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DJ Schmolli - In The Mood For Some Killing
Glenn Miller Band vs. Rage Against the Machine
Guys like us we had it made
those were the days
Also don't forget the songs that made the Hit Parade.
Guys like us we had it made
Also don't forget the songs that made the Hit Parade.
I can’t hear anything other than chickens….”bauk-BAUUUKKK!!”
Apparently actor Harry Morgan of Dragnet and M.A.S.H. fame was a close personal friend of Glenn Miller. Hey, don't blame me for bringing up this old piece of trivia. William and Alanna opened up the conversation by playing this song!
I don't know if Morgan was a close personal friend with Glenn Miller in real life, but please don't confuse what you said with Morgan's role of Chummy MacGregor in The Glenn Miller Story bio pic (1954). Yes, I like trivia too.
UPDATE:
Harry Morgan (credited as Henry Morgan) and Glenn Miller appeared together in the 1942 movie Orchestra Wives.
Other names that you might recognize in that movie: Ann Rutherford, Cesar Romero and Jackie Gleason. Thanks, Pinto! See you at RP Trivia Night.
handyman56 wrote:
This song reminds me of my deceased mother. Back during my early childhood in the 50"s she would light up when this came on the AM radio. She would reach down and grab my little hands and dance me around the kitchen. She would tell me stories about how she met my father at one of the big band dances at the Pavilion Dance Hall in Johnson City NY during WWII. Glen Miller and other big bands would play there every weekend. She inspired my life long love of music and dancing. Thank you for all the great music on RP..
GOLDEN.
Apparently actor Harry Morgan of Dragnet and M.A.S.H. fame was a close personal friend of Glenn Miller. Hey, don't blame me for bringing up this old piece of trivia. William and Alanna opened up the conversation by playing this song!
And played the part of Chummy in "The Glenn Miller Story" a favorite of my father.
He was killed 4 months to the day in Belgium, he had just turned 21.
I hope he got to dance to this iconic tune
xo
My great aunt served as an Army nurse in WWII. Her unit landed at Normandy soon after D-Day. I often imagine her and her girlfriends dancing with fellas at the O club to this song in the months leading up to the invasion.
Cool story! Thank You for sharing it!
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Happy Friday!
Us mechanical engineers learned why many of those Liberty Ships sank, in our metallurgy classes. The steel used to make them was susceptible to extreme brittleness when welded - typical of high-strength steels, in a cruel twist.
In the frigid North Atlantic, the welds cracked.
Welding was faster than riveting (most likely hot rivets, a resource- and labor-intensive process), which is how they were able to make so many. But welding came with its own set of issues.
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VERY TRUE! Cruel irony!
Us mechanical engineers learned why many of those Liberty Ships sank, in our metallurgy classes. The steel used to make them was susceptible to extreme brittleness when welded - typical of high-strength steels, in a cruel twist.
In the frigid North Atlantic, the welds cracked.
Welding was faster than riveting (most likely hot rivets, a resource- and labor-intensive process), which is how they were able to make so many. But welding came with its own set of issues.
c.
Maybe but it's a zippy tune on its own. The solos are great, esp. the sax early on.
What do you think was played as his coffin disappeared for the last time?
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Trivia...They used the original Vise-Grips to hold the plates together while
welding. At the start, they unsnapped 'em but that took too long so they just
ordered pallets of 'em, left 'em on and kept on welding... Many of the ships
never made it across the North Atlantic...So if you're looking for a free pair
of Vise-Grips...
Tony in NJ
W.A.S.T.E.
As a trombonist in Glenn Miller's band, he didn't get a lot of solos ... but he sure had some great stories!
Thank you Prof. Tanner!
So glad I've discovered RP, keep up the great work and tunes
10/10
my memory is 2nd hand: my father remembers his last stateside night as a naive 20-year-old at an RSO in san francisco the night before he and a few hundred guys boarded a ship to head out to the war in the pacific in 1943.
he said he had a mixture of excitement, sadness, and general unease at the anticipation of sailing out to an abstract war that was about to get very real. the RSO band played "in the mood" over and over into the night, which made it even more surreal.
he said this song would always bring him back to that night.
and boarded a ship possibly manned by my grandfather who was a Chief Engineer. There is a family photo taken in an RSO at about this time, my grandfather and future grandmother are discretely holding hands sitting at a table dressed in their finery. It's hard to not think of that whenever I hear 'in the mood'
hence my 9, sentimental, yes, but it's a rocking tune
my memory is 2nd hand: my father remembers his last stateside night as a naive 20-year-old at an RSO in san francisco the night before he and a few hundred guys boarded a ship to head out to the war in the pacific in 1943.
he said he had a mixture of excitement, sadness, and general unease at the anticipation of sailing out to an abstract war that was about to get very real. the RSO band played "in the mood" over and over into the night, which made it even more surreal.
he said this song would always bring him back to that night.
