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
Glenn Miller discography wide-angle, mobile camera shot used to film the scene, known as a boom shot. The arrangement is by George Williams. The Jack Million Band recorded it on the album "In the Mood for Glenn Miller, Vol. 2". "Boom Shot" was included on the 1959 double LP released by Twentieth Century Fox entitled "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra", TCF 100-2, which included music from the "Orchestra Wives" and "Sun Valley Serenade" movies. In May, 1959, "Boom Shot" was released as a 7" vinyl 45 single by the British Top Rank label with "You Say the Sweetest Things, Baby" by the Glenn