[Dixielandjazz] FW: The Glenn Miller Story, The Film

[Bert Brandsma]

The reason probably is that movie makers and TV producers always think they can record it better.I did a lot of TV and movie recordings this year, both as musician and actor, but they never want to use CDs I made earlier. In that world they think that they have the best knowledge and think that everyone elses equipment is out of date.
Another reason in Millers case might be that Millers originals never were completely in tune.In that regard the movie recordings are better and they are technicly also better recorded.The other side is that the originals do have a certain unity and freshness becauce it was a band that used to play this music all the time and they were creating something new.Studio musicians can play anything that is put in front of them and more, but the originals always remain the originals.
The explanation about securing rights is an idea, on the other hand, rerecording an entire big band and army band music also costs a lot in paying top earning studio musicians.They definitly got better paid then the original Miller sidemen!
Kind regards,
Bert Brandsma   Inialoane 28    9263 RD Garyp   The Netherlands   

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> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:37:41 -0500
> From: meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] The Glenn Miller Story, The Film
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: mister_bertje at hotmail.com
> 
> While I had no knowledge of it when the movie first came out, as I've seen
> it in recent years on TV, I've always wondered why they never made any
> reference to him being arranger for the Dorsey Brothers orchestra.
> 
> They showed him in the early stages of trying to start his music career but
> they completely disregarded the Dorsey connection
> 
> While I believe that Benny Goodman's original recordings were used in the
> bio of his life, I noticed that the music in "The Glenn Miller Story" (while
> excellently reproduced) were not Miller originals, but the
> Universal-International Orchestra conducted by Joseph Gershenson.
> 
> The only plausible explanation that I can come up with is the fact that
> Decca Records secured rights to issue a soundtrack album and all of Glenn's
> masters were on RCA Victor..
> 
> If anyone can come up with something that makes more sense,  I'm open to it.
> 
> Tides
> HC
> 
> 
> On 8/13/10, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
> >
> > Zeke Zarchy, the lead trumpet player in Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band,
> > and Glenn's best friend told me that the only two true  things about the
> > film was:
> >
> > 1.  Glenn Miller played a band and had an orchestra.
> >
> > 2.  Glenn Miller was married.
> >
> > Most of the rest of the film was bunk.
> >
> > Zeke was there however when they were playing and the buzz bomb came
> > over.  He said he could see it.
> >
> > --Bob Ringwald
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