Oh wow. This brought tears to my eyes. My Dad loved the big bands and especially Glenn Miller. We used to tease him because he loved to dance around the room when he played those records. Chattanooga Choo Choo was one of his favorites. Thanks for the great reaction and the trip down memory lane. 👏👏👏🥰🇨🇦
As good as this is, you absolutely need to hear the rest of this clip featuring the incredible Dorothy Dandridge and the equally incredible Nicholas Brothers. You'll think you've died and gone to musical Heaven!
It strikes me as monumental when I think of the talent and effort it must have taken to do the arrangements for these songs. Hats off to the band leaders of that era. Thanks Harri 🌺✌️
You hit the nail on the head. Aside from the talent of those musicians, the arrangements were fantastic...works of art. Simpler times, but nothing simple about those arrangements.
The guy that walked up to the tables and started singing was Tex Beneke (you can hear the guys at the table say "Hi, Tex!). Beneke took over the band after Glenn Miller's disappearance. The guy you saw shifting his jacket back and forth was none other than Uncle Miltie himself, Milton Berle.
I had the privilege of seeing Tex Beneke conducting the Glenn Miller Orchestra, featuring Benny Goodman (!) and Helen O’Connell, at Wolf Trap Farm National Park in Vienna, VA in the 1970s. It was three years after Goodman’s stroke, and he had not only fully recovered, but was as sharp as ever. It turned out to be one of his last performances.
I've seen the movie several times and have to say I have mixed feelings about it. They did a beautiful job of re-creating the Miller Sound and depicting the relationship between Glenn and Helen. At the same time they made a LOT of unforced changes to history, much to its detriment. Probably the worst was the whole "he hated Little Brown Jug" story arc, which is 180º from the truth. Plus there was the encounter between the AAF brass and Capt. Miller over his introduction of jazz marches. In the movie Jimmy Stewart reacts like Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey ... in reality, he turned the to officer and said "Sir, are we still flying the same planes we did in WWI ?!" When he knew he was right, Miller could be a real badass!
This was my parents' music, yet I not only recognize a lot of it, I can sometimes even sing along with some lyrics. So I am frequently gobsmacked when I hear young reactors who don't even recognize Stevie Wonder.
I love the Big Bands and Miller was fabulous! My mom’s favorite band so I grew up with this wonderful music! The girl and boy singers of the day were so SO good!
Isn't it beautiful! I was six years old, at our school fete, back in the late 60's. My mum let me buy a huge stack of 78s for 2 bucks, took em home, me and my dad sat down and listened for hours. I was hooked, Glen Miller, Doris Day, a few cowboys thrown in, there were all sorts. Great memories, thankyou my man, so much!
Gorgeous music. As you say Harry, its joyful and from a classy, elegant time with plenty of swagger. Ive said it before, this is the rock n' roll of that era. I love it.
This type of Big Band music really gets me moving. This was not my era but it was my parents era and I grew up with it. I can sing along with most of Glenn Miller & Benny Goodman's music, including this one. There is a song by Miller called "I got a gal in Kalamazoo" and my mom always sang it to me as I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Love this...the train is a rollin on this one! The Modernairs don't get enough recognition in my opinion! Bette Midler did a good cover, but there is nothing like the original! Makes me smile hearing this too!
The girl seen at the end of the number is Dorothy Dandridge. She and the Nicolas sung and danced another chorus of the song, which is really worth seeing.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra was my favorite of the Big Band Era. The were famous before I was born. My interest started when I saw the movie "The Glenn Miller Story" on TV on a Saturday afternoon. I was fascinated by their sound and started searching for old records so I could listen to more. Thanks, Harri. This one really made me smile tonight.
The lady that walked in at the end was the beautiful Dorothy Dandridge. She does a dance number with the Nicholas brothers in the next scene. You should check it out
You cut it off just as it was getting good!!!! We got a short peek at the gorgeous Dorothy Dandridge, about to start a dance sequence with the Nicholas Brothers- the most supernaturally talented dancers of all time in the greatest dance number in Hollywood musical history! Wind it up again and finish it- you'll be happy you did!
The original music video. Lol. My dad loved The Glenn Miller Band and this was one of my favorites. It's upbeat and fun. I never thought about a comparison, but Blueberry Hill was my all time favorite of my parents' music when I was a kid. ☺
This song reminds me of my deceased father. This was one of his favorite Glen Miller Band songs. I'm 75 yrs old and I can still see him dancing in the kitchen. Great Band Era! RIP Dad!
