Editorial Review:

Album Description:
UK budget-priced 4 CD compilation for the big band legend. Featuring 98 tracks including all his most popular tunes of the period. Includes 44 page booklet with his story, discography, session details & many rare photos. The CDs are Moonlight Serenade, In The Mood, Blueberry Hill & Chattanooga Choo Choo. Standard jewel cases houdes in a slip-box. 2001 release.









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Disc 1:

1. King Porter Stomp
2. And The Angels Sing
3. Moonlight Serenade
4. The Lady's In Love With You
5. Wishing (Will Make It So)
6. Sunrise Serenade
7. Little Brown Jug
8. But It Didn't Mean A Thing
9. Pavane
10. Runnin' Wild
11. Stairway To The Stars
12. Blue Evening
13. We Can Live On Love (We Haven't Got A Pot To Cook In)
14. Moon Love
15. Sliphorn Jive
16. Oh! You Crazy Moon
17. Ain't Cha Comin' Out?
18. Wanna Hat With Cherries
19. Pagan Love Song
20. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
21. Over The Rainbow
22. The Man With The Mandolin
23. Blue Orchids
24. Glen Island Special
25. Farewell Blues

Disc 2:

1. In The Mood
2. My Isle Of Golden Dreams
3. My Prayer
4. Blue Moonlight
5. Bluebirds In The Moonlight
6. Indian Summer
7. Johnson Rag
8. Careless
9. It's A Blue World
10. When You Wish Upon A Star
11. The Rhumba Jumps
12. Stardust
13. Rug Cutter's Swing
14. The Woodpecker Song
15. Tuxedo Junction
16. Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)
17. Imagination
18. Shake Down The Stars
19. Polka Dots And Moon Beams
20. Say It
21. April Played The Fiddle
22. Fools Rush In
23. Slow Freight
24. Pennsylvania 6-5000
25. Bugle Call Rag

Disc 3:

1. The Nearness Of You
2. Mister Meadowlark
3. My Blue Heaven
4. When The Swallows Come Back To Capristrano
5. Blueberry Hill
6. Be Happy
7. Five O'Clock Whistle
8. Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar
9. Make Believe Ballroom Time
10. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
11. Along The Santa Fe Trail
12. Yes, My Darling Daughter
13. Anvil Chorus, Pts 1 & 2
14. Frenesl
15. Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider
16. Song Of The Volga Boatmen
17. You Stepped Out Of A Dream
18. I Dream't I Dwelt In Harlem
19. Sun Valley Jump
20. The Spirit Is Willing
21. Perfidia
22. It's Always You
23. Spring Will Be So Sad (When She Comes This Year)
24. Boulder Bluff

Disc 4:

1. Chattanooga Choo-Choo
2. The Booglie Wooglie Piggy
3. I Know Why (And So Do You)
4. You And I
5. Adios
6. The Kiss Polka
7. Elmer's Tune
8. A String Of Pearls
9. Moonlight Sonata
10. Slumber Song
11. (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover
12. Moonlight Cocktail
13. Skylark
14. When The Roses Bloom Again
15. Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
16. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
17. American Patrol
18. I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo
19. Serenade In Blue
20. At Last
21. Caribbean Clipper
22. That Old Black Magic
23. Moonlight Becomes You
24. Juke Box Saturday Night

Rating: - Excellent sound quality and great selections
I've only recently "discovered" that I like Big Band music. We Boomers grew up loving our rock 'n roll and mostly thought of the Glenn Miller Band and others like it as relics of our parents' days in the Depression and World War II. After rap came to the forefront of popular "music", I listened to Classical music exclusively and got very comfortable with the music of Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and many others.

Through a series of odd coincidences I tuned in several times to an AM radio station here in Colorado Springs that plays a lot of orchestral and band music from the 30's through the early 60's. To my surprise, I found myself listening to all this stuff from Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and others.

Lo and behold, I was completely captivated by this delightful music. It's so, well, civilized! It's joyous, lovely, whole-hearted American music from a time when we were truly at our best as a nation. Moreover, it's masterfully constructed, and, in this collection, performed as well as I could have hoped for.

The search began for a good GM collection that "had it all", and I spent a lot of time here on Amazon browsing literally dozens of offerings, listening to samples for hours, and reading many fine, informative reviews. I knew that there was a great variance of opinion about the quality of the audio transfers, and not a few people were very upset about the noise of scratches, pops, and thin, "tinny" reproduction along with an overall loss of full fidelity.

This research by a complete neophyte in the subject material led me to the conclusion that I definitely wanted a collection that had the 18 songs I wanted most, including many of those the band is so well known for. This 4-CD set was the only one that had them, except for one much larger set that costs quite a lot. I got mine through MovieMars, one of the Amazon dealers, and everything was perfect.

This set is ideal in every way. It has superb audio quality with none of the distractions that evidently exist in some other collections. Here, the sound envelope is fully reproduced: you can hear the bass viols clearly without any "muddiness"; the reed instruments are sharp and bright without being shrill and tinny; the brass is clear and mellow, but also bold; the vocals are warm and round with the singers' resonance.

Well, that's the recommendation of an admitted newcomer to all this. Don't wait too long to decide on this collection because I've seen that the availabilities and prices for it fluctuate quite a lot.

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Rating: - Best yet
This is the best collection of Glenn Miller! It doesn't sound "tinny" like so many remastered CDs. The only one you need.

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Rating: - I love this stuff!
I think I was born in the wrong time! I love this old stuff.

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Rating: - A wonderful musical document
This box-set is an wonderful musical document, and an exceptional value for the money. The 40-page booklet of bio, session & discography info makes for pleasant reading while listening. I'm going to enjoy this for a long time. The only minor disappointment was that the compiler was unable to find room for "St. Louis Blues March", a personal favorite & memorable selection from Hollywood's The Glenn Miller Story (1953) -- an excellent film, the DVD of which is also available here on Amazon.

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Rating: - Greatest Collection Ever!
If you love Big Band, This set is a must have.! Definitely worth the money!