Use to listen to me mum play this on summer nights when it was hot and us kids were outside doing what kids today don't do, play'n, catch'n fire flies, June bugs and listening to the cicade serenade!
My grandfather passed away in November. He was 93 years old. We used to just sit in his house and listen to all the big band music from his generation. We could sit for hours and talk about anything. He loved to dance when my grandmother was alive.
this is actually dated summer 42. it's the last recording of Glenn Miller Commercial band,just weeks before he joined air force. Cornet solo by Bobby Hackett,tenor solo by Tex Beneke.
@solorider55 hey I finally got this music....the old guys said listen again. recent bio was real interesting. he did not die in the plane. but his fans in that time would be heartbroken. so they said that. he was a true nazi fighting hero and a great musician and entertainer...neat we finally get it.
why the intro is cut? this is the last recording of Glenn Miller commercial band. The lovely cornet is Bobby Hackett's,the date is sept.1942 Victor 20-1529-A
Lady Gaga ? you got to be kidding. How can a person like that get to the big time / You wonder about the taste of music of this young generation. Most of it sucks
@svetlana1590 Светлана, боюсь вас огорчить, но Гленн Миллер пропал без вести на Ла-Маншем во время Великой Отечественной войны в 1944 году. В то время фильм, который вы имеете ввиду называется "В джазе только ДЕВУШКИ", но уж никак не "девчата" и снят он был в 1959 году.Радует, то что вы видимо все-таки слушаете эту замечательную музыку.
I always liked this song, it's a shame that the old overplayed "United Airlines" commercials that used it ruined it a little bit for me. "Come Fly the Friendly Skies"
I suggest that you get a copy of the movie, " The Glen Miller Story " .Jimmy Stewart as Glen Miller.You will get an appreciation of the music and his quest to create that special sound that is distinctively Glen Miller and is still heard over the decades.The problem is we don't have big bands with a large range of instruments that can play this great music .BTW, music projects the era in which it is created Those were mellow times and his music reflects that mood.
@TheMinor2major All those old cartoons like Tom and Jerry and the Looney Tunes gave me a total love and appreciation for music that was way before my time. I am grateful for that exposure and sad for kids today who don't have cartoons with such wonderful music. Even the Disney movies don't have the same kind of music most of the time. I fear this will all be lost on future generations if nobody makes a point in teaching them.
@MissNovemberTuesday It may not be completely lost. There are still people out there who will keep old things alive. I listen to all kinds of music, and I'm sure there are more people in the world who listen to old school jazz and big bands like this. Maybe some day it will come back in a new form, but people may find a way to appreciate where the new things came from. But I believe there is hope for a lot of things. Maybe I'm just an optimist =D
@TheMinor2major Rhapsody in Blue has been used all over the place. Whenever I hear the ending, I'm reminded of some airline commercial... was it United?
@johannhowitzer AS said earlier, Yes "Rhapsody" was used in United commercials, remember back in early '90's watching Chicago Cubs games on WGN they had a cartoon to go along with the song...good times indeed
yet justin beiber has 500 million views, and a masterpice from one of the most talented men and played by an amazing musician struggles, what has the world come to
@ZerYdon101 This is one of my favourite pieces of music. I enjoy a diverse range of artists and genres, including blues, classical and even screamo/post-hardcore. I don't like the music of Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and similar artists personally but I also don't like anyone attacking any form of music. I'm sure they'd say the same about this. The hypocrisy is shameful, music is personal and no-one can dictate the way anyone else should feel or think.
My Father played piano in saloons in the 20's, 30's & 40's. He had an upright at home & this was the music he loved to play. So I grew up luckily before TV listening to Swing from the big bands. I used to tay up late to listen to Symphony Sid and since the only good radio stations were FM we could pick up the jazz stations from Chicago. I lived in NYC. The memories are fresh in my mind of Dad playing & Mom & their friends singing in the living room
Just saying I HATE trying tongue demisemiquavers on the clarinet. One of the hardest things I have had to do so far. In my piece call spring I have to tongue a load of demisemiquavers and the speed is crochet= 120 Seriously hard thing to do.
Music is music my friends, no matters if it is comercial or not, the only thing that really makes me mad is that in these kind of songs you need musical talent and knowledge, when, in the today´s popular songs, the only thing you need is a guy or a woman that can sing in a good way and another guy in a machine, and, now, I ask you: Who are the ones that are earning millions actually? I´m not saying they are bad musicians, or better said: performers, but they don´t do what a studied musician does
I am sorry to tell you this but new music is the same as old. Music is music, as you stated whether it is Lady GaGa, ABBA, Glenn Miller, Mozart, and so on. They all became successful because they have good music not because they studied music but because they created beautiful work of art with what they had.
