Glenn Miller be mentored by other professional musicians. In the beginning, he was the main trombone soloist of the band. But when Jack Teagarden joined Pollack's band in 1928, Miller found that his solos were cut drastically. He realized that his future was in arranging and composing. He had a songbook published in Chicago in 1928 entitled "Glenn Miller's 125 Jazz Breaks for Trombone" by the Melrose Brothers. During his time with Pollack, he wrote several arrangements. He wrote his first composition, "Room 1411", with Benny Goodman, and it was released as a 78 by Brunswick Records under the name Benny Goodman's
Glenn Miller discography performed, recorded, and broadcast on the "I Sustain the Wings" radio program, Program No.15, on May 5, 1944 and on November 10, 1945. Larry O'Brien and the Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded the song on the 2006 album "Steppin' Out". "I Sustain the Wings" was composed by Glenn Miller, Chummy MacGregor, Norman Leyden and Bill Meyers. This was the theme music for the radio program that was broadcast weekly on Saturday on NBC from June 1943 to June 10, 1944 by the Army Air Force Band under the direction of Captain Glenn Miller. The radio show was on CBS. Miller was