Glenn Miller Declassified

Glenn Miller Declassified
Author: Dennis M. Spragg
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 161234951X

On December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere over the English Channel the plane vanished. No trace of the aircraft or its occupants has ever been found. To this day Miller, Baessell, and the pilot, John Robert Stuart Morgan, are classified as missing in action. Weaving together cultural and military history, Glenn Miller Declassified tells the story of the musical legend Miller and his military career as commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band during World War II. After a brief assignment to the Army Specialist Corps, Miller was assigned to the Army Air Forces Training Command and soon thereafter to Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, in the UK. Later that year Miller and his band were to be transferred to Paris to expand the Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme, but Miller never made it. Miller's disappearance resulted in numerous conspiracy theories, especially since much of the information surrounding his military service had been classified, restricted, or, in some cases, lost. Dennis M. Spragg has gained unprecedented access to the Miller family archives as well as military and government documents to lay such theories to rest and to demonstrate the lasting legacy and importance of Miller's life, career, and service to his country.

The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band

The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band
Author: Edward F. Polic
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press ; [New Brunswick, N.J.] : Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
Total Pages: 760
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Radio

Radio
Author: Marlin R. Taylor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781684015924

Marlin Taylor's Radio ... My Love, My Passion relates the definitive history of radio's easy listening music format-one of the medium's most endearing and enduring programming presentations. Who better than the father of the format himself should tell this story? Marlin's recollections are inspiring and insightful. They reflect his conviction that radio stations should operate foremost as public servants, a viewpoint that contrasts sharply with the mindsets of the broadcasters who regarded their stations as not much more than automated jukeboxes. You'll come to learn that Marlin is a man of principle who, at a very tender age, discovered the power of this most personal of all the mass media to evoke listener response and affinity. In a sixty-year career spanning from AM to FM to XM, the always-Innovative Mr. Taylor embraced radio, exploiting its capabilities to their fullest potential. Enjoy learning about the background of this pioneering, trailblazing broadcaster! Book jacket.

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
Author: George T. Simon
Publisher: New York : T. Y. Crowell Company
Total Pages: 514
Release: 1974
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The story of America's most unforgettable bandleader. profusely illustrated with plates throughout. List of records by Glenn Miller. Definitive biography of the man who ran the most successful big band during the Swing Era.

Why Jazz Happened

Why Jazz Happened
Author: Marc Myers
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520305515

Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz’s post-war styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters, and others on the scene during the decades following World War II, this book views jazz’s evolution through the prism of technological advances, social transformations, changes in the law, economic trends, and much more. In an absorbing narrative enlivened by the commentary of key personalities, Marc Myers describes the myriad of events and trends that affected the music's evolution, among them, the American Federation of Musicians strike in the early 1940s, changes in radio and concert-promotion, the introduction of the long-playing record, the suburbanization of Los Angeles, the Civil Rights movement, the “British invasion” and the rise of electronic instruments. This groundbreaking book deepens our appreciation of this music by identifying many of the developments outside of jazz itself that contributed most to its texture, complexity, and growth.

Rock Concert

Rock Concert
Author: Marc Myers
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802157939

A “fascinating, intimate” oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on nearly 100 interviews with musicians, fans, and others (Publishers Weekly). Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its power as a unifying experience—and as a multi-billion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, acclaimed music writer Marc Myers delves into the history of this cultural phenomenon, weaving together ground-breaking accounts from the people who were there. Myers combines the tales of icons like Joan Baez, Ian Anderson, Alice Cooper, Steve Miller, Roger Waters, and Angus Young with the disc jockeys, audio engineers, and music journalists, and promoters who organized it all, like Michael Lang, co-founder of Woodstock, to create a rounded and vivid account of live rock’s stratospheric rise. Rock Concert offers a backstage view of rock ‘n’ roll as it evolved through live performance—from the rise of R&B in the 1950s, to the hippie gatherings of the ‘60s, and the growing arena tours of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Elvis Presley’s gyrating hips, the “British Invasion” of the Beatles, the Grateful Dead’s free flowing jams, and Pink Floyd’s The Wall are just a few of the defining musical acts that drive this rich narrative.

Glenn Miller in Britain

Glenn Miller in Britain
Author: Chris Way
Publisher: After the Battle
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1996
Genre: World War, 1939-1945
ISBN: 9780900913921

As well as chronicling and listing every performance in Britain from June 1944, the author details The Glenn Miller Story, his appearance in two films during the war and the circumstances of his disappearance on a flight to France.