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Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a 1941 song that was written by Mack Gordon and composed by Harry Warren. It was originally recorded as a big band/swing tune by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra and featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade. [3] It was the first song to receive a gold record, presented by RCA Victor in 1942, for sales of 1.2 ...
The song was recorded by The Andrews Sisters on January 7, 1941. [1] Jane Withers mimicks Miranda's performance in the 1941 film Small Town Deb. The 1943 Our Gang comedy Calling All Kids included a performance of this song by Janet Burston, who was impersonating Carmen Miranda. In 1944, Carmen Miranda reprised the song for the film Four Jills ...
The 2010 video game Mafia II features numerous Andrews Sisters songs, with "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", "Strip Polka" and "Rum and Coca-Cola". The 2011 video game L.A. Noire features the song " Pistol Packin' Mama ", where the sisters perform a duet with Bing Crosby . [ 46 ]
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was an American swing dance band that was formed by Glenn Miller in 1938. Arranged around a clarinet and tenor saxophone playing melody, and three other saxophones playing harmony, the band became the most popular and commercially successful dance orchestra of the swing era and one of the greatest singles charting acts of the 20th century.
It should only contain pages that are The Andrews Sisters songs or lists of The Andrews Sisters songs, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about The Andrews Sisters songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
Including "Chattanooga Choo Choo", five songs played by Miller and His Orchestra were number one hits for most of 1942 and can be found on the list of Billboard number-one singles of 1942. [6] In four years, Miller scored 16 number one records and 69 top 10 hits, more than Elvis Presley (40) [ 7 ] and the Beatles (35) in their careers.
As Billboard did starting in the 1940s, the three totals for each song are combined, with that number determining the final year-end rank. For example, 1944's "A Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" by Bing and the Andrews Sisters finished at no. 19, despite six weeks at no. 1 on the 'Most-Played Juke Box Records'(JB) chart. It scored 126 points, to ...
Gordon Lee "Tex" Beneke (/ ˈ b ɛ n ə k i / BEN-ə-kee; February 12, 1914 – May 30, 2000 [1]) was an American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader.His career is a history of associations with bandleader Glenn Miller and former musicians and singers who worked with Miller.