Tex Beneke

TEX BENEKE
1946-1950

DISCOGRAPHY

THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA WITH TEX BENEKE
TEX BENEKE WITH THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA
TEX BENEKE AND THE MILLER ORCHESTRA
TEX BENEKE AND THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA
MUSIC IN THE GLENN MILLER MOOD
TEX BENEKE AND HIS ORCHESTRA

Prepared by:
Dennis M. Spragg

Updated November 22, 2013
GMA-10 (Public)
(Studio Recordings to January 7, 1949)

GLENN MILLER ARCHIVE
American Music Research Center
University of Colorado Boulder

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Table of Contents
Personnel 3
Archive Recordings 3
Key To Abbreviations 4
1. Summary of Broadcasts and Recordings 7
2. Summary of Appearances 12
3. 1946 Chronology 15
Prelude 15
Teentimers Club 24
The Mello Larks 64
The Chesterfield Supper Club 86
On The Beam 137
Master Music Corporation 141
NBC Thesaurus Transcriptions 159
8. Sources 183
8.1 Analog Media 183

10 78 rpm 183
7 45 rpm 187
12 33 rpm 188
16 33 rpm 189
Reel To Reel Tape Sources 194

8.2 Digital Media 196

American Broadcasting Company (ABC) 196
Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) 196
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) 197
Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS) 197
National Broadcasting Company (NBC) 198
Compact Disc 198

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9. Song Titles and Performances 200
References 303
Star-Spangled Radio Hour 303
GMA Library 303
Acknowledgments 304

The cover photograph of Tex Beneke is from the William Gottlieb Collection of
the Library of Congress.

Personnel

Personnel Changes are noted in BOLD throughout Parts 3-7, Chronology.

Archive Recordings

The Glenn Miller Archive (GMA) maintains internal catalogs of the GMA
Collections arranged by artist and broadcast type. The Tex Beneke-GMO
discography is the first public document circulated by the GMA that includes
references to GMA collection tapes and discs. There is duplication within the
GMA collections of certain broadcast tapes and discs. In these cases, we
document which collection or collections that the items are located in. The GMA
identifies and catalogs the RCA Victor studio recordings by RCA Serial numbers.
Broadcasts and transcriptions are cataloged by source (AFRS, CBS, NBC, etc.)

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Key To Abbreviations

Arrangers (arr) and Composers (cm)

AC Al Cechvala
BC Bill Conway
BF Bill Finegan
FN Fred Norman
GW George Williams
HM Henry Mancini
JG Jerry Gray
NL Norman Leyden
PB Perry Burgett
PC Pete Candoli
RB Ray Block
RM Ray McKinley
RW Ralph Wilkinson
RWr Ray Wright
SO Sy Oliver

Radio

ABC American Broadcasting Company
AFRS Armed Forces Radio Service
CBS Columbia Broadcasting System
CSC Chesterfield Supper Club (AFRS Series R-13)
HTV Heres To Veterans
MBS Mutual Broadcasting System
MC Magic Carpet (AFRS Series R-4)
NBC National Broadcasting Company
ONS One Night Stand (AFRS Series R-25)
OTB On The Beam (AFRS Series R-70)
R Recording Exists

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Vocalists (No Notation) and Soloists (Noted)

AM Artie Malvin
BC Bill Conway
BM Bob Mitchell
BS Bob Shavers
BY Buddy Yeager
CC Crew Chiefs
CD Clark Dennis (Guest)
CH Connie Haines (Guest)
CW Claire Chatwin
DA Desi Arnaz (Guest)
DC Dorothy Carless (Guest)
DMcK Danny McKenna (Guest)
GD Glenn Douglas (Jay Johnson)
GL Greg Lawrence
GR Gil Ross (Guest)
GS Garry Stevens
HC Helen Carroll (Guest)
HL Helen Lee
ID Irene Davis (Guest)
JC Jerry Colonna (Guest)
JD Johnny Desmond (Guest)
JH Jane Harvey (Guest)
JL Jack Leonard (Guest)
JS Jack Sperling, drums
JST Jo Stafford
JM June Mower (Guest)
LA Louis Armstrong, vocal and trumpet (Guest)
LL Lillian Lane
LS Lloyd Shaffer Orchestra (Guest)
KS Kay Starr (Guest)
ME Marlene Edwards (Guest)
MH Marion Hutton (Guest)
ML The Mello Larks
MLv Marsha Levine (Guest)
MM Mary Mayo
MR Martha Raye (Guest)
MS The Moonlight Serenaders
MT Martha Tilton (Guest)
PC Perry Como (Guest)
PK Paul Kelly (Guest)
PM Peggy Mann (Guest)
RD Ronnie Deauville
RH Ruth Holland (Guest)

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SAMcC Sara Ann McCabe (Guest)
SCR Sugar Chile Robinson (Guest)
SL The Starlighters
SWW Strings With Wings (String Section)
TB Tex Beneke
TM The Modernaires (Guest)
TS The Satisfyers (Guest)
WR Wilma Rysner (Guest)

Other

GMA Glenn Miller Archive
-b.- Probable or possible broadcast time (if not verified)
-p.- Partial broadcast

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1. Summary of Broadcasts and Recordings

45-06-05 Chesterfield Supper Club, NBC Radio City, New York (NBC)
45-06-05 AFRS Supper Club 89
45-06-05 Glenn Miller Day broadcast, New York (WNEW-Blue-Mutual)
46-01-12 Teentimers Club broadcast, NBC Radio City, New York (NBC)
46-01-26 Teentimers Club broadcast, NBC Radio City, New York (NBC)
46-05-21 RCA Victor Studios, New York, RCA Victor recording session
46-05-25 Matinee at the Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J. (CBS)
46-05-28 Lotos Club Studios, New York, RCA Victor recording session
46-06-05 Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J., AFRS ONS 1022
46-06-00 Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J., AFRS MC 387
46-07-16 RCA Victor Studios, Chicago, Ill., RCA Victor recording session
46-09-03 Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, AFRS ONS 1133
46-09-11 Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood (CBS)
46-09-12 RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood, RCA Victor recording session
46-09-13 Erskine Johnson Show (Mutual-Don Lee)
46-09-00 Tex Beneke Personal Recording for his Parents
46-09-00 Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, AFRS MC 462
46-09-25 Tex Beneke and the GMO, Universal-International film
46-10-01 Melody Time, RKO film
46-12-14 WOR Program Service, Inc., New York, recording session
46-00-00 Voice of America 1
47-01-00 400 Restaurant, New York, AFRS ONS 1395
47-01-25 Treasury Bandstand, CBS or Capitol Theatre, New York (CBS)

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47-05-15 Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, New York (CBS)
47-06-10 Your Date With Deb, New York (Unidentified)
47-06-13 Chesterfield Supper Club, Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J. (NBC)
47-06-20 Chesterfield Supper Club, Totem Pole, Newton, Mass. (NBC)
47-06-23 NBC Radio City, New York, AFRS Supper Club 612
47-07-04 Chesterfield Supper Club, Ashbury Park, N. J. (NBC)
47-07-11 Chesterfield Supper Club, Doreny Park, Allentown, Penn. (NBC)
47-07-11 Dorney Park, Allentown, Penn., AFRS Supper Club 626
47-07-18 Chesterfield Supper Club, Steel Pier, Atlantic City, N. J. (NBC)
47-07-19 AFRS Heres To Veterans 53
47-07-21 NBC Radio City, New York, AFRS Supper Club 631
47-07-25 Chesterfield Supper Club, Eastwood Gardens, Detroit, Mich. (NBC)
47-07-28 Chesterfield Supper Club, Eastwood Gardens, Detroit, Mich. (NBC)
47-07-28 Eastwood Gardens, Detroit, Mich., AFRS CSC 636
47-08-01 Chesterfield Supper Club, Moonlight Gardens, Cincinnati, O. (NBC)
47-08-08 Chesterfield Supper Club, Hampton Beach, N. H. (NBC)