A studied musician doesn't always create good music, a true musician creates good music whether they studied the art or not.
@bazzuz I wouldn't go as far as comparing Lady Gaga to Mozart. Not to be rude, but I don't think anybody will remember Lady Gaga's music 200 years from now.
@DavitosanX Not true. Considering the day and age we live in with all the record keeping and information saving, she'll easily be remembered just as Moazart will. Her musical importance may not be of the same caliber, but she'll be remembered.
@DavitosanX meh, dude, hate to disagree on this one, but I think she will. She's only getting bigger and bigger. She'll have a legacy, but fame doesn't correspond in equity with talent.
@Dunderhead36 True, but I would argue the following, why would she be remembered over Madonna, Blondie, Kylie Minogue, Shakira, or whatever other famous pop star of recent times. They all have talent, but they' nowhere near a genius level.
@DavitosanX oh, she's gonna be remembered the same. Maybe a little more, maybe a little less. Genius won't matter. It's all about whoever sells more copies.
@DavitosanX she is very talented. it takes awhile to know what will stand the test of time. I was a paid music critic, classically trained, a punk rocker, it took me years to get this music...I love it now.....the old people said listen again......it is not my dance music, but musically to listen it has stood the test of time. and recent Glenn Miller bio tells of him being a real hero. it was not the plane....Glenn was red white and blue and I finally get it. cheers and keep dancing.
America's all-time number one band leader playing one of, if not the, most beautiful song ever composed and played by the incomparable George Gershwin.
@spactick WHO IN THE H**L COULD POSSIBLY COMPARE GLENN MILLER TO LADY GA GA!!?? Lady GaGa shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Miller!!! Miller was a TRUE MUSICIAN!! Whereas Lady GaGa just makes noise!! Not only that but Glenn Miller made the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE for his country when he was killed in a plane crash in World War II.
@DFTMAlamoAngels Relax DFTMAlamoAngels. It was a joke. Just a little alcohol influenced joke. No disrespect to Mr. Miller. OK? Calm down. We all know Lady GaGA is the "asshole" of pop music. And it's a stinky asshole. Glenn Miller was a class act. Totally. He was (and is) the "gold standard" of the 40's Big Band. The Rolls Royce of Big Bands.
@spactick You can't possibly tell me that Lady GaGa would be willing to give up her "MILLION DOLLAR music career & go over to Iraq or Afghanistan & fight on the front lines of the "War on Terror" just to fight for the freedom that gives her the right to produce the "trashy" music that she does.
Hey guys...quit yer damn fightin'..it's a great song! By the way..I'm a first American-born German in my family....so what! Ellis Island is beautiful!
@SuperAcab666 more than likely he was in the wrong place at the wrong time when bombers were coming back from a run into germany, and as they did they dropped their bombs over the channel, and he just happened to be under them in the plane he was flying in.
@godzilla74114 yes. near where i live theres a museum about him and WW2. it was a former airbase for USAF i think, though now they do motor racing there.
"Rhapsody in Blue" was composed by George Gershwin in 1924, and Ferde Grofé (composer of "Grand Canyon Suite") orchestrated it for jazz band, and it premiered at the Aeolian Hall in New York City on Feb. 12, 1924, with Paul Whiteman and his band playing the orchestration and George Gershwin himself playing the piano. Afterwards it was transcribed for piano. "Rhapsody in Blue" is considered a hybrid of classical and jazz/pop music. The Glenn Miller recording is a stylized, very abridged version.
Sounds like a United Airlines commerical from the 40's. Of course I'm referring to the commercials during the 80's where they used "Rhapsody In Blue" as their background music.
I've never heard this one by Miller. I heard it by Whiteman. This predicted a lot of the direction of Jazz in the 50's and 60's. It has Miller's fingerprints all over it but it reminds me a lot of what was to come with Stan Kenton and even Ellington. Miller died too young.
This just brought tears to my eyes. So hopeless, yet so hopeful. I can online imagine the effects it had during the time it was created. Like travelling in a dream like hope for peace (WWII was taking place).
There is something about the music from the big band era. I can get sentimental in a different way when I think of those days, where you were lucky to have a musicbox(radio), I saw one on the Waltons tv series. They may have had only one station around Vancouver Cda and like the Waltons people would tune it in during the evening like we do television. To me things were very mello then, an icebox for a fridge, no electricity to rural Alberta & now its Disco with KC & The Sunshine Band. Thx
@Ezdduf4kuZ MY 83 yr old mother tells me of the battery powered radio on the farm - hearing these songs at night - hard times - but, well worth the wait - so many talented people then applied themselves to a love of music - I wouldn't believe a current "musical star" if they told me they did what they do for the love of the music.
