Track List: Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade ♫ Buy CD or Download Now from Past Perfect: bit.ly/31sxBcV ♫ 1. 00:00:00 Glenn Miller Moonlight Serenade 2. 00:03:23 Glenn Miller Johnson Rag 3. 00:03:53 Glenn Miller Blue Orchids 4. 00:06:52 Glenn Miller American Patrol (Quickstep/Jive) (Quickstep/Jive) 5. 00:10:11 Glenn Miller Moonlight Cocktail 6. 00:13:33 Glenn Miller Little Brown Jug 7. 00:16:26 Glenn Miller Frenesi 8. 00:19:58 Glenn Miller Elmer's Tune 9. 00:23:11 Glenn Miller Slip Horn Jive 10. 00:26:27 Glenn Miller Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree 11. 00:29:44 Glenn Miller A String of Pearls (Foxtrot) (Foxtrot) 12. 00:33:02 Glenn Miller Chattanooga Choo Choo 13. 00:36:31 Glenn Miller Take The 'A' Train 14. 00:40:00 Glenn Miller Perfidia 15. 00:43:20 Glenn Miller Tuxedo Junction 16. 00:46:54 Glenn Miller A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 17. 00:50:36 Glenn Miller Boulder Buff 18. 00:54:07 Glenn Miller The Story Of A Starry Night 19. 00:57:39 Glenn Miller At Last 20. 01:00:51 Glenn Miller Serenade In Blue 21. 01:04:20 Glenn Miller Kalamazoo (I've Got A Gal In) 22. 01:07:37 Glenn Miller In The Mood This is official original content, not a copyright infringement. For any issues, please get in touch with Past Perfect or The Orchard first Buy CD or Download from Past Perfect: shorturl.at/hijDF Buy CD on Amazon: shorturl.at/cvxET
At 85 years old, I can recall during the war when this was played on the radio. That was truly the big band era. Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Louis Armstrong, all those great musicians were on the radio every day. This was all that was played. That was a time when everyone loved America and was buying war bonds and using ration stamps. We all supported the war effort. We had paper drives at school. All the kids collected and saved news papers for the drive. Our family did not have a car, so my parents traded their gasoline ration stamps for food and meat ration stamps. This was in southern California, we had black outs and the planes patrolling the coast would pass over our house. We kids were scared out of our minds. Mr. Perkins our neighborhood Air Raid Warden would come out into the street and yell "blackout", as he cranked his hand crank siren. Everyone turned their lights out as the street lights went out. It was total darkness. We kids hid under the table as the planes flew over. This music played through all of that. We were in the dark but the radio stayed on for news reports. No TV. We lived through it, and when the war was over, Joe Louis was on the radio performing his boxing matches. And the music played on.
I was born in 1938, so my boyhood included World War II. I grew up near Topeka, Kansas, so no blackouts. However, I do remember the ration stamps, drives to sell war bonds, and one of my sisters twelve years older than me enlisting and serving in the WAVES. I think that she served for three years after her basic training. She was stationed in San Francisco as a Storekeeper 1st. Class. At that location the WAVES were responsible for ordering, storing, and shipping supplies for the war effort in the South Pacific. I had two other sisters still at home during the war and I remember them listening to this kind of music on the radio. Of course I was also listening even though I was only three to six years old.
What's sad is we live in a time where kids are now taught to hate America. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blind to the things that need changed... however we have the best thing going in this world. It's called FREEDOM!!! This music takes me back to a time where bands were the standard!! Horns, percussion, and band leaders!!!! I'm 57 and I wish I could have seen Glen Miller in his prime.
Sweetheart, I am 57 and my grandma Jennie used to dance with me in the kitchen to this music. She is gone now but not forgotten. Lovely lady. She made a gentleman out of me in a difficult time. When I hear this music, I miss her so much. I would give anything for one more dance.
I remember listening to "Elmer's Tune" back in 1944 while waiting for news of my cousin Bob whose escort carrier USS Block Island was sunk in the Atlantic. We found out that he had survived and had been picked up by a destroyer and taken to Casablanca. Glen Miller's music helped this country get through a hard time. It was probably the last time that all Americans were united in a common cause. I'm 85 now born in 1934 and every time I hear Glenn Miller's theme song "Moonlight Serenade" it takes me back to the war years with bitter sweet memories.
So correct in so many ways, we went through such though times but people were kinder, music and melodies were beautiful back then which gave us something beautiful enjoy and love
@@kathleenforkey9104 You're certainly correct about the people and the music during the war years. It seemed then that the war would go on forever and Glenn Miller's music helped you get through days filled with both hope and despair as the battles ebbed and flowed. It was a great relief when VE and VJ day finally arrived and the men came home from Europe and the Far East to marry and raise families and optimism for the future of America thrived. We all thought then that there were only better times ahead for all Americans. It is unfortunate that the spirit of cooperation and friendliness that prevailed during the war no longer exists and will in all probability never return. It is indeed strange that it took a war to unite our people and the peace that came after destroyed that unity. The beauty of Glenn Miller's music has disappeared the same way Glenn disappeared over the English Channel flying to France in 1944 and has been replaced by music that is no longer as romantic or inspiring. Most songs written then were love songs with beautiful melodies and lyrics by great composers and musicians -- this is no longer the case.
Mine two - two weeks after my Father joined Her, I saw them dancing along the pathway beside Lake Michigan in the fog...in their WWII Greens...to String of Pearls. They were 10 feet ahead of me...and vanished along with the music.
Me. I'm 70 and this song has always been my favourite of the songs my parents used to play on their 78's. They loved to dance, met at a dance and their war memories were interspersed with tales of attending dances in Toronto with some of the biggest of the Bg Bands.
@@wastelandpot0032 - Yeah. The music of the far past never ceases to amaze me and many more, and I'm sure it'll be a true blessing to search for old music
It's cool how high school bands still play music of this era. When I was in high school in 2014, kids were listening to things like "Summertime" by George Gershwin, aside from the 2010s music.
@@Super-Shafs Did you mean : age doesn't totally determine your music tastes ? because am pretty sure it does play a huge factor , the evidence is you , you find it strange for someone your age to like such music
My own Dad passed away in 2002. We played Moonlight Seranade as we carried him out of church. Grew up listening to All the greats, Benny goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Elleton My Dad used to BLARE these on a sunday morning! RIP wonderful Dad. You placed this beautiful music in my palm, and in my heart forever. Xxx
I’m 63 & as a young teen I spent glorious summers in a small midwestern town at my Grandparents house. Days were filled with Big Band music that played on Grandpas HiFi in the basement. The floor vents were speakers! The evenings on the back porch listening to stories of The Great Depression & The War & on. Every time I listen to 40’s now i wish i could go back for just a summer & relive it again.
So sad but true is the saying, "You can't go home again." Once it's in the past it is only a bittersweet memory. Like you, I too long to go back, if only for a day. Youth is wasted on the young. Oh well, that's life.
As a 72 year old Brit who lives in East Anglia, England where the Mighty 8th USAAF was based in WW2. I say thank you to all who served and thank you for the music of your era. With every glass of English ale I toast the memory of those who died to give me my freedom. Thanks guys!
John, I am very familiar with the Mighty 8th Air Corps, 466th Bombardment Group based in Attlebridge, England...a long time ago. Glenn Miller's music brings back a lot of memories.
Thank you for the thoughts. And a toast of that fine ale back to you on that count, both to those who died and those who came back, no matter which flag they served. They built the modern world. It is often said that "we owe them a debt that can never be repaid". I agree completely. My father was in the 467th bomb group based at RAF Rackheath, not far out of Norwich. He was the flight engineer/top turret gunner on a B24. He didn't talk much about his service while I was growing up and me, being young and stupid, unfortunately didn't ask much either. But one story that he always loved to tell was of the times he would be on leave and, going into the local pubs, he was never able to buy himself a drink. The Brits at the bar would never allow it! Lol. Rather, they would insist, in no uncertain terms, on paying for his drink. Its funny how music brings all this back into focus.
AAAMEN ! From an English lady living in America... Brought here after war... Mom and dad both served and they met at the base outside London... The name slips me right now... Oh, well, they say OLD AGE DOES THAT ! 😢😊😞😍
Hear Hear Hear John! I am an 83 year old Jewish Yank (born in '39 before the War) and every time I see a very old guy with a WWII Vet cap, I stop, salute and say "Thank you for saving my Jewish ass." But they saved us all. And let's not forget about those Spits, Hurricanes, Sterlings and Lancasters! Cheers, Young Mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And may I thank you for all my aviator relatives in it, now all gone of course.
My ,My ,My, how Lovely my precious darling husband and I danced to this beautiful music on our first anniversary and we couldn't keep our eyes off of each other , the whole of the night was all for us, we were in heaven , and our love just kept growing as time past those precious moments away, and to this day he was my greatest love and greatest friend🥰💗
Man this brings back memories. One day, in the spring of 1978, while I was rummaging through the record bins at the local K-Mart (we didn't have a local record store, so K-Mart was our only option for music), I came across a double album of Glenn Miller's greatest hits. My mom was a big Glenn Miller fan, so for once in my miserable, self-centered existence I did something for someone else and bought the album for her (I still have it, by the way, along with Aerosmith's first release, Frank Zappa and countless other classics of the era). I remember playing the album on my Lafayette turntable stereo system in my bedroom. Mom came in, sat down on the foot of my bed and I swore I watched 40 years of life's hardships magically melt away. Insofar as Dad was born in 1917 and Mom was born in 1918, they were true "Swing Kids" (for the reader's benefit, I came along rather late in my parents' lives: I was born when they were in their 40s). As we sat there together in the back bedroom of the old house on Fort Hunt Road in the growing darkness of a warm spring evening, we listened to Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Perfidia, The Chatanooga Choo Choo and so many others of Miller's classics. As her mind drifted down memory lane to people and experiences and events long since past, to life before the arduous years of the war, the taxing decades of marriage to a naval aviator and raising three sons, her normally impenetrable facade of stoicism dropped and I caught a brief glimpse of what she must have been like when my father first met her at the Army-Navy game of 1938: a vivacious, vibrant, ebullient young woman in the prime of youth, when life was a "bowl of cherries" (her quote, not mine).
I am 56. This is what I grew up listening to. Thank you Mom and Pop. I took My Parents to Beef & Boards in Indianapolis to see the Glenn Miller orchestra a few times. I loved watching them dance around the edge of the dance floor. My fiancee and I saw them April 23 in Effingham IL. Absolutely some of the best music. Mom and Pop are Dream Dancing in Heaven now. To the Music of Our Lives!!
Born in the wrong era. I grew up with this music because of my grandparents and aunts and uncles were from this era. My dad was born in 1939 right at the height of Glen Millers music.
Today is my dad's 88th birthday, he passed away a few months ago. Glenn Miller always put him in a great mood. I had to find this channel today to remember my dad and connect with him spiritually, it was meant to be. Thank you for soothing my grief and tears, and for bringing back my great childhood memories.
Condolences regarding the loss of your dad, hard to comprehend I know. Glad to know that this wonderful music has somehow helped. It can be so incredibly powerful; so very special. All the best x
Condolences to you and yours, Karen. My Dad would have been 94 on Jan. 17th. 2024, so I can relate to the feelings you are experiencing. Their generation experienced one of the greatest eras in music and it's orchestration along with the composition, singing, and dancing that accompanied it.
Pop passed 4 years ago this Wednesday on 3/13/30. On a Friday. Mom 2 years ago in April. I was raised on this music. At 56 I listen to this on a shuffle playlist. Along with Ray Anthony, Dean Martin, Ella, Nat, Jackie Gleason and on and on. My Parents made this the Music of Our Lives. Took them to see the Glenn Miller Orchestra of few times in Indy. They are here with me now as I listen to this wonderful music. Music soothes the soul. Mom and Pop are Dream Dancing in Heaven.
Born in 1928, lived in LA just under the Hollywood Hills. Danced and sang to all these songs. Remember Green Eyes, Mr. Five by Five, In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade. It was a time of love, war and family. Americans worked together. The music was music and you understood the lyrics.
What a golden and resilient generation. My grandmother was born in 1929, the stories and experiences she tells us are mesmerizing. Connected by Glenn Miller magic. Have a wonderful day.
@@kefield5161 When the United States entered World War II the U.S. military was racially segregated. President Truman abolished racial segregation in the military in 1948.
I graduated in 1973 and was in Dance Band, I played the tenor saxophone, and Tuxedo Junction was my favorite. This era of big bands is in a class of its own. Speed ahead 30 years and my daughter is in what they now call Jazz Band. They don't play the big band music, but I was so proud of her. She is a much better sax player than I could ever hope to be. BUT....I was in our Alumni Band and got to march on field with her while she was in high school, I will allways remember that.
This was my dad's favorite song (moonlight serenade) and when he was in the hospital suffering from a heart attack and not knowing if he was going to make it, I was on the other side of the country. When I knew my brother was there visiting with him I called him while my dad was asleep in a coma and played his song over the phone and my brother placed it next to my dad's ear and he swore my dad started to smile a bit. I am sorry to say my father did not survive his attack but for one brief moment in his final hours he did get to smile one more time. My dad grew up in the 40's and remembers everything about how things were when he and my mother meet in in 1940 and how he and my mom use to go to nightclubs and dance to this music. I miss him...
I'm 18 years old, all my other friends listen to rap, which is terrible. I love this music, I just relax with a cup of Earl Grey and my Dog. What more can you do to add pleasure to the mundane day.
I really miss my grandparents. They bought me up on this music and the concept of Love. My granny died recently aged 99. She ruled. So grateful she gave her heart to The Lord before she died. More than I could have asked for. I I will always love this music 💗
my pop served in WWII, he died 10yrs ago and my nana is almost 89. This music reminds me of them, when they were young. I'm so glad your grandmother gave her heart to Christ. My grandparents are believers too. It's so wonderful to know that one day we'll be together again!
A beautiful time in history comes alive when I hear this music. I was born too late into a world that just doesn't glow as bright as it did. I wish the history between colors was different but I would never change the sound of the music. One of the most authentic times where love was not just a word but a feeling...
Although Glen Miller was long gone, when I was born in 1948, my father kept him alive, by always playing his records, when I was growing up. It caused me to take up the Saxophone, with some moderate success. Thank you Dad, for always supporting me. I miss my father very much, but Glen Miller's music, always reminds me of my father.
I wasn't born until 1954 but grew up with my dad constantly playing BIg Band music, including the wonderful Glen MIller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Joe Loss and their music reminds me of dad to this day. Dad has been gone 35 years now...
This to my Uncle Tony who died of COVID-19 the other day, A Good Man. He loved to play the great old music. He had a playful nature and didn't take things too seriously, something to aspire towards. Here's to Uncle Tony!
Born in November 2019 51. I’m thankful that I was born in a time that I could be exposed to this music. My grandparents and my parents loved this kind of music.
Indeed I am, 85 now . Was just a kid but remember all the bases we had around Corpus Christi, Texas lost an uncle in the Pacific. Remember the gas , butter , meat Rations. R , Dyer
I dedicated my "first dance" at my Wedding that is supposed to be with your Dad to my Dad. He had passed away before I got married. My Uncle (his brother) and I danced to Moonlight Serenade. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. I grew up on this music. ❤️
Maybe there wouldn't be so much discontentment in the world if we went back to having dance halls and Saturday nights when having a decent time was lovely and wondrous.
I am a nursing assistant and I work in a nursing home. At my first CNA job, one of the residents would have me play Moonlight Serenade as I got her dressed and ready for the day. I always think of her when I hear that song.
Born in 1945, I grew up with this music. It's all my mother would let us listen to. In 1960 I got a job and couldn't even buy my own radio. 1963 I joined the army and have been free from music tyranny since. What they said about Rock causing immorality turned out to be true. Rock has been cheering on our society's downward slide into Gomorra since the 50's. The Music's roots have facilitated corruption, IMO.
We had A Glen Miller band at our school Prom back in 1958. (A bit out of date but still there). It was romantic. Glen Miller music was in the aire, You could hear Moonlight Serenade streaming out of cars and diners. What a fabulous era. It’s part of my memories even though Glen Miller was back n the 40’s.
I miss music like this. I absolutely love Glenn Miller. I was born in 1963 and it wasn't until I watched old movies that I heard about Big Band music and I was hooked.
When the movie "The Glenn Miller Story" was being filmed in Denver. I was there watching Jimmy Stewart in the phone booth talking with his girl up north in Boulder, a college town. On breaks Jimmy walked around greeting on lookers. This took place across the street from the U.S.Mint.When the film was released the theater was packed, standing room only. Have lost count as to the many times I have seen the movie.
My Mom, 🙏 whenever she heard this song would cry. I asked her and she would say I was thinking of your father being overseas and all the other soldiers. Luckily he made it home but passed way to soon. 👍🇺🇸
No matter how many decades have passed since Glenn Miller left us, his music is still as fresh today as it was back then. Compared to the trash they put on the radio these days, these are all golden tunes for more civilized times, and those who played them, were all well trained musicians with an ear for melodic music, and when rhythm came into the equation, they knew perfectly well how to invite you to the dance, and what dances they were. Not just hopping around like a wild ape on fire, but rather well performed dances made to enjoy in a couple, and not just by yourself. Ladies and men alike, enjoyed each other's dancing skills and they could really have the fun of their lives.
You are all just a bunch of old farts. I love this kind of music but I still have an appreciation for today's music. It's time we stop bashing new music and just treat it as it is. Music.
@@miahayes8061 I agree. Plus, theres music that's made in this day and age that's exactly the same as this. Maybe without the old timey sound (use of old equipment). Music now is music as it was back then. Let us enjoy things.
