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"Moonlight Serenade" is an American swing ballad composed by Glenn Miller with subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was an immediate phenomenon when released in May 1939 as an instrumental arrangement, though it had been adopted and performed as Miller's signature tune as early as 1938, even before it had been given the name "Moonlight Serenade".
Eumir Deodato de Almeida (Brazilian Portuguese: [ẽwˈmiʁ deoˈdatu]; born 22 June 1943) [3] is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, Latin and bossa nova.
Miller's band was portrayed by The Airmen of Note, an ensemble of the United States Air Force Band originally created in 1950 to carry on the Glenn Miller tradition. The soundtrack included many big band pieces originally performed by Glenn Miller's orchestra. "Moonlight Serenade" "Tuxedo Junction" "Little Brown Jug" "St. Louis Blues March"
In 1314 pages, Polic covers a "small but significant period of Glenn Miller's life and music, from his enlistment in 1942 and the beginning of his [Army Air Forces Orchestra (band for short)] in 1943, through its end in late 1945, giving an overall history of the band and a detailed recounting of the day-by-day activities of the band."
2005 Moonlight Serenade, Carly Simon; 2005 Twilight of the Renegades, Jimmy Webb; 2007 Fifteen Seconds of Grace, Victoria Clark; 2008 A Day in the Life of a Mother and Wife, Cat Guthrie; 2008 Faith Trust and Pixie Dust, Kerry Butler; 2008 This Kind of Love, Carly Simon; 2008 To Jobim with Love, Toninho Horta; 2012 Old LP, Bob Telson
This ghost band played to very large audiences all across the United States, including a few dates at the Hollywood Palladium in 1947, where the original Miller band played in 1941. [18] The movie short "Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Band" was released by RKO pictures in 1947 with Lillian Lane, Artie Malvin , and the Crew Chiefs vocal group ...
The Modernaires released a 45rpm single on Coral Records, 9-61110, A Salute to Glenn Miller, which included medleys in two parts from the movie soundtrack, A Salute to Glenn Miller, Parts 1 and 2: (I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo/Moonlight Cocktail/Elmer's Tune/Moonlight Serenade/Chattanooga Choo-Choo/String Of Pearls/Serenade In Blue/At Last ...
Hutton with Mel Tormé and Gordon MacRae in 1947. Photo of a Chicago streetscape taken by Stanley Kubrick Look magazine, 1949, from State/Lake station People arriving at the Chicago Theatre for a show starring, in person, Jack Carson, Marion Hutton, and Robert Alda, taken by Stanley Kubrick for Look magazine, 1949