Alton Glenn Miller was born on March 1, 1904 in Clarinda, Iowa, and died December 15, 1944. As a child, Glenn earned money by milking the cows on his parents farm and with that money purchased a trombone that he played in the town band. In 1923 he went to the University of Colorado at Boulder, but music was always more important than school, and he missed a lot of classes because he accepted every playing opportunity that he could. He failed many of his subjects, and eventually left college to pursue music full time. From 1939 until his death in 1944 his band was the most popular band of the land. In 1942 at the age of 38 he quit his popular band and being too old to be drafted into the Second World War he tried to enlist in the Navy, but they turned him down. He wrote to an Army Brigadier General pleading to be allowed to enter the service and lead a “modern Army band.” He was accepted and became a Captain and played trombone with an Army dance band in service clubs and on the army radio network. He then was allowed to form a large marching band, but when he tried to modernize the marching band music to the more modern blues/jazz/swing style he met some resisitance from the brass. His new music style was so popular with the soldiers that he was eventually allowed full artistic control. In the summer of 1944 he took his band to England to play concerts for the soldiers in England and on mainland Europe. He also recorded songs to use as propaganda radio broadcasts aimed at Germany. At this time his band also recorded some songs with Dinah Shore, but before they could be released, Glenn disappeared in a plane flight over the English Channel on his way to a concert in Paris. These recordings were never released until 1994 when their copyright expired, and we are fortunate to have several of them here.