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

[Marek Boym]

At least, it is a good film, with a story!
And music is good, too.  I don't know who attributed it to Bix - when I saw
it all those years ago (but quite a few after it premiered in the States -
in those years films didn't get to Israel before they were 3-5 years old),
I didn't know it was supposed to be about a real person.  But I liked both
the music and the film.
Actually, imaginary or not, all those films - The Benny Goodman Story, The
Glenn Miller Story, The Gene Krupa Story (for some unfathomable reason
called in Hebrew "Drums and Hearts"), "The Five Pennies" had pretty good
music.  I first saw The Benny Goodman Story in 1957, a few weeks after
repatriating to Israel, when I couldn't speak a word of either Hebrew or
English, so I had no idea what the story was and just concentrated on the
music.  I have a friend who became a jazz fan as a teenager after seeing
The Benny Goodman Story in Casablanca - he is over 65 now.
Cheers (just having a Leffe Radieuse - 8.2% abv)


On 27 October 2013 00:32, Stan Brager <sbrager at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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.****
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> *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***
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>  in the '50s, many liberties were taken by****
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> the studios especially for the stories of famous big band leaders such as
> the Dorsey Brothers, Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman.****
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> Don't forget Gene Krupa!  ****
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> Stan Brager
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Toomer [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
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> 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.
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> 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
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> >> 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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