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47-08-15 Chesterfield Supper Club, Wilson (Durham), N. C. (NBC)
47-08-22 Chesterfield Supper Club, Waldermeer Park, Erie, Penn. (NBC)
47-08-29 Chesterfield Supper Club, Lewiston, Maine (NBC)
47-09-05 Chesterfield Supper Club, The Click, Philadelphia, Penn. (NBC)
47-09-05 Frank Palumbos Click, Philadelphia, Penn. (ABC)
47-10-00 AFRS Magic Carpet 838
47-10-01 RCA Victor Studios, Chicago, RCA Victor recording session
47-12-17 Martin Blocks Musical Merry-Go-Round, MGM film
47-12-29 Recording Session, MGM Studios, Culver City, California
47-12-00 Tex Beneke, Universal-International film
48-01-15 Chesterfield Supper Club, NBC Hollywood (NBC)
48-01-23 Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, AFRS On the Beam 6
48-01-30 Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, AFRS On the Beam 2
48-02-00 McCormack General Hospital, Pasadena, Calif., AFRS Jubilee 273

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48-02-00 McCormack General Hospital, Pasadena, Calif., AFRS Jubilee 275
48-02-06 New Armory, Seattle, Wash., AFRS On the Beam 3
48-02-13 Riverside Ballroom, Phoenix, Ariz., AFRS On the Beam 4
48-02-29 Capitol Theatre, New York, AFRS On the Beam 5
48-02-20 Memorial Union, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia., AFRS OTB 7
48-02-27 Hagerstown High School, Hagerstown, N. Y., AFRS OTB 8
48-03-12 AFRS On the Beam 9
48-03-19 Mutual Studios, New York, AFRS OTB 10
48-03-26 Mutual Studios, New York, AFRS OTB 11
48-04-02 Mutual Studios, Philadelphia, Pa., AFRS OTB 12
48-05-12 Cotton Carnival of 1948, Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, Tenn. (NBC)
48-05-28 Meadowbrook Club, Cedar Grove, N. J., AFRS OTB 16
48-06-03 Meadowbrook Club, Cedar Grove, N. J., AFRS ONS 1711
48-06-04 Meadowbrook Club, Cedar Grove, N. J., AFRS OTB 17
48-06-11 The Click, Philadelphia, Pa., AFRS On the Beam 18
48-06-11 The Click, Philadelphia, Pa., AFRS ONS 1736
48-06-18 Mutual Studios, New York, AFRS On the Beam 19
48-07-02 Central Park, Allentown, Pa., AFRS OTB 20
48-07-23 AFRS On the Beam 24 (probable)
48-07-30 AFRS On the Beam 23 (probable)
48-08-13 The Dells, East Lansing, Mich., AFRS On the Beam 26
48-08-27 Starlight Ballroom, Wildwood-By-The-Sea, N. J., AFRS OTB 27
48-09-03 Convention Hall, Ashbury Park, N. J., AFRS On the Beam 28
48-09-10 Canobie Lake Park, Salem, N. H., On The Beam 34 (Mutual)
48-10-12 Hotel Chase, St. Louis, Mo., AFRS ONS 1808

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49-05-30 NBC Studios, New York, NBC Thesaurus recording session
49-07-12 NBC Studios, New York, NBC Thesaurus recording session
49-09-00 NBC Studios, New York, NBC Thesaurus recording session(s)
50-01-00 Sweet Serenade, Universal-International film
50-06-00 NBC Studios, New York, NBC Thesaurus recording session(s)
50-00-00 NBC Studios, NBC Thesaurus recording sessions (s)

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2. Summary of Appearances

460117-460119 Metropolitan Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island
460120-470123 Plymouth Theatre, Plymouth, Mass.
460124-460227 Capitol Theatre, New York
460228-460306 Loews Capitol Theatre, Washington, D. C.
460307-460313 Adams Theatre, Newark, N. J.
460314 Geo. F. Pavilion, Johnson City, N. Y.
460315 Masonic Auditorium, Scranton, Pennsylvania
460316 Sunnybrook Ballroom, Pottstown, Pennsylvania
460318-460323 Totem Pole Ballroom, Newton, Mass.
460324 The Valley Arena, Holyoke, Mass.
460326 Allentown, Pennsylvania
460329-460404 Earle Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
460405 Richmond, Virginia
460406 Valencia Ballroom, York, Pennsylvania
460407 Arena, New Haven, Connecticut
460408-460410 New England One-Nighters
460412-460414 State Theatre, Hartford, Connecticut
460420 Rochester, New York
460421 Elms Ballroom, Youngstown, Ohio
460422 Akron, Ohio
460423 Columbus, Ohio
460424 Charleston, West Virginia
460425 Castle Farms, Cincinnati, Ohio
460426 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
460427 South Bend, Indiana
460428-460503 Kansas City, Missouri
460504-460507 Des Moines, Iowa
460508 Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
460509 Trianon Ballroom, Toledo, Ohio
460510-460516 Michigan Theatre, Detroit, Michigan
460517 St. Louis, Missouri
460518 Dayton, Ohio
460520 Kingston, Pennsylvania
460521 Syracuse, New York
460522 Castle Garden Ballroom, Buffalo, New York
460523 Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania
460524-460606 Frank Daileys Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J.
460603 Graduation Hop, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y.
460607 Sunnybrook Pavilion, Pottstown, Pennsylvania
460608 Hershey Ballroom, Hershey, Pennsylvania
460609 Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey
460610 Agawam, Massachusetts

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460611 Kingston, Pennsylvania
460612-460618 Appearances in Ontario
460619 Sunset Ballroom, Carrolltown, Pennsylvania
460620-460623 Palace Theatre, Akron, Ohio
460624-460626 Keiths Palace Theatre, Columbus, Ohio
460627-460630 Circle Theatre, Indianapolis, Indiana
460705-460718 College Inn, Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois
460719-460801 Eastwood Gardens, Detroit, Michigan
460802 Indiana Lake, Russells Point, Ohio
460803 Lakeside Park, Dayton, Ohio
460804 Toledo, Ohio
460805 Elm Ballroom. Youngstown, Ohio
460807 Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
460808-460821 Oriental Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
460822 Rochester, Minnesota
460823-460829 Minneapolis, Minnesota
460830 Omaha, Nebraska
460831 Kansas City, Missouri
460903-461007 Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, California
461010 Balboa, California
461011-461013 Mission Beach Ballroom, San Diego, California
461015 San Bernardino, California
461016-461018 California One-Nighters
461019 Sacramento, California
461020 California One-Nighter
461022-461028 Million Dollar Theatre, Los Angeles, California
461030-461105 RKO Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco, California
461108-461114 Orpheum Theatre, Omaha, Nebraska
461115 Undetermined Venue
461116 Crystal City, Tulsa, Oklahoma
461118 Municipal Auditorium, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
461119 The Plantation, Dallas, Texas
461120-461121 Houston, Texas
461122 Austin, Texas
461123 Houston, Texas
461124 New Orleans, Louisiana
461126-461127 Matz Hotel, Bluefield, West Virginia
461128 The Hippodrome, Nashville, Tennessee
461129-461205 Matz Hotel, Bluefield, West Virginia
461206-461207 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.
461209 Norfolk, Virginia
461210 Richmond, Virginia
461211 Baltimore, Maryland
461212-461231 400 Restaurant, New York

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Major Alton Glenn Miller
Army of the United States
Army Air Forces
(1904-1944)

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3. 1946 Chronology

Prelude

Friday December 15, 1944, Americas most popular and successful bandleader,
Major Alton Glenn Miller, disappeared while traveling as a passenger on a
military aircraft flying from England to France. No trace of the aircraft or Miller
was ever found. A year after his disappearance the United States Army Air
Forces officially declared him legally dead although his status remained missing
in action. His widow, Helen and his children Steven and Jonnie survived Miller.
His legacy, reputation, recordings, music library and the business commitments
that he had put in place in anticipation of his return from military service following
the Second World War also survived Miller.