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I don't like this - he's just turned the piece into easy listening by taking out all the good chords and rhythms, and got rid of all of the difficult passages which make it really exciting! Everything good in this is whatever remains of Gerschwin, everything bad is Glen Miller's additions...
my father was raised in the 30's so he would tell me to sit there and just listen he said " that is what music to sound like " im a big band lover to this day jmj
OMG!!! This music bring me so many good memories!! I am 37 but I remember that my Dad used to tell me : "this is music, good music" we listen in a radio station in Mexico call 6.20FM the slogan for that radio station was "LA MUSICA QUE LLEGO PARA QUEDARSE" AHHH!
god bless you man.i like to sit in my car and listen to some "timeless" music as you would say. it just makes me feel good and 40's big bands warm my heat like you wouldnt believe
Simply awsome!...im only 37...and i have to say that quite a few years ago i went out and bought the Glenn Miller compilation CD...I love it...makes me wish I could go back in time...
This is the GREAT Major GLENN MILLER and the 40 piece American Band of the AEF. Miller was WORLD renowned as a Musician, Arranger, Composer and Conductor or the MOST SPECTACULAR SWIN ORCHESTRA of ALL TIME and you are hearing it!!!
@CullenClarinet0128 sadly, almost every video on youtube gets fights over stupid crap or unrelated stuff in the comments, no matter what the video is of
Use to listen to me mum play this on summer nights when it was hot and us kids were outside doing what kids today don't do, play'n, catch'n fire flies, June bugs and listening to the cicade serenade!
leefury7 2 weeks ago
My grandfather passed away in November. He was 93 years old. We used to just sit in his house and listen to all the big band music from his generation. We could sit for hours and talk about anything. He loved to dance when my grandmother was alive.
I miss him ...
poppikosh1 3 weeks ago 5
@poppikosh1 wonderful memories !. if only we could stop aging... I lost my grandfather in June...
pitineo 3 weeks ago
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JoshAlexBrian 1 month ago
this makes me want to sit and rewatch tom and jerry!!
DianeeDudess 1 month ago 2
todo tiempo pasado fue mejor
jacobo873 2 months ago
@jacobo873 si.... at least in some ways...
irish89055 2 months ago
Glenn Miller, there's 2 n's
MusicRater01 2 months ago
Oh hey! We played this in middle school! It was part of this piece called Gershwin Classics
wingsofhope2 3 months ago
this is actually dated summer 42. it's the last recording of Glenn Miller Commercial band,just weeks before he joined air force. Cornet solo by Bobby Hackett,tenor solo by Tex Beneke.
annanoli 3 months ago
Damn it cant there be 1..just one video on youtube without me hearing or reading about lady gaga
LS6Silverado 4 months ago 11
@LS6Silverado Who?
Halo101st 1 week ago
@liamharder
no i meant like is it a saxophone the melody
i appreciate your answer though
joryu39 4 months ago
I am a son of the rock´n roll era, and I love the music. But Glenn Miller is the one who bring tears to my eyes. Thanks for posting.
solorider55 4 months ago
@solorider55 hey I finally got this music....the old guys said listen again. recent bio was real interesting. he did not die in the plane. but his fans in that time would be heartbroken. so they said that. he was a true nazi fighting hero and a great musician and entertainer...neat we finally get it.
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ererr11 4 months ago
@cuzinkevin
What instrument is this? It's beautiful!!
joryu39 4 months ago
@joryu39 it's called the glenn miller sound
liamharder 4 months ago
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therealwhitecastle 4 months ago
Check out Gordon Goodwin's take on this piece. it's pretty aweosme
jonjo12321 4 months ago
This one is in Fantasia 2000
chuito6619 4 months ago
Dedicated to my Mom and Dad R.I.P <3
lorrainegate 5 months ago in playlist Glenn Miller, All the big band sounds
why the intro is cut? this is the last recording of Glenn Miller commercial band. The lovely cornet is Bobby Hackett's,the date is sept.1942 Victor 20-1529-A
annanoli 5 months ago 3
I heard this one in Nodame Cantabile :)
eightyfourbdg 6 months ago 2
Lady Gaga ? you got to be kidding. How can a person like that get to the big time / You wonder about the taste of music of this young generation. Most of it sucks
kitchenrobert55 6 months ago 2
@svetlana1590 Светлана, боюсь вас огорчить, но Гленн Миллер пропал без вести на Ла-Маншем во время Великой Отечественной войны в 1944 году. В то время фильм, который вы имеете ввиду называется "В джазе только ДЕВУШКИ", но уж никак не "девчата" и снят он был в 1959 году.Радует, то что вы видимо все-таки слушаете эту замечательную музыку.
