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Posthumous success
After Miller's disappearance and the subsequent decline of the Swing era, Victor Records began rereleasing portions of his singles catalogue into albums. The first compilation Glenn Miller, highlighted some of Miller's best known songs on both A- and B-sides, differing from track sequencing on original singles pressings. A runaway success, Glenn Miller was eventually certified Gold by the RIAA in July 1968.

Three albums of Miller material hit number-one on the Billboard album chart: Glenn Miller in 1945, a follow-up, Glenn Miller Masterpieces, Volume II, in 1947, and the band's reissued recordings, Glenn Miller Plays Selections From the Film "The Glenn Miller Story", from 1954 biopic of the same name.

In December 1947, with another AFM strike looming, Billboard published a poll of nearly 7500 total disk jockeys, retailers, and jukebox operators of which catalogue singles they would most like reissued. Of the top fifteen songs, seven were Miller's.

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Between 1938 and 1944, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra released 266 singles on the monaural ten-inch shellac 78 rpm format. Their studio output comprised a variety of musical styles inside of the Swing genre, including ballads, band chants, dance instrumentals, film songs, novelty tracks, and, as the Second World War approached, patriotic music. Non-instrumental songs featured Miller's various vocalists, generally Ray Eberle or Marion Hutton before 1940, with Tex Beneke, vocal group The Modernaires, and Skip Nelson all making studio vocal appearances after the turn of the decade.

Beginning with An Album of Outstanding Arrangements in 1945, this collection has been repackaged into various album formats over time with release on 78 rpm, 10 and 12 inch LP, 7 inch 45 rpm, compact cassette, 8-track, compact disc (CD), and digital formats.

Before his popularity, in the late 1920s, Miller played or wrote arrangements for many hot jazz groups, including a stint as a trombonist-arranger for Red Nichols’ famed Five Pennies recordings.

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Between 1938 and 1944, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra released 266 singles on the monaural ten-inch shellac 78 rpm format. Their studio output comprised a variety of musical styles inside of the Swing genre, including ballads, band chants, dance instrumentals, novelty tracks, songs adapted from motion pictures, and, as the Second World War approached, patriotic music. Non-instrumental songs featured Miller's various vocalists, generally Ray Eberle or Marion Hutton before 1940, with Tex Beneke, vocal group The Modernaires, and Skip Nelson all making studio vocal appearances after the turn of the decade. Beginning with An Album of Outstanding Arrangements in 1945, this collection has been repackaged into various album formats over time with release on 78 rpm, 10 and 12 inch LP, 7 inch 45 rpm, compact cassette, 8-track, compact disc (CD), and digital formats.

Before his popularity, in the late 1920s, Miller played or wrote arrangements for many hot jazz groups, including a stint as a trombonist-arranger for Red Nichols’ famed Five Pennies recordings.