My dad was a child of the depression, so needless to say I was raised on big band music. Give the song Sing, Sing, Sing a listen to. It’s the epitome of swing music.
Hey, pacebrison. In case you missed it, Harri reacted to Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing" a month or so ago. Awesome song and energy and musicianship! ua-cam.com/video/LFoHrJYcb0M/v-deo.html
Funny you said you weren't expecting voices, because I had the opposite thought! I remember my parents playing this song so much I know most of the words but was perplexed when only instruments came on for so long. I love it, and great memories!
Great reaction, Harri. So thrilled you did it! One of my favorite songs of all time because my dad was such a huge fan of Glenn Miller and his orchestra, especially "In the Mood" and "Chattanooga Choo Choo." If you already haven't watched the whole scene from 1941's "Sun Valley Serenade," the Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge come right in after the band is done playing and they sing and dance up a storm! So much fun!
This is my parents music. May they RIP. I think they had a heck of a thing going for them with The Big Bands. My dad’s favorite instrument was the clarinet, or as he referred to it as “ the licorice stick”. My mom? She just liked to dance to this music. It was and still is great dancing music.
Harri, Love that you feature some Big Band music. Glenn Miller was one of the best! I remember as a child finding old records of Glenn Miller & loving his music.
2:29 I loved Fats Domino, who recorded Blueberry Hill about 16 years after Glenn Miller recorded this. Fats was one of the pioneers of Rock and Roll whereas Glenn was Swing.
Yes, yes, yes! Big Band music debut with none other than Glenn Miller. In memory of my cherished mother who loved Big Band and Swing a big thank you and review this submission. Beautiful submission and review!
Growing up this was such "Old fashioned" music we weren't supposed to like it. Not with the BeeGees, Abba even the Beatles, but it's glorious! Wonderful to see it being rediscovered and that I don't have to hide my love of Big Band music anymore.
You cut off what might be the best part! That young lady and two young guys do a dance routine that is fantastic to outro this beautiful song. You must see it all!
The Train Station in Chattanooga operated until 1970.The Choo Choo was made famous by The Glenn Miller Band.The Chattanooga Choo Choo still exists,and in downtown Chattanooga on Market Street.The station converted the depot into a hotel,shopping centers,and restaurant.There are still Box cars converted into overnight stays for those that would rather try out different overnight experience other than a hotel. Chattanooga is my hometown.Thanks for great reaction Harri !
Hello Judy, we have a beautiful city to boast about! I like to refer to it as 'The Scenic City of The South" , it's called Gig City now for the internet speed here now. Chattanooga has really grown since 1970 and continues to.
@@fermisparadox01 Yep,RC Cola invented about 120 years ago in Columbus,Moon Pie invented here in Chattanooga a little over 100 years ago.I Think they were really good together back in the 1960's and 1970's.I like a Coca Cola and a Little Debbie Fudge Round myself,seeing as Little Debbies are made here at McKee Bakery and seeing as the first Coca Cola bottling company is here in Chattanooga.I'm needing a snack now,we have a lot of goodies from years gone by,Columbus is a great city also fermisparadox01.
Love this!!! In 1974 one of my Christmas gifts was a double Album "Glenn Millers Greatest Hits" ........... Play it all day long on the HiFi of my Parents till my Mom told me to Stop or she get the LP in the Garbage..... 😛
Fantastic! But it was cut short. It actually continued with Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers doing a song and dance to Chattanooga Choo Choo.
Thank you for doing a reaction to this song. I can remember five or six years old and my father would be playing his Glenn Miller records and I would always ask him to play this song. It was one of my favorite Glenn Miller songs with many more.
That was actually the very FIRST "Gold Record" (solid 24K gold molded, not just plated!) EVER! Was presented to Glenn Miller live on WNEW's "Make Believe Ballroom* show by host Martin Block. PLEASE BE SURE TO FINISH WATCHING THE REST OF THIS VIDEO to see the gorgeous Dorothy Dandridge tap dancing with the ultra-talented Nicolas Brothers. WOW!!! 😮
FWIW, according to his biographer the record they gave to Glenn on his radio show *was* done q&d - a regular 78 that someone painted! Right after that they pressed a real gold version for the ages. It's now in the GM Archives at the University of Colorado.
