Big Band Serenade presents Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. May 17, 1939.  An
                opening night band remote from The Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle,
                New York. The first tune is "At Sundown." "Swing" magazine reported
                that this matinee performance by the band had eighteen hundred people
                in attendance and had broken all daytime records for the casino!  Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Ray Eberle (vocal),
                Marion Hutton (vocal), The Modernaires, Hugh James (announcer).<p><a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=107141001">
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Big Band Serenade 68 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra 7/13/39

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