Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
(Live 1942)
Broadcast recordings of Glenn Miller's civilian band are a large part of his legacy. Many were made at the behest of Miller himself. Others were made by unknown souls who connected home disc recorders to their radios and captured precious minutes of long-ago nights in faraway ballrooms. These broadcast recordings, or "airchecks", contain many titles the band never put on record, and different arrangements of some they did. A CD of such material, "Broadcast Versions They Never Recorded," emerged in 1994. It contained the "long" arrangement of "American Patrol," but the original recording disc ran out at 3'20" and the performance came to an abrupt, frustrating halt. I have grafted the final 1'10" of the studio recording to the end of the imcomplete "live" version. Surprisingly, they are at the same tempo, but the difference in sound quality between the two reveals the exact location of the splice.
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El Paso artist Pat Olchefski-Winston (Buddy's wife) did this vibrant water color of Buddy and me in 2001. For more information about Pat and her work, go to: www.olchefski.com and www.artistsofthesouthwest.com
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What it is...
I've been playing music in the El Paso area for nearly fifty years, and I've accumulated hundreds of tapes along the way. Here they are. Most of these performances were captured with inexpensive portable equipment in living rooms, taverns, houses of worship, festival tents and theatres. Some were recorded off the radio, some directly from public address systems. A few were actually recorded in professional recording studios. Some of these hands are folded now, and some of these voices are stilled. This is what I've done, where I've been and who I've known. This is my scrapbook.
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- Home In Pasadena
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- Hardin Wouldn't Run
- The One Rose (That's Left In My Heart)
- Memories
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- Diamonds In the Rough
- Roadside Rag
- Milwaukee Rag
- Tom Dooley
- Little Darlin'
- A Teardrop On A Rose
- The Golden Horseshoe Jamboree
- Hard Travelin'
- Lovesick Blues
- I Know You Rider
- There's No U-Turn (On the Road of Life)
- Wasted Tears
- American Patrol
- Yesterday
- Weary Blues (From Waitin')
- Zoomer's Rock 'n' Roll Medley
- You're Not Mine Anymore (alternate mix)
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Art by Pat Olchefski-Winston
El Paso artist Pat Olchefski-Winston (Buddy's wife) did this vibrant water color of Buddy and me in 2001. For more information about Pat and her work, go to: www.olchefski.com and www.artistsofthesouthwest.com
With Ernest Tubb ~ 1980
Back in 1983 with Mickey Cochran (guitar) and Bobby Napier (fiddle). Bobby went on to bigger things, including a stint with Tammy Wynette.
1980s Bidness Card