One of the commitments that Miller left behind was a lucrative RCA Victor
recording agreement. To fulfill this agreement and further the still potentially
strong Miller franchise, his friend, prewar manager and wartime administrative
officer Donald Wayne Haynes put together a plan with attorney and executor
David Mackay and approved by Helen Miller to launch a postwar Glenn Miller
Orchestra. The organization would be set up along the lines of the Miller AAF
Orchestra, using the Miller civilian and military music library and including a
robust string section. A concert orchestra as large as Millers AAF unit was
financially impossible but the new band was designed to showcase the rich
arrangements the AAF Orchestra had performed. Members of the AAF orchestra
were approached to join the new band, which would be promoted as the AAF
Orchestra now in civilian clothes. Many of the AAF veterans did join the new
band. Others declined, including bandleader and drummer Ray McKinley, who
had led the AAF Orchestra for live appearances following Millers disappearance
and who in 1956 would agree to lead the official Glenn Miller Orchestra. Haynes
and Mackay approached Chief Petty Officer Gordon Lee Tex Beneke, USNR,
who agreed to lead the new band. Plans were put in place to have the new band
assembled, rehearsed and ready to appear by January 1946.

Millers old commercial sponsor Chesterfield Cigarettes now sponsored the
Monday-Friday NBC Supper Club starring Perry Como, who felt a special
connection with Tex Beneke and Marion Hutton as well as a great respect for
Glenn Miller. As Como reminded his audience March 17, 1947, Marion Hutton
was the godmother of his son. Perhaps the sentiments of Perry Como in part led
him and manager Nick Perito to Alan Cass, the Glenn Miller Archive, American
Music Research Center and the University of Colorado Boulder as the permanent
repository for his professional collection. It is no coincidence that the Glenn
Miller and Perry Como legacies reside and are permanently preserved at CU.

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Tuesday, June 5, 1945, 8:30 p.m. Midnight EWT
Glenn Miller Day
Paramount Theatre
43
rd
Street and Broadway
New York
Martin Block, Master of Ceremonies

With the war continuing in the Pacific, the U. S. Treasury Department launched
the Seventh War Loan Drive in the spring of 1945. At the direction of Paramount
Theatre manager and Miller friend Bob Weitman, a major bond-raising event
called Major Glenn Miller Day was held in honor of Maj. Glenn Miller. As part of
the days events, a three and a half hour entertainment extravaganza was
broadcast from the stage of the theatre (see below for program and participants).

Chief Petty Officer Gordon Lee Tex Beneke appears twice during the program,
having flown in from Norman, Oklahoma. He performs with Charlie Spivak and
his Orchestra and joins Marion Hutton with Benny Goodman and his Orchestra.

The following segments were broadcast:

WNEW (local) 8:30 p.m. Midnight (entire broadcast)
Blue (WJZ) 10:30 11:00 p.m. segment
1

Mutual (WOR) 11:30 p.m. Midnight segment

The program exists on 23 16 NBC acetates (WNEW) that overlap from one side
to the next (Parts are noted 1-23 and music content in BOLD):

Part 1 8:30 p.m.
Newscast (five minutes)
Colors
Mitchell Field AAF Band
Pledge to the Flag
Part 2 Memorials to Soldiers
Taps
Mitchell Field AAF Band

Program continued

1
The identity of the Blue Network (operated by ABC) became ABC Friday, June 15,
1945

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June 5, 1945, continued

Part 3 Moonlight Serenade
Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra
Charlie Spivak dialogue
Armed Forces Medley: The Army Air Corps, Anchors Aweigh
Spivak introduces CPO Tex Beneke, who speaks
Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider
Tex Beneke (vocal) with Spivak orchestra
Tip. Tap and Toe Dance Team
Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra, accompaniment
Part 4 Spivak introduces Jo Stafford
Embraceable You
Candy
Jo Stafford (vocal) with Spivak orchestra
Toora, Loora, Loora (An Irish Lullaby)
Spivak introduces Shep Fields, who speaks
Part 5 Spivak introduces Dean Murphy, comedian and routine
Spivak introduces Gene Krupa, who speaks
Part 6 Drum Boogie
Gene Krupa, drums, with Spivak orchestra
Closing Theme
Opening Theme
Louis Prima and his Band
Louis Prima dialogue
Robin Hood
Louis Prima (vocal) with his band
Part 7 9:30 p. m.
(End Of) Moonlight Cocktail
Paula Kelly and the Modernaires (vocal) with Prima band
(Ive Got a Gal in Kalamazoo)
Paula Kelly and the Modernaires (vocal) with Prima band
Prima introduces Gil Lamb, comedian and routine

Program continued

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Part 8 Prima introduces Perry Como
Temptation
Perry Como (vocal) with Prima band
Como speaks
Goodbye Sue
Perry Como (vocal) with Prima band
Part 9 Angelina
Louis Prima (vocal) with his band
The Blizzard
Louis Prima and his Band
Prima introduces the Harmonica Rascals
Martin Block speaks
Part 10 Tico-Tico and Other Tunes
The Harmonica Rascals
One OClock Jump (theme)
Count Basie and his Orchestra
B-Flat
Im Gonna See My Baby
Maxine Sullivan (vocal) with Basie orchestra
Basie introduces Sammy Kaye, who speaks
Part 11 Basie introduces Cab Calloway
Calloway Medley: Minnie the Moocher, St. James Infirmary,
(Hep-Hep) The Jumpin Jive
Cab Calloway (vocal) with Basie orchestra
Calloway introduces Pearl Bailey
Duration Blues
Pearl Bailey (vocal) with Basie orchestra
Basie introduces Xavier Cugat, who speaks
Part 12 Red Bank Boogie
10:30 p.m.
Martin Block introduces Milton Berle and Benny Goodman
Start of Nationwide Broadcast
Moonlight Serenade
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
Martin Block speaks
Dont Be That Way

Program continued

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Part 13 Milton Berle, comedian and routine
Berle introduces Marion Hutton
I Had A Little Talk With The Lord
Marion Hutton (vocal) with Organ accompaniment
Part 14 Dont Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
Tex Beneke and Marion Hutton (vocal) with Goodman
orchestra
Berle, Goodman, Joe Bess comedy routine
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Benny Goodman Sextet
Part 15 Berle introduces Johnny Johnson
Love
Johnny Johnson (vocal) with Goodman orchestra
Moonlight Serenade
Gotta Be This or That
Benny Goodman (vocal) with is orchestra
Goodbye (closing theme)
Part 16 Ed Sullivan, emcee
Gen. Ralph G. DeVoe, Commanding Officer, Halloran General
Hospital, speaks
Sullivan talks about Glenn Miller
Bob Whitman, Managing Director, Paramount Theatre, speaks
Sullivan introduces Fred Waring
Part 17 Everytime We Say Goodbye
Deep River
Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians (band and chorus)
Sullivan introduces Allan Jones
The Donkey Serenade
Allan Jones (vocal) with the Waring band
Part 18 Sullivan introduces Guy Lombardo, who speaks
Waring introduces Lloyd Nolan, who speaks
11:30 p.m.
(End of) Begin the Beguine
Comin Through the Rye
Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians (band and chorus)

Program continued

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Part 19 Sullivan introduces Eddie Cantor
The Ladys In Love With You
Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider
Margie
If You Knew Suzie
I Love To Spend This Hour With You
Eddie Cantor (vocal) with Waring band
Part 20 Waring introduces Diana Lynn, pianist
Greig Piano Concerto
Diana Lynn, pianist, accompanied by Waring band
Waring introduces Brian Aherne, actor, who speaks
Waring introduces Bill Bojangles Robinson
Part 21 Auld Lang Syne
Robinson tap dance routine with Waring band
Bill Robinson speaks
Waring presents Glenn Miller batons, one for Ray McKinley,
one for Mrs. Helen Miller and one for future auction
(When Your Hearts On Fire) Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians
Part 22 Jack Miller conducts Waring band and chorus for Kate Smith
Kate Smith speaks
Dream
On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
Kate Smith (vocal) with Four Chicks and Chuck
and the Waring band
Part 23 The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians
The Army Air Corps
Organ
Program Close
Midnight

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Tuesday, June 5, 1945, 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. EWT
NBC Radio City, New York
Chesterfield Supper Club
Martin Block, announcer
Perry Como, host
Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, Paula Kelly and the Modernaires, guests
Lloyd Shaffer Orchestra

Salute to Major Glenn Miller Day

Chesterfield Theme (open)
Moonlight Serenade with strings
Dont Sit Under The Apple Tree
(With Anyone Else But Me) TB-MH-PK-TM
At Last PC; arr BF-JG
Tuxedo Junction
(Ive Got A Gal in) Kalamazoo TB-MH-PK-TM
Thats Sabotage MH (partial)
Commercial
To You PC (partial)
Chattanooga Choo Choo PK-TM
Moonlight Cocktail (partial)
Chesterfield Theme (close)

This program was broadcast the same evening as a Glenn Miller War-Bond
Special from the Paramount Theatre in New York at 8:30 p.m that was broadcast
in full by WNEW and in part by The Blue Network (WJZ) and Mutual (WOR). Tex
Beneke was still in uniform (Navy).

AFRS Supper Club 89

AFRS-650

Dubbed AFRS Open
I Should Care PC
(Dubbed from another program)
Moonlight Serenade with strings
Dont Sit Under The Apple Tree
(With Anyone Else But Me) TB-MH-PK-TM
At Last PC; arr BF-JG
Tuxedo Junction
(Ive Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo TB-MH-PK-TM
Thats Sabotage MH (partial)
To You PC (partial)
Chattanooga Choo Choo PK-TM (fade)
Dubbed AFRS Close

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The Billboard, October 6, 1945:

New York, Sept. 29 - The much talked about plans for the Major Glenn Miller Air
Force band, which recently got back into the states, has finally boiled down and
the latest word is that the band will go under the baton of Tex Beneke, former sax
man and vocalist with the outfit before Miller and his men went into the service.
Beneke, now in the service, is slated to come out soon. Capt. Don Haynes, who
managed Miller, is also due to exit from military duties soon and will be handling
the reins again. It is understood that Beneke will have the Miller library to build
on and will follow that style. Miller has been missing for some months now, ever
since he disappeared in a plane flight over the English Channel last year. The
band is currently doing four shots a week from New York now for the AAF.

THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA WITH TEX BENEKE

Personnel

Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Bobby Nichols, Steve Steck, Whitey Thomas, Graham
Young (tp); John Halliburton, Nat Peck, Jimmy Priddy, Paul Tanner (tb); Freddie
Guerra, Jack Ferrier (cl/as); Stanley Aaronson, Vince Carbone (ts); Manny Thaler
(as/bar); Gene Bergen, James Caesar, Phil Cogliano, Earl Cornwall, Stan Harris,
Jaspar Hornyak, Joseph Kowalewski, Stan Kraft, Richard Motylinski, Fred
Ostrovsky, Bob Ripley, Dave Schwartz (strings); Stan Freeman (p/arr); Carmen
Mastren (g); Rollie Bundock (b); Maurice Purtill (d); Lillian Lane, Artie Malvin, The
Crew Chiefs: Murray Kane, Gene Steck, Steve Steck (voc), Bill Conway (voc/g);
Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Norm Leyden (arr)

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New York Herald Tribune, January 2, 1946:

EX-SERVICEMEN MUSICIANS PLAN TO CONTINUE GLENN MILLER BAND

New York Organization of the Glenn Miller Orchestra to carry on the name and
distinctive music styling of Major Glenn Miller, who was lost in a plane flight over
the English Channel on December 15, 1944, was announced here yesterday.
The orchestra will be composed exclusively of ex-servicemen who served with
Miller either in the Army Air Forces Overseas Band or who played with his band
prior to entering one of the branches of the armed forces. Tex Beneke, formerly
Millers featured saxophonist and vocalist, who was discharged from the Navy in
November, will conduct the band. The band will be substantially the same in
composition as the one that triumphed in almost every popularity poll prior to its
entry into the service. However, Miller added a string section to the Army Air
Forces Band and this section will be retained. In all, the band will have five
saxophones, four trombones, four trumpets, a French horn, four rhythm, nine
violins, two violas, a cello and the Crew Chiefs, a vocal group. Don Haynes,
who managed the Miller band before joining the Army Air Forces and was
executive officer for Miller in the AAF, announced the organization of the band.
He was the last man to see Miller alone and, on the night before the tragic flight,
received from Miller a list of instrumentalists to be included in the postwar Miller
band, together with the part each was to play. The band will make its civilian
radio debut on The Teentimers Club NBC program at 11 a.m. on Saturday,
January 12. There will be 34 members in all, including the vocal group. Mr.
Haynes also announced that Mrs. Miller has consented to turn over to him Major
Millers entire music library and has granted permission for the use of her
husbands name.

Saturday, January 12, 1946

Records show a recording session for:
Buchman & Co., 1501 Broadway, New York

This and a January 26, 1946 recording session may be connected with the NBC
Teen Timers programs of January 12 and January 26.

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Saturday, January 12, 1946, 11:00-11:30 a. m. EST
Teentimers Inc. (Teentimers Club) broadcast
NBC, Radio City, New York (NBC) (WEAF)
Johnny Desmond, host

From the NBC program card:

Jan. 12, 1946, Guest Orchestra: The late Major Glenn Millers Orchestra still
called Glenn Miller Orchestra --- with Tex Beneke leading the new Glenn Miller
Band --- this is the first appearance anywhere of this new civilian band. The
organization is composed of former members of Major Glenn Millers Overseas
Orchestra with all the boys back in civilian clothes.

Teentimers Club

Teentimers, Inc. (Teentimers Club) debuted over NBC December 8, 1945 and
was directed toward teenage audiences (see January 26, 1946 NBC program
card description). Name bands appeared on the Saturday morning program that
originated in New York. Ex-AAF singer Johnny Desmond who had already
appeared on several NBC programs before and following his discharge in
November 1945 was a hot commodity and selected to host the program because
of his perceived appeal to teen age girls. The program contained public service
messages emphasizing racial and religious tolerance. There were other local
radio teenage programs on the air at this time and they were the forerunners of
the programming genre that led to ABCs American Bandstand hosted by Dick
Clark, which originated in Philadelphia.

"%
Tuesday, January 15, 1946, 7:00 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. EST
NBC Radio City, New York (NBC) (WEAF)
2

Jo Stafford, host
Tex Beneke, guest
Lloyd Shaffer Orchestra and The Satisfyers

Arent You Glad Youre You JST
Commercial
Beneke Dialogue JST-TB
Exactly Like You TB
Dont Blame Me JS
Chattanooga Choo Choo TB-JST-TS

Tex Beneke appears alone as a guest. He describes the forthcoming opening
date for the band of January 24, 1946 at the Capitol Theatre in New York,
including five shows a day.

