In the Mood

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{{short description|Song popularized by Glenn Miller}}
{{About|the big band-era song popularized by Glenn Miller|other uses|In the Mood (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox song
| name = In the Mood
| cover = Inmood2-1-.JPG
| alt =
| published = {{Start date|1939|11|27}} Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., New York<ref>{{Cite book|last=Library of Congress. Copyright Office.|url=https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig353libr|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries 1940 Musical Compositions New Series Vol 35 Pt 3 For the Year 1940|date=1940|publisher=U.S. Govt. Print. Off.|others=United States Copyright Office|language=English}}</ref>
| type = single
| artist = [[Glenn Miller]] and [[Glenn Miller Orchestra|His Orchestra]]
| album =
| B-side = [[I Want to Be Happy]]
| released = September 15, 1939
| recorded = August 1, 1939
| studio = [[RCA Studios New York#24th St|RCA Victor]], [[New York City]]
| venue =
| genre = [[Big band]], [[Swing music|swing]]
| length = 3:40
| label = [[Bluebird Records|Bluebird]] (US), [[His Master's Voice (British record label)|His Master's Voice]] (UK)
| writer = [[Wingy Manone]] (c), [[Andy Razaf]] (w), [[Joe Garland]] (a)
}}
{{Infobox song
| name = In the Mood
| cover = In the Mood Ernie Fields.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[Ernie Fields]]
| album =
| B-side = Christopher Columbus
| released = [[1959 in music|June 1959]]
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = [[Jazz]], [[instrumental]]
| length = 2:29
| label = [[Rendezvous Records|Rendezvous]]
| writer = [[Wingy Manone]] (c), [[Andy Razaf]] (w), [[Joe Garland]] (a)
| producer =
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Begin the Beguine
| next_year = 1960
}}

"'''In the Mood'''" is a popular [[big band]]-era [[jazz standard]] recorded by American bandleader [[Glenn Miller]]. "In the Mood" is based on the composition "[[Tar Paper Stomp]]" by [[Wingy Manone]]. The first recording under the name "In the Mood" was released by [[Edgar Hayes]] & His Orchestra in 1938.

In 1983, the Glenn Miller recording from 1939 was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]]. In 2004, the recording was inducted into the Library of Congress [[National Recording Registry]] which consists of recordings that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

In 1999, [[National Public Radio]] (NPR) included the 1939 Glenn Miller recording in its list of "The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century".<ref name="important">{{cite web |title=NPR 100 |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html |website=www.npr.org |access-date=November 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html NPR 100. The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century.]</ref>

Miller's "In the Mood", with "[[I Want to Be Happy]]" on the B-side, became the best-selling [[swing (music)|swing]] instrumental.<ref name=pc2a/><ref name="standards">{{cite book |last1=Gioia |first1=Ted |title=The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York City |isbn=978-0-19-993739-4 |pages=185–186}}</ref>

==Arrangement==
"In the Mood" starts with a saxophone section theme based on repeated [[arpeggio]]s that are rhythmically displaced; trumpets and trombones add accent riffs. The arrangement has two solo sections: a "tenor fight" or chase solo—in one recording between [[Tex Beneke]] and [[Al Klink]]—and a 16-bar trumpet solo by [[Clyde Hurley]].<ref name="Oliphant">{{cite web |last1=Oliphant |first1=Dave |title=Hurley, Clyde Lanham, Jr. |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhu91 |website=tshaonline.org |access-date=November 11, 2018 |date=June 15, 2010 |quote=With Miller Hurley was recorded playing perhaps the orchestra's most famous solo, the one for trumpet on Miller's 'In the Mood'.}}</ref> At the end of the song, a coda climbs triumphantly, then sounds a sustained unison tonic pitch with a [[rim shot]].<ref name=pc2a>{{Pop Chronicles 40s|2|A}}</ref>

