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Author : Edward F. Polic
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press ; [New Brunswick, N.J.] : Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015015497160
Author : Dennis M. Spragg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612349510
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.
Author : Dennis M. Spragg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612349534
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.
Author : Rich Mittelstadt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Big bands
ISBN : UIUC:30112050111365
Author : George T. Simon
Publisher : New York : T. Y. Crowell Company
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036970098
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.
Author : Dennis M. Spragg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640122642
America Ascendant vividly portrays the global crisis that brought the media and the government into an alliance that changed the course of American and world history. President Franklin D. Roosevelt organized an extraordinary partnership between the U.S. government and America’s media outlets to communicate to the reluctant and isolationist American public the nature of the threat that World War II posed to the nation and the world. The coalition’s aim was to promote the concept of American exceptionalism and use it to galvanize the public for the government’s cause. America Ascendant details the efforts of many prominent individuals and officials to harness the collective energy of the nation and guide the United States throughout World War II then describes its aftermath and the Cold War period. Dennis M. Spragg demonstrates how the news and entertainment of American broadcasters such as David Sarnoff, William Paley, and Elmer Davis helped rally the American people to fashion a new liberal democratic order to stop the global spread of Communism. This media-government alliance, however, was not achieved without difficulty. Spragg highlights the competing visions and personalities that clashed, as media and government leaders tried to develop the paradigm that ultimately shifted American cultural and political thought. Throughout this searching history he sheds light on the underappreciated coordination between the media and the government to establish a liberal democratic world order and demonstrates why American exceptionalism still matters.
Author : Lewis A. Erenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226215181
During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's young people, music critics, and the music business. Swingin' the Dream explores that world, looking at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the nation and has kept people dancing ever since. "Swingin' the Dream is an intelligent, provocative study of the big band era, chiefly during its golden hours in the 1930s; not merely does Lewis A. Erenberg give the music its full due, but he places it in a larger context and makes, for the most part, a plausible case for its importance."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "An absorbing read for fans and an insightful view of the impact of an important homegrown art form."—Publishers Weekly "[A] fascinating celebration of the decade or so in which American popular music basked in the sunlight of a seemingly endless high noon."—Tony Russell, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Chris Way
Publisher : After the Battle
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0900913924
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.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781428915855
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 3197 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UGA:32108053372515
Author : James T. Controvich,Martin Gordon
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0810850109
This bibliography lists published and printed unit histories for the United States Air Force and Its Antecedents, including Air Divisions, Wings, Groups, Squadrons, Aviation Engineers, and the Women's Army Corps.
Author : Germaine Shames
Publisher : Pale Fire Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983861201
In the final weeks of 1938, in the shadow of Kristallnacht and imminent war, a heartsick Italian maestro wrote a love song called "Tu Solamente Tu." Its lyrics lamented his forced separation from his wife, the Hungarian ballerina Margit Wolf, in the wake of Mussolini's edict banishing foreign Jews from Italy. The song, first recorded by Vittorio de Sica in 1939, catapulted to the top of the Hit Parade and earned its composer the moniker "the Italian Cole Porter." The German version, "Du Immer Wieder Du," would be performed by Zarah Leander, the foremost film star of the German Reich, and its English counterpart, "You, Fascinating You," by the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band. Twenty-two years would pass before the maestro and his ballerina again met face-to-face. You, Fascinating You begins as a backstage romance and ends as an epic triumph of the human spirit. Editor's Choice, Historical Novel Society: "FAULTLESS."
Author : Marlin R. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1684015928
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.
Author : George T. Simon
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0306801299
Moonlight Serenade, Sunrise Serenade, Little Brown Jug, In the Mood... These and other memorable tunes endeared Glenn Miller to millions in the Swing Era and all who recall those times. After playing trombone and arranging for leading orchestras of the Dorsey brothers, Ray Noble, Ben Pollack, and Red Nichols, Glenn Miller formed his own "sweet" band, which from 1938 to 1942 achieved widespread popularity second only to Benny Goodman's. Miller learned all he could from these and other bands like Jimmie Lunceford's and Artie Shaw's, going on to create a uniquely rich sound with clarinet over four saxes and four trombones ("three-part harmony sounds too thin," he once exclaimed). Simon tells of both the successes and hard times of Miller's illustrious career, up to his celebrated Army Air Force band and his untimely death.