Thursday, January 17 to Friday, January 20, 1946
Metropolitan Theatre, Providence, R. I.
Stage Shows

The Glenn Miller orchestra with Tex Beneke made their first appearance with a
break-in date in Providence, Rhode Island before their formal opening at the
Capitol Theatre in New York
3
.

Saturday, January 21 to Monday, January 23, 1946
Plymouth Theatre, Plymouth, Mass.
Stage Shows

Thursday, January 24 to Wednesday, February 27, 1946
Capitol Theatre, New York
Stage Shows

The Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke (leader) opened at the Capitol
Theatre in New York Thursday, January 24, 1946 for their first formal
engagement (noted incorrectly as January 17, 1946 by author George T. Simon).
This was a five-week engagement with options.
4

2
The call letters for NBC flagship station WEAF, New York (660 kc.) were changed to
WNBC effective November 6, 1946.
3
Daily Variety, January 16, 1946
4
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, Simon, p. 437

"&
Saturday, January 26, 1946

Buchman & Co., 1501 Broadway, New York

See January 12, 1946 for details.

Saturday, January 26, 1946, 11:00-11:30 a. m. EST
Teentimers Inc. (Teentimers Club) broadcast
NBC, Radio City, New York (NBC) (WEAF)
Johnny Desmond, host

From the NBC Program Card:
[Award, Best Teen-Age Program of 1945]

Guest Orchestra: The Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Tex Beneke
makes a return guest appearance on Jan. 12, 1946. Another guest on todays
program is Mr. Maynard Morgan, a representative of the American Schools and
Colleges Association. Mr. Morgan is on the program to announce that the
American Schools and Colleges Association has selected the Teentimers Club
program as the best program in the high school age group --- this is an annual
award to a teentimer program --- judges this year made the award because the
Teentimers Club program is providing clean and understanding entertainment
for teen agers, and because in sincere and straightforward talks included in the
program, listeners are being reminded of the importance of tolerance and
friendship for everyone. The program receives a plaque from Mr. Morgan ---
Johnny Desmond, MC, accepts the plaque on behalf of Teentimers Club. ---
NOTE (Not broadcast) A plaque inscribed for the promotion of racial and
religious understanding was presented to Johnny Desmond, singing MC and
star of Teentimers Club by This Month magazine through its editor Ada
Siegel, citing the program as the program of the month because of its many
appeals for tolerance as made in brief talks by Johnny Desmond and other
members of the cast.

"'
New York Post, January 26, 1946, p. 16:

The Variety Stage

MILLER BAND IN THE DOUGH

By Paul Denis

Of course you wouldnt like to have your salary raised 10 times. But the 35 boys
in the Glenn Miller Band, at the Capitol, have had to accept such a salary raise.
The band used to average, in the Army, about $3,000 per month. Now its forced
to take about $30,000 per month. And its such a bother! Don Haynes, who
managed the band before it went into the Army and then served as its Executive
Officer, continues as manager. He complains that even with that big salary
raise, the boys dont salute any more when I pay them. The boys arms are just
too tired from counting all that dough. Tex Beneke, formerly the bands vocalist
and lead saxophonist, is now leader and the band is already set to record for
Victor and play 26 weeks of vaudeville. Overseas, the band played in 11
countries, before 3 million GIs.

Down Beat, January 28, 1946:

NOBODY SALUTED

New York - Recent air debut of ex-Chief Petty Officer Gordon Lee (awright,
awright, so its Tex) Benekes band marked reunion between ex-Sgt. Johnny
Desmond, who sings, and ex-Staff Sgt. Tom Hudson, who announces, and ex-
Master Sgt. Norman Leyden, who arranges. First time latter three had met
together since Miller AAF band days.

"(
Down Beat, January 28, 1940

NEW BENEKE CREW HAS MILLER NAME AND BOOK

New York Those who have eyed with some curiosity the band fronted by Tex
Beneke since its recent theatre debut here (Capitol, Jan. 24) have observed a
number of features about it, musical and otherwise, which are interesting. The
outfit, billed as the Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke, is tabbed by
manager Don Haynes (reportedly the last person to see Miller before he took off
on his ill-fated flight) as the band Glenn wanted to present to the American
public upon his return from overseas. The present crew consists of 90 percent
of the personnel that comprised the AAF orchestra, with the balance in the main
sidemen who played with Miller prior to the war.

34 In Band

In all, band plus Beneke has 34 members five saxes, four trams, four trumpets,
French horn, four rhythm, a vocal group, the Crew Chiefs and the string section
Miller added to his AAF band, 9 violins, two violas and a cello. Permission to use
Millers name in connection with advertising and billing was granted by Mrs.
Miller, who also turned over Glenns entire music library to the new crew. Thus
the crew is able to present many of the great prewar arrangements in addition to
some of the latest up-to-the-minute scorings, which are furnished by Jerry Gray
and Artie Malvin.

Malvin Takes Desmond Spot

Featured artists with the band, plus Malvin who is also filling the spot vacated by
Johnny Desmond, are Lillian Lane, among other things the former Thornhill
thrush, and Bobby Nichols, the 21-year-old redhead who made a name
trumpeting with Vaughn Monroe.

Some incidental information: Beneke was discharged as a chief petty officer in
November AAF Band had a total of 500 hours of flying time in everything from
a B-25 to and L-5, was awarded Bronze Star for Northern France campaigns
Malvin and Lillian Lane hadnt seen each other since they both left Thornhill
Band, in addition to being set at Capitol for five weeks with options, has signed
with Victor for waxing Miller would have been 41 years old March 1 Original
Miller gangs recording of Chattanooga Choo Choo sold a million and a half
copies. In fact, in 1940, one of every three jukebox nickels spun a Miller record.

")
Variety, January 30, 1946:

CAPITOL, N. Y.

Glenn Miller Orch. Conducted by Tex Beneke, with Murray Kane, Crew Chiefs;
Ladd Lyon, Paul Regan; The Harvey Girls (M-G-M), reviewed in VARIETY Jan.
2, 46.

This is the first major date by this orchestra carrying the name of the late Major
Glenn Miller, conducted by Tex Beneke, former sax sideman with the formers
pre-war band and himself an ex-serviceman. And it does a swell job, from both a
musical and entertaining standpoint. Theres a lot of talent incorporated into the
outfit, which contains 31 of the men who played in the Air Force band Miller
conducted. Theres a lot of speculation currently as to the bands future. Its
openly stated the band will play only theatres, no locations or one-nighters
because of its size. That seems to indicate that the combo will go once around
the theatre circuit on the strength of Millers name and then probably be
transferred to Benekes sole title. This idea kills two birds with one stone. It
earns Millers estate a lot of coin and helps build Benekes name. By that time,
too, the latter will have overcome his evident shortcomings as leader. At the
moment, he handles himself easily enough but there are rough edges. Another
angle that will tend to take the Miller tag off this band soon enough is the
psychological effect on audiences of a band carrying the name of a man who has
passed on. The band business has never been able to perpetuate a band under
such circumstances. As cited above, at the Cap the band puts on a real show. It
is smartly paced, opening with In the Mood, one of the items that originally put
Miller in business, then smoothly coordinates more of the same, plus current
pops, for maximum results. In the process, a couple of good entertainers pop up
from within the four trumpet, four trombone, one French horn, five sax, four
rhythm and twelve string combination. First is Artie Malvin, from the Crew Chiefs
vocal quarter. He does Let It Snow! and Might As Well Be Spring, indicating
good solo ability in spite of the fact that on the latter he needed more rehearsal.
Murray Kane, also from the Chiefs, comes on later with a comedy routine put
over solidly with a deliver that indicates the guy would have a future if he turned
to that field. As part of the Chiefs, who include Lillian Lane, they also do neat
work. As for the band, it performs superbly. Down the line it uses outstanding
arrangements of such things as Holiday for Strings and pops and standards
grouped under Millers Something Old, New Borrowed and Blue medley idea;
18th Century Drawing Room, Personality, Stompin at the Savoy, and
Rhapsody in Blue come under this heading. Beneke occasionally plays
adequate tenor out front. Both accompanying acts are good (- Wood).

