Glenn Miller LIVE - "I Know Why" - '41 - HQ

[thebuzzard577]

Glad to have lived thru the 20's 30's and 40's....The Miller Sound evolved, and improved so much thru the early 1940's. As a pilot during the WAR, his music kept home and loved ones close. Now, at 90, I still thrill to that sound....

[TheGypsy2352]

@thebuzzard577 I'm 59 and I love this comment. This piece was "Our Song" for my Mum and Dad. Sadly they are both gone now (Mum eight years ago, Dad two years earlier).

They were both born in '23 - which if my maths is any good, was just about when YOU were born. I'm glad you're still with us. A long and happy life to you.

[richard4677]

When I was a teenager I heard this song for the first time (1969) and the music was so familiar to me I could sing it, like I kew it, may is true 'bout reincarnation and always left a beautiful feeling of satisfation, Strange isn't it?

[Halo101st]

THIS is what is meant when the word music is spoken of... absolutely beautiful!

[miguelitotaletin]

Muy buen aporte, y hermosa dedicación.

[Wolfsky9]

A bit of film trivia : this is the song played in the 1991 version of " Memphis Belle"; as the guys are flying over Germany, they ask if the song can be turned up, & indeed, this is it. A musical masterwork of incomparable complexity. The sheet music is absolutely intinidating, & i sould help us all realize what talent Miller's orchestra had behind them in thier 2 films. Wolfsky9 

[b3rn41987]

LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT!!!

[UKallthekingsmen]

Absolutely priceless!!!!

[gameonline13]

The Golden Age of Hollywood T.T

[leahanna412003]

These were the days of dreams that can come true.

[theshadow1932]

For my folks, the tune was 'One Lovely Yesterday'. I remember the photo taken of them on Ocean Beach, in June of '43, after they got back from Reno. The pic was taken by my Uncle Lee, who used the same Argus 35mm to shoot the landing of the first jap aircraft to touch down on American soil after they threw in the towel. The cool thing is that, a few years ago, I found the old wind up Victrola in the photo. The record in question was still on the turntable, where it remains.

[TonkunstKanal]

Graceful, thank you!

[VIGILANTI1]

thank-you! i will try and see if i can get that show. i wish the big band era would come back again. are any of the miller family still living? and is the band still alive and running? thank-you

art (vigilanti )

[Disques13Swing]

@VIGILANTI1

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Miller's two adopted children, Steve and Jonnie, are alive and well to my knowledge. There has been an official Glenn Miller Orchestra in existence for most of the time since 1946 and it has been playing and touring ever since. I believe there's also a second official GMO based in the UK. I don't think you'll have too much trouble finding them on the internet.

[Bruno47602]

Brilliant!!!

[Disques13Swing]

Listen to the reed backing behind the vocal from 2:00 to 2:10 and from 3:20 to 3:38. Pure Miller Gold...

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Reeds, left to right: Wilbur Schwartz, clarinet and alto; Ernie Caceres, baritone and alto; Hal McIntyre, alto; Al Klink, tenor, Tex Benecke, solo tenor.

[vertxxgg]

Lynn real name was Margareth Schuller Fisher ,jewish, she married great Syd Luft

[doloresmytube]

Splendido !!!

Grazie judie

[gfks11]

Just WONDERFUL... loved this sound always... a staircase to heaven...:-)))

[Disques13Swing]

If you've never seen the movie this comes from, it was an audition for a job playing the winter season at the Sun Valley ski resort in Idaho. Needless to say, with a performance like that one, they got the job.

Note that everyone's wearing a different suit and ties. When the Miller band played in public everyone was dressed alike.

[Disques13Swing]

@Disques13Swing

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Let me clarify... This SCENE was the audition for the job of playing Sun Valley during the next winter season. The rest of the movie was concerned with what happened after they arrived.

[NFitalianGuy]

The Singer Lynn Bari was married to Sid luft and I wish that the Legend, Judy Garland Sid's 2nd wife would have recorded this song or performed it on her TV show or in her MGM musicals. I love this clip, thanks for posting it!

[NFitalianGuy]

When I first seen this movie and heard this song, It hit my heart that I got misty eyed! This is what real music is all about. Full of meaning!

[patthecatman]

i asked, on another posting, if the singer were ginny simms; but i see it was lynn bari, also a h--- of a looker. i'm not familiar with pat friday, never heard of her.

[Disques13Swing]

@patthecatman

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Pat Friday was a studio vocalist for 20th Century-Fox when Miller's two movies were being filmed. A search on her name will bring up a fair amount of info on her singing.

