* 1944 – Glenn Miller, American musician ( presumed date of death ) ( b. 1904 )

Day said: " During this long, boring period, I used to while away a lot of time listening to the radio, sometimes singing along with the likes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller [...].

* 1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for " Chattanooga Choo Choo ".

* The Glenn Miller Orchestra, a U. S. jazz group

* 1910 – Ray McKinley, American singer, drummer, and bandleader ( Glenn Miller Orchestra ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1904 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader ( d. 1944 )

* 1995 – Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer and bandleader ( Glenn Miller Orchestra ) ( b. 1910 )

In high school, Orbison and some friends formed The Wink Westerners, an informal band that played country standards and Glenn Miller songs at local honky-tonks, and had a weekly radio show on KERB in Kermit.

Traditionally, politically driven talk radio from the United States does not air on Canadian stations, with a few scattered exceptions ( e. g. the now-defunct CFBN, which carried political programming such as the Glenn Beck Program and Dennis Miller, and the also-discontinued talk format of CHAM, which carried Miller ).

File: Goldchat1. jpg | Gold record for Chattanooga Choo Choo presented to Glenn Miller ( right ), by W. Wallace Early of RCA Victor with announcer Paul Douglas on the left, February, 1942.

In December 1944 Glenn Miller perished on a flight from London to Paris when his plane disappeared over the English Channel.

* Glenn Miller

** Glenn Miller, American bandleader ( d. 1944 )

Jazz pianist and composer, Frank Signorelli, who collaborated on the jazz standards " A Blues Serenade ", recorded by Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, " Gypsy ", and " Stairway to the Stars ", joined ODJB for a brief time in 1921.

" Tiger Rag " was recorded by everyone from Louis Armstrong to Duke Ellington to Glenn Miller to Benny Goodman.

* Glenn Miller and his Orchestra

" Tuxedo Junction ," a signature tune for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, uses the effect prominently in its trombone parts.

Probably the most famous and first was ( I've Got a Gal In ) Kalamazoo " ( 1942 ) by the Glenn Miller band with Tex Beneke.

The performance was recreated with Gene Morrison Orchestra as the Glenn Miller Band and the Nicholas Brothers ( doing a memorable dance ) in the 1942 movie Orchestra Wives.

Fictionalized biographical films of Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, and others were made in the 1950s, as nostalgic tributes to the glory years.

Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Shep Fields and, later, Glenn Miller far eclipsed other bands in popularity from the middle of the decade.

Glenn Miller

Successful bandleaders dealt with all these hazards of touring to hold their bands together — some with rigid discipline ( Glenn Miller ), some with canny psychology ( Duke Ellington ).

Many band members served in the military and toured with USO troupes at the front, with Glenn Miller losing his life while traveling between troop shows.

In 1995, Glenn Close and Placido Domingo recorded a Christmas album together titled Repeat the Sounding Joy featuring The London Symphony Orchestra.

Glenn Miller made his first movie appearance in the 1935 Paramount Pictures release The Big Broadcast of 1936 as a member of the Ray Noble Orchestra performing " Why Stars Come Out at Night ".

Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco surprised many people when he led the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the late sixties and early seventies.

In a website concerning the history of the Hollywood Palladium, it is noted " ven as the big band era faded, the Tex Beneke and Glenn Miller Orchestra concert at the Palladium resulted in a record-breaking crowd of 6, 750 dancers.

What began as the " Glenn Miller Orchestra Under the Direction of Tex Beneke " finally became " The Tex Beneke Orchestra ".

The officially sanctioned Glenn Miller Orchestra for the United Kingdom has toured and recorded under the leadership of Ray McVay.

The official Glenn Miller Orchestra for Europe has been led by Wil Salden since 1990.

* Glenn's Swing Orchestra ( Jazz big band: Tribute to Glenn Miller )

* Glenn Miller recorded a version on V-Disc, No. 91A, which was issued in January 1944 by the U. S. War Department featuring the AAFTC Orchestra.

In 1940, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded " Be Happy ", a song Louis Prima co-wrote.

* Maurice Purtill ( 1916 – 94 ), drummer in the Big Bands, most notably the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

* 1987-Less Than Zero Soundtrack by Various Artists ( Contributed the track " You and Me ( Less than Zero )" with Glenn Danzig & the Power and Fury Orchestra )

Later, they became a quartet with Milano, D ' Aleo, Gradus, and Daniel Elliott ( née Rubado, ex-The Monterays, Glenn Miller Orchestra ) who joined in 1974.

Future bandleader Glenn Miller was a member of the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in 1934 and 1935, composing " Annie's Cousin Fanny " and " Dese Dem Dose " both recorded for Decca for the band.

Versions have been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Tommy Dorsey, Tex Beneke with The Glenn Miller Orchestra ( Recorded in New York City on February 1, 1947 and released by RCA Victor Records as catalogue number 20-2016B and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number BD 5968 ), Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Jan Garber, Fumio Nanri, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Mel Tormé, Connie Francis, Jean Sablon, Keely Smith, Terumasa Hino, Harry Connick Jr, Ella Fitzgerald, Olavi Virta, The Peanuts, Django Reinhardt, Barry Manilow, John Coltrane, Earl Grant, Willie Nelson, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, George Benson, Mina, Ken Hirai, Los Hombres Calientes and many others.

Glenn Miller also released a recording of the song on V-Disc, No. 65A, with a spoken introduction recorded with the AAFTC Orchestra which was released in December, 1943.

20 in 1939 on Billboard, staying on the charts for one week, also recorded by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra and Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra, " Beebe ", " Oodles of Noodles ", " John Silver " with Ray Krise, which reached no.