#+
The Billboard, February 2, 1946:

CAPITOL, NEW YORK
(Reviewed Friday Evening, January 25)

With 31 people (27 sidemen and four vocalists) out of the 35 in the organization
having been with the Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Band for the full run of the late
maestros service career, and with Glenns full library of arrangements to work
with, Tex Beneke has little trouble piloting the ex-service crew through this bill.
The band draws a warm reception and hefty hands all the way. The band and
two acts, Paul Regan and Ladd Lyon, are the works. Prior to the orks opening at
the Metropolitan in Providence Thursday (17), the group hadnt played together
for quite a stretch (they were tied up being processed out of the Army) and at this
last show Friday it was somewhat evident. Fusion of the sections wasnt as
smooth, in spots, as it might have been. The most impressive feature (forgetting
for the moment the musical aspect) was the handling of Glenn Miller references.
Right after intro tunes Beneke stepped to the mike and said, the boss had
always insisted that the show be short on talk and long on music and thats what
were going to try to give you. Beneke mentioned Miller two other times, once
about mid-show in presenting Miller medley time; Little Brown Jug,
Personality, Stompin at the Savoy and Rhapsody in Blue and again at the
shows end in introing Chattanooga Choo Choo, one of Millers top Victor platter
sellers (1,500,000 copies). Beneke delivered these lines in straight style, without
dramatics, tear-jerking or crape-hanging. Yet (and seemingly without trying) he
conveyed a strong feeling of respect and admiration he and the rest of the band
had for the late leader. Musically the organization is right in the Miller groove.
The selection of tunes is good, too, with a nice balance between Miller standards
like Jug and Choo Choo, an oldie, Embraceable You, current pops Let it
Snow! and Personality and a novelty Stick a Nickel in the Juke Box. The last
number was penned by Murray Kane, who also does a comedy routine displaying
a Robert Walkerish technique and good material. He drew sustained and heavy
laughs. Artie Malvins bary vocal on Let It Snow! marked the lad as a distinct
asset to the ork and the Crew Chiefs (three boys) with Lillian Lane turn in credible
harmonizing on Nickel in the Juke, Personality and Choo Choo (with Beneke
assists on the last two). For the present the ork seems set but whether it will be
able to maintain the heavy 35-person nut indefinitely is another question. If
becomes necessary it will probably take place in the 11-man string section.

#*
The Billboard, February 2, 1946:

New York, Jan. 26 Contrary to previously published reports to the effect that
they wouldnt play em, the Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke is going on
one-nighters. General Artists Corporation is now attempting to line up two
weeks of the barnstormers for the 35-man outfit, to see how it works out. The
asking price is $3,000 with a privilege of 60 per cent and the rock-bottom figure at
which the band estimates that it can work is $2,500 nightly. The 3G figure is
what is commanded today by Vaughn Monroe, who is one of the hottest one-
nighter attractions in the field at the moment due to Victor disc hits There! Ive
Said It Again followed by the current Let It Show!

Time, February 4, 1946

It had been more than a year since Major Glenn Miller, the Armys swing Sousa
of World War II, was lost in a plan crash. But last week 34 of his G. I. musicians,
now civilians, opened on Broadway still calling themselves the Glenn Miller
Orchestra. A public that had not forgotten the Miller name (his orchestra was
voted the nations No. 1 sweet band in 1941) packed the house. The G. I.s, a
little worried about how the public would feel about them, found the old Miller
theme song still described it: In the Mood.

Variety, February 6, 1946, p. 17:

Harvey, Miller Band 104G

Harvey Girls and the Glenn Miller band came through the stretch fast at Capitol
last week, its first, to finish at $110,100, highest ever grossed in houses 26 years
of operation. Prior record take of $109,300 by Anna Christie has stood since
March 1930. Girls and the Miller band are continuing in smash fashion, with
around $104,000 anticipated on initial holdover session. Stays further, of course.

#"
Thursday, February 21, 1946
RCA Victor Recording Session
RCA Victor Studios, 155 E. 24
th
Street, New York

D6-VB-1669
RCA Victor 20-1835-B
ONE MORE TOMORROW
(From the Warner Bros. Picture One More Tomorrow
(Lecouna-DeLange-Myrow)
Vocal refrain by Artie Malvin

D6-VB-1670
RCA Victor 20-1834-A
SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT
[Wallace Willis (before 1862)]
5

Bill Finegan arrangement

D6-VB-1671
IM HEADIN FOR CALIFORNIA
(Glenn Miller-Arthur Malvin)
(Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke and the Crew Chiefs)
(no strings)

D6-VB-1672
IT COULDNT BE TRUE (OR COULD IT?)
(Sylvia Dee-Sydney Lippman)
(Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke and the Crew Chiefs)

5
Labeled by RCA Victor as Stephen Foster but actually written by Wallace Willis before
1862.

##

The first RCA Victor record release (20-1834)

Wednesday, February 27, 1946

The band closed at the Capitol Theatre in New York.

Thursday, February 28, 1946 to Wednesday, March 6, 1946
Capitol Theatre, Washington, D. C.
Stage Shows

#$
Thursday, March 7, 1946 to Thursday, March 13, 1946
Adams Theatre, Newark, New Jersey
Stage Shows

Thursday, March 14, 1946
Geo. F. Pavilion, Johnson City, New York
Dance

Friday, March 15, 1946
Masonic Auditorium, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Dance

Saturday, March 16, 1946
Sunnybrook Ballroom, Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Dance

Sunday, March 17, 1946
Day off in New York, New York

Monday, March 18, 1946 Saturday, March 23, 1946
Totem Pole Ballroom, Norumbega Park
Auburndale-on-Charles (Newton), Massachusetts
Dances

Sunday, March 24, 1946
The Valley Arena, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Dance

Monday, March 25, 1946
Day Off

Tuesday, March 26, 1946
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Dance

Wednesday, March 27, 1946
Day Off

#%
TEX BENEKE WITH THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA

Personnel

Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Bobby Nichols, Steve Steck, Whitey Thomas, Graham
Young (tp); John Halliburton, Nat Peck, Jimmy Priddy, Paul Tanner (tb); Chick
Canode, Freddie Guerra (cl/as); Stanley Aaronson, Vince Carbone (ts); Manny
Thaler (as/bar); Gene Bergen, James Caesar, Phil Cogliano, Earl Cornwall, Stan
Harris, Jaspar Hornyak, Joseph Kowalewski, Stan Kraft, Tom Lanese, Richard
Motylinski, Fred Ostrovsky, Bob Ripley, Dave Schwartz (strings); Joe Rann (p);
Bobby Joe Gibbons (g); Rollie Bundock (b); Maurice Purtill (d); Lillian Lane,
Artie Malvin, The Crew Chiefs: Murray Kane, Gene Steck, Steve Steck, (voc) and
Bill Conway (voc/g); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Norm Leyden (arr)

Canode (cl/as), Lanese (strings), Rann (p) and Bobby Joe Gibbons (g) replace
Ferrier, Schwartz, Freeman and Mastren. Bill Conway (g) performed regularly
with the band at this time.

