When Glenn Miller was coming up in the music world, the Depression was raging and if you think it’s hard to make a living during a depression, try doing it as an entertainer.
Miller and his orchestra had to play at times several times a day to make ends meet and as a result became an extremely tight group.
He had found a lot of success by 1940 when he was 36 and of course in 1941 war broke out.
Miller signed up - everyone who could did because people understood what an immense threat Hitler represented - and was asked to create a military big band.