08/04/2026
If it is summer, then the Star-Spangled Radio Hour must be visiting the Glen Island Casino. By the waters of Long Island Sound, this week the music of Glenn Miller fills the airwaves with broadcasts and recordings from August 1939. Beginning with the most recognizable hit of the big band era, “In the Mood,” the band offers ample evidence of why they were becoming a big hit with the teens and college crowd around New York and across the nation over the NBC Red and Blue airwaves. Everyone is present and accounted for, including GM, Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton and Ray Eberle. There is a special emphasis on the influence of arranger Eddie Durham toward the 1939 ascent of the Miller band. Your summer weekend will fall back eighty-seven years to New Rochelle’s “mecca of music for moderns” as SSRH 843 is now streaming online for your listening pleasure:
https://www.dennismspragg.com/star-spangled-radio-hour
Learn more about Glenn Miller:
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Star-Spangled Radio Hour 843
August 1, 2026
Celebrating America 250
Glenn Miller – August 1939
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
RCA Bluebird Recording Sessions
August 1, 1939 – New York, Studio 2
August 18, 1939 – New York, Studio 2
Glen Island Casino
New Rochelle, New York
August 1, 1939
6:30-6:45 p.m.
(NBC-Red) (WEAF)
Sustaining Broadcast
Al Robinson, announcer
Glen Island Casino
New Rochelle, New York
August 4, 1939
11:00-11:15 p.m.
(NBC-Blue) (WJZ)
Sustaining Broadcast
Jack Costello, announcer
Glen Island Casino
New Rochelle, New York
August 4, 1939 (Probable)
11:15-11:30 p.m.
(NBC-Blue) (WJZ)
Sustaining Broadcast
Jack Costello, announcer
Glen Island Casino
New Rochelle, New York
August 15, 1939
6:30-6:45 p.m.
(NBC-Red) (WEAF)
Sustaining Broadcast
Al Robinson, announcer
Playlist
(1Aug39) (BS-038170-1, Bluebird B-10416) In The Mood, (BS-038171-1, Bluebird B-10399) Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) (Marion Hutton, vocal), (BS-038172-1, Bluebird B-10383) An Angel In A Furnished Room (Ray Eberle, vocal), (BS-038173-1, Bluebird B-10388) Twilight Interlude (Ray Eberle, vocal), (BS-038173-1, Bluebird B-10416) I Want To Be Happy (1Aug39-NBC) Moonlight Serenade (opening theme), The Lady’s In Love With You (Tex Beneke and Glenn Miller, vocal), Twilight Interlude (Ray Eberle, vocal), We Can Live On Love (Marion Hutton, vocal), I Want To Be Happy, Moonlight Serenade (closing theme) (4Aug39-A) Moonlight Serenade (opening theme), Slip Horn Jive, The Lamp Is Low (Ray Eberle, vocal), My Isle Of Golden Dreams, King Porter Stomp, Moonlight Serenade (closing theme), to station break (4Aug39-B) Moonlight Serenade (opening theme), The Lady’s In Love With You (Tex Beneke and Glenn Miller, vocal), Twilight Interlude (Ray Eberle, vocal), Ding, D**g, the Witch is Dead (Marion Hutton, vocal), Bugle Call Rag, Moonlight Serenade (closing theme) (15Aug39) Moonlight Serenade (opening theme), Ain’t ‘Cha Comin’ Out? (Tex Beneke and Marion Hutton, vocal), The Lamp Is Low (Ray Eberle, vocal), My Isle of Golden Dreams, Pagan Love Song, Moonlight Serenade (closing theme) (18Aug39) (BS-041586-1, Bluebird B-10486) Who’s Sorry Now? (Ray Eberle, vocal), (BS-038143-2, Bluebird B-10399) My Isle of Golden Dreams, (BS-041588-2, Bluebird Unissued) Blue Moonlight (Ray Eberle, vocal) (1Aug39) (BS-038175-1, Bluebird B-10495) Farewell Blues
