The Glenn Miller Orchestra played for the last time-September 27, 1942

Glenn Miller's "In The Mood"

On September 27, 1942, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra performed together for the very last time at the Central Theater in Passaic*, New Jersey, prior to Glenn's entry into the Army Air Corps.

He traveled throughout Europe and the US raising troop morale with the Glenn Miller Army Air Force band. On December 15, 1944, Miller boarded a transport plane for Paris to prepare for an upcoming concert; the plane disappeared over the English Channel, presumed crashed. The wreckage of the plane was never found.

During the 1940s, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra were America's house band. The group’s signature swinging sound, provided by a reed section of clarinet, tenor sax and saxophones, kept American spirits up and American feet dancing during the darkest days of World War II.

The 1940s were the Big Band era, and Glenn Miller’s Orchestra was the biggest of them all, enjoying a string of hits including: "In the Mood," "Pennsylvania 6500" and "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" In 1942, * Glenn Miller lived in nearby Tenafly, New Jersey.


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Frank Sinatra treasure chest: Sinatra The Capitol Years

Capitol Records offers, what maybe, the greatest collection of Frank Sinatra recordings. The collection contains 21 CDs! And covers the period from 1954, when Frank first teamed with Nelson Riddle, to 1962
Artist: Frank Sinatra
Title Of Album: Frank Sinatra - The Capitol Years (1954-1962)
Year Of Release: November 20, 1998
Label: Capitol Records
Here are the tracks;

CD1. Songs For Young Lovers (1954)

01. "The Girl Next Door" (Hugh Blane, Ralph Martin) 2:39
02. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 1:59
03. "Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) 3:07
04. "Someone to Watch over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) 2:59
05. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) 3:14
06. "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 2:54
07. "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) 3:13
08. "A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) 2:41
09. "It Worries Me" (Fritz Schultz-Reichelt, Carl Sigman) 2:55
10. "I Can Read Between the Lines" (Ramon Getzov, Sid Frank) 2:50
11. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) 2:56
12. "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) 2:31

CD2: Swing Easy (1954)

01. "Jeepers Creepers" (Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer) 2:24
02. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) 2:14
03. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) 2:17
04. "Lean Baby" (Roy Alfred, Billy May) 2:34
05. "I Love You" (Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson) 2:28
06. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) 2:29
07. "Get Happy" (Koehler, Harold Arlen) 2:27
08. "All of Me" (Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks) 2:08
09. "How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me" (Tyree Glenn, Allan Roberts) 2:44
10. "Why Should I Cry over You?" (Chester Conn, Ned Miller) 2:41
11. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne) 2:31
12. "Just One of Those Things" (Porter) 3:14

CD3. In The Wee Small Hours (1955)

01. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) 3:02
02. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) 3:32
03. "Glad to Be Unhappy" (Rodgers, Hart) 2:39
04. "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)" (Hoagy Carmichael, Jane Brown Thompson) 3:45
05. "Deep in a Dream" (Eddie DeLange, Van Heusen) 2:51
06. "I See Your Face Before Me" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) 3:27
07. "Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift) 2:50
08. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) 3:12
09. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) 2:36
10. "Last Night When We Were Young" (Arlen, Yip Harburg) 3:18
11. "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder) 3:01
12. "Ill Wind" (Arlen, Koehler) 3:48
13. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart) 2:43
14. "Dancing on the Ceiling" (Rodgers, Hart) 3:00
15. "I'll Never Be the Same" (Gus Kahn, Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli) 3:07
16. "This Love of Mine" (Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola, Jr., Frank Sinatra) 3:35

CD4. This is Sinatra (1956)

01. "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Koehler) 2:14
02. "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Styne, Sammy Cahn) 3:07
03. "Love and Marriage" (Cahn, Van Heusen) 2:41
04. "From Here to Eternity" (Freddie Karger, Robert Wells) 3:01
05. "South of the Border" (Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr) 2:52
06. "Rain (Falling from the Skies)" (Robert Mellin, Gunther Finlay) 3:27
07. "The Gal That Got Away" (Arlen, I. Gershwin) 3:12
08. "Young at Heart" (Johnny Richards, Carolyn Leigh) 2:53
09. "Learnin' the Blues" (Dolores Vicki Silvers) 3:04
10. "My One and Only Love" 3:15
11. "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Van Heusen, Cahn) 3:00
12. "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Koehler) - 3:07

CD5. Songs For Swingin' Lovers! (1956)

