Little Brown Jug Glenn Miller

[tonygould1]

YES MY TING A LING  BUT OCCORDING TO THE FILM MILLER DIDNT LIKE THE TUNE AT ALL

[groundedsax]

"My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, I want you to play with my ding-a-ling..."

[pabonjor]

The song suddenly came into my head and then I insisted on searching it up and watching a minute and a half of it for no reason...

[spongebo13]

I would give fucking anything to live in this time

[bbjornst07]

@spongebo13 Remember though, they had a real war going on, you know, the last war that America was actually physically threatened by its enemies.

[latrodectus23]

This song is the redention of cool.

[rmayer821]

I am not a fan nor critic of early swing music. However, Bill Finegan is a genius arranger who didi a lot with very little to work with. Even Miller, who by most accounts was a mediocre trombonist, fits in quite nicely with his solo.

[macree01]

@rmayer821 Glenn Miller was actually a fabulous trombonist with a technique all the equal to Tommy Dorsey. He just got a bad rap for not showcasing himself enough.

[rmayer821]

@macree01 Your opinion is defininitely in the minority. GMs arranginging skills kept him working regularly rather than his playing skills. I know of no solos of GM that are cited as classics technique-wise, nor of anything that exhibits an outstanding range or ideas. A cursory poll of tiop trombonists today would concur. Woody Herman, Gunther Schuller, George T. Simon have all borne this out.

[adalbertofelipe]

Oh, I love this music! I played a lot this music in a synthetiser when I was child!

[zinnoy]

I feel like eating a boiled egg when hearing this. weird.

[PaperBagMaskFilms]

@zinnoy I just ate a boiled egg. Weird.

[OldLibrarylady]

1939

[OldLibrarylady]

Makes you bounce around in your seat!!

[Cadrid]

As a child of the 80's & 90's, I really dig the swing of the tune. However, I keep hearing the song "My Ding-a-ling" in the instrumentals.

[TheMattwasherein1992]

@Cadrid mabye thats just what you want to hear?

[upyouns]

Jokes on you. My little brown jug is filled with home distilled moonshine, nothing better

[woodenbunker]

I just found this song along with Moonlight Serenade on one of Glenn Miller's old 78s.  Its good!

[wiiman250]

I was first trombone and played that solo at my high school jazz showcase last year. One of my favorites!

[kkkaaaccceee]

@wiiman250 Lucky...



[Abarth131sf]

too drunk listening that..

[paleandpoisonous]

samtingovaca.

[NewDisneySucksHard]

I played this in band

[ReadingWeirdo]

@NewDisneySucksHard

LUCKY!!!

I love this song, but we've never played this...smh.

[DimensionsofChange]

Civil Wars over grampa!

[RememberSoCal]

this song goes so well in that movie pearl harbor. god swing is great... glenn miller, dorsey brothers, calloway..

[WhatKindOfBlue]

My school's jazz band is playing this. I love it.

And guess who gets the tenor sax solo..?! Wewt! :3 I'mma rock it.

[aguiar0302]

Sensational

[DimensionsofChange]

Never did realize it, but I guess this a drinking song

[jgfajardo]

Outra canção que convida à vida, a mais vida, a manifestação de sentimentos nobres, pois, vida combina com movimento, beleza, sensualidade, bom gosto, tudo que o embalo de "Little Brown Jug" sugere e emana, pelo menos, para mim.

JGF

[ydnarnosfatsug]

wonder if Chuck berry borrowed this groove for his funny song "My Ding a Ling"? Sounds similiar

[Daught3r]

Thats what i call sound. To all the guys who endured wars. Please dont let big bands die

[wikiriwhi]

The movie said he hated this song. I think the producers did.

[lovemydogsmucho]

During a flight from England to France at the end of WO2 his plane never arrived. Till today nobody knows what happened to GM.

[MyREDTAIL]

@lovemydogsmucho THERE MUST OF BEEN A DEVIL'S TRIANGLE LIKE THE ONE IN BURMUDA THAT SWALLOW'S UP CRAFT'S & PLANES.?

[lovemydogsmucho]

@MyREDTAIL

Nobody knows till this very day. Could've been engine failure or something above The Channel between England and France. They searched for weeks without result.

[cenotosa1]

@lovemydogsmucho it was a perfect storm, too. Flying on a small plane without any parachutes on a foggy night with a bomber flying overhead releasing extra shells. That's just bad luck right there.

[lovemydogsmucho]

@cenotosa1

Why did that bomber flying overhead and what about those releasing extra shells?

[cenotosa1]

@lovemydogsmucho I was reading something about a bombing crew was coming back to england with extra shells, so they dropping them on the channel and thought they heard a plane get struck.

