But 4 to 5 nights a week, while holding down a full time job, took its toll. Burnt out, Glenn spent the summer of '78 with his horses on a small ranch he'd built in Belleville, Illinois. But his reputation followed.... when Paul Augustine approached him one day on the ranch and asked Glenn to help him design and build, and then DJ, a state-of-the-art 'Saturday Night Fever' Studio 54-style disco. Glenn couldn't resist, and in October of 1978, Mr. A's Disco was packing in a thousand people every night, the crowd often lined up outside into the parking lot.

In 1980, he started 'The Open Road Disco Show', the first (and for some time, ONLY) mobile DJ service in the Metro-East. But three more years of giving up Friday and Saturday nights, and with a son on the way, he sold the mobile unit to a company from St. Louis.

But he still had some major sound equipment and a great collection of music, so for the next 15 years he donated his time and music for benefits, charities and civic fund raisers. And he never stopped collecting music, never lost his feel for playing exactly what a crowd wanted to hear, and never lost the love of entertaining a large group of people. Being very selective on accepting gigs, he still played more wedding receptions - working entirely from referrals - than many competing DJs did with a fancy yellow page ad.

With kids now grown, he's refocused his talents and is taking on more jobs than he did in the late 80's and early 90's. Wedding receptions, dances, theme parties, American Legion and VFW conventions, Glenn has made a name for himself throughout Illinois and the St. Louis area.