As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on December 6th 1939 with Ray Eberle.
Written by J. Fred Coots and Mack Gordon.
I beg your pardon
But aren’t you my lonely heart
Aren‘t you the lovely eyes
That once looked into mine...?
I beg your pardon
But aren’t you my fondest dreams
Aren’t you the tender lips
That made my world oh, so divine...?
I have more than a vague recollection
Of heavenly moments we knew
And as I stand here speaking with you
I see millions of midnights pass in review
I beg your pardon
But if you can‘t remember me
If I’m just a memory
I humbly beg your pardon...
I Do, Do You? (Do You Believe In Love)
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on December 27th 1940 with Ray Eberle.
Written by Lew Quadling.
I do,
Do you,
Do you believe in love?
I never did before but now I do
Whenever you’re near me I thrill with
happiness
And if that isn’t love I missed my guess,
Oh yes...
I do,
Do you,
Do you believe it’s love?
What else could bring an angel down to Earth
When you’re in my arms I weaken with each
caress
Oh, yes,
I do ,
Do you...?
I Guess I’ll Have To Dream The Rest
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on May 28th 1941 with Ray Eberle and the Modernaires.
Words by Mickey Stoner and Martin Block,
music by Harold Green.
I guess I’ll have to dream the rest
If you can’t remember the things that we said
Those nights that my shoulder held your
sleepy head
If you believe that parting’s best
I guess I’ll have to dream the rest...
I guess I’ll have to dream alone
Of honeymoon cruises once dear to my heart
A one room apartment where we said we’d start
Of foolish things we planned to own
I guess I’ll have to dream alone
I can see that your heart has gone astray
As for me, I love you the same old way
I guess I’ll have to dream the rest
There’ll be no friends waiting to throw
shoes and rice
Those heavenly moments will never come twice
I’m thankful for the hours you blessed
I guess I’ll have to dream the rest
(repeat once)
Guess I’ll have to dream the rest...
I Haven‘t Time To Be A Millionaire
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on March 31st 1940 with Tex Beneke.
Words by Johnny Burke, music by James V.
Monaco.
By a country road wild roses grow
That need my special care
So I haven‘t time to be a millionaire
And a cheerful brook on a mountain side
Is sad when I’m not there
So I haven’t time to be a millionaire
And a friendly gang of robins
Are beat when I forget
That I’m the second tenor
In a saxophone quintet
So with all the things I have to do
I’m very much aware
If I wished for wealth
It wouldn’t be quite fair
´Cause I haven’t time to be a
millionaire...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on October 3rd 1939 with Marion Hutton.
Written by Dave Franklin.
I just got a letter, a letter, a letter
The sweetest little letter from my honey
today
I opened up the letter, the letter, the
letter,
It made me feel much better, here‘s what it
had to say...:
It said, „I had a dream last night
I dreamed I held you awfully tight
You don’t know how I’m missing you
I wish that I were kissing you...“
I just got a letter, a letter, a letter
The sweetest little letter from my honey
today!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on May 7th 1941 with Paula Kelly and the Modernaires.
Words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Warren.
(From the movie „Sun Valley Serenade“, featuring the Glenn Miller
Orchestra!)
Why do robins sing in December,
Long before the springtime is due?
And even though it‘s snowing
Violets are growing,
I know why and so do you...
Why do breezes sigh ev’ry evening,
Whispering your name as they do?
And why have I the feeling stars are on my
ceiling?
I know why and so do you...
When you smile at me
I hear gypsy violins
When you dance with me
I’m in heaven when the music begins...
I can see the sun when it’s raining
Hiding ev’ry cloud from my view
And why do I see rainbows when you‘re in my
arms?
I know why and so do you!
("Actually, there are two versions of this song by Glenn Miller. The first one was recorded in 1938, sung by Paula Kelly. The second one is from the 1941 movie "Sun Valley Serenade" and was sung by Pat Friday and Mel Torme." - notes by Francisco Acuna, Venezuela)
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on August 14th 1940 with Ray Eberle.
Words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Warren.
I wouldn’t take a million for a girl like
you
I wouldn’t take a million for the things you
do
If they offered me a mansion
In the finest part of town
If you’re not in that mansion
Then I would turn it down
I wouldn’t take a million
For the twinkle in your eyes
I‘d rather win a smile from you
Than win a Nobel Prize
If I were just a pauper
And I didn’t have a sou
I still would have a million
If I just had you!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on October 11th 1940 with Ray Eberle.