About the Crew Chiefs

The wartime Crew Chiefs of the Maj. Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra
included Artie Malvin (who also soloed), Lynn Allison, Murray Kane, Gene Steck
and Steve Steck. In January 1945 former member of the Modernaires Bill
Conway joined the AAF Orchestra in France and worked with the group as well
as substituting on guitar. In a 1974 interview with Karl Pearson, Lynn Allison
related that he never appeared with the postwar band led by Tex Beneke. Allison
did not wish to travel and preferred to settle down in Chicago with his wife Gloria.

#&
Thursday, March 28, 1946
Lotos Club Recording Studio, 110 W. 57th St., New York

D6-VB-1383-1
STRANGE LOVE
(From the Paramount Picture The Strange Love of Martha Ivers)
(Eddie Heyman-Miklos Rozsa)

D6-VB-1384-1
CYNTHIAS IN LOVE
(Jack Owens-Gish-White)
Vocal refrain by Artie Malvin, Lillian Lane and the Crew Chiefs

D6-VB-1385-1
THE WHIFFENPOOF SONG (BAA! BAA! BAA!)
(Minnegerode-Pomeroy-Galloway)
Vocal refrain by Artie Malvin and the Crew Chiefs

D6-VB-1386-1
HEY! BA-BA-RE-BOP
(Lionel Hampton-Curly Hamner)
Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke
(no strings)

D6-VB-1386-2
Unissued on 78 rpm
(CD): BMG DMC-12173
HEY! BA-BA-RE-BOP
(Lionel Hampton-Curly Hamner)
(no strings)

#'
Friday, March 29, 1946 Thursday, April 4, 1946
Earle Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stage shows

Friday, April 5, 1946
Richmond, Virginia
Concert (Two and half hours)

Saturday, April 6, 1946
Valencia Ballroom, York, Pennsylvania
Dance

Sunday, April 7, 1946
Arena, New Haven, Conn.
Concerts, matinee and evening

Monday - Wednesday, April 8 - 10, 1946
Contract with Charles Shribman, State Theatre Building, Boston, Mass.
One-nighters in New England

Thursday, April 11, 1946
Day Off

Friday - Sunday, April 12 - 14, 1946
State Theater, Hartford, Connecticut
Stage shows

Monday - Friday, April 15 - 19, 1946
New York, New York

Rochester, New York
Dance

Sunday, April 21, 1946
Elms Ballroom, Youngstown, Ohio
Dance

Monday, April 22, 1946
Akron, Ohio
Dance

#(
Tuesday, April 23, 1946
Columbus, Ohio
Dance

Wednesday, April 24, 1946
Charleston, West Virginia
Dance

Thursday, April 25, 1946
Castle Farms, Cincinnati, Ohio
Dance

Friday, April 26, 1946
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Dance

South Bend, Indiana
Dance

Sunday, April 28 Friday, May 3, 1946
Kansas City, Missouri
Dances

Daily Variety, May 1, 1946:

The Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke as its leader is bringing the leaders
name to the fore. As a start, their second set of RCA Victor disks, marketed last
week, had different label credits than the first two, put out a month or so ago.
The initial pairing read The Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke and the
second pairing cited Tex Beneke with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

Daily Variety, May 1, 1946:

Sam Donahue brings his band to Frank Daileys Meadowbrook May 14 for 10
days, followed by the Beneke-Miller Orchestra opening May 24.

#)
Saturday May 4 Tuesday, May 7, 1946
(Day Off May 6)
Tro-Mar Ballroom, Des Moines, Iowa
Dances

Wednesday, May 8, 1946
Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Thursday, May 9, 1946
Trianon Ballroom, Toledo, Ohio
Dance

Friday, May 10 Thursday, May 16, 1946
Michigan Theatre, Detroit, Michigan
Stage shows

Friday, May 17, 1946
St. Louis, Missouri
Dance

Saturday, May 18, 1946
Lakeside Park, Dayton, Ohio
Dance

Sunday, May 19, 1946
Day Off

Monday, May 20, 1946
Kingston, Pennsylvania
Dance

Tuesday, May 21, 1946
Syracuse, New York
Dance

Castle Garden Ballroom, Buffalo, New York
Dance

Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania
Dance

$+

Personnel

Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc), Bobby Nichols, Steve Steck, Whitey Thomas, Graham
Young (tp); John Halliburton, Nat Peck, Jimmy Priddy, Paul Tanner (tb); John
Graas (fh); Stanley Aaronson, Vince Carbone (ts); Freddy Guerra, Malcom Lary
(cl/as); Manny Thaler (as/bar); Gene Bergen, James Caesar, Phil Cogliano, Earl
Cornwall, Norman Forrest (Farkus), Stan Harris, Jaspar Hornyak, Joseph
Kowalewski, Stan Kraft, Richard Motylinski, Carl Ottobrino, Michael Vislocky
(strings); Vincent Lashied (p), Bobby Joe Gibbons (g), Rollie Bundock (b), Jack
Sperling (d); Artie Malvin, Lillian Lane, The Crew Chiefs (voc): Murray Kane,
Gene Steck, Steve Steck (voc), Bill Conway (voc/g); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray,
Norm Leyden (arr)

Graas (fh), added; Lary (cl/as) replaces Canode; Forrest (Farkus), Motylinski
(strings), added; Lasheid (p) replaces Rann

Friday, May 24 Thursday, June 6, 1946
Frank Daileys Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey
(Off Monday June 3, 1946)

Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller orchestra opened at Frank Daileys
Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, Friday May 24, 1946, following Sam
Donahues band.

$*
Saturday, May 25, 1946, 5:30-6:00 p. m. EDT
Matinee at the Meadowbrook (CBS) (WABC)
Frank Daileys Meadowbrook Ballroom, Cedar Grove, New Jersey
John Tillman, announcer
Bernie Gould and Art Carney, cast
Jack Leonard, B. A. Rolfe and Joseph Leahy, guests

Moonlight Serenade (open)
American Patrol
It Couldnt Be True! (Or Could It?) TB-LL-CC
Jack Leonard Interview
They Say Its Wonderful JL
Square Dance Calls with B. A. Rolfe
Cynthias In Love LL-CC
Joseph Leahy Interview
Flight arr AC
Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop TB-Band
Moonlight Serenade (incomplete) (close)

Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop is introduced as the tenth best selling record in America.

B. A. Rolfe is attempting to promote square dancing with the youth of America.
The band accompanies Rolfe on square dance calls. Joseph Leahy is the
founder of Radork, a new stock orchestration company.

An address by President Harry Truman at 5:00 p. m. pre-empted the first half of
the normal 60-minute program.

Johnny Desmond, star of the Philip Morris program, is announced as the
scheduled guest for the June 1, 1946 program. Sunrise Serenade,
Chattanooga Choo Choo A String of Pearls and In the Mood are scheduled
to be played.

CBS engineers appear to have enhanced the broadcast by using recorded
applause to make the audience seem larger than it actually was.

