Reelin’ In The Years 49: Glenn Miller is Missing
Posted in 1970s, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 12:00 on 10 August 2012
Rock Follies was a 70s TV drama which dealt with the setting up of an all-female rock group. It ran for two series in 1976 and 1977. The Follies concerned were played by Julie Covington who has already featured in this category as a solo performer, Rula Lenska and Charlotte Cornwell.
This is the musical intro to the show.
Intro to the Rock Follies 1976
Among the songs the trio performed was Glenn Miller Is Missing which has stuck in my mind as it seemed a strange subject for a song in a popular music drama at the time (even if they were doing a themed episode.) It still does.
Glenn Miller is Missing
Note the ENSA badge flashes on the Follies’ shoulders.
ENSA was the Entertainments National Service Association set up to send entertainers of varying degrees of ability round troop and service establishments during the Second World War.
Wags soon dubbed ENSA as Every Night Something Awful. (Compare It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.)
Tags: Charlotte Cornwell, ENSA, Glenn Miller, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Julie Covington, Reelin' In The Years, Rock Follies, Rula Lenska
