Glenn Miller Orchestra - “Do You Wanna Dance?”
Derrick Bostrom, a Meat Puppet member and the producer of the jewel-like "Your Favorite Little Podcast" program, points to this download of a terrific out-of-print LP by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, called Do You Wanna Dance? from 1966.
Wedding the Miller big band style and DeFranco’s top-notch soloing to go-go dance rhythms, lush easy-listening atmospherics and Command’s trademark high-tech aural experience, the album is no mere nostalgia trip for aging jitterbuggers. Rock fans will delight as this august organization tackles such teenage hits as “Cinnamon,” “Sunny,” “For Once In My Life” and “Love Child.” Naturally, the ubiquitous McCartney-Lennon catalog is represented, not once but twice, with “Hey Jude” and “A Little Help From My Friends.” In fact, there’s not a MOR track anywhere to be found on this album — it’s all strictly Top Forty. Do YOU wanna dance?Glenn Miller Orchestra - “Do You Wanna Dance?” (Bostworld)
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it's definitely not from 1966, as "hey jude" was not released until 1970 (though it was recorded in 1968-1969).
I believe Cut Chemist and DJ-Numark sample/scratch this record on the Jurassic-5 cut "swing set".
According to the Enoch Light wiki (http://www.rcb.uklinux.net/light/indexjs.htm?details/rs940.htm), "Do You Wanna Dance?" (Command RS 940 SD) came out in 1969.
Reminds me of the Lawrence Welk reruns a the lame OC PBS station runs occasionally. Shiny white faces and blue eyeshadow, enough that it must be witnessed lest we shall be doomed to repeat.
SHECKY,
If you think the GMO, however reconstituted, sounds like Lawrence Welk, then you are a great example of a guy who listens but can't hear.
Yeah, it took the brilliance of Glenn Miller to breathe life into "Hey Jude".
WTF?
Glenn Miller gied in 1944. Don't blame him.
Why the Lawrence Welk hate, Buddy66? I defy anyone to tell the difference from these recordings. It's not for lack of talent either way, but rather the deliciously wrong delivery both GMO and Welk were so keen to offer.
I don't think it's a matter of right or wrong. It's simply an entirely deliberate matter of style.
eeugh, man. This is not even near what I was hoping it to be. I guess when Glen Miller died, so did the swing here...
Shecky,
Tunes are tunes; they can be arranged and interpreted in many different ways. I'm no fan of the late sixties ''If you can't lick 'em join 'em'' school of hijacking then popular songs into older musical styles, but it's a respectable tradition and most musicians and arrangers seem to enjoy it. Songs become classics because they are ''covered'' and arranged differently by later performers, sometimes for two or three generations.
Your self-assurance about musical styles borders on arrogance and betrays an underlying ignorance—because I can sure as hell tell the difference between the two groups. If you cant, then you've got no ear; and you're sure as hell no musician. Fifty years ago it was said that GM played swing, and LW played ''mickey mouse music.'' Not all big bands were swing bands, but all swing bands were big bands. That, their instruments, and their fake-books were all they had in common. Different fans, different sound.
As for their personnel, there wasn't that much difference. Welk paid well and got guys who could read and play professionally; it was the arrangements and the resultant ''sound'' that differentiated them. Sidemen didn't make much, unless they were fan favorites and were given spotlighted solos, so you often find really talented musicians playing music they didn't like, just to put food on the table; at least for a while.
''Hate'' is a strong word. I never hated Welk's sound; I merely disliked it and found it painfully square. Miller's white swing, although certainly stronger and more coherent wasn't, to my tastes, the equal of, say, Ellington or Basie. I wonder if you'd defy me to tell the difference between Welk and Ellington? Or Miller and Basie? Stick with rock and roll, kid; it doesn't require much of an ear.
It is to laugh....
Comment #1's assertion that "Hey Jude" was "not released until 1970" is as ignorant as the idea that "Hey Jude" could have been covered on an LP released in 1966. "Hey Jude" was in fact released as a single in August 1968, and was the #1 single in the United States for nine weeks, the longest run at #1 for any Beatles single ever. "Not released until 1970," indeed.
Anyway, the definitive Beatles/Glenn Miller mashup is ccc's "Got To Get You Into The Mood," which will be played in Heaven.
Does out of print equal public domain, or are y'all just filesharing like stupid kids?
You just blew my mind....what wonderful sounds! Thanks so much for sharing.
I love an old jazz musician crack (can't located source at moment) re: Glenn Miller
"Glenn Miller...too bad the man couldn't have lived and the music died"
To be honest, I've never bought a G. Miller collection. Love Ellington, Basie, some Goodman, Herman, and Dorsey...maybe I should try old Glenn.
Shecky: Why is so friggin judgmental?
It's music if you don't like it don't listen to it.
I downloaded it. Now all I need is an elevator so I'll have an appropriate place to listen to it.
Glenn Miller's stuff was almost ''easy listening'' at the time, but the bobby soxers found him very danceable and loved his stuff. If you wanted to dance with girls....