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Glenn Miller (Music)
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Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – circa December 15, 1944) was an American jazz trombonist and bandleader popular in the Swing and Big Band era of the 1930s and '40s. He's the subject of a major 1950s biopic, The Glenn Miller Story, in which he was played by Jimmy Stewart.The Glenn Miller Orchestra's recording of "Chattanooga Choo-Choo", which they introduced to the world in the 1941 film Sun Valley Serenade, was the first pop recording to be awarded a gold record. Said gold record, awarded in February 1942 to celebrate 1.2 million copies sold, actually predates the RIAA certification, which wasn't established until 1958.note The gold record was presented to him by his record label, RCA Victor — the pre-RIAA gold records were distributed by record companies to their own artists.Also notable for being a Real Life example of Never Found the Body. When World War II broke out, he volunteered for service, but he was considered too old (and, perhaps, too famous) for active duty, and was instead commissioned a Captain in the Army Air Forces, assigned to entertain the troops. Officially declared missing in action when his plane disappeared around the English Channel during a flight to France in bad weather, he was eventually pronounced dead in absentia. Historians ascribe the event to the type of plane Miller was traveling in being infamously failure-prone in cold conditions, meaning he most likely met his end in the Channel after his plane shorted out, while the fact that his disappearance went unnoticed for 72 hours (due in part to the Germans launching the Battle of the Bulge counteroffensive the following morning) meant that any recovery effort would have been downright impossible. As with any situation in which a body is never recovered, Miller's disappearance would spawn several Urban Legends about the true cause of his death being covered up by the US Military for various purported reasons, ranging from the RAF having accidentally shot down his plane, to his being assassinated while on a top-secret mission for Dwight D. Eisenhower to negotiate a German surrender, to his succumbing to a heart attack while in bed with a French prostitute.These days he's mostly remembered for being mentioned in the All in the Family theme song (or, if you're British, a joke in Red Dwarf about aliens returning planes that disappeared during the War). | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: After the war, there was a mini-revival of the Miller sound with orchestras led by Jerry Gray (former Miller arranger), Tex Beneke (former Miller saxophonist and vocalist who led the Glenn Miller ghost band before going out on his own), Ray Anthony (former Miller trumpeter and last surviving member of the band as of July 2019) and Ralph Flanagan (who never worked with Miller, but did record for the same label [RCA Victor] and employ several ex-Miller musicians). | |
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Phone Number Jingle | |
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Phone Number Jingle: The above-mentioned "Pennsylvania 6-5000", or "Pennsylvania 6-5-oh-oh-oh" as they call it later in the song for variety. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: "Five O'Clock Whistle" has a youngster relating how her father didn't come home the night before, because (he claimed) the whistle that signalled the end of the working day was broken. | |
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Top Ten Jingle | |
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Top Ten Jingle: The 1930s Lucky Strike slogan "Sold! American!" note (the radio ads featured a tobacco auctioneer chant that ended with that phrase, as a way of saying that American Tobacco Company, who made Lucky Strikes, only used the finest tobacco for its cigarettes) inspired an instrumental of that title, which was recorded twice (for Brunswick in 1938 and for Victor in 1939). Ironically, shortly after the second version was released, the band got a radio show that was sponsored by rival Chesterfield, which limited performances of "Sold American" due to obvious conflicts of interest. | |
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Big Band | |
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Big Band: One of the most succesful jazz band leaders of his time. So much even that after his death his band still went on tour under his own name. | |
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Harsher in Hindsight | |
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Harsher in Hindsight: "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" sounds innocent enough, until you realize that it was about World War II... and that Miller himself never "came marching home" | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out: "In the Mood" keeps getting more quiet and quiet towards the end, only to suddenly erupt back in all of its loudness for the grand finale. | |
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Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks | |
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Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks: "It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That)" was one of several songs inspired by that popular expression, which did not necessarily compare the respective merits of the foodstuffs; Harry James and Woody Herman also covered the tune. | |
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Fake Band | |
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Fake Band: Played by Real Band variant. In the movies Sun Valley Serenade and Orchestra Wives, each of which revolves around backstage drama in a fictional big band, the band members who aren't part of the plot are played by members of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, with Miller himself appearing as the bandleader in each film. | |
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12-Bar Blues | |
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12-Bar Blues: "In the Mood". | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Swinging: "In the Mood" which goes on and on. | |
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Took a Level in Cheerfulness | |
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Took a Level in Cheerfulness: In The Mood is a joyful record. | |
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555: Famously averted by "Pennsylvania 6-5000", which was the phone number of the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York (and remained so until the hotel closed in 2020), which was a major venue for live Big Band music at the time the song was written. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The Glenn Miller Story is a biopic about his life. "In the Mood" is quoted in the fadeout of "All You Need Is Love" by The Beatles. In The Simpsons' episode "Lady Bouvier's Lover" "Moonlight Serenade" is Marge's mother's favorite number. | |
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The Band Minus the Face | |
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The Band Minus the Face: The Glenn Miller Orchestra was reformed in 1956 and still exists today. | |
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Melancholy Moon | |
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Melancholy Moon: "Moonlight Serenade". | |
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