In the Mood  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search This article is about the big band-era song
popularized by Glenn Miller. For other uses, see In the Mood
(disambiguation). "In the Mood" Single by Glenn Miller B-side "I
Want to Be Happy" Released 1939 Format 10" 78rpm Genre Big band
Label RCA Bluebird Writer(s) Wingy Manone (c), Andy Razaf (w),
Joe Garland (a) "In the Mood" Single by Ernie Fields B-side
"Christopher Columbus" Released 1959 Format 7" 45rpm Genre Jazz
Length 2:29 Label Rendezvous Ernie Fields singles chronology "In
the Mood" "Begin the Beguine"   In 1999, National Public Radio
(NPR) included the 1939 Glenn Miller recording on RCA Bluebird
on the NPR 100, the list of "The 100 most important American
musical works of the 20th century".[1]   "In the Mood" opens
with a now-famous sax section theme based on repeated arpeggios
that are rhythmically displaced; trumpets and trombones add
accent riffs. The arrangement has two solo sections; a "tenor
fight" solo—in the most f