000 incendiaries in a designated area before landing, per standing orders.[28] The logbooks of Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw record that a small single-engined monoplane was seen spiralling out of control and crashed into the water. If this was indeed Miller's plane, then the RAF crews jettisoning ordnance to facilitate safe landing conditions could not have been to blame for Miller's plane's straying into their designated drop zone.[29][30]
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.
[edit] Ghost Bands 1946 to the Present
The Miller estate authorized an official Glenn Miller "ghost band" in 1946. This band was led by Tex Beneke, former lead saxophonist and singer for the civilian band. It had a make up similar to the Army Air Force Band: it had a large string section.[31] 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.[32] Henry Mancini was the band's pianist and one of the arrangers.[10] 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.[33] Even 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.[11] By 1949, economics dictated that the string section be dropped.[34]
This band recorded for RCA Victor, just as the original Miller band did.[35] 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.[36] The break was acrimonious and Beneke is not currently listed by the Miller estate as a former leader of the Glenn Miller orchestra.[37]
When Glenn Miller was alive, various bandleaders like Bob Chester imitated his style.[38] By the early 1950s, various bands were again copying the Miller style of clarinet led reeds and muted trumpets, notably Ralph Flanagan,[39] Jerry Gray,[40] and Ray Anthony.[41] This, coupled with the success of The Glenn Miller Story (1953)[12], led the Miller estate to ask Ray McKinley to lead a new ghost band.[42] This 1956 band is the original version of the current ghost band that still tours the United States today.[43] The official Glenn Miller orchestra for the United States is currently under the direction of Larry O'Brien.[13] The officially sanctioned Glenn Miller Orchestra for the United Kingdom has toured and recorded with great success under the leadership of Ray McVay[14].The official Glenn Miller Orchestra for Europe has been led by Wil Salden since 1990.[15]
The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band's legacy has carried on with the Airmen of Note, a band within the United States Air Force. 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.[16]
[edit] Legacy
In 1953, Anthony Mann directed The Glenn Miller Story for Universal Pictures starring James Stewart and June Allyson[17]. The fictionalized biographical film was a popular success. Miller's mother said of the movie that actor James Stewart 'wasn't as good looking as my son'.[44]
Glenn Miller's widow, Helen, died in 1966.[45] Herb Miller, Glenn Miller's brother, led his own band in the United States and England until the late 1980s.[46] Herb's son, John continues the tradition leading a band playing mainly Glenn Miller style music.[47]
In mainly the United States and England, there are a few archives that are devoted to Glenn Miller. At the University of Colorado at Boulder, Alan Cass heads their Glenn Miller archive, that includes the original manuscript to Miller's theme song, "Moonlight Serenade", among other items of interest.[18] In 2002, the Glenn Miller Museum opened to the public at the former RAF Twinwood Farm, in Clapham, Bedfordshire, England.[48]
In 2003, Miller posthumously received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[49]
The entire output of cigarette sponsored radio programs Glenn Miller did between 1939 and 1942 were recorded by the Glenn Miller organization on acetate discs.[50] In the 1950s and afterwards, RCA-Victor distributed many of these on long playing albums and compact discs. A sizeable representation of the recording output by the band is almost always in circulation by Sony/BMG Music and the Universal Music Group, the successor labels to RCA-Victor, Bluebird, Columbia and Decca. Glenn Miller remains one of the most famous and recognizable names of the big band era of 1935 to 1945.
