I am new to big band music, and I think this is a great collection of Glenn Miller. This album has great sound quality and a good overall track selection.
June 8, 2008This is the best Glenn Miller CD ever produced. It has all the great tunes from the 40s. If you like Glenn Miller, this is a must buy!
April 5, 2008 |  | Earning five stars because of its profound contribution to popular music |  |
This is probably the best intro CD to Glenn Miller. It is missing some great songs including "Sunrise Serenade" and "Anvil Chorus", which are two of my favourites. For individuals concerned with the sound quality; there are some very unnatural anomalies created due to trying to eliminate the clicks and pops. The anomalies are often very non-musical and distracting. There is a OOP 3 CD set titled "The Popular Recordings (1938-1942)" that I keep going back to as the most natural sounding recordings I have of Glenn. If timbre and tonality matter to you, the 3 CD set may suit your tastes better; but this CD set has more prominent clicks and pops (because they are there and they cannot go away cleanly regardless of modern technology). Also to note, the material covered by the 3 CD set really has a far greater breadth of material.
June 5, 2007| | | Remarkable sound, beware other albums of the same title | |
First, don't confuse this 2005 release with the unrelated and vastly inferior 2006 release of the same title. This 2005 album offers more numbers and the best sound I've heard yet on a GM remastered compliation.
I've been buying GM albums since the late 1960s, starting with a vinyl LP compilation that "enhanced" each track with synthesized "stereo" (awful), so I've experienced the steady improvements in sound quality as remastering technology has become more sophisticated. The quality of the sound on this album is a revelation. Except for being in mono, the tracks sound much more recent than 1939-1944. And although the original recordings were made under all kinds of conditions with varying quality of equipment, the remastering produces a consistent sound quality across all tracks. I would dare say that these recordings probably sound even better than fresh-out-of-the-package 78s did back in Miller's heyday, except perhaps on the very best phonographs.
Few people still living today heard GM in person, and the number is rapidly dwindling. RCA's willingness to put this kind of investment into remastering a collection of his music shows that new audiences continue to discover and appreciate that distinctive GM sound.
February 19, 2007| | | Boy,the way Glenn Miller played,his songs that made the hit parade! | |
Boy,the way Glenn Miller played,his songs that made the hit parade. Guys like him,they had it made,those were the days! Miller was one of the world's greatest swing music artists in the late 1930's and early 1940's. He had a string of hits such as MOONLIGHT SERENADE,IN THE MOOD,MOONLIGHT SONATA,JUKEBOX SATURDAY NIGHT and THE NEARNESS OF YOU. Miller's career ended early with his untimely death unfortunately. It's amazing to have heard the late Carroll O'Connor mention Miller in the opening line of THOSE WERE THE DAYS,the opening montage theme from the CBS Emmy-winning sitcom All In The Family. Fans of Miller also loved the late Benny Goodman,the late Tommy Dorsey and the late Harry James.
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