last night a was driving alone going home when i put this song wich a have in a folder with other instrumental songs, suddenly i had a flashback. I could see a girl wich i swear i never seen before i take her hands she put her head in my chest and we were dancing. it was a felling like if i was maddly in loved of her, then the song ended and i couldsee like she turn around to applaude the band without seen her eyes. i felt then like it was the last time i saw her
i love the 1940's - 50smusic, you feel like you go back in time , when you close your eyes. the beautiful vibe from this music tells a story in its time. You feel what it was like to actually find true love with true morals. People and realtionships like that doesnt exist anymore only a fade memory that we find through thier music, where a emotion or thought wrote of it. Thanks for the experience, its good to know thier really where times when moments would take your breath away..
My late Mother and Father in~law loved Glenn Miller and the Big Band music~~they usually had it playing in the radio all day:) :) I love those soothing sounds, too...a simpler time in many ways~
Boy, this takes me back to my teens. It's probably one of the best popular music orchestrations ever. There's certainly nothing to compare with it these days
Wow!! I wasn't even around during those days but hearing this song makes me long to be in an elegent supper club somewhere-- dressed to kill and enjoying an evening of dining and dancing. My Mom used to tell me of those days. Those were her 'good ole days' Awesome song!
My son's high school jazz band played this last night, and it brought me to tears. My father would play his Glenn Miller records in our basement in NY. I'm crying writing this right now.
and I thought I couldn't love my wife anymore than I did ,listening to this beautiful tune makes me love her even more , thanks, Now I wanna dance with her , let me get her... Alice... would you please come here and dance with me?!!!
One of my very favorite memories is of my mom and dad dancing in the kitchen while the five of us kids sat on the table in disblief - it was the only time we saw them laugh and enjoy each other. Very precious moments. It was "their" song!
My Father Loved this songs, he used to tell me about his time during WW2 , he was 22 in 1942 ..he said, " I used to dance this music back in my days" ..Now after he passed away I understand, beautiful songs...Miss you dad.
As a teen in the 1930's we loved to dance to this wonderful music; there was something magic in the feeling as it was so dancable. In WWII, we loved to listen to Toykyo Rose who had this number on her favorite list. Memories are made of this.......
ever play in a school orchestra??? maybe the production values stink, bnut the music is great. I used to have the GM "in the digital mood" CD the glen miller orchestra of the 1980's re-recorded the songs with modern technology...great!
just like the band was right there..if any one has that in the digital mood CD, please UPLOAD IT!
This is great music!!! Everyone who has an understanding of music can understand that when something is good, it will withstand the test of time. So it is with this great era of musicians, the big band sound, when the singer was secondary and the band was the star, love it. Whenever I hear this song its like hearing it again for the first time.
This reminds me of growing up with my grandparents ! I love this type of music ! I wish they were here still ! But as they say old soldiers dont die they just fade away !
This song was playing in Jack's car in a flasback in "A Tale of Two Cities" from season 3 of LOST. This song is very relaxing I wish it could go on forever.
Morgan ,If you 'd ask any kid of today what they listen to... Any of them will tell you I listen to today's Pop Music...which doesn't include swing at all !
Don't misunderstand me..I happen to like glenn miller's music .. But ,when that's the only music that One remembers from their childhood ..because their father refused to allow his child to listen to the genre of music that she's is accosutmed to.. Then that person as an adult will have some bad memories of it
wooooh it makes me shiver, it captures the late 1930's and early 1940's and the peak/climax of the great depression..it makes me imagine of my grandma and my grandpa during there prime years
If history does repeat itself then it is possible that today's music may reach an abrupt stagnant end (I think we are beginning to reach a start of that point) and perhaps return to the more sophisitcated music of the Big Band era....possibly in the 2030's or 40's...a complete century turnaround, though with a slightly different flavor.
@spindalis79 Naaaa I don't tihnk so. Look at modern music eg dubstep, extreme metal, prog rock, electronica, pop, folk. It's always advancing and changing. EG reggae went to dub to dubstep. Don't disregard it as crap just because it doesn't sound like this stuff. :P
@spindalis79 it would be too expensive to bring swing music back... none of the kids of today want to play the instruments which are associated with the era... the recording industry would have to go back torecording 78s.... this era will never come back ,because those who enjoyed the music are dying ,or dead
@Freyja1133 I agree that it would be too expensive but to say that none of the kids today are interested is a misconception to say the least. I'm 18 and I know a lot of other 18 year olds who enjoy swing and a lot who play instruments from the era. Although I listen to other more modern and popular genres, swing always has and always will hold a special place in my heart, it doesn't matter that no one is recreating this kind of music because the glory of it will always live on.
@Freyja1133 I agree that it would be too expensive but to say that none of the kids today are interested is a misconception to say the least. I'm 18 and I know a lot of other 18 year olds who enjoy swing and a lot who play instruments from the era. Although I listen to other more modern and popular genres, swing always has and always will hold a special place in my heart, it doesn't matter that no one is recreating this kind of music because the glory of it will always live on
@Freyja1133 Kids don't play brass, pianos, or drums anymore? That's news to me.
It's not hard to find live music to dance to if you live near a medium-sized city or larger. When I did my undergrad I would attend a Viennese ball with a live chamber orchestra once a year, and I'd go to at least four swing dances every year with live bands. One was even hosted by a high school ensemble. You really just have to look for these events. They still exist.
