"Chattanooga Choo Choo ""Chattanooga Choo Choo"" is a 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and composed by Harry Warren. It was originally recorded as a big-band/swing tune by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra and featured in the 1941 movie ""Sun Valley Serenade"". It was the first song to receive a gold record, presented by RCA Victor in 1942, for sales of 1.2 million copies. The song was an extended production number in the 20th Century Fox film ""Sun Valley Serenade"". The Glenn Miller recording, RCA Bluebird B-11230-B, became the #1 song across the United States on December 7, 1941, and"
"country where the album is sold. Different sales levels, some perhaps 10 times lower than others, may exist for different music media (for example: videos versus albums, singles, or downloads). The original gold and silver record awards were presented to artists by their own record companies to publicize their sales achievements. The first silver disc was awarded by Regal Zonophone to George Formby in December 1937 for sales of 100,000 copies of ""The Window Cleaner"". The first gold disc was awarded by RCA Victor (under division imprint Bluebird Records) to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in February 1942, celebrating the"
"Glenn Miller (1945 album) Glenn Miller is a compilation album of phonograph records released posthumously by bandleader Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. Released in 1945 on RCA Victor as a part of the Victor Musical Smart Set series, described on the front cover as ""An Album of Outstanding Arrangements on Victor Records"", the set was number one for a total of 16 weeks on the newly created ""Billboard"" album charts. The album, also known under the title ""Glenn Miller and His Orchestra"", was certified Gold in July 1968 by the RIAA. These reissued songs were featured on a 4-disc, 78"
"Pure Gold (Glenn Miller album) Pure Gold is a 1975 compilation album of studio recordings by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra released by RCA Records. The album contained ten RCA Victor studio recordings from 1939 to 1942 all originally released as 78 RPM records on the RCA Bluebird and Victor labels. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA. The album was certified Gold in the U.S. by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on July 25, 1984. The ten tracks on the album consist of the RCA Victor studio recordings. Stereo effect reprocessed from monophonic. Side One Side"
"Glenn Miller Plays Selections From the Film ""The Glenn Miller Story"" Glenn Miller Plays Selections From the Film ""The Glenn Miller Story"" is a 1954 compilation album by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra. The collection contained songs featured in the 1954 Universal-International film ""The Glenn Miller Story"" starring James Stewart and June Allyson. It was the first Glenn Miller album to be certified Gold in the U.S. The 1954 10"" album ""Glenn Miller Plays Selections from the film ""The Glenn Miller Story"""" was number one for eleven weeks on the ""Billboard"" albums chart in 1954, released on LP as RCA"
"by: The Glenn Miller Orchestra on Bluebird Records (10768), Kay Kyser, Russ Morgan, Gene Autry (also in the 1941 film ""The Singing Hill"", Connee Boswell, and Jimmy Dorsey. The largest 1940 hit was by The Glenn Miller Orchestra, where it reached number one. Louis Armstrong's 1949 recording charted in the Billboard Top 40, reaching number 29. It was an international hit in 1956 for Fats Domino and has become a rock and roll standard. It reached number two for three weeks on the Billboard Top 40 charts, becoming his biggest pop hit, and spent eight non-consecutive weeks at number one"
"with lyricists Al Dubin, Billy Rose, Mack Gordon, Leo Robin, Ira Gershwin and Johnny Mercer. In 1942 the Gordon-Warren song ""Chattanooga Choo-Choo"", as performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, became the first gold record in history. It was No.1 for nine weeks on the ""Billboard"" pop singles chart in 1941–1942, selling 1.2 million copies. Among his biggest hits were ""There Will Never Be Another You"", ""I Only Have Eyes for You"", ""Forty-Second Street"", ""The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)"", ""Lullaby of Broadway"", ""Serenade In Blue"", ""At Last"", ""Jeepers Creepers"", ""You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me"", ""That's"
"Maurice looks like the movies’ idea of a swing drummer, all right. They stay within the bounds of good taste, however ... the story is believable, and happily centers around the band, so that the whole thing is a triumph for Glenn Miller and the band. In October, ASCAP and radio networks agreed on a new rate, and the band could finally play ""Chattanooga"" and their other songs on radio. W. Wallace Early, the manager of record sales for RCA Victor and Bluebird Records, presented the first ever gold record to Miller on February 10, 1942, saying: It's a pleasure"
