Extremely popular from 1939 to his disappearance on an Army transport airplane to Paris in 1944, Glenn Miller‘s hits included: Moonlight Serenade, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Over the Rainbow, Tuxedo Junction, Pennsylvania 6-5000, When You Wish Upon a Star, Fools Rush in, American Patrol, A String of Pearls, Moonlight Cocktail, Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, That Old Black Magic.
How many of these tunes do you know?
A
American Patrol
Annie’s Cousin Fannie
At Last
B
Boom Shot
Bugle Call Rag
C
Caribbean Clipper
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Community Swing
Conchita Marquita Lolita Pepita Rosita Juanita Lopez
Crosstown (Glenn Miller song)
D
Dese Dem Dose
Doin’ the Jive
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)
E
Elmer’s Tune
Every Day’s a Holiday (song)
H
Harlem Chapel Chimes
Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum?
Here We Go Again (Glenn Miller song)
Hotel Pennsylvania
I
I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem
I Know Why (And So Do You)
I Sustain the Wings
I Swung the Election
I’m Headin’ for California
Imagination (1940 song)
In the Mood
Introduction to a Waltz
It Happened in Sun Valley
It Must Be Jelly (‘Cause Jam Don’t Shake like That)
J
Jersey Bounce
Jukebox Saturday Night
K
(I’ve Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo
L
Little Brown Jug (song)
M
Moon Dreams
Moonlight Becomes You (song)
Moonlight Cocktail
Moonlight Serenade
My Reverie
N
The Nearness of You
P
Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song)
R
Room 1411
S
Serenade in Blue
Skylark (song)
Sold American
Solo Hop
Sometime (Glenn Miller song)
A String of Pearls (song)
Sunrise Serenade
T
The Technical Training Command
That Old Black Magic
Tomorrow’s Another Day (song)
Tuxedo Junction
W
When Icky Morgan Plays the Organ
The Woodpecker Song
All of them are familiar..thanks to my mom who played the big bands of the 30’s and 40’s in full rotation in our house since I was old enough to drool on the Victrola!
I got 9.