` ` Everybody was trying to survive '' during the Depression , his stepson Dick Darnall said . Glenn Miller offered the young trombonist a job after hearing him perform . Tanner was 95 and died of pneumonia , said Dick Darnall in a telephone interview . He left the band when Miller joined the Army and joined a military band . Tanner 's work included the Electro - Theremin , featured on ` ` Good Vibrations ''
` ` Everybody was trying to survive '' during the Depression , his stepson Dick Darnall said . Glenn Miller offered the young trombonist a job after hearing him perform . He left the band when Miller joined the Army and joined a military band . Tanner 's work included the Electro - Theremin , featured on ` ` Good Vibrations ''