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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"
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 ...
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
Moonlight Serenade is the 20th studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released by Columbia Records, on July 19, 2005.. Simon's fourth album of standards, following Torch (1981), My Romance (1990), and Film Noir (1997), it debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, selling 58,000 copies in its first week, and remained on the chart for 10 weeks. [1]
When the band were starting to garner a following, Yester was sharing a house with members Jules Alexander and Russ Giguere. [10] Yester was one of the group's main songwriters. The band is known for their harmonies and multiple lead vocalists, with Jim contributing on Tenor vocals, that can be heard on "Cherish".
Schoen arranged music for the PBS production "Glenn Miller - A Moonlight Serenade" commemorating the Miller band’s breakthrough performance at the Glen Island Casino. Produced to recognize the 40th anniversary of Miller's death, it starred Beneke, Johnny Desmond , and Hutton.