"In the Mood", a song popularized by the American bandleader Glenn Miller in 1939, was one of the best-known arrangements of the big band era. Miller's rendition topped the charts one year later and was featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade.
It opens with a now-famous sax section theme, and is joined by trumpets and trombones after 13 counts. It has two main solo sections; a 'tenor fight' solo (in the most famous recording, between Tex Beneke and Al Klink), and a 16-bar trumpet solo. It is also famous for its ending.
"In the Mood" is a song by progressive rock band Rush off of their debut album, Rush. It was at least two years old when recorded for the album. It is 3 minutes and 34 seconds long and in 4/4 time.
Curiously, the song was always performed in concert — often in a medley, and usually near the end of the final encore — until Presto tour when it was dropped. In live performances, the line "hey, baby, it's a quarter to eight" was often altered to include a woman's name in place of the word "baby."
The St. Louis Classic Rock radio station KSHE plays the song every Friday night at 7:45 ("a quarter to eight").