"Elvis' Golden Records Elvis' Golden Records is a compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley issued by RCA Victor in March 1958. It compiled his hit singles released in 1956 and 1957, and is widely believed to be the first greatest hits album in rock and roll history. It is the first of five RCA Victor Elvis' Golden/Gold Records compilations, four of which would be released during Presley's lifetime. It peaked at number three on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. It was certified Gold on October 17, 1961, Platinum on May 20, 1988, 5x Platinum on March"
"In the Mood ""In the Mood"" is a popular big band-era No. 1 hit recorded by American bandleader Glenn Miller. It topped the charts for 13 straight weeks in 1940 in the U.S. and one year later was featured in the movie ""Sun Valley Serenade"". ""In the Mood"" is based on the composition ""Tar Paper Stomp"" by Wingy Manone. The first recording under the name ""In the Mood"" was released by Edgar Hayes & His Orchestra in 1938. In 1983, the Glenn Miller recording from 1939 was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2004, the recording was inducted"
"""The Glenn Miller Story"""" was number one for 11 weeks on the ""Billboard"" albums chart the same year, released as RCA Victor LPT 3057. The original 1954 album contained eight selections. An expanded version of the latter album was certified Gold in 1961 by the RIAA. The tribute album ""I Remember Glenn Miller"", Capitol H 476, by Ray Anthony was number nine on the same Billboard album chart for that week. The extended play versions of the same albums also reached the same position on the ""Billboard"" EP charts for that week. The Modernaires released a 45 single on Coral"
"Victor LPT 3057. This collection featured the original Bluebird and Victor recordings and broadcasts by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra. The album reached no. 10 on the UK album charts in 1961 in an 18-week chart run. The RIAA certified the album Gold on June 28, 1961. The contents of the album were: Recording dates: Glenn Miller Plays Selections From the Film ""The Glenn Miller Story"" Glenn Miller Plays Selections From the Film ""The Glenn Miller Story"" is a 1954 compilation album by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra. The collection contained songs featured in the 1954 Universal-International film ""The Glenn"
"1989 compilation collection ""Glenn Miller: The Popular Recordings, 1938-1942"", a career retrospective on Bluebird, RCA, and BMG as 9785-2-RB in a 3 CD and a 4 disc vinyl boxed set LP format released in the U.S., Europe, and Germany. The personnel on the 1941 Glenn Miller studio recording were: Dale McMickle, Ray Anthony, John Best, Billy May (tp), Glenn Miller, Paul Tanner, Jimmy Priddy, Frank D'Annolfo (tb), Hal McIntyre, Wilbur Schwartz (cl, as), Ernie Caceres (as, bar), Tex Benneke, Al Klink (ts), Chummy McGregor (p), Jack Lathrop (g), Trigger Alpert (sb), and Maurice Purtill (dm). The song was also recorded"
"the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto from 1958 would eventually be awarded a platinum citation, but this would not happen until two decades after its release. In 1999, the diamond certification was introduced for sales of ten million units. In the late 1980s, the certification thresholds for singles were dropped to match that of albums. The first official designation of a ""gold record"" by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was established for singles in 1958, and the RIAA also trademarked the term ""gold record"" in the United States. On 14 March 1958, the RIAA certified its first gold record, Perry"
"positions for singles taken from Billboard Pop Singles chart except as indicated."" Elvis' Golden Records Elvis' Golden Records is a compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley issued by RCA Victor in March 1958. It compiled his hit singles released in 1956 and 1957, and is widely believed to be the first greatest hits album in rock and roll history. It is the first of five RCA Victor Elvis' Golden/Gold Records compilations, four of which would be released during Presley's lifetime. It peaked at number three on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. It was certified Gold on"
"Glenn Miller Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) was an American big-band trombonist, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best-known big bands. Miller's recordings include ""In the Mood"", ""Moonlight Serenade"", ""Pennsylvania 6-5000"", ""Chattanooga Choo Choo"", ""A String of Pearls"", ""At Last"", ""(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo"", ""American Patrol"", ""Tuxedo Junction"", ""Elmer's Tune"", and ""Little Brown Jug"". In just four years Glenn Miller scored 17 number-one records and 59 top ten hits—more than Elvis Presley (38 top 10s) and the"
"popularity of the tune prompted Glenn Miller to ask Jurgens if he could record a vocal version of the song. Robbins Music Company, the song’s publisher, hired Sammy Gallop to write the lyrics. Miller recorded his version of the song for RCA Bluebird (B-11274-A) on August 11, 1941 in New York with Ray Eberle on lead vocals and the Modernaires on backing vocals. This version was an even bigger success than Jurgens’ recording, peaking at no.1 for one week on the ""Billboard"" Best Selling Retail Records chart for the week ending December 13, 1941, in a 20-week chart run. The"
"Victor's Bluebird label and became the first to be certified a gold disc on February 10, 1942, for 1,200,000 sales. The transcription of this award ceremony can be heard on the first of three volumes of RCA's ""Legendary Performer"" compilations released by RCA in the 1970s. In the early 1990s a two-channel recording of a portion of the ""Sun Valley Serenade"" soundtrack was discovered, allowing reconstruction of a true-stereo version of the film performance. The composition was nominated for an Academy Award in 1941 for Best Song from a movie. The song achieved its success that year even though it"
"and band leader Glenn Miller, MacGregor played with jazz musician, songwriter and recording artist Irving Aaronson. In 1936 he became a sideman in the first Glenn Miller orchestra. Unsuccessful, that outfit disbanded in 1937. When Miller reformed his orchestra in 1938, MacGregor remained by his side. During its brief four-year history, The Glenn Miller Orchestra would sign a recording contract with RCA Victor, have it awarded the music industry's first gold record, star in a weekly radio series for the CBS Network and appear in two successful musical motion pictures for 20th Century Fox films. Considered by writers and critics"
"Records, 9-61110, A Salute to Glenn Miller, which included medleys in two parts from the movie soundtrack, Parts 1 and 2: (I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo/Moonlight Cocktail/Elmer's Tune/Moonlight Serenade/Chattanooga Choo Choo/String of Pearls/Serenade In Blue/At Last/Perfidia, that reached number 29 on the Billboard charts in 1954. The Glenn Miller Story The Glenn Miller Story is a 1954 American biographical film about the eponymous American band-leader, directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their first non-western collaboration. Universal-International's first public announcements, early in 1953, employed the soon-discarded title, ""Moonlight Serenade."" The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller"
"21, 1941 and lasted 1 week on the chart, at #10. The Rosemary Clooney recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39813. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on September 26, 1952 and lasted 2 weeks on the chart, peaking at #29. In addition, the song was recorded at least three times by Jo Stafford. Her previously unreleased 1942 version with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra was included in the 1966 Reader's Digest box set ""The Glenn Miller Years"". On October 15, 1943, she recorded it with Johnny Mercer, the Pied Pipers, and Paul Weston's Orchestra, in"
"that they still wrote the whole song in about three hours. The Glenn Miller recording was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-1523-A, with ""A Pink Cocktail For a Blue Lady"" as the B side. The vocals were by Skip Nelson and the Modernaires. Glenn Miller recorded the song on July 15, 1942. The release was Glenn Miller's last #1 hit. It charted in 1943, spending 14 weeks on the Billboard magazine charts, peaking at position #1 for the week of May 29. The Margaret Whiting recording (with the Freddie Slack Orchestra, which got top billing on the"
"the 1950 movie ""The Big Lift"", the 1957 movie ""Peyton Place"", the 1970 film ""Tora! Tora! Tora!"", the 1984 eponymous film ""Chattanooga Choo Choo"", the 1988 films ""Big"" and ""Biloxi Blues"", the 1998 film """", and the 2005 film ""Be Cool"". Chattanooga Choo Choo ""Chattanooga Choo Choo"" is a 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and composed by Harry Warren. It was originally recorded as a big-band/swing tune by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra and featured in the 1941 movie ""Sun Valley Serenade"". It was the first song to receive a gold record, presented by RCA Victor in 1942, for"
"copies are known. The earliest surviving recording was made by the Edison Male Quartette in 1898, also on an Edison cylinder as part of a Christmas medley titled ""Sleigh Ride Party"". In 1902, the Hayden Quartet recorded ""Jingle Bells"". The song became a Christmas favorite in the early twentieth century. In 1943, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters recorded ""Jingle Bells"" as Decca 23281 which reached No. 19 on the charts and sold over a million copies. In 1941, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra with Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, Ernie Caceres, and the Modernaires on vocals had a No. 5"
"the reissued albums ""Glenn Miller's Original Film Sound Tracks"" as Fox-3020, 3021, TFS-3020e, 3021e, in two volumes, which was reissued in 2009 by Hallmark. It is also on the 2000 Jasmine CD ""Glenn Miller On Film"", ""Remember Glenn: Selections from the Sound Tracks of Sun Valley Serenade and Orchestra Wives"", 20th Century, T-904, and the 2008 Acrobat Music CD ""On the Alamo"". In May, 1959, ""Boom Shot"" was released as a 7"" 45 A side single by the British Top Rank label with ""You Say the Sweetest Things, Baby"" by the Glenn Miller Six as JAR-114. ""Boom Shot"" features a"