Do you mean "The Henhouse Five Plus Too"? Nines for both! (the too is spelled that way on the 45)
Thanks for sharing this :-) Smile on my face and beat in my foot.
Now there is a strange thing. This music makes me happy because it reminds me of my dad?!?
But I still love it so, whatever!
When you're right, you're right!
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"Today's kids" being...in their 40s and 50s?
No—I'm talking about 16-25'ers today who won't give these type of songs a "rest" for a few years or 10:
Sweet Caroline
Don't Stop Believin'
Your Love
Livin' on a Prayer
If I don't hear any of these 4 at least once a day, even though I'm not even trying to, it's a rarity.
But today's kids just love to crank and/or sing along to crappy 30 year-old old pop songs like The Outfield's "Your Love"—-WHY IS THAT?
"Today's kids" being...in their 40s and 50s? Listen, there are radio stations geared to playing old-school rap. The Outfield could be only 10 years older than Glenn Miller to today's kids.
When you're right, you're right!
But today's kids just love to crank and/or sing along to crappy 30 year-old old pop songs like The Outfield's "Your Love"—-WHY IS THAT?
I love "Your Love."
But today's kids just love to crank and/or sing along to crappy 30 year-old old pop songs like The Outfield's "Your Love"—-WHY IS THAT?
Just kidding.
Yeah, repetitive, derivative, and a rip-off of an obscure track from Pink Floyd's "Ummagumma".
I dunno - I think the Glenn Miller ratio on RP is just about perfect
Just kidding.
Tenor sax for me. Our jazz band also doubled as the "Rubber Band" when we played pep rallies/football/basketball games in lieu of the regular Seabreeze HS Marching 100 band-one of the first big (100+ members) HS show bands in Florida (Daytona Beach), late 50's era. We were also the first HS band to preform the entire half-time show at an NFL game in Detroit between the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions, 1960. It was televised nationally to over 50 million viewers. And of course we also preformed before the first few Daytona 500 races held at the then brand-new super-speedway. 'Twas heady times for this young Florida Cracker.
I grew up listening to my amateur-musician dad playing this genre and others, even classical, on his home-made sound system. He was an electronics engineer who perfected synthetic stereo from a monaural source. He did it by delaying the signal on one set of speakers slightly behind the other set. Too bad he didn't patent it,...but then true stereo came out and was an instant success.
me too, but lead clarinet. how funny.
another clarinet here.
I can still remember the teacher getting into the song toward the end with the volume increase.
Phase One
"Intro: The Beat Goes On" (Sonny Bono) - 1:57Eighteenth Century: Variations on a Theme by Mozart: "Divertimento No. 13 In F Major" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) - 0:46Nineteenth Century: "Old Black Joe" (Stephen Foster) - 0:46Twentieth Century - 3:09"Don't Fence Me In" (Cole Porter) - 0:52"12th Street Rag" (Euday L. Bowman) - 0:49"In The Mood" (Garland-Razaf) - 0:45"Hound Dog" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 0:43The Beatles - 1:45"I Want To Hold Your Hand" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)"I Feel Fine" (Lennon–McCartney)"Day Tripper" (Lennon–McCartney)"She Loves You" (Lennon–McCartney)"Hello Goodbye" (Lennon–McCartney)me too, but lead clarinet. how funny.
Now, I LOVE this music because I can't hear it without thinking about him.
Oh, and it's also pretty awesome music, too.
Love it.
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant. In the years that my father and I could barely agree on the colour of grass, let alone what constituted good music, we could both enjoy his Glen Miller records.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
Love it.
The tease in this song just drives actual humans crazy. They love it, and as part of the band we did too.
Rah rah CGHS and Don Don Ehrensperger.