Words by Johnny Mercer, music by Jimmy Mc
Hugh.
I’d know you anywhere
I’d know that grin
I’d know you anywhere
When you walked in
I would tingle with a single glance
In your eyes
Watching the starlight dance
In your eyes
You saw my vacant stare
You understood
I‘d love you anywhere
Honest, I would,
I was certain this would happen,
Strange as it seems,
I’d know you anywhere
From my dreams!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on January 17th 1941 with Tex Beneke
Written by Eddie Leonard in 1903.
Ida! Sweet as apple cider
Sweeter than all I know
Come on out in the silv’ry moonlight
Of love we‘ll whisper so sweet’n low
Seems as though I can’t live without you
Listen, oh, honey, do
Ida, I idolize you
Oh, baby, I love you, Ida,
´Deed I do!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on February 19th 1940 with Ray Eberle.
Written by Ruth Lowe.
I‘ll never smile again until I smile at
you
I’ll never laugh again, what good would it
do?
For tears would fill my eyes,
My heart would realize
That our romance is through...
I‘ll never love again, I‘m so in love
with
you,
I’ll never thrill again to somebody new
Within my heart I know I will never start
To smile again
Until I smile at you...
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on July 16th 1942 with Skip Nelson.
Words by Johnny Mercer, music by Jerome
Kern. (From the movie „You Were Never Lovelier“)
I’m old fashioned, I love the moonlight
I love the old fashioned things
The sound of rain
Upon a window pane
The starry song that April sings
This year’s fancies are passing fancies
But sighing sighs, holding hands
These my heart understands
I’m old fashioned but I don’t mind it
That‘s how I want to be
As long as you agree
To stay old fashioned with me...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on June 2nd 1939 with Tex Beneke and Marion Hutton.
Written by Irving Berlin. (From the movie
„Second Fiddle“)
Marion Hutton:
I’m sorry for myself
So sorry for myself
Someone I love said goodbye
And noone’s sorry for me, that is why
I’m so sorry for myself!
Conversation between Glenn Miller and Tex
Beneke:
TB: (Whistlewhistlewhistle)
GM: Hello there, Texas, whatcha say?
Man, you look awful sad today!
TB: Glenn, I got the miseries of the
fiercest kind
My gal bluffed me off, she won’t pay me no mind!
GM: Hm-hm, boy that’s bad.
I don‘t blame you for feeling sad!
TB: I guess me and romance just don‘t mix...
GM: Texas, I’d say you’re in a terrible fix!
Tex Beneke:
I’m so sorry for myself
So sorry for myself
I‘d go home and end it all
But fourteen stories is an awful fall
I’m so sorry for myself!
I’m Stepping Out With A Memory Tonight
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on March 30th 1940 with Ray Eberle.
Words by Herb Magidson, music by Alli Wrubel.
I’m stepping out with a memory tonight
To paint the town the way we used to do
I’ll dine at the old cafe where we had so
much fun
And order cocktails for two instead of the
usual one...
Then after dark in a hansom through the
park,
While reminiscing I’ll be kissing you,
A lot of folks may think that I’m crazy,
Well, maybe they’re right,
But I’m stepping out with a memory tonight...
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on August 11th 1941 with Ray Eberle.
Words by Sylvia Dee, music by Sidney Lippman.
I’m thrilled just looking at you
And knowing your lips have touched mine
As if in a dream divine
Oh, but I’m thrilled
I’m thrilled by things that you do
The way that you echo my name
As though with a heart aflame
Oh, but I’m thrilled
It’s like the magic of springtime
When you enter a room
A symphony seems to play swingtime
And a million roses burst into bloom
I’m thrilled just holding your hand
Or standing beside you awhile
You look in my eyes and smile
Oh, but I’m thrilled...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on February 19th 1940 with Ray Eberle.
Words by Johnny Burke, music by Jimmy Van
Heusen.
Imagination is funny
It makes a cloudy day sunny
Makes a bee think of honey
Just as I think of you
Imagination is crazy
Your whole perspective gets hazy
Starts you asking a daisy what to do, what
to do...
Have you ever felt a gentle touch
And then a kiss, and then, and then...
Find it’s only your imagination again, oh
well...