@Athena82487 Kids still play piano& drums today... I was reffering to the istruments that they'd have to take lessons to learn how to play... Brass, clarinet etc the kids of today are more intrested in guitar ,bass piano & drums.... than Brass , accordion ( which obviously is dead ) and other instruments from the swing era
@Freyja1133 How did they afforditback then, especially at the end of the Depression? I've always wondered about this. Royalties and contracts were nothing compared to today.
@billchew450 the royalties for one record was 3 cents..back then they didn't have that much money
it's the recording companies who set the royalties& copywrite fees.. with most of the money going to the record company.& a small pittance to the musicians
My mums favourite band and probably her best track, she is ninety now and deaf and i wish she could hear it one more time and unlock all the happy memories of dancing to the big band sound in the dance halls of the 1940's, if there was ever a tune that was yours mum it would be his one.
No song typifies the 1940s to me more than this song. Just hearing it gives me a mental image of P-38 fighters parked under the palm trees of some flyspeck Pacific island at sunset.
One of my cherished memories from childhood is of listening to Glenn Miller LPs with my dad. Daddy got to see Glenn's Air Force Band twice--once in NYC, and the second time in London right before Glenn's plane disappeared over the English Channel. I love 1940s big band music, and I have to say that I think the blend of instruments and excellent of playing in GM's bands were just about perfect!!
There's nothing wrong with liking The Black Eyed Peas, Train, Taylor Swift, or Jay Z and big band artists like Glen Miller. You're not weird or strange, a band geek, or a nerd if you like his music in addition to today's artists. He's not your grandparents' music and he's not your parents' music. Glen Miller is everyone's music. Everyone can enjoy the music of Glen Miller.
@Chibihalo2 - Agree completely. I'm not old enought to have heard this music when it was made, but in the years since nothing better has been done. It is timeless.
@Chibihalo2 I totally agree with you! Its a pitty that so many people are unable to appreciate glenn miller, sinatra, or any "old" band or musician...Music if increidible, will continue that way forever!!!
@Chibihalo2 How lovely to find a nice sensible comment on You Tube, the proof is here , there are nice people on here, what a lovely comment on the music, my best wishes to you, Mick. My comment also goes to pooh42682, i'm sure your Daughter stood ten feet tall with pride whilst in your arms.
I wish I was around during this time of music. The arrangement is AMAZING!!!!!! I would have love to have met Glenn Miller. Truly under rated and a pure genius!!!!!
I'm definitely having this song played at some point at my wedding reception. One of my favorite classic movies is The Glenn Miller Story with Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson. I love listening to this and getting lost in the music and just thinking about how romantic it is.
@pooh42682 My youngest Daughter and I danced to this for our Father and Daughter dance at her reception this past July. She asked me previously if any one would recognize it. "Oh yes, i said- trust me- everyone over 50 will anyway."
My friend and I bump this song in my car aroung town. We roll down the windows and pump up the bass. It gets the crowd jumpin', make no mistake. Seriously we do. And seriously this is one of my favorite songs.
I'm 26 years old and my grandmother loved Glen Miller and she passed away 2 days ago. I remember sitting with her and watching The Glen Miller Story and listening to this with her all the time and because of her I love listening to him play and know everytime I hear Glen Miller I will think of her. I love you mamaw Wanda and will always miss you.
@sal9808 I am very sorry to hear of your grandmother's passing. she's at peace, now; and, maybe, who knows, she's listening to Glenn Miller on the other side. Be strong over the next few days, and I know you will keep your grandma's memory alive.
When I was kid, I was scared of the dark, so mum would put the radio on. One night, a saturday night, the voice came on the radio and he said
"Tonight we celebrate the old classics- those favorites from the 40s and 50s! Its Big Band night, folks, starting with the best fo the best, Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade!"
I fell in love with Glenn Miller and Big Band music at the age of 8 in 1996 and I never looked back.
this reminds me of my grandfather so much. he would tell me his WW II stories of what he did and where he was,he was a right waist gunner on the beautiful, awesome and majestic B-17 Flying Fortresses. if I remember correctly he was in the 309th Bomb Group which trained replacement crews using the B-25's.
rest in peace sir, and thank you for all that you taught me, with love and respect your devoted Grandson.
TSgt William T. Hogan January 21, 1918-September 10, 2002
Thank you youtube for the opertunity to give us the freedom for us to listen, and enjoy all of this music, and all the places we can visit. I love to go to Budweiser, and watch the Clysdale's tribute to 9/11, only played 1 time, 1 year later. I cry every tim I go there, it's so touching. Thank you. Caryl McD
@GamerztimeX20 : "Smell yo dick " ?? Funny to read that title with Moonlight Serenade playing in the background, but you're absolutely correct . 2010's talent doesn't compare with the talent of the late 1930's & mid 1940's OR even the 1950's for that matter. It's not just the music either, today, we've forgotten how to dress, how to act as a culture, to have manners, to show respect or to have any respect at all, & in a nut shell , we have simply.. lost our way & most don't even know it.
@MrRJDB1969 Unfortunately...you are correct! Music is what memories are made of...I am 83 and just started taking lessons on the keyboard last year...I now play an AT900 organ...what an insturment...capable of all the big band sounds...I am an ear player and have made a CD for my kids and will do another this summer...Jazz. But nothing will ever match "Moonlight Serenade"...I will play "Night and Day" in a competition next Saturday.Beautiful music especially of the 40's...my teenage years.
i love this kind of music so soothin n relaxin it makes u feel warm n fuzzy inside i wish ppl say they wish they were born back then i do wish we had this music now but as a black person i dont wish2live n those days with jim crow laws segregation n lynching ppl plz think b4 u speak
This is music from a by gone era where a man and woman would dress up and go dancing on a Saturday night and get lost in the music and the emotions of the evening! Pure class.