Love this classic. My Dad was a ww2 vet & both my parents loved the big band music. My brother played in high school jazz band in the 70s and played a lot of the Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, & Duke Ellington songs. Try: String of Pearls, Take the A Train, Sentimental Journey and Pennsylvania 6-5000 & Salt Peanuts!❤
What one should notice is how much the orchestration sounds like a train rolling down the tracks. Then I noticed a man that looked like Milton Berle, yep it's him and this is from the film Sun Valley Serenade.
Although Harry Warren wrote the music for this , he is often called the gazetteer of the american song book - his contribution to Miller's I Got A Gal in Kalamazoo (with Jerry as Glenn's Arranger) also has to be watched.
Swing jazz took the entire world by storm in the 1940s, on the heels of American GIs. It was the beginning of American cultural dominance in world music.
This is clipped from the movie 'Sun Valley Serenade' with Sonja Henie and John Payne (of 'Miracle on 34th Street') There's more great Glenn Miller Band and you get to see a spectacular sequence of Henie skating on ice dyed black - absolutely gorgeous!
You may have cut the video too soon. The woman dancing in at the end is Dorothy Dandridge, and she sings while the Nicholas Brothers dance. Don't go to Artie Shaw's Begin the Beguine, we may never get you back.
Fox Studios had a special sound room where they recorded tracks for their musicals. It had way better acoustics than the cramped, sonically "dead" studios used by the record companies. Plus their equipment was a good decade or more advanced than the stuff that was used for 78s. Film sound tracks allowed much higher fidelity than shellac. And finally, they used multiple mics to capture each section for better balance. About 30 years ago someone found the source tracks for part of this film which allowed a quasi-stereo reconstruction to be made!
My dad played sax in the big band era. He always broke it out and played along with the 78 rpms we bought at the Salvation Army store. I grew up with this
I love the full, rich sound of saxophones and this band really has it! Glenn Miller played trombone and piano, so their songs are brass horn section focused as was the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. For more saxophone heavy songs, I listen to Count Basie and his orchestra. Just love saxophones I guess. Of course there were many other big bands with beautiful sax sections and brass sections. Nice reaction Harri...!
From the second Glenn Miller film "Orchestra Wives" Would love to see Harri's reaction to the Nicholas Brothers ' dance number on "Kalamazoo" - not so much acrobatic as aerobatic!
I can remember singing along to this song when I was 4 or 5 years old. At the very end of the clip you see a stunning woman in the background which is the fabulous Dorothy Dandridge with was about to continue with the performance of Chattanooga Choo Choo accompanied by the Nicholas Brothers (at one time she was married to Harold Nicholas) ua-cam.com/video/3KH7V2MIDvI/v-deo.html
This takes me back to the late '60s with my Dad. I've written before that he'd play big band music as he lulled me to sleep on his lap. There was an extra bop in his knees when this one played which probably made it a bit harder for me to sleep; but isn't this music absolutely WONDERFUL?!?
This recording was awarded the very Frist "Gold" record by RCA Victor, on Feb 10, 1942. The song remained #1 for nine weeks on the Billboard Best Sellers charts, and sold more than one million copies.
I'm Pretty sure Harri the Diamonds flowing out of both our ears will be enough to rovide humanity with everything they will ever need for eterinty.😉😊😊 Thanks so much for doing one of my all time favorites.
Ahh... I love this stuff! My parents were of that generation and our house was filled with music from Glenn Miller, The Dorsey Bros, Glen Grey, and lots of others. If you want to hear a really cool and different version of this very song, check out Chattanooga Choo-choo by a band called Asleep at the Wheel. Big Band music was often referred to as Swing. Asleep at the Wheel describe their music as Texas Swing which is a really neat fusion of Big Band and Country music. It sounds weird, but Ray Benson is so charismatic and talented that it works beautifully.
I always find it interesting that Glenn Miller plays a supporting character in this film about an orchestra getting their first big break, and he's even involved in a crucial scene or two. But when the music plays, you can't help but wonder if you're watching his character, or if you're watching Glenn Miller.
Please watch the ending of this video because you’ll see Dorothy Dandridge with the Nicholas Brothers. Boy could those two dance. WOW!
Ah, Tex Beneke has such a great sound!
