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In The Mood" is an expression that indicates a desire to have sex. It's pretty innocent now, but was a little racy at the time.

This was a US #1 for 13 weeks and was Glenn Miller's biggest ever hit.

Miller wrote this based on a song he wrote 9 years earlier called "Tar Paper Stomp."

In 1977, The Henhouse Five Plus Two (an alias novelty singer Ray Stevens) had a top 40 hit in both the UK and US with his version of this song, which was basically a group of chickens clucking the tune.

Beatles producer George Martin had the orchestra play a little bit of this song at the end of "All You Need Is love."

It was the first ever Gold Record. It was presented to Glenn Miller in 1941 for his recording of Chattanooga Choo Choo which sold about 1.4 million after it debuted in the 20th Century Fox film "Sun Valley Serenade." I have a gut feeling that by now "In the Mood" has sold quite a lot more.

The song, a twelve-bar blues, was composed by(Joe Garland) and Andy Razaf, and arranged by Eddie Durham. The main theme previously appeared under the title of "Tar Paper Stomp", credited to jazz trumpeter/bandleader Wingy Manone, who recorded it several times in 1929 and 1930. A story says that after "In the Mood" became a hit, Manone was paid by Miller and his record company not to contest the copyright.

Upon request in his will, "In The Mood" was played at the funeral of Peter Sellers in 1980. It was an ironic joke on Sellers' part; the comedian hated the song, probably from his days as a drummer when it would have been frequently requested.

The song was featured in the movies such as Rookie of the Year, The Parent Trap, Swing Girls, Cannery Row (where the protagonists dance to its sound), "Who Slept With Her" (a 2006 Korean comedy) and Derek Yee's 1993 tearjerker C'est la vie, mon chéri starring Anita Yuen. It is also one the tunes nostalgically remembered by Woody Allen in Radio Days.

Glenn Miller's version is known to many younger people through its use as the instrumental theme in the sampled medley "Swing the Mood", a number 1 hit in many countries in the late 1980s by Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers.