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like “Moonlight Serenade” (composed and arranged by Miller himself), “Little Brown
Jug,” “Tuxedo Junction,” “A String of Pearls,” “Serenade in Blue,” and many others that
remain permanently identified with this period. After enlisting in the Army Air Force,
Miller was killed in a plane crash in the English Channel in late 1944.
Walter Kent, born in New York in 1911 and educated at City College and the Juilliard
School, wrote successful music for film (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943) and stage
(Seventeen, 1951). His most popular song was “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” “The White
Cliffs of Dover” was written in 1941 and recorded by a number of bands and vocalists in
the early forties. —Charles Hamm.
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