From: September 30, 2019:
When I was young the (broadcast) radio was pretty much just background noise, nothing much really appealed to me. It was just there. When I wound up with access to an old tape recorder (tube-burning reel-to-reel) and some tapes, I found music: the tunes from The Glenn Miller Story (Yes, the movie version of In the Mood is pure Hollywood hokum, but it is fun – the tune scored with V1 buzzbombs, exploding at the softest point and the powerful resurgence of the music as if it were a F-U to the Nazis.)
There are many covers of In the Mood, of course. Glen Miller (it was first recorded by Edgar Hayes), Glen Gray, Nat Gonnella, Chet Atkins(..), Roy Clark(!), Henhouse Five Plus Too (Ray Stevens), Xavier Cugat, and a good many others. In the last few days as I was driving about, with the satellite radio set to the 1940’s as usual, some tune I didn’t care for or felt was overplayed came on and I switched to the 1950’s. And I got a bit of a jolt as I heard what, to me, sounded like The Muppets doing a version of In The Mood. It was Ernie Fields’ version: