Abstract
We noted in passing in recent article subtle musical allusion in Gravity's Rainbow to Glenn Miller–actually cluster of allusions we would like to expand on here, for they are of more consequence than might first appear. When Slothrop penetrates Potsdam Conference, he hears a dance band with mammoth reed section (382) playing Don't Sit Under Apple Tree. The vocals band accompanies are close cover of Andrews Sisters' Top-20 recording from 1942 film Private Buckaroo, but reed-dominated melody line derives from Glenn Miller's Spring 1942 Number-1 hit (Bluebird 11474). Later in Gravity's Rainbow, aboard Anubis, Slothrop hears another famous Miller song: the saxman is playing 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' (468). By 1944, that song and Miller were synonymous; Miller version (Bluebird 11230) charted Number 1 for nine weeks in 1941, and became first certified million seller in American recording history.
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