[78-L] My favorite Miller recordings

[Taylor Bowie]

...are the tunes from the soundtrack of "Orchestra Wives."  Wooo...they are 
all great but my fave is the one which opens the movie,  "People Like You 
and Me."   Nicely filmed,  too....one of the best clips in movies of a big 
band playing (yeah,  I know the sound was dubbed).  Too bad the band didn't 
get to do it for Victor,  as all the other tunes were covered,  including at 
least one which was cut from the movie.

And that long version of Kalamazoo...wonderful,  with the added singing 
parts for The Nicholas Brothers.  Top drawer all the way,  and fine 
recording quality.  I don't seem to get the same jollies from the Sun Valley 
Serenade stuff...maybe it's because the quality of the tunes is not as good 
IMNSHO.

Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DAVID BURNHAM" <burnhamd at rogers.com>
To: <78-L at 78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:42 PM
Subject: [78-L] Glenn Miller and Beethoven


"I don't think I will ever find something new in "In the Mood", whereas I 
find new aural treasures every time I hear the Beethoven or the Tchaikovsky, 
and I have heard both of those pieces countless times."

(someone, who put my utterances up there with Zarathustra's, wrote this but 
when I tried to go back and recover the name, for some strange reason, 
digests numbers 44 and 45 had disappeared from my inbox)

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I'm glad to hear you say that. I think Beethoven's 5th is perhaps the most 
perfect Symphony ever written. However my wife plays in my home city's 
Symphony Orchestra and through her and through my own career as a recording 
engineer I have met many jaded professional musicians who could care less if 
they ever heard another performance of Beethoven's 5th or any other 
Beethoven Symphony, or theTchaikovsky P.C. (Many of them would rather hear 
"In the Mood".) I once had the very rewarding experience of introducing a 
close friend, whose musical tastes only extended to Ray Conniff, L & L 
Elgart and James Last to classical music through playing for him, for the 
first time in his life, Beethoven's 5th, (the Karajan 1962 performance). 
This was in the late 60s and he suddenly became an evangelist for the merits 
of classical music. To this day, he renews his subscription to the Symphony 
season every year, loves all classical music from the pop concert
 favourites to the obscure and I'm sure his Bert Kaemphert LPs have not seen 
any wear since 1967.

I'm sure the original Miller "In the Mood" and many other Bluebirds of the 
Miller original hits suffered from the truncating required to fit them on to 
a 3 minute 10 inch side. In live performance they probably lasted 6 or 7 
minutes but when the soloists are told they can only do 4 bars, it's hard to 
be very spontaneous. This is apparent from the live recordings which have 
come out featuring the familiar standards in much longer versions.

db
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