In the Mood

In the Mood is a jazz track that has been known primarily for the U.S. Big Band leader Glenn Miller and one of the most famous pieces of big band and swing era.

Origin

The origin of the song is very controversial among musicologists. In the version known today by the Glenn Miller song whose main theme uses the twelve-bar blues pattern was composed by Joe Garland and arranged by Eddie Durham; the text was written by Andy Razaf. The main theme is based on a reef, the first under the title Tar Paper Stomp was known, which was received by the jazz trumpeter Wingy Manone under the band name Barbecue Joe & His Hot Dogs on August 28, 1930. Allegedly Miller Manone paid for it, that it is not claimed the copyright for " In the Mood ". According to Donald Clarke's Encyclopedia believed the British journalist CH Rolph to have heard in 1919, played by a theater orchestra the title. Father and uncle of the Everly Brothers - - According to the website History-of - Rock.com also Leonard, Charlie and Isaac "Ike" Everly Brothers had an original composition entitled " That's the Mood I'm In " in the repertoire, Bluegrass and Ragtime " In the Mood " was combined with each other, and apparently the later very similar.

The reef appears (recorded on May 19, 1931, titled Baltimore Bell Hops ), arranged by Fletcher's brother Horace and Don Redman and Fletcher Henderson in recording of " Hot and Anxious ". Garland has this reef processed. He first with Lucky Millinder and added the Mills Blue Rhythm Band in 1935 under the title "There 's Rhythm in Harlem " An early version. On February 17, 1938, was the first recording under the title " In the Mood " with the orchestra of Edgar Hayes, with Kenny Clarke on drums, released in June 1939. 's Version of Hayes represents the original version of the Garland - composition, for which he had until 1939 secure copyright. Rarely heard - - Text by Fats Waller, Andy Razaf copywriter was only in that year, was born. There was a Joe Marsala under the title Hot String Beans on March 16, 1938 recorded version, with the composer as only Garland stated. Another version played in December 1938 Artie Shaw for broadcasting a. When Shaw first time is the charm of rhythmic " three to four " - a straight meter three-note arpeggios be repeated - to hear .. On August 1, 1939 four weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, the hit version was recorded by Glenn Miller, while the orchestra three months in Glen Iceland casino on Long Iceland guested.

The piece begins with a unison in the saxophones in which, after three cycles trumpets and trombones come. The solo part can be divided into two main parts: a " tenor battle" that was played on the final recording by Tex Beneke and Al Klink, and a trumpet solo. In the known rise and fall of the riffs, the so-called cat -and- mouse- teaser ( cat-and- mouse game ) was probably the secret of success of the Miller version, which came to the U.S. charts in October 1939, there for 12 weeks listed at No. 1 and became a million-seller.

Recordings and successes

Then the global success began this evergreens. In Australia was the piece in 1942 for five months at No. 1 on the charts.

The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1983 and into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress

The song was recorded by many big bands and jazz musicians, first in 1940 by Teddy Wilson. The most famous big band recordings are from the Joe Loss Orchestra, the Andrews Sisters, Xavier Cugat, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lubo D' Orio and the Brian Setzer Orchestra.

Known recordings without big band come from Jerry Lee Lewis, John Lee Hooker, Chet Atkins, Bill Haley & His Comets, Bad Manners and Ernie Fields, whose version reached number 4 in the U.S. charts. More pictures were taken by Johnny Maddox, Jonathan King, Bette Midler and Matchbox.

In 1951, the song was played and recorded I computer at the University of Manchester on a Ferranti Mark. The recording was the first one played by a computer song ever.

In the - enriched by quotations - Beatles hit All You Need Is Love, performed live at Abbey Road Studios as a British contribution to global mission Our World on June 25, 1967 the famous reef in the fadeout phase can be heard at the end.

Elton John took over in September 1976 a large part of the song in his hit Bennie and the Jets. A rather humorous version was published in January 1977 by Ray Stevens, who recorded the song with the cackling of hens. The song was in this version a Top 40 hit in the U.S. and the UK. Inspired by the renewed popularity of the song, the Glenn Miller Orchestra took the song again, and came thus into the Easy Listening charts. The saxophonist Al Klink decreed that this version is played at his funeral.

In October 1989, the piece by a remix of the music project Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers Swing the Mood under the title was again popular.

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