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Wallace Early: It's a pleasure to be here tonight. And speaking of RCA Victor, we're mighty proud of that "Chattanooga Choo Choo", and the man that made the record, Glenn Miller. You see it's been a long time – 15 years in fact – since any record has sold a million copies. And "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
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Miller comes across as a convincing band leader, and, even more important, a convincing human being in this film. He’s on mostly for music, but most of the film is music and the dozen or so reels are a better showcase for the Glenn Miller band than they are for the Sonja Henie torso and limbs, with
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certainly put on steam and breezed right through that million mark by over 200,000 pressings. And we decided that Glenn should get a trophy. The best one we could think of is a gold record of "Chattanooga". And now Glenn, it's yours – with the best wishes of RCA Victor
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were worried over whether Miller could sustain his popularity. Their fear subsided, and the program, reformatted for 15 minutes, aired
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights at 10:15 pm. Miller and his band held the slot until their disbandment in 1942.
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to accept him, so he could, "be placed in charge of a modernized Army band." He reported for duty on October 7, 1942. He soon transferred to the
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1978:Pennsylvania 6-5000
1964:The Nearness of You
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2204:Toby Tyler
2196:Al Mastren
2143:Tex Beneke
2138:Ray Eberle
1599:2018-10-16
1524:26 October
1502:2018-10-16
1430:16 October
1400:2018-10-16
1352:2018-04-04
1327:2018-10-16
1291:2018-10-16
1260:2015-07-28
1250:tsort.info
1230:2015-07-28
1186:2015-03-06
1156:8 February
1124:2015-03-06
1068:2015-08-07
1000:2018-10-16
949:References
938:Bandleader
835:See also:
728:, on both
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632:Jerry Gray
537:Sun Valley
514:Al Donahue
414:Tex Beneke
335:My Reverie
307:Bob Eberly
303:Ray Eberle
285:Beginnings
259:AFM strike
209:Artie Shaw
172:and tenor
162:dance band
74:Dance band
2675:Big bands
2414:Composers
2406:Billy May
2387:Arrangers
2314:Alec Fila
2305:Billy May
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