Talk about your comeback albums. This release became the Chairman of the Board’s most commercially successful album. My dad’s favorite voice was finding it hard to sell records during the early days of rock and roll. And he wasn’t finding the top of charts as often.

He once again teamed up with the Nelson Riddle orchestra and this time struck grammy gold.

So get ready to hear The Voice most heard around our house when I was growing up in Volume 171: Sinatra is No Stranger.

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Strangers In The Night
Arranged By – Ernie Freeman
Producer – Jimmy Bowen
Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder

Summer Wind
Written-By – Henry Mayer and Johnny Mercer

All Or Nothing At All
Written-By – Arthur Altman and Jack Lawrence

You’re Driving Me Crazy!
Written-By – Walter Donaldson

On A Clear Day
Written-By – Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane

Yes Sir, That’s My Baby!
Written-By – Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (classic Sinatra phrasing)
Written-By – Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

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We finish up a month of celebration for what would have been Glenn Miller’s 120th birthday March first. And we finish by getting back to the man himself.

We’re not ending this memorial month with just any album in my dad’s collection. I refer to it with the same name as a popular and influential Beatles record.

This album has always caught my eye, and a few times my toe as it has the largest cover in the collection and sticks out beyond all the others, and it is made of a near-wood material. It also has one of the best selections of Glenn Miller’s recordings. Some studio. Some from his live national radio broadcasts.

So get ready to hear the last two sides of this great compilation record set from the most famous big band conductor there was in Volume 170: Miller’s White Album Record 5.

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Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – RCA Victor Collectors Issue Second Pressing
Label: RCA Victor – LPT 6700
Format: 5 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue
Released: 1960
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band, swing

Released in a binder with a 14 page liner notes booklet.

The original release of this set was a limited edition in 1953, and the Second Pressing was actually first released in Canada in 1956.

We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from record five of the collection, which is sides 5 and 6. Spindle numbering. The other side of the record is not the next side. The next side is the next record.

Baby Me
Vocals – Kay Starr
Written-By – Archie Gottler, Harry Harris and Lou Handman
January 26, 1939

Love With A Capital “You”
Vocals – Kay Starr
Written-By – Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger
January 26, 1939

Oh So Good
Written-By – Jerry Gray
Broadcast September 5, 1941
Bobby Hacket on guitar

Sun Valley Jump
Written-By – Jerry Gray
January 17, 1941

Rug Cutter’s Swing
Written-By – Horace Henderson
January 29, 1940

King Porter Stomp
Written-By – Jelly Roll Morton
Broadcast March 12, 1940

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Week four of celebrating what would have been Glenn Miller’s 120th birthday March first, brings us to another album from a different orchestra playing music made famous by Miller.

A couple of weeks ago I played an album by Bobby Hackett. THAT Bobby actually played with Glenn Miller before world war 2. Music you are about to hear features the Bobby Krane Orchestra. THIS Bobby…doesn’t exist.

So get ready to hear recordings that came from a sound-alike record label playing more of that famous clarinet over saxophone swing in Volume 169: Krane’s Miller Tribute.

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Bobby Krane His Trombone And Orchestra* – A Tribute To Glenn Miller
Label: Bravo! Records – K-118
Series: Grand Prix Series
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Released: 1962
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Big Band

We will hear 6 of the ten songs from the album

I’ve Got A Gal In Kalamazoo
written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren

Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair
written by Stephen C. Foster

Volga Boatman
A traditional Russian song
Bill Finegan’s jazz arrangement for the Glenn Miller band took the song to #1 in the US charts in 1941.

Habanera
Written aby Georges Bizet the 19th century French composer

Anitra’s Dance
Written by Edvard Grieg the 19th century Norwegian composer

Chattanooga Choo Choo
written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren

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We continue Glenn Miller month in celebration of what would have been his 120th birthday on March 1.

My dad was obviously a big Glenn Miller fan or we wouldn’t have been able to do this month-long celebration of his music. He owned 12 33 ⅓ RPM Vinyl records of Glenn Miller performing his music, later conductors of the Miller band, and other band leaders recording Glenn’s music. My dad owned even more Miller music on the original 78 RPM Shellac records.

Now, if you are a follower of this show, you’ll also know my dad was a really big Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass fan. He owned 12 records of the TJB.

