THE GREAT GLENN MILLER

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, September 16, 1989

GLENN MILLER AND HIS ORCHESTRA (6-30-39) Remote broadcast from the Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, New York. Glenn plays “Dipper Mouth Blues,” “I’m Sorry for Myself,” “Beer Barrel Polka,” and “Pagan Love Song.” Vocals by Ray Eberle, Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton. Sustaining, NBC. (14:15; 14:35)

CHESTERFIELD SHOW (1-30-40) Glenn Miller and the Orchestra, “America’s number one dance band . . .” with Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters. Glenn plays “Rug Cutter’s Swing” and “Sweet and Low.” Patty sings “I Love You Much Too Much.” Chesterfield Cigarettes, CBS. (14:20)

GLENN MILLER’S SUNSET SERENADE (11-22-41) A USO Matinee remote broadcast from the Cafe Rouge of the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. A capacity crowd enjoys the great Miller music: “Tuxedo Junction,” “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” “It Happened in Sun Valley,” “In the Mood” and many others. Vocals by Ray Eberle, Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, the Modernaires. Sustaining, NBC. (10:50; 12:30; 16:25; 13:30)

AMERICAN BAND OF THE AEF (8-31-44) Major Glenn Miller and his orchestra present ” . . your Thursday night thirty minutes with the Moonlight Serenader.” Guest is Bing Crosby who does all the vocals in this program broadcast especially for servicemen and heard on the BBC and other European AFRS stations. (9:20; 8:50; 10:00)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be Nostalgia Digest columnist and big band authority KARL PEARSON who’ll have with him lots of information about Glenn Miller and the orchestra plus many other sound clips from the Miller years.