Description
Release Date: 2021
Label: Acrobat
Track List
Disc: 1
- 1 Solo Hop
- 2 Every Day’s a Holiday
- 3 My Reverie
- 4 Moonlight Serenade
- 5 Sunrise Serenade
- 6 Wishing (Will Make It So)
- 7 My Last Good-Bye
- 8 The Lady’s in Love with You
- 9 Runnin’ Wild
- 10 Stairway to the Stars
- 11 Little Brown Jug
- 12 Back to Back
- 13 Cinderella (Stay in My Arms)
- 14 Moon Love
- 15 Ain’tcha Comin’ Out Tonight?
- 16 The Little Man Who Wasn’t There
- 17 The Man with the Mandolin
- 18 Ding-Dong! the Witch Is Dead
- 19 Over the Rainbow
- 20 Blue Orchids
- 21 My Isle of Golden Dreams
- 22 My Prayer
- 23 In the Mood
- 24 (Why Couldn’t It Last) Last Night
- 25 Melancholy Lullaby
Disc: 2
- 1 Speaking of Heaven
- 2 Bluebirds in the Moonlight
- 3 Faithful Forever
- 4 Indian Summer
- 5 Careless
- 6 Vagabond Dreams
- 7 This Changing World
- 8 It’s a Blue World
- 9 In An Old Dutch Garden (By An Old Dutch Mill)
- 10 Starlit Hour
- 11 Ooh! What You Said
- 12 The Gaucho Serenade
- 13 When You Wish Upon a Star
- 14 The Sky Fell Down
- 15 The Woodpecker Song
- 16 Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)
- 17 Tuxedo Junction
- 18 Imagination
- 19 Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy)
- 20 Say It
- 21 Sierra Sue
- 22 Star Dust
- 23 I’ll Never Smile Again
- 24 Hear My Song, Violetta
- 25 Shake Down the Stars
- 26 Boog It
Disc: 3
- 1 Alice Blue Gown
- 2 Devil May Care
- 3 I’m Stepping Out with a Memory Tonight
- 4 Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
- 5 Slow Freight
- 6 The Nearness of You
- 7 Pennsylvania 6-5000
- 8 A Million Dreams Ago
- 9 Blueberry Hill
- 10 When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano
- 11 Crosstown
- 12 Our Love Affair
- 13 The Call of the Canyon
- 14 I Wouldn’t Take a Million
- 15 Beat Me, Daddy (Eight to the Bar)
- 16 Falling Leaves
- 17 A Handful of Stars
- 18 Yesterthoughts
- 19 Five O’Clock Whistle
- 20 I’d Know You Anywhere
- 21 You’ve Got Me This Way
- 22 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
- 23 Along the Santa Fe Trail
- 24 Yes, My Darling Daughter
- 25 Anvil Chorus (Part 1)
Disc: 4
- 1 Frenesi
- 2 Song of the Volga Boatmen
- 3 I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem
- 4 When That Man Is Dead and Gone
- 5 Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider)
- 6 Perfidia (Tonight)
- 7 Boulder Bluff
- 8 The Booglie Wooglie Piggy
- 9 I Guess I’ll Have to Dream the Rest
- 10 You and I
- 11 Adios
- 12 Chattanooga Choo Choo
- 13 I Know Why
- 14 The Cowboy Serenade
- 15 It Happened in Sun Valley
- 16 Delilah
- 17 Elmer’s Tune
- 18 I’m Thrilled
- 19 This Time the Dream’s on Me
- 20 Orange Blossom Lane
- 21 Jingle Bells
- 22 Humpty Dumpty Heart
- 23 Everything I Love
- 24 This Is No Laughing Matter
Disc: 5
- 1 A String of Pearls
- 2 (There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) the White Cliffs of Dover
- 3 We’re the Couple in the Castle
- 4 Moonlight Cocktail
- 5 Always in My Heart
- 6 Skylark
- 7 The Story of a Starry Night
- 8 Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
- 9 Sweet Eloise
- 10 Knit One, Purl Two
- 11 (I’ve Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo
- 12 Serenade in Blue
- 13 American Patrol
- 14 Yesterday’s Gardenias
- 15 At Last
- 16 Dearly Beloved
- 17 Juke Box Saturday Night
- 18 Moonlight Becomes You
- 19 Moonlight Mood
- 20 That Old Black Magic
- 21 Rhapsody in Blue
- 22 Blue Rain
- 23 It Must Be Jelly (‘Cause Jam Don’t Shake Like That)
- 24 Here We Go Again
Notes
The music of Glenn Miller’s orchestra was central to the style and atmosphere of the Swing Era and is inextricably associated with the Allied victory in WWII, his hits keeping people’s spirits up on both sides of the Atlantic, with Miller himself becoming part of the war effort until his mysterious disappearance in 1944. Such was his popularity that in the period of less than a decade from his launching his orchestra in the mid-30s through to his demise, he had over 120 hits, both with his instrumental classics and with the new songs of the time. This great value124-track 5-CD set comprises just about all of recordings on the Columbia, Brunswick, Bluebird, Victor and RCA-Victor labels which are listed as hits in standard industry sources, many from the era after the launch of the Billboard record sales charts in 1940. It features an extraordinary tally of 21 No. 1s, including “A String of Pearls”, “(I’ve Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo”, “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree”, “Moonlight Cocktail”, “Chattanooga Choo Choo”, “Tuxedo Junction”, “In the Mood”, “Blueberry Hill”, “Fools Rush In” and many more. The featured vocalists include Ray Eberle, Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke, Kathleen Lane, Jack Lathrop, Dorothy Claire, Paula Kelly, Skip Nelson and The Modernaires. It’s a substantial and entertaining showcase for one of the most important orchestras of the times, and an enormously evocative journey through the popular music landscape of a remarkable era in modern history.
