Glenn Miller Live - A Birthday Salute

To celebrate Glenn Miller's birthday I decided to do a two part show with some of his recordings from the Glen Island casino. Last year a did a four part series on Glenn in honor of his birthday which is March 1, 1904.  The recordings are from radio remotes starting in May of 1939.  here is little bit I found on Wikipedia on the Glen Island Casino:

The Glen Island Casino dining hall rose on the foundation of the Grand Cafe, one of the few structures remaining from Starin's park. The building opened into a series of balconies overlooking the Long Island Sound which made it an attractive dining and entertaining location.^[18] At the time, the term "casino" was not associated with legalized gambling but instead described "a public social place for entertainment." However, the nightspot was soon living up to the contemporary definition of its name. By 1930, when prohibition was marking its tenth year in the United States, Glen Island Casino was acquiring the reputation as being a speakeasy, yet at the same time the Casino had also begun to book up-and coming musicians for weekend dances. One of the first was Oswald George Nelson, better known as "Ozzie", who set the pace packing the 60-foot by 124-foot hall with throngs of young dancers. Accompanied by his wife, Harriet Hilliard, the Ozzie Nelson Orchestra gained national attention when it played the Casino's 1932 season.^[19]
The next summer the most influential white band in the United States during the early 1930s, the Casa Loma Orchestra, drew in the crowds and ushered in the Big Band era for the Casino. The performances at the Glen Island Casino were being heard nationwide. Situated on the Sound, the Casino's enormous ballroom was acoustically ideal for the crystal-clear radio transmissions.^[20]
Many artists made their name at the Casino, among them such notables as Glenn Miller,^[21] the Dorsey Brothers,^[22] Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Larry Clinton, Les Brown and Doris Day, Charlie Spivak, Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Hal Mcintyre and Claude Thornhill.^[23]
After the Big Band Era's end, the Glen Island Casino was eventually converted to a restaurant and catering hall, which operates as part of the present-day county park—open to county residents only—on the site.

Here is a current picture of Glen Island Harbor Club (as it is now known):

I hope you'll tune in as we celebrate the birthday of the Late bandleader Glenn Miller.