Moonlight Serenade: The Best Of Glenn Miller & His Orchestra (Past Perfect) #BigBands

Published 2015-09-18
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1. 00:00:00 Glenn Miller Moonlight Serenade
2. 00:03:23 Glenn Miller Johnson Rag
3. 00:03:53 Glenn Miller Blue Orchids
4. 00:06:52 Glenn Miller American Patrol (Quickstep/Jive) (Quickstep/Jive)
5. 00:10:11 Glenn Miller Moonlight Cocktail
6. 00:13:33 Glenn Miller Little Brown Jug
7. 00:16:26 Glenn Miller Frenesi
8. 00:19:58 Glenn Miller Elmer's Tune
9. 00:23:11 Glenn Miller Slip Horn Jive
10. 00:26:27 Glenn Miller Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree
11. 00:29:44 Glenn Miller A String of Pearls (Foxtrot) (Foxtrot)
12. 00:33:02 Glenn Miller Chattanooga Choo Choo
13. 00:36:31 Glenn Miller Take The 'A' Train
14. 00:40:00 Glenn Miller Perfidia
15. 00:43:20 Glenn Miller Tuxedo Junction
16. 00:46:54 Glenn Miller A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
17. 00:50:36 Glenn Miller Boulder Buff
18. 00:54:07 Glenn Miller The Story Of A Starry Night
19. 00:57:39 Glenn Miller At Last
20. 01:00:51 Glenn Miller Serenade In Blue
21. 01:04:20 Glenn Miller Kalamazoo (I've Got A Gal In)
22. 01:07:37 Glenn Miller In The Mood
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There can only be a handful of people in the Western world who haven’t heard of Glenn Miller and his music. His orchestra existed for only five years yet it made an indelible mark on the history of popular music, changing and modernising dance music styles almost overnight.
Along with his contemporaries, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, Artie Shaw and others, he was a driving force and combined swing with out and out dance music which kept the publics attention, not only in those five short years which saw the outbreak of World War II, but ever since.
Glenn Miller collectors will always point out that the ten or so bestsellers, most of them instrumentals, are just scratching the surface of Millers output of over 300 sides for RCA in the States, and this collection covers not only the most well known and perhaps best loved titles that Glenn made his own, but also a goodly selection of the rest.
Miller’s famous theme, Moonlight Serenade, performs its usual task of getting things under way. No surprise that this record is one of the five most requested discs on record programmes in this country and surely the most imitated record by other bands down the years. Recorded in April 1939 and just six days before that other favourite, Little Brown Jug, Millers theme puts us all in the mood for what follows.

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  • Track List: Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade ♫ Buy CD or Download Now from Past Perfect: bit.ly/31sxBcV ♫ 1. 00:00:00 Glenn Miller Moonlight Serenade 2. 00:03:23 Glenn Miller Johnson Rag 3. 00:03:53 Glenn Miller Blue Orchids 4. 00:06:52 Glenn Miller American Patrol (Quickstep/Jive) (Quickstep/Jive) 5. 00:10:11 Glenn Miller Moonlight Cocktail 6. 00:13:33 Glenn Miller Little Brown Jug 7. 00:16:26 Glenn Miller Frenesi 8. 00:19:58 Glenn Miller Elmer's Tune 9. 00:23:11 Glenn Miller Slip Horn Jive 10. 00:26:27 Glenn Miller Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree 11. 00:29:44 Glenn Miller A String of Pearls (Foxtrot) (Foxtrot) 12. 00:33:02 Glenn Miller Chattanooga Choo Choo 13. 00:36:31 Glenn Miller Take The 'A' Train 14. 00:40:00 Glenn Miller Perfidia 15. 00:43:20 Glenn Miller Tuxedo Junction 16. 00:46:54 Glenn Miller A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 17. 00:50:36 Glenn Miller Boulder Buff 18. 00:54:07 Glenn Miller The Story Of A Starry Night 19. 00:57:39 Glenn Miller At Last 20. 01:00:51 Glenn Miller Serenade In Blue 21. 01:04:20 Glenn Miller Kalamazoo (I've Got A Gal In) 22. 01:07:37 Glenn Miller In The Mood This is official original content, not a copyright infringement. For any issues, please get in touch with Past Perfect or The Orchard first Buy CD or Download from Past Perfect: shorturl.at/hijDF Buy CD on Amazon: shorturl.at/cvxET
