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.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The Glenn Miller Orchestra Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' by these artists:
!D! You know, there's Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Co…
1.05 - John Denver Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
A-Strings You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
A. B. Green Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if …
Aiirawn You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Al Martino You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
Alan Jackson You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixon Comet and…
Alvin Who's Rudolph? Tell them Ruddy! Rudolph the red nosed reind…
Alvin & The Chipmunks You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and…
Alvin and The Chipmunks Who's Rudolph? Tell them Ruddy! Rudolph the red nosed reind…
Alvin And The Chipmunks (Holiday) You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and…
Andy Williams & Perry Como Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And …
Arthur Fiedler Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose. And i…
Autry Gene (Happy holidays folks, wherever you may be) You know Dasher…
B2K Hey B2k Can you guys tell met he story about Rudolph The…
Babyface Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
Babyface (Holiday) Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And …
Barney You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
BBC Symphony Chorus & Singers You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
Big Bird & Snuffleupagus You know harley and santa cat in the hat and…
Billy Gilman You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet and …
Billy May Performed by: billy gilman and asleep at the wheel (note: th…
Bing Crosby Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Bing Crosby Ella Fitzgerald Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, …
Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen (C…
Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, …
Bing Crosby & Friends Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Bing Crosby / Ella Fitzgerald Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen (C…
Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Bing Crosby And Judy Garland Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, …
Bing Crosby John Scott Trotter Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Bing Crosby Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires & John Scott Trotter You know dasher and dancer and prancer and vixen Comet and…
Bing Crosby Rosemary Clooney Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
Bing Crosby The Andrew Sisters Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Bing Crosby With John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra And Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Bing Crosby With Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires And John Scott Trotter And His Orchestra You know dasher and dancer and prancer and vixen Comet and…
Bing Crosby/Ella Fitzgerald Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen (C…
Bing Crosby/John Scott Trotter/Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Bing Crosby; Ella Fitzgerald Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, …
Bing Crosby; Frank Sinatra Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, …
Bing Crosby; John Scott Trotter And His Orchestra; Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, …
Bob Tostes You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Bobby Womack You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Brynn Stanley Hey everyone! Listen up What! I've got a question for you O…
Burl Ives You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Chris Isaak You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, You know Come…
Christmas You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Christmas - Martin Dean Rudolph Rudolph Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very s…
Christmas Allstars You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Christmas Party You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen Comet, a…
Clay Walker Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if …
Clay Walker (Holiday) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And i…
Conniff Dasher, Dancer Prancer, Vixen Comet, Cupid Donner and Blitze…
Crossing Worlds Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if …
Crystals Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
Crystals (The) Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And …
David Foster Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
David Seville and The Chipmunks D:Now look fellas, I've been walking around the North Pole …
Dean Martin Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose, And if…
Dean Martin & Nat "King" Cole Rudolph Rudolph Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very s…
Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr. Frank Sinatra Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Decca Concert Orchestra You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Destiny's Child Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer You know Dasher, and Dancer, …
Diana Ross and the Supremes You know there's Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Com…
Dilla Dex You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Disney You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Dolly Parton Hey kids now I know you all know Dasher and…
Dolly Parton (Holiday) Rudolf, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose. And …
Domenico Savino And His Orchestra You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Don McLean Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. And…
Donald Duck feat. Goofy Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose. And i…
Earl Singers Brown Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. A…
Ella Fitzgerald Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if …
Ella Fitzgerald & Bing Crosby Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen (C…
Ella Fitzgerald & Bing Crosby (Holiday) Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if …
Ella Fitzgerald & Frank Devol Orchestra You know dasher and dancer and prancer and vixen Comet and…
Ella Fitzgerald (with orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol) Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen (…
Ella Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby with The John Scott-Trotter's Orchestra Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if …