[lovemydogsmucho]

@MyREDTAIL

No triangle like that between England and West-Europe.

[vmoncayo]

nelson, from the simpsons, likes this song hahahaha

[vmoncayo]

nelson, from the simpsons, likes this song hahahaha

[Tigermoon1950]

I'm seriously drinking right now. I've listened to this 39 times since 5:00 P.M.

[ProudScotsmanRex]

As with any music there is good and bad. Rap has good songs. For example: The Message Grandmaster Flash. So I say to each his own, NOW Bluegrass that's CRA---Just kidding.

[TheGinger48]

@ProudScotsmanRex Ahhhh, someone talks sense. There are some good rap songs, and I listen to all kinds of music. But you got to love the old standards!

[drunkenbozo1994]

why do people keep mentioning rap? everyone knows its shit, no need to point it out here :P

[rpsmom]

From one of my alll time fave movies, The Glenn Miller Story.

[someonespadre]

The point of swing music is YOU CAN DANCE TO IT. :-)

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

Rap isn't music.....it's tribal chanting. The ones who do it should be wearing feathers and carrying spears.

[carlywow]

@SpeedyNeutrino43

carrying spears eh?, glen miller was imitating rag time jazz, an afro american fusion of jazz and rag time, the big craze at the time ,and like elvis copied muddy waters, tribal chanting is where this particular music began , if you dont get rap, then leave it alone, but dont say something like wearing feathers and carrying spears are you nuts ? bruv

[Korban3]

@SpeedyNeutrino43 Rapper's aren't even THAT cool. At least indigenous peoples have real culture, and aren't chanting about banging their hoes and popping caps in their bros.

[rmpinkcorp]

infinity ward sucks..

[love2moshpit]

@Evilluke40 It is music!! All music has a unique form. I listen to pretty much anything including rap. Not the mainstream rap like 50 cent--that's crap.

[n07w4tU7hnk]

brings a smile to hear someone has this oldie on their iPod ^^ / not heard this in .. decades

[villageguy13]

Europeans can try all they want but they just don't have jazz the way us Americans do. It's our art form and it should never die.

[MrJkauf]

Now, THAT swings!

[quaigmire1977]

if this dont get yer toes tappin i dont know what will!

[NEUDude]

Hey I remember this song was on Sesame Street!

[nudist1033]

MattmanFishgoose, 2:15 to the end?

0:00 to the end. The trombone solo is my favorite part of all. But yeah, it reaaly kick just after the trombone solo.

Waw Waw Waw

[robbibsa]

gives my mum back her memories :')

[LordoftheKaty]

This is on my ipod!

[FuelledByForties]

@LordoftheKaty same!

[gottakeepemseparated]

Tried to play this in our big band, and while I thought it sounded alright we never played it again! : (

[kujowahwah]

@gottakeepemseparated haha my school's jazz band is playing it in our next concert=].....and i'm soloist trombone=]

[MattmanFishgoose]

2:15 to the end is greatness.

[drumstyx6464]

Oh man, I was listening to some Glenn Miller, and thought of the melody to this song, and couldn't remember what it was called...thank god i found it

[spencercba6]

Glen Miller - what a man.

[rxsecretplot]

joke's on you, not on me, little brown jug was filled with pee.

[Ascaidh]

Hooch you mean.....the blinding type.

[GaurdDuck]

You only go blind if it was adulterated. As with anything you put in your body, you should know its quality and source prior to consumption. The government's definition of moonshine is alcohol on which no alcohol tax was paid. Deciding to keep your profits to yourself doesn't make what you are selling dangerous to your health. I hope this morsel clears up that silly notion for you.

[FortunaFortesJuvat]

Thanks to you, I'll never be able to hear anything else in this song

[rxsecretplot]

the curse claims another. welcome to my world.

[WishIWasABalrog]

LOL!! I got in trouble for listening to screamo so I turned this on because this is considered appropriate O.O So, yeah. Good song though o.o

[Syzygy60]

they all somoked drank and ves was he an exception,yes weith music

[ako456]

I've heard that Glenn Miller was an Clean Living Man.

But good old music!

[nudist0885]

The Creatures Of Prometheus?

Yeah, nice goin' 'ere "Dovermoreno".

Now I have to go searchin' for that one and listen to it for a little while.

Thanks a Lot Pal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(8^) (8^) (8^)

[dovermoreno]

So this was originally a drinking song, huh ? I could definitely see myself drinking to this song...

Then again, I could drink to 'The Creatures of Prometheus' by Beethoven, Gregorian chant music and even the commercial jingle for Odor Eaters....

