Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. King Porter Stomp
2. And the Angels Sing
3. Moonlight Serenade
4. Lady's in Love With You
5. Wishing (Will Make It So)
6. Sunrise Serenade - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
7. Little Brown Jug
8. But It Didn't Mean a Thing
9. Pavanne
10. Runnin' Wild
11. Stairway to the Stars
12. Blue Evening
13. We Can Live on Love (We Haven't Got a Pot to Cook In)
14. Moon Love
15. Sliphorn Jive
16. Oh! You Crazy Moon
17. Ain't Cha Comin' Out?
18. Wanna Hat With Cherries
19. Pagan Love Song
20. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
21. Over the Rainbow
22. Man With the Mandolin
23. Blue Orchids
24. Glen Island Special
25. Farewell Blues

Disc 2:

1. In the Mood
2. My Isle of Golden Dreams
3. My Prayer
4. Blue Moonlight
5. Bluebirds in the Moonlight
6. Indian Summer
7. Johnson Rag
8. Careless
9. It's a Blue World
10. When You Wish Upon a Star
11. Rhumba Jumps!
12. Stardust
13. Rug Cutter's Swing
14. Woodpecker Song
15. Tuxedo Junction
16. Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)
17. Imagination
18. Shake Down the Stars
19. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
20. Say It
21. April Played the Fiddle
22. Fools Rush In
23. Slow Freight
24. Pennsylvania 6-5000
25. Bugle Call Rag

Disc 3:

1. Nearness of You
2. Mister Meadowlark
3. My Blue Heaven
4. When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano
5. Blueberry Hill
6. Be Happy
7. Five O'Clock Whistle
8. Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
9. Make Believe Ballroom Time
10. Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
11. Along the Santa Fe Trail
12. Yes, My Darling Daughter
13. Anvil Chorus, Pts. 1 & 2
14. Frenesi
15. Ida! Sweet as Apple Cider
16. Song of the Volga Boatmen
17. You Stepped Out of a Dream
18. I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem
19. Sun Valley Jump
20. Spirit Is Willing
21. Perfidia
22. It's Always You
23. Spring Will Be So Sad (When She Comes This Year)
24. Boulder Buff

Disc 4:

1. Chattanooga Choo Choo
2. Booglie Wooglie Piggy
3. I Know Why (And So Do You)
4. You and I
5. Adios
6. Kiss Polka
7. Elmer's Tune
8. String of Pearls - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
9. Moonlight Sonata
10. Slumber Song
11. (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover
12. Moonlight Cocktail
13. Skylark
14. When the Roses Bloom Again
15. Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
16. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
17. American Patrol
18. (I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo
19. Serenade in Blue
20. At Last
21. Caribbean Clipper
22. That Old Black Magic
23. Moonlight Becomes You
24. Juke Box Saturday Night

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45048 in Music
• Released on: 2001-05-28
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import

Album Description
UK budget-priced 4 CD compilation for the big band legend. Featuring 98 tracks including all his most popular tunes of the period. Includes 44 page booklet with his story, discography, session details & many rare photos. The CDs are Moonlight Serenade, In The Mood, Blueberry Hill & Chattanooga Choo Choo. Standard jewel cases houdes in a slip-box. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews

The best Glenn Miller compilation
This set of four CD's was released by Proper, who have released over thirty similar sets of some of the legends of the thirties and forties. There have been many compilations of Glenn's music - and will continue to be many more, but this is by far the best I've come across.

It contains all his big hits, all the other songs he is famous for and so much more besides. At the time I bought this, I didn't even realise his line-up included a female singer! Actually, if you buy a single-CD compilation of Glenn's music, chances are that you will get mostly (perhaps exclusively) instrumental tracks, with any vocals being by one of the male singers, usually Ray Eberle.

A four CD set allows you to hear a much broader range of music than you would get from a single CD. These include vocals from Marion Hutton and all the featured male singers, but ultimately it is the instrumental tracks (of which In the mood and Moonlight serenade are the most famous) which are what Glenn will be best remembered. He never attached great impotrance to singing, content to employ good singers who were not the absolute best. Some other bands had better singers but were less successful, so Glenn was right - it's the music that counts.

If you are thinking that four CD's is more than you need, compare the price of this to a double-CD. If you decide to buy this, you will find the extra variety - different voices on songs as well as instrumentals - will dispel any doubts. My opinion of Glenn's music (already favorable) increased considerably as a consequence of listening to this set. Four CD's is fully justified - enjoy them.

The choice selection for the jazz lover
As well as the standard classics (Tuxedo Junction etc) and a smattering of sentimental clunkers (April Played the Fiddle, etc) this complilation has quite a few outstanding and memorable swing (jazz) numbers that the band did well including Johnson Rag which swings like made, Slow Freight, Anvil Chorus Pts1&2 et al. It is these that make this compilation expecially enjoyable for me. The sound is good and the price is low. The best Miller Cd's available as I am not a completist

Best Music Ever Made
Fabulous! This was a gift to my 87 year-old father whose face lit up when he opened it. This is the "best music that was ever made", and he becomes more youthful with a definite spring to his step whenever he's listening to it. He has assured me that Glenn Miller is the best of the big band era.