==History==
"In the Mood" was an arrangement by [[Joe Garland]] based on an existing melody. Lyrics were added by [[Andy Razaf]]. The main theme with repeated [[arpeggio]]s rhythmically displaced appeared under the title "[[Tar Paper Stomp]]" and was credited to trumpeter [[Wingy Manone]].<ref name="Updike2009">{{cite book|last=Updike|first=John |title=The Widows of Eastwick |url=https://archive.org/details/widowsofeastwick00updi_0 |url-access=registration|access-date=November 10, 2018 |year=2009 |publisher=Ballantine Books |isbn=978-0-345-51751-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/widowsofeastwick00updi_0/page/262 262]– }}</ref> Manone recorded "Tar Paper Stomp" on August 28, 1930, in [[Richmond, Indiana]], and released it as a 78 single for [[Champion Records (1925)|Champion Records]] under the name Barbecue Joe and his Hot Dogs. It was re-released in 1935 by Wingy Manone's Orchestra.<ref name="barbecue">{{cite web |title=Barbecue Joe and his Hot Dogs |url=http://www.redhotjazz.com/hotdogs.html |website=www.redhotjazz.com |access-date=November 10, 2018}}</ref>

[[Horace Henderson]] used the same riff in "Hot and Anxious", which was recorded by his brother [[Fletcher Henderson]] on March 19, 1931, for [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] under the name the Baltimore Bell Hops. [[Don Redman]] recorded "Hot and Anxious" for [[Brunswick Records|Brunswick]] in 1932.

Under copyright laws, a tune that had not been written down and registered with the copyright office could be appropriated by any musician with a good ear. Manone raised the similarity between "Tar Paper Stomp" and "In the Mood" to Joe Garland and to the publisher Shapiro, Bernstein, and Company of New York.<ref name="Sullivan">{{cite book|last=Sullivan|first=Steve |title=Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QWBPAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|access-date=November 10, 2018|date=October 4, 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=978-0-8108-8296-6|pages=50–}}</ref> Manone also discussed the issue in ''[[DownBeat]]'' magazine.

"Tar Paper Stomp" was copyrighted on November 6, 1941, as a pianoforte version by Peer International.<ref>{{cite book|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ojJjAAAAIAAJ|access-date=November 10, 2018|year=1942|publisher=Library of Congress, Copyright Office|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ojJjAAAAIAAJ/page/n1060 112]–}}</ref>

The first recording of Joe Garland's version of "In the Mood" was made by [[Edgar Hayes]] and his Orchestra in 1938 with Garland participating. It was released as a B side to their recording of "[[Stardust (1927 song)|Stardust]]" for [[Decca Records|Decca]]. On this recording there was a baritone saxophone duet rather than a tenor saxophone battle. The riff had appeared in a 1935 recording by the Mills Blue Rhythm Band entitled "There's Rhythm in Harlem", which had been composed and arranged by Garland. Before offering it to Miller, Garland sold it in 1938 to [[Artie Shaw]], who chose not to record it because the original arrangement was too long, but he did perform it in concert.<ref name="Rickert">{{cite web |last1=Rickert |first1=David |title=Glenn Miller: In the Mood |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/glenn-miller-in-the-mood-glenn-miller-by-david-rickert.php |website=All About Jazz |access-date=November 10, 2018 |date=December 27, 2005}}</ref>

Artie Shaw's version was over six minutes long and met a lackluster audience response.<ref name="Sullivan" /> [[Jerry Gray (arranger)|Jerry Gray]] arranged Shaw's version. The band later performed a shorter version. The Hayes recording was over three minutes in length to fit on one side of a 78 record.

