GLENN MILLER AND HIS ORCHESTRA CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO REACTION - Vocals by Tex Beneke and Modernaires
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- GLENN MILLER AND HIS ORCHESTRA CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO REACTION - Vocals by Tex Beneke and Modernaires
#glennmiller
#bigband
#1940s - Hudba
The guy whistling was Tex Beneke, the saxophonist one of the most popular band members of the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
The guy that walked up to the tables and started singing was Tex Beneke (you can hear the guys at the table say "Hi, Tex!). Beneke took over the band after Glenn Miller's disappearance. The guy you saw shifting his jacket back and forth was none other than Uncle Miltie himself, Milton Berle.
I had the privilege of seeing Tex Beneke conducting the Glenn Miller Orchestra, featuring Benny Goodman (!) and Helen O’Connell, at Wolf Trap Farm National Park in Vienna, VA in the 1970s. It was three years after Goodman’s stroke, and he had not only fully recovered, but was as sharp as ever. It turned out to be one of his last performances.
@@EricHenningAwesome!
Sun Valley Serenade (1941).
I love Melton😊
Gordon "Tex" Beneke - Tenor Sax/Vocals
They were before I was born, but I love them. In the Mood my favorite by them. The movie, The Glenn Miller Story, starring Jimmy Stewart is great
Great movie 🎬
It strikes me as monumental when I think of the talent and effort it must have taken to do the arrangements for these songs. Hats off to the band leaders of that era. Thanks Harri 🌺✌️
Oh wow. This brought tears to my eyes. My Dad loved the big bands and especially Glenn Miller. We used to tease him because he loved to dance around the room when he played those records. Chattanooga Choo Choo was one of his favorites. Thanks for the great reaction and the trip down memory lane. 👏👏👏🥰🇨🇦
This was my parents' music, yet I not only recognize a lot of it, I can sometimes even sing along with some lyrics. So I am frequently gobsmacked when I hear young reactors who don't even recognize Stevie Wonder.
My mother was a big band and fan. I grew up with her teaching me how to dance. I still have her old records. "SMOK'N"!!!!
I grew up on this music. My parents taught me how to Jitterbug !
From 1942, the first Gold Record in 15 years, sold 2.5 million ,
This type of Big Band music really gets me moving. This was not my era but it was my parents era and I grew up with it. I can sing along with most of Glenn Miller & Benny Goodman's music, including this one. There is a song by Miller called "I got a gal in Kalamazoo" and my mom always sang it to me as I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan
You hit the nail on the head. Aside from the talent of those musicians, the arrangements were fantastic...works of art. Simpler times, but nothing simple about those arrangements.
I love the Big Bands and Miller was fabulous! My mom’s favorite band so I grew up with this wonderful music! The girl and boy singers of the day were so SO good!
My mom had all of these big band records when I was a kid . I loved them then and still do now , 70 years later
As good as this is, you absolutely need to hear the rest of this clip featuring the incredible Dorothy Dandridge and the equally incredible Nicholas Brothers. You'll think you've died and gone to musical Heaven!
Nothing like big band music to make you happy! Real musicians, playing real instruments, nothing electric... simply awesome.
The Train Station in Chattanooga operated until 1970.The Choo Choo was made famous by The Glenn Miller Band.The Chattanooga Choo Choo still exists,and in downtown Chattanooga on Market Street.The station converted the depot into a hotel,shopping centers,and restaurant.There are still Box cars converted into overnight stays for those that would rather try out different overnight experience other than a hotel. Chattanooga is my hometown.Thanks for great reaction Harri !
Hi, Chuck, I'm a Chattanoogan too!👋
Hello Judy, we have a beautiful city to boast about! I like to refer to it as 'The Scenic City of The South" , it's called Gig City now for the internet speed here now. Chattanooga has really grown since 1970 and continues to.
Columbus here. Home to the RC Cola which went so well with a Moon Pie. 😂
@@fermisparadox01 Yep,RC Cola invented about 120 years ago in Columbus,Moon Pie invented here in Chattanooga a little over 100 years ago.I Think they were really good together back in the 1960's and 1970's.I like a Coca Cola and a Little Debbie Fudge Round myself,seeing as Little Debbies are made here at McKee Bakery and seeing as the first Coca Cola bottling company is here in Chattanooga.I'm needing a snack now,we have a lot of goodies from years gone by,Columbus is a great city also fermisparadox01.
@@fermisparadox01 We had an RC Cola plant in town for many years.
Isn't it beautiful!
I was six years old, at our school fete, back in the late 60's. My mum let me buy a huge stack of 78s for 2 bucks, took em home, me and my dad sat down and listened for hours. I was hooked, Glen Miller, Doris Day, a few cowboys thrown in, there were all sorts. Great memories, thankyou my man, so much!
