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 Glenn Miller Story - Centenary Collection Vols. 5-8

Name:  Glenn Miller Story - Centenary Collection Vols. 5-8
Artist: Glenn Miller
Media: Audio CD
Features: Box set
Release Date: 10 May 2004
Label: Avid
  
Amazon Sales Ranking: 4661
Number of Discs: 4

Tracks
 1  Oh, You Crazy Moon
 2  Ain't Cha Comin' Out?
 3  Day We Meet Again
 4  I Wanna Hat With Cherries
 5  Sold American
 6  Pagan Love Song
 7  Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
 8  Over the Rainbow
 9  Little Man Who Wasn't There
 10  Man With the Mandolin
 11  Beer Barrel Polka
 12  Jumpin' Jive
 13  Hold Tight-Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama)
 14  I Want to Be Happy
 15  Dippermouth Blues
 16  Starlit Hour
 17  Blue Orchids
 18  Glen Island Special
 19  Love With a Capital 'You'
 20  Baby Me
 21  In the Mood
 22  Wham (Re Bop Boom Bam)
 23  Angel in a Furnished Room
 24  Twilight Interlude
 25  I Want to Be Happy
 1  Farewell Blues
 2  Who's Sorry Now?
 3  My Isle of Golden Dreams
 4  My Prayer
 5  Blue Moonlight
 6  Basket Weaver
 7  Melancholy Lullaby
 8  (Why Couldn't It Last) Last Night?
 9  Out of Space
 10  So Many Times
 11  Blue Rain
 12  I Just Got a Letter
 13  Bless You (For Being an Angel)
 14  Bluebirds in the Moonlight (Silly Idea)
 15  Speaking of Heaven
 16  Indian Summer
 17  It Was Written in the Stars
 18  Johnson Rag
 19  (Why Couldn't It Last) Last Night
 20  Ciribiribin
 21  Careless
 22  Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!
 23  In an Old Dutch Garden (By an Old Dutch Mill)
 24  This Changing World
 25  On a Little Street in Singapore
 1  Vagabond Dreams
 2  Faithful Forever
 3  I Beg Your Pardon
 4  Faithful to You
 5  It's a Blue World
 6  Ooh! What You Said
 7  King Porter Stomp
 8  After All
 9  In the Mood
 10  Gaucho Serenade
 11  Sky Fell Down
 12  When You Wish Upon a Star
 13  Medley (Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blu
 14  Give a Little Whistle
 15  Missouri Waltz
 16  Beautiful Ohio
 17  What's the Matter With Me
 18  Medley (Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blu
 19  Say 'Si Si' (Para Vigo Me Voy)
 20  Rumba Jumps!
 21  Stardust
 22  My Melancholy Baby
 23  Let's All Sing Together
 24  Rug Cutter's Swing
 25  Woodpecker Song
 1  Sweet Potato Piper
 2  Too Romantic
 3  Tuxedo Junction
 4  Danny Boy (Londonberry Air)
 5  Imagination
 6  Shake Down the Stars
 7  I'll Never Smile Again
 8  Starlight and Music
 9  Polka Dots and Moonbeams
 10  My! My!
 11  Say It (Over and Over Again)
 12  Moments in the Moonlight
 13  Hear My Song, Violetta
 14  Sierra Sue (A Song of the Hills)
 15  Boog-It
 16  Yours Is My Heart Alone (You Are My Heart's Delight)
 17  Devil May Care
 18  April Played the Fiddle
 19  Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
 20  I Haven't Time to Be a Millionaire
 21  Slow Freight
 22  Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
 23  Fanhat Stomp
 24  Pennsylvania 6-5000
 25  Bugle Call Rag

Customer Reviews
 
MILLER'S MAGIC STILL INSPIRES! Rating: 5.0

The musical legacy of Glenn Miller has been fuelled by his creative special sound, the 1954 biographical movie, and the ongoing mystery concerning his death in 1944. Still at the forefront of popular music, 2004 marks his birth centenary and THE GLENN MILLER STORY is a series of twenty CD's released in five volumes which provide the ultimate tribute and adds so much additional material to the usual popular numbers which normally appear on compilations. This particular collection covers the period just 4 years after the formation of Miller's own band after many years as a trombonist with many outfits including Benny Goodman and the Dorseys'. The popularity of big bands began to peak in 1939 and continued well into the 40's and Miller's RCA recording output was prolific and opportune for the demands of the American record buying public of the day and these four CD's merely cover a ten month period for the featured 100 tracks. At the time, the Orchestra was playing at the famed Glen Island Casino from where it also made frequent radio broadcasts which aided his growing popularity. In fact in a Poll he was voted 4th behind the longer established Goodman, Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras. Featured vocalists, Bob Eberle and Marion Hutton are well-featured with songs like OH YOU CRAZY MOON, WHO'S SORRY NOW?, GIVE A LITTLE WHISTLE and WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH ME? The embryonic Kay Starr also did a brief stint and recorded a couple of light-hearted numbers, LOVE WITH A CAPITAL "YOU" and BABY ME, whilst Tex Beneke often dropped clarinet or tenor saxophone for the occasional spot of vocalising on songs like THE LITTLE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE. The singers often had to keep up with break neck speed arrangements so must have quickly learned their breathing techniques in order to cope! As for the band itself, there are the big-sellers, PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000 and IN THE MOOD - the latter in two versions - one studio; the other a live recording and the inclusion of many of the latter in this collection gives a fair idea of the atmosphere which prevailed in front of an audience as opposed to the better ambiance but colder feel of the recording studio. Other numbers include PAGAN LOVE SONG, BEER BARREL POLKA, JOHNSON RAG and RUG CUTTER'S SWING and these are in fact more typical of a more jazzy but typical Miller style compared to the familiar hits. The sound quality is quite superb for recordings of this age which are well documented within the extensive notes, rare photographs and the band's musician line-up with dates fitting and following the chronological running order. There's certainly enough quality here to want to seek out the other four volumes in this excellent anthology.

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