A tribute to Glenn Miller

[annemiiek]

The fact that this song appears in so many movies says enough: Aviator, Midnight in Paris, The Notebook. All these contemporary movies have this song! Was a classic, stays a classic!

[moragday]

wonderful music. thinking of my dear dad who died yesterday and was such a fan of glenn miller especially during the war years when he was a medical student at glasgow university and then thereafter served in the army medical corps of the rhine. Dr and Captain Allan John MacKenzie Campbell all our love Morag, Willie, Rona and Nancy and also grandchildren Alison, Douglas, Kirsty Fiona and Harry and Katrina and loving daughter in law Angela and son in law Wilfried. All our love Daddy x x

[crystalguada24]

i love thsi soing

[hb818283]

CptnJack/Rose. :P

[MiracleSoulFlyer]

This song I do believe is one of the most melancholy songs in the whole world. It makes me feel deeply within my heart... tired, sad, happy in a way, lonely but loved, and it makes me love. I hope this music does live on... FOREVER.

[CACygan27]

now THIS is music!!!

[thetruthis24]

Was this music in Midnight In Paris?

[manofmystery26]

watching and hearing this song makes me want to go to the 1940's!!!!

[nikkiaah]

reminds me of watching the moon over the ocean in oahu

[TheShadowOfHumanity]

Glen Miller, a true genius.

[markhkromer]

Great  music will all ways live on as new generations hear so this will all ways find new listeners

[DKetch1966]

Nice Tribute... Beautiful song, first rate musician.... Died doing what he loved; playing for the troops.... Thanks and RIP Glenn

[pinkweyez]

I love this so much!!

[xdoodadoox]

that's simply AMAZING <3 .

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Thank you for this excellent tribute to the King of Swing, Glenn Miller.

George Vreeland Hill

[rosethorn18]

Gorgeous.

[Tigermoon1950]

He died too damn young.

[gabrieltss1]

Thank you for posting this! I love Glenn Millers music. His music as truly weathered the ages.

[uwldluvme21]

THE GOLDEN GIRLS!

[Kell1295]

Perfection.

[Welshbluesman]

Thank you Major Glenn Miller, you served music and your country with love and passion and sacrifice! As the grandson of two WWII US Army veterans, I salute you!

[hep2jive]

and I just wonder how many couples around the globe have moved the coffee table over to dance to this song. Thanks GM

[redbutterflynine]

perpetual16 i lost my mom in june 07 and she also was a huge fan of his - ty for posting this tribute

[jazz0685]

Is that Benny Goodman at :46?

[jamesdeanfan]

@jazz0685 yeah! sorry but I never noticed.

[jazz0685]

@jamesdeanfan Oh that's ok. I missed him the first time, then saw him go by the second time. They look alike. I hope you'll let Benny stay. PS...great video, I really enjoyed it! Thank you

[DebbSaxx1]

@jazz0685 Yes, that was Benny Goodman. Great band, too. My band played his music often!

[jazz0685]

@DebbSaxx1 Yes, what a great band. I love Big Band music.. I'll check out your channel..thanks!

[kmcfarlan]

I used to work on the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland...this song played there all the time...everytime I hear it I can feel the dock under my feet and I can hear the laughter of families....it brings a tear to my eye

[skyguy15]

This music makes me feel like i'm sitting in a fancy restruant sitting by people like Al Capone lol or, sitting with some 'good fellas'

[skyguy15]

Funny, how i'm a big hard rock fan, but i find my self enjoying anything from, techno, to metal, to blues, to big band. but not rap.. No.. Just actuall music =)

[daltonagre]

Good art doesn't gets older. I live in Brazil.

[noraalexa]

Aw, this makes me really in the mood for some red lipstick, chanel no 5, something good to drink and lovely intimate company. Just like in an old Bond-movie.

[hotswinggirl]

My favorite GM, this one and Haute time in Berlin,

[danymatus]

Is my faborite song

[jb92034]

Made My mother's nite !

[johnSaffire]

Boy the way Glenn Miller played. Songs that made the hit parade. Guys like us we had it made. Those were the days.

[theshadow1932]

Amen, Bro. Sounds as if you were one of the few others who, along woth Yours Truly, GOT IT! Archie was DA MAN!

My old La Salle STILL runs great!

