Artist: Glen Miller

Title: The Hits Collection 1935-44

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2021

Label: Acrobat

UPC: 824046751524

Genre: Jazz

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Solo Hop
2. Every Day's a Holiday
3. My Reverie
4. Moonlight Serenade
5. Sunrise Serenade
6. Wishing (Will Make It So)
7. My Last Good-Bye
8. The Lady's in Love with You
9. Runnin' Wild
10. Stairway to the Stars
11. Little Brown Jug
12. Back to Back
13. Cinderella (Stay in My Arms)
14. Moon Love
15. Ain'tcha Comin' Out Tonight?
16. The Little Man Who Wasn't There
17. The Man with the Mandolin
18. Ding-Dong! the Witch Is Dead
19. Over the Rainbow
20. Blue Orchids
21. My Isle of Golden Dreams
22. My Prayer
23. In the Mood
24. (Why Couldn't It Last) Last Night
25. Melancholy Lullaby

DISC 2:
1. Speaking of Heaven
2. Bluebirds in the Moonlight
3. Faithful Forever
4. Indian Summer
5. Careless
6. Vagabond Dreams
7. This Changing World
8. It's a Blue World
9. In An Old Dutch Garden (By An Old Dutch Mill)
10. Starlit Hour
11. Ooh! What You Said
12. The Gaucho Serenade
13. When You Wish Upon a Star
14. The Sky Fell Down
15. The Woodpecker Song
16. Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)
17. Tuxedo Junction
18. Imagination
19. Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy)
20. Say It
21. Sierra Sue
22. Star Dust
23. I'll Never Smile Again
24. Hear My Song, Violetta
25. Shake Down the Stars
26. Boog It

DISC 3:
1. Alice Blue Gown
2. Devil May Care
3. I'm Stepping Out with a Memory Tonight
4. Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
5. Slow Freight
6. The Nearness of You
7. Pennsylvania 6-5000
8. A Million Dreams Ago
9. Blueberry Hill
10. When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano
11. Crosstown
12. Our Love Affair
13. The Call of the Canyon
14. I Wouldn't Take a Million
15. Beat Me, Daddy (Eight to the Bar)
16. Falling Leaves
17. A Handful of Stars
18. Yesterthoughts
19. Five O'Clock Whistle
20. I'd Know You Anywhere
21. You've Got Me This Way
22. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
23. Along the Santa Fe Trail
24. Yes, My Darling Daughter
25. Anvil Chorus (Part 1)

DISC 4:
1. Frenesi
2. Song of the Volga Boatmen
3. I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem
4. When That Man Is Dead and Gone
5. Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider)
6. Perfidia (Tonight)
7. Boulder Bluff
8. The Booglie Wooglie Piggy
9. I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest
10. You and I
11. Adios
12. Chattanooga Choo Choo
13. I Know Why
14. The Cowboy Serenade
15. It Happened in Sun Valley
16. Delilah
17. Elmer's Tune
18. I'm Thrilled
19. This Time the Dream's on Me
20. Orange Blossom Lane
21. Jingle Bells
22. Humpty Dumpty Heart
23. Everything I Love
24. This Is No Laughing Matter

DISC 5:
1. A String of Pearls
2. (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) the White Cliffs of Dover
3. We're the Couple in the Castle
4. Moonlight Cocktail
5. Always in My Heart
6. Skylark
7. The Story of a Starry Night
8. Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
9. Sweet Eloise
10. Knit One, Purl Two
11. (I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo
12. Serenade in Blue
13. American Patrol
14. Yesterday's Gardenias
15. At Last
16. Dearly Beloved
17. Juke Box Saturday Night
18. Moonlight Becomes You
19. Moonlight Mood
20. That Old Black Magic
21. Rhapsody in Blue
22. Blue Rain
23. It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That)
24. Here We Go Again

The music of Glenn Miller's orchestra was central to the style and atmosphere of the Swing Era and is inextricably associated with the Allied victory in WWII, his hits keeping people's spirits up on both sides of the Atlantic, with Miller himself becoming part of the war effort until his mysterious disappearance in 1944. Such was his popularity that in the period of less than a decade from his launching his orchestra in the mid-30s through to his demise, he had over 120 hits, both with his instrumental classics and with the new songs of the time. This great value124-track 5-CD set comprises just about all of recordings on the Columbia, Brunswick, Bluebird, Victor and RCA-Victor labels which are listed as hits in standard industry sources, many from the era after the launch of the Billboard record sales charts in 1940. It features an extraordinary tally of 21 No. 1s, including "A String of Pearls", "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree", "Moonlight Cocktail", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "Tuxedo Junction", "In the Mood", "Blueberry Hill", "Fools Rush In" and many more. The featured vocalists include Ray Eberle, Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke, Kathleen Lane, Jack Lathrop, Dorothy Claire, Paula Kelly, Skip Nelson and The Modernaires. It's a substantial and entertaining showcase for one of the most important orchestras of the times, and an enormously evocative journey through the popular music landscape of a remarkable era in modern history.