Gorgeous music. As you say Harry, its joyful and from a classy, elegant time with plenty of swagger. Ive said it before, this is the rock n' roll of that era. I love it.
Oh to have those days again! Dress up, go to dinner and listen and dance to the big bands!! What a life!❤❤❤
Love this...the train is a rollin on this one! The Modernairs don't get enough recognition in my opinion! Bette Midler did a good cover, but there is nothing like the original! Makes me smile hearing this too!
Funny you said you weren't expecting voices, because I had the opposite thought! I remember my parents playing this song so much I know most of the words but was perplexed when only instruments came on for so long. I love it, and great memories!
Please watch the ending of this video because you’ll see Dorothy Dandridge with the Nicholas Brothers. Boy could those two dance. WOW!
This is the music of my late parents RIP from the Greatest Generation (WW 2 and the Great Depression) so musical and upbeat and it Swings Daddio!!
As my parents were big fans of the Big Band era, I grew up listening to this type of music! A lot of Glenn Miller is on my playlist.
We need more horns in music today, what a wall of smooth sound.
The original music video. Lol.
My dad loved The Glenn Miller Band and this was one of my favorites. It's upbeat and fun.
I never thought about a comparison, but Blueberry Hill was my all time favorite of my parents' music when I was a kid. ☺
The Glenn Miller Orchestra was my favorite of the Big Band Era. The were famous before I was born. My interest started when I saw the movie "The Glenn Miller Story" on TV on a Saturday afternoon. I was fascinated by their sound and started searching for old records so I could listen to more. Thanks, Harri. This one really made me smile tonight.
My dad was a child of the depression, so needless to say I was raised on big band music. Give the song Sing, Sing, Sing a listen to. It’s the epitome of swing music.
Hey, pacebrison. In case you missed it, Harri reacted to Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing" a month or so ago. Awesome song and energy and musicianship! czcams.com/video/LFoHrJYcb0M/video.html
Absolutely love the Big Band era! Best music ever!
Love this!!! In 1974 one of my Christmas gifts was a double Album "Glenn Millers Greatest Hits" ........... Play it all day long on the HiFi of my Parents till my Mom told me to Stop or she get the LP in the Garbage..... 😛
Yes!!! There is so much amazing music from this time. Please do more. Many, many greats from the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Growing up this was such "Old fashioned" music we weren't supposed to like it. Not with the BeeGees, Abba even the Beatles, but it's glorious! Wonderful to see it being rediscovered and that I don't have to hide my love of Big Band music anymore.
Tex Beneke was one the great Big Band voices :) Try; "I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo'
I was born in 1941 so my music was the 1950 - 1960 rock and role era. But on TV was music from all times.
That was actually the very FIRST "Gold Record" (solid 24K gold molded, not just plated!) EVER! Was presented to Glenn Miller live on WNEW's "Make Believe Ballroom* show by host Martin Block. PLEASE BE SURE TO FINISH WATCHING THE REST OF THIS VIDEO to see the gorgeous Dorothy Dandridge tap dancing with the ultra-talented Nicolas Brothers. WOW!!! 😮
That song reminds me of my Dad (RIP),,,,,,thanks for the memory.
Ah, Tex Beneke has such a great sound!
Great reaction, Harri. So thrilled you did it! One of my favorite songs of all time because my dad was such a huge fan of Glenn Miller and his orchestra, especially "In the Mood" and "Chattanooga Choo Choo." If you already haven't watched the whole scene from 1941's "Sun Valley Serenade," the Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge come right in after the band is done playing and they sing and dance up a storm! So much fun!
So many memories of these songs, it takes me right back.
I recognized the Nicholas Brothers, but always wondered about the beautiful talented chick. Dorothy Dandridge was one hot momma!
Nothing like these old bands. When I was about 9 years old, mid 50's,
I had a great uncle I used to dance swing with, loved it!
Didn't want hear and watch Dorothy Dandridge and The Nicholas Brothers? Finish the clip!
Definitely!
You blew off the best dance acts of the 40s as well as one of the first black leading ladies of cinema. Big mistake.
Amen!!!
Great band, great harmonie, thanks my dear friend, good vibes from México
the song "At Last" was written for this band. Love Glen Miller
Love this classic. My Dad was a ww2 vet & both my parents loved the big band music. My brother played in high school jazz band in the 70s and played a lot of the Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, & Duke Ellington songs. Try: String of Pearls, Take the A Train, Sentimental Journey and Pennsylvania 6-5000 & Salt Peanuts!❤
Thank you for doing a reaction to this song. I can remember five or six years old and my father would be playing his Glenn Miller records and I would always ask him to play this song. It was one of my favorite Glenn Miller songs with many more.
