`` Everybody was trying to survive '' during the Depression , his stepson Tanner says . Tanner offered the fellow trombonist a job after hearing him perform . He left the band when Miller joined the military and started a military band . Glenn Miller 's work included Miller , featured on `` My Favorite Martian
`` Everybody was trying to survive '' during the Depression , his stepson Dick Darnall says . Glenn Miller offered the fellow trombonist a job after hearing him perform . He left the band when Miller joined the military and started a military band . Tanner 's work included the Electro-Theremin , featured on `` Good Vibrations ''