@himycatisdead Good Comment...This brings back GREAT memories of going to my GRANDPARENTS house...And this and Sinatra would always be on in the backround...
I remember going to the Drive In Movie with my Mom and Dad and brothers whenever I hear this. They played it just before the movies would start. Both parents are gone now but this always brings them back to mind..
I am a latin woman who listened this kind of music since I was a little girl because my father liked it very much, and I loved it. Great band, beautiful song... thanks a lot for sharing! Muchas gracias.
For my Dad...one of his favorite songs. The one we were to dance to at my wedding...instead of that sappy, "Daddy's Little Girl". Miss you more than you know.
For my Dad...one of his favorite songs. The one we were to dance to at my wedding...instead of that sappy, "Daddy's Little Girl". Miss you more than you know.
@fdgsdfg12345321 "music" is the key word. That's noise you hear on the radio. NOT music. Sure, I love the Beatles, CCR and all of the rock and roll songs from the fifties, but the noise today doesn't qualify as "MUSIC" No melody, no story, nothing. I know, my parents didn't like my music and thought it was noise. But the 40s music IS music. I understand where you're coming from, but still......
Just because you may not like modern music doesnt mean that you have to tell everyone.. Music changes with time.. look at the beatles. You cant stick with one sort of music and block everything else out... sure you may not like it.. but the rest of us might... im 16 and im not missing out on any music.. i listen to this and love it.. but i also listen to metallica and love it.. broaden your taste in music people!!! just dont start saying stuff like... music isnt good these days..
in wwll movies this tune always meant that the american soldier about to leave for the front was dancing with his sweetheart for the last time and would not survive.
or it meant that heroic duty prevailed yet could never annul true love. it was reality.
One kind of negtive thought I have, regarding this sophistication, is that in the same time as this, there was Hitler, Nazism, Holocaust, WWII, not to mention how minorities were treated here in US. It just makes all that bad stuff seem even worse in a way. This was a relatively "modern" world after all.
XX, remember these songs were for YOUNG people like you. Notice the "swing" in it. It's not elevator, or Muzk music. Even a "slow" ballad like this has a hip swaying, "beat. What they often play now for 80 year olds is nothing like the original. This was Young Music. And, if done right, still is.
To XX- This music was even before MY time, and I'm no kid. No not many 13 year olds listen to this now, do they? But, realize this- this music was written and listened to by kids your age when originally recorded. Try to hear the "swing" in it. It's nothing like elevator music, or Muzak. It's got a foot stomping, hip swaying beat. And that's not even counting the real "Boogie" stuff.
your cannot beat this kind of music not like the junk you get today I meen I 53 young this year and yet I could play this music all day I all so callect 50s 60 some 70s as well you cannot beat the old stuff
played this in the car mother she loved it but last year she past away but as I all way say when your mother has gone from this world nobody can replace her
last night a was driving alone going home when i put this song wich a have in a folder with other instrumental songs, suddenly i had a flashback. I could see a girl wich i swear i never seen before i take her hands she put her head in my chest and we were dancing. it was a felling like if i was maddly in loved of her, then the song ended and i couldsee like she turn around to applaude the band without seen her eyes. i felt then like it was the last time i saw her
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InstrumentalSpeak 4 days ago
i love the 1940's - 50smusic, you feel like you go back in time , when you close your eyes. the beautiful vibe from this music tells a story in its time. You feel what it was like to actually find true love with true morals. People and realtionships like that doesnt exist anymore only a fade memory that we find through thier music, where a emotion or thought wrote of it. Thanks for the experience, its good to know thier really where times when moments would take your breath away..
SrtKillz12345 1 week ago
My late Mother and Father in~law loved Glenn Miller and the Big Band music~~they usually had it playing in the radio all day:) :) I love those soothing sounds, too...a simpler time in many ways~
all4musica 1 week ago
Those days in TARDIS with the Doctor and Rose dancing... :)
Seriously, though, it's a great piece.
KatzePiano 2 weeks ago
Reminds me of my dad and mom dancing in the living room when i was very young , a
much simpler time!
rayslist1961 2 weeks ago 2
I think you only really start to appreciate this as you get older :)
lambrettali175 3 weeks ago
This song makes me want to sit by the fire and sip a scotch on the rocks.
cenzo188 3 weeks ago
The best theme song ever.
saxguy1 4 weeks ago
Boy, this takes me back to my teens. It's probably one of the best popular music orchestrations ever. There's certainly nothing to compare with it these days
Jazza
austin642 1 month ago
The Greatest theme song of all time.
saxguy1 1 month ago
I don't like most songs from before the 60s but this song def has something calming about it except it would prob sound better played live
MrAlastad1 1 month ago
@55Ariz, I know what you mean, it makes me wanna be in a "supper club" too dressed to the nines living it up
MrAlastad1 1 month ago
Wow!! I wasn't even around during those days but hearing this song makes me long to be in an elegent supper club somewhere-- dressed to kill and enjoying an evening of dining and dancing. My Mom used to tell me of those days. Those were her 'good ole days' Awesome song!