You don’t see it all - the Nicholas Bros & Dorothy
Right! There was more…sadly you cut it off.
Harri, Love that you feature some Big Band music. Glenn Miller was one of the best! I remember as a child finding old records of Glenn Miller & loving his music.
My mother's favorite! Thanks, Harry!
The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge completed this scene. Please react to them
Glenn Miller was in the 40's and Fats Domino was in the 50's, you stopped the video before the best part 😮
Swing jazz took the entire world by storm in the 1940s, on the heels of American GIs. It was the beginning of American cultural dominance in world music.
The guy whistling is Tex Beneke, baritone sax player, what a voice!
This is my parents music. May they RIP. I think they had a heck of a thing going for them with The Big Bands. My dad’s favorite instrument was the clarinet, or as he referred to it as “ the licorice stick”. My mom? She just liked to dance to this music. It was and still is great dancing music.
Wish this was my generation 🥰✌🏼 They really had great music !!
Yes, yes, yes! Big Band music debut with none other than Glenn Miller. In memory of my cherished mother who loved Big Band and Swing a big thank you and review this submission. Beautiful submission and review!
love it, love it love it!
My dad played sax in the big band era. He always broke it out and played along with the 78 rpms we bought at the Salvation Army store.
I grew up with this
This was TRUE TALENT!!!
Do Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller and (my favorite) Begin the Beguine by Artie Shaw.. They're just as beautiful and swinging
What one should notice is how much the orchestration sounds like a train rolling down the tracks. Then I noticed a man that looked like Milton Berle, yep it's him and this is from the film Sun Valley Serenade.
So good to see such an honest reaction to some of the best ensemble era music ever.
That version differs from the jukebox original, both in content and fidelity. Lovely to see and hear.
Happy music. Something that's missing these days.
I love the full, rich sound of saxophones and this band really has it!
Glenn Miller played trombone and piano, so their songs are brass horn section focused as was the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
For more saxophone heavy songs, I listen to Count Basie and his orchestra.
Just love saxophones I guess.
Of course there were many other big bands with beautiful sax sections and brass sections.
Nice reaction Harri...!
This takes me back to the late '60s with my Dad. I've written before that he'd play big band music as he lulled me to sleep on his lap. There was an extra bop in his knees when this one played which probably made it a bit harder for me to sleep; but isn't this music absolutely WONDERFUL?!?
I love this song...And this version is particularly appealing. It pretty much has it all! And yes Uncle Miltie!
I have to add this.... There was someone I used to work with, an African American guy. He hated this song! Why? Because of line "Pardon me boy... Is that the Chattanoga Choo Choo?" Well the "boy" here actually refers to the older men of color who used to work the railroads as porters and such. Calling them "boy" is reasonably seen as offensive.
And there was an old quip based on this song and cowboy singer Roy Rodgers. It is a variant on the opening line. "Pardon me Roy...Is that the cat who chewed your new shoes?"
Grew up in the 60's listening to the big band sounds on WEW 770 a.m. in St. Louis riding with my dad.....love it
This is clipped from the movie 'Sun Valley Serenade' with Sonja Henie and John Payne (of 'Miracle on 34th Street') There's more great Glenn Miller Band and you get to see a spectacular sequence of Henie skating on ice dyed black - absolutely gorgeous!
The sounds of trains when they were ubiquitous. Thank you Harry.
You cut this number off early. There was some mind blowing sensational dancing at the end!
If you ever do a reaction video to the mysterious death of Glenn Miller. He flew across the English Channel on a USO tour and was never seen again.
I can remember singing along to this song when I was 4 or 5 years old. At the very end of the clip you see a stunning woman in the background which is the fabulous Dorothy Dandridge with was about to continue with the performance of Chattanooga Choo Choo accompanied by the Nicholas Brothers (at one time she was married to Harold Nicholas) czcams.com/video/3KH7V2MIDvI/video.html
There was a resurgence of '40s nostalgia in the '70s, with Bette Midler covering The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B.
Fridays in the 80's, I was working KJAZ radio in Alameda. Jerry Dean's set was Big Band Friday's. Loved it. RIP Jerry.
Ahh... I love this stuff! My parents were of that generation and our house was filled with music from Glenn Miller, The Dorsey Bros, Glen Grey, and lots of others. If you want to hear a really cool and different version of this very song, check out Chattanooga Choo-choo by a band called Asleep at the Wheel. Big Band music was often referred to as Swing. Asleep at the Wheel describe their music as Texas Swing which is a really neat fusion of Big Band and Country music. It sounds weird, but Ray Benson is so charismatic and talented that it works beautifully.
