Glenn Miller

...York at the Hotel Pennsylvania In 1940, Glenn Miller and the Glenn Miller Orchestra began the first of several extended engagements at the Hotel Pennsylvania's Cafe Rouge, often broadcast live on NBC Radio. Recordings of several of these...

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...lyrics with Judy Garland in mind, who was, on occasion, an intimate partner. The Glenn Miller recording was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 1523. It charted in 1943 , spending 14 weeks on the Billboard magazine charts,...

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...and Charlie Spivak. He worked at RCA Victor Records under Steve Sholes, producing country and Western recordings by such artists as Eddy Arnold, Pee Wee King, the Sons of the Pioneers, Texas Jim Robertson and Elton Britt. He was the arranger...

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...recorded the song. Finally it ended up as "Moonlight Serenade" because Robbins Music bought the music and learned that Miller was recording a cover of "Sunrise Serenade", a Frankie Carle associated song, for RCA Victor. They thought...

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...Reverie . According to George Simon, the original arrangement was to be an instrumental, but the producer at RCA Victor wanted Glenn Miller to play a solo trombone a'la Tommy Dorsey, with Ray Eberle singing the lyrics. The B side was...

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...would be as tough." By 1949, economics dictated that the string section be dropped. This band recorded for RCA Victor, just as the original Miller band did. Beneke was struggling with how to expand the Miller sound and also how to achieve...

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He was director of A&R and sole producer at RCA Victor Records in the 1940s. He produced Perry Como's first hit records and signed Glenn Miller to his final contract. He wrote the lyrics for Rosemary Clooney's first hit, "The Kid's a Dreamer...

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...band you're listening to. And that's about all there is to it." In September 1938, the Miller band began making recordings for the RCA Victor, Bluebird Records' subsidiary. Charlie "Cy" Shribman, a prominent East Coast businessman, began...

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