55Ariz 1 month ago
My son's high school jazz band played this last night, and it brought me to tears. My father would play his Glenn Miller records in our basement in NY. I'm crying writing this right now.
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and I thought I couldn't love my wife anymore than I did ,listening to this beautiful tune makes me love her even more , thanks, Now I wanna dance with her , let me get her... Alice... would you please come here and dance with me?!!!
CentinelThe 1 month ago
One of my very favorite memories is of my mom and dad dancing in the kitchen while the five of us kids sat on the table in disblief - it was the only time we saw them laugh and enjoy each other. Very precious moments. It was "their" song!
SwankyShe1 1 month ago 2
It's Rose and the Doctor's song!
TheFattestCat42 2 months ago
Love it. He was great.
jam6255 2 months ago
'Alone And Asleep' by Oh Sam Bin Laden - controversial new publication.
garyw930 3 months ago
esto si es musica...
this is music, real music.....
realseal1992 3 months ago
I'm 16 and in the school band, I love this music and the latest stuff. I just can't get over it. <3
NBbeta84 3 months ago
This song is amazing, woodwinds are so strong in it, its soothing, touching and so much emotion behind it from all!
jbarnett355 3 months ago
sim`plemente fantastica la melodia , yla gran interpretacion de glen miller
peterggb 4 months ago
Это замечательная мелодия ,ее можно слушать бесконечно.Влюбом исполнении и арранжировке .Имеется песенный вариант в исполнении Муслима Магомаева .
capAntares 6 months ago
This tune gives me goosebumps, Such an atmospheric number. Glenn Miller is a true legend.
P8290970 6 months ago 2
this is one of the greats fron miller
DOKTURX 6 months ago
My Father Loved this songs, he used to tell me about his time during WW2 , he was 22 in 1942 ..he said, " I used to dance this music back in my days" ..Now after he passed away I understand, beautiful songs...Miss you dad.
Diosmexica 6 months ago 40
God this has such a warm and thick feeling to it. It's like dipping yourself into a vat of warm maple syrup.
PancakeRecipes 6 months ago 23
@PancakeRecipes You like pancakes and sauces that go with dont yer, lolllll I do know what you mean all the same though, hahahaha
SkankDJ 6 months ago
Bellissima!!!!
256timoteo 6 months ago
Like if you found this on LOST...Sayid and Hugo, radio transsmision..
ElvenCRO 7 months ago 3
Una de tus canciones favoritas, algo para recordarte el dia de hoy que sigues en mis pensamientos.
2011purelife 7 months ago
As a teen in the 1930's we loved to dance to this wonderful music; there was something magic in the feeling as it was so dancable. In WWII, we loved to listen to Toykyo Rose who had this number on her favorite list. Memories are made of this.......
airdaleify 7 months ago 5
I want this at my funeral!
rhimember72 8 months ago
por q 7 personass son gayss y noo saben q es musica! q lastima reguetoneross jaaja manita arriba si te gusta el comentario!
lrmmpiano 8 months ago
My family has a history of liking music like this. I am 13 and in LOVE with this stuff! Guess I was next in line(:
christkid117 8 months ago 5
La música de Glenn Miller jamás morirá.
imakaren 9 months ago
Doctor Who. I LOVE THIS SONG.
galinschool 9 months ago 5
@galinschool haha thats what made me look it up aswell haha x
chloes9704 7 months ago
@galinschool It's Rose and the Doctor's song!
TheFattestCat42 2 months ago
ever play in a school orchestra??? maybe the production values stink, bnut the music is great. I used to have the GM "in the digital mood" CD the glen miller orchestra of the 1980's re-recorded the songs with modern technology...great!
just like the band was right there..if any one has that in the digital mood CD, please UPLOAD IT!
MrHitwave1 9 months ago
So old. But still so good !!!
havmunst47 9 months ago 2
THOSE WHO MISSED OUT ON THE BIG BAND ERA TRULY MISSED OUT ON A GREAT LIFE'S EXPERIENCE. THEY TRAVELED BY BUS TO ALL THEIR STOPS ON THEIR SUMMER TOUR.
LIN11831 9 months ago 2
TEX BENNEKE TOOK OVER THIS BAND WHEN GLENN'S PLANE DISAPPEARED OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL OR POSSIBLY FRANCE. NO ONE TO THIS DAY IS SURE.
LIN11831 9 months ago
Glenn Miller has been gone for almost 67 years, but is still selling records today. That's a true testament of his popularity, and talent....
memorylanefrank 10 months ago 2
from my mothers time but i love it too..i miss my parents they could always make you feel better
marnew08 10 months ago
this music is wonderful thank uoy e this music me rember one story : Ciranda de pedra
iolepranzo 10 months ago
This is great music!!! Everyone who has an understanding of music can understand that when something is good, it will withstand the test of time. So it is with this great era of musicians, the big band sound, when the singer was secondary and the band was the star, love it. Whenever I hear this song its like hearing it again for the first time.
Beatrice4664 10 months ago 3
I think this could be about my favorite song of all time.
