Moonlight Serenade by Maj. Glenn Miller and his AAF Band

[rubbing2001]

I wonder if I am related to Major Glenn Miller, I carry the same surname. My Parents grew up dancing to this wonderful music. There is nothing as powerful sounding as a Band and Orchestra playing this music. Greg Miller

[missdarcy321]

I started listening to this in the70s when i was a little kid I loved and still love this music , all my friends thought I was an oddball. Now as an adult, I know, as I knew then, that this is the best music of all time!!!

[Whitelitr]

This makes me think of my grandparents, who I miss greatly. I have always liked Big Band music even though I am only 48. I would love to be able to go back in time and just say thank you to Glenn for the many wonderful hours and memories I associate with his music.

[Somme1916Somme]

JUST AWESOME..THANKYOU..

[swampy1944]

Boy the way Glenn Miller played....

[TheEltopian]

In the title it says Major Glen Miller. I did not realize he had risen past a Captains commission.

[DickWhittington1000]

@TheEltopian Why knit-pick, Miller should have been a 5 Star General !

[TheEltopian]

@DickWhittington1000 Yes, He was good! Did you know he had origionaly put in for a Navy commission? Just a bit of trivia.

[GoEden82]

a favorite

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[DrEssiepeas]

So sad.

[BassPlayer9651]

This is my favourite track by far by glenn miller. Its such a wonderful tune and brillant to pefom :)

[Thomas52ish]

If there is one thing that Glenn Miller had he knew how to make music.

[Thomas52ish]

I maybe 53 but Glenn Miller’s music lives on better than today’s trashy music.

[fabf77]

thanks to youtube, older people can show that there was a time when the music was easier, more powerful instead.

[1Spud100]

Magic. Pure magic!

[hkjazz1]

Nostalgia hits me....

[pctdon]

I literally grew up listening to Glenn Miller, and this song still makes me stop and listen every tme I can hear it.

[hmanwarren1]

To fasbc, Glenn Miller hated the lyrics to Moonlight Serenade!!

[Halo101st]

@hmanwarren1 Actually, I think the song he disliked was "Little Brown Jug." Glenn Miller wrote the lyrics to "Moonlight Serenade" himself if I am not mistaken. I know he wrote the music.

[duroche53]

@Halo101st I believe four different sets of lyrics were produced at various times. Glenn wrote none of them. He was not a lyricist .Ray Eberle, Glenn's vocalist did record a version with GM, but it was never released and who knows which lyrics were used. I just learned this info. last week from the GM Archive in Colorado. Mitchell Parish wrote the set that stuck. Sinatra recorded composition and lyrics in the '60's.

[Halo101st]

@duroche53 I did not know that. I was going by the movie, "The Glenn Miller Story" with Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson, that led me to believe he wrote, "Moonlight Serenade." Hooray for Hollywood, right? Good information, thank you.

[MrRJDB1969]

@Halo101st : Yes, Glenn Miller wrote Moonlight Serenade years before it was actually being called Moonlight Sernade or was ever recorded. Originally it was called Now I Lay Me Down To Weep and it was a warm up excercise he wrote for himself. The lyrics for what became known as Moonlight Serenade were penned by lyricist , Mitchell Parish

[Halo101st]

@MrRJDB1969 More good information, thank you.

[Ooftyman]

My grandfather is sitting here listening with me. He met Glenn on his tour during the War a week before Glenn died.

[fasbc]

The most famous of all Big Band theme songs. I am going to post a vocal solo of this with a beautiful accompaniment track in a few weeks. I sang it at an outdoor concert with a Big Band several years ago and it went over very well. It was the only vocal at the concert and turned out to be a highlight.

[yukonbmw]

What a romantic song.....

[mangeldeth74]

Spectacular, this song is magic.

[alpha18412]

Can you believe I'm on YT listening to Glenn Miller instead of computing my Federal and state Income tax whilst the country I love is bombing Lybia (again)?

[Halo101st]

@alpha18412 You could always join one of the services...

[Mufaso1000]

This sounds like it was taken from Claire de Lune by Debussy.

[Poisson4147]

P51ride - You're probably thinking of Dinah Shore. Helen Forrest never sang with the AAF Band. In late 1944 Shore made 2 high-fidelity tracks with the band. They were supposed to be the band's first commercial releases but contractual problems kept them private until the 1990s. They're on the British release but not the US version. The style is VERY, VERY different from the "Miller Sound" we love, maybe what he was planning for when - and IF - he came home.

[torstvillinger]

Sir(s): If I may, To Whom It May Concern, Affectionately, I would like to state here and attest to the full how My Life and Dear Old Family was, and has always been, greatly effected by this Era of Great Music of the Romance of the AMERICAN MAN IN UNIFORM ACUTELY ASTUTE IN HIS SKILL. Thank you. Et Merci beaucoups. --Attributed, J. D., SATX 78202 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (=U. S. A.) "For A Most Happy Holiday and Merry Christmas 2010"

[PAMAROSHOUSE]

i still cant believe kids would dance to this it was the jams of the day so cool

[P51ride]

All the posters here need to go out and purchase the lost recordings and secret recordings of Glenn Miller. It features Miller, Johnny Desmond, The Crew Chiefs and I believe Helen Forrest. Those two CD sets are worth every dime.

[SpuriousEmission]

My dad was from this era. I grew up listening to this stuff as a boy in the 70's. Never thought much of it at the time. Didn't hate it, didn't really like it. It's only when you get older that you realise how technical and complicated this stuff is. That's when you really start to appreciate it. Great post ;-)

[theshadow1932]

April 8, 1944. Ten years, to the day, before I was born. THIS time! I was there. I'd bet the mortgage on it.

[cacrilo]

eu gostaria de que tivessemos imagens ao vivo da orquestra sendo regida pelo maravilhoso Gleen Miller

[riberyytoni]

the best

[coyote6968]

This tune always has and always will make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The man, the legend that was Glenn Miller. My only regret is that I am too young to have appreciated this wonderful man in his heyday. Long may you reign Mr. Miller!!