01. "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) 2:57
02. "It Happened in Monterey" (Mabel Wayne, Billy Rose) 2:37
03. "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Warren, Al Dubin) 2:19
04. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman) 2:49
05. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting, Mercer) 2:32
06. "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, Harburg) 3:57
07. "Pennies from Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Burke) 2:45
08. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) 2:42
09. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) 3:45
10. "I Thought About You" (Van Heusen, Mercer) 2:31
11. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) 4:27
12. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Kahn) 3:08
13. "Swingin' Down the Lane" (Isham Jones, Kahn) 2:54
14. "Anything Goes" (Porter) 2:44
15. "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) 2:45

CD6. Close to you (1957)

01. "Close to You" (Al Hoffman, Carl G. Lampl, Jerry Livingston) 3:40
02. "P.S. I Love You" (Gordon Jenkins, Mercer) 4:24
03. "Love Locked Out" (Max Kester, Ray Noble) 2:45
04. "Everything Happens to Me" (Adair, Dennis) 3:22
05. "It's Easy to Remember" (Rodgers, Hart) 3:37
06. "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Arlen, Truman Capote) 4:52
07. "With Every Breath I Take" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) 3:41
08. "Blame It on My Youth" (Edward Heyman, Oscar Levant) 3:00
09. "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) 3:16
10. "I've Had My Moments" (Donaldson, Kahn) 3:50
11. "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) 3:28
12. "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding) 4:09

CD7. A Swingin' Affair (1957)

01. "Night and Day" (Porter) 4:02
02. "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Rodgers, Hart) 2:31
03. "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" (DuBose Heyward, G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) 3:13
04. "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Schwartz, Dietz) 2:26
05. "Nice Work if You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) 2:24
06. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) 2:41
07. "No One Ever Tells You" (Hub Atwood, Carroll Coates) 3:28
08. "I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Dorothy Fields) 3:27
09. "Lonesome Road" (Nathaniel Shilket, Gene Austin) 3:57
10. "At Long Last Love" (Porter) 2:27
11. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Porter) 2:07
12. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) 3:25
13. "From This Moment On" (Porter) 3:56
14. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) 2:39
15. "Oh! Look at Me Now" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries) 2:50

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New Bing Crosby CD's due January 25th

On January 25th 2011, Collectors’ Choice Music releases the latest CDs in the acclaimed Bing Crosby Archive series:Bing & Rosie: The Crosby - Clooney Radio Sessions (2-CD Set), Bing Sings the Sinatra Songbook, Bing Crosby: A Southern Memoir (Deluxe Edition). All three titles also make their debut on iTunes.

Also on January 25, HLC Properties, Ltd, in association with Beach Road Music, LLC releases the first two exclusively digital Bing Crosby Archive albums through iTunes: With All My Heart and Shall We Dance?

The latest additions to the critically acclaimed Bing Crosby Archive series showcase Bing with his frequent duet partner and dear friend Rosemary Clooney, as heard on recordings made for radio broadcasts in the 1950s; Bing’s interpretations of songs associated with the most famous of the crooners who came after him, Frank Sinatra; and the first American release in any format of Crosby’s 1975 album, A Southern Memoir. The two new digital compilations of unreleased Crosby recordings feature the legendary crooner singing classic songs of love and romance by some of the foremost contributors to the Great American Songbook, including Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Bacharach & David, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields and Duke Ellington.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

BING CROSBY & ROSEMARY CLOONEY- Bing & Rosie: The Crosby-Clooney Radio Sessions

This two-CD set presents 59 unreleased tracks taken from the original master tapes of their 1952 -1961 radio sessions (The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric, The Ford Road Show andthe Crosby - Clooney Show), complete with some charming studio chatter and fidelity that rivals their commercial recordings. Includes duets on The Merry-Go-Run-Around; Takes Two to Tango; Chicago Style (two versions); Open Up Your Heart (with Bob Hope); South Rampart Street Parade; Something to Remember You By (three versions); You’re Just in Love (two versions); It’s Only a Paper Moon; Easter Parade (two versions); People Will Say We’re in Love (two versions); Only Forever; a medley featuring These Foolish Things Remind Me of You/We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye/You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To (complete with flub and pickup take and versions of all three songs by themselves); That’s Amore; The Little Brown Jug; Sweet Genevieve; Shine on Harvest Moon (two versions); Buckle Down Winsocki; Indian Summer; Man (Uh-Huh) and Woman (Uh-Huh); and Lily of Laguna, all with accompaniment from The John Scott Trotter Orchestra.