ChasesJetsandRockets 10 months ago 2
reminds me of my great grandma ♥ this was her favorite song to listen to. Miss you Amo ♥
GiselleGenuine 10 months ago
obs. foi digitado correto e não saiu correto não e possivel o testo e
inesquecivel noites nos moon auto cines de são paulo na decada
de 60 e 70 ouvindo glenn miller que saudadesssssssssssssss
ojdful 10 months ago
inesquciveis noites nos mom auto cine na decada de 60 e 70 ouvindo glenn miiler que saudadesssssssssssssssssssssss
ojdful 10 months ago
Love the music of the 40`s and 50`s. Brings back so many sweet memories.
lou2391 10 months ago
Heck... I dont care how old one gets.. or how young you are when you first hear music like this .....
It moves the soul and leaves you humming the melody long after it stops playing !!.
Love classics like this one... Mozart to Glenn Miller to Journey and even AreoSmith...
fall in this catagory.. Some may not think so, but the majority will agree...
The word is 'CLASSIC" .!
the reason why its still being listened as well as played to this day, is because its
timeless.... !
redqutee 10 months ago
This reminds me of growing up with my grandparents ! I love this type of music ! I wish they were here still ! But as they say old soldiers dont die they just fade away !
Giesmurf 11 months ago 3
What's wrong with the 6 folks who dislike this song?
Mufaso1000 11 months ago 2
@Mufaso1000 6 people who dont realize amazing music when they hear it :)
christkid117 8 months ago
This song was playing in Jack's car in a flasback in "A Tale of Two Cities" from season 3 of LOST. This song is very relaxing I wish it could go on forever.
goldrush16280 11 months ago 3
Morgana, but what happens a fter the glory of the music dies?
The music industry is a fickle being,chasing after every new trend/fad
with out a care for the music buying public& their likes& dislikes
Freyja1133 11 months ago
@Freyja1133 I disagree with this. I think musicians write what music they want to play. EG not many people want to play swing.
darkmessiahnz 10 months ago
@darkmessiahnz
lol.. your right...."NOT" many in deed...
Yet. "SO" many do love to play and listed to swing !!
oh lets not forget ... dancing to it too!!..
i guess your still at an age where music of all kind is warded off from pleasres..
I have hope that you may one day.. find the beauty in music of every genre !!
your life will be more enriched .. that i can promise you !!!
redqutee 10 months ago
Morgan ,If you 'd ask any kid of today what they listen to... Any of them will tell you I listen to today's Pop Music...which doesn't include swing at all !
Freyja1133 11 months ago
@Freyja1133 Yeah cause that's what pop music is - popular music. EG what Mozart was playing was 'pop' music. Tell me otherwise. :P
darkmessiahnz 10 months ago
Don't misunderstand me..I happen to like glenn miller's music .. But ,when that's the only music that One remembers from their childhood ..because their father refused to allow his child to listen to the genre of music that she's is accosutmed to.. Then that person as an adult will have some bad memories of it
Freyja1133 11 months ago
it's all about 1:38
redshark618 11 months ago
I love how they used this song on LOST
DrunkAzzProductions 11 months ago
Such a wonderful song. I play this today for my grandmother who past away last night. Grab grandfathers arm and dance! Till we meet again.
Rainbowstarization 11 months ago
Clearly extremely biased and elitist. No point in arugeing further with you
darkmessiahnz 11 months ago
2011 and GLENN MILLERS MUSIC IS STILL WONDERFUL and COOL
retrorocker44 1 year ago 3
wooooh it makes me shiver, it captures the late 1930's and early 1940's and the peak/climax of the great depression..it makes me imagine of my grandma and my grandpa during there prime years
mogenesoct8 1 year ago 2
Ahhhhh.... you can really unwind to this song.
SEHANO 1 year ago 2
If history does repeat itself then it is possible that today's music may reach an abrupt stagnant end (I think we are beginning to reach a start of that point) and perhaps return to the more sophisitcated music of the Big Band era....possibly in the 2030's or 40's...a complete century turnaround, though with a slightly different flavor.
spindalis79 1 year ago 2
@spindalis79 Naaaa I don't tihnk so. Look at modern music eg dubstep, extreme metal, prog rock, electronica, pop, folk. It's always advancing and changing. EG reggae went to dub to dubstep. Don't disregard it as crap just because it doesn't sound like this stuff. :P
darkmessiahnz 1 year ago
@darkmessiahnz It's crap.
10Target 11 months ago
@spindalis79 it would be too expensive to bring swing music back... none of the kids of today want to play the instruments which are associated with the era... the recording industry would have to go back torecording 78s.... this era will never come back ,because those who enjoyed the music are dying ,or dead
Freyja1133 11 months ago
@Freyja1133 I agree that it would be too expensive but to say that none of the kids today are interested is a misconception to say the least. I'm 18 and I know a lot of other 18 year olds who enjoy swing and a lot who play instruments from the era. Although I listen to other more modern and popular genres, swing always has and always will hold a special place in my heart, it doesn't matter that no one is recreating this kind of music because the glory of it will always live on.
MorganIsTheName 11 months ago
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@Freyja1133 I agree that it would be too expensive but to say that none of the kids today are interested is a misconception to say the least. I'm 18 and I know a lot of other 18 year olds who enjoy swing and a lot who play instruments from the era. Although I listen to other more modern and popular genres, swing always has and always will hold a special place in my heart, it doesn't matter that no one is recreating this kind of music because the glory of it will always live on
MorganIsTheName 11 months ago
@Freyja1133 Kids don't play brass, pianos, or drums anymore? That's news to me.
