Glenn Miller Plays Selections From The Film "The Glenn Miller Story"

Artist Name: Glenn Miller And His Orchestra

Title: Glenn Miller Plays Selections From The Film "The Glenn Miller Story"

Record Label: RCA Victor

Series: Popular Collector's Issue

Catalog Number: LPT-3057

Format: 10", Vinyl, LP, Mono, Album
Country: U.S.A. 

Year: 1954

Genre: Big Band

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TRACKLISTING: 
A-Side

A1 Moonlight Serenade

A2 American Patrol

A3 Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand

A4 In The Mood

B-Side

B1 Tuxedo Junction

B2 St. Louis Blues

B3 String Of Pearls

B4 Little Brown Jug

COMPANIES:

©RCA

RCA Victor Division, Radio Corporation Of America 

MATRIX NUMBERS:

A side center label: E3VL-4927

B side center label: E3VL-4928

A side run-out stamped: E3VL-4927-5S A5

B side run-out stamped: E3VL-4928-5S C1

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Track A1: Recorded April 4, 1939

Track A2: From Broadcast April 23, 1942

Track A3: Recorded April 28, 1940

Track A4: Recorded August 1, 1939

Track B1 & B2: Recorded February 5, 1940

Track B3: From Broadcast May 5, 1942

Track B4: From Broadcast June 2, 1940

Printed in U.S.A.

Made in U.S.A

LINER NOTES:

In its search for new fields to conquer, Hollywood has been turning more and more often to films based on the lives and careers of "popular" music makers With various studios having already accorded treatment to such personalities as the Dorsey Brothers. Rodgers and Hart, Gershwin and, however precariously, H-ix Beiderbecke, Universal-International has now turned to one of the most natural of them all — "The Glenn Miller Story."

Tracing Glenn's career from his early days at the University of Colorado to his untimely death in a wartime aircraft accident, the film also covets his music with the same detail and thoroughness. Actually, Glenn's story is most easily told in the eight major tunes heard in the film and on this disc - cerrtainly one of the unique success stories in the annals of popular music.

After his early struggles, inevitable in the career of any bandleader in the mid-thirties, and his great initial success at New York‘s Glen Island Casino, the Miller name was on every tongue. There it was destined to remain through the early war years and after his enlistment in the Army Air Corps, with many members of his band, only served to increase his popularity. In short, Glenn Millet cast on an entire generation a spell from which it has never recovered.

Glenn's performances of certain tunes soon became known as "Miller standards," and so they have remained to this day. Eight of these are heard in the new film, "The Glenn Miller Story," and are presented on this disc in the same manner with which Glenn has continued to hypnotize audiences everywhere. To every pop music fan, regardless of whether his salad days happened to coincide with those of the Miller band or not, titles such as American Patrol, In The Mood, String of Pearls, Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand and Little Brown Jug tell the real "Glenn Miller Story," and as such, have been wisely chosen by the film-makers to illustrate his particular magic.

These tunes were considered Miller's special property - as, indeed, they were and are - and no one since has been able to perform them in quite the same manner. This is equally true of the other selections in this album: Moonlight Serenade is undoubtedly the best-remembered theme of modern vintage; Tuxedo Junction was as much associated with the Miller band as with its creator, Erskine Hawkins; and St. Louis Blues is just a great example of what the Miller crew could fashion from an old-time standard.

Although Glenn's life was by no means a prosaic one, it is through his music that "The Glenn Miller Story" Should be told, and will continue to he told. His life was irrevocably tied up with the story of wonderful music - and not only to those who grew up with it, for the Miller magic, as these performances demonstrate, is just as compelling today as it ever was. Proof, indeed, that the Miller story has no final chapter.

B. Z.

Hear These Glenn Miller Performances on RCA Victor Records:

Glenn Miller Concert (Vol. I) (One O'Clock Jump; Going Home; St. Louis Blues; Tiger Rag; Everybody Loves My Baby; Georgia on My Mind; Jersey Bounce My Blue Heaven) LPT I6

Glenn Miller Concert (Vol. II) (Anchors Aweigh; My Buddy; I Got Rhythm; I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair; Vilia; Limehouse Blues; On the Alamo; On Army Team) LPT 30

Glenn Miller Concert (Vol. III) (Dipper Mouth Blues; April in Paris; Fanhat Stomp; Sleepy Lagoon; Introduction to a Waltz; Intermezzo; Arc You Rusty, Gate; Tchaikovsky‘s Piano Concerto) LPT 5001

This is Glenn Miller and his Orchestra (Johnson Rag; My Isle of Golden Dreams; Beautiful Ohio; Pavanne; Danny Boy; Adios; Anvil Chorus) LPT 3002