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

[Daniel Barrett]

Dear Stan,

 

I hope you're well. I miss seeing you at the Sweet and Hot Festival. (Sigh).

 

I have a great version of St. Louis Blues March on an RCA Victor 78 by Tex Beneke and His Orchestra. (This of course was really the Miller band, shortly after Miller's death.)

 

I seem to recall it was also recorded by a very good studio band for one of the Enoch Light LPs in the 1960s.  It's a real classic, isn't it?

 

I hope we cross paths soon.

 

23 Skidoo,

 

--Dan Barrett

www.DanBarrettMusic.com
 

> From: sbrager at verizon.net
> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 12:13:12 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Fw: Glenn Miller - St. Louis Blues March
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: danpbarrett at hotmail.com
> 
> Colin;
> 
> The same or nearly the same arrangement was used in the film. The difference
> was that the initial recording was made on the V-Disc label (government) in
> 1944 with Captain Glenn Miller and his AAF band while the Miller story band
> consisted of other musicians. I really don't know if there was any effort
> for the movie studio to use the original musicians. I would also imagine
> that the fidelity of the movie's version was much better. The movie was a
> fictionalized account of Miller - 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.
> 
> Stan
> Stan Brager
> 
> -----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
> 
> 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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