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 Centenary Coll'n Pt.1:Vols 1

Name:  Centenary Coll'n Pt.1:Vols 1
Artist: Glenn Miller
Media: Audio CD
Features: Box set
Release Date: 12 April 2004
Label: Avid
  
Amazon Sales Ranking: 21182
Number of Discs: 4

Tracks
 1  When I First Met Mary - Ben Pollack & His Californians
 2  'Deed I Do - Ben Pollack & His Californians
 3  Jazz Holiday - Benny Goodman
 4  Wolverine Blues - Benny Goodman
 5  Singapore Sorrows - Ben Pollack & His Californians
 6  Sweet Sue - Just You - Ben Pollack & His Californians
 7  Get Out and Get Under the Moon - Sam Lanin & His Orchestra
 8  Sunday Afternoon -
 9  Wang Wang Blues -
 10  Some Sweet Day - Dick Robertson & His Orchestra
 11  Hello, Lola - The Mound City Blue Blowers
 12  One Hour - The Mound City Blue Blowers
 13  Oh, Lady Be Good! -
 14  Meanest Kind of Blues -
 15  My Man from Caroline - Joe Venuti & His Orchestra
 16  I Like a Little Girl Like That - Joe Venuti & His Orchestra
 17  Bug-A-Boo - Red Nichols & His 5 Pennies
 18  What Good Am I Without You? -
 19  Basin Street Blues - The Charleston Chasers
 20  What Have We Got to Do Tonight (But Dance)? - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
 21  Why Did It Have to Be Me? - The Dorsey Brothers
 22  Annie's Cousin Fanny - The Dorsey Brothers
 23  Plantation Moods - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra
 24  Troubled - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra
 25  When Icky Morgan Plays the Organ -
 1  Drifting Tide -
 2  'Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Ray Noble & His Orchestra
 3  St Louis Blues - Ray Noble & His Orchestra
 4  How Could You? -
 5  In a Little Spanish Town
 6  Solo Hop
 7  Peg O' My Heart
 8  Wistful and Blue
 9  How Am I to Know?
 10  Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere
 11  Moonlight Bay
 12  I'm Sitting on Top of the World
 13  I Got Rhythm
 14  Sleepy Time Gal
 15  Community Swing
 16  Time on My Hands
 17  My Fine Feathered Friend
 18  Humoresque
 19  Doin' the Jive
 20  Silhouetted in the Moonlight
 21  Every Day's a Holiday
 22  Sweet Stranger
 23  Don't Wake Up My Heart
 24  Why'd Ya Make Me Fall in Love?
 25  Sold American
 26  Dippermouth Blues
 27  On the Sentimental Side
 28  My Best Wishes
 1  My Reverie
 2  By the Waters of Minnetonka (Pts. 1 & 2)
 3  King Porter Stomp
 4  I Never Knew
 5  This Can't Be Love
 6  What Have You Got That Gets Me?
 7  Change Partners
 8  Gotta Get Some Shut-Eye
 9  How I'd Like to Be With You in Bermuda
 10  Cuckoo in the Clock
 11  Romance Runs in the Family
 12  Oh, Baby
 13  Don't Worry 'Bout Me
 14  Deep Purple
 15  My Blue Heaven
 16  Sticks and Stones
 17  Get Out of Town
 18  Chestnut Tree
 19  And the Angels Sing
 20  Moonlight Serenade
 21  Lady's in Love With You
 22  Blue Skies
 23  Masquerade Is Over
 1  Our Love
 2  Wishing (Will Make It So)
 3  Three Little Fishies
 4  Sunrise Serenade - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
 5  Little Brown Jug
 6  My Last Goodbye
 7  But It Didn't Mean a Thing
 8  Pavanne
 9  Runnin' Wild
 10  To You
 11  Stairway to the Stars
 12  Blue Evening
 13  Lamp Is Low
 14  Rendezvous Time in Paree
 15  We Can Live on Love (We Haven't Got a Pot to Cook In)
 16  Cinderella (Stay in My Arms)
 17  Moon Love
 18  Guess I'll Go Back Home (This Summer)
 19  I'm Sorry for Myself
 20  Back to Back
 21  Slip Horn Jive
 22  At Sundown
 23  Hour of Parting
 24  One O'Clock Jump
 25  Wishing (Will Make It So)

Customer Reviews
 
MILLER'S EARLY MAGIC SPINS TO FAME! Rating: 5.0

There are many Glenn Miller collections available, fuelled by the combination of his individual big band sound, the 1954 biographical movie, and his mysterious disappearance whilst in flight over the English Channel. His name continues at the forefront of popular music and with 2004 marking his birth centenary THE GLENN MILLER STORY is a series of 20 CD's in five volumes which provide the ultimate tribute and adds so much additional material to the usual popular numbers which normally turn up on compilations. This set turns the clock back to 1926 and continues forward to 1939 beginning with Miller's solo career as a trombonist working with the Ben Pollack Band and progressing through various other bands including those of Benny Goodman, and the Dorsey Brothers and these varied and interesting tracks fill the first CD and a few tracks of the second and give a good historical indication concerning Miller's early aspirations and talent as a soloist within the confines of big bands. Obviously the experience enabled him to form his own embryonic band in 1935 and then involve himself in finding the band's own identity and individual sound which would lead to growing popularity as the big-band era peaked during the late 30's into the 40's. This collection contains a mixture of studio and live recordings with his vocalists, Ray Eberle, Marion Hutton and occasionally Tex Beneke well to the fore in their interpretations of popular songs of the period like THIS CAN'T BE LOVE, CHANGE PARTNERS, DEEP PURPLE and STAIRWAY TO THE STARS. The spotlight also shines on the band's popular hits, LITTLE BROWN JUG and MOONLIGHT SERENADE as well as equally impressive numbers MY BLUE HEAVEN and BY THE WATERS OF MINNETONKA. The sound quality is quite superb for recordings of this age which are well documented within the extensive notes and big band line-up with dates fitting the chronological running order. There's certainly enough quality here to want to seek out the other four volumes in this excellent anthology.

 
Centenary Coll'n Pt.1:Vols 1 . Rating: 4.0

This is not a bad collection. Starting from Glenn's early days as a sideman/arranger to the early days of his own orchestra. What disappointed me was that there appeared to be a chronological recording of the Miller bands studio recordings from his early 1935 band through to June 1939. Dave Bennett's remastering of the originals has to be applauded. Question is why were the following two tracks omitted from the collection. Columbia Studios 25th. April, 1935 "A Blues Serenade" and "Moonlight on the Ganges". For these ommissions I award this item with a four star category.

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