Yesterday, we posted the EP, The Glenn Miller Story Part 1, from Japan. Today’s entry has the same release number, but looks very different from that issue. This one did not have a picture sleeve. Instead it had a two-sided insert, side one of which featured a different photo of Stewart and June Allyson. The…
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The Glenn Miller Story (Decca SDW-10002, Japan)
Here is another Japanese 7-inch, 33 1/3 RPM EP, this one marked “1” on the sleeve, but not on the label…
The Glenn Miller Story (Decca DW-6, Japan)
There has been a wide variety of material from The Glenn Miller Story issued in Japan. It is difficult to find any pattern to the releases and so they will be covered in separate blogs. First, we look at this 4-song, 7-inch, 33 1/3 RPM EP issued by Decca (DW-6). What appears to be a…
Sesh
Sesh hails from Kalamazoo, MI, and her music is described as electronic chillout. It’s a Wonderful Iife is an instrumental over which we hear Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in several scenes from the film. …
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – Gene Pitney (Italy)
We recently found a copy of Gene Pitney’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance which was released in Italy with a picture sleeve (United Artists 3032) . The sleeve has likenesses of Stewart and John Wayne. It would be a nice item to try to add to your collection…
Union Choir
The Union Choir contributed White Christmas (It’s a Wonderful Life) to the 2012 various artists album, Silent Night, Tiny Lights. The song is basically White Christmas, but during the middle break we hear Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed from the “lasso the moon” scene from It’s a Wonderful Life. Then, at the song’s end, we…
Chase and Sanborn Hour – The Charlie McCarthy Show
This 3-CD set was recently issued and proports to contain all of the available shows in the Bergen-McCarthy series. One thing is for sure…it does have one show on which Jimmy Stewart guested and which has not been in general circulation before. The newly found program dates from September 1, 1946, and is found on…
The Glenn Miller Story (New Spanish CD)
In 2016, the Spanish company, Vintage Music, issued 100 film soundtracks on CD. Each was issued in a cardboard holder, made to look like a miniature album jacket. Number 0466 in the series is The Glenn Miller Story. The CD itself was made to look like a vinyl record, with both sides black in color…
Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys + Jimmy Stewart
In 1988, this album was issued in Canada by the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (Arcadia 5001). The main purpose of the album was to spotlight a new radio recording from 1930 made by Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys. In fact, the full title of the LP is Bing Crosby and the Rhythm…
Rudd Young
For his 2013 album, Let’s Go Kill Us a Christmas Tree, Rudd recorded a song titled It’s a Wonderful Life. The song is basically a re-telling of the story of George Bailey’s life in song…
