Glenn Miller Rarities

[Inigo]

Thanks a lot! I've never listened to this early GM before!
Edit: just lying like a champion! I own two o of these Vocalion and Deccas, from sessions on 1937, march 22nd and June 9th, peg o'my heart, moonlight bay, i got rhythm and sleepy time gal... Sorry, but thanks indeed!

[gramophone-georg]

Thanks a lot! I've never listened to this early GM before!
Edit: just lying like a champion! I own two o of these Vocalion and Deccas, from sessions on 1937, march 22nd and June 9th, peg o'my heart, moonlight bay, i got rhythm and sleepy time gal... Sorry, but thanks indeed!

Happens to me all the time. I've been meaning to get a data base together for over 20 years now and never have... can't tell you how many times I've chased a record on eBay or VJM, paying top dollar, only to find out I had a better copy packed away in a box in a closet or in the shed.

I've had fun shopping in my own forgotten inventory lately.

The only one of the early Miller discs I've never been able to find is Brunswick 8034, "My Fine Feathered Friend" / "Silhouetted In The Moonlight". I need to find a copy to make my early Miller collection complete.

[Inigo]

Maybe you could ask Kurt Nauck to chase a copy for you. I bought my Glenn Miller vocalion from him years ago. The Decca I have is a Spanish issue by our independent Columbia company, who had an arrangement with British Decca, and through them we got the record pressed here. American Vocalion have arrangements with British EMI, and by them, with Spanish branch Gramófono-Odeón. So in an hypothetical case, if ever any Glenn Miller Vocalion was ever issued here, it should have been a Spanish post WWII Odeon. Never seen one of those, though...

[marcapra]

George, great work recording these records. And I thought I knew Glenn Miller. Not! Amazing sound too, from your Viva Tonal 810!




"He who dies with the most mahogany, wins!" from an old phonograph collector somewhere.