List of songs written by Glenn Miller
Ray Conniff,[9] Paul Mauriat, and the rock group Chicago have versions of "Moonlight Serenade" on a 1995 3 inch CD single in Japan and on the album Night & Day Big Band (1995).
In a medley with "Little Brown Jug" and "In the Mood", "Moonlight Serenade" reached number thirteen on the UK charts in January 1976, where it stayed for eight weeks.
The song was performed live by Glenn Miller on March 8, 1939, and broadcast on the radio from a remote at the Meadowbrook Ballroom in Cedar Grove, New Jersey.
[20] George Simon, a friend of Miller, contradicts sources that say it was a top ten hit and says it was barely noticed by record buyers.
"[24] The performances included Billy May on trumpet, Tex Beneke on tenor saxophone, Chummy MacGregor on piano, and Moe Purtill on drums.
Jerry Gray and his Orchestra released a version of the instrumental backed with "V Hop" in 1951 as a Decca 45, 27869, and as a 78, from the album A Tribute to Glenn Miller.
The record also appears as "Annie's Cousin Fannie is a Sweetie of Mine" sung by Kay Weber, one of the first female singers of the Big Band Era, and Glenn Miller, who had discovered her.
(Simon, page 65) Ray Noble and his American Dance Orchestra performed "Dese Dem Dose" as part of a medley, "Dese Dem Dose/An Hour Ago This Minute/Solitude", on April 17, 1935, live at the Rainbow Room in New York which was recorded and broadcast and released in 2008 on the live CD by Galaxy Music The Rainbow Room New York Presents.
A second version was released with Tex Beneke in the dialogue with Miller from a June 20, 1938 NBC radio broadcast from the Paradise Restaurant in New York City with Gail Reese on lead vocals.
The 78 release on Vocalion in the UK, S-127, B-21236-1, was reviewed in the February, 1938 issue of the British classical music magazine Gramophone: "'Community Swing' as a composition is more on the call-and-answer principle...
"Sometime" was a pop ballad with lyrics and music composed by Glenn Miller with Chummy MacGregor in 1939 and sung by Ray Eberle according to John Flower.
[32] The published musical score, copyrighted on September 27, 1940[33] lists the composers as Glenn Miller, Chummy MacGregor, and lyricist Mitchell Parish.
May is credited as his first wife, Arletta May, because he had signed an exclusive composer's contract with Charlie Barnet that forbade him for writing anything for Miller under his own name.
In May, 1959, "Boom Shot" was released as a 7" vinyl 45 single by the British Top Rank label with "You Say the Sweetest Things, Baby" by the Glenn Miller Six as JAR-114 in conjunction with 20th Century Fox.
[38] Ray McKinley and the New Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded the song as "Boomshot" on the 1959 RCA Victor LP album Dance Anyone?
"Seven-O-Five" or "7-0-5" or "705" was an instrumental composed by Glenn Miller, arranged by Jerry Gray, and performed with the Army Air Forces Training Command Band in several different versions and was recorded for release as a V-Disc.
Major Glenn Miller and the American Band of the Allied Expeditionary Force also made recordings for the BBC and the Office of War Information (OWI) from October 30 to November 20, 1944, at Abbey Road Studios in London that were broadcast over the American Broadcasting Station in Europe to Germany in a program called Music for the Wehrmacht or The Wehrmacht Hour.
The song was performed on July 9, 1944, by Captain Glenn Miller and the American Band of the Supreme Allied Command for radio broadcast.
Based on the ASCAP database, "I'm Headin' for California" was written by Glenn Miller with Arthur Malvin, a member of the Crew Chiefs, copyrighted on September 21, 1944, and published by the Chappell Co., Inc.[44][47] The song was released as a 78 single, RCA Victor 20–1834, b/w "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" by the Glenn Miller Orchestra led by Tex Beneke in 1946 and as an HMV 78, BD 5956, in the UK in 1947 b/w "Texas Tex".
The Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra performed the song on the Swing Shift program on December 4, 1944.
Glenn Miller co-wrote "Morning Mood" with composer Bert Reisfeld as a trombone solo with piano forte accompaniment which was copyrighted by the Mutual Music Society on September 2, 1941, in New York based on the ASCAP database.
Broadway lyricist Ted Fetter co-wrote the lyrics to the 1940 standard "Taking a Chance on Love" with Vernon Duke and John La Touche.
[55] "The Technical Training Command" was a theme song written for the AAFTC Orchestra and used at the close of early I Sustain the Wings radio programs in 1943.
"SHAEF Presents" was written as a theme for the American Band of the AEF program which aired on the Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme (AEFP) radio network in 1944.
[57] Arranger and clarinetist, Norman Leyden and other military personnel confirmed that the final name of this band was the Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra before it was carved in stone at their memorial tree in section 13 at Arlington National Cemetery.
The rear cover has ads for other Melrose Brothers Music Company publications including ones for Dixieland, Book of Blues, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.
In the publisher's forward it discussed the art of playing jazz, mentioning "Glenn Miller, feature trombonist of Ben Pollack's Victor Recording Orchestra, and author of this book, is recognized everywhere as a finished artist."
The back cover contained the description: "Glenn Miller is a feature trombonist with Ben Pollack's Victor Recording Orchestra.
Glenn Miller is credited with writing an additional verse for the song "Basin Street Blues" in 1931,[63] written in 1928 by Spencer Williams.
Miller arranged the song for a February 9, 1931 recording under the direction of Benny Goodman in New York with the Charleston Chasers which was released as a 78 single as Columbia 2415-D and Okeh 41577.
