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  1. Another full moon here tonight. I’m hoping it doesn’t lead to another set of shenanigans like early this morning where there were two major fires (no one hurt) and a power outage. Got me a front page story in the next edition but I’d really rather not be traipsing around in jammies and Skechers at three in the morning just to get a few photos. Makes me a little grumpy.
    #MusicOfMastodon
    #GlennMiller
    #BigBands
    m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ws6DdrD

  2. "In the Mood" is a popular #bigBand-era #jazzStandard recorded by American bandleader #GlennMiller. "In the Mood" is based on the composition "Tar Paper Stomp" by #WingyManone. The first recording under the name "In the Mood" was released by #EdgarHayes and his Orchestra in 1938. In 1983, the Glenn Miller recording from 1939 was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame. In 2004, the recording was inducted into the Library of Congress #NationalRecordingRegistry.
    youtube.com/watch?v=aME0qvhZ37o

  3. "Blueberry Hill" is a popular American song published in 1940 and first recorded and released by #SammyKaye in 1940 on #RCAVictor. It is best remembered for its 1950s #rockAndRoll version by #FatsDomino. #GlennMiller peaked at no. 2 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1940 with his recording on #RCA #BluebirdRecords featuring #RayEberle on vocals. In 1941, #GeneAutry made a recording of this song for #RegalZonophone. He also sang it in the 1941 movie #TheSingingHill.
    youtube.com/watch?v=bQQCPrwKzdo

  4. "Tuxedo Junction" is a popular #bigBand song recorded by #GlennMiller and His Orchestra, becoming a No. 1 hit in 1940. The music was written by #ErskineHawkins, #BillJohnson, and #JulianDash and the lyrics by #BuddyFeyne. The song was introduced by Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra, a college dance band previously known as the #BamaStateCollegians. RCA released it in 1939 and it climbed to #7 on the American pop charts.
    youtube.com/watch?v=l_4Z9r8FEj8

  5. "A String of Pearls" is a 1941 song recorded by #GlennMiller and his Orchestra on #RCABluebird that November, becoming a No. 1 hit. It was composed by #JerryGray with lyrics by #EddieDeLange. The song is a #bigBand and #jazzStandard.
    youtube.com/watch?v=XyWIDc6LQ3o

  6. "A String of Pearls" is a 1941 song recorded by #GlennMiller and his Orchestra on #RCABluebird that November, becoming a No. 1 hit. It was composed by #JerryGray with lyrics by #EddieDeLange. The song is a #bigBand and #jazzStandard.
    youtube.com/watch?v=XyWIDc6LQ3o

  7. On Apr 28, 1940: #GlennMiller records the song "Pennsylvania 6-5000" in NYC; tune is named after phone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan.

  8. 85 years ago today, #GlennMiller begins work on his 1st movie "Sun Valley Serenade", starring #SonjaHenie and John Payne, for 20th Century Fox.

  9. @flexghost

    🎵 Share songs with numbers, symbols and calculations along with what you’re drinking! 🎶

    Hey!

    ...and 40 points if you post a video link (sorry, forgot how to link indirectly to YT)

    Thanks for the tip with the phone #! ;)

    #GlennMiller - Pennsylvania 6-5000 (1940) [Digitally Remastered]

    youtube.com/watch?v=AGOUldTrk-

    Muscat wine 🍇

  10. On Mar 1, 1904: #GlennMiller, American bandleader and #jazzcomposer (Glenn Miller Orchestra - "In The Mood"; "Moonlight Serenade"; "String Of Pearls"), born in Clarinda, Iowa (d. 1944).
    #HappyBirthday #RIP 🥀

  11. "Blueberry Hill" is a popular American song published in 1940 and first recorded and released by #SammyKaye in 1940 on #RCAVictor. It is best remembered for its 1950s #rockAndRoll version by #FatsDomino. #GlennMiller peaked at no. 2 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1940 with his recording on RCA #BluebirdRecords featuring #RayEberle on vocals. In 1941, #GeneAutry made a recording of this song for #RegalZonophone. He also sang it in the 1941 movie #TheSingingHill.
    youtube.com/watch?v=X1YtozEFqNs