The song was sold in 1939 to Glenn Miller, who experimented with the arrangement. The author of the final arrangement is unknown. One possibility is [[Eddie Durham]] because he wrote other arrangements on the same day that "In the Mood" was recorded. Other possibilities include pianist [[Chummy MacGregor]], who was Miller's chief arranger, John Chalmers, and Miller himself. According to an account by MacGregor, "all they used of the original arrangement were the two front saxophone strains and another part that occurred later on in the arrangement."<ref name="Flower">{{cite book |last1=Flower |first1=John |title=Moonlight Serenade: A Bio-discography of the Glenn Miller Civilian Band |date=1972 |publisher=Arlington House |location=New Rochelle, New York |isbn=0-87000-161-2 |pages=79–81}}</ref> Both MacGregor and Miller were involved in creating the final arrangement: "MacGregor mentioned that additional solos were added to the original arrangement and he wrote the finishing coda. Miller probably edited some of the arrangement along with MacGregor."<ref name="Flower" /><ref name="Grudens">{{cite book|last=Grudens|first=Richard |title=Chattanooga Choo Choo: The Life and Times of the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra|url=https://archive.org/details/chattanoogachooc00grud|url-access=registration|access-date=November 10, 2018|year=2004|publisher=Celebrity Profiles Publishing|location=Stonybrook, New York|isbn=978-1-57579-277-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/chattanoogachooc00grud/page/198 198]–}}</ref> In its final form, it is an example of [[Hemiola]] rhythm.

Two copyrights were filed by Joseph Copeland Garland on June 8 and November 26, 1938,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Library of Congress. Copyright Office.|url=https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig333libr|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries 1938 Musical Compositions New Series Vol 33 Pt3 For the Year 1938|date=1938|publisher=U.S. Govt. Print. Off.|others=United States Copyright Office|language=English}}</ref> before the song was published by Lewis Music Pub. Co., Inc. on October 31, 1939, with Joe Garland the lone songwriter.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Library of Congress. Copyright Office.|url=https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig344libr|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries 1939 Musical Compositions New Series Vol 34 Pt 3 For the Year 1939|date=1939|publisher=U.S. Govt. Print. Off.|others=United States Copyright Office|language=English}}</ref> Then on November 27, a copyright was filed with both Garland and Razaf by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. of New York. A final copyright was filed by Shapiro, Bernstein on December 11, 1939, worded as follows: "In the mood; fox-trot, Andy Razaf & Joe Garland, arr. Joe Garland as suggested by Glenn Miller; orch. pts., with w."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Library of Congress. Copyright Office.|url=https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig353libr|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries 1940 Musical Compositions New Series Vol 35 Pt 3 For the Year 1940|date=1940|publisher=U.S. Govt. Print. Off.|others=United States Copyright Office|language=English}}</ref>

Two editions of the sheet music are in circulation. The 1939 publication credited to Garland and Razaf is in A♭ and has lyrics beginning: "Mister What-cha-call-em, what-cha doin' tonight?" These lyrics were used in the 1952 recording by [[the Andrews Sisters]], which is perhaps the best-known vocal version of the number. The 1960 reprint credited only to Garland (with piano arrangement by [[Bob Haring|Robert C. Haring]]) is in G and has lyrics beginning: "Who's the livin' dolly with the beautiful eyes?"

On August 1, 1939, Miller's version was recorded at the [[RCA Studios New York#24th St|RCA Victor Studios]] at 155 East 24th Street in New York City. The personnel on Miller's recording included Al Mastren and [[Paul Tanner]] on trombone; [[Clyde Hurley]], Legh Knowles, and Dale McMickle on trumpet; [[Wilbur Schwartz]] on clarinet; [[Hal McIntyre]] on alto saxophone; [[Tex Beneke]], [[Al Klink]], and Harold Tennyson on tenor saxophone; [[Chummy MacGregor]] on piano; Richard Fisher on guitar; Rowland Bundock on double bass; and [[Moe Purtill]] on drums.<ref name="Jasen">{{cite book|last=Jasen|first=David A. |title=Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cd-SAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA1898 |access-date=November 10, 2018|date=June 1, 2004|publisher=Routledge|location=New York, New York |isbn=1-135-94900-X |pages=1–}}</ref>

==Other versions==
[[File:In the mood sheet music glenn miller.jpg|thumb|1939 sheet music cover, "Introduced by Glenn Miller", Shapiro, Bernstein, and Co., New York]]
Miller and band perform a version of the song in the 1941 film ''[[Sun_Valley_Serenade |Sun Valley Serenade]].''