Born in the UK 1938 pre-war baby...Glen Miller was god and Tommy Dorsey and Louis A: there's few of us left but remember one thing " Freedom is not for Free "
Before my time but my father taught me to appreciate fantastic music and he introduced me to everything of his era and I still prefer his era of superb music and talent.
im in western australia and my dad is 90 and about to die. im playing his favourite album wholesale 24/7 in memory of a beautiful life not much of a father but a good man all the same im 63 now and im next i spose but i always remember pa saying "SON LIFE IS TO SHORT DRINK THE GOOD WINE FIRST" happy new year to the old folk cheers roberty lee
Was für eine fantastische Musik der 30, 40ger Jahre!!! Ich liebe sie, es ist schwierig es nicht zu mögen!!! ❤ Vielen Dank für die Möglichkeit es zu höheren und zu genießen! 👍💥🌹🌹
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Track List: Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade
♫ Buy CD or Download Now from Past Perfect: bit.ly/31sxBcV ♫
1. 00:00:00 Glenn Miller Moonlight Serenade
2. 00:03:23 Glenn Miller Johnson Rag
3. 00:03:53 Glenn Miller Blue Orchids
4. 00:06:52 Glenn Miller American Patrol (Quickstep/Jive) (Quickstep/Jive)
5. 00:10:11 Glenn Miller Moonlight Cocktail
6. 00:13:33 Glenn Miller Little Brown Jug
7. 00:16:26 Glenn Miller Frenesi
8. 00:19:58 Glenn Miller Elmer's Tune
9. 00:23:11 Glenn Miller Slip Horn Jive
10. 00:26:27 Glenn Miller Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree
11. 00:29:44 Glenn Miller A String of Pearls (Foxtrot) (Foxtrot)
12. 00:33:02 Glenn Miller Chattanooga Choo Choo
13. 00:36:31 Glenn Miller Take The 'A' Train
14. 00:40:00 Glenn Miller Perfidia
15. 00:43:20 Glenn Miller Tuxedo Junction
16. 00:46:54 Glenn Miller A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
17. 00:50:36 Glenn Miller Boulder Buff
18. 00:54:07 Glenn Miller The Story Of A Starry Night
19. 00:57:39 Glenn Miller At Last
20. 01:00:51 Glenn Miller Serenade In Blue
21. 01:04:20 Glenn Miller Kalamazoo (I've Got A Gal In)
22. 01:07:37 Glenn Miller In The Mood
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love this allot
Boa música. Música a sério!
Thank you SO much!! :-)>3
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This band had it all!!!
At 85 years old, I can recall during the war when this was played on the radio. That was truly the big band era. Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Louis Armstrong, all those great musicians were on the radio every day. This was all that was played. That was a time when everyone loved America and was buying war bonds and using ration stamps. We all supported the war effort. We had paper drives at school. All the kids collected and saved news papers for the drive. Our family did not have a car, so my parents traded their gasoline ration stamps for food and meat ration stamps. This was in southern California, we had black outs and the planes patrolling the coast would pass over our house. We kids were scared out of our minds. Mr. Perkins our neighborhood Air Raid Warden would come out into the street and yell "blackout", as he cranked his hand crank siren. Everyone turned their lights out as the street lights went out. It was total darkness. We kids hid under the table as the planes flew over. This music played through all of that. We were in the dark but the radio stayed on for news reports. No TV. We lived through it, and when the war was over, Joe Louis was on the radio performing his boxing matches. And the music played on.
Your memories are what we hear in this music. Thanks for your thoughts and thank you for posting.
That’s amazing! You described it so well that I felt like I could see it.
Thank you for sharing this valuable piece of history with us
I was born in 1938, so my boyhood included World War II. I grew up near Topeka, Kansas, so no blackouts. However, I do remember the ration stamps, drives to sell war bonds, and one of my sisters twelve years older than me enlisting and serving in the WAVES. I think that she served for three years after her basic training. She was stationed in San Francisco as a Storekeeper 1st. Class. At that location the WAVES were responsible for ordering, storing, and shipping supplies for the war effort in the South Pacific. I had two other sisters still at home during the war and I remember them listening to this kind of music on the radio. Of course I was also listening even though I was only three to six years old.
@@donbowman5810it’s amazing you’ve stayed alive this long. I hope to live as much as you. Thanks for your story
What's sad is we live in a time where kids are now taught to hate America. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blind to the things that need changed... however we have the best thing going in this world. It's called FREEDOM!!! This music takes me back to a time where bands were the standard!! Horns, percussion, and band leaders!!!! I'm 57 and I wish I could have seen Glen Miller in his prime.
I am 89 years old dancing and romancing alone in my kitchen remembering my husband
You are a member of the greatest generation! 😊
Your husband may just be with you......
I'm sure he sees you. ❤
Sincerest condolences on your loss. God Bless. . .
Sweetheart, I am 57 and my grandma Jennie used to dance with me in the kitchen to this music. She is gone now but not forgotten. Lovely lady. She made a gentleman out of me in a difficult time. When I hear this music, I miss her so much. I would give anything for one more dance.
I remember listening to "Elmer's Tune" back in 1944 while waiting for news of my cousin Bob whose escort carrier USS Block Island was sunk in the Atlantic. We found out that he had survived and had been picked up by a destroyer and taken to Casablanca. Glen Miller's music helped this country get through a hard time. It was probably the last time that all Americans were united in a common cause. I'm 85 now born in 1934 and every time I hear Glenn Miller's theme song "Moonlight Serenade" it takes me back to the war years with bitter sweet memories.
So correct in so many ways, we went through such though times but people were kinder, music and melodies were beautiful back then which gave us something beautiful enjoy and love
@@kathleenforkey9104 You're certainly correct about the people and the music during the war years. It seemed then that the war would go on forever and Glenn Miller's music helped you get through days filled with both hope and despair as the battles ebbed and flowed. It was a great relief when VE and VJ day finally arrived and the men came home from Europe and the Far East to marry and raise families and optimism for the future of America thrived. We all thought then that there were only better times ahead for all Americans. It is unfortunate that the spirit of cooperation and friendliness that prevailed during the war no longer exists and will in all probability never return. It is indeed strange that it took a war to unite our people and the peace that came after destroyed that unity. The beauty of Glenn Miller's music has disappeared the same way Glenn disappeared over the English Channel flying to France in 1944 and has been replaced by music that is no longer as romantic or inspiring. Most songs written then were love songs with beautiful melodies and lyrics by great composers and musicians -- this is no longer the case.
