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33: 435:, just as the original Miller band did. Beneke believed that Miller had promised him his own band in the early 1940s, and this was his chance to have that promise fulfilled. Beneke wanted a band with Beneke's musical identity. Larry Bruff, an announcer for the earlier Glenn Miller radio shows says, "Beneke would even set wrong tempos so as not to sound too much like Glenn." The Miller estate wanted a band that was primarily associated with Glenn Miller, playing the Glenn Miller songs in the Glenn Miller style. By 1950, Beneke and the Miller estate parted ways. 347:, a vocal group of four male singers, who were also regular members of the Miller entourage. "Chattanooga Choo Choo", catalogue number Bluebird 11230-B, was recorded by the Miller band at the Victor recording studios in Hollywood, May 7, 1941. Hoping to repeat the success of "Chattanooga" the following year, songwriters Warren and Gordon composed " 396:
Beneke who as time went on had more prominence in the band's identity. It had a make up similar to Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band, having a large string section. The orchestra's official public début was at the Capitol Theatre on Broadway where it opened for a three-week engagement on January 24, 1946.
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from June 2, 1947, the magazine notes that the Beneke-led Miller orchestra was playing at the same venue the original Miller band played in 1939, the Glen Island Casino. Beneke's quote about the big band business at the time closes the article, "I don't know whether Glenn figured that times would be
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Whatever concerns Miller might have had about Beneke's playing were quickly dismissed; Miller immediately made Beneke his primary tenor sax soloist and Beneke played all but a few of the tenor solos on all of the records and personal appearances made by the Miller band until it disbanded in 1942. On
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had left the Goodman band and was forming his own first band. He was flying all over the country looking for new talent and he stopped at our ballroom one night . Gene wound up taking two or three of our boys with him back to New York. wanted to take but his sax section was already filled." Krupa
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Glenn Miller went missing on December 15, 1944, while flying to France from England. After World War II, the United States Army Air Force decommissioned the Glenn Miller-led Army Air Force band. The Miller estate authorized an official Glenn Miller "ghost band" in 1946. This band was led by Tex
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in a not-too-dissimilar fashion. Not surprisingly, "Kalamazoo" became another hit record for Miller, Beneke and the band though not to the extent that "Chattanooga" had been the year before. By then, the U.S. was involved in World War II and "Kalamazoo's" success was also short-lived partially
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The songs Beneke and the ensemble played were "Bugle Call Rag" and "One O'Clock Jump". Beneke has a small solo on "Bugle Call Rag". Both songs from recording session at RCA Studio 2, New York City, January 16, 1941. All information taken from annotation to the 1988 Bluebird/RCA compact disc,
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During the 1970s and 1980s, Beneke had a new band playing a style that resembled the classic Miller sound but with as much newer material as older. In the late 1970s, he played at Knott's Berry Farms Cloud 9 Ballroom. At one point he also toured with former
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album which contained recreations of original Miller material. This was followed by others featuring newer songs, some performed in the Miller style and others done in a more contemporary mode. Among the best-known is
593:, California and remained active toward the end of that decade, mostly touring the U.S. West Coast and still playing in something resembling the Miller style. In 1998 he launched yet another tour paying tribute to 1041:"Old Miller fans remembered Tex Beneke best as the whiny-voiced singer of 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' and 'My Melancholy Baby' " and " corny, but Glenn was one for commercial corn. If you don't have it you flop." 338:
which was primarily made for the purpose of putting the Miller band in a motion picture. Tex Beneke was the featured singer in the movie and on the Victor/Bluebird recording that also featured band vocalist
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Beneke continued to perform under his own name with no official connection to Miller. He enjoyed less success in the early 1950s, partly because he was limited to smaller recording labels such as
609:, California, aged 86 and was buried in Greenwood Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas. He was survived by his wife, Sandra, of Santa Ana, California. His saxophone is currently used by the 404:, who also previously arranged for the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band. This ghost band played to very large audiences all across the United States, including a few dates at the 1203:
Beneke appeared with singers associated with Glenn Miller, Paula Kelly, Ray Eberle and the Modernaires, at Disneyland in Anaheim, California in 1963 and 1965. Popa, Chris.
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because Miller disbanded his group only three months after the record was made and four months following the filming of "Orchestra Wives".
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recordings of their earlier hits, often featuring many of the original musicians. Beneke and former Miller singers
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Williams, Jean, "Knott's Farm Aims For Topflight Talent." Billboard Magazine, Vol. 89, No. 40, Oct 8, 1977, p 52
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and former musicians and singers who worked with Miller. His band is also associated with the careers of
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that Beneke did with the Miller band, as one of Beneke's major artistic achievements. Friedwald, p. 613
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composition "In The Mood", Beneke trades two-measure tenor solo exchanges with his fellow section-mate
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considers Beneke to be one of the major blues singers who sang with the big bands of the early 1940s.
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His first professional work was with bandleader Ben Young in 1935, but it was when he joined the
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The singer/saxophonist continued working in the coming decades, appearing periodically at
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polls. Tex Beneke is listed in the personnel of the 1941 Metronome All-Star Band led by
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In the latter part of that decade there was some revived interest in music of the
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and partly because of competition from other Miller alumni and imitators such as
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Will Friedwald singles out the cover of "What's Your Story, Morning Glory?" by
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three years later that his career hit its stride. Beneke said: "It seems that
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knew that Glenn Miller was forming a band and recommended Beneke to Miller.
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as tough". By 1949, economics dictated that the string section be dropped.
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in 1947, where the original Miller band played in 1941. The movie short
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was the band's pianist and one of the arrangers. Another arranger was
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Glenn Miller Plays Selections From the Film "The Glenn Miller Story"
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In 2000 Beneke died from respiratory failure at a nursing home in
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says it happened in Connecticut in December 1950. Simon. – p.439.
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and Beneke, Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, N.Y., May 16, 1947.
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Pop Chronicles the 40s: The Lively Story of Pop Music in the 40s
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as part of the score for the 1941 Twentieth Century Fox movie
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Tex Beneke recorded with the Miller ghost band in July 1946
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vocal group performing. In a slightly sarcastic article in
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When Miller broke up the band in August 1942 to join the
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Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)
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was released by RKO pictures in 1947 with Lillian Lane,
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A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
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sang with the Beneke band in 1950. Beneke appeared on
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era. Beneke joined a number of other leaders such as
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It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake like That)
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Shep Fields and Beneke, Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, N.Y., May 16, 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb.
Shep Fields
William P. Gottlieb
Fort Worth, Texas
Costa Mesa, California
Big band
swing
jazz
blues
Glenn Miller Orchestra
The Modernaires
Eydie Gorme
Ronnie Deauville
Henry Mancini
Norman Leyden
/ˈbɛnəki/
BEN-ə-kee
Glenn Miller
Eydie Gormé
Henry Mancini
Ronnie Deauville
Glenn Miller Orchestra
In The Mood
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Will Friedwald
Fort Worth
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Gene Krupa
Joe Garland
Al Klink

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