I Sustain The Wings - Moonlight Serenade - IN THE MOOD - Glenn Miller - LIVE !

[kingoma61]

"I Sustain the Wings" was composed by Glenn Miller, Chummy MacGregor, Norman Leyden and Bill Meyers. This was the theme song for the NBC radio program that was broadcast weekly from June, 1943 to June 10, 1944 by the Army Air Force Training Command Band. The radio show initially was on CBS but then moved to NBC. The show was on Saturdays and featured Ray McKinley, Johnny Desmond, and the Crew Chiefs. Glenn Miller headed the orchestra until the June 10, 1944 show, replaced by Harry Bluestone.

[kingoma61]

Glenn Miller composed and copyrighted "Flaming Sword of Liberation" in 1944. The work was copyrighted in 1951 under the alternate title of "Wings on Parade". This was a World War II-themed composition like "I Sustain the Wings".

[kingoma61]

In 1951 a musical composition by Glenn Miller was copyrighted entitled "Wings on Parade" with the alternate title "The Flaming Sword of Liberation". The work was copyrighted as a "piano solo" and as "a musical composition". The copyright was renewed in 1979 and is listed under the name Steven D. Miller, Glenn Miller's son. My guess is that this was music Miller intended to use when World War II ended. Very little information is available on this work. It is listed on the web.

[wrfreytag]

The title derives from the motto of the United States Army-Air Forces: Sustineo Alas.

[kingoma61]

"I Sustain the Wings" was co-written by Glenn Miller and was the theme song for his radio program of the same name, which was broadcast from 1943 to 1944. The "I Sustain the Wings" radio program featured performances by the Glenn Miller U.S. Army Air Force band.