Sold American

"Sold American" is a 1938 song composed by Glenn Miller with John Chalmers "Chummy" MacGregor and recorded for both Brunswick and RCA Bluebird.

Glenn Miller was sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes in 1939, owned by the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company.

Miller had used the opening musical motif in his arrangement of the 1934 recording of "I Hate Myself (For Being Mean To You)" by The Boswell Sisters.

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.

[2] "Sold American" was released as a single in the UK paired with "Moon Love" on the HMV label as BD5854.

In the 1950s, Epic Records re-released the Brunswick 78 in the U.S. as part of a 10" yellow label album entitled The Glenn Miller Band as LN 1101.