All better artists in my book (throw in Duke and Chick Webb, Artie Shaw) but none were selling more records. From 1939-42 no band sold more records than the GM Orchestra
On a cold & rainy night
One Mr. Miller had a rare flight
Glen was up there boppin' a rhythm
Then the engine stopped to listen with him
Play that beat, oh, oh
Suddenly he heard this sound
This melody that keeps spinning 'round and 'round
Now he resides and plays trombone
In the mystic unknown zone
I saw a documentary on it a while ago. Seems his plane was flying through a part of the Channel airspace reserved for Allied bombers to jettison undropped bombs when returning from bombing raids on the continent... and was at a much lower altitude than said bombers. Bombed out by his own side.
Trying to understand why a few are upset with this article. I found it to be an interesting story about someone I knew of, but didn't know this story. If this is clickbait then it certainly falls on the lower spectrum of it.
Many a famous person have been lost to plane crashes. Amelia, Patsy Cline, Knute Rockny, Rick Nelson and so on. Some are solvable some aren't. A sad loss either way.
“Vanished without a trace” and “sudden disappearance” implies we don’t know what happened to him. We know exactly what happened to him. Just because there are no remains doesn’t mean we don’t know. He very famously died in a plane crash at sea. “Remains unsolved” just fuck off with your clickbait.
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One Mr. Miller had a rare flight
Glen was up there boppin' a rhythm
Then the engine stopped to listen with him
Play that beat, oh, oh
Suddenly he heard this sound
This melody that keeps spinning 'round and 'round
Now he resides and plays trombone
In the mystic unknown zone
The transcript download for the PBS show doesn't work for me.
I didn’t think so.
Seriously, I've been in aviation all my life and never knew this. Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aME0qvhZ37o