[Kate0603]

LOL! I am not a big drinker, but I love this tune for being so very suitable for dancing.

[pamted164]

@dovermoreno Rabelais is quoted as saying ' When I Drink I think and when I Think I drink' but I do not believe that he was thinking of you when he said that. You obviously drink to get drunkee, yeh

[dovermoreno]

@pamted164  Yeh !! ;)

[YottaTaz]

Fantastic music of perfection !

Cool is also the drum performance..

As I listen, I sing my own little extra Crash-Line with it... :)

Shalom and God bless !

[sweetness902101209]

this is a good Quickstep song!!!

[VIR092]

I love the beat, love the sound, and most of all...the class! This musical era will come about again...For example, Harry Connick Jr. Thanks very much and good wishes!

[deathbypoohead]

This is the best music, 40's music along such great artist's such as Frank Sinartra and Louis Armstrong

[JEMCO2008]

I can play this sond on You Tube

Thank You for the post From Earl

in Huntington Beach Ca.

[richardphillips]

I can play this on a jews harp while standing on one foot and drinking tequila from a little brown jug.

[EaterQuizist]

Is that with your eyes shut?

He He He.

Great song.

[mjrdick07]

i would like to see it post it when you do lol

[Korban3]

@richardphillips And. Holy Shit! Are you Irish or something?! Just kidding. The Irish are awesome.

[wednsdays0evil0twin]

@richardphillips whoever you are, you are my idol.

[lisasboogies]

@richardphillips hahahahhaa! my rumn coke love this...

[moviecrazy12345]

Glenn has two 'n''s.

[delinacs]

Muito bom!

[manijac0von0celje]

great song! great song!

[mommajenny08]

this is DEFINITELY a great song! i remember dancing to it in dance class when i was like 5 or 6...gotta love glenn! in the mood is a great diddy too!

[tesoqueso]

gg* i played this song once with my clarinett xD

[justacondom]

Hey does this guy blow the clarinet too? I heard from somewhere he really is multi-talented.

[grandeacuna]

you are confussed, that guy, and glenn's friend was the clarinetist benny goodman

[Jourell1]

He really was multi talented, but no he was a trombonist. Benny Goodman played clarinet and was a great and influential band leader in his own right

[gcuneo2]

Glenn Miller has 2 N's you friggin idiot!

[goback3spaces]

In "The Glenn Miller Story" with Jimmy Stewart, this is the song that Miller doesn't want to record because he always disliked it. It was a great favorite of his wife's, however, and she always nagged him to do a version of it. The wife finally hears Miller's recording of it on the radio--his very last arrangement--after he's been lost at sea in WWII. (Whereas in reality, it was one of the Miller band's first big hits.) Dontcha just love Hollywood?

[USMMA86]

Wow! Great story! Great tune!

[Phantomsbreath]

There's one thing I always wanted to know. What does he play? Is he a trumpet, or a trombone?

[MarkDouglasC]

Trombone-- see him play on youtube. He was fantastic -- plus, unselfish. This guy COULD have hogged all the great parts and all the camera, if he wanted. He was all about the music, not ego.

[DooWopFanatic]

He was a GREAT trombone player. He does the solo after the trumpet solo in the middle of the song. We played this song in my high school jazz band, and I had to try to play it. I suck, but I gave it my best as a 17 year old at the time. That was 1982. I love big band music, and you really learn to appreciate it when you actually play an instrument. It's a lot harder than is seems unless you are a pro. I LOVE big band music, and this is my favorite Glenn Miller song.

[Phantomsbreath]

I'd heard his big band music, but had no idea which instrument he was playing. I have a weakness for Chattanooga Choo Choo myself.

[YourGrannysGranny]

Man the stuff that is television nowadays is rubbish. The 'top 40.' This was the era of music that beats the rest. The genre of swing is the best possible.

[nudist0885]

I can't "cut the rug" for JACK, but listening to this song would get me to try.

[nudist0885]

Hey "stratplayersdad", I couldn't agree more with your comment from 2 weeks ago. I'm 45 years old and started getting into Glenn Miller back in the late 70's when I was just a tyke. My high school stage band played this song one year when I was there and I got to play the solo tenor sax part. I didn't tell anybody how well I knew this song but when we started playing it, I duplicated this sax solo note for note exactly as it's heard here. And then after 2:20, I was dancing while playing.

[sodashopkid56]

my grandma loves Glenn Miller. and i think it has rubbed off onto me...i think hes great

[banddude2009]

Love Glenn Miller. I'm doing a research paper over his whole life and I'm getting some really interesting things. Like, did you know that he never got any of the money from sales of "In the Mood"? At the time he produced "In the Mood," he was under a no royalties contract with RCA Victor Records. Kind of crappy, huh?