Make Believe
The Glenn Miller Orchestra Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Make Believe' by these artists:
Alex Francis "Lay your body down with me Before you say you have…
All Pack up all your things; I'll help; you'll leave today We…
Angra Sat beside the meadow Watching weeds a grow Cleaned up all t…
Angra [eternity-rock.blogspot.com] Sat beside the meadow Watching weeds a grow Cleaned up all…
Anne Cochran Words and Music The fairy tale began. The storybook romance…
Astronaut Husband My head goes wandering through the streets inviting stranger…
Awaken the Giant Is it too late for comfort? My whole world has come…
Backstreet Boys We can only make believe We can only make believe Something…
Barbara Cook The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I…
BEDROOM - Saba It's your mother, call me back when you can, talk…
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra Others find peace of mind in pretending, Couldn't you? Cou…
Bing Crosby We could make believe I love you Only make believe that…
Bing Crosby & Paul Whiteman The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I…
Brett Young Would've thought you wrote down every word Goodbye spelled o…
Burning Heads I feel like I'm lost somewhere in the middle of…
C-Lo Make believe me I don't believe in you Not any of the…
Caleb Lionheart It's a time where poets without tongues Mouth the words that…
Centerpeace I wanna make believe, the trees will be here, to…
chetta I stay doin shit they don't believe Ive been making grip…
Clean Cut Kid Won't you lay in this bed with me Make believe that…
Clyde Alexander Look all around and you will see The world that you…
Communist Daughter Isn't this make believe wasn't this just for fun How could y…
Cutting Jade If I do not make it home tonight, then I…
Dallas Murrae Daydreams turn to nightmares quick Obsessed with the taste o…
Daniel Win 3 am I'm still waiting by my phone Under summer lights I've …
Dave Mills Make believe It must be make believe I can't believe A love …
dead history we live in a world divided down we go ask me what…
Deer Tick I saw you dancing through the window Saw you dancing to…
Doc Rhombus In the land of make believe It's harder than it's supposed…
doctordec I see the anger in you I see the pain and…
Donots Find a name Make it stick While we're chasing the exit Be…
DuB So hold me close like it's cold out side And…
Edmundo Ros and His Orchestra Others find peace of mind in pretending, Couldn't you? Cou…
Elise Trouw Lost in a booth with the 50s on loop at…
Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra We could make believe I love you Only make believe that…
Elvis Presley We couldn't make believe lala la make believe But your love …
Enuff Z'Nuff I know I'm not in your heart Our thing together's all…
Etienne Daho What you don't have, make believe What you're wanting for, m…
Fiction Factory There are no regrets now anymore And there's nothing left t…
Fixing God (My mother told me not to stare into the sun.…
Force & Styles Sometimes you see With blinded eyes and crooked smiles Som…
Frank Sinatra [Frankie:] Janie , spare us a few minutes before the…
Franz Allers;Barbara Cook;Stephen Douglass Who cares if my boat goes upstream, Or if the gale…
Freya Lin You tried to hide your sentimental thought But the truth is…
GemStones I go by the name of Liam For those that didn't…
George Gershwin The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I…
Glenn Miller It's Make-Believe Ballroom Time Put all your cares away Al…
Gliss We live in a world A world of make believe…
Gutter King Peel away the dust that's hardened our skin I've been dying…
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians Dressed up in a gown that trails on the floor, In…
Haley Rose Oh oh, oh oh Oh oh, oh oh It's only make believe They…
Harry Nilsson We could make believe I love you, Only make believe that…
Howard Keel Only make believe I love you Only make believe that you…
Howard Keel & Anne Jeffreys Others find peace of mind in pretending, Couldn't you? Could…
Howard Keel & Kathryn Grayson Only make believe I love you Only make believe that you…
I-Exist Rap: I know it's hard to believe it What were you thinking E…
J. Hill Make me believe that you won't do that again Please help…
J.E.L Tell M.E. how ya want M.E. Tell M.E. how ya need…
J.Kern Others find peace of mind in pretending, Couldn't you? Could…
J.T. Peterson Make me believe that you won't do that again Please help…
JaeL Verse 1 I don't know how much I can take Of you…
James Iha You rush in with stars in your hair You cast your…
Jane Ellen Bryant Sweet little girl, head full of curls That look of surprise…
Jane Powell [Frankie:] Janie , spare us a few minutes before the…
Jeremy Enigk I'm in a crazy state of mind Another solitary space You ta…
Jeremy Larson One more down, two to go Want you far away You aim…
Jerome Kern Only make believe I love you Only make believe that you…
Jesse Boykins III Misplace fractions of your sanity Forgive the forgotten Embe…
JJ Heller You said you couldn't keep me when you were seventeen…
