Glenn Miller discography The song was first performed by the dance band of the AAF orchestra and sung by Ray McKinley when Glenn Miller was in England in 1944. The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band performed the song on December 4, 1944 on the "Swing Shift" program. Glenn Miller co-wrote "Morning Mood" with composer Bert Reisfeld as a trombone solo with piano forte accompaniment which was copyrighted on September 2, 1941 by the Mutual Music Society in New York based on the ASCAP database. The royalty was split half to each. There are no known performances. The song "After Tonight" was copyrighted
Glenn Miller 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' should have died." Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco surprised many people when he led the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the late sixties and early seventies. De Franco was already a veteran of bands like Gene Krupa and Tommy Dorsey in the 1940s. He was also a major exponent of modern jazz in the 1950s. He never saw Miller as leading a swinging jazz band, but DeFranco is extremely fond of certain aspects of the Glenn Miller style. "I found that when I opened with the sound of 'Moonlight Serenade', I could look around and see men and women weeping