[Azishome]

Aw, I'm disappointed you didn't leave the Moonlight Serenade lead-in. Beautiful arrangement, great execution.

[bradyirishguy]

This woman is truly beautiful.

[vertxxgg]

real name of Lynn Bari...Margaret Schuler Fisher...looks: spione?

[Disques13Swing]

There were two different special arrangements of At Last. The one in this film is only played for the first few seconds right after Chat Choo Choo. It is far superior to the other special version in Orchestra Wives and the shortened standard version used on 78's and broadcasts. Although not really on either film, the first special version is available commercially on LP and CD but without the video.

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And Pat Friday was the best girl singer than Glenn Miller never had.

[Disques13Swing]

For Sun Valley Serenade: TB: Glenn Miller, Jimmy Priddy, Paul Tanner, Frank D'annolfo TP: Johnny Best, Dale Mc Mickle, Ray Anthony, Billy May AS: Hal McIntyre, Ernie Caceres (Dark hair, Also Baritone) TS: Al Klink (glasses), Tex Beneke CLT: Wilbur Schwartz (also Alto) DM: Maurice Purtil BS: Herman Alpert GT: Jack Lathrop PN: John Chalmers Mac Gregor (for John Payne) VOC: (Modernaires) Bill Conway, Chuck Goldstein, Hal Dickenson, Ralph Brewster VOC (Solo) John Payne, Pat Friday (for Lynn Bari)

[Disques13Swing]

Absolutely beautiful...

I Know Why, At Last, Serenade In Blue, Kalamazoo, and Chatanooga Choo Choo were all done in special arrangements for the films they appeared in. These arrangements were longer and much better than the recorded versions of the same tunes.

The vocalist is Lynn Bari but her part was sung by Pat Friday. She and John Payne on piano were only part of this band for the movies and were not regular members. Also, what you hear was recorded separately from the film. Enjoy!

[TheGypsy2352]

@Disques13Swing - Thanks for that info. I have the original 78s and the arrangements used in the films were FAR superior.

[acfinney1]

@TheGypsy2352 Because Glenn insisted on recording at RCA studios, which had the acoustics of a sod hut. I never understood why he couldn't have given Decca a try. As far as arrangements, time limits of 78s were hell on most slow songs. That is why I love radio airchecks. They are allowed more time for solos and you really get an idea of what the band was capable of.

[TheGypsy2352]

@acfinney1 Interesting. In Britain, our pressings of American records were often inferior to the American originals (no digital then!) But I didn't realize that in Glenn's case, the American pressings were little better. It's disappointing to obtain MINT pressings - only to play them and discover they sound like they were strained through a soggy sock!

Thankgawd for "Sun Valley Serenade" and "Orchestra Wives"!

And thanks for the info.

[acfinney1]

@TheGypsy2352 I own a few London and Omega LPs and the quality of Ted Heath, Tubby and other bands are really outstanding for 1950s mono. I believe that the engineers that Glenn picked were at fault. Duke Ellington's Victor recordings sound fine. Thanks for the input from the "old country" P.S. Very few American bands could out swing Ted Heath and Tubby.....can't think of his last name, but he recorded the jazz music in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.

[TheGypsy2352]

@acfinney1 ...and APPEARED in it! He was Tubby Hayes. I have a piece of his up somewhere. Search "Tubby Hayes Crescendo" - enjoy!

[Disques13Swing]

@acfinney1

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Miller couldn't give Decca or anyone else a try because because he had a contract with RCA. Most of his records were released on the low price Bluebird label but they eventually moved him over to RCA pretty late in the game. Being on Bluebird might be responsible for the lower sound quality. Also, GM recorded with RCA in different studios across the USA as he traveled, so plenty of room for variation in sound quality there.

[VIGILANTI1]

@Disques13Swing please what was the kname of the film. i need to get a copy of it. and thankyou for the song

[Disques13Swing]

@VIGILANTI1

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The name of this movie is Sun Valley Serenade and it was made in 1941. Glenn Miller and his Orchestra also made a movie in 1942 called Orchestra Wives. There was a third movie in the contract between 20th Century Fox and Miller but that was never made because Miller joined the military.

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[Disques13Swing]

@VIGILANTI1

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Please don't thank me for the song. TheGypsy 2352 is the person that uploaded it.

[tapdance86]

I love that song. Your parents had very good taste. I'm sure they can hear it from up there :)

[TheGypsy2352]

@tapdance86 - Yeah - I still get misty every time I hear it...