Talk:Tex Beneke

message: How tall was Tex Beneke, anyway? Anyone?--Tim, 6 January, 2007
I don't think bop was a problem.  I remember reading that sometimes the soloists would do bop inspired solos but I don't think that's why Beneke lost favor with the Miller estate.70.114.39.22 (talk) 02:05, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Height

message: Do you want the following paragraphs to be in both the articles Glenn Miller and Tex Beneke?  I tried deleting them from Glenn Miller and making a short summary of the facts so there would be no duplication but the summary was excised and returned to the original state.
"The Miller estate authorized an official Glenn Miller "ghost band" in 1946. It had a make up similar to Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band: it had a large string section.[1] 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.[2] Henry Mancini was the band's pianist and one of the arrangers.[3] This ghost band played to very large audiences all across the United States, including a few dates at the Hollywood Palladium in 1947, where the original Miller band played in 1941.[4] In a website concerning the history of the Hollywood Palladium, it is noted "[e]ven as the big band era faded, the Tex Beneke and Glenn Miller Orchestra concert at the Palladium resulted in a record-breaking crowd of 6,750 dancers."[5] In a slightly sarcastic[6] Time magazine article 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.[7] 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 as tough." By 1949, economics dictated that the string section be dropped.[8]
This band recorded for RCA Victor, just as the original Miller band did.[8] Beneke was struggling with how to expand the Miller sound and also how to achieve success under his own name. What began as the "Glenn Miller Orchestra Under the Direction of Tex Beneke" finally became "The Tex Beneke Orchestra". By 1950, Beneke and the Miller estate parted ways.[9] The break was acrimonious[10] and Beneke is not currently listed by the Miller estate as a former leader of the Glenn Miller orchestra.[11]"
Thanks.24.167.105.97 (talk) 14:43, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplication of paragraphs in two different articles

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