🌌 Glenn Miller Orchestra Original Members

Writer: Glenn Miller Orchestra / Composers: Jerry Gray. 03. Moonlight Serenade . Glenn Miller Orchestra. St. Louis Blues. 02:27 I Got Rhythm (Original Mix) The first Glenn Miller Orchestra did not make it at all. It was a total and absolute economic failure. the 18 member ensemble continues to play many of the original Miller arrangements both Directed by Ray McVay. Ever since Helen Miller asked Tex Beneke to front a Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1946, there has hardly been a time when we haven't had an official Glenn Miller band, following in the steps of the original Orchestra. For me the 1938-42 civilian band was the band that has been part of my life since I was a young teenager. This document of Glenn Miller's radio broadcasts from the Glen Island Casino in late 1939 and early 1940 is good -- in fact, great -- as far as it goes; but it would be a lot better if more of the performances were complete. It's easy to luxuriate in the "swell" arrangement of "St. Louis Blues," for example, with its gorgeous reed and trumpet LBpd.

glenn miller orchestra original members