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Yesterday I posted some good music from the 1940s era and today I am focusing on the Big Bands of the Era and this first one is a Glenn Miller favorite titled Moonlight Serenade... Here is a short description...
"Moonlight Serenade" is an American popular song with original music by Glenn Miller and subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was originally named "Now I Lay Me Down To Weep." When Miller recorded "Sunrise Serenade" in 1939, he placed this song on the back. It was an immediate phenomenon as an instrumental arrangement and was adopted as Miller's signature tune.
The most striking part of the piece was its use of clarinet-led saxophone section, which is widely considered the classic Glenn Miller style. The first eight bars of the melody follow the form of the 12-bar blues. The song is a premier example of the American big-band sound from the mid-twentieth century.
There is no singer for this one, just Glenn Miller's Band, but it is a classic from the late 1940s...
I hope you enjoy it!
Kerry
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"Moonlight Serenade" is an American popular song with original music by Glenn Miller and subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was originally named "Now I Lay Me Down To Weep." When Miller recorded "Sunrise Serenade" in 1939, he placed this song on the back. It was an immediate phenomenon as an instrumental arrangement and was adopted as Miller's signature tune.
The most striking part of the piece was its use of clarinet-led saxophone section, which is widely considered the classic Glenn Miller style. The first eight bars of the melody follow the form of the 12-bar blues. The song is a premier example of the American big-band sound from the mid-twentieth century.
There is no singer for this one, just Glenn Miller's Band, but it is a classic from the late 1940s...
I hope you enjoy it!
Kerry
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Perfect, I remember Moonlight Serenade well. I can remember my mom and dad dancing to it. Thanks for the memory.
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Glenn Miller is my favorite of all the big bands, Sgt (Join to see), and Moonlight Serenade is his signature song, of course. His sound was unique in that the woodwinds played a much larger role in the creation of the sound, whereas most bands had the brass as their primary sound.
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Yes, you are spot on, and that is what made his band so popular... It was a different sound... So glad you liked it, Stephen...
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Moonlight Serenade by Maj. Glenn Miller and his AAF Band
A recording of Glenn Miller's famous Moonlight Serenade. It was taken from a "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue" Medley perfo...
Thank you my friend Sgt (Join to see) for posting the music video of the Glenn Miller Orchestra performing his wonderful tune "Moonlight Serenade" in his honor posthumously.
U.S. Army Air Corps Major Glenn Miller died while flying on a military flight [ UC-64A Norseman] from London [Bedford] to Paris on December 16, 1944 at sea en route - the plane and the occupants were lost at sea.
Rest in peace Glenn Miller.
For comparison here is Maj Glenn Miller with his Army Air Force Band
A recording of Glenn Miller's famous Moonlight Serenade. It was taken from a "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue" Medley performed by Miller and his men on April 8, 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqoaq_yFQKg
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Robert Thornton SMSgt David A Asbury SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO2 (Join to see) PO3 Phyllis Maynard MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi SFC Chuck Martinez SFC (Join to see) SSG Robert Webster SGT Steve McFarland SGT Jim Arnold SPC Nancy Greene SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.DSFC William Farrell SSG Michael Noll
U.S. Army Air Corps Major Glenn Miller died while flying on a military flight [ UC-64A Norseman] from London [Bedford] to Paris on December 16, 1944 at sea en route - the plane and the occupants were lost at sea.
Rest in peace Glenn Miller.
For comparison here is Maj Glenn Miller with his Army Air Force Band
A recording of Glenn Miller's famous Moonlight Serenade. It was taken from a "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue" Medley performed by Miller and his men on April 8, 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqoaq_yFQKg
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Robert Thornton SMSgt David A Asbury SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO2 (Join to see) PO3 Phyllis Maynard MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi SFC Chuck Martinez SFC (Join to see) SSG Robert Webster SGT Steve McFarland SGT Jim Arnold SPC Nancy Greene SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.DSFC William Farrell SSG Michael Noll
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