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In the Nutcracker Mood | 
 enlarge | Artist: Glenn Miller Orchestra
Label: Delta
Category: Music
Buy New: $11.99
New (3) Used (4) from $6.27
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 67358
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 018111295321
EAN: 0018111295321
ASIN: B000001VF5
Release Date: August 5, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW SEALED FACTORY CD, sent 1st class mail with *** DELIVERY CONFIRMATION TRACKING *** (online tracking number-post office USA) no extra cost to the buyer over media rate charge
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| Tracks:
| • | Miniature Overture - Glenn Miller, | | • | March - Glenn Miller, | | • | Dance of the Fairy Dragee - Glenn Miller, Tchaikovsky, Pyotr | | • | Russian Dance - Glenn Miller, Tchaikovsky, Pyotr | | • | Arabian Dance - Glenn Miller, Tchaikovsky, Pyotr | | • | Chinese Dance - Glenn Miller, Tchaikovsky, Pyotr | | • | Dance of the Mirlitons - Glenn Miller, Tchaikovsky, Pyotr | | • | Waltz of the Flowers - Glenn Miller, Tchaikovsky, Pyotr | | • | Jolly Old St. Nicholas - Glenn Miller, Traditional | | • | Toyland - Glenn Miller, Herbert, Victor | | • | Ode to Joy - Glenn Miller, Beethoven, Ludwig v | | • | A String of Carols: Here We Come a -Caroling, up on the House Top, a ... - Glenn Miller, Traditional | | • | Parade of the Wooden Soldiers - Glenn Miller, | | • | Old-Fashioned Christmas Tree - Glenn Miller, | | • | March of the Toys - Glenn Miller, Herbert, Victor | | • | What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Glenn Miller, Loesser, Frank |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Get the Ellington Version November 28, 2005
Clayton Duncan (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you really want a jazz version of the Nutcracker Suite, get the Duke Ellington version which is available on the "Three Suites" CD. Nothing against the GMO rendition but the Ellington version just swings so much harder. It is a little short but in my opinion it is vastly superior.
More great Christmas big band! November 17, 2005
Joel Gilmore
Another fantastic Christmas album from the Glen Miller Orchestra. As others have pointed out, it might not be quite up to the same standard that the other In the Christmas Mood CDs have, but then again, they're a bloody high standard! The Nutcracker suite is remarkably (surprisingly?) cool as a big band arrangement (although, again as others have said, longer would have been cooler - it takes up less than half the CD). The rest of the music is great jazz arrangements of Christmas favourites, and in the wonderful style of the previous albums.
All in all, a fantastic album! An excellent buy, particularly as part of the 3 box set (under "In the Christmas Mood")!
Lovely Christmas Album . . . Until They Start Singing. November 21, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I first became enamored with the Glenn Miller Orchestra's IN THE CHRISTMAS MOOD albums with the second of the three. I've since collected them all, this being the most recent.I love the purely instrumental big band tracks on all three of the albums. These guys-original members of the Glenn Miller Orchestra who've gotten together to create these holiday recordings-are OBVIOUSLY the real thing. They interpret traditional holiday songs with an impeccable and immensely fun big band swing. My bone to pick-and a major one, unfortunately-is with the "Moonlight Seranaders," who sing on (thankfully only) four of the sixteen tracks on this album. Although my experience of authentic big band recordings from the 1940s is slim, I do have a couple of albums, including a two-disc set of original Glenn Miller recordings. On NONE of these albums do the singers sound as disgustingly saccharin as these vocalists. The sound of the "Moonlight Seranaders" is definitely that of the sappy Lawrence Welk singers of the 1960s and '70s. It's truly terrifying and, sadly, interferes greatly with the otherwise fantastic tracks on this album and the others in the series. Personally, I'd much rather have had a single, talented, emotive vocalist on several of the tracks rather than the sickly-sweet chorus, which completely ruins songs like "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" on this album and "I'll Be Home For Christmas" on one of the other two. Nevertheless, for the usually ridiculoulsly low price of these albums, you really can't go wrong. The twelve great tracks on IN THE NUTCRACKER MOOD is well worth its cost-with or without the "Moonlight Seranaders." Buy it and re-live those fantastic days of big band music right in your own home this holiday season.
Good, but the first 2 In The Mood holiday albums are better November 27, 2001
Kim K. (Bayonne, New Jersey)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have to agree with the previous reviewer, while Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite on Side A sounds really good, it would have been great if it were alot longer. It does help that it has the arrangements by the original band members-many of whom have gotten together from all across the country to gather in NYC to record these holiday albums. Side B makes up for everything, though-from the opening cut Jolly Old Saint Nicholas-hearing it makes you think you really are hearing the band plus the Modernaires from back in the 1940s-to the final cut What Are You Doing New Year's Eve. All in all, a bargain at the price listed here.
Not enough Nutcracker November 20, 2001
Bruce Aguilar (Hollywood, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the final cd in the Glenn Miller Christmas collection and the one that takes the biggest risks. Hearing the Nutcracker in a big band style is quite jarring (especially for a dancer like myslef), but after I got over the initial shock, I was able appreciate the work. My only problem is that music from the Nutcracker only takes up about half the cd! After the (shotened) Nutcracker Suite, we're treated to swing renditions of classic Christmas carols and even Auld Lang Syne. All the music is good, but the cd is called "In The Nutcracker Mood" not In The Nutcracker and Christmas mood. Still, I enjoy this cd and the Nutcracker segments are always a topic of conversation at parties. Just wish ther was more Nutcracker on this Nutcracker cd.
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