Glenn Miller

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1961

First Recording: 1935

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Glenn Miller
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Inducted into Rock Hall Projected in 2033.

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Glenn Miller (1945)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
In The Mood (1939)
Chattanooga Choo Choo (1941)

Glenn Miller @ Wikipedia

Will Glenn Miller be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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The man had a successful music career, especially on the charts from 1939-42. Somehow, the public never tired of him or the big bands during World War II. I know very little of Miller, as I haven't yet seen the movie made about him. But I do know that once the war was over, he wanted to be an entrepreneur (investing in Coca-Cola distributorships, motels, etc.) and he wanted to re-vamp his band by replacing his men with veterans. But he never lived to see the war end, as well as the trend where the vocalists became more popular than the big band leaders.

I visited Arlington National Cemetery last month, and the tour guide pointed out a small memorial stone located along the pathway. Though Glenn Miller's body was never found (it is believed his plane was bombed), a special tribute is located at the grave site.

Posted by Jason Voigt on Sunday, 06/23/2019 @ 15:23pm


Good writeup, Jason, on a titan of the big band era. Also a war hero (flying into combat areas to entertain/visit the troops). No one really knows how his plane went down, but it is conjectured that they flew under a returning bomber strike force & their plane was hit by bombs being jettisoned by a returning plane. One in a million thing.

Posted by Paul in KY on Monday, 06/24/2019 @ 08:48am


Had it not been for so-called "friendly fire" which was in this case a TOTAL contradiction of terms, he might have been the one to have set off the whole rock scene many years earlier than it really started without having the youth of yesteryear wait for The Comets, Elvis, or The Beatles.

Posted by rickettsdextert67@gmail.com on Monday, 03/29/2021 @ 17:51pm


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