Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Vocalion 5131 (1937-1938)

Some of the last sides before Glenn Miller would disband and shortly thereafter, launch THE band.

Glenn Miller tb, a, speech, dir / Pee Wee Erwin, Bob Price, Ardell Garrett t / Jesse Ralph, Bud Smith tb / Irving Fazola cl, as / Hal McIntyre, Tony Viola as / Jerry Jerome ts / Carl Biesacker ts, a / J. C. McGregor p, speech / Carmen Mastren g / Rowland Bundock sb / Doc Carney d / Kathleen Lane v.

New York, November 29, 1937.

Glenn Miller tb, v, a, dir / Johnny Austin, Bob Price, Gasparre Rebito t / Brad Jenney, Al Mastren tb / Hal McIntyre, Wilbur Schwartz cl, as / Stanley Aronson as, bar / Tex Beneke, Sol Kane ts / J. C. McGregor p / Rowland Bundock sb / Bob Spangler d.

New York, May 23, 1938.

Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Decca 1239 (1937)

Always fun finding a pre-Glenn Miller Glenn Miller 78.

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.

Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - HMV 7853 (1938)

Paul Tanner, trombonist and one of the last few surviving sidemen to play in a band led by Glenn Miller (both civilian and military) and THE last of those that took part in the initial recording session by the band that scored almost two dozen number one hits between 1938 and 1942, died Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at age 95.

He would appear on another chart topper in 1966 playing an instrument he invented, the UFO sounding Electro-Theramin on the song, Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys.

Though not absolutely sure what Tanner's very first recording happened to be (and My Reverie may be it), here are two of the first three sides waxed by Glenn Miller's famous orchestra on September 27, 1938.

Bob Peck, Bob Price, Johnny Austin t / Glenn Miller, Al Mastren, Paul Tanner tb / Hal McIntyre, Bill Stegmeyer as , Wilbur Schwartz as, cl / Tex Beneke, Stanley Aronson ts / Chummy MacGregor p / Rowland Bundock sb / Bob Spangler d / Ray Eberle v.