  • At 85 years old, I can recall during the war when this was played on the radio. That was truly the big band era. Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Louis Armstrong, all those great musicians were on the radio every day. This was all that was played. That was a time when everyone loved America and was buying war bonds and using ration stamps. We all supported the war effort. We had paper drives at school. All the kids collected and saved news papers for the drive. Our family did not have a car, so my parents traded their gasoline ration stamps for food and meat ration stamps. This was in southern California, we had black outs and the planes patrolling the coast would pass over our house. We kids were scared out of our minds. Mr. Perkins our neighborhood Air Raid Warden would come out into the street and yell "blackout", as he cranked his hand crank siren. Everyone turned their lights out as the street lights went out. It was total darkness. We kids hid under the table as the planes flew over. This music played through all of that. We were in the dark but the radio stayed on for news reports. No TV. We lived through it, and when the war was over, Joe Louis was on the radio performing his boxing matches. And the music played on.
  • I am 89 years old dancing and romancing alone in my kitchen remembering my husband
  • @classical7745
    There was a time when culture, sensitivity and feelings were alive.
  • @robertcombs55
    My Mom and Dad are dancing in Heaven to this wonderful Music....
  • @Super-Shafs
    Age doesn't play a factor in your music tastes. I'm 16, and this is still better than modern music
  • My ,My ,My, how Lovely my precious darling husband and I danced to this beautiful music on our first anniversary and we couldn't keep our eyes off of each other , the whole of the night was all for us, we were in heaven , and our love just kept growing as time past those precious moments away, and to this day he was my greatest love and greatest friend🥰💗
  • @stephenleo5606
    I remember listening to "Elmer's Tune" back in 1944 while waiting for news of my cousin Bob whose escort carrier USS Block Island was sunk in the Atlantic. We found out that he had survived and had been picked up by a destroyer and taken to Casablanca. Glen Miller's music helped this country get through a hard time. It was probably the last time that all Americans were united in a common cause. I'm 85 now born in 1934 and every time I hear Glenn Miller's theme song "Moonlight Serenade" it takes me back to the war years with bitter sweet memories.
  • My mother loved listening to Glenn Miller. I hope she gets to listen to him in heaven.
  • @GrannyEarth
    I’m 63 & as a young teen I spent glorious summers in a small midwestern town at my Grandparents house. Days were filled with Big Band music that played on Grandpas HiFi in the basement. The floor vents were speakers! The evenings on the back porch listening to stories of The Great Depression & The War & on. Every time I listen to 40’s now i wish i could go back for just a summer & relive it again.
  • @edludwig1337
    The greatest generation's music! God bless em....
  • Strange as it may seem, this music make me nostalgic for an era I didn't even live in.
  • @MsWausau
    Maybe there wouldn't be so much discontentment in the world if we went back to having dance halls and Saturday nights when having a decent time was lovely and wondrous.
  • @dallisb1047
    I am 56. This is what I grew up listening to. Thank you Mom and Pop. I took My Parents to Beef & Boards in Indianapolis to see the Glenn Miller orchestra a few times. I loved watching them dance around the edge of the dance floor. My fiancee and I saw them April 23 in Effingham IL. Absolutely some of the best music. Mom and Pop are Dream Dancing in Heaven now. To the Music of Our Lives!!
  • @user-ni2gf8gb9x
    I have loved this music all my life. I am only 57. I think maybe I was born out of synch with time. lol
  • @glo3139
    I very much appreciate this Big Band style. Especially, this song. I think I was born in the wrong era.
  • @Flap999
    Born in November 2019 51. I’m thankful that I was born in a time that I could be exposed to this music. My grandparents and my parents loved this kind of music.