Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Decca 1284 (1937) & Bonus Side

Coming across a Glenn Miller on Bluebird or Victor has always been a bright spot in my collecting. Yeah, I know that there are a ton out there but his band, his movies, his sound...well...it gets to me.

Now...even more special than finding a Bluebird is getting one from his earlier bands on Columbia, Decca or Brunswick.

(I've only found Deccas...and just 2 of 'em.)

Glenn Miller tb, a, dir / Charlie Spivak, Manny Klein t / Sterling Bose t, v / Jesse Ralph, Harry Rogers tb / George Siravo cl, as / Hal McIntyre cl, as / Jerry Jerome, Carl Biesacker cl, ts / Howard Smith p / Dick McDonough g / Ted Kotsoftis sb / George Simon d / Doris Kerr, The Tune Twisters (including Jack Lathrop) v.

Recorded in New York on March 22, 1937.

Bonus side:

What looks to be a Japanese pressing, here is a recording made 3 months after the ones above with the same personnel. (The flip side is a Claude Thornhill recording of Harbor Lights)