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Stephen Leo Amazing story sir, thank you for sharing.
In 1944 you would have been 10 years old. Do you mean 1924?
If so then you have to be 94 as of 2 years ago...
Strange as it may seem, this music make me nostalgic for an era I didn't even live in.
It's not strange at all. I feel the same way.
But…maybe you did…
The music reflects a better era and people.
Me, too! I can listen to Moonlight Serenade all day long.
Feel the same way
My Mom and Dad are dancing in Heaven to this wonderful Music....
Mine are too. As well as my god mother and god father. Love this music!!
Mine two - two weeks after my Father joined Her, I saw them dancing along the pathway beside Lake Michigan in the fog...in their WWII Greens...to String of Pearls. They were 10 feet ahead of me...and vanished along with the music.
I'm loving Glenn Miller in 2020 who is listening with me?
Yep
Lov,love love ! He allows me to dream!
Me. I'm 70 and this song has always been my favourite of the songs my parents used to play on their 78's. They loved to dance, met at a dance and their war memories were interspersed with tales of attending dances in Toronto with some of the biggest of the Bg Bands.
Yes love it!
Me! Wish I could have been there!
Age doesn't play a factor in your music tastes. I'm 16, and this is still better than modern music
@@wastelandpot0032 - Yeah. The music of the far past never ceases to amaze me and many more, and I'm sure it'll be a true blessing to search for old music
I'm 13 year old and I love this music
It's cool how high school bands still play music of this era. When I was in high school in 2014, kids were listening to things like "Summertime" by George Gershwin, aside from the 2010s music.
@@Super-Shafs Did you mean : age doesn't totally determine your music tastes ? because am pretty sure it does play a huge factor , the evidence is you , you find it strange for someone your age to like such music
@@upiksiswatimuara8023 I was 13 when I first started listening to this. I'm 76 now, and it still sounds pretty good to me.
My Dad saw Glenn Miller at Sunnybrook Ballroom in Pottstown, PA. I miss my Dad.
My own Dad passed away in 2002. We played Moonlight Seranade as we carried him out of church. Grew up listening to All the greats, Benny goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Elleton My Dad used to BLARE these on a sunday morning! RIP wonderful Dad. You placed this beautiful music in my palm, and in my heart forever. Xxx
There is nothing better than listening to Glen Miller on a rainy afternoon, or a sunny day!!! Brings your heart to a calming place. Love it❤❤❤😊
Every generation should hear Glenn Miller! 🎶
Amen! to hear what music really sounded like.
I agree, I’m 32 and I listen to Glen Miller, The Cordettes and Frank Sinatra on a regular basis.
I’m 63 & as a young teen I spent glorious summers in a small midwestern town at my Grandparents house. Days were filled with Big Band music that played on Grandpas HiFi in the basement. The floor vents were speakers! The evenings on the back porch listening to stories of The Great Depression & The War & on. Every time I listen to 40’s now i wish i could go back for just a summer & relive it again.
So sad but true is the saying, "You can't go home again." Once it's in the past it is only a bittersweet memory. Like you, I too long to go back, if only for a day. Youth is wasted on the young. Oh well, that's life.
@@WizardofWellston Use as you your memory
As a 72 year old Brit who lives in East Anglia, England where the Mighty 8th USAAF was based in WW2. I say thank you to all who served and thank you for the music of your era. With every glass of English ale I toast the memory of those who died to give me my freedom. Thanks guys!
Gratitude is always wonderful.
John, I am very familiar with the Mighty 8th Air Corps, 466th Bombardment Group based in Attlebridge, England...a long time ago. Glenn Miller's music brings back a lot of memories.
Thank you for the thoughts. And a toast of that fine ale back to you on that count, both to those who died and those who came back, no matter which flag they served. They built the modern world. It is often said that "we owe them a debt that can never be repaid". I agree completely. My father was in the 467th bomb group based at RAF Rackheath, not far out of Norwich. He was the flight engineer/top turret gunner on a B24. He didn't talk much about his service while I was growing up and me, being young and stupid, unfortunately didn't ask much either. But one story that he always loved to tell was of the times he would be on leave and, going into the local pubs, he was never able to buy himself a drink. The Brits at the bar would never allow it! Lol. Rather, they would insist, in no uncertain terms, on paying for his drink. Its funny how music brings all this back into focus.
AAAMEN ! From an English lady living in America... Brought here after war... Mom and dad both served and they met at the base outside London... The name slips me right now... Oh, well, they say OLD AGE DOES THAT ! 😢😊😞😍
Hear Hear Hear John! I am an 83 year old Jewish Yank (born in '39 before the War) and every time I see a very old guy with a WWII Vet cap, I stop, salute and say "Thank you for saving my Jewish ass." But they saved us all. And let's not forget about those Spits, Hurricanes, Sterlings and Lancasters! Cheers, Young Mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And may I thank you for all my aviator relatives in it, now all gone of course.
this music make me nostalgic for an era I didn't even live in.
Perhaps you did...
My mother loved listening to Glenn Miller. I hope she gets to listen to him in heaven.
Maybe shes met him
Mat,God bless your mom she hanging with the Big Band and with my mom's.
she does
There must be Big Band in heaven! Glenn Miller might have greeted her❤️
My ,My ,My, how Lovely my precious darling husband and I danced to this beautiful music on our first anniversary and we couldn't keep our eyes off of each other , the whole of the night was all for us, we were in heaven , and our love just kept growing as time past those precious moments away, and to this day he was my greatest love and greatest friend🥰💗
Hello Connie
Beautiful!! Tears💦💦
Thanks for sharing your treasured memory with my wife & me who are following your lead. "Straighten up and Fly Right"
Man this brings back memories. One day, in the spring of 1978, while I was rummaging through the record bins at the local K-Mart (we didn't have a local record store, so K-Mart was our only option for music), I came across a double album of Glenn Miller's greatest hits. My mom was a big Glenn Miller fan, so for once in my miserable, self-centered existence I did something for someone else and bought the album for her (I still have it, by the way, along with Aerosmith's first release, Frank Zappa and countless other classics of the era). I remember playing the album on my Lafayette turntable stereo system in my bedroom. Mom came in, sat down on the foot of my bed and I swore I watched 40 years of life's hardships magically melt away. Insofar as Dad was born in 1917 and Mom was born in 1918, they were true "Swing Kids" (for the reader's benefit, I came along rather late in my parents' lives: I was born when they were in their 40s). As we sat there together in the back bedroom of the old house on Fort Hunt Road in the growing darkness of a warm spring evening, we listened to Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Perfidia, The Chatanooga Choo Choo and so many others of Miller's classics. As her mind drifted down memory lane to people and experiences and events long since past, to life before the arduous years of the war, the taxing decades of marriage to a naval aviator and raising three sons, her normally impenetrable facade of stoicism dropped and I caught a brief glimpse of what she must have been like when my father first met her at the Army-Navy game of 1938: a vivacious, vibrant, ebullient young woman in the prime of youth, when life was a "bowl of cherries" (her quote, not mine).
I thought my message was sent.
Are you aware of your ability to to write.
I was so present to your moment and message..
That is a wonderful story.
This is a copy of another story.
What a good writer you are.
Please tell me you're a writer - if you are, I'd like a good read...
I am 56. This is what I grew up listening to. Thank you Mom and Pop. I took My Parents to Beef & Boards in Indianapolis to see the Glenn Miller orchestra a few times. I loved watching them dance around the edge of the dance floor. My fiancee and I saw them April 23 in Effingham IL. Absolutely some of the best music. Mom and Pop are Dream Dancing in Heaven now. To the Music of Our Lives!!
Born in the wrong era. I grew up with this music because of my grandparents and aunts and uncles were from this era. My dad was born in 1939 right at the height of Glen Millers music.
To clarify my uncles were all in WWII and my Aunt dated Vic Damone she would go on to marry someone else.
This is real music
Today is my dad's 88th birthday, he passed away a few months ago. Glenn Miller always put him in a great mood. I had to find this channel today to remember my dad and connect with him spiritually, it was meant to be. Thank you for soothing my grief and tears, and for bringing back my great childhood memories.
Condolences regarding the loss of your dad, hard to comprehend I know. Glad to know that this wonderful music has somehow helped. It can be so incredibly powerful; so very special. All the best x
Condolences to you and yours, Karen. My Dad would have been 94 on Jan. 17th. 2024, so I can relate to the feelings you are experiencing. Their generation experienced one of the greatest eras in music and it's orchestration along with the composition, singing, and dancing that accompanied it.
Pop passed 4 years ago this Wednesday on 3/13/30. On a Friday. Mom 2 years ago in April. I was raised on this music. At 56 I listen to this on a shuffle playlist. Along with Ray Anthony, Dean Martin, Ella, Nat, Jackie Gleason and on and on. My Parents made this the Music of Our Lives. Took them to see the Glenn Miller Orchestra of few times in Indy. They are here with me now as I listen to this wonderful music. Music soothes the soul. Mom and Pop are Dream Dancing in Heaven.
Born in 1928, lived in LA just under the Hollywood Hills. Danced and sang to all these songs. Remember Green Eyes, Mr. Five by Five, In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade. It was a time of love, war and family. Americans worked together. The music was music and you understood the lyrics.
What a golden and resilient generation. My grandmother was born in 1929, the stories and experiences she tells us are mesmerizing. Connected by Glenn Miller magic. Have a wonderful day.
Wasn't there legal segregation sanctioned by the American govt then?
Bless you!
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@@kefield5161 When the United States entered World War II the U.S. military was racially segregated. President Truman abolished racial segregation in the military in 1948.
I graduated in 1973 and was in Dance Band, I played the tenor saxophone, and Tuxedo Junction was my favorite. This era of big bands is in a class of its own. Speed ahead 30 years and my daughter is in what they now call Jazz Band. They don't play the big band music, but I was so proud of her. She is a much better sax player than I could ever hope to be. BUT....I was in our Alumni Band and got to march on field with her while she was in high school, I will allways remember that.
55 years old and I love That music. I love 💜💜 is BEAUTIFUL music.
When music WAS MUSIC!!!
my Granny died on Sunday at the age of 93. she loved Glen Miller. this one's for you, Gran. hope you're dancing up a storm right now
Bless you and your Granny she had Great Taste.!!
Hope she is to..
@ Johnnybaby80, I’m sorry to hear about your Granny! I hope she is resting in peace now! 🌹🌹🌹🌹
She is! / Healing to your heart & blessings.
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Sorry to hear that pal. I'm sure she's somwhere, enjoying herself. Great taste in music too.
I'm 19 and now I enjoy playing music like this
This was my dad's favorite song (moonlight serenade) and when he was in the hospital suffering from a heart attack and not knowing if he was going to make it, I was on the other side of the country. When I knew my brother was there visiting with him I called him while my dad was asleep in a coma and played his song over the phone and my brother placed it next to my dad's ear and he swore my dad started to smile a bit. I am sorry to say my father did not survive his attack but for one brief moment in his final hours he did get to smile one more time. My dad grew up in the 40's and remembers everything about how things were when he and my mother meet in in 1940 and how he and my mom use to go to nightclubs and dance to this music. I miss him...
What a beautiful memory! What a gift!
When my dad was dying I sang to him I'll Be Seeing You. It was very rich... Music soothes the soul!
When a son miss its father, it means that the father made his job. You are PROUD of him and -even now- you can make your father PROUD of u. CONGRATS!
That's quite possibly one of the most romantically tragic stories I've ever heard. It honestly brought tears to my eyes to read this.
I play this music to my 92 year old father who has dementia. It seems to resonate with him and calms him.
I am VERY SURE your dad heard it. How thoughtful of you to do that.
Vintage music is like a hidden treasure, every time you listen to it, you discover something precious. 💎
The greatest generation saved civilization!
World of wars...music....fashion of...my...dady...1940....thank you so much
This is real music.