MrDmitry639 6 months ago
@MrDmitry639 Quite right if my Cryillic is up to snuff, Miller was killed in 1944 and it was tony Curtin in 1959's Some Like it Hot
USExceptionalism 5 months ago
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@MrDmitry639 Quite right if my Cryillic is up to snuff, Miller was killed in 1944 and it was tony Curtin in 1959's Some Like it Hot
USExceptionalism 5 months ago
between tom &jerry and my grandpa, they made me love this music =D
Loxleiev 6 months ago
Glenn miller's version of Rhapsody in Blue is too cool.
I thought I'd never say this but "They just don't write songs like this any more"
12bar88 6 months ago
Brings tears....oh how I mourn the loss of beautiful music.
kc91334 7 months ago 3
I always liked this song, it's a shame that the old overplayed "United Airlines" commercials that used it ruined it a little bit for me. "Come Fly the Friendly Skies"
FrancisJoseph76 7 months ago
I suggest that you get a copy of the movie, " The Glen Miller Story " .Jimmy Stewart as Glen Miller.You will get an appreciation of the music and his quest to create that special sound that is distinctively Glen Miller and is still heard over the decades.The problem is we don't have big bands with a large range of instruments that can play this great music .BTW, music projects the era in which it is created Those were mellow times and his music reflects that mood.
fparillo100 7 months ago 4
I heard this on Tom and Jerry... i think( it would make sense)
TheMinor2major 8 months ago 73
@TheMinor2major Yup, it heavily influenced the music of Tom and Jerry.
zanzalot 7 months ago
@TheMinor2major All those old cartoons like Tom and Jerry and the Looney Tunes gave me a total love and appreciation for music that was way before my time. I am grateful for that exposure and sad for kids today who don't have cartoons with such wonderful music. Even the Disney movies don't have the same kind of music most of the time. I fear this will all be lost on future generations if nobody makes a point in teaching them.
MissNovemberTuesday 4 months ago 4
@MissNovemberTuesday It may not be completely lost. There are still people out there who will keep old things alive. I listen to all kinds of music, and I'm sure there are more people in the world who listen to old school jazz and big bands like this. Maybe some day it will come back in a new form, but people may find a way to appreciate where the new things came from. But I believe there is hope for a lot of things. Maybe I'm just an optimist =D
TheMinor2major 4 months ago 3
@TheMinor2major yeah, it's one of those warmer episodes, where Tom is being humorously sneaky while Jerry is relaxing with some cheese
Dunderhead36 2 months ago 3
@Dunderhead36 =D
TheMinor2major 2 months ago
@TheMinor2major Rhapsody in Blue has been used all over the place. Whenever I hear the ending, I'm reminded of some airline commercial... was it United?
johannhowitzer 1 month ago
@johannhowitzer I have no idea. Sorry =D
TheMinor2major 1 month ago
@johannhowitzer It was indeed United! The beginning of their safety videos is taken from Rhapsody in Blue.
TheFinalFrontiersman 1 month ago
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Halo101st 1 week ago
@johannhowitzer AS said earlier, Yes "Rhapsody" was used in United commercials, remember back in early '90's watching Chicago Cubs games on WGN they had a cartoon to go along with the song...good times indeed
TwinCityKillaz 4 days ago
Glenn = musica del cuore.
lucmanty 9 months ago
yet justin beiber has 500 million views, and a masterpice from one of the most talented men and played by an amazing musician struggles, what has the world come to
ZerYdon101 9 months ago
@ZerYdon101 This is one of my favourite pieces of music. I enjoy a diverse range of artists and genres, including blues, classical and even screamo/post-hardcore. I don't like the music of Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and similar artists personally but I also don't like anyone attacking any form of music. I'm sure they'd say the same about this. The hypocrisy is shameful, music is personal and no-one can dictate the way anyone else should feel or think.
jacobmcgill93 8 months ago 3
@cater80 I wouldn't know for sure, of course, but I definetely wouldn't bet on it.
DavitosanX 9 months ago
Just brilliant, My Dad and Mom got me into this music in the fiftys and I have loved it ever since.
MrKen1840 9 months ago
My Father played piano in saloons in the 20's, 30's & 40's. He had an upright at home & this was the music he loved to play. So I grew up luckily before TV listening to Swing from the big bands. I used to tay up late to listen to Symphony Sid and since the only good radio stations were FM we could pick up the jazz stations from Chicago. I lived in NYC. The memories are fresh in my mind of Dad playing & Mom & their friends singing in the living room
LIFECOACHROBERT 9 months ago
Just saying I HATE trying tongue demisemiquavers on the clarinet. One of the hardest things I have had to do so far. In my piece call spring I have to tongue a load of demisemiquavers and the speed is crochet= 120 Seriously hard thing to do.
12345hoe12345 9 months ago
Music is music my friends, no matters if it is comercial or not, the only thing that really makes me mad is that in these kind of songs you need musical talent and knowledge, when, in the today´s popular songs, the only thing you need is a guy or a woman that can sing in a good way and another guy in a machine, and, now, I ask you: Who are the ones that are earning millions actually? I´m not saying they are bad musicians, or better said: performers, but they don´t do what a studied musician does
ooozzzzccaaaaarr 10 months ago 3
@ooozzzzccaaaaarr
I am sorry to tell you this but new music is the same as old. Music is music, as you stated whether it is Lady GaGa, ABBA, Glenn Miller, Mozart, and so on. They all became successful because they have good music not because they studied music but because they created beautiful work of art with what they had.
A studied musician doesn't always create good music, a true musician creates good music whether they studied the art or not.
bazzuz 10 months ago
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ooozzzzccaaaaarr 10 months ago
@bazzuz Agree
ooozzzzccaaaaarr 10 months ago
@bazzuz I wouldn't go as far as comparing Lady Gaga to Mozart. Not to be rude, but I don't think anybody will remember Lady Gaga's music 200 years from now.
DavitosanX 10 months ago 143
@DavitosanX how the fuck should u know that
cater80 9 months ago
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@DavitosanX Lady Gaga made music? Since when?
pedropedaltones 9 months ago 2
@DavitosanX Who is Lady Gaga? Some Walt Disney character?
nnbbllss 6 months ago 6
@DavitosanX BTW Mozart kept his clothes on.
starquant 6 months ago
@DavitosanX Or 4 years from now really.
StraitUpSuburbanite 5 months ago 2
@DavitosanX Not true. Considering the day and age we live in with all the record keeping and information saving, she'll easily be remembered just as Moazart will. Her musical importance may not be of the same caliber, but she'll be remembered.
NosferatuOfWorms 4 months ago
@NosferatuOfWorms You say 'she will be rembered.' Who will be remembered!!!
1946Mona 4 months ago
@NosferatuOfWorms You say 'she will be rembered.' Who will be remembered??
1946Mona 4 months ago
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@1946Mona I was responding to bazzuz's comment of Lady Gaga not being remembered.
NosferatuOfWorms 4 months ago
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@NosferatuOfWorms You say 'she will be rembered.' Who is she that will be remembered?
1946Mona 4 months ago
@DavitosanX rhapsody in blue is classical and lady gaga is those new fashion crazy song plus it had a super violent music so i totally agree with you
chanlongching666 4 months ago
@DavitosanX whos lady gaga
slimeball6969 4 months ago 3
@DavitosanX No one will remember her music (if it can be called that) ten years from now...
2010metsfan 2 months ago
@DavitosanX
I absouletly despise pop music. But what the hell do you know about what people are going to listen to 200 years from now?
Art does not age, unfortunately, even if it is terrible crap.
stp52x 2 months ago
@DavitosanX meh, dude, hate to disagree on this one, but I think she will. She's only getting bigger and bigger. She'll have a legacy, but fame doesn't correspond in equity with talent.
Dunderhead36 2 months ago
@Dunderhead36 True, but I would argue the following, why would she be remembered over Madonna, Blondie, Kylie Minogue, Shakira, or whatever other famous pop star of recent times. They all have talent, but they' nowhere near a genius level.
DavitosanX 2 months ago
@DavitosanX oh, she's gonna be remembered the same. Maybe a little more, maybe a little less. Genius won't matter. It's all about whoever sells more copies.
