Army Air Force Band

Army Air Force Band Artist: Glenn Miller & the Army Air Force Band
Label: RCA
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 4


UPC: 090266385225
EAN: 0090266385225
ASIN: B00005OW6A


Release Date: 2001-10-09

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Listmania:

  1. Swingingest Big Band Ensembles Of The '40s
  2. The Life and Times of Glenn Miller

Tracks:

  1. The Army Air Corps
  2. A String Of Pearls
  3. Medley: Annie Laurie/My Ideal/Alexander's Ragtime Band/Blue Is The Night
  4. Caribbean Clipper
  5. Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time)
  6. Along The Santa Fe Trail
  7. It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That)
  8. Medley: Londonderry Air/Shoo-Shoo Baby/The Way You Look Tonight/Beautiful Blue Danube
  9. Holiday For Strings
  10. I'll Be Around
  11. Poinciana (Song Of The Tree)
  12. The St. Louis Blues March
  13. What Do You Do In The Infantry (Official Marching Song Of The 264th Infantry Regiment)
  14. Medley: Goin' Home/Paper Doll/All The Things You Are/My Blue Heaven
  15. Sun Valley Jump

Tracks:

  1. Tail End Charlie
  2. Suddenly It's Spring
  3. Medley: In The Gloaming/For The First Time (I've Fallen In Love)/Stompin' At The Savoy/Deep Purple
  4. Jeep Jockey Jump
  5. Pearls On Velvet
  6. My Ideal
  7. Medley: Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair/I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night/Begin The Beguine...
  8. Enlisted Men's Mess
  9. In The Mood
  10. Song Of The Volga Boatman
  11. I Love You
  12. Medley: Silver Threads Among The Gold/Absent-Minded/A String Of Pearls/The St. Louis Blues
  13. Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
  14. Join The WAC/(There'll Be A) Hot Time In The Town Of Berlin (When The Yanks Go Marching In)

Tracks:

  1. Vict'ry Polka
  2. Mission To Moscow
  3. Medley: My Buddy/Good Night, Wherever You Are/Music Makers/Farewell Blues
  4. Begin The Beguine
  5. G.I. Jive
  6. Now I Know
  7. People Will Say We're In Love
  8. Medley: Long, Long Ago/The Music Stopped/The Dipsy Doodle/(I'm Left With The) Blues In My Heart
  9. I've Got A Heart Filled With Love
  10. How Sweet You Are
  11. Juke Box Saturday Night
  12. Medley: Flow Gently, Sweet Afton/Moon Dreams/Don't Be That Way/Blue Champagne
  13. I Hear You Screamin'
  14. Long Ago (And Far Away)
  15. In An 18th Century Drawing Room
  16. Time Alone Will Tell
  17. Flying Home

Tracks:

  1. Over There!
  2. Medley: Mother Machree/I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night/I Can't Give You Anything But Love...
  3. There Are Yanks (From The Banks Of The Wabash)
  4. Tuxedo Junction
  5. Anvil Chorus
  6. Going My Way
  7. Medley: Old Black Joe/As Time Goes By/I've Got Sixpence (As We Go Rolling Home)/Rhapsody In Blue
  8. Speak Low (When You Speak, Love)
  9. Here We Go Again
  10. Peggy The Pin-Up Girl
  11. Star Dust
  12. Pistol Packin' Mama
  13. Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me)
  14. Medley: Killarney/I've Got A Heart Filled With Love/Moonlight Serenade/Wabash Blues
  15. A Lovely Way To Spend The Evening

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars What Would Have Been?.......2005-01-29

The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band was far and away the best band that Miller ever fronted, and the evidence of that is overwhelming on these four discs. What clinches it for me is the version of "Star Dust," where the combination of strings and Miller's trademark reed section is absolutely breathtaking. This would have been the sound that Miller would have carried back to the US with him had he lived, and in my opinion the Big Band era would not have died as quickly. This is a must for any collection!

5 out of 5 stars An Important, Ear-popping Release.......2003-07-05

Miller's AAF band was everything that big bands were still struggling to become in the late forties.