Makes me feel both my parents are still here.
all music is real music and sorry for your loss
R.I.P to your parents. Hopefully, they can dance to these songs together in a better place:)
Me too
This music will always live on for millions of years
I feel the same way, Andra. My parents danced with the Moonlight Serenade during their 50th Wedding Anniversary. RIP to your parents.
Born in 1970, and I'll say there is certainly something comforting about the music from Glenn, Harry, Duke and others
I'm 18 years old, all my other friends listen to rap, which is terrible. I love this music, I just relax with a cup of Earl Grey and my Dog. What more can you do to add pleasure to the mundane day.
I just turned 100 on 9-1 I have a lot of memories of big bands.
I was raised on this wonderful music. I wish it would come back. You could actually dance to this music.
I really miss my grandparents. They bought me up on this music and the concept of Love. My granny died recently aged 99. She ruled. So grateful she gave her heart to The Lord before she died. More than I could have asked for. I I will always love this music 💗
❤️❤️❤️
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my pop served in WWII, he died 10yrs ago and my nana is almost 89. This music reminds me of them, when they were young. I'm so glad your grandmother gave her heart to Christ. My grandparents are believers too. It's so wonderful to know that one day we'll be together again!
A beautiful time in history comes alive when I hear this music. I was born too late into a world that just doesn't glow as bright as it did. I wish the history between colors was different but I would never change the sound of the music. One of the most authentic times where love was not just a word but a feeling...
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I was born far too late. Thank you to my Uncle Ed for introducing me to this music when I was a teenager. Forever in your memory. Love Danny.
Glenn Miller il a une façon de jouer et de diriger ces œuvres sont dans la mémoire ❤
Although Glen Miller was long gone, when I was born in 1948, my father kept him alive, by always playing his records, when I was growing up. It caused me to take up the Saxophone, with some moderate success. Thank you Dad, for always supporting me. I miss my father very much, but Glen Miller's music, always reminds me of my father.
I wasn't born until 1954 but grew up with my dad constantly playing BIg Band music, including the wonderful Glen MIller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Joe Loss and their music reminds me of dad to this day. Dad has been gone 35 years now...
Born in 49 I always heard my parents play this music.
Reminds me of my grandmother. Beautiful.
Born in 1947! My parents' music was wonderful and then --Stereo LP's showed up! It just kept getting better!
Ahhh! Yes all of you are wonderful souls❤ keep your hearts open and them ears will lead you back home brothers and sisters😊
I would like to dedicate this to my late father, who passed away in 2019. He introduced me to Glenn Miller and the other big band greats.
yes , my late dad too
This to my Uncle Tony who died of COVID-19 the other day, A Good Man. He loved to play the great old music. He had a playful nature and didn't take things too seriously, something to aspire towards. Here's to Uncle Tony!
Interesting fact: my Uncle's Grandmother died of the Spanish Flu in 1918, he never knew her though.
Sorry you lost him but he lives on for you through this music. . He sounds like a good man.
@@thatguy1060 , he was a "Salt of the Earth" kind of person.
Everybody please get vaccinated.
@@overaroundunder Uhm, no.
Born in November 2019 51. I’m thankful that I was born in a time that I could be exposed to this music. My grandparents and my parents loved this kind of music.
Anyone else listening with me in 2024?
yes
Here!
Yes I am, enjoy
Indeed I am, 85 now . Was just a kid but remember all the bases we had around Corpus Christi, Texas lost an uncle in the Pacific. Remember the gas , butter , meat
Rations. R , Dyer
Of course!!
I dedicated my "first dance" at my Wedding that is supposed to be with your Dad to my Dad. He had passed away before I got married. My Uncle (his brother) and I danced to Moonlight Serenade. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. I grew up on this music. ❤️
Nice Touch! He was there loving it!
Maybe there wouldn't be so much discontentment in the world if we went back to having dance halls and Saturday nights when having a decent time was lovely and wondrous.
Moonlight serenade is the kind of music you would like to hear when you enter into heaven.
Takes me back to Saturday mornings growing up in the 70s in Escondido, CA and dad tuning in Doug Best Swings on the AM.
I’m from the 40s I have been here for a long time and wish I could go back
I am a nursing assistant and I work in a nursing home. At my first CNA job, one of the residents would have me play Moonlight Serenade as I got her dressed and ready for the day. I always think of her when I hear that song.
Boy, the way Glenn Miller played...
...songs that made the _Hit Parade!_
I very much appreciate this Big Band style. Especially, this song. I think I was born in the wrong era.
Born in 1945, I grew up with this music.
It's all my mother would let us listen to.
In 1960 I got a job and couldn't even buy my own radio.
1963 I joined the army and have been free from music tyranny since.
What they said about Rock causing immorality turned out to be true.
Rock has been cheering on our society's downward slide into Gomorra since the 50's.
The Music's roots have facilitated corruption, IMO.
Would love to go back to those years ...
Amen , the greatest generation by far !
I have loved this music all my life. I am only 57. I think maybe I was born out of synch with time. lol
I was born in 2001, I'm currently 20 years old and I love this type of music. Greetings from Europe.
Moonlight serenade is Such a bittersweet melody. Sad and beautiful at the same time
We had A Glen Miller band at our school Prom back in 1958. (A bit out of date but still there). It was romantic. Glen Miller music was in the aire, You could hear Moonlight Serenade streaming out of cars and diners. What a fabulous era. It’s part of my memories even though Glen Miller was back n the 40’s.
Nothing beats 40s music. I was born 50 years too late.😁
The greatest generation's music! God bless em....
I miss music like this. I absolutely love Glenn Miller. I was born in 1963 and it wasn't until I watched old movies that I heard about Big Band music and I was hooked.
I may be tattooed man but this music always brings a tear to my eye. Marcus
When the movie "The Glenn Miller Story" was being filmed in Denver. I was there watching Jimmy Stewart in the phone booth talking with his girl up north in Boulder, a college town. On breaks Jimmy walked around greeting on lookers. This took place across the street from the U.S.Mint.When the film was released the theater was packed, standing room only. Have lost count as to the many times I have seen the movie.
