If Sing Sing Sing was part one of why I love music so much, Moonlight Serenade is part two. This song, in fact, makes an even stronger case. There's a good reason why I chose to feature this rather than In the Mood, and it's not just that everyone has probably heard the latter. This is my favorite Glenn Miller recording, as well as one of my all time favorite songs to date.

This is the year Hitler rolls into Poland, beginning the second world war despite the British government's constant use of appeasement in hopes of placating the Germans. What follows are perhaps the bloodiest six years in human history. Makes you think how the world might have turned out had England made a stand.