Glenn Miller, born this day 1st March in 1904...
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Thank you, BBC Radio 3, for playing this this morning! Recorded in 1939, 'Moonlight Serenade', Miller's 'Theme tune', was a hit in the UK in the postwar decades, charting in 1954 and again in 1975. Real musicianship and real quality! The closing bars are really special too. The melody just seems to take to the air and fly away into the distance...
Thank you, BBC Radio 3, for playing this this morning! Recorded in 1939, 'Moonlight Serenade', Miller's 'Theme tune', was a hit in the UK in the postwar decades, charting in 1954 and again in 1975. Real musicianship and real quality! The closing bars are really special too. The melody just seems to take to the air and fly away into the distance...
61-69, M
