1940s SWING ERA JAZZ SHORTS GLENN MILLER BING CROSBY DUKE ELLINGTON GENE KRUPA JC13944

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This collection of short films presents musical artists in 1930’s to the mid to late 1940’s during the Swing Era. It includes live performances as well as segments from various films, and the 1940s music videos known colloquially as “soundies“. It features Glenn Miller in England during 1944, the East Side Kids, Amos Wilburn and Bing Crosby among others. It opens with a US Army film of Glenn Miller and various military bands performing in Wycombe Abbey in England in 1944 as the Second World War was taking place. An expanse of servicemen, including the US 8th Army Air Force, open the segment (:09). Glenn Miller introduces the show pointing to the involvement of the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra as well as a group from Philadelphia (:27). Miller announces band leaders including Sergeant George Arkner (:40), the saxophone section head, Sergeant Hank Freeman