[Frootloop741]

Oh so divine & simply amazing :)

[Rennimagus]

B.E.A.Utiful!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oldcountrytunes]

Along with "Elmers Tune", this is one of my favorite Glenn Miller songs. Thanks for posting. *****. Thanks for sharing, Paul.

[HerkyHawk1985]

i love the glenn miller orchestra and this is my fave,thanks for posting it. peace, paul

[KawaiiMofia]

<3 amazing

[kateypie1]

this is simply divine!!

[Anatolij2010]

Brilliang song,I love it!

[Harinezumii]

My favorite melody..... T_T

Thanks 4 the memories.

Matta ne!.

[KratosTheMarine]

Absolutley beautiful.

Miller was a geneius and a gift to all music.

Thanks for posting.

[LucMoustache]

Marveless wonderfull

[luvtrns4evr]

One of my favorite Miller pieces. Nice to see the clips of past times when life was more simpler. Thx.

[TwilightObsessor07]

they just don't make good music like this anymore...

[b3witch3d]

I know!

[jamesdeanfan]

@TwilightObsessor07 I hate twilight but I'm glad you like this music from the greatest generation.

[dodge09challenger]

@TwilightObsessor07 You can sit back and reminisce to this.....something that can't be done with today's music!

[TwilightObsessor07]

no one could made music the way glenn miller did, nothing is better than this :]]

[ECKBOFFM59]

Heavenly musik ! Thanks for posting it.

[ECKBOFFM59]

Heavenly musik! I like Glen Millers musik

very much.

[perpetual61]

To the Greatest Generation Ever! My Dad was also a big Miller fan also! I can take comfort in the fact that he is now in heaven with all those Great Big Bands that he loved soo much! I miss you Daddy

[msykes2008]

My sentiments exactly. My dad would listen to Glenn Miller on Sunday afternoons on an old mono console record player. He's been in heaven with Glenn for over 30 years now. I miss you, too, Dad.

[CaptainFaraday]

My dad is still around, but he's a rock and roll fan... I'm the jazz muso in our family.

While Glenn might be gone, his music will never leave.

[kateypie1]

kudos to you!! im 21 and i love this sound and style of music, its just so beautiful and evocative! x

[toler1956]

Just wonderful, thanks

[mattstone12]

Fantastic.

And what a tragic, but heroic, inspiring and mysterious story.

[briskoschneiderx]

tolle musik ist bis heute nicht erreicht worden

wunderbar danke

[RoseFairy08]

What a beautiful song!!

[197305222007]

esta cancion me recuerda a mi abuelito, te amo tatita, la bailara para ti el dia de mi boda

[Rockstar1974lol]

thanks for this song i love it!!!!

[ScottSpin]

He died so young for a stupid reason. War. As a two-time war veteran like my father. Him WW2/Korea, me, Lebanon/Grenada. What a loss with Glenn Miller.

[BCboy65]

It is difficult to argue the stupidity of wars. I was a Marine in Viet Nam and Soldier in Iraq. But sometimes entering a war is the right thing to do, WWII was one of them. Glenn Miller did not have to serve, he volunteered and gave his life for his country and left us with the some of the best music ever!

[stringalongmike1953]

Thanks for your service to our country.

[DPKFOUR7]

Why did he die so young?

[Brian54M]

Colonel Millers plane disappeared over the English Channel in 1944, and no trace was ever found.

[BCboy65]

His plane most likely strayed over a section of the English Channel reserved for "bomb drops". Planes returning from bombing runs either shot-up or engine problems usually dropped their bombs in a certain area rather than trying to land with them still aboard, which was very risky. His plane was probably below them and not even seen.

[airborne1940]

Noone knows,Noone ever will.....

[cris1234567890tilghm]

viva la Glenn Miller

[geraldineamercuri]

Me hubiera encantado nacer en esa època.

[oldtimemusicnut53]

My Dad was a big Miller fan. This was one of his favorites and has become one of mine. Thanks, Dad. Miss you. And Thanks to the Veterans, Male and Female that gave so much. And to them that paid the ultimate price. Salute! God Bless.

[renatao36]

a melhor musica que eu conheço, tras lembranças do subconsiente que não sei, parece coisa de vidas passadas, resumindo musica dos deuses

[Aerokings]

This song is a true masterpiece.Noone can ever replace the original.This video hits home to alot of those vets out there.Great video,thanks for the memories.....

