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
Year: 1954
Genre: Big Band
TRACKLISTING:
A-Side
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:
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
