I've Got No Strings - The Andrews Sisters with the Glenn Miller Orchestra

There are a lot of great arrangements of this song, but I think this one, by the ANDREWS SISTERS and the GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA. I am a big fan of the Andrews Sisters having been first exposed to them through the work they did for Walt Disney (Make Mine Music's Johnny Fedora & Alice Blue Bonnet and Melody Time's Little Toot). They have recorded their own versions of many Disney songs, but I've Got No Strings may be one of their earliest.

This live recording was part of the THE CHESTERFIELD BROADCASTS, which were broadcast in New York between December 1939 and March 1940 at the time of the New York World's Fair. At that time the Glenn Miller Orchestra was the #1 swing band in the country and the Andrews Sisters were the #1 vocal group thanks to their beautiful voices and intricate harmonies.

At the beginning of this track, an announcer introduces the song, saying "There's a new hit in town, Walt Disney's Pinocchio!"

Pinocchio was not considered a success when it was first released. It only bought it half of what it cost to make the film ($2.2M) and the oncoming WWII hindered the film's revenue for the next few years. It wasn't until the film was released over seas after the war, and the reissue of the film in the US in 1945 that it started gaining more momentum. But basing a film's success based on box office numbers is not often a fair representation of the movie. Pinocchio remains to be one of Disney's finest works, a true masterpiece and a high standard for every animated movie that followed.