  12. On the 10th of February 1942: #GlennMiller and his Orchestra are awarded the first-ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

  13. "Moonlight Serenade" is an American swing #ballad composed by #GlennMiller with subsequent lyrics by #MitchellParish. It was an immediate phenomenon when released in May 1939 as an instrumental arrangement, though it had been adopted and performed as Miller's #signatureTune as early as 1938, even before it had been given the name "Moonlight Serenade". In 1991, Miller's recording of "Moonlight Serenade" was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame.
    youtube.com/watch?v=AQseFAcWvtE

  14. @mason @gumnos

    Doesn't quite get #GlennMiller references right, though. XD

    rld@Intrepid:$ number 65000
    sixty-five thousand.
    rld@Intrepid:$

  15. RE: tenforward.social/@djwudi/1159

    You only need to change a few words to update When That Man Is Dead And Gone:

    Some fine day the news'll flash
    Satan with that orange rash
    Is asleep beneath the lawn
    When that man is dead and gone

    Tho' I think it sounds a bit more 1940 to say "that awful rash"; it'd certainly be easier to sing.

    I'm not into Al Bowlly's extended lyrics; the line about Goering's difficult in multiple ways:

    Satan'll take him by the hand
    To meet old Goering, luftwaffe man

    But maybe (with context):

    What a day to wake up on
    What a way to greet the dawn
    Satan with those tiny hands
    will fall into hell's hinterlands
    When that man is dead and gone
    When that man is dead and gone

    #song #lyrics #update #GlennMiller #AlBowlly #WhenThatManIsDeadAndGone #FuckTrump

  16. "In the Mood" is a popular #bigBand-era #jazzStandard recorded by American bandleader #GlennMiller. "In the Mood" is based on the composition "#TarPaperStomp" by #WingyManone. The first recording under the name "In the Mood" was released by #EdgarHayes and his Orchestra in 1938. In 1983, the Glenn Miller recording from 1939 was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame. In 2004, the recording was inducted into the Library of Congress #NationalRecordingRegistry.
    youtube.com/watch?v=8u4TCvwCbgY

  17. #OnThisDay in 1944, #GlennMiller, American bandleader and #jazzcomposer (Glenn Miller Orchestra - "In The Mood"; "Moonlight Serenade"; "String Of Pearls"), died in a suspected #planecrash over the English Channel, while serving in the US Army, at 40.
    #RIP

  18. "Sunrise Serenade" is a jazz song written by #FrankieCarle with lyrics by #JackLawrence. It was first recorded in 1939 by #GlenGray and the #CasaLomaOrchestra with Carle on piano as #Decca 2321. It soon became Carle's signature piece. #GlennMiller released a famous recording of it a few months later, arranged by #BillFinnegan, with "#MoonlightSerenade" on the backside (#Bluebird 10214).
    youtube.com/watch?v=vIRH_yhuqjo

  19. When Swing was King – und eine Punktlandung in Deutschland, 2025 #Swing #Jazz #Music #Musik #MusicMania #MusicHistory #DukeEllington #BennyGoodman #CountBasie #GlennMiller #TommyDorsey #WoodyHerman #ChickWebb #ArtieShaw #EllaFitzgerald #FrankSinatra

    https://derw ahlberliner.com/2025/11/21/when-swing-was-king-und-eine-punktlandung-in-deutschland-2025/

  20. "In the Mood" is a popular #bigBand-era #jazzStandard recorded by American bandleader #GlennMiller. "In the Mood" is based on the composition "#TarPaperStomp" by #WingyManone. The first recording under the name "In the Mood" was released by #EdgarHayes & His Orchestra in 1938. In 1983, the Glenn Miller recording from 1939 was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame. In 2004.
    youtube.com/watch?v=ALU66mO-39o

  21. "Tuxedo Junction" is a popular #bigBand song recorded by #GlennMiller and His Orchestra, becoming a No. 1 hit in 1940. The music was written by #ErskineHawkins, #BillJohnson, and #JulianDash and the lyrics by #BuddyFeyne. The song was introduced by Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra, a college dance band previously known as the #BamaStateCollegians. RCA released it in 1939 and it climbed to #7 on the American pop charts.
    youtube.com/watch?v=l_4Z9r8FEj8