For a different sound, Bing and Rosie are also accompanied by Buddy Cole and His Trio on a couple of Ford jingles; Will You Still Be Mine; another version of We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye; I May Be Wrong; Would You Like to Take a Walk; They Can’t Take That Away from Me; another version of You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To; Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off; Ain’t We Got Fun; Isn’t This a Lovely Day; Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep; They Say It’s Wonderful; Let’s Take a Walk Around the Block; Don’t Worry (About Tomorrow); Hey, Look Me Over; Anything You Can Do; What Takes My Fancy; Summertime; True Love; It’s Been a Long, Long Time/Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries/Gimme a Little Kiss; Moon over Miami/Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland/There’s a Long, Long Trail; Goodnight My Someone; September Song/As Time Goes By/Till We Meet Again; Any Town Is Paris When You’re Young/Paris in the Spring/April in Paris/The Last Time I Saw Paris; Singin’ in the Rain; a rare promo record for Eastern Products; and the only two solo tracks on the set: Rosie’s You’re in Kentucky Sure as You’re Born and Bing’s This Ole House. Martin McQuade’s notes tell the tale of this legendary team.

BING CROSBY - Bing Sings the Sinatra Songbook

This 18-track CD collection of showcases Bing singing songs that Sinatra made famous, the majority of them previously unreleased! Among the rarities, the Crosby-Sinatra duet on the medley of Among My Souvenirs/September Song/As Time Goes By; Young at Heart; April in Paris; Imagination; Witchcraft; Where or When; All the Way; You Go to My Head; It Happened in Monterey; and a 2010 remix of Summer Wind, plus High Hopes, an alternate take from the Thoroughly Modern Bing album session; the CD debut of South of the Border from the Songs I Love album; The Lady Is a Tramp; Too Marvelous for Words; I Get a Kick Out of You; Chicago; The Tender Trap, and Love and Marriage. Liner notes by Michael Feinstein. The exclusive iTunes digital release includes a bonus video performance of Young at Heart from 1954.

BING CROSBY - A Southern Memoir (Deluxe Edition)

This 1975 album of songs inspired by the South, making both its CD and American debuts, is among the rarest items in the Crosby canon, as it was only released in Britain. Bonus tracks add alternate versions of On the Alamo; Alabamy Bound; Stars Fell on Alabama; Swanee; andSleepy Time Down South, and the unedited version of Georgia on My Mind to the versions that appear on the original album, which also include Where the Morning Glories Grow; Carolina in the Morning; Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; Cryin’ for the Carolines; She Is the Sunshine of Virginia; and Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay. Appearing for the first time ever is “Bing’s South Texas Quail Hunting Medley,” a private recording from the album sessions on which he substitutes some special lyrics for Galway Bay/Mack the Knife/The Surrey with the Fringe on Top/The Pleasure of Your Company that lampoon, in that ever-so-gentle Crosby way, friends like Phil Harris! Liner notes by Arne Fogel.

BING CROSBY – With All My Heart

Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes this digital collection of 15 rare, unreleased love songs from the original session master tapes for Bing Crosby’s 1950s radio shows. (The Bing Crosby Show for Chesterfield, The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric, The Bing Crosby Show, The Ford Road Show and The Crosby – Clooney Show) There’s also a track recorded for an early Crosby television special. Includes Magic Moments, Secret Love, I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart, Chances Are, Catch A Falling Star, Night and Day, Hello Young Lovers, With All My Heart, Born To Be With You, Some Enchanted Evening, How High The Moon, Misty, I Love Paris, And the Angels Sing and P.S. I Love You. This unique digital package, available exclusively through iTunes, also includes a bonus 1954 video performance of I Love Paris.

BING CROSBY – Shall We Dance?

his digital release collects 15 songsof dance and romance – 14 of them previously unreleased - taken from the original session master tapes for Bing’s 1950s radio shows (The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric and The Ford Road Show), a rare track from the 1968 album, The Songs I Love and a track from a 1962 television special. Includes Begin The Beguine, Puttin’ On the Ritz, Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, It’s Not For Me to Say, Dark Moon, Changing Partners, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Zing Went the Strings of My Heart, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Keep it Gay, The Gypsy in My Soul, Granada, Lady of Spain and (the strange but incredibly swingin’) Doin’ the Bing. The exclusive iTunes digital album also features a 1962 bonus video performance of Doin’ the Bing.

About Bing Crosby:

Bing Crosby (1903 – 1977) remains the most recorded performer in history. He made over 2000 commercial recordings including White Christmas, the best selling record of all time. The Guinness Book of World Records reports worldwide sales for Crosby’s recording of the song at over 100 million copies. White Christmas has entered the American pop charts twenty separate times.

To date, Bing Crosby has sold close to one billion records, tapes, compact discs and digital downloads around the world. He may be the best selling recording artist of all time. Only The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson can rival his sales figures. He scored 41 number one records – more than The Beatles (24) and Elvis Presley (18). His recordings reached the charts 396 times - more than Frank Sinatra (209) and Elvis Presley (149) combined.

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