	The Iowa Great Lakes Recording Company, Inc. - or simply IGL - was founded by Roger Blunt, Cliff Plagman and John Senn. Senn became acquainted with Blunt and Plagman through a bandmate, Chuck Maranell, who worked at the same hardware store with the pair in 1960. Blunt owned a reel to reel tape recorder and had recorded a band whose members included Senn and Maranell in 1961. Due to the less than acceptable quality of this recording, Blunt, along with his tape recorder, accompanied the group to a radio station in Minnesota to record the group in what was hoped to be a better environment for such an endeavor. This event planted the idea for what became IGL.