When You Wish Upon a Star Live 1940-1942

Glenn Miller | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 8, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1940
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Magic Records UK
• ASIN: B0000634AD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,085,440 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Slow Freight

2. My! My!

3. Sophisticated Lady

4. When You Wish Upon a Star

5. Song of the Volga Boatmen [Russian Folk Song]

6. I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair

7. I Never Took a Lesson in My Life

8. When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano

9. By the Waters of Minnetonka

10. Outside of That I Love You

11. The Story of a Starry Night

12. In the Mood

13. Runnin' Wild

14. The Weekend of a Private Secretary

15. My Buddy

16. A Love Song Hasn't Been Sung

17. Largo (Goin' Home)

18. Bugle Woogie

19. You Walk By

20. Oh! So Good

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars When you wish for the radio days, June 27, 2006

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You can't beat the Glenn Miller Orchestra live over the airwaves. It takes you back to a time (1940-42) when you'd listen to your entertainment center, a.k.a. the radio. Great atmosphere, fun verbal banter, pretty good sound quality (even better than some studio recordings) and a great selection of rare and classic tunes. Lots of great tunes from the vocalists Ray Eberle and Marion Hutton. Enjoy!

PS: One day, I hope to see a "radio broadcasts" box set of the great Glenn Miller Orchestra 1938/1942. There is so much to choose from, it would be a shame if the major record company fails to come through. Wouldn't it be lovely to have every song included in the box set, not every performance, but every song performed over the airwaves, it could easily be well over a hundred. Why there must be at least a couple dozen versions of "In The Mood" to choose from. All the classics like you've never heard them, different arrangements, extended solos and many times the radio performances were superior. A lot of the radio broadcasts created better sound quality. Then, there are all those great numbers that were never "officially" recorded, classics like, The Gentleman Needs A Shave, Georgia On My Mind, Hold Tight, The Jumpin Jive, Rockin Chair, When Paw Was Courtin Maw, The Jersey Bounce and list goes on and on. A real treasure is waiting for us Glenn Miller fans. But who has got the map?