Ella Fitzgerald with Frank DeVol And His Orchestra Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And …
Ella Fitzgerald | Frank DeVol Orchestra Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And i…
Ella Fitzgerald/Bing Crosby Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen (C…
Ella Fitzgerald; Frank Devol Orchestra Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if …
Elmo & Patsy Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. And…
Enoch Light Orchestra And Chorus Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And …
Fats Domino Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. And…
Ferlin Husky (You know Dasher and Dancer Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupi…
Frank DeVol Ella Fitzgerald Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And i…
Frank Sinatra Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Frank Sinatra Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. (Holiday) You know Dasher and Dancer Prancer and Vixen You know Comet …
Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And i…
Gene Autry (Happy holidays folks, wherever you may be) You know Dasher…
Gene Autry & Pinafores You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Gene Autry & Rosemary Clooney (Happy holidays folks, wherever you may be) You know Dasher…
Gene Autry & The Pinafores You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Gene Autry & The Pinafores with Orchestral Accompaniment (Happy holidays folks, wherever you may be) You know Dasher…
Gene Autry and The Pinafores You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and…
Gene Autry with The Pinafores You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, you know…
Gene Autry; Orchestra conducted by Carl Cotner You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
George Strait You know Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and…
George Strait (Holiday) You know Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen, Comet an…
Glenn Miller Orchestra You know Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen Comet, Cupid, Don…
Hank Snow You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Hank Thompson You know Dasher and Dancer, And Prancer and Vixen, Comet…
Hank Thompson & The Brazos Valley Boys You know Dasher and Dancer, And Prancer and Vixen, Comet…
Harry Connick Jr. Hey Kids! You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen C…
Helen Reddy You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Helene Fischer You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Huckapoo Oh Twiggy, a snow storm on Christmas Eve, how cool…
J. Williams Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
J.Marks C'mon bass Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny …
Jack Johnson Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose An…
Jack Johnson & The Roots Rudolph the red nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
Jackson 5 You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupi…
Jackson 5 (Holiday) You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Jens Pearldriver You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Jerry Jeff Walker You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
Jesse Powell Orchestra / The Cadillacs While walking down the road Christmas morning I saw a reinde…
Jewel Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And…
Jewel (Holiday) Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose An…
John D. Marks Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose cnd if …
John Denver Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
John Michael Montgomery Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if …
John Scott Trotter Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
John St. John Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
Johnny Marks You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet…
Johnny Mathis Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose an…
Johnny Mathis & Gladys Knight Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose and…
Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Kacey Musgraves Now here's one for all the little kids You know Dasher…
Kidz Bop You know Dasher and Dancer, And Prancer and Vixen, Comet a…
KIDZ BOP Kids You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Kidz Bop Kids (Holiday) You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
KITCHEN 1 - Bing Crosby Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
KITCHEN - Dean Martin Rudolph Rudolph Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very s…
Lena Horne You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Less Affair You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Lewis Brice You know, when I was a kid we used to…
LIVING ROOM - Burl Ives You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
LIVING ROOM - Dean Martin Rudolph Rudolph Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very s…
LIVING ROOM - The Temptations You know there's Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Com…
Lofi Flo You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Los Lonely Boys Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
Lynn Anderson (You know Dasher and Dancer Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Lynyrd Skynyrd Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if …
Lynyrd Skynyrd (Holiday) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And i…
Mark S Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose cnd if …
Mary J. Blige C'mon bass Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny …
Meghan Trainor feat. Jayden Jenna & Marcus Toney You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Merle Haggard You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet an…
Michael B. Nelson Rudolph the red nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose And…
Mickey Mouse You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, Comet, …
Mitchell Ayres/Perry Como/Ray Charles Singers Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And …
Music-Themes You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Nat King Cole Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
Nat King Cole & Dean Martin Rudolph Rudolph Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very s…
Ned LeDoux You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupi…
Neil Diamond Hello boys and girls I got a story to tell you About…
Nicole Henry You know Dasher and Dancer cnd Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
P.K. and the Sound Explosion Hey B2k Can you guys tell met he story about Rudolph The…