It's not hard to find live music to dance to if you live near a medium-sized city or larger. When I did my undergrad I would attend a Viennese ball with a live chamber orchestra once a year, and I'd go to at least four swing dances every year with live bands. One was even hosted by a high school ensemble. You really just have to look for these events. They still exist.
Athena82487 11 months ago
@Athena82487 Kids still play piano& drums today... I was reffering to the istruments that they'd have to take lessons to learn how to play... Brass, clarinet etc the kids of today are more intrested in guitar ,bass piano & drums.... than Brass , accordion ( which obviously is dead ) and other instruments from the swing era
Freyja1133 11 months ago
@Athena82487 Morgan, a kid may paly in a jazz band in high school..... then in college
but after that they lose interest in it
Freyja1133 11 months ago
@Freyja1133 How did they afforditback then, especially at the end of the Depression? I've always wondered about this. Royalties and contracts were nothing compared to today.
billchew450 11 months ago
@billchew450 the royalties for one record was 3 cents..back then they didn't have that much money
it's the recording companies who set the royalties& copywrite fees.. with most of the money going to the record company.& a small pittance to the musicians
Freyja1133 11 months ago
My mums favourite band and probably her best track, she is ninety now and deaf and i wish she could hear it one more time and unlock all the happy memories of dancing to the big band sound in the dance halls of the 1940's, if there was ever a tune that was yours mum it would be his one.
Sheecreature 1 year ago 2
No song typifies the 1940s to me more than this song. Just hearing it gives me a mental image of P-38 fighters parked under the palm trees of some flyspeck Pacific island at sunset.
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edbjr38 1 year ago
One of my cherished memories from childhood is of listening to Glenn Miller LPs with my dad. Daddy got to see Glenn's Air Force Band twice--once in NYC, and the second time in London right before Glenn's plane disappeared over the English Channel. I love 1940s big band music, and I have to say that I think the blend of instruments and excellent of playing in GM's bands were just about perfect!!
suzabella68 1 year ago 2
There's nothing wrong with liking The Black Eyed Peas, Train, Taylor Swift, or Jay Z and big band artists like Glen Miller. You're not weird or strange, a band geek, or a nerd if you like his music in addition to today's artists. He's not your grandparents' music and he's not your parents' music. Glen Miller is everyone's music. Everyone can enjoy the music of Glen Miller.
Chibihalo2 1 year ago 108
@Chibihalo2 - Agree completely. I'm not old enought to have heard this music when it was made, but in the years since nothing better has been done. It is timeless.
paulkate72 1 year ago
@Chibihalo2 Well said, very well said!
60sMODgirl 10 months ago
@Chibihalo2 Well said !!! :-)
bill1952 6 months ago
@Chibihalo2 Apart form black people, right?
plopsack 6 months ago
@Chibihalo2 I totally agree with you! Its a pitty that so many people are unable to appreciate glenn miller, sinatra, or any "old" band or musician...Music if increidible, will continue that way forever!!!
marianete148 4 months ago
@Chibihalo2 That was the "rock & roll" in it's day.
TGC 3 months ago
@Chibihalo2 How lovely to find a nice sensible comment on You Tube, the proof is here , there are nice people on here, what a lovely comment on the music, my best wishes to you, Mick. My comment also goes to pooh42682, i'm sure your Daughter stood ten feet tall with pride whilst in your arms.
MICKTHEMERC 3 months ago
@Chibihalo2 nice choice of words, i completely agree with you
CatUnderHelmet 3 months ago
I wish I was around during this time of music. The arrangement is AMAZING!!!!!! I would have love to have met Glenn Miller. Truly under rated and a pure genius!!!!!
AveryIam 1 year ago 3
I'm definitely having this song played at some point at my wedding reception. One of my favorite classic movies is The Glenn Miller Story with Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson. I love listening to this and getting lost in the music and just thinking about how romantic it is.
pooh42682 1 year ago
@pooh42682 My youngest Daughter and I danced to this for our Father and Daughter dance at her reception this past July. She asked me previously if any one would recognize it. "Oh yes, i said- trust me- everyone over 50 will anyway."
And any under 50 had a lesson in class.
Best wishes for your wedding and reception.
baghend 1 year ago 24
@baghend How true. Good selection too.
profitleads 7 months ago
My friend and I bump this song in my car aroung town. We roll down the windows and pump up the bass. It gets the crowd jumpin', make no mistake. Seriously we do. And seriously this is one of my favorite songs.
cartoonistkid001 1 year ago
Think of all the WWII service men listen to this while Serving!? Semper Fi
TheLonnieb1 1 year ago 2
R.I.P. Glenn, Woody, Gene, Artie, Jimmy and Tommy, Satchmo, Benny, Count, Duke Chummie, and all the others A bygone era that will never be equalled.
hshatch616 1 year ago 3
@hshatch616 R I P Ray Eberle
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frsdonahue 1 year ago
I'm 26 years old and my grandmother loved Glen Miller and she passed away 2 days ago. I remember sitting with her and watching The Glen Miller Story and listening to this with her all the time and because of her I love listening to him play and know everytime I hear Glen Miller I will think of her. I love you mamaw Wanda and will always miss you.
sal9808 1 year ago
@sal9808 I am very sorry to hear of your grandmother's passing. she's at peace, now; and, maybe, who knows, she's listening to Glenn Miller on the other side. Be strong over the next few days, and I know you will keep your grandma's memory alive.
frsdonahue 1 year ago
I didn't live through this period of time, but this music nonetheless touches my soul. What a gift that we can still enjoy it today.
roz805 1 year ago
How can someone dislike this song... it´s truly a masterpiece an icon of that time
drgosaiden 1 year ago
@drgosaiden icon of all time
melchizedek22 8 months ago
Moonlight Serenade, the music of my life.
leaoramos64 1 year ago
The all-time, greatest slow dance number EVER!
