Glenn Miller and trumpeter and arranger Billy May composed "Boom Shot" as incidental music for the movie Orchestra Wives (1942). The instrumental was not credited on the soundtrack and was omitted from soundtrack albums until 1959 when 20th Century Fox released it as a 45 single and on an album containing all the music from the two Glenn Miller films. May used his wife's name Arletta on the songwriting credit because his contract prohibited him from writing music for Glenn Miller.
"Boom Shot" is played on the Wurlitzer juke box and then at the open air concert featuring Harry Morgan as soda jerk Cully Anderson and Ann Rutherford as Connie Ward. They go to see the Gene Morrison Orchestra featuring George Montgomery as Bill Abbott on trumpet. After performing "Boom Shot", the band leaves the stage. The audience is still on their feet. The band returns to play an encore, the classic "At Last" featuring Ray Eberle and Lynn Bari (overdubbed by Pat Friday). "Boom Shot" was never released as a 78 single by Glenn Miller during his lifetime. It was released as a 45 vinyl single in 1959 on the Top Rank label in the UK.
"Glen Island Special" was named for the Glen Island Casino (now the Glen Island Harbour Club) in New Rochelle, N.Y., where Miller and his orchestra appeared in an important May 1939 engagement that established them as a "name" band.
NA MINHA OPINIÃO O SWING MAIS CONTAGIANTE GRAVADO PELO MEU QUERIDO MESTRE GLENN MILLER DEPOIS DO HINO ABSOLUTO DA ERA DO SWING *IN THE MOOD* E ATÉ HOJE UM DOS MAIORES SUCESSOS DA MÚSICA POPULAR MUNDIAL EM TODOS OS TEMPOS!!!
+rmo52, so you're this era's Chummy MacGregor? Exciting news to me. Thanks for letting us know. Appreciate you all keeping the sound and the Glenn Miller heritage going.
This is heard under dialogue at the beginning of the film, where Connie [Ann Rutherford] plays this on a drugstore jukebox, as Cully [Harry Morgan] the soda jerk tries to "make time" with her. She's more interested in seeing "Gene Morrison's" band perform in the next town- then, Cully tells her HE'S got two tickets....at 1:28, the scene shifts to them in the crowd in front of "Morrison's" bandstand, as they wrap up the tune....
1:27 is where its at man!!! That beat and crescendo could raise the dead baby!!!
Glenn Miller and trumpeter and arranger Billy May composed "Boom Shot" as incidental music for the movie Orchestra Wives (1942). The instrumental was not credited on the soundtrack and was omitted from soundtrack albums until 1959 when 20th Century Fox released it as a 45 single and on an album containing all the music from the two Glenn Miller films. May used his wife's name Arletta on the songwriting credit because his contract prohibited him from writing music for Glenn Miller.
"Boom Shot" is played on the Wurlitzer juke box and then at the open air concert featuring Harry Morgan as soda jerk Cully Anderson and Ann Rutherford as Connie Ward. They go to see the Gene Morrison Orchestra featuring George Montgomery as Bill Abbott on trumpet. After performing "Boom Shot", the band leaves the stage. The audience is still on their feet. The band returns to play an encore, the classic "At Last" featuring Ray Eberle and Lynn Bari (overdubbed by Pat Friday). "Boom Shot" was never released as a 78 single by Glenn Miller during his lifetime. It was released as a 45 vinyl single in 1959 on the Top Rank label in the UK.
Maravilhoso Jazz em estilo Swing pelo nosso Querido Mestre GLENN MILLER e sua Imortal Big Band!!!
"Glen Island Special" was named for the Glen Island Casino (now the Glen Island Harbour Club) in New Rochelle, N.Y., where Miller and his orchestra appeared in an important May 1939 engagement that established them as a "name" band.
NA MINHA OPINIÃO O SWING MAIS CONTAGIANTE GRAVADO PELO MEU QUERIDO MESTRE GLENN MILLER DEPOIS DO HINO ABSOLUTO DA ERA DO SWING *IN THE MOOD* E ATÉ HOJE UM DOS MAIORES SUCESSOS DA MÚSICA POPULAR MUNDIAL EM TODOS OS TEMPOS!!!
Uma ORQUESTRA DOS ANOS 2000 em 1942 !!!
We still played this tune when I was on the GMO (2008-2011). Billy's charts are always so much fun. He wrote just like he played.
+rmo52
you were on the GM orchestra? who were you and what instrument were you
Actually I got back on the band last year and am still there. I'm the piano player. And we played Boom Shot in Cincinnati at a dance just last week.
+rmo52, so you're this era's Chummy MacGregor? Exciting news to me. Thanks for letting us know. Appreciate you all keeping the sound and the Glenn Miller heritage going.
It is SICK that Fox misspelled GLENN's name on this DVD cover! :-(
Incredibly lax QC...unbelievable.
This is heard under dialogue at the beginning of the film, where Connie [Ann Rutherford] plays this on a drugstore jukebox, as Cully [Harry Morgan] the soda jerk tries to "make time" with her. She's more interested in seeing "Gene Morrison's" band perform in the next town- then, Cully tells her HE'S got two tickets....at 1:28, the scene shifts to them in the crowd in front of "Morrison's" bandstand, as they wrap up the tune....
THANK YOU for posting!
Great
The beginning always confuses me, like there in another song dubbed over.