Glenn Miller’s big band performs “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, in Sun Valley Serenade, written by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, and released in 1941. Also featured are Tex Beneke, the Modernaires, Dorothy Dandridge, the Nicholas Brothers, and Milton Berle. The musical portions of this sequence were originally recorded in multi-track stereo but released in mono. Paul Gilgannon has synchronized the surviving stereo soundtrack with the film, and this version is seen and heard here for the first time:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)