There are... barn-burning hot swing numbers, and a string section that creates some of the sweetest (but never cloying or smarmy) music ever made.

This is the collection that started my father listening to Miller; I grew up listening to these recordings myself. But the restoration is wonderful-- the sound is super and the medleys are put back together as Glenn intended. It's also great to hear the introductions that go with them.

This is an indepsensible recording, a must-have for every student of the swing era.

5 out of 5 stars Finally Restored! Listen and Enjoy!.......2003-01-04

It took 45 years, but we finally have a release of this album the way it was supposed to be! BMG, with the diligent help of AAF Band collector and scholar Ed Polic, have brought back the recordings from the original 5-LP set of 1956 along with nearly two dozen additional selections not included in that landmark album. It's a treasure - the liner notes provide recording dates and locations, personnel changes and other information absent from the original release. But more importantly, the CDs reverse what can only be described as tampering on the LP release. You can once again hear Glenn Miller's and announcer Don Briggs' introductions and audience reactions that were removed from the 1956 set, and the medleys are as originally performed rather than being spliced together from unrelated broadcasts.

The fidelity on all but a few of these 60-year-old recordings is amazing. There are new performances of several of Miller's civilian band hits, experimental pieces such as Mel Powell's concerto "Pearls on Velvet", and lush pop songs featuring the full 21-member string section and Johnny Desmond's smooth vocals. With the added ambience of the restored introductions and thunderous applause from the audience, there's a new sense of what it must have been like to listen to this phenomenal orchestra "live and in person"!

If you buy this album, I'd also suggest complementing it with the other two significant boxed sets of AAF Band recordings which have appeared in the last few years, since each one presents the orchestra from a somewhat different perspective.

Many of the tracks on this album were recorded somewhat earlier in the band's existence, in mid- to late 1943. The performances are by and large either taken from live broadcasts or remote concerts, and there is a spontaneity that few bands seemed to be able to match in the studio. If you think you know "In the Mood", just listen to it on this album! On the other hand, there are some missteps - a dropped note here and there, and some programming lapses (what WAS the Major thinking when he selected "Mother Machree"??? Paging Lawrence Welk!) - but they all add to the sense of "being there".

The other two sets I'd recommend are The Secret Broadcasts, studio recordings done in the spring of 1944, and The Lost Recordings, made in the UK in late 1944. The musicians were probably at their most cohesive during that early 1944 period, and it shows in a range of performances extending from Ellingtonian jazz to serious classical works. The UK recordings are noteworthy because you can hear how the orchestra was evolving towards the new style and repertory that would have kept Glenn Miller in the forefront of popular music, if only ....

5 out of 5 stars Army Air Force Band (Box Set).......2002-01-26

I received the original 5-record album for Christmas in 1956. At the time it was a true landmark addition to the Miller discography. Thirty years later I purchased the 45-rpm boxed set. Now comes the CD re-release of this legendary work.

One cannot provide enough superlatives in description of this latest BMG release from the Miller library. It is one of the finest Miller releases yet to appear on compact disc...well produced and absolutely sparkling in its audio quality.

This set, along with the 9-volume AVID "Missing Chapters" series, shine as the definitive standards of the Miller AAF Orchestra representations, and should be a part of any Miller fan's collection.

One should give praise and thanks to Ed Polic, who has worked tirelessly in the effort to convince BMG to provide the public with so many previously unavailable Miller material.

5 out of 5 stars AT LAST THE RESTORED 1950's GLENN MILLER AAF ALBUM.......2001-11-01

GLENN MILLER's Army Air Force Orchestra at it's BEST!!!!
WELL DONE BMG!!!! THE GREATEST GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA EVER and restored as it was broadcast during 1943 to 1944. THIS IS THE ORCHESTRA THAT GAVE THE G.I's in Europe That much needed "HUNK O' HOME"...... THIS MUSIC & GLENN's memory will never die.....

THIS CD set should be an ALL TIME BEST SELLER!!!!!!!!!!

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