Alton Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26, HonDocHum’84) spent three semesters at the University of Colorado before pawning his college trombone for a bus ticket to Los Angeles. While enrolled at CU, he met his ...

Alton Glenn Miller was born in Clarinda, Iowa, on March 1, 1904, but raised in Missouri and Nebraska before graduating from high school in Fort Morgan, Colorado, in 1921.

The boy that was born that night was named Alton Glen Miller (later changed to Glenn) and when he uttered his first cry, Clarinda heard Glenn Miller’s first "moonlight serenade." Glenn’s first ...

Alton Glenn Miller was born to Lewis Elmer Miller and Mattie Lou Miller on March 1, 1904, in Clarinda, Iowa. Glenn (who, like all members of his family, went by his second name) ...

Alton Glenn Miller (1904-1944) is recognized as one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century. His name has become synonymous with the "big band era" of the 1930s and 1940s and his music ...

Alton Glenn Miller was born in 1904 in Clarinda, Iowa. His family later moved to Nebraska, Missouri, and Colorado, where Glenn played in the school band.

Alton Glen (later changed to Glenn) Miller was born in Clarinda on March 1, 1904, to Elmer and Mattie Lou Miller. The Miller family had been part of Clarinda since 1870, when Glenn’s paternal ...

Alton Glenn Miller was a musical giant of his day, with a status like that of the Beatles for a later generation. (Some of his wartime radio broadcasts were made in the Abbey Road studios, later ...

Alton Glenn Miller was a major in the U.S. Army Air Force Band. Broadcasts of his music were meant to boost morale. He also was a part of propaganda campaigns against the Nazis.

As Dennis M. Spragg writes in his new book, “Glenn Miller Declassified,” “On December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, Air Corps, Army of the United States, commanding officer of the Army ...

Alton Glenn and Helen Miller Collection, Glenn Miller Archives, American Music Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder Capt. Glenn Miller, January 1943.

MUSKEGON, MI - The legendary Glenn Miller Orchestra is coming to Muskegon. Formed by Alton Glenn Miller in 1938, the band produced a string of hit records throughout the 1940s and beyond.