In this episode we bring them together with the Buddy DeFranco led Glenn Miller band from the 1960s. Sort of an early mashup.

So get ready to hear one popular band play music from another popular band in Volume 168: Miller Band Translates TJB.

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The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Buddy DeFranco – Something New – Translates The Tijuana Brass Hits
Label: Epic – LN 24206
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1966
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band

We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on the album.

A Taste Of Honey
Written-By – Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass recorded the most popular instrumental version of the song with a cover on their 1965 album, Whipped Cream & Other Delights.

I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
Written-By – George Bassman and Ned Washington
from the album Going Places in 1965

The Third Man Theme
Written-By – Anton Karas
!!Going Places!! (1965) for A&M Records.

Dating Game Duo
Whipped Cream
Written-By – Naomi Neville
It is the title track of their 1965 LP, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, and was released as the lead single from the album.

Spanish Flea
Written-By – Julius Wechter
from the album Going Places in 1965

Tijuana Taxi
Written-By – Ervan Coleman
!!Going Places!! (1965) for A&M Records.

The Lonely Bull
Written-By – Sol Lake
The song was the title track to the album The Lonely Bull, released in December 1962. The Herb Alpert single represents the first release on A&M Records.

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I think this record might go down as my favorite from the five records we are playing in the month of March to celebrate what would have been Glenn Miller’s 120th birthday on March first.

The featured trumpet player on this album has such a soft sound that really fits in with the Miller sound, yet stands out to make each song his own. His solos are delicate, yet hardly boring. As they were when he played for the Miller band.

He was a cool-toned cornetist who always sounded relaxed no matter what the setting or the tempo.

So get ready to hear some great songs made famous by the Glenn Miller orchestra in a setting of wall to wall strings and brass in Volume 167: Bobby’s Miller Pearls.

Here’s the article from Kim Filed mentioned in this episode.

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Bobby Hackett – A String Of Pearls
Label: Epic – LN 24174
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1965
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band

We’ll hear 6 of the 12 songs on this album.

A String Of Pearls
Composed by Jerry Gray

Moonlight Serenade
Composed by Glenn Miller

Georgia On My Mind
Written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell

Tuxedo Junction
Written by Erskine Hawkins, Bill Johnson, and Julian Dash

Poor Butterfly
Music was written by Raymond Hubbell inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly

In The Mood
Based on the composition “Tar Paper Stomp” by Wingy Manone

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My dad really loved his big bands. And what bigger big band than the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

March first, Glenn Miller would have been 120 years old. So we are going to celebrate his birthday all month with his music and musical style.

My dad had a ton of Miller music, and while I have already featured him many times on this show, you’ll be introduced to an even larger portion of it this month including a return to the most distinctive album in his collection which we’ll feature in four weeks.

So, get ready to hear one of this bandleader’s compilation disks released 12 years after his death, to kick off an entire month of his music in Volume 166: This Is Glenn Miller.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.

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Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – This Is Glenn Miller
Label: RCA Victor – LPM 1190
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz
Style: Swing, Big Band
Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis

Liner Notes – George T. Simon

Johnson Rag
Written-By – Guy Hall, Henry Kleinkauf
Arranged By – Bill Finegan
Soloists on sax – Al Klink and Tex Beneke
Soloist, Trombone – Glenn Miller
Soloist, Trumpet – Clyde Hurley

Beautiful Ohio
Written-By – Ballard MacDonald, Mary Earl
Arranged By – Jerry Gray
Soloist, Piano – Chummy McGregor
Soloist, Tenor Saxophone – Tex Beneke

Adios
Written-By – Eddie Woods, Enric Madriguera
Arranged By – Jerry Gray
Bass – Doc Goldberg
Trumpet [Muted] – Mickey McMickle

Londonderry Air
traditional Irish melody
Arranged By – J. C. McGregor and Glenn Miller
Celesta – Chummy McGregor

Anvil Chorus
Written-By – Giuseppe Verdi yes, the 19th century Italian Opera Composer
Arranged By – Jerry Gray
Soloist – Tex Beneke
Soloist, Bass – Trigger Alpert
Soloist, Clarinet – Ernie Caceres
Soloist, Trumpet – Billy May

Bugle Call Rag
Written-By – Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel and Jack Pettis

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