The guy whistling was Tex Beneke, the saxophonist one of the most popular band members of the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Oh wow. This brought tears to my eyes. My Dad loved the big bands and especially Glenn Miller. We used to tease him because he loved to dance around the room when he played those records. Chattanooga Choo Choo was one of his favorites. Thanks for the great reaction and the trip down memory lane. 👏👏👏🥰🇨🇦
As good as this is, you absolutely need to hear the rest of this clip featuring the incredible Dorothy Dandridge and the equally incredible Nicholas Brothers. You'll think you've died and gone to musical Heaven!
It strikes me as monumental when I think of the talent and effort it must have taken to do the arrangements for these songs. Hats off to the band leaders of that era. Thanks Harri 🌺✌️
You hit the nail on the head. Aside from the talent of those musicians, the arrangements were fantastic...works of art. Simpler times, but nothing simple about those arrangements.
The guy that walked up to the tables and started singing was Tex Beneke (you can hear the guys at the table say "Hi, Tex!). Beneke took over the band after Glenn Miller's disappearance. The guy you saw shifting his jacket back and forth was none other than Uncle Miltie himself, Milton Berle.
I had the privilege of seeing Tex Beneke conducting the Glenn Miller Orchestra, featuring Benny Goodman (!) and Helen O’Connell, at Wolf Trap Farm National Park in Vienna, VA in the 1970s. It was three years after Goodman’s stroke, and he had not only fully recovered, but was as sharp as ever. It turned out to be one of his last performances.
@@EricHenningAwesome!
Sun Valley Serenade (1941).
I love Melton😊
Gordon "Tex" Beneke - Tenor Sax/Vocals
My mother was a big band and fan. I grew up with her teaching me how to dance. I still have her old records. "SMOK'N"!!!!
I grew up on this music. My parents taught me how to Jitterbug !
They were before I was born, but I love them. In the Mood my favorite by them. The movie, The Glenn Miller Story, starring Jimmy Stewart is great
Great movie 🎬
I've seen the movie several times and have to say I have mixed feelings about it. They did a beautiful job of re-creating the Miller Sound and depicting the relationship between Glenn and Helen. At the same time they made a LOT of unforced changes to history, much to its detriment. Probably the worst was the whole "he hated Little Brown Jug" story arc, which is 180º from the truth. Plus there was the encounter between the AAF brass and Capt. Miller over his introduction of jazz marches. In the movie Jimmy Stewart reacts like Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey ... in reality, he turned the to officer and said "Sir, are we still flying the same planes we did in WWI ?!" When he knew he was right, Miller could be a real badass!
From 1942, the first Gold Record in 15 years, sold 2.5 million ,
This was my parents' music, yet I not only recognize a lot of it, I can sometimes even sing along with some lyrics. So I am frequently gobsmacked when I hear young reactors who don't even recognize Stevie Wonder.
The guy whistling is Tex Beneke, baritone sax player, what a voice!
I love the Big Bands and Miller was fabulous! My mom’s favorite band so I grew up with this wonderful music! The girl and boy singers of the day were so SO good!
Isn't it beautiful!
I was six years old, at our school fete, back in the late 60's. My mum let me buy a huge stack of 78s for 2 bucks, took em home, me and my dad sat down and listened for hours. I was hooked, Glen Miller, Doris Day, a few cowboys thrown in, there were all sorts. Great memories, thankyou my man, so much!
I was born in 1941 so my music was the 1950 - 1960 rock and role era. But on TV was music from all times.
Nothing like big band music to make you happy! Real musicians, playing real instruments, nothing electric... simply awesome.
Oh to have those days again! Dress up, go to dinner and listen and dance to the big bands!! What a life!❤❤❤
Gorgeous music. As you say Harry, its joyful and from a classy, elegant time with plenty of swagger. Ive said it before, this is the rock n' roll of that era. I love it.
This type of Big Band music really gets me moving. This was not my era but it was my parents era and I grew up with it. I can sing along with most of Glenn Miller & Benny Goodman's music, including this one. There is a song by Miller called "I got a gal in Kalamazoo" and my mom always sang it to me as I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan
My mom had all of these big band records when I was a kid . I loved them then and still do now , 70 years later
Yes!!! There is so much amazing music from this time. Please do more. Many, many greats from the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Absolutely love the Big Band era! Best music ever!
That song reminds me of my Dad (RIP),,,,,,thanks for the memory.
Love this...the train is a rollin on this one! The Modernairs don't get enough recognition in my opinion! Bette Midler did a good cover, but there is nothing like the original! Makes me smile hearing this too!
You cut this number off early. There was some mind blowing sensational dancing at the end!