In February 1944, the Glenn Miller RCA Victor Bluebird 1939 studio recording of "In the Mood" was released as a [[V-Disc]], one of a series of recordings sent free by the U.S. War Department to overseas military personnel during World War II. A second version recorded by Glenn Miller's Overseas Band in 1945, was released in May 1948. A new recording by Glenn Miller with the American Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces (AEF) was broadcast to Germany in 1944 on the radio program ''The Wehrmacht Hour''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150623094816/http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/13517 In the Mood (U.S. government German-language broadcast recording). learnnc.com.]</ref>

This piece of music was not new in Europe. The first Swiss record of "In the Mood" were released in April 1940 by ''[[Teddy Stauffer]] und seine Original Teddies'' in Zurich.<ref>Heiner Bontrup, E. Dieter Fränzel: ''Wiederentdeckung einer Swing-Legende. Die Ernst Höllerhagen Story. Ein Jazzmusiker zwischen Nationalsozialismus und Wirtschaftswunder. Mit Diskographie 1934−1955''. Nordpark, Wuppertal 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-935421-42-3}}, p. 141.</ref> Another interpretation was made by [[Ernst van 't Hoff]] in February 1941 in Berlin.<ref>"In the Mood", Orchester Ernst van't Hoff, Polydor 47522, Matrix number 8925 GD-2, produced in Berlin, February 1941</ref>

In 1951 a [[Ferranti Mark 1]] computer at the [[University of Manchester]] played "In the Mood", one of the first songs to be played by a computer, and the oldest known recording of digitally generated music.<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7458479.stm BBC World] June 17, 2008, "Oldest computer music unveiled"</ref>

In December 1959, the rendition of "In the Mood" that [[Ernie Fields]] and his Orchestra recorded peaked at number 4 by means of the ''Billboard'' popular hit parade and number 7 by means of both the Rhythm and Blues<ref>{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=201}}</ref> and the ''Cash Box'' hit parades.

[[Bette Midler]] covered the song on her album "The Divine Miss M" in 1973, with additional lyrics by herself and [[Barry Manilow]]. It was released as a single in 1974 and reached #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.{{cn|date=July 2024}}

[[Jonathan King]], under the name Sound 9418 released his version in 1976 which reached No. 46 on the UK Singles Chart.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/15632/sound-9418/ | title=SOUND 9418 | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company | website=[[Official Charts Company|Official Charts]] }}</ref>

In the winter of 1977, a novelty version by the Henhouse Five Plus Too (a [[Ray Stevens]] project) employing the sounds of clucking chickens entered the U.S. Pop Top 40: (''Billboard'' No. 40,<ref>''Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990'' - {{ISBN|0-89820-089-X}}</ref> ''Cash Box'' #37<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19770219.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 Singles, February 19, 1977 |access-date=December 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020124014/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19770219.html |archive-date=October 20, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>).

[[John Lee Hooker]] said that "In the Mood" was the inspiration for his song "I'm in the Mood" which became a No. 1 hit on the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B Singles]] chart.<ref name="linernotes">''The Very Best of John Lee Hooker''. [[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino Records]] R2 71915. Liner Notes, Pg.7</ref>

In 2025, [[Pentatonix]] covered the song as a mashup with "[[Run Rudolph Run]]" entitled "Moody Rudy" for their Christmas album ''Christmas in the City''.

[[File:V Disc 123B In the Mood Glenn Miller.jpg|thumb|V-Disc release.]]

==See also==
*[[List of 1930s jazz standards]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/registry/essays/IN%20THE%20MOOD-FINAL.pdf Library of Congress essay] on the [[National Recording Registry]]
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