Dunderhead36 2 months ago
@DavitosanX she is very talented. it takes awhile to know what will stand the test of time. I was a paid music critic, classically trained, a punk rocker, it took me years to get this music...I love it now.....the old people said listen again......it is not my dance music, but musically to listen it has stood the test of time. and recent Glenn Miller bio tells of him being a real hero. it was not the plane....Glenn was red white and blue and I finally get it. cheers and keep dancing.
thepixieful 1 month ago 2
@DavitosanX hey, Glenn and Mozart.....maybe?
thepixieful 1 month ago
@DavitosanX Gag gag makes Music ?
lilmisscarriage 1 month ago
no this one sucks original is better
metrolionflag07 10 months ago
who thinks 16 people dont know good music!
BirdMan6400836 10 months ago
@BirdMan6400836 Ahem
better make that 17 >:C
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Not me though, nononono I fucking love this song :D
PalkaSvechi 10 months ago
America's all-time number one band leader playing one of, if not the, most beautiful song ever composed and played by the incomparable George Gershwin.
mauirascal 11 months ago
I prefer Lady Ga Ga's version better. It's trashier.
spactick 11 months ago
@spactick WHO IN THE H**L COULD POSSIBLY COMPARE GLENN MILLER TO LADY GA GA!!?? Lady GaGa shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Miller!!! Miller was a TRUE MUSICIAN!! Whereas Lady GaGa just makes noise!! Not only that but Glenn Miller made the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE for his country when he was killed in a plane crash in World War II.
DFTMAlamoAngels 11 months ago 3
@DFTMAlamoAngels Relax DFTMAlamoAngels. It was a joke. Just a little alcohol influenced joke. No disrespect to Mr. Miller. OK? Calm down. We all know Lady GaGA is the "asshole" of pop music. And it's a stinky asshole. Glenn Miller was a class act. Totally. He was (and is) the "gold standard" of the 40's Big Band. The Rolls Royce of Big Bands.
spactick 11 months ago
@spactick You can't possibly tell me that Lady GaGa would be willing to give up her "MILLION DOLLAR music career & go over to Iraq or Afghanistan & fight on the front lines of the "War on Terror" just to fight for the freedom that gives her the right to produce the "trashy" music that she does.
DFTMAlamoAngels 11 months ago
No one like Mr. Miller!
BOHEMIANMEX 11 months ago
That glissando chart is beautiful. SO PURE.
Kramnosnits 11 months ago
Who the hell disliked this?
heyheypachuco 1 year ago
@heyheypachuco
16 zombies, they do watch youtube videos!
mekarequeenofthedamn 11 months ago
@heyheypachuco
Probably someone with no taste in music!
sno0323 11 months ago
Hey guys...quit yer damn fightin'..it's a great song! By the way..I'm a first American-born German in my family....so what! Ellis Island is beautiful!
srocksteve 1 year ago
immigration about but his music memory united blue enjoy!
Fellowperson 1 year ago
Glenn Miller was serving the US army as a pilot, and was shot down by the Nazis.
But his music will never die along with his memory.
R.I.P Glenn
SuperAcab666 1 year ago
@SuperAcab666 more than likely he was in the wrong place at the wrong time when bombers were coming back from a run into germany, and as they did they dropped their bombs over the channel, and he just happened to be under them in the plane he was flying in.
godzilla74114 1 year ago
@godzilla74114 Yeah that is really sad he died that way, but luckily his music lives on, and so does his memory. I really like his kind of music:-DDD
SuperAcab666 1 year ago
@godzilla74114 no the chance of that is almost non existant. more likely crashed in bad weather or engine fault.
ampthilluk 11 months ago
@ampthilluk either way it was a great loss for both music and humanity.
godzilla74114 11 months ago
@godzilla74114 yes. near where i live theres a museum about him and WW2. it was a former airbase for USAF i think, though now they do motor racing there.
ampthilluk 11 months ago
@SuperAcab666 Actually he was serving in the army as a band leader.
bobdavis12 11 months ago
@bobdavis12 Oh, thats great, I only thought he served as a pilot, thanks for telling me:-DD
SuperAcab666 11 months ago
I once read that GM was supporting Gershwin in the orchestration.
badisev 1 year ago
"Rhapsody in Blue" was composed by George Gershwin in 1924, and Ferde Grofé (composer of "Grand Canyon Suite") orchestrated it for jazz band, and it premiered at the Aeolian Hall in New York City on Feb. 12, 1924, with Paul Whiteman and his band playing the orchestration and George Gershwin himself playing the piano. Afterwards it was transcribed for piano. "Rhapsody in Blue" is considered a hybrid of classical and jazz/pop music. The Glenn Miller recording is a stylized, very abridged version.
BW92116 1 year ago
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BW92116 1 year ago
I thought Glen Miller was MIA
Tromb0ne22 1 year ago
@Tromb0ne22 He's dead.
RettamLacef 1 year ago
Sounds like a United Airlines commerical from the 40's. Of course I'm referring to the commercials during the 80's where they used "Rhapsody In Blue" as their background music.
spindalis79 1 year ago
I've never heard this one by Miller. I heard it by Whiteman. This predicted a lot of the direction of Jazz in the 50's and 60's. It has Miller's fingerprints all over it but it reminds me a lot of what was to come with Stan Kenton and even Ellington. Miller died too young.
eotto2001 1 year ago
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Crabsody In Blue anyone?
GoodDoseOfRock 1 year ago
Original Gershwin arrangement??? No such thing. The original arrangement as premiered by the Paul Whiteman orchestra was done by Ferde Grofe.
silverbone0 1 year ago
@silverbone0 It was written by Gershwin in 1924, but it was performed by Whiteman
ShadowsOfLite 1 year ago
I prefer the original gershwin arrangement.
duhdude95 1 year ago
I didn't know this track existed, thankyou!
m1keridge 1 year ago
Anyone happen to know what song the last 20 seconds or so are from? i know its kind of famous but i cant remember
e108111 1 year ago
@e108111
The last 20 seconds are from the full version of Rhapsody in Blue.......this is a much shorter arrangement than the original.
Deltoid71 1 year ago
OOOH YES Gershwin = Great Composer Glen Miller & His Band = Great band!
gduane1516 1 year ago
SCREW IMMIGRATION!
We are all Human Race,Color Etc does not Matter.
But Music brings us all together like this beautiful
Piece of art! :D i miss music like this now and days
VampFreakB4Twilight 1 year ago
@VampFreakB4Twilight AMEN!!
JudyGarland38 1 year ago
I love this song with all my heart. I wish more people would listen to this type of music! It's so beautiful.
oxOliverrxo 1 year ago 2
Exelent....
stepariuslophus 1 year ago
Friendly fire perhaps killed him over 66 years ago.
generationll 1 year ago
Que buena canción la vieja escuela si hacia musica de verdad !
yousicktube 1 year ago
This just brought tears to my eyes. So hopeless, yet so hopeful. I can online imagine the effects it had during the time it was created. Like travelling in a dream like hope for peace (WWII was taking place).
amrq85 1 year ago
doesnt this sound like the delta song?
bacardibum 1 year ago
@bacardibum
vtf12 1 year ago
I wondered why this title sounded familiar, we studied Gershwin in Music Appriciation in High School
ghjit 1 year ago
t/sgt king of the sas loves this music
thank you very mucch
brianlud 1 year ago
There is something about the music from the big band era. I can get sentimental in a different way when I think of those days, where you were lucky to have a musicbox(radio), I saw one on the Waltons tv series. They may have had only one station around Vancouver Cda and like the Waltons people would tune it in during the evening like we do television. To me things were very mello then, an icebox for a fridge, no electricity to rural Alberta & now its Disco with KC & The Sunshine Band. Thx
Ezdduf4kuZ 1 year ago
@Ezdduf4kuZ MY 83 yr old mother tells me of the battery powered radio on the farm - hearing these songs at night - hard times - but, well worth the wait - so many talented people then applied themselves to a love of music - I wouldn't believe a current "musical star" if they told me they did what they do for the love of the music.
hackberryflat 1 year ago
impressive, it isn't at all like the original, but yet it can still be recognized. I really love how it's jazzed up.
cenotosa1 1 year ago
1:18 Wtf?
PopeWithDaScope 1 year ago
Gershwin genial, Glem Miller...espectacular!!! Gracias por tan bella melodia
iraldes1 1 year ago
magnifico
anninadancer91 1 year ago
Sorry and this may be very impolite but why does this remind me of a cartoon...no joke it does and I love this music but man it reminds me.....
Wadjet00 1 year ago
@Wadjet00 Fantasia 2000, my friend. One of the coolest animations. :)
brittany0 1 year ago
@Wadjet00 You can find "Rhapsody in Blue" in Walt Disneys "Fantasia 2000"
Superb cartoon story line. Check it out.
Hope this helps.
Charles UK
jazzmanzoot 1 year ago
knightof233 your right i wish i could do a glissando like that on my alto sax.
neocropalis 1 year ago
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I don't like this - he's just turned the piece into easy listening by taking out all the good chords and rhythms, and got rid of all of the difficult passages which make it really exciting! Everything good in this is whatever remains of Gerschwin, everything bad is Glen Miller's additions...
snathan1000 1 year ago
its too bad people don't listen to this anymore. this is magnificent
anonemusify 1 year ago 52
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@anonemusify I have this on record...
joezbackwith2gatz 10 months ago
@anonemusify
Wrong, I listen to this music.