Glenn Miller was the best big band of the era.
Nobody even comes close to his renditions.
This is the music I danced to when I was in high school.
I feel sorry for the young folks today that missed this kind of music.
193322009 1 year ago 3
@193322009 I'm sorry for my generation too...
redlinechavez 1 year ago
Im from Mexico......I love this kind of music......is marvelous!!!!!! Imelda
ime916 1 year ago
that is clarinet, right?
I play a clarinet!
Kermitfrog101 1 year ago
When I was kid, I was scared of the dark, so mum would put the radio on. One night, a saturday night, the voice came on the radio and he said
"Tonight we celebrate the old classics- those favorites from the 40s and 50s! Its Big Band night, folks, starting with the best fo the best, Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade!"
I fell in love with Glenn Miller and Big Band music at the age of 8 in 1996 and I never looked back.
Treemeadow 1 year ago 2
Beautiful and timeless. The arrangement is brilliant.
Humbertusmarius 1 year ago
One of the most sophistocated arrangements by Glenn Miller. Saxes with clarinet lead. Superb!
Art Marshall
ARTMARSHALL1 1 year ago
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Your dead right!!!!
Lightrider84 1 year ago
this reminds me of my grandfather so much. he would tell me his WW II stories of what he did and where he was,he was a right waist gunner on the beautiful, awesome and majestic B-17 Flying Fortresses. if I remember correctly he was in the 309th Bomb Group which trained replacement crews using the B-25's.
rest in peace sir, and thank you for all that you taught me, with love and respect your devoted Grandson.
TSgt William T. Hogan January 21, 1918-September 10, 2002
Blessings to all here
hanno21664 1 year ago
Thank you youtube for the opertunity to give us the freedom for us to listen, and enjoy all of this music, and all the places we can visit. I love to go to Budweiser, and watch the Clysdale's tribute to 9/11, only played 1 time, 1 year later. I cry every tim I go there, it's so touching. Thank you. Caryl McD
birdflew377 1 year ago
@GamerztimeX20 : "Smell yo dick " ?? Funny to read that title with Moonlight Serenade playing in the background, but you're absolutely correct . 2010's talent doesn't compare with the talent of the late 1930's & mid 1940's OR even the 1950's for that matter. It's not just the music either, today, we've forgotten how to dress, how to act as a culture, to have manners, to show respect or to have any respect at all, & in a nut shell , we have simply.. lost our way & most don't even know it.
MrRJDB1969 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 Unfortunately...you are correct! Music is what memories are made of...I am 83 and just started taking lessons on the keyboard last year...I now play an AT900 organ...what an insturment...capable of all the big band sounds...I am an ear player and have made a CD for my kids and will do another this summer...Jazz. But nothing will ever match "Moonlight Serenade"...I will play "Night and Day" in a competition next Saturday.Beautiful music especially of the 40's...my teenage years.
mauirascal 10 months ago
My favorite!!!
theladysings 1 year ago
Reminds me of Fallout 3 :)
EngineVein1 1 year ago
I would give anything to have lived back in those days....
Reaper271 1 year ago
So wonderful to listen to, it makes me relax:-)
SuperAcab666 1 year ago
i love this kind of music so soothin n relaxin it makes u feel warm n fuzzy inside i wish ppl say they wish they were born back then i do wish we had this music now but as a black person i dont wish2live n those days with jim crow laws segregation n lynching ppl plz think b4 u speak
msmocha1967 1 year ago 2
That was an age when contact dancing wasn't Dirty Dancing.
We need to teach our kids about this !
rollsroyce59 1 year ago 4
this song can give me chills
MichealDarwin 1 year ago 3
This is music from a by gone era where a man and woman would dress up and go dancing on a Saturday night and get lost in the music and the emotions of the evening! Pure class.
himycatisdead 1 year ago 92
@himycatisdead I'm glad I'm no the only one who thinks something wonderfull has been lost.
Fizwalker 1 year ago
@himycatisdead And it was an era when the man would then leave for a foreign land never to return. What a mess. And it goes on and on.
lurcherlongdog 1 year ago
@himycatisdead pure class
TheProvenGuilty 1 year ago
@himycatisdead
wow!... im not from that by gone era... im from the era of 'come and gone' lol..
yet.. nothing can escape the beauty of a great song and artist !..
Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and the others . are nothing short of being the "GREATS" !!!
great post !! .... great music !!!
redqutee 10 months ago 3
@himycatisdead Best post on You Tube,very well said.
MidnightinSavannah 10 months ago
@himycatisdead well said
ealiyev1 10 months ago
@himycatisdead Good Comment...This brings back GREAT memories of going to my GRANDPARENTS house...And this and Sinatra would always be on in the backround...
mattdaddyful 9 months ago
Thanks So much for uploading..youre a Star,with taste
YORKIE230557 1 year ago
I remember going to the Drive In Movie with my Mom and Dad and brothers whenever I hear this. They played it just before the movies would start. Both parents are gone now but this always brings them back to mind..
