The current orchestra is made up of members from all over including ... Luther once described Glenn Miller as the best of the big bands. Glenn Miller performed over 500 shows on Armed Forces ...

The GMC encompasses many thousands of audio recordings, documents, photographs, and memorabilia from the "Big Band Era" of American popular music and is ... please contact [email protected].

Johnny Desmond. He remained with the Army Air Forces Band (Special) until it returned from the ETO in August 1945 without their leader. He was among the members of the Miller AAF orchestra to join the ...

went over big with audience members, who sang the title hook along with the band." Stabnau said that besides playing the hits the band also delves "a little deeper into the Glenn Miller song book ...

I've been playing for 26 years with the band and when I first came here, there were people who knew Tex Beneke and all sorts ...

Glenn Miller's music "lives on" at a vintage festival on the site of the airfield he disappeared from 80 years ago, according to organisers. In December 1944 the US airman and band leader boarded ...

As Glenn Miller’s musical career soared, he traded in his commercial success for a military uniform to entertain US troops during World War II. Then, on a foggy afternoon, December 15 ...

Glenn Miller's plane took off from Bedford for Paris, on 15 December 1944 A US team is investigating if a plane carrying band leader Glenn Miller might have crashed off the Dorset coast.

The most popular and sought after big band of all time, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, returns to Chattanooga and the UTC Fine Arts Center’s Roland Hayes Concert Hall Friday at 7 p.m. The band will ...