[Dixielandjazz] Fw: Glenn Miller - St. Louis Blues March

[Stan Brager]

While we're at it, let's not forget "Young Man With A Horn" which is
considered to be a biography. Although it's hard to tell if it's about Bix,
Bunny or an amalgam of both.

 

Stan

Stan Brager 

 

From: Marek Boym [mailto:marekboym at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 1:28 PM
To: Stan Brager
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Fw: Glenn Miller - St. Louis Blues March

 

 in the '50s, many liberties were taken by

the studios especially for the stories of famous big band leaders such as
the Dorsey Brothers, Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman.

 

Don't forget Gene Krupa!  

Cheers 


Stan
Stan Brager

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Toomer [mailto:chtoomer at gmail.com <mailto:chtoomer at gmail.com> ]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:18 PM
To: Stan Brager; Bill Haesler
Subject: Re: Fw: [Dixielandjazz] Glenn Miller - St. Louis Blues March

On 24/10/2013 8:20 a.m., Colin Toomer wrote:
> Hello List friends Stan & Bill,

Wasn't this March tune used in the film 'The Glenn Miller Story?' There was
a sequence where Miller supposed upset his superiors by going on to a march
past. conducted the band into this tunes brighter march tempo & everyones
step picked up. In a bk on Miller I remember a photo of Ray McKinley playing
his drumset on a flatbed truck that kept to a speed the band was marching
at. Supposedly McKinley refused to march, & Miller still wanted a jazz swing
rhythm going at the same time as the marching drum patterns playing thir
patterns.
Whether this film music version ever got on to any soundtrack movie album
I'm not up with that kind of knowledge.

I have on video a special version Ray McKinley recorded in England many yrs
back with a special assembled British Airforce bband. There were other US
ex-Miller band members on as special guests.


Maybe more informed members, that would have to be drummers, like Pat Ladd,
who know more than this youngester of 67 yrs.

Be interesting if anyone will add their posts over the next days.

Regards,

Colin Toomer,
Whangarei, New Zealand
>
>
>> Stan Brager asked:
>>> Did Glenn Miller's A.A.F. Band ever record "St. Louis Blues March".
>>> If so, is it available anywhere?
>>
>> Dear Stan,
>> The only version I know of was recorded at RCA Victor, New York for
>> V-Disc on 29 October 1943.
>> It has been reissued on LP and CD numerous times over the years.
>> Here it is
>>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qf1zB5FPMg
>>
>> Glenn Miller (band ldr) with Zeke Zarchy, Whitey Thomas, Jack Steele,
>> Bobby Nichols, Steve Steck, Jack Reid, John Carisi (t) Jimmy Priddy,
>> James Harwood, John Halliburton, Larry Hall, Russ Myers, Nat Peck,
>> Harry DiVito, Kahn Keene (tb) Addison Collins (fhr) Hank Freeman,
>> Gabe Galinas, Freddy Guerra (as) Jack Ferrier, Vinnie Carbone, Murray
>> Wald, Peanuts Hucko, James Lynn Allison (ts) Chuck Gentry, Mannie
>> Thaler (bar) George Ockner (concertmaster) + 18 strings Jack Russin
>> (p) Carmen Mastren (g) Trigger Alpert, Joe Shulman (b) Ray McKinley,
>> Frank Ippolito (d) Frank Caster (sb) Jerry Gray (arr,vln)
>>
>> Very kind regards,
>> Bill.
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