[mantovagirl]

A big thank you to those vets out there from the greatest generation.  We can never repay all you did for us.

[Aerokings]

Your Welcome!!!!!

[phishfan08]

I hope people my age (19) know who this guy is.

Genius

[hatemeproductions]

very good.

[AMG93]

I was just listening to this on record for the first time. Truely amazing.

[chopped50ford]

A great man of talent and music harmony. What a huge loss to have lost him so early into his career. I cant imagine what other great works he could have created if he had lived on. Im truly bummed to have not lived in the era that he made a difference. Glenn Miller will live on! I salute you.

[21Garnie]

This song is soo incredibly good, it will never get old. It lives on, through people, and the places lol, its such an amazing song. Glenn Miller is a fantastic man, great song, amazing band. It sounds so 40s, i can imagine it playing during the War. Thank you!

[GoRetroGirl]

I think Glenn Miller was quite a handsome man. :)

[karatekoop]

Awesome video...thanks for the stroll back in time.

[karatekoop]

Perfect description...I wonder the same thing

[dabreu]

Those were not good old days. We were in war! However, Glen Miller used to bring hope. People would go out to dance to his sound to feel better. So,Glen Miller had a very important mission to the world in those dark times. His sound was forbidden in Nazy German. It's true about the allies dropping bombs in the English channel and hitting that plane. I heard about it on the History Channel. It seems the plane could not take off at that time. Thanks for this tribute. Very touching.

[jamesdeanfan]

I'm gonna say...Glenn's teeth are perfect!

[pasakari]

i continyou ( sorry couse i`m not can`t understand all english) couse i am from nothern countries. ) but glen it was great compositor that time. i nead some singer who sing this time and these names. i am very sorry my language but i hope if you understand

[pasakari]

It is great if you understad old music couse you´R PARENTS

[GS5536]

I LOVE this song. Such a short life for a magical composer. Only 5 years in the business and look what he created. Love your music, Glenn.

Carol

[orangutanbaybe]

This song is so pretty. It brings memories back for my Great Grandma... alot of soldiers going off to war danced with their sweethearts to this song!

[dryhills]

Glenn Miller is gone forever but his music is iimmortal.

[SaxoRamirez]

a tribute to glenn miller w/a picture of Benny goodman... hmmmm.... 45 sec, u can see the b on Gene Krupa's drums for Benny Goodman.... and yes i realize that he Glenn n benny played together.

[lovelyalleycat]

"Sigh," I always hear this song on the Swingin Years with Chuck Cecil on 88.1 Sat and Sunday mornings. I truly love it! To be able to have lived during such a time and to have been able to hear Glenn Miller's orchestra in person must have really been something!

[Caretaker24523]

Thank God that Glenn finally found THAT SOUND. There will never be another Glenn. Long live the days of the big band.

[peapod1967]

love glenn miller even the james stewart film of his life.moonlight serenade makes me cry reminds me of my sister.

Thanks for this posting never knew what he looked like until now

:)

[GlowEuh]

i dont think age really matters when it comes to liking music. i LOVE the Glenn Miller band. im 15 and i think they were one of the most brilliant, romantic, just...simply amazing bands...they just give me this unexplainable loss of words. i just love it.

[youwould69]

Love Glenn Miller, Im 28 but it has a romance about the sound,

[joevet66]

trevor, this is NOT "In the Mood". It's "Moonlight Serenade"

[camposantoo]

There where a world named America, anybody saying to official hate, but all loved that wonder America

[fbguzz361]

i'm only 14 but i love glenn miller hes friggin awsome

[Serenity113]

What year was this from? The 1940s?

[n2cora]

yes--i think 1943. i was born in 1972, but i remember a certain oldies radio station my folks listened used to play this on the radio before i went off to school as a small child.

[Serenity113]

I thought so. I LOVE this era. I don't know to me it's like the romantic age. :D

[n2cora]

yes. it was a time before cities had beltways, and outside the city's limits you were in the farms belts; mass transportation could take you within walking distance to anywhere, and a dollar could buy a whole lot of things.

those were very good days--we didn't know it then; and not any more than now.

[Serenity113]

So true. Wish I can go back in time and check it out. :D

[cadetmongoose]

im a brass player and wow this guy was amazzing allways loved glenn miller, what a insperation

[AnimeNutsAbout12]

hey, I'm 13, I really like this music. You're right about today's "tight" music "dog" :)

[Wa3ypx]

I always envision a B-29 flying off into the sunset

[trevorcunningham75]

Awesome analogy - nice thought - I like it. Up the bombers ;)

[Wa3ypx]

I went to school with the drummer from Brian Setzer. I see you "favourited" one of their songs.

[trevorcunningham75]

Yeah - a really cool updated version of 'in the mood' - not that GM's music necessarily needed it. It's people like Brian S who are able to do something different to the avg run of the mill and stand out from them. I sure as hell wouldn't mind going to see them in con. if they were performing.

[belliedbabe79]

I love this song...I hum it as a lullaby to my godson, Lukie! (:D)

[CarinaWald]

I love the music of Glenn Miller!

I wish I had lived in this century (I know there was war and so on) but think of the music and the cultur. It's great.

And listen to the Saxophon!

(Sorry for my bad English, I'm no native speakter!)

[charliealfonzo]

Ummm I am sure you have lived in that century... it was 7 yrs ago, hahaha

[mediwichki]

My all-time fav tune.

[daltonagre]

This music is called "Moonlight serenade".

[FiveCentsPlease]

Very nice job on the video. Miller's disappearance is an unanswered question. Similarly to the explorations that found Titanic and Bismark, etc. it is my hope that an undersea explorer such as James Cameron or Robert Ballard will one day launch an expedition to find Miller's plane. As difficult as that may be, it would be a wonderful tribute to Mr. Miller and the fading WWII generation to bring his remains home (if possible) for a proper memorial and final goodbye.

[mrbobowen]

I think I read somewhere that it was found. An old veteran recently admitted (about three years ago)that he had been buried secretly at the time because the plane was loaded with contraband and this implicated a General

[FiveCentsPlease]

That's first I've heard of that story and I've not heard it mentioned in any aviation forum groups. I'm not inclined to believe it and will leave it for the tinfoil hats. Memories of the "glory days" by old men sometimes get clouded, too. The Miller disappearance has a romantic drama to it, and if the mystery had been solved, it would have been big news.

[2Stupid2BeSpoken]

During the war, sometimes bombers were ordered back to England before dropping their payloads in Germany. However, they could not land with the bombs on board so they had to drop their payloads over the English channel. I heard that a couple years ago a diary (belonging to a crewmember aboard a bomber) turned up. In the diary, the crewmember described seeing a plane similar to Miller's flying under the bombers on the same night as Miller's disappearance.I dont know if its true but its possibl

[naiad5]

Thank you so much for this ...has always been one of my favourites.

[jamesdeanfan]

no, they adopted a baby from what I've read somewhere.

[Nite30889]

Did they have a baby? Please? I would love to know......nitesouflyer

[annanoli]

00:44 is Benny Goodman

[jamesdeanfan]

i know, my bad. Hehehe...

[juliayllw]

whats the name of this song?

[jamesdeanfan]

moonlight serenade

[daltonagre]

Glenn Miller died in an aircraft accident, during World War II.Great art doesn't gets older.I live in Brazil.

[DarJack1973]

I love Glenn Miller he was a Legend! My Mom use too play this all the time when I was growing up! You know it has nothing to do with GM music but another Legend who died in a plane crash very young! Can you guesswho? I saw his life story on TV the other night!

[starmie86]

best big band song ever made. awesome! 5 stars

[22beegees]

You have excellent taste. This is my favourite big band song too. My husband & I always request it at dances. I have a 33yr.old boxed set collection of Glenn Miller & I wouldn't part with it for the world.

[jtcleatus]

Today would be my Dads 79th b-day. He used to sit and listen to glenn miller for hours. Thanks so much for giving a man who misses his father a walk down memory lane.

[jamesdeanfan]

My grandfather was an Filipino worker in California and he bought home Glenn Miller records that's why I got interested in this musician.

[Mustang633]

Exceptional work, JDF . . . Thanks!

[EasyCo506PIR]

My daughter is 13 and she knows Glynn Miller and likes it. i am also a WWII reenactor and play this in the house and the car so they are exposed to it. i listen to her music and it is not too bad. I just don't like the hard core rap. I grew up in the 80's whe rap was just starting up, Run DMZ. It is good to have an open mind. This the music of the "Greatest Generation" who fought for our freeddom.

[tobinas]

Chega a ser emocionante.Simplesmente lindo!!!