Jo Stafford The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I…
Joan Jett I know you know Everybody knows it's true I'm in love But it…
John Raitt The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I…
Jovit Baldivino When I'm all alone Pretending love would come along And even…
Juice WRLD I figured she was gonna break my heart regardless, regardles…
Julia Nunes You look like a liar and I like to play…
KamBINO feat. J. Carter It's all in the way you touch him To make him…
Karmyn Tyler Only make believe I love you, Only make believe that you…
Katherine Grayson and Howard Keel Only make believe I love you Only make believe that you…
Kavana It's possible for us to dream together, do you think that…
Keel Howard Only make believe I love you Only make believe that you…
Kenny Lattimore I'm coming to terms with how I'm feeling Putting my heart…
Kenny Rankin Make Believe That The Sun Don't Shine Make Believe There's N…
Kero Kero Bonito I set a watch for 5 o'clock I think of trees…
KITCHEN - Juice WRLD I figured she was gonna break my heart regardless, regardles…
Kitty Wells Make believe that we're happy make believe that we're happy …
Koe Wetzel He'll beat your ass for lying And he calls himself a…
Korn I'm thanking all Thanking all the fucked people Thanking all…
Korn氀 I'm thinking of, Thanking all the fucked people Thanking a…
Kurth & Taylor Oooh X4 You run away I wouldn't take back Everyday That we …
Last November So you caught me off guard You knocked my feet right…
Laurel Music Please stay with me cause I need you to be…
Lee Wiley The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I…
Lene Lovich Make believe—Make believe Something between you and me M…
LeRoux Every time I think I'm finally over you That old familiar…
Les Friction I need something I can make To own the things that…
Lost Dogs I'm trying to make believe My heart isn't breaking in two …
lovelytheband Talking to yourself, you'll make believe Filling up a void e…
Lovich Lene Make believe—Make believe Something between you and me M…
Luke Markinson When you love me like my body I go bottom…
Mandy Kane colour fades away, slowly swirling down the drain you're bi…
Marco Sison When I'm all alone Pretending love would come along And e…
Matt Casey When things get real and I can't find my way…
Matthew Sweet Everything is perfect in a way But not today What could tomo…
Mazie Oh shit, okay one, Two, Three, Four! O-o-o oo, cause all…
Meghan & Lucas Let′s leave our worries behind. Open our minds, step outside…
Memphis May Fire It's not the same as it used to be And I'm…
Metro Station Well I sleep with you But you dream of him And pretend…
Michael D.R.I.V.E. I know you had a long day you've been running You've…
Mila J Uh, we used to love each other more. Then it all…
Miss Luxury I can't go back to the old world (The old world) My…
Mistel Marie Here's a secret for all you children Atheism is so damn…
new new You stand there all alone and try to think of…
Nilsson We could make believe I love you, Only make believe that…
O.L.D.F.I.X. Uhh uhh Uhh uhh Ohh ohhh ohh ohhhh Thinking about you day an…
Ocoenia You've got thoughts in your head You don't wanna talk about…
Ofln - Juice WRLD I figured she was gonna break my heart regardless, regardles…
One Vo1ce Rap: I know it's hard to believe it What were you thinking…
Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern Only make believe I love you Only make believe that you…
P.R. I can't stop, no, I can't let up Mama told me…
Pariah (David Derrick, Jared Tuten, Kyle Ellison) Does anyone here …
Paul Whiteman & Bing Crosby We could make believe I love you Only make believe that…
Paul Whiteman and Bing Crosby The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I…
Phoebe Katis There you are, standing right in front of me, oh…
Pixies I've been lost since she's gone The piano, she's really on I…
Platinum Weird The way that you are Is that the way that you…
Prince Make believe U're a hero, make believe U're a star Make…
Quintino I will let you see All that we can be We′ll be…
Rebecka Törnqvist Yeah, get your ride on Get your ride on, on and…
Red Foley Make believe that we're happy make believe that we're happy …
Renard Can you make believe? Can you touch the sky? Can you come…
Renny Conti I was writing up the convo Hoping you’d pick up the…
Rick Nelson Make believe, you're in my arms tonight And there's a moon…
Ring of Fire (Lyrics and Melodies by Mark Boals / Music by Viltalij…
Roger Whittaker The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I…
saba It's your mother, call me back when you can, talk…
Sage Wilson I never thought I'd look away Keep swimming, you're bound to…
Sarah Vaughan The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I…
savings You caught me looking in the mirror A sudden change of…
Screenager I get bad dreams when you sleep next to me Too…
Secret Nation Let go And follow Here in the midnight. The streets have nev…
Sequin Hello again my love What's up I made you blush With my …
Seventh Day Slumber How did I get so far from the promises I…