You asked who influenced whom. "Chattanooga Choo Choo" was released in 1941, but bandleader Glenn Miller covered "Blueberry Hill" in 1940, the year it was written and well before Fats Domino covered it in the 1950s. Never knew that, and I live in Chattanooga! If you're ever in town, I've got a spare room and would love to show you the sights. 🫂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry_Hill
Another excellent and entertaining reaction. What you heard was a standard presentation of how the Big Bands were presenting many of their songs in the era( 1938-early 1942). The Big Bands needed to change their presentation for the bigger venues and especially as they started to have their own radio shows and appearances in movies and short features. Many songs , like the one heard, would have a solid instrumental part for the first part and then a singer, most bands and a male and singer lead, would sing the second half with lyrics that would explain the title. Usually the male would sing love songs with a “ romantic “ voice and the female would have the faster and hipper vocals. The really successful bands could also have a group also. I believe this clip featured The Modernaires. Some of the most well known singers of the next 30’years started this way: Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Dick Haynes, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford…. Just to name a few. This style became the norm until the War drafted most of the male singers and then a very I’ll timed music strike lead by the very powerful Musicians Union boss Petraino( wrong spelling I’m sure) stopped new instruments from recording in most circumstances.This labor action and wartime conditions hastened the end of the Big Bands. But for a brief time we have many of their recordings and for the popular ones , some songs featured in mostly forgettable musicals. I think this was in Sun Valley Serenade starring Sonya Hennie. Thank you for your eclectic selections and always looking for quality, regardless of the genre.
Glenn Miller!!! SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMAN!!!!!!!!! PLEASE react to that.
I'm Pretty sure Harri the Diamonds flowing out of both our ears will be enough to rovide humanity with everything they will ever need for eterinty.😉😊😊 Thanks so much for doing one of my all time favorites.
Always reminds me of "Young Frankenstein" "Ya, Ya, track 29."
Hey, can I give you a shine?
Wow! Milton Berle was young once!
A great song about my home town. If I remember correctly, that video was taken from the film "The Glenn Miller Story." There's a big hotel in Chattanooga named "The Chattanooga Choo Choo." It was built out of the old train station. Sadly, many consider it a racial song now, because they say "Boy, give me a shine." Glenn Miller went around performing for soldiers during the war. Sadly he was lost him way too early. He was lost December 15, 1944 (aged 40) over English Channel Status Declared dead in absentia December 16, 1945 (aged 41).
God music is good. It can be listen to 80 years later. WOW!
I found a version of Blueberry Hill reportedly older than Fats Domino's famous version; I almost thought it was older than Antoine Domino
Oddly enough, Glenn Miller recorded a version of Blueberry Hill, in 1940 I think.
2:29 I loved Fats Domino, who recorded Blueberry Hill about 16 years after Glenn Miller recorded this. Fats was one of the pioneers of Rock and Roll whereas Glenn was Swing.
helen forrest with benny goodman is my favorite big band group ..... a must listen
The guy watching was Milton Berle a huge comedy star in that era into the sixties and Myrna Loy looking out the window ☮️
This recording was awarded the very Frist "Gold" record by RCA Victor, on Feb 10, 1942. The song remained #1 for nine weeks on the Billboard Best Sellers charts, and sold more than one million copies.
Fantastic! But it was cut short. It actually continued with Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers doing a song and dance to Chattanooga Choo Choo.
You may have cut the video too soon. The woman dancing in at the end is Dorothy Dandridge, and she sings while the Nicholas Brothers dance. Don't go to Artie Shaw's Begin the Beguine, we may never get you back.
The Andrew Sisters did a great version of this song too.
I always find it interesting that Glenn Miller plays a supporting character in this film about an orchestra getting their first big break, and he's even involved in a crucial scene or two. But when the music plays, you can't help but wonder if you're watching his character, or if you're watching Glenn Miller.
You cut the film off too soon. You missed the Nicolas Brothers dance routine. Simply amazing!
Yeah I really dig the Tex Beneke ones, with all the singers, too!
The lady that walked in at the end was the beautiful Dorothy Dandridge. She does a dance number with the Nicholas brothers in the next scene. You should check it out
Asleep at the Wheel, is a great band to listen to for their version of this song. Or just any Western Swing song.
Glenn Miller!!!
Stay there a few times. Love it.
Big Band music just makes you happy!
Boy the way Glenn Miller played...
You cut it off just as it was getting good!!!! We got a short peek at the gorgeous Dorothy Dandridge, about to start a dance sequence with the Nicholas Brothers- the most supernaturally talented dancers of all time in the greatest dance number in Hollywood musical history! Wind it up again and finish it- you'll be happy you did!
One of the songs of my days as a tap-dancing youth.