Marking the 80th Anniversary of Glenn Miller’s Army Air Force Band, Hindsight Records is excited to release the new historical album, The Glenn Miller Orchestra: 80th Anniversary Of The Army Air Force ...
When swing and big band was the music du jour, Glenn Miller and his orchestra were at the top of the heap. His music is still popular 80 years later. “One of the reasons is how big the hits were at ...
Eighty years ago on Aug. 27th, 1944, the great American bandleader Glenn Miller performed at a base some 60 miles north of London, RAF Twinwood, the hub and airfield he frequently flew in and out of ...
Eric Stabnau, music director for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, says that the iconic Glenn Miller sound begins in the reed section. But that's hardly all it takes to preserve the jazz orchestra that has ...
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra topped the American pop charts with the ebullient "In the Mood" as war raged overseas on this day in history, Feb. 10, 1940. His most famous song, along with other ...
It was Christmas Day, 1944, when people heard the news: Glenn Miller, one of music's biggest stars, had vanished. He had boarded a military plane from Britain, bound for Paris, where he was scheduled ...
The song reminds Gayle of her Kentucky upbringing, as her and sister Loretta Lynn's mother would often play big band music in their home “Loretta had said it all through the years that Emmy is great,” ...
The world famous Glenn Miller Orchestra brought the audience to its feet Friday night when they played the “Chattanooga Choo Choo” to a packed UTC Fine Arts Center auditorium. The two-hour concert ...
May 4—The Armed Forces Day celebration this Friday and Saturday got me to thinking about how our nation's military has sometimes been sang about in popular song. Of course World War II saw a plethora ...