JonathanTheAlchemist 10 months ago
@JonathanTheAlchemist XD that is what I was going to say XD
VoicelessShadow 10 months ago
@anonemusify rather, lucky people like us do;-).....truly, lucky us!
MUPPETAU 9 months ago
@anonemusify yeah I was just looking at the pictures with the sound muted
TheChinglish 8 months ago
@anonemusify If no one listens to this anymore, why are there half of a million views?
JackTheFossilMan 7 months ago 2
1:10 for those of us in music, that is scary is it not?
knightof233 1 year ago 34
i agree, thats very scary especially since i am trombone player
ranimal101 1 year ago 2
@knightof233 I don't think I could ever pull that off on my trumpet, hahahaha
supernole100 1 year ago
@knightof233 that is why the piano is an awesome instrument :D
drwerewolf217 1 year ago
@knightof233 How old are you? 7?
Litawyn 8 months ago
@Litawyn be nice. I'm in my 5th year of jazz band, 2 of which have been high school, and I don't know how thats supposed to sound
AirSoft4TheWin 8 months ago
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Valerio960 1 year ago
What was the song they were beginning to play in the end? sounds familiar.
koosiehjy 1 year ago
@koosiehjy That is part of Rhapsody in Blue
YoArma 1 year ago
This sounds even better than the Gershwin himself! I love this performance.
thefox691 1 year ago
Now THIS is what music is. Somehow, music recorded back in that time just sounds richer and more soulful to me. I like the way it sounds. :)
MeshiX3 2 years ago 5
@MeshiX3 truly beautiiful
FolstrimHori 1 year ago
my father was raised in the 30's so he would tell me to sit there and just listen he said " that is what music to sound like " im a big band lover to this day jmj
587seachef 2 years ago 4
now that's some good ole music
foxsetup 2 years ago 2
Im 13, and this song still has some kick in it ^_^
louie950 2 years ago 3
A perfect arrangement of a perfect song
sixxteenbits 2 years ago 4
OMG!!! This music bring me so many good memories!! I am 37 but I remember that my Dad used to tell me : "this is music, good music" we listen in a radio station in Mexico call 6.20FM the slogan for that radio station was "LA MUSICA QUE LLEGO PARA QUEDARSE" AHHH!
MrsPinkcandy1987 2 years ago 6
Don't wish to go back in time, this music is timeless. Just show the kids why our grandparents had such good taste and keep the music alive.
AuldViolin 2 years ago 16
god bless you man.i like to sit in my car and listen to some "timeless" music as you would say. it just makes me feel good and 40's big bands warm my heat like you wouldnt believe
hadeskiller1 2 years ago 11
I love The Mingus big band and the Ferguson big band and Glen Miller the best.
candlewick163 1 year ago 2
@hadeskiller1 Actually, I looked this up, I found out it was written in 1926. By the time it was the 1940s George Gershwin was dead.
DarkDialga960 9 months ago
By the way, this recording is of the standard big band instrumentation, not the larger one with strings.
Ron MIlls
rmo52 2 years ago
Simply awsome!...im only 37...and i have to say that quite a few years ago i went out and bought the Glenn Miller compilation CD...I love it...makes me wish I could go back in time...
TheHMSillustrious 2 years ago 3
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ur old
crohme21 2 years ago
@crohme21
And you can't spell, point?
Scari45 2 years ago
I am 16 :) ;)
czechnoob 2 years ago
I go back in time, I just roll a nice spliff.
xxbuggehxx 2 years ago
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What the crap is this crap?
Upum12 2 years ago
We're still playing this arrangement, a wonderful chart by Bill Finegan.
Ron Mills, Piano
Glenn Miller Orch.
rmo52 2 years ago
This is the GREAT Major GLENN MILLER and the 40 piece American Band of the AEF. Miller was WORLD renowned as a Musician, Arranger, Composer and Conductor or the MOST SPECTACULAR SWIN ORCHESTRA of ALL TIME and you are hearing it!!!
BJSTV 2 years ago 7
What the hell? This is Rhapsody in Blue and we're talking about IMMIGRATION???? LEAVE THAT TO THE DAMN POLITICIANS AND ENJOY THE STUPID SONG!!!
CullenClarinet0128 2 years ago 125
@CullenClarinet0128 sadly, almost every video on youtube gets fights over stupid crap or unrelated stuff in the comments, no matter what the video is of
TheBoomhahaha 1 year ago