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RCA Victor 78 release, 27934-A. 1942 sheet music cover, Brigman, Vocco, and Conn, Inc., New York. " (I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo " is a #1 popular song recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in 1942. It was written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren and published in 1942. It was featured in the musical film Orchestra Wives and was recorded by ...
The main production number is "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo", a companion piece to "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" from the first film, that features a folksy vocal and virtuoso tenor saxophone playing by Tex Beneke, backup singing by Marion Hutton with the Modernaires, and a spectacular song and dance sequence by the Nicholas Brothers, accompanied in ...
The Nicholas Brothers were an entertainment act composed of brothers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold (1921–2000), who excelled in a variety of dance techniques, primarily between the 1930s and 1950s. Best known for their unique interpretation of a highly acrobatic technique known as "flash dancing", they were also considered by many to be ...
Sun Valley Serenade is a 1941 American musical film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle, and Lynn Bari. It features the Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by the Nicholas Brothers. It also features Dorothy Dandridge, performing "Chattanooga Choo Choo", which was nominated for ...
Probably the first and most famous was "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo" (1942) by the Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke. The song was written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren . It was recreated by the fictional Gene Morrison Orchestra (performing as the Glenn Miller Orchestra ) and the Nicholas Brothers (performing the song as part of a ...
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 ...
Fayard Nicholas’ granddaughters, Nicole and Cathie Nicholas, were present at the DIA during a media preview on Jan. 31, and performed an ebullient tap routine that left the crowd roaring.
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.