Great movie for young people to see.
Nothing beats the sounds of a big band
I WAS BORN IN1946. I REMEMBER ALL THIS MUSIC BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT WAS PLAYED ON THE RADIO WHEN I WAS GROWING UP . STILL LOVE IT.
I also remember it as well.l am 76 and can still see my parent knowing all the move.
This is so much fun to dance to.
It's 2022 and I'm 75, love this music. Reminds me of my childhood and the many good moments with my godmorher, I grew up with her.
I'm 46 years old and I love Glenn Miller's music so does my son.
GLENN MILLER FOREVER AND EVER THE BEST BAND.REALLY THE BEST..!!!!!!
I agree with you.
Greetings from Mérida, Yucatán, México.
Still listening to Glenn Miller in 2021
I was born in 1960 and we played Glenn in High School Band,love little Brown Jug and St Louis Blues both good drum songs
My daddy would ONLY allow good music to be played in his presence! I grew up loving big band! Glenn Miller is one of my favorites!💝
We will die but music like this will live for eternity
My Mom, 🙏 whenever she heard this song would cry. I asked her and she would say I was thinking of your father being overseas and all the other soldiers. Luckily he made it home but passed way to soon. 👍🇺🇸
I'm 3 months old and I listen to Glenn Miller in my crib! I find it very relaxing, while I stare at the ceiling!
No matter how many decades have passed since Glenn Miller left us, his music is still as fresh today as it was back then.
Compared to the trash they put on the radio these days, these are all golden tunes for more civilized times, and those
who played them, were all well trained musicians with an ear for melodic music, and when rhythm came into the equation,
they knew perfectly well how to invite you to the dance, and what dances they were.
Not just hopping around like a wild ape on fire, but rather well performed dances made to enjoy in a couple, and not just
by yourself. Ladies and men alike, enjoyed each other's dancing skills and they could really have the fun of their lives.
So so true
I love dancing to this music . I am 48 and always loved it . This is true music . True talent .
I don’t understand how we pass to those fancy and gentle music into some truly trash
You are all just a bunch of old farts. I love this kind of music but I still have an appreciation for today's music. It's time we stop bashing new music and just treat it as it is. Music.
@@miahayes8061 I agree. Plus, theres music that's made in this day and age that's exactly the same as this. Maybe without the old timey sound (use of old equipment). Music now is music as it was back then. Let us enjoy things.
AT 83 I can not imagine finer arrangements by THE RESIDENT GENIUS!!!
Sadly, the Music industry has gone from big bands to big mouths.
No doubt
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The bands had their fights too. Musicians have massive egos in any age.
Merci
I'd rather hear a large toilet fart than rap
It is amazing that Glenn Miller has over a million views. Wow! It just goes to show you that the good stuff never dies.
Потому что это музыка божественна, проста и понятна каждому....
2,500,000 talk about good stuff
and you get 100 thumbs up
@@fredfarkle-bp9en Thanks! Check out my original music on TH-cam. Just search Gwyn Nielsen. Take care.
Born in the UK 1938 pre-war baby...Glen Miller was god and Tommy Dorsey and Louis A:
there's few of us left but remember one thing " Freedom is not for Free "
Glenn miller gets my tears flowing. My dad loved it and I miss him
I’m 13 years old and I absolutely love this music. But according to my mom, she says that I have always liked this music since I was a baby :)
Thats a beautiful story, I think you may have been here before. . .
13 and an old soul. You most likely lived another life in that time. You recognised it as a baby. So very cool!!
wow u old
Always listen to what speaks to you, never stray from it, keep the classics alive my friend.
You have excellent Taste.
There was a time when culture, sensitivity and feelings were alive.
Before my time but my father taught me to appreciate fantastic music and he introduced me to everything of his era and I still prefer his era of superb music and talent.
I am 48 years old, and i wish i could have been alive during this era
Glenn Miller was the BEST.
I can almost imagine slow dancing to Moonlight Serenade at a ball the night before shipping overseas.
Just for saying that I would’ve danced with you
I've been shipped overseas many times while in the Navy.
If you like balls so much, you can be the next Miley Cyrus.
Me too
I did dance to it at a ball many times, but it was some time after the war was over.
Begin the Beguine was another wartime memory
Great music from THE greatest generation
Absolutely timeless music, still giving me goosebumps in 2022.
Came into this world in 1942 have three elder sister so I grew up listening and loving his music!
44 year old Death Metal fiend with an IT background here. This fills me with good. Love me some GM
im in western australia and my dad is 90 and about to die. im playing his favourite album wholesale 24/7 in memory of a beautiful life not much of a father but a good man all the same im 63 now and im next i spose but i always remember pa saying "SON LIFE IS TO SHORT DRINK THE GOOD WINE FIRST" happy new year to the old folk cheers roberty lee
Love him too. Having a little drink in memory of him and the war. Born 1945.
1965
@@OldTerrible 2003... unfortunately
@@SpicyHobbit03 i feel the same
Agreed!i was born Oct 27 1945
I hope they pull that plane wreckage out of the English channel. That way, they can confirm if it was him or not.
This was my parents song. I can finally hear it after 17 years. I remember sneaking downstairs and seeing my parents slow dancing to it.
What a precious memory!
Exactly what I experienced... it brings tears to my eyes. I miss them so much...
Love that, wished my parents marriage lasted.
How sweet!
That's sweet
OMG, Best Ever song by the BEST EVER group., I was born at the wrong time and place.
Thank you so much.
My parent were very good dancers .
Glenn Miller was their favorite.
of all the old greats Glenn Miller is mine as well.
Was für eine fantastische Musik der 30, 40ger Jahre!!! Ich liebe sie, es ist schwierig es nicht zu mögen!!! ❤ Vielen Dank für die Möglichkeit es zu höheren und zu genießen! 👍💥🌹🌹
This was the music for dancing a slow with the girl of your dreams...
so many older people in the comments, but as a gen z this music is so calming to me, i love listening to it.
yeeesss this kind of music goes perfect with sitting outside making a fire. young gen z here
Beatifull music.
Musical genius, is Miller.