[SuggestionsWatcher]

I enjoy songs from this period.

[NGS712]

nnaked: Yes. I'm sure there's good rap, though most of it is garbage. It probably was better when it first started, then got commercialized.

[NGS712]

nnaked: Yeah. But as I said I'm 17 and I like Miller. Too bad that most people [not just teens] can't have open minds when it comes to music.

[haunted616]

I'm 14 and I like it. Don't assume all kids are stupid, it's just the majority.

[counthans]

14 and I don't think anybody will ever make anything more beautiful than the melody and harmony at the beginning.

[lorelai345]

i am 16 and i really love this melody... it's so beautiful... so not every kids are like that :)

[NGS712]

nnaked: Don't assume, I'm 17 and I can't stand rap. It is possible to like Glenn Miller and rock music you know.

[metsshadow]

Actually in my school we have a jazz band that plays older song like this. This one happens to be one of them. I might be getting the solo on it ^^

[nurracp]

no one will ever come to his standard, just a pity we lost him so early.

[saxerjr]

The big band photo at 0:45 is actually the Benny Goodman Orchestra in the 1937 film "Hollywood Hotel"

[changoh]

this is music i love great good music.

[Dimantra]

great music from a great man

[driftman1]

Nestor Astorga has prepared a CD with the song MOONLIGHT SERENADE in an Instrumental Version in Organ.

Visit: nestorastorga com

[LadyArgento]

I love this music. Makes me wish I was born in a different era.

[stringalongmike1953]

Me too. I can just imagine those dances - what fun it must have been.

[burgerwisdom]

makes your heart just want to cry

[BCboy65]

About as good as music gets!

[brickbradford]

It's too bad that no-brains have to come in here and desecrate this wonderful piece of American music...Moonlight Serenade is a classic. I wish these sophomoric idiots who come here with their classic idiocies would go listen to their rap or whatever the hell they listen to, in a john somewhere.

[NGS712]

brick: True, but isn't already bad enough going to a public restroom?

[vols12m]

Very well done... great video tribute to a true pioneer! Thanks for posting.

[matchgurl10]

absolutely gorgeous music. one of a kind. Matchgurl

[UKman111]

this is the real myusic of amercia, rap needs to die

[bitchyb73]

So does your JUNK asswipe you holier thans ahve all the damn nerve in the world with the sick garbage you celebrate. Like nasty,crackhead pop tarts and sleazy,pervert rock stars so piss off racist phonies!!

[NGS712]

UK: How is not liking Rap racist? And yeah, Glen Miller is garbage *sarcasm* It's MUCH more decent than that 'niggers & hos' shit.

[NGS712]

Sorry I meant to address that to 'bitchy'.

[bitchyb73]

Because you act like it's a 'morality' thing when you glorify stuff like "The Sopranos" where THEY women are nothing but 'bitches' and 'hoes' or sicko Hollywood movies where women are defiled and cut up like in "Hostel 2". My point is people whining about rap's lack of 'decency' are like a vegetarian as a guest speaker at a meat lovers convention. And just for the record I LOVE Glenn Miller and I don't like rap either but I'm not a hypocrite about it.

[NGS712]

bitch: I never even said I watched 'The Sopranos' and I hate movies like 'Hostel'. So how am I a hypocrite?

[arieloppi]

hehehe!!

nice!!!

thanks for posting!!!!

[phialin1954]

I love the movie too. When they played this song, I started crying. So nostalgic.

[materialchica16]

Class and elegance is always in style, just harder to find these days for lots of reasons.

[scion57]

The USA went from this, the GLORY DAYS of music, to the absolute crap of rap and country. What the HELL happened!!!?

[phialin1954]

I've been asking myself the very same questions. Compare to Gwen Stefanis' B A N A N A song." LOL!!!!!!!!!

[scion57]

Who and WHAT!!?

[NGS712]

scion: Not all country's bad. But yeah 'crap' music sucks.

[magalimarisoljimenez]

"Serenata a la luz de la luna", es la mejor declaración de amor, dentro de un coche y con la lluvia cayendo. Con esa gran nostalgia, recuerdo al gran amor de mi vida. Excelente canción...

[lariren]

I love this song

Not wise of whom i was until he asks my dad him a little while ago is wonderful!

[UKman111]

blimey i love these tunes. this is the best music to me,