"Como's hit single ""Catch a Falling Star"". The ""Oklahoma!"" soundtrack was certified as the first gold album four months later. In 1976, RIAA introduced the platinum certification, first awarded to the Eagles compilation album ""Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)"" on 24 February 1976, and to Johnnie Taylor's single ""Disco Lady"" on 22 April 1976. As music sales increased with the introduction of compact discs, the RIAA created the Multi-Platinum award in 1984. Diamond awards, honoring those artists whose sales of singles or albums reached 10,000,000 copies, were introduced in 1999. In the 20th century, and for a part of the first"
"in 1945, a follow-up in 1947, and his original recordings repackaged for the release of ""The Glenn Miller Story"" in 1954. Ray Anthony, who played trumpet with the band from 1940 to 1941, is the last surviving member, alive as of 2018. <br> Million-selling singles: Glenn Miller Orchestra Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was an American swing dance band formed by Glenn Miller in 1938. Arranged around a clarinet and tenor saxophone playing melody, and three other saxophones playing harmony, the band became the most popular and commercially successful dance orchestra of the Swing era and one of the greatest"
"to be here tonight. And speaking of RCA Victor, we're mighty proud of that Chattanooga Choo Choo, and the man that made the record, Glenn Miller. You see it's been a long time – 15 years in fact – since any record has sold a million copies. And ""Chattanooga Choo Choo"" certainly put on steam and breezed right through that million mark by over 200,000 pressings. And we decided that Glenn should get a trophy. The best one we could think of is a gold record of ""Chattanooga"". And now Glenn, it's yours – with the best wishes of RCA"
"Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance. It was certified a gold record in 1961, and it became the first classical album to go platinum, achieving that certification in 1989. It was the best-selling classical album in the world for more than a decade, eventually going triple-platinum.. In 2004, this recording was re-mastered from the original studio analogue tapes, and released on a Super Audio CD. Other standard repertoire Cliburn recorded include the Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 and No. 5 ""Emperor"", and the"
"for ""A String of Pearls"": Saxes: Babe Russin, Tex Beneke, Wilbur Schwartz, Ernie Caceres, Al Klink; Trumpets: John Best, R. D. McMickle, Billy May, Alec Fila; Trombones: Glenn Miller, Jimmy Priddy, Paul Tanner, Frank D'Annolfo; Piano: Chummy MacGregor; String Bass: Edward ""Doc"" Goldberg; Guitar/Cornet: Bobby Hackett; Drums: Moe Purtill. Bobby Hackett performed the cornet solo on the original Glenn Miller recording. The record was ranked No. 1 in the US for two weeks in 1942 on the ""Billboard"" Best Sellers chart in a chart run of 21 weeks. Connee Boswell's recording for Decca Records in 1942 was among the very"
"The Glenn Miller Story The Glenn Miller Story is a 1954 American biographical film about the eponymous American band-leader, directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their first non-western collaboration. Universal-International's first public announcements, early in 1953, employed the soon-discarded title, ""Moonlight Serenade."" The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller (1904–1944) (James Stewart) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying in was lost over the English Channel during World War II. Prominent placement in the film is given to Miller's courtship and marriage"
"sometime early in the morning. Next day, we cut the record. It's been the most popular I've ever done! The lyrics were later included with the sheet music, but it never carried our names."" The first authenticated recordings made by Glenn Miller were in 1926. In the fall of 1926, Earl Baker, a cornetist, made recordings on cylinders using the Edison Standard Phonograph recording device, making the first recordings of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Fud Livingston. Miller and Goodman were both in the Ben Pollack and his Californians band at that time. The Ben Pollack band was in Chicago,"
"in Japan, and was reissued by Biltmore Records as 1108 in the 1949-1951 period. In the 1950s, Epic Records re-released the Brunswick 78 in the U.S. as part of a 10"" yellow label album entitled ""The Glenn Miller Band"" as LN 1101. This song is different from the 1973 Kinky Friedman song of the same name featured on the eponymous album on Vanguard. The RCA Victor Bluebird version from 1939 is on the 13 disc CD collection ""The Complete Glenn Miller (1938-1942)"" by BMG/RCA and on the 2005 series ""The Glenn Miller Story, Vols. 5-6"". The 1938 Brunswick version is"