[generationll]

I have his autbiography by George Simon

[goback3spaces]

Since Simon wrote it, wouldn't that be a biography?

[stratplayersdad]

just can,t sit still listening to this stuff, gotta move yeah,

[mathtimms]

...everyone's !!

[atl1192]

my grandmas music!!!

[babiiswa9908]

ha ha ha hee hee hee little brown jug how i love thee lol

[dawaii]

Man, that was one cool cat. dig them tunes.

[SONOR4]

2.20 onwards, how many melodies can you get into one song!!?? I love this tune, always have, and that ending just blows me away . Inspired.

[Barry12string]

Bliss

[timelyshadow]

absolutely love this one.

if you've seen the movie it's great too, he writes this because his wife loves the original and he can't stand how straight-laced it is. love this piece. absolutely LOVE it.

[xDeepPurpleDreamx]

I love listening to this, I heard it on the radio which made me feel like i was in the 1940's, pretty awesome feeling!

[thygille]

very good video!

[54spiritedwill54]

Really enjoyed this and nice video.

[LATCH6]

nothing will ever compare to big band music///glenn miller was the king/like elvis///you could dance to every song//i love it

[Fretbuzz319]

he is the king of jazz. woo woo... c'mon baby. uh huh uh huh.. its ausome

[thbeatgozon]

Glenn's music will live on and on. I remember when they did a 40 year anniversary of his plane getting lost over the English Channel. Someone thought that 40 years from then (1984) maybe folks will still be remembering the music of Glenn Miller's band. It was a legend in it's own time.

[Aweetje]

its beautifull.. I love it!!(L)

a lots of love, Andrea

[someonespadre]

Is that G.M. on the trombone solo or did he have someone else doing it?

I've always liked G.M. stuff because my folks had a couple of records when I was a kid. This is back in the 60s and 70s when G.M was considered ancient history on no teenager admitted to liking his music.

My daughters have a very broad taste in music and I think it stems from a content hungry internet that gave voice to this wide range of material out there (not just big band).

[musictranscription]

I can write for you any sheet music

[MandyxxMassacre]

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[crazycuntryboy]

I wonder if aliens listen to this? I imagine since tyey have all thentechnology they do, anyways, SWING BABY SWING!

[charlieparker1234]

I love rock-'n'-roll. But this is the music that appeals to the galaxy.

[65telecaster]

i used to play cornet,and always loved glen miller,louis armstrong and others.where is real musical talent at today?

[amendrick]

Amen!!!

[moodini99]

I normally listen to rap and dance music but i'm getting into this jazz of the swing era (if describes Glenn miller, I'm not quite sure). I love it!

[shigattaganai]

ain't that the truth

[BuffaloZazzySka]

im trying to learn to transcribe that trumpet solo. i'm having fun with it ha. i love this song!

[guywomack91]

My girlfriend is going to play this Sax solo (1:05) in band, and shes going to be awsome at it. :)

[innatesource]

you are soooo right

[luluwright]

I remember dancing to this when i was 10 in a music lesson, we were doing songs of the war etc. it was sooo much fun!!

[Rayofpain]

Lovely!

[pigness12]

i like this music the the rap crap so well done an i an only 13

[jlspopl11]

this is real music not the rap crap

[BASavage81]

Thanks for posting these original classics. This was one of Glenn Millers wifes favorite tunes. He didn't like it all that much. Glenn Miller was killed while travelling across The Channel to do a broadcast of this song as a gift to his wife.

[TheSwingShift]

Not true. That story was 100% fabricated by Hollywood for the Glenn Miller Story. Truth was this was recorded April 4, 1939 and was one of his earliest hits. That was more than five years before he was lost over the English Channel on Dec 15, 1944. By then, Miller had played "Little Brown Jug" on dozens of broadcasts and hundreds of personal appearances. Made for a good Hollywood story, though!

[TheSwingShift]

This was in response to the message below: Thanks for posting these original classics. This was one of Glenn Millers wifes favorite tunes. He didn't like it all that much. Glenn Miller was killed while travelling across The Channel to do a broadcast of this song as a gift to his wife.

[dryhills]

When Glenn Miller was killed he was actually headed to Paris to do a show for the American troops.

[jadore7]

I can not stop watching it. Hope it is not me giving you all of the views.

[pigness12]

ca u add pigness 12 pllz

[bmcneese45]

Really enjoyed this and nice video. I caught that picture of Daisy Mae, Li'l Abner's gal.

[cuzinkevin]

Glad you liked it

[jadore7]

Thank you x

[pigness12]

that is okay