Information AboutIn The Mood |
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| 1940 songs | |
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| jazz compositions | |
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The song was composed by Joe Garland ( Joseph C. Garland ) and Andy Razaf . The main theme previously appeared under the title of "Tar Paper Stomp", credited to jazz trumpeter/bandleader Wingy Manone , who recorded it several times in 1929 and 1930 . A story says that after "In the Mood" became a hit, Manone was paid by Miller and his record company not to contest the copyright. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library Of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry . The song also charted at number 16 in 1953 with Johnny Maddox . Other notable big band artists who recorded the song include the Andrews Sisters , Xavier Cugat , Tommy Dorsey , Duke Ellington , Benny Goodman , Artie Shaw , and The Brian Setzer Orchestra . The Glenn Miller Orchestra played "In the Mood" in the 1941 movie " Sun Valley Serenade ". Non-big band renditions were recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis , John Lee Hooker , Chet Atkins , and Ernie Fields Jr. Glenn Miller's version is known to many younger people through its use as the instrumental theme in the sampled medley "Swing the Mood", a number 1 hit in many countries in the late 1980s by Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers . Upon request in his will, "In The Mood" was played at the Funeral of Peter Sellers in 1980. It was a ghoulish joke on Sellers' part; the comedian hated the song. Presumably the version played was the classic version, and not the Ray Stevens comedic version, by a "group" called The Henhouse Five, the "vocals" consisting entirely of imitation chicken-clucks. SEE ALSO |
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