TheJamesCase 1 year ago
I wish I was alive when this was popular music.. :(
CharleyFarleyXXX 1 year ago 3
I am a latin woman who listened this kind of music since I was a little girl because my father liked it very much, and I loved it. Great band, beautiful song... thanks a lot for sharing! Muchas gracias.
aclarena 1 year ago
this music reminds me on the games "fallout" and "bioshock" ^^
locust94 1 year ago
@locust94 same here. mostly reminds me of Bioshock
CiB12 1 year ago
Love this song!
super8punk 1 year ago
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This song brings me a biggest peace... I want hear this song on my lastest day of life... =)
Jubaluba 1 year ago
This song brings me a biggest peace... I want hear this song on my lastest day of life... =)
Jubaluba 1 year ago
Amo esta cancion mi abuelo y mi padre eran fanaticos de Glenn Miller escucharla es como si me trasportara a plena decada de 1930
Turbopower78 1 year ago
omg ive BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS FOR A LONGGG TIMEEE. I heard it a couple of years ago finallyyy!!
devoutxcynic 1 year ago
For my Dad...one of his favorite songs. The one we were to dance to at my wedding...instead of that sappy, "Daddy's Little Girl". Miss you more than you know.
zaz716 1 year ago 25
For my Dad...one of his favorite songs. The one we were to dance to at my wedding...instead of that sappy, "Daddy's Little Girl". Miss you more than you know.
zaz716 1 year ago
esta fue mi cancion de bodas.
Wolfgang y Karyna Klinckwort
karyklinckwort 1 year ago 2
Mr and Mrs E Walkden with love and respect from their grandson. Both back together soon. Fought for our freedom x
Thank you for putting this up.
ILiveOnMyBoat 1 year ago
Reminds me of my Dad and Mom...RIP thank you for bringing music into out lives.
Love you and miss you both always.
johnjoskell 1 year ago
This is by far one of the most romantic songs ever made!
Eglantinetje 1 year ago 2
OMG!!!This is magic!!!!
MrsDanise77 1 year ago
@fdgsdfg12345321 "music" is the key word. That's noise you hear on the radio. NOT music. Sure, I love the Beatles, CCR and all of the rock and roll songs from the fifties, but the noise today doesn't qualify as "MUSIC" No melody, no story, nothing. I know, my parents didn't like my music and thought it was noise. But the 40s music IS music. I understand where you're coming from, but still......
robetrb 1 year ago
ya i bought a selmer tenor saxophone 1936. will cherish it and have bought lots of other items of interest from that era.
ashrafilm 1 year ago
Just because you may not like modern music doesnt mean that you have to tell everyone.. Music changes with time.. look at the beatles. You cant stick with one sort of music and block everything else out... sure you may not like it.. but the rest of us might... im 16 and im not missing out on any music.. i listen to this and love it.. but i also listen to metallica and love it.. broaden your taste in music people!!! just dont start saying stuff like... music isnt good these days..
fdgsdfs123454321 1 year ago 3
A very romantic song. . . I can almost imagine myself back in the 40's. To bad nobody dances to this anymore. What a shame! : - (
MrFoxfan67 1 year ago 5
I play trombone too!
lpc315 1 year ago
La más linda música de todos los tiempos
TheNaturalover 1 year ago
Isto sim é que é músicA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
zuleikaad 1 year ago
What a beautiful music, I don't hear it in this day.
puzzlemom47 1 year ago
in wwll movies this tune always meant that the american soldier about to leave for the front was dancing with his sweetheart for the last time and would not survive.
or it meant that heroic duty prevailed yet could never annul true love. it was reality.
deja2053 1 year ago
feliz, feliz!!
miserableextincion 1 year ago
Custa mùsica est gasi bella chi non m'istracco mai de l'ascurtare!
clelia1952 1 year ago
I first heard this played on the Golden Girls. I love love this piece.
veryfine69 1 year ago
В 11 лет я услышала эту мелодию и влюбилась в неё. Обожаю произведения Глена Миллера!!!
MariaMagika 1 year ago
For something really amazing, listen to Benny Goodman concert at Carnegie Hall from 1938. And play this stuff kinda loud. That's how it sounded live.
unabnats 1 year ago
One kind of negtive thought I have, regarding this sophistication, is that in the same time as this, there was Hitler, Nazism, Holocaust, WWII, not to mention how minorities were treated here in US. It just makes all that bad stuff seem even worse in a way. This was a relatively "modern" world after all.
unabnats 1 year ago
XX, remember these songs were for YOUNG people like you. Notice the "swing" in it. It's not elevator, or Muzk music. Even a "slow" ballad like this has a hip swaying, "beat. What they often play now for 80 year olds is nothing like the original. This was Young Music. And, if done right, still is.
unabnats 1 year ago
To XX- This music was even before MY time, and I'm no kid. No not many 13 year olds listen to this now, do they? But, realize this- this music was written and listened to by kids your age when originally recorded. Try to hear the "swing" in it. It's nothing like elevator music, or Muzak. It's got a foot stomping, hip swaying beat. And that's not even counting the real "Boogie" stuff.
unabnats 1 year ago
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your cannot beat this kind of music not like the junk you get today I meen I 53 young this year and yet I could play this music all day I all so callect 50s 60 some 70s as well you cannot beat the old stuff
philip0072 1 year ago
played this in the car mother she loved it but last year she past away but as I all way say when your mother has gone from this world nobody can replace her
philip0072 1 year ago 2
now what I call music not the crap you get today