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The vocal was by Ray Eberle.

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The commercial recording was sung by Paula Kelly, backed by the Modernaires.

The movie version was lip-synched by actress Lynn Bari, but was actually performed by Pat Friday who was the Marni Nixon of her time, providing "ghost" singing voices for non-musical actresses. Backing was by the Modernaires and Six Hits and a Miss.

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He worked for Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey; was on staff of the Tonight Show for 20+ years until they moved to California. He played with the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and toured with Frank Sinatra many times. He died in Florida in March, 1991

Zeke Zarchy passed away on April 12, 2009. Miller's plane was lost during World War II but his band was not on it with him. Zeke was the last band member to see Miller alive, having talked with him at the airfield just before takeoff. Glenn Miller's band did not die with him. Zeke settled in Southern California after the war and worked as a studio musician for television and films for many years. He played in many Glenn Miller Reunion bands and toured Japan over 30 times, along with studio work for both CBS and NBC staff orchestras, and with the Great Pacific Jazz Band with Bob Ringwald. Zeke passed away on April 12, 2009 (Sunday - not Saturday as stated in the obit) See the link for more information on his career.

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None whatsoever. In spite of being a major in the Army Air Force his role was entirely musical, not military. In addition the first shots in the Battle of the Bulge were fired on December 16, 1944, the day after Miller's plane went down.

However, the Battle of the Bulge could be said to have been partially responsible for his death. The Allies knew about increased Wehrmacht activity and had diverted a lot of airplanes on December 15, 1944. That combined with bad weather made it difficult for him to find a non-combat flight to Paris so that he could prepare for the orchestra's planned Christmas concert.

The final pieces of the puzzle included Miller's own lapsed judgement about flying in bad weather, the questionable skills of his plane's pilot, and a balky carburetor that may have failed somewhere over the English Channel.

Arguably the best of several biographies is George T. Simon's "Glenn Miller & His Orchestra". It's been through several editions by different publishing houses. The latest version (as of 2011) is in paperback by Da Capo.

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There's no official gravestone because his body was never recovered during WWII. There is a memorial to him at Arlington National Cemetery.

He never had the chance. He was living in New Jersey at the time volunteered for service in the Army Air Force.

He and Helen had planned to buy land and build both their own residence (to be called the Tuxedo Junction Ranch) and a "music village", the Glenn Miller Institute, where musicians could live, perform, and study. While in the AAF he collaborated on a song titled "California, USA" about the hoped-for happy future, but it all ended over the English Channel on that cold Friday afternoon of December 15, 1944.

Miller never had children of his own.

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Maurice Purtill was the drummer on the original civilian band recording. Ray McKinley was featured on the AAF Band performances.

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It was originally performed by Ray Eberle. When Ray was let go, the tune was sung a few times by his replacement Skip Nelson. It was also done by AAF lead vocalist Johnny Desmond, and of course by every male vocalist who has sung with the new Glenn Miller Orchestra since it was re-formed in 1956.

There was never a handicapped drummer in Glenn Miller's band.

You may be thinking of Chick Webb. Childhood TB left Webb with a shortened and deformed spine, yet he was able to became one of the greatest drummers of the Swing Era despite his disabilities.

Ben Pollack hired them both to play in his orchestra in Los Angeles, Benny in 1925 (at the ripe old age of 16!), Glenn in 1926. Later, in the early 1930s, they both played in Red Nichols' orchestra in New York City, where they shared an apartment with other musicians including, among others, Jimmy Dorsey. http://www.jackoverton.com/articles.php

Anything but. His family was of German descent and lived in the Midwest. Early poverty instilled a very strong work ethic, and his upbringing was strict middle-American Protestant. His friend and biographer George T. Simon described him as very much a "what you see is what you get" person with a strong sense of honesty. He was said to be only able to fake anything when he was playing his trombone.

However, the stress of separation and illness affected him greatly while stationed in England. There have been persistent rumors that during his time there he began a relationship with a Frenchwoman whose husband had disappeared in the war. One version of his disappearance is that he actually landed in France on Dec. 15, 1944 but that the woman's husband reappeared among released soldiers, discovered the affair, and killed Miller in revenge. Unfortunately that story is just one of many, each with supporting facts and significant holes, so we're unlikely to ever know the truth.

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