Klink played with Glenn Miller from 1939 to 1942, heard on his weekly radio series for Chesterfield, and was one of the two tenor saxes on "In the Mood" (1939; the single was number one in the charts for 13 weeks). When Miller played fictional bandleaders in the films Sun Valley Serenade (1941, with Milton Berle) and Orchestra Wives (1942), Klink was among the band members who appeared (uncredited) on-camera