Sewerperson & Nevrfall Nevr you were sittin You were sitting next to Me with ash-b…
Shallou Killing time, no place to go Everybody′s feeling low All alo…
Sibel I'm leaving a faction for love. Nobody seizes like I do. Y…
SickSense Here we go! Break out Outside of the norm Shut up Go on let…
Silversun Pickups They took everything you want, Wrapped it in a box, locked…
Sleepy Tea If what you want is taken from the magazines your neighbour'…
Statik Selektah None of this is make believe Said I'm a rich nigga…
Statik Selektah feat. Freddie Gibbs Termanology & Ea$y Money None of this is make believe Said I'm a rich nigga…
Steam Powered Giraffe Aaaah-oho Ahh ahh ha Hai, ai, ai. yai, yai-yeh La la la la L…
Substantial INTRO (Sample) I wish you were real Instead of make believe.…
Termanology None of this is make believe Said I'm a rich nigga…
The Arrows Who is this coming out the wilderness? Leaning on the arm…
The Burned Whose to know my world? And whose to share my worry? Mountai…
The Early November Is enough to believe that you are real? Sometimes it gets…
The Faim Lost in my head, and I can't leave Watching the rain,…
The Graduate You can say anything you like No one is listening You can…
The Lovelines Well, I don't like the truth So darlin' tell me lies We'll…
The Notorious Lightbulbs I know you want to, I know you need to Thinking…
The Romantic Strings and Orchestra The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I…
The Tale Untold Drop off the edge and fly Down cast the wing of…
The Used I can't see what it is that you want me…
The Veer Union You're breaking away From all that you say How can we rewind…
Thomas Allen & Valérie Masterson Pack up all your things; I'll help; you'll leave today We…
Thompson Twins I had a dream and the dream came true I saw…
Thornley We're rolling down the highway I'm rolling down my window Th…
Tindersticks Make believe that it's OK Make believe it doesn't matter…
Tom Goss You and I. An idea lives in my mind. Before…
Tommy Lee Its breaking in me Its needless to say (Now this part is…
Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap We could make believe I love you Only make believe that…
Tony Martin Others find peace of mind in pretending, Couldn't you? Could…
Toto [Chorus] Why don't we make believe we're in love again Who s…
U.HU.RU Here's my hand If you need someone To walk you through The h…
Ukuletea Maybe I′m just seeing things! Maybe you don't really care We…
V-ro I know you had a long day you've been running You've…
Vanessa Daou What you don't have, make believe What you're wanting for, m…
Vitne Come on, I need something to go on We're leaving it…
Voodoo Hill I never met you But I will let you in I gotta…
Voyce G.I. GO & GMJ Rap: I know it's hard to believe it What were you thinking E…
Waste of Breath (One two three four) Am I too late again To try and…
Wind I know, you know, Everybody knows it's true. I'm in love, Bu…
Wookiefoot The early noon yawns i shake off my dreams Dreamt i…
Zac Seif Hope, so surreal. It's something that we touch And it's some…
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We have lyrics for these tracks by The Glenn Miller Orchestra:
(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H I got a…
A Handful of Stars I recall the story, That night of love and glory…
A Little Old Church in England A little old church in England tumbled down A little…
A Million Dreams Ago You told me it was so A million dreams ago…
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square That certain night, the night we met There was magic abroad…
A String Of Pearls Savoy, the home of sweet romance Savoy, it wins you with…
A-Tisket A-Tisket A-Tasket A green and yellow basket I bought a bas…
Adios Will this be moon love? Nothing but moon love Will you be…
Along The Santa Fe Trail Angels come to paint the desert nightly When the moon…
Always In My Heart You are always in my heart Even though you're far…
An Angel In A Furnished Room I found an angel in a furnished room A bit…
And The Angels Sing We meet and the angels sing The angels sing the…
Angel Child Angel child, I'm just wild about you Angel child, say…
Angels of Mercy Angels of Mercy, there's so much to do The heavens…
Anvil Chorus Summer, you old Indian Summer You're the tear that comes aft…
April in Paris I never knew the charm of spring I never met it…
At Last I was never spellbound by a starry sky What is there…
Auld Lang Syne Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind…
Baby Me Baby me, come on and pet me, honey, baby me…
Back To Back Dancing back to back Takes you off the beaten track…
Be Happy I'm a very ordinary man Trying to work out life's happy…
Beat Me Daddy In a little honky-tonky village in Texas There's a guy…
Beer Barrel Polka There's a garden, what a garden Only happy faces bloom ther…
Begin The Beguine When they begin the beguine It brings back the sound of…
Below the Equator The moon was high below the equator And you and…
Bless You Bless you for being an angel Just when it seemed…
Blue Evening Blue evening after a lonely day Blue evening spent in…
Blue Moonlight Blue moonlight enfolds the night And you are my arms?…
Blue Orchids I dreamed of two blue orchids Two beautiful blue orchids One…
Blue Rain Blue Rain, falling down on my window pane But when…
Blue Skies I have a story to unfold It happened way up…
Blueberry Hill I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill On Blueberry Hill when…
Bluebirds in the Moonlight How can you forget Moments in the moonlight, Moments of…
Blues Skies I have a story to unfold It happened way up…
Body and Soul My heart is sad and lonely For you I sigh, for…
Boog It Boog it, nothin to it, Jack In the mellow track…
Bugle Call Rag You're bound to fall for the bugle call; You're gonna brag…
But It Don Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but…
But It Don't Mean A Thing Why are the stars always winkin' and blinkin' above? What ma…
Can I Help It You left one yesterday You took my heart away And…
Careless Love was the thing that you wanted That's why we answered…
Chapel In The Valley There's a chapel in the valley In the valley of…
Chatanooga Choo Choo Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo? Track twen…
Chattanooga Choo-Choo Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo? Track twe…
Cinderella Stay in my arms, Cinderella, While the clock is striking…
CIRIBIRIBIN When the moon hangs low in Napoli There's a handsome…
Ciribiribín When the moon hangs low in Napoli There's a handsome gondoli…
Conchita Marquita Lolita Pepita Rosita Jaunita Lopez He was a handsome young Irish lad She was a…
Crosstown Every night at eight you'll find me Waitin' for a bus…
Daddy In a little honky-tonky village in Texas There's a guy…
Danny Boy Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen…
Danny Boy Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen…
Dearly Beloved Tell me that it's true, Tell me you agree, I was…
Devil May Care Here goes, looks like I'm falling Call me "Devil May…
Didn't We This time we almost made the pieces fit Didn't we? This time…
Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead Once there was a wicked witch in the lovely land…
Do You Care Why do robins sing in December Long before the Springtime is…
Don Don't worry 'bout me I'll get along Forget about me Just …
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree I wrote my mother I wrote my father And now I'm…
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but…
Dream You told me it was so A million dreams ago…
Elmer's Tune Why are the stars always winkin' and blinkin' above? What ma…
Ev'rything I Love When days are long and nights are lonely And all my…
Faithful Forever Faithful forever whatever I do Remember I'm true, remember …
Far Away Places Far away places with strange sounding names Far away over th…
Farewell Blues Sadness just makes me sigh, I've come to say goodbye, Alth…
Five O'Clock Whistle The five o'clock whistle's on the blink The whistle won't bl…
Fools Rush In Fools rush in where angels fear to tread And so I…
Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread Fools rush in where angels fear to tread And so I…
Fools Rush In Fools rush in where angels fear to tread And so I…
Georgia On My Mind Georgia, Georgia, the whole day through Just an old sweet…
Guess I'll Go Back Home Should have gone there long ago I wonder who I'll meet When…
Happy in Love Love walked right in and drove the shadows away Love walked…
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be li…
Hear My Song Violetta Hear my song, Violetta, Hear the song that's in my…
How Somewhere there's music How faint the tune Somewhere there's…
Humpty Dumpty Heart HUMPTY DUMPTY HEART Glenn Miller Who's giving that line to …
I I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
i do do you Why do robins sing in December Long before the Springtime is…
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire I don't ever care to rise to power I would rather…
I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H I got a…
I Just Got A Letter I just got a letter, a letter, a letter The…
I Know Why Why do robins sing in December, Long before the springtime…
I Never Knew I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
I Wanna Hat With Cherries Mommie, I want to hat with cherries I want the…
I Want To Be Happy I'm a very ordinary man Trying to work out life's happy…
I'd Know You Anywhere I'd know you anywhere, I'd know that grin, I'd know you…
I'll Never Smile Again I'll never smile again Until I smile at you I'll never laugh…
I'm Old Fashioned I am not such a clever one About the latest fads I…
I'm Sorry For Myself Marion Hutton: I'm sorry for myself So sorry for mys…
I'm Stepping Out with a Memory Tonight I'm stepping out with a memory tonight To paint the town…
I've Got a Gal In A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H I got a…
I'Ve Got A Gal In Kalamazoo A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H I got a…
I've Got No Strings Why does the gay little dicky bird sing? What put the…
Imagination Imagination is funny, it makes a cloudy day sunny Makes a…
In A Little Spanish Town Evenings are crowded with memories Thrilling me again Like t…
In a Sentimental Mood Who's the loving daddy with the beautiful eyes What a pair…
In an Old Dutch Garden In an old Dutch garden by an old Dutch mill…
In the Christmas Mood Who's the loving daddy with the beautiful eyes What a pair…
In the Mood Who's the loving daddy with the beautiful eyes What a pair…
Indian Summer Summer, you old Indian Summer You're the tear that comes…
It Must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that Must be…
It Happened In Hawaii Howdy folks, let's go for a ride Get your favorite one…
It Must Be Jelly Must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that Must be…
It Was Written In The Stars It was written in the stars That our love would…
It's A Blue World It's a blue world without you, It's a blue world alone; My…
It's Always You Whenever it's early twilight I watch till a star breaks thro…
Jersey Bounce They call it that Jersey bounce A rhythm that really counts…
Jingle Bells Dashin' through the snow In a one-horse open sleigh Over…
Johnson Rag Johnson Flood Mississippi Mud Black Bottom I got 'em Lindy …
Juke Box Saturday Night Last night, I touched your fingertips And when I touched…
Kalamazoo A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H I got a…
Last Night Last night, I touched your fingertips And when I touched yo…
Laura You know the feeling of something half remembered Of someth…
Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow Oh the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so…
Let's All Sing Together Let's all sing together Don't mind the weather Rain or…
Little Brown Jug Me and my wife live all alone In a little…
Love L is for the way you look at me O is…
Love With a Capital You may spell love with capital "L" But I spell…
Love With a Capital "You" You may spell love with capital "L" But I spell…
Love With a Capital 'You' You may spell love with capital "L" But I spell…
Lullaby Of The Rain I love the pitter-patter I hear upon my window pane…
Medley Hear me, why you keep fooling Little coquette, making fun of…
Melancholy Baby Come to me, my melancholy baby Cuddle up and don't be…
Mister Meadowlark Mr. Meadowlark, we've got an awful lot of serenadin' to…
Moments In The Moonlight How can you forget Moments in the moonlight, Moments of…
Moon Love Will this be moon love Nothing but moon love Will you be…
Moonlight Becomes You Moonlight becomes you, it goes with your hair You certainly …
Moonlight Cocktail Couple of jiggers of moonlight and add a star Pour in…
Moonlight Cocktails Couple of jiggers of moonlight and add a star, Pour in…
Moonlight Mood Moonlight mood when twilight is ending You're in my moonlig…
My Blue Heaven Whippoorwills call, evenin' is nigh Hurry to my Blue Heaven…
My Last Good-Bye I smiled, so did you But somehow we knew It was…
My Man It's cost me a lot But there's one thing that I've…
My Melancholy Baby Come to me, my melancholy baby Cuddle up and don't be…
My Prayer My prayer is to linger with you At the end…
My Reverie Our love is a dream, but in my reverie I can…
My! My! I want to shout a poem About how I dream…
New York New York Start spreading the news I'm leaving today I want to be a…
Now Is The Hour Sunset glow fades in the west, Night o'er the valley…
Oh You Crazy Moon When they met, the way they smiled, I saw that…
Old Black Joe That old black magic has me in its spell, That old…
On a Little Street in Singapore On a little street in Singapore We?d meet beside a…
On the Old Assembly Line On the old assembly line On the old assembly line…
On The Sunny Side Of The Street Walked with no one and talked with no one And I…
On The Trail Angels come to paint the desert nightly When the moon…
Orange Blossom Lane ORANGE BLOSSOM LANE Glenn Miller When I kissed you in Oran…
Our Love Affair Our love affair was meant to be It's me for you…
Out of Space From out of space there came a rainbow above From…
Over The Rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that…
Pagan Love Song Come with me where moonbeams light Tahitian skies And the st…
Pennsylvania 6-5000 Pennsylvania, six, five-thousand Pennsylvania, six, five-th…
Pennsylvannia 6-5000 Numbers I've got by the dozen Everyone's uncle and cousin …
Perfidia To you my heart cries out, Perfidia, For I found…
Perfídia To you my heart cries out, Perfidia, For I found you,…
Polka Dots and Moonbeams A country dance was being held in a garden I felt…
Rendezvous Time In Paree Spring has a date with the Seine Someone has one…
Rhapsody In Blue When I hear that Serenade in blue I'm somewhere in another…
Romance Runs In The Family …
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer You know There's Dasher And Dancer Prancer and Vixen Comet a…
Runnin My gal and I, we had a fight And I'm…
Runnin' Wild My gal and I, we had a fight And I'm…
Saint Louis Blues March I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate…
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town I just came back from a lovely trip along the…
Say "Si Si" Skylark, have you anything to say to me Won't you tell…
and many more tracks by The Glenn Miller Orchestra.
