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The 60's is widely considered the most creative and downright explosive time in pop music history - so that is where the emphasis of this station tends to be, along with the good stuff of the 70' and 80's and 90's.

But why play Glenn Miller?  Because Glenn Miller was one of the consummate pop musicians in recorded music history.

First, my personal experience with the Glenn Miller Sound;

In ninth grade, I happened along a radio show at a local college station, KTRU that was hosted by a student there, Ronnie Renfrow.  He played Big Band music every Saturday night and I would tune in.  Soon, I started to notice the music of a particular artist, Glenn Miller.  So I called in to ask Ronnie where I could get the Glenn Miller music he played on the air.  He mentioned that most of it came from a double album set titled "Glenn Miller A Memorial 1944-1969" on the RCA label.  So I bought the album and listened to it a lot with headphones.  That one selection "St. Louis Blues March" really stood out both in the sound dynamics and precision of the playing.  I'd never heard before, where everyone stopped playing their instruments so closely together that you could hear the reverb of the last note played.  Keeping in mind that the recording technology back then was primitive, compared to what we had in the 60's & 70's.  Unlike the other selections of the album, this one was recorded by Glenn Miller and the Army Air Force Band. 

Glenn Miller gave inspiration to millions during World War II with his music and lost his life so that we could live free.

And to quote some other sources;

"Maj. Alton Glenn Miller was only 40 years old when he disappeared.  The Iowa-born band leader left behind his wife, Helen, and their two small children--a son, Stevie, adopted in 1942, and a daughter, Jonnie (whom Miller never had a chance to see), adopted in late 1944.  Both were adopted from the Cradle Society in Evanston, Ill.  Helen died in 1966; the children, who have no personal recollection of their father, have pursued lives outside of music."

"Miller also left behind a legacy in the world of popular music that seldom has been equaled.  To put his role in that world into perspective, especially for members of later generations, it is not an overstatement to say that no musical group captured the public's attention as much as Glenn Miller's orchestra until the Beatles came along in 1964."

1939 · 17 Top Ten Hits

1940 · 31 Top Ten Hits, more than three times as many as the second most successful recording artist of the year, Tommy Dorsey.

1941 · 11 Top Ten Hits

1942 · 11 Top Ten Hits

"On Oct. 30, 1944, Miller and the entire AEF Band went to Studio 1 of HMV's (His Master's Voice) Abbey Road Studios in London (the same studios the Beatles would use some 20 years later) to record the first of six one-half hour radio programs to be beamed toward German troops"

Sources:
ARTIST Direct biography of Glenn Miller, written by William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide.
Music in the Miller Mood By George Spink, http://www.tuxjunction.net/glennmiller.htm