This is the music of my late parents RIP from the Greatest Generation (WW 2 and the Great Depression) so musical and upbeat and it Swings Daddio!!
The girl seen at the end of the number is Dorothy Dandridge. She and the Nicolas sung and danced another chorus of the song, which is really worth seeing.
We need more horns in music today, what a wall of smooth sound.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra was my favorite of the Big Band Era. The were famous before I was born. My interest started when I saw the movie "The Glenn Miller Story" on TV on a Saturday afternoon. I was fascinated by their sound and started searching for old records so I could listen to more. Thanks, Harri. This one really made me smile tonight.
The lady that walked in at the end was the beautiful Dorothy Dandridge. She does a dance number with the Nicholas brothers in the next scene. You should check it out
You cut it off just as it was getting good!!!! We got a short peek at the gorgeous Dorothy Dandridge, about to start a dance sequence with the Nicholas Brothers- the most supernaturally talented dancers of all time in the greatest dance number in Hollywood musical history! Wind it up again and finish it- you'll be happy you did!
Yes, it was and they were, and STILL Are!
Tex Beneke was one the great Big Band voices :) Try; "I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo'
You cut the film off too soon. You missed the Nicolas Brothers dance routine. Simply amazing!
The original music video. Lol.
My dad loved The Glenn Miller Band and this was one of my favorites. It's upbeat and fun.
I never thought about a comparison, but Blueberry Hill was my all time favorite of my parents' music when I was a kid. ☺
Didn't want hear and watch Dorothy Dandridge and The Nicholas Brothers? Finish the clip!
Definitely!
You blew off the best dance acts of the 40s as well as one of the first black leading ladies of cinema. Big mistake.
Amen!!!
This song reminds me of my deceased father. This was one of his favorite Glen Miller Band songs. I'm 75 yrs old and I can still see him dancing in the kitchen. Great Band Era! RIP Dad!
Wow! Milton Berle was young once!
My dad was a child of the depression, so needless to say I was raised on big band music. Give the song Sing, Sing, Sing a listen to. It’s the epitome of swing music.
Hey, pacebrison. In case you missed it, Harri reacted to Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing" a month or so ago. Awesome song and energy and musicianship! ua-cam.com/video/LFoHrJYcb0M/v-deo.html
The clip cut out before Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers song and dance number.
Funny you said you weren't expecting voices, because I had the opposite thought! I remember my parents playing this song so much I know most of the words but was perplexed when only instruments came on for so long. I love it, and great memories!
Great reaction, Harri. So thrilled you did it! One of my favorite songs of all time because my dad was such a huge fan of Glenn Miller and his orchestra, especially "In the Mood" and "Chattanooga Choo Choo." If you already haven't watched the whole scene from 1941's "Sun Valley Serenade," the Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge come right in after the band is done playing and they sing and dance up a storm! So much fun!
So many memories of these songs, it takes me right back.
I recognized the Nicholas Brothers, but always wondered about the beautiful talented chick. Dorothy Dandridge was one hot momma!
You don’t see it all - the Nicholas Bros & Dorothy
Right! There was more…sadly you cut it off.
This is my parents music. May they RIP. I think they had a heck of a thing going for them with The Big Bands. My dad’s favorite instrument was the clarinet, or as he referred to it as “ the licorice stick”. My mom? She just liked to dance to this music. It was and still is great dancing music.
Harri, Love that you feature some Big Band music. Glenn Miller was one of the best! I remember as a child finding old records of Glenn Miller & loving his music.
2:29 I loved Fats Domino, who recorded Blueberry Hill about 16 years after Glenn Miller recorded this. Fats was one of the pioneers of Rock and Roll whereas Glenn was Swing.
Nothing like these old bands. When I was about 9 years old, mid 50's,
I had a great uncle I used to dance swing with, loved it!
Happy music. Something that's missing these days.
Yes, yes, yes! Big Band music debut with none other than Glenn Miller. In memory of my cherished mother who loved Big Band and Swing a big thank you and review this submission. Beautiful submission and review!
Growing up this was such "Old fashioned" music we weren't supposed to like it. Not with the BeeGees, Abba even the Beatles, but it's glorious! Wonderful to see it being rediscovered and that I don't have to hide my love of Big Band music anymore.
love it, love it love it!
You cut off what might be the best part! That young lady and two young guys do a dance routine that is fantastic to outro this beautiful song. You must see it all!
The Train Station in Chattanooga operated until 1970.The Choo Choo was made famous by The Glenn Miller Band.The Chattanooga Choo Choo still exists,and in downtown Chattanooga on Market Street.The station converted the depot into a hotel,shopping centers,and restaurant.There are still Box cars converted into overnight stays for those that would rather try out different overnight experience other than a hotel. Chattanooga is my hometown.Thanks for great reaction Harri !
Hi, Chuck, I'm a Chattanoogan too!👋
Hello Judy, we have a beautiful city to boast about! I like to refer to it as 'The Scenic City of The South" , it's called Gig City now for the internet speed here now. Chattanooga has really grown since 1970 and continues to.
Columbus here. Home to the RC Cola which went so well with a Moon Pie. 😂
@@fermisparadox01 Yep,RC Cola invented about 120 years ago in Columbus,Moon Pie invented here in Chattanooga a little over 100 years ago.I Think they were really good together back in the 1960's and 1970's.I like a Coca Cola and a Little Debbie Fudge Round myself,seeing as Little Debbies are made here at McKee Bakery and seeing as the first Coca Cola bottling company is here in Chattanooga.I'm needing a snack now,we have a lot of goodies from years gone by,Columbus is a great city also fermisparadox01.
@@fermisparadox01 We had an RC Cola plant in town for many years.
So good to see such an honest reaction to some of the best ensemble era music ever.
My mother's favorite! Thanks, Harry!
Love this!!! In 1974 one of my Christmas gifts was a double Album "Glenn Millers Greatest Hits" ........... Play it all day long on the HiFi of my Parents till my Mom told me to Stop or she get the LP in the Garbage..... 😛
Fantastic! But it was cut short. It actually continued with Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers doing a song and dance to Chattanooga Choo Choo.
Thank you for doing a reaction to this song. I can remember five or six years old and my father would be playing his Glenn Miller records and I would always ask him to play this song. It was one of my favorite Glenn Miller songs with many more.
Wish this was my generation 🥰✌🏼 They really had great music !!
Fridays in the 80's, I was working KJAZ radio in Alameda. Jerry Dean's set was Big Band Friday's. Loved it. RIP Jerry.
Swing jazz was the disco of the 1940s, music made to be danced to.
There was a resurgence of '40s nostalgia in the '70s, with Bette Midler covering The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B.
the song "At Last" was written for this band. Love Glen Miller
That was actually the very FIRST "Gold Record" (solid 24K gold molded, not just plated!) EVER! Was presented to Glenn Miller live on WNEW's "Make Believe Ballroom* show by host Martin Block. PLEASE BE SURE TO FINISH WATCHING THE REST OF THIS VIDEO to see the gorgeous Dorothy Dandridge tap dancing with the ultra-talented Nicolas Brothers. WOW!!! 😮
FWIW, according to his biographer the record they gave to Glenn on his radio show *was* done q&d - a regular 78 that someone painted! Right after that they pressed a real gold version for the ages. It's now in the GM Archives at the University of Colorado.
The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge completed this scene. Please react to them
As my parents were big fans of the Big Band era, I grew up listening to this type of music! A lot of Glenn Miller is on my playlist.
Love this classic. My Dad was a ww2 vet & both my parents loved the big band music. My brother played in high school jazz band in the 70s and played a lot of the Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, & Duke Ellington songs. Try: String of Pearls, Take the A Train, Sentimental Journey and Pennsylvania 6-5000 & Salt Peanuts!❤
What one should notice is how much the orchestration sounds like a train rolling down the tracks. Then I noticed a man that looked like Milton Berle, yep it's him and this is from the film Sun Valley Serenade.
Although Harry Warren wrote the music for this , he is often called the gazetteer of the american song book - his contribution to Miller's I Got A Gal in Kalamazoo (with Jerry as Glenn's Arranger) also has to be watched.
Swing jazz took the entire world by storm in the 1940s, on the heels of American GIs. It was the beginning of American cultural dominance in world music.
This is clipped from the movie 'Sun Valley Serenade' with Sonja Henie and John Payne (of 'Miracle on 34th Street') There's more great Glenn Miller Band and you get to see a spectacular sequence of Henie skating on ice dyed black - absolutely gorgeous!
Always reminds me of "Young Frankenstein" "Ya, Ya, track 29."
Hey, can I give you a shine?
You may have cut the video too soon. The woman dancing in at the end is Dorothy Dandridge, and she sings while the Nicholas Brothers dance. Don't go to Artie Shaw's Begin the Beguine, we may never get you back.
That version differs from the jukebox original, both in content and fidelity. Lovely to see and hear.
Fox Studios had a special sound room where they recorded tracks for their musicals. It had way better acoustics than the cramped, sonically "dead" studios used by the record companies. Plus their equipment was a good decade or more advanced than the stuff that was used for 78s. Film sound tracks allowed much higher fidelity than shellac. And finally, they used multiple mics to capture each section for better balance. About 30 years ago someone found the source tracks for part of this film which allowed a quasi-stereo reconstruction to be made!
Glenn Miller was in the 40's and Fats Domino was in the 50's, you stopped the video before the best part 😮
This was TRUE TALENT!!!
My dad played sax in the big band era. He always broke it out and played along with the 78 rpms we bought at the Salvation Army store.
I grew up with this
Boy the way Glenn Miller played...
Great band, great harmonie, thanks my dear friend, good vibes from México
I love the full, rich sound of saxophones and this band really has it!
Glenn Miller played trombone and piano, so their songs are brass horn section focused as was the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
For more saxophone heavy songs, I listen to Count Basie and his orchestra.
Just love saxophones I guess.
Of course there were many other big bands with beautiful sax sections and brass sections.
Nice reaction Harri...!
Harri, from the same source, you gotta do I've Got a Girl in Kalamazoo, featuring Tex and the Modernaires. Swingin'!
From the second Glenn Miller film "Orchestra Wives" Would love to see Harri's reaction to the Nicholas Brothers ' dance number on "Kalamazoo" - not so much acrobatic as aerobatic!
I can remember singing along to this song when I was 4 or 5 years old. At the very end of the clip you see a stunning woman in the background which is the fabulous Dorothy Dandridge with was about to continue with the performance of Chattanooga Choo Choo accompanied by the Nicholas Brothers (at one time she was married to Harold Nicholas) ua-cam.com/video/3KH7V2MIDvI/v-deo.html
This takes me back to the late '60s with my Dad. I've written before that he'd play big band music as he lulled me to sleep on his lap. There was an extra bop in his knees when this one played which probably made it a bit harder for me to sleep; but isn't this music absolutely WONDERFUL?!?
It's terrific that you've chosen 40's big band for your channel! 🥰
Grew up in the 60's listening to the big band sounds on WEW 770 a.m. in St. Louis riding with my dad.....love it
This recording was awarded the very Frist "Gold" record by RCA Victor, on Feb 10, 1942. The song remained #1 for nine weeks on the Billboard Best Sellers charts, and sold more than one million copies.
I'm Pretty sure Harri the Diamonds flowing out of both our ears will be enough to rovide humanity with everything they will ever need for eterinty.😉😊😊 Thanks so much for doing one of my all time favorites.
The sounds of trains when they were ubiquitous. Thank you Harry.
So glad you're enjoying big band classics!
God music is good. It can be listen to 80 years later. WOW!
Have a listen to "In the Mood" sometime, or "String of Pearls" or "American Patrol", so many great songs! 1940's dance music was swingin!
What a pleasure. We've rarely seen you this excited ...and justifiably so.
The guy watching was Milton Berle a huge comedy star in that era into the sixties and Myrna Loy looking out the window ☮️
I checked the film's cast list and can't find Myrna Loy. Perhaps one of the other beautiful stars who appeared in this film - ?
Ahh... I love this stuff! My parents were of that generation and our house was filled with music from Glenn Miller, The Dorsey Bros, Glen Grey, and lots of others. If you want to hear a really cool and different version of this very song, check out Chattanooga Choo-choo by a band called Asleep at the Wheel. Big Band music was often referred to as Swing. Asleep at the Wheel describe their music as Texas Swing which is a really neat fusion of Big Band and Country music. It sounds weird, but Ray Benson is so charismatic and talented that it works beautifully.
Do Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller and (my favorite) Begin the Beguine by Artie Shaw.. They're just as beautiful and swinging
Three words: String of Pearls
I always find it interesting that Glenn Miller plays a supporting character in this film about an orchestra getting their first big break, and he's even involved in a crucial scene or two. But when the music plays, you can't help but wonder if you're watching his character, or if you're watching Glenn Miller.
helen forrest with benny goodman is my favorite big band group ..... a must listen
About Fats Domino’s Blueberry Hill: Glenn Miller recorded that song in 1940.