GLENN MILLER '89 BAND REUNION: JACK JONES - KAY STARR & MORE
Product Description
PROGRAM 1:
• Glenn Miller Band Reunion :
PBS special from 1989 – 65 minutes
..an extraordinary concert with great
picture and sound!
Hosts: Jack Jones and Kay Starr in an L.A. Nighclub with The New Glenn Miller Orchestra conducted by BILLY MAY. Many clips with members of the original Miller Band recalling the old days on the road and in Hollywood and outline the successes on radio, records and tours.
Many of the Miller orchestral and vocal hits are performed by the Modernairs, Jack Jones and Kay Starr. Dancers also join in on some of the band’s big hits!
KAY STARR is featured in: It Happened In Sun Valley – Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree.
JACK JONES sings: Moonlight Cocktail – Serenade In Blue – At Last.
MODERNARIES enjoin in: String Of Pearls – Chattanooga Choo-Choo – - Moonlight Serenade
ORCHESTRA goes to town with : Tuxedo Junction– Pennsylvania 6-500 – American Patrol – Runnin’ Wild – St Louis Blues March – and Londonderry Air.
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PROGRAM 2: (documentary – 55 minutes). ‘GLENN MILLER’S LAST FLIGHT’ – PBS 2003 Researchers investigate theories of what might actually have happened to the Miller plane enroute to France in late 1944. For the first time official military reports reveal the most likely sequence of events on that fateful day. Very informative.
Hosts: Jack Jones and Kay Starr in an L.A. Nighclub with The New Glenn Miller Orchestra conducted by BILLY MAY. Many clips with members of the original Miller Band recalling the old days on the road and in Hollywood and outline the successes on radio, records and tours.
Many of the Miller orchestral and vocal hits are performed by the Modernairs, Jack Jones and Kay Starr. Dancers also join in on some of the band’s big hits!
KAY STARR is featured in: It Happened In Sun Valley – Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree.
JACK JONES sings: Moonlight Cocktail – Serenade In Blue – At Last.
MODERNARIES enjoin in: String Of Pearls – Chattanooga Choo-Choo – - Moonlight Serenade
ORCHESTRA goes to town with : Tuxedo Junction– Pennsylvania 6-500 – American Patrol – Runnin’ Wild – St Louis Blues March – and Londonderry Air.
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PROGRAM 2: (documentary – 55 minutes). ‘GLENN MILLER’S LAST FLIGHT’ – PBS 2003 Researchers investigate theories of what might actually have happened to the Miller plane enroute to France in late 1944. For the first time official military reports reveal the most likely sequence of events on that fateful day. Very informative.