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This’ record contains the revolutionary new antistatic ingredient, 317X, which helps keep the record dust free, helps prevent surface noise, helps insure faithful sound reproduction THE NEW GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA Land of Dreams - Sunrise Serenade - Sweetheart of Sigma Chi - September Song « Adios / Boomshot « A Million Dreams Ago - Shine On Harvest Moon - Scarlet Ribbons - Sleepwal NOMIC aspennnLR hide iy, oe oS ORO EOE *© Printed RCA U.S.A.in LSP-2193 DANCE, ANYONE? THE NEW GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA Directed by RAY McKINLEY Produced by Lee Schapiro Side 1 Land of Dreams (8m! 2:32) Sunrise Serenade (AScapP 3:08) Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (ascap 2:39) Medley: September Song cascar) * Sleepwalk (em!) Melancholy Serenade (ascar) * Am | Blue (ascap) (6:05) Moonglow and Theme from “Picnic” (scap 3:03) Boomshot cascaP 2:52) Side 2 Adios (Bmi 2:54) A Million Dreams Ago cascap 3:28) Medley: Shine On Harvest Moon + Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) » When It’s Sleepy Time Down South - Blue Moon ascap 5:36) Along the Santa Fe Trail (ascap 3:12) Just Imagine (ASCAP 3:54) Howdy Friends (ascap 3:25) Recorded in RCA Victor’s Studio A, New York City. Recording Engineer: Ernest Oelrich. This album was recorded nearly sixteen years after the of the medley tunes Shine On Harvest Moon and Blue death of Glenn Other albums by the New Glenn Miller Orch. you will enjoy: Miller. Yet today, as then, the Glenn Miller Moon. Also on disc for the first time is Billy May’s arrange- sound is the most distinctive AND the most popular sound ‘ment of a comfortably swingy lindy item called Boomshot. On Tour with the New Glenn Miller Orchestra LSP-1948 in American dance music. This Miller-May original was intended for a Miller film, The Miller Sound LSP-1852 In the days just before Maestro Glenn Miller became but never appeared on the final track. Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue LSP-1678 Major Glenn Miller, America was a dancing country. Young The other arrangements are all new, and most of them The New Glenn Miller Orchestra in Hi-Fi LSP-1522 people would drive miles to the big ballrooms are by to dance to Joe Cribari whose work often sounds more like © by Radio Corporation of America, 1960 their favorite name bands. Or they’d roll back the carpets Miller than Miller’s own. Two of the medley tunes, the at home whenever they could tune their radios to the lovely Scarlet Ribbons and When IMPORTANT NOTICE ‘MIRACLE SURFACE” This record contains the new many, It’s Sleepy Time Down revolutionary anti-static ingredient, many band 317X, which helps keep the record “remotes” that were beamed nightly from the South (in which McKinley imitates Louis Armstrong’s vocal dust free, helps prevent surface noise, and helps insure faithful sound big hotels in New York, Chicago and reproduction. Los Angeles — or to and Ed Zandy plays an Armstrong-inspired trumpet bit), This is a TRUE STEREOPHONIC RECORD specifically designed to be the several commercial shows, such as Glenn Miiller’s are the work of Deane Kincaide, arranger of many early played only on phonographs equipped for stereophonic reproduction. Chesterfield series. And This record will also give outstanding monaural performance on many the records that sold best were Tommy Dorsey hits, and now in the new Miller band. conventional high fidelity phonographs by a replacement of the car- dance tridge. See your local dealer records — by the big bands. In the old days, the real fan knew the names of most of or serviceman. The war put a stop to all of that, but in the last couple the big band sidemen, and the current Miller-McKinley of years dancing has come back. Credit the Big Beat, if soloists certainly deserve such recognition. The excellent you want, for rekindling interest, but one thing is certain: girl vocalist is Lorrie Peters; the boy singer is Ernie Bern- now that people are dancing again, they’re turning back to hardt, who doubles as a member of the trumpet section. the big bands, bands with a smooth sound and an unmis- That’s concert-master and road manager Lenny Hambro on takable beat. And once again it’s the Miller formula that alto sax, Paul Mathis on piano, Ed Zandy on most of the fills the bill. | trumpet solos (Fern Caron, Jimmy Maxwell and Bernhardt Of particular interest to Miller fans is the fact that the complete the section), Ray De Sio on trombone, Bobby New Glenn Miller Orchestra, now functioning under the Jones on tenor sax, and — in Boomshot and Howdy Friends dynamic leadership of Ray McKinley, has begun to re- — it’s the maestro himself, Ray McKinley on drums. record and, in some instances, to record for the very first Actually, the two last-named numbers are the only swing- time the original arrangements from the old Miller “book.” ers in the set. Everything else is slow to medium tempos — In this album we have new full-fidelity versions of such absolutely ideal for dancing, for anyone. This album, which all-time Miller hits as Adios, Sunrise Serenade, Along the probably doesn’t set out to “prove” anything, does prove Santa Fe Trail and A Million Dreams Ago -— all scored, decisively that the very best dance music can also be A fine record deserves the finest phonograph—an RCA incidentally, by Bill Finegan. mighty nice to listen to. Victor Stereo High Fidelity “Victrola”® Recorded for the first time are Finegan’s original charts STEPHEN FROSTBERG @RCA Trademark for Record and Tape Players .