Ok. I am rapidly approaching my 79th birthday and I confess

AZ Jim

AZ Jim

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I am a sentiment slob. Just now, on another thread I posted a Glenn Miller Utube song. I have always loved his sound, his orchestra. In high school I was a bad boy. I couldn't ever allow myself to open up and really be me. I always had to "play the role". In my own time, I loved music. I loved big bands. I loved the Glenn Miller sound. When I was 17 or 18 I went to the theater to watch the "Glenn Miller Story". When it got to the part about his death and the Christmas scene with June Allison as his wife, tears flooded my eyes. The other night, alone in my office, I found the movie on the Utube site and played it again. I figured all these years, all that has happened in my life, this would be different. I watched the movie, when it got to that part again. I cried. I didn't make the sobbing sounds we see in TV shows, but my eyes once again spilled tears and I felt the loss. If you have never heard the Glenn Miller band you won't understand this thread. I don't know why I bothered to tell you all this but maybe because I am here so much and so many of my old friends have passed, I consider you my friends and just wanted to share it.
 

Jim, we're always here to listen. I think most of us (at least me, anyway) get caught up in nostalgia and feel sad, especially as we feel the years passing....

HUGS to you!
 

Butterfly said:
Jim, we're always here to listen. I think most of us (at least me, anyway) get caught up in nostalgia and feel sad, especially as we feel the years passing....

HUGS to you!
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Butterfly, Thank you I wasn't shooting for sympathy just layin down a little story so to speak.
 
The first time I heard Glenn Miller was when I was about 10. My parents and grandparents had a mining claim with a log cabin. No running water or electricity.
I found a bunch of old records (not vinyl) and a wind up phonograph. I played Moonlight Serenade. Loved it!
I saw the Glenn Miller Story at the movies and I sobbed. My brother in law made fun of me.
My best friend's father was a musician and took us to see Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
I love the Big Band music.
Thanks for reviving those memories. I am 75.
 
AZ Jim said:
I am a sentiment slob. Just now, on another thread I posted a Glenn Miller Utube song. I have always loved his sound, his orchestra. In high school I was a bad boy. I couldn't ever allow myself to open up and really be me. I always had to "play the role". In my own time, I loved music. I loved big bands. I loved the Glenn Miller sound. When I was 17 or 18 I went to the theater to watch the "Glenn Miller Story". When it got to the part about his death and the Christmas scene with June Allison as his wife, tears flooded my eyes. The other night, alone in my office, I found the movie on the Utube site and played it again. I figured all these years, all that has happened in my life, this would be different. I watched the movie, when it got to that part again. I cried. I didn't make the sobbing sounds we see in TV shows, but my eyes once again spilled tears and I felt the loss. If you have never heard the Glenn Miller band you won't understand this thread. I don't know why I bothered to tell you all this but maybe because I am here so much and so many of my old friends have passed, I consider you my friends and just wanted to share it.
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I have a Glenn Miller album sitting 10" from me as I type. It was the first record my wife and I listened to together when we were first dating. On it, is "Alice Blue Gown". We waltzed to that at an engagement party that was given for us. Of course, Eleanor wore a fancy blue gown. Our first waltz, of a chain that would continue for a life time. It was "our thing". I have a movie of it somewhere, but I don't need it. We dance in my head in HD. Jim, I'm sure we are different people, but we share much. Every word of your post resonates with me. Thanks for refreshing my very favorite memory.

"Waltzing with my Eleanor my whole life through. Dancing here, I hold you near, you hold me too. Through the years together, hand in hand we two. You have made my life complete, and I love you.":rose:

Written for my Sweetie. Set to the main theme of the Merry Widow Waltz. Sung to her many times in her final months.
 
Just a quickie because I'm just leaving for work...


Jim I wasn't even thought of when Glen Miller was famous ... my mother was only 10 years old when Glenn died...yet I have always loved his music...loved it, ever since I was a teen , and yes I've watched the Glenn Miller story too and it's a real tearjerker!!
 
I was just a little over eight when he died, but his music was on every juke box all up into the 50's. He is still a well loved composer and musician. Long live Glenn Miller's sound and memory.
 
I was an usher @ the FOX Theater in Detroit when I was in high school.

I got to see/hear ALL of those big bands from that era. You name 'em !

Glenn Miller will always be my favorite. It was something to see/hear ; The elevated bandstand rising from below
with the band playing their theme song. Now THAT was music! Today's "music" is just noise.
 
Jim, a birthday looming ahead is often cause for pause. Hope you celebrate it well.

My parents took me to that Glenn Miller Story movie when I was a small child and I loved the music then and I still love it now, including lots of other big band and jazz musicians.
 
I'm going to look for the Glenn Miller Story. I have a set of CDs from the Big Band era which I like to play sometimes. All of those make me think of my mom who had the radio or record player going late into the night when my dad either worked late or was at the bars. I remember all those names mentioned and she liked Guy Lombardo too.
 
There's never any shame in tears Jim. It's a sign of a tender heart and that's the most important gift that we have to share with the world:love_heart:
 

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