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Juan Vicente González Balanzá
Resumen
Letras
Resultados principales
Es hora de hacer creer en el salón de baile
It's Make-Believe Ballroom Time
Deja todas tus preocupaciones
Put all your cares away
Todas las bandas están aquí para traer alegría a tu manera.
All the bands are here to bring a cheer your way
Es hora de hacer creer en el salón de baile
It's Make-Believe Ballroom Time
Y gratis para todos
And free to everyone
No es momento de preocuparse
It's no time to fret
Tu dial está configurado para divertirte
Your dial is set for fun
Cierra los ojos y visualiza en tu soledad
Just close your eyes and visualize in your solitude
Tus bandas favoritas están en las gradas
Your favorite bands are on the stands
Y el Sr. Miller te pone de humor
And Mr. Miller puts you in the mood
Es hora de hacer creer en el salón de baile
It's Make-Believe Ballroom Time
La hora del dulce romance
The hour of sweet romance
aquí está tu salón de baile imaginario
here's your make-believe ballroom
¡Vamos, niños, a bailar, a bailar!
Come on, children, let's dance, let's dance
Rene Tetro
I worked at WNEW for its last few years. The story that is told was that when Glenn Milller died, Martin Block said the would never be another Make Believe Ballroom theme. And there wasn't. We used that theme on the program right up to the last day in December 1992.
Maya Turnnow
I was recorded most of the last of WNEW's broadcast. I was so saddened that it was going off the air. It was the backround music of my childhood.
Joe H
Well thank you for your work. I and many, many others LOVED that time, that music, and your station. Thank you!
The_Southern_Gent
The four modernaires had such incredible harmony. Thanks for uploading this one!
Seth Downs
The way that you restored the recordings are amazing! I had these on 78’s but they never sounded as good as this?
The78Prof
Thanks....glad that you like them!
Joe H
My Father introduced me to this on WNEW AM. What memories!!! Wow... just wow!! takes me back!! Missing my dad right now, But Wow ! what a cool tune,
Juan Vicente González Balanzá
Resumen
Letras
Resultados principales
Es hora de hacer creer en el salón de baile
It's Make-Believe Ballroom Time
Deja todas tus preocupaciones
Put all your cares away
Todas las bandas están aquí para traer alegría a tu manera.
All the bands are here to bring a cheer your way
Es hora de hacer creer en el salón de baile
It's Make-Believe Ballroom Time
Y gratis para todos
And free to everyone
No es momento de preocuparse
It's no time to fret
Tu dial está configurado para divertirte
Your dial is set for fun
Cierra los ojos y visualiza en tu soledad
Just close your eyes and visualize in your solitude
Tus bandas favoritas están en las gradas
Your favorite bands are on the stands
Y el Sr. Miller te pone de humor
And Mr. Miller puts you in the mood
Es hora de hacer creer en el salón de baile
It's Make-Believe Ballroom Time
La hora del dulce romance
The hour of sweet romance
aquí está tu salón de baile imaginario
here's your make-believe ballroom
¡Vamos, niños, a bailar, a bailar!
Come on, children, let's dance, let's dance
Rod Jones
I often play this kind of glorious music during my Auckland, New Zealand radio show - and Ballroom is a great intro track
GooGooGooTube
Thanks for posting this! I remember listening to the Make Believe Ballroom with Martin block with my mom in the early 1950's. We lived in an apartment building in Manhattan, and we had a radio in the kitchen where we listened to hits of the day.