Imagination is silly
You go around willy-nilly
For example I go around wanting you
And yet I can‘t imagine that you want me,
too!
In An Old Dutch Garden (By An Old Dutch
Mill)
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on November 22nd 1939 with Ray Eberle.
Written by Will Grosz.
In an old Dutch garden by an old Dutch
mill
Where the moon was dreaming on a distant hill
When a smile danced by it was then that I
Saw heaven in a pair of wooden shoes
In an old Dutch garden where the tulips
grow
That‘s when first I whispered that I love
you so
For my heart was blue till I gave it to
An angel in a pair of wooden shoes
Then one sad day
When summer meets September
I sailed away from a thrill I will remember
In an old Dutch garden by an old Dutch
mill
Ev‘ry day I pray that you are waiting still
For my heart will yearn until I return
To heaven in a pair of wooden shoes!
Originally recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on August 1st 1939.
Words by Andy Razaf, music by Joe Garland.
This vocal version as performed by The
Andrews Sisters.
Who's the lovin' daddy with the beautiful
eyes?
What a pair o' lips, I'd like to try 'em for
size!
I'll just tell him, "Baby, won't you swing
it with me"
Hope he tells me maybe, what a wing it will
be
So I said politely, "Darlin' may I intrude"
He said, "Don't keep me waitin' when I'm in
the mood!"
First I held him lightly and we started
to
dance
Then I held him tightly, what a dreamy
romance...
And I said, "Hey, baby, it's a quarter to
three
There's a mess of moonlight, won't-cha share
it with me"
"Well", he answered, "Baby, don't-cha know
that it's rude
To keep my two lips waitin' when they're in
the mood!"
In the mood, that's what he told me
In the mood, and when he told me
In the mood, my heart was skippin'
It didn't take me long to say, "I'm in the
mood now!"
In the mood for all his kissin'
In the mood his crazy lovin'
In the mood what I was missin'
It didn't take me long to say, "I'm in the
mood now!"
So, I said politely, "Darlin' may I
intrude"
He said, "Don't keep me waitin' when I'm in
the mood"
"Well" he answered "Baby, don't-cha know
that it's rude
To keep my two lips waitin' when they're in
the mood"!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on November 5th 1939 with Ray Eberle.
Words by Al Dubin, music by Victor Herbert.
(The melody was actually written in 1919 as
a piano piece subtitled "An American Idyll", lyrics were added in 1939).
Summer, you old Indian Summer
You‘re the tear that comes after June time‘s
laughter
You see so many dreams that don’t come true
Dreams we fashioned when summertime was new
You are here to watch over
Some heart that is broken
By a word that somebody left unspoken
You’re the ghost of a romance in June
Going astray, fading too soon...
That’s why I say,
„Farewell to you, Indian Summer!“
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on November 8th 1940 with Jack Lathrop.
Words by Johnny Burke, music by James Van
Heusen. (Originally from the movie „Love Thy Neighbor“)
Calm is the night, the wind is asleep
A drowsy old moon walks above
Suddenly comes a jolt
Crash!, goes a thunderbolt,
Isn’t that just like love?
Straight is your path and firm is your
step
And then at the drop of a glove
Where is south, which is north
Bang!, it’s July The Fourth
Isn’t that just like love?
Isn’t it odd to walk up to a dream and
say,
„Don‘t I know you?“
Isn’t it weird to hear miracles talk and say,
„Well, how do you do?“
Clear is your mind and strong is your will
A mountain is simpler to shove
Then the ground falls apart,
Boom!, goes your apple cart
Isn’t that just like love...?
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on November 24th 1941 with Ray Eberle and the Modernaires.
Words by Al Dubin, music by Mabel Wayne.
One night it happened in Hawaii-a
There was a moon above and you my love
And plenty of papaya
The night in happened in Hawaii-a
In a moment, maybe two
My arms were full of you
´Twas on the island of desire
There were a lot of stars and steel guitars
To set our hearts on fire
Oh, what a setting for forgetting
Ev‘rything and ev‘ryone beneath the sun but
you
All the dreams that I left behind me
Come back to remind me
Of that lovely rendezvous
It barely started, then it ended
And why should circumstances bring an end
To anything so splendid?
One night in happened in Hawaii-a
And it happens that I’m still in love with
you
And it happens that I’m still in love with
you...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on August 11th 1941 with Paula Kelly, Ray Eberle, Tex Beneke and the
Modernaires.
