Talk:Tex Beneke

Height
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)

this article has no citations. zero, nada, it's nothing is backed up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.77.134.18 (talk) 13:00, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Duplication of paragraphs in two different articles
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)

Can anyone add more citations to the later years of Tex Beneke?24.167.105.97 (talk) 01:34, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

This article and some other articles on the internet, talk about a feud between Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Estate and why Beneke was not portrayed in the Glenn Miller Story and why he was fired from the band in 1950. A lot of it seems like conjecture. If you put two and two together, you can say that the Estate disliked Beneke for being too independent. But I never read any research that is concretely based that can substantiate any of this. Marion Hutton wasn't in the Glenn Miller story either. Or Hal McIntyre or any of the other Miller musicians. This might be uninteresting to non big band or non Glenn Miller fans. But the conjecture part is part of the Wikipedia guidelines. I am tempted to delete the part about Beneke not being included in the GLenn Miller story.24.167.105.97 (talk) 04:24, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

There's a caption from 2010 that says this article needs more citations. Unless I am missing something everything seems cited.69.155.119.215 (talk) 17:36, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

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