In the 1940s, the Glenn Miller Orchestra brought Americans onto dance floors swinging to the ... Glenn Miller enlisted in the service in 1942 with the intent to modernize the military bands and ...
15, 1944, Glenn Miller, one of the kings of the big-band scene — the dance-pop of ... s songs and arrangements as if it were still 1940 and “String of Pearls” was topping the pop charts.
Glenn Miller's band spent five months in Bedford ... His swing orchestra became known in the 1930s and 1940s for hits such as In The Mood and Chattanooga Choo Choo. Image caption, A weekend ...
The Nick Ross Orchestra will perform The Glenn Miller and Rat Pack Era at the Queen's Hall, to recapture the sounds of a bygone era with the Classic Big Band Sound of the 1940s and 1950s. Tickets ...