Words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Warren.
(From the movie „Sun Valley Serenade“, featuring the Glenn Miller
Orchestra!)
Howdy folks, let’s go for a ride
Get your favorite one to sit by your side
Cuddle up in a sleigh, gitty up, Nellie
Gray, and away we go
While you listen to the sleighbells ring
You‘re yodeling to your baby
You’ll feel nice and warm
No matter how cold it may be
Take a look at little Jack and Jill
They ski down a hill
That‘s a snowplough turn
And look, there’s a spill,
There‘s a spill on a hill
When you’re down it’s a thrill
To go up again
Ev’rybody ought to learn to ski
For that is how we first met
We were that Jack and Jill
That came down a hill
When I looked at you
My heart took a spill
Took a spill on a hill
It’s a thrill that I can’t forget...
It happened in Sun Valley
Not so very long ago
There were sunbeams in the snow
And a twinkle in your eyes
I remember oh! so clearly
That you nearly passed me by
Then it happened in Sun Valley
When you slipped and fell, and so did I...
(instrumental interlude)
It happened in Sun Valley
Not so very long ago
There were sunbeams in the snow
And I fell in love when I saw that
Twinkle in your eyes
I remember oh! so clearly
That you nearly passed me by
Then it happened in Sun Valley
When you slipped and fell, and so did I...
Now ev’ry year we go back and then
We recall that fall and that moment when
We were there on a hill
So we both take a spill
And we’re Jack and Jill
Again!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on November 5th 1939 with Ray Eberle.
Written by Cole Porter. (From the
musical production „Dubarry Was A Lady“)
It was written in the stars
That our love would be born
It was written in the stars
We’d meet early one morn‘
So when first I saw you appear
As the night left the sea
This was no coincidence, dear,
It was fated to be...
In the heavens high above
Where dreams flourish and flower
It was written that our love
Would grow stronger each hour
So remember when at last you are mine
And Venus is mated to Mars
It was written,
Always written
In the stars!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on December 6th 1939 with Ray Eberle.
Written by Chet Forrest and Bob Wright.
It’s a blue world without you
It’s a blue world alone
My days and nights
That once were filled with heaven
With you away how empty they have grown
It’s a blue world from now on
It’s a through world for me
The sea, the sky, my heart and I
Are all an indigo hue
Without you it’s a blue, blue world...
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on February 20th 1941 with Ray Eberle.
Words by Johnny Burke, music by James Van
Heusen. (From the movie „Road to Zanzibar“)
Whenever it’s early twilight
I watch till a star breaks through
Funny, it’s not a star I see,
It‘s always you
Whenever I roam through roses,
And lately I often do,
Funny, it’s not a rose I touch,
It’s always you...
If a breeze caresses me
It’s really you strolling by
If a hear a melody
It’s merely the way you sigh
Wherever you are you’re near me
You dare me to be untrue
Funny, each time I fall in love
It’s always you...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
on May 20th 1942 with Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton and the Modernaires.
Words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Warren.
(From the movie „Orchestra Wives“, featuring the Glenn Miller
Orchestra!)
In the movie version, the song has a short intro, the words of which
are included here as well.
(intro)
The Modernaires/Marion Hutton:
Hi there, Tex, how's your new romance
The one you met at the campus dance?
Tex Beneke:
Wait until you see her, you'll agree
My hometown gal is the only one for me...
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H
I got a gal in Kalamazoo
Don’t want to boast
But I know she’s the toast of Kalamazoo...
Years have gone by; my, my, how she grew
I liked her looks
When I carried her books in Kalamazoo
I’m gonna send a wire, hoppin’ on a flyer*, leavin’ today
Am I dreamin’? I can hear her screamin’,
"Hi ya, Mr. Jackson",
Everything’s OK-A-L-A-M-A-Z-O
Oh, what a gal, a real pipperoo
I’ll make my bid for that freckle-faced kid
I’m hurryin’ to
I’m goin’ to Michigan to see the sweetest
gal in Kalamazoo
Oh, oh, oh, oh what a gal, a real pipperoo
We’re goin’ to Michigan to see the sweetest
gal in Kalamazoo!
(intro lyrics addition by Jim McCoy)
(*a fast train used to be called a "flyer".)