$"
Tuesday, May 28, 1946
RCA Victor Studios, 155 E. 24
th
Street, New York

D6-VB-2224-1
TEXAS TEX
[Uncle Tom (Get With It)]
(William Finegan)
(no strings)

D6-VB-2225-1
I KNOW
(John E. Jennings-Theodore Brooks)
Vocal refrain by The Crew Chiefs

D6-VB-2226-1
EV'RYBODY LOVES MY BABY (MY BABY)
(A. and M. Nevins-Dunn)
Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke and The Crew Chiefs

D6-VB-2227-1
FIVE MINUTES MORE
6

(Sammy Cahn-Jule Styne)

6
The RCA Victor record label says Give Me Five Minutes More. The correct title is
Five Minutes More.

$#
Personnel

Young (tp); John Halliburton, Nat Peck, Jimmy Priddy, Paul Tanner (tb); John
Graas (fh); Stanley Aaronson, Vince Carbone (ts); Freddy Guerra, Malcom Lary
(cl/as); Manny Thaler (as/bar); Gene Bergen, James Caesar, Phil Cogliano, Earl
Cornwall, Norman Forrest (Farkus), Stan Harris, Jaspar Hornyak, Joseph
Kowalewski, Stan Kraft, Richard Motylinski, Carl Ottobrino, Michael Vislocky
(strings); Henry Mancini (p), Bobby Joe Gibbons (g), Rollie Bundock (b), Jack
Norm Leyden (arr)

Mancini (p) replaces Lashied

June 1946
Frank Daileys Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J.
AFRS Magic Carpet 387

AFRS-590

SUR 7-8-4
U-57708

Sun Valley Jump cm/arr JG
Cynthias In Love CC
Strange Love AM
Caribbean Clipper cm/arr JG

Saturday, June 1, 1946


Buchanan and Company, 1501 Broadway, New York

No details have been located regarding this session.

Monday, June 3, 1946
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York
Graduation Hop

$$
Friday, June 5, 1946, 12:30-1:00 a.m.
AFRS One Night Stand 1022
CBS Sustaining Broadcast (WABC)
D 6-4-46

B-B8-1, AFRS-716

SSP-SC-6-30-1
Dubbed Open
American Patrol arr JG
It Couldnt Be True (Or Could It?) TB-LL-CC
Texas Tex cm/arr BF
Strange Love AM

SSP-SC-6-30-2
The Whiffenpoof Song (Baa! Baa! Baa!) AM-LL-CC
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) arr HM
A String of Pearls cm/arr JG
The Gypsy LL
Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop TB
Dubbed Close

Friday, June 7, 1946
Sunnybrook Pavilion, Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Dance

Saturday, June 8, 1946
Hershey Ballroom, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Dance

Sunday, June 9, 1946
Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Dance

Agawam, Massachusetts
Dance

Tuesday, June 11, 1946
Kingston, Pennsylvania
Dance

$%
Wednesday, June 12 Tuesday, June 18, 1946
Appearances in Ontario booked by Bert Milford Agency, Toronto, Ontario

Wednesday, June 19, 1946
Sunset Ballroom, Carrolltown, Pennsylvania

Thursday, June 20, 1946 Sunday, June 23, 1946
Palace Theatre, Akron, Ohio
Stage Shows

Monday, June 24, 1946 Wednesday, June 26, 1946
Keiths Palace Theatre, Columbus, Ohio
Stage Shows

Thursday, June 27, 1946 Sunday, June 30, 1946
Circle Theatre, Indianapolis, Indiana
Stage Shows

Friday, July 5, 1946 Thursday, July 18, 1946
College Inn, Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois
Dances

$&

Tuesday, July 16, 1946
RCA Victor Studios, 445 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

D6-VB-1909-1
THE WOODCHUCK SONG
(Tepper-Brodsky-Mann-Weiss)
Norman Leyden arrangement

D6-VB-1910-1
PASSE
(French lyrics by Jean Sablon and Jean Geiringer)
(DeLange-Sigman-Meyer)
Vocal refrain by Lillian Lane

D6-VB-1911-1
A GAL IN CALICO
(From the Warner Bros. picture "The Time, The Place and the Girl")
(Leo Robin-Arthur Schwartz)

D6-VB-1912-1
OH, BUT I DO
(From the Warner Bros. picture "The Time, The Place and the Girl")
(Leo Robin-Arthur Schwartz)

$'

Young (tp); John Halliburton, Jimmy Priddy, Bob Pring, Paul Tanner (tb); John
Graas (fh); Stanley Aaronson, Vince Carbone (ts); Freddy Guerra, Sol Libero
(cl/as); Manny Thaler (as/bar); Gene Bergen, Phil Cogliano, Earl Cornwall,
Norman Forrest (Farkus), Stan Harris, Jaspar Hornyak, Joseph Kowalewski, Stan
Kraft, Richard Motylinski, Carl Ottobrino, Gene Shepard, Michael Vislocky
(strings); Henry Mancini (p), Bobby Joe Gibbons (g), Rollie Bundock (b), Jack
Norm Leyden (arr)

Pring (tb) replaces Peck; Libero (cl/as) replaces Larry and Shepard (strings)
replaces Caesar

Friday, July 19 Thursday, August 1 1946
Eastwood Gardens, Detroit, Michigan
Dances

"The Billboard", July 27, 1946:

TEX BENEKE WILL DROP MILLER TAG SOON - DON HAYNES

New York, July 20 - Name of the late Glenn Miller will be disassociated from the
Tex Beneke band as quickly as possible, according to manager Don Haynes.
Co-owner of the band with Miller's widow, Haynes says he believes the time is
approaching when Beneke will have to pull the customers himself, and continued
use of the Miller label will cease to be in good taste.

Agreeing that the magic of the Miller reputation helped get the ork around the
circuit in such fancy style ($3,000-$3,500 for one nighters) the first time, Haynes
is sure the outfit went over big enough in most places to repeat on its own merits,
without artificial assistance. With this in mind, he is now bargaining for a radio
commercial (program) that will bill the band as "Tex Beneke and his Orchestra".
Says he can grab another commercial which will use the Miller billing but that he
is shooting for the strict Beneke tag.

$(
Friday, July 19, 1946 Thursday, August 1, 1946
Dances

Friday, August 2, 1946
Indiana Lake Amusement Park, Russells Point, Ohio
Dance

Saturday, August 3, 1946
Lakeside Park, Dayton, Ohio
Dance

Sunday, August 4, 1946
Toledo, Ohio
Dance

Monday, August 5, 1946
Elm Ballroom, Youngstown, Ohio
Dance

Tuesday, August 6, 1946
Day Off

Wednesday, August 7, 1946
Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dance

Thursday, August 8, 1946 Wednesday, August 21, 1946
Oriental Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
Stage Shows

$)
The Billboard, August 17, 1946:

Nightclub Reviews, Oriental, Chicago (Thursday, August 8)

Glenn Miller's ork (31) with Tex Beneke fronting and saxing had the crowds lined
up on Randolph Street before noon. Band features and two accompanying acts
did a lot of entertaining during the 40 minutes on stage. The boys gave "In the
Mood" in typical Miller manner as a starter and then maestro soloed "These
Foolish Things. Bands 12 strings, formidable array of brass and book of sure-
fire hits, old and new, had the audience from theme to curtain time. Vocalist Artie
Malvin gave sock renditions of "Simple Life" and "If You Were the Only Girl. Mitt
required three bows. Quartet, which includes Beneke and chirp Lillian Lane, did
"Ev'rybody Loves My Baby" and "Chattanooga Choo-Choo. Miss Lane came
back to do a sultry-voiced solo of "Gypsy" which was very well received. Whitson
Brothers, Risley team, had a witty line of patter that was almost as good as their
acrobatics. Duo has a thru-the-hoop stunt that was well done. Several
intentional blunders and comedy set-ups brought many yucks. Jack Carter,
Chicago Latin Quarter comedian, subbed for Crosby Sisters, who were ill. He
goes just as well in vaudeville houses as he does in a nitery. Guy has rapid-fire
delivery and change of pace. Miller band also did a medley that included
"Eighteenth Century Drawing Room" and "Rhapsody in Blue. Multi-colored
lighting added to both the medley and the finale, "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop. The
house was jammed and the pic was "Two Sisters from Boston.

Thursday, August 22, 1946
Rochester, