Glenn Miller discography


Between 1938 and 1944, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra released 266 singles on the monaural ten-inch shellac 78 rpm format. Their studio output comprised a variety of musical styles inside of the Swing genre, including ballads, band chants, dance instrumentals, novelty tracks, songs adapted from motion pictures, and, as the Second World War approached, patriotic music.
Non-instrumental songs featured Miller's various vocalists, generally Ray Eberle or Marion Hutton before 1940, with Tex Beneke, vocal group The Modernaires, and Skip Nelson all making studio vocal appearances after the turn of the decade. Beginning with An Album of Outstanding Arrangements in 1945, this collection has been repackaged into various album formats over time with release on 78 rpm, 10 and 12 inch LP, 7 inch 45 rpm, compact cassette, 8-track, compact disc, and digital formats.
Before his popularity, in the late 1920s, Miller played or wrote arrangements for many hot jazz groups, including a stint as a trombonist-arranger for Red Nichols’ famed Five Pennies recordings.

Charted singles and selected discography, 1938–1942

Chart is sorted by order of individual song debut date.


YearSinglePeak chart positionTotal
weeks
charted
Background-
YearSingleUSTotal
weeks
charted
Background-
Year1938"My Reverie"113
Year1939"Moonlight Serenade"315
Year1939"Sunrise Serenade"711
Year1939"Wishing "14
Year1939"The Lady's In Love With You"212
Year1939"My Last Goodbye"132
Year1939"Runnin' Wild"121
Year1939"Stairway To The Stars"13
Year1939"Little Brown Jug"107
Year1939"Moon Love"16
Year1939"Cinderella "162
Year1939"Back To Back"85
Year1939"Ain't Cha Comin' Out?"82
Year1939"Over The Rainbow"15
Year1939"Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead"172
Year1939"The Little Man Who Wasn't There"711
Year1939"The Man With The Mandolin"10
Year1939"Blue Orchids"12
Year1939"My Isle Of Golden Dreams"151
Year1939"In The Mood"28
Year1939"Melancholy Lullaby"153
Year1939"My Prayer"37
Year1939"Speaking Of Heaven"87
Year1939" Last Night"73
Year1939"Bluebirds In The Moonlight "92
Year1940"Vagabond Dreams"161
Year1940"This Changing World"86
Year1940"Careless"211
Year1940"Indian Summer"810
Year1940"Faithful Forever"53
Year1940"The Gaucho Serenade"72
Year1940"Danny Boy "172
Year1940"Ooh! What You Said"136
Year1940"Tuxedo Junction"17
Year1940"In An Old Dutch Garden "82
Year1940"It's A Blue World"144
Year1940"When You Wish Upon A Star"27
Year1940"Say "Si Si" "144
Year1940"Starlit Hour"101
Year1940"The Woodpecker Song"14
Year1940"The Sky Fell Down"162
Year1940"Boog It"75
Year1940"Alice Blue Gown"182
Year1940"I'm Stepping Out With A Memory Tonight"76
Year1940"Say It"74
Year1940"Imagination"28
Year1940"Slow Freight"93
Year1940"Hear My Song, Violetta"98
Year1940"Shake Down The Stars"101
Year1940"Fools Rush In "37
Year1940"Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand–"56
Year1940"Devil May Care"162
Year1940"The Nearness Of You"58
Year1940"Sierra Sue"171
Year1940"Blueberry Hill"214
Year1940"I'll Never Smile Again"171
Year1940"When the Swallows Come Back To Capistrano"101
Year1940"Crosstown"91
Year1940"Our Love Affair"82
Year1940"The Call Of The Canyon"101
Year1940"Beat Me Daddy, Eight To A Bar"151
Year1940"A Handful Of Stars"102
Year1940"A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square"26
Year1941"Anvil Chorus, Part One / Anvil Chorus, Part Two"310
Year1941"Five O'Clock Whistle"62
Year1941"Along The Santa Fe Trail"74
Year1941"Frenesi"182
Year1941"Song Of The Volga Boatmen"8
Year1941"I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem"34
Year1941"Perfidia"134
Year1941"Boulder Buff"192
Year1941"The Booglie Wooglie Piggy"75
Year1941"Adios"174
Year1941"You And I"46
Year1941"The Cowboy Serenade"172
Year1941"Chattanooga Choo Choo"23
Year1941"Elmer's Tune"15
Year1941"It Happened In Sun Valley"201
Year1941"I Know Why"191
Year1941"I'm Thrilled"201
Year1941"Jingle Bells"52
Year1942" The White Cliffs of Dover"67
Year1942"A String Of Pearls"18
Year1942"Ev'rything I Love"74
Year1942"This Is No Laughing Matter"171
Year1942"Moonlight Cocktail"10
Year1942"Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree "213
Year1942"Skylark"711
Year1942"The Story Of A Starry Night"191
Year1942"Always In My Heart"101
Year1942"American Patrol"191
Year1942" Kalamazoo"18
Year1942"Sweet Eloise"148
Year1942"Serenade in Blue"215
Year1942"At Last"148
Year1942"Juke Box Saturday Night"78
Year1942"Moonlight Becomes You"58
Year1942"Dearly Beloved"54
1943"Moonlight Mood"162-
1943"That Old Black Magic"14-
1943"Rhapsody In Blue"156-
1943"Blue Rain" 93-
1944"It Must Be Jelly "128-
1944"Sunrise Serenade" 181-
1944"A String of Pearls" 181-
1944"Here We Go Again"201-
1948"Adios" 201-

Other discographical highlights, radio format

Harry Warren and Mack Gordon songs for Sun Valley Serenade and Orchestra Wives:
Harry Warren and Mack Gordon were songwriters under contract with Twentieth Century Fox from 1940 to 1943. During that time period they composed the songs for Miller's movies for Fox.
Radio format:

In sharing air time with the Andrews Sisters for the early Chesterfield Shows, the Miller band had nine minutes to present its music. Miller instituted medleys of Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue into the band's broadcasts to enable it to play as much as possible. This medley tradition continued into both later programs and the Army Air Force band's radio broadcasts.
Sample Glenn Miller medley, June 19, 1940 Cincinnati, Ohio, Chesterfield show with a Jerry Gray arrangement of all tracks:
Old – "The Touch of Your Hand"
New – "Basket Weaver Man"
Borrowed – "The Waltz You Saved For Me"
Blue – "Blue Danube"

Recordings as sideman, arranger, and leader: 1926–1938

The first authenticated recordings made by Glenn Miller were in 1926. In the fall of 1926, Earl Baker, a cornetist, made recordings on cylinders using the Edison Standard Phonograph recording device, making the first recordings of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Fud Livingston. Miller and Goodman were both in the Ben Pollack and his Californians band at that time. The Ben Pollack band was in Chicago, Illinois, to make studio recordings for Victor. The Baker cylinders are available on the album "The Legendary Earl Baker Cylinders", released by the Jazz Archives record label as JA43 in 1979. The songs performed included "Sleepy Time Gal", "Sister Kate", "After I Say I'm Sorry", and "Sobbin' Blues".

Army Air Force Band and V-Discs: 1943–1944

Navy V-Discs featured different color schemes than standard V-Discs.
Year releasedV-Disc typeSongsGroupBackground-----
Year releasedV-Disc typeSongsGroup1943V-Disc12"At Last" / "Moonlight Mood"Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
39"Moonlight Serenade" /
"My Melancholy Baby"
---1943V-Disc--Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
65Spoken Introduction "Stardust" /
"St. Louis Blues March"
Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra-1943V-Disc----
1944V-Disc91"Stormy Weather" /
"Buckle Down, Winsocki", "El Capitan"
Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra-----
1944V-Disc123"Going Home", "Honeysuckle Rose", I Sustain the Wings → "My Blue Heaven" / "In the Mood"Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Glenn Miller and His Orchestra-----
1944V-Disc144"The Squadron Song", "Tail End Charlie" / "Don't Be That Way", "Blue Champagne"Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra-----
1944V-Disc183"Embraceable You", "G.I. Jive" / "Sophisticated Lady", "Azure"Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Duke Ellington and His Orchestra-----
1944V-Disc201"Moon Dreams" /
"Sleepy Town Train"
Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Glenn Miller and His Orchestra-----
1944V-Disc223"Everybody Loves My Baby ", "Stompin' at the Savoy" /
"Stealin' Apples"
Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra-----
1944Navy V-Disc3"Everybody Loves My Baby ", "Stompin' at the Savoy" /
"Stealin' Apples"
Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra-----
1944V-Disc242"A Fellow On A Furlough", "Guns In The Sky" / "Poinciana"Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra-----
1944Navy V-Disc22"A Fellow On A Furlough", "Guns In The Sky" / "Poinciana"Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra-----
1944V-Disc281"Chattanooga Choo Choo", "Sun Valley Jump" / "It Had to Be You", "Special Delivery Stomp"Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five-----
1944Navy V-Disc61"Chattanooga Choo Choo", "Sun Valley Jump" / "It Had to Be You", "Special Delivery Stomp"Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five-----
1944V-Disc302"These Foolish Things Remind Me of You", "Hallelujah" /
"In the Gloaming", "Deep Purple"
Benny Goodman and His V-Disc All-Star Band // and His V-Disc Quartette /
Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra
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1944Navy V-Disc82"These Foolish Things Remind Me of You", "Hallelujah" /
"In the Gloaming", "Deep Purple"
Benny Goodman and His V-Disc All-Star Band // and His V-Disc Quartette /
Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra
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1944V-Disc334"My Buddy", "Farewell Blues" /
"Theme", "Lover"
Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / David Rose and His Orchestra-----
1945V-Disc352" My Heart Sings", "Singin' in the Rain" /
"Missouri Waltz", "Alice Blue Gown"
Guy Lombardo and His Orchestra /
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
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1945V-Disc381"I've Got A Heart Filled With Love For You Dear" / "Sleigh Ride in July", "I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do"Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Dinah Shore-----
1945V-Disc421"Holiday for Strings" /
"Sleepy Lagoon", "Hora Staccato"
Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Paul Baron and His Orchestra-----
1945V-Disc466"Bye Bye Blues", "Wang Wang Blues" / "Too Marvelous for Words"Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Harry James and His Orchestra-----
1945Navy V-Disc246"Bye Bye Blues", "Wang Wang Blues" / "Too Marvelous for Words"Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Harry James and His Orchestra-----
1945V-Disc482"I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby", "Little Brown Jug" / "I Can't Get Started", "Keep the Home Fires Burning"Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra-----
1945V-Disc504"The Army Air Corps Song", "I Hear You Screaming" / "A Kiss Goodnight", "Northwest Passage"Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Woody Herman and His Orchestra-----
1945Navy V-Disc264"The Army Air Corps Song", "I Hear You Screaming" / "A Kiss Goodnight", "Northwest Passage"Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Woody Herman and His Orchestra-----
1945V-Disc522"St. Louis Blues" / "Dinah"Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Sam Donahue And The Navy Dance Band-----
1945V-Disc533"Songs My Mother Taught Me" / "Peggy, The Pin Up Girl", "My Melancholy Baby"Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra / Sam Donahue And The Navy Dance Band-----
1946V-Disc587"Why Dream", "Passage Interdit" /
"Beale Street Blues"
Major Glenn Miller's Army Air Forces Overseas Orchestra /
Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra
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1946V-Disc601"Symphony"/
"I Got Rhythm"
Major Glenn Miller's AAF Overseas Orchestra / The Benny Goodman Sextet-----
1948V-Disc842"Indian Love Call", "Ramblin' Rose" /
"In the Mood", "University Of Minnesota March"
Tony Pastor with All-Star Band /
Glenn Miller and Overseas Band,
Bert Hirsch and V-Disc Band
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Unreleased V-Discs and addendum

Other popular tracks, not recorded for or unreleased as V-Discs were:
Songs that were in the civilian band and Army Air Force band libraries include:
Songs that were prepared for but went unreleased on V-Disc include:
A disc released in 2010 is called "The Final - His Last Recordings" and collects Miller's last known recorded performances plus bonus spoken bits for the radio program "Music for the Wehrmacht", starring Major Miller with German speaker Ilse Weinberger. The album also contains a September 1944 interview and - as final track - the BBC radio announcement of Miller's disappearance.

Album discography, 1928–1944