Paul Anka You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
Paul Carrack Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose. A…
Paul Soles We're a couple of misfits We're a couple of misfits What's…
Pentatonix You Know there's Dasher And Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Com…
Percy Faith & His Orchestra and Chorus Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And …
Peter B. Band Well you know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet…
Phil Spector Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
Play Rudolph, Rudolph Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very…
Raffi You know There's Dasher And Dancer Prancer and Vixen C…
Raffi (Holiday) You know Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Rankin/Bass You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
Ray Charles Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And…
Ray Coniff & The Singers You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
Ray Conniff Dasher, Dancer Prancer, Vixen Comet, Cupid Donner and Blitze…
Ray Conniff Singers You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Red Velvet Deluxe You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Rhythmaires Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, (…
Richard Benson and his Orchestra Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And …
Ringo Starr Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose (a shi…
Robbins You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
Rosemary Clooney Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. A…
Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry (Happy holidays folks, wherever you may be) You know Dasher…
Rugrats You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, You know…
Sammy Kaye And His Orchestra Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And …
Santa Claus You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Shelby Lynne You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet and …
Sinatra Martin Davis Jr You know Dasher and Dancer Prancer and Vixen You know Come…
Soul Singers You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
Spector Phil Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
Spike Jones You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet and …
Spike Jones And His City Slickers You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet an…
Starlite Singers You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Stephanie Mills Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose. And…
Straight No Chaser You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet and …
Straight No Chaser (Holiday) You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet an…
Straight No Chasers You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet and …
Straightnochaser You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet an…
StRAiT You know Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and…
Tarja You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Texas Tornados Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose And …
The A.Y.U. Quartet Oh oh oh oh Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a shiny nose…
The Andrews Sisters Well, you know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, …
The Baseballs You know Dasher and Dancer Prancer and Vixen, You know…
The Blenders You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
The Boxmasters You know Bubba and Teddy and Butler and JD Daryl and…
The Brady Bunch Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. And…
The Cadillacs rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose and if…
The Cadillacs / Rudolph the Red While walking down the road Christmas morning I saw a reinde…
The Canterbury Chorale and Strings You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
The Chipmunks Now look fellas, I've been walking around the North Pole for…
The Countdown Kids Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. And i…
The Crystals Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. A…
The Crystals; Johnny Marks Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if…
The Diamonds Hello boys and girls I got a story to tell you About…
The Dixie Cups Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose. And i…
The Fab Four This is take seventeen. One, two, three, four!…
The Jackson 5 You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
The Kiboomers You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
The London Sound 70 Orchestra and Chorus Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And …
The Melodeers You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
The Mike Sammes Singers Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Has a very shiny nose And if …
The Pinafores You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and…
The Pixie Helpers And Santa Claus You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
The Platters You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and C…
The Rat Pack You know Dasher and Dancer Prancer and Vixen You know Comet …
The Ray Conniff Singers You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
The Robertsons You know Dancing and Dancy and Prancy and Trixie and…
The Smashing Pumpkins Anything we should know about your change? Rudolph the red…
The Smithereens You know there's Dasher and Dancer Prancer and Vixen Comet…
The Supremes You know there's Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Com…
The Supremes (Holiday) You know there's Dasher and Dancer Prancer and Vixen Comet…
The Temptations You know there's Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Com…
The Temptations (Holiday) You know there's Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Co…
The Temptations The Temptations You know there's Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Com…
The Wiggles Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And i…
The Wiggles & Dorothy The Dinosaur You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
V.A. (Best Of Christmas) You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
Various Artists Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose And if…
Vienna Boys Choir Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. And…
Willie Nelson Rudolph the red nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose And…
Wurliter Christmas Carousel Music Vol. 1 Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose. And…
[Christmas Music] You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and…
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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