`` 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 accepted and played with Benny Goodman for two years before joining Tommy Dorsey's band in 1936. And all through that , I 'm the only thing playing . Tanner 's work included the Electro-Theremin , featured on `` Good Vibrations ''
`` 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 accepted and played with Benny Goodman for two years before joining Tommy Dorsey's band in 1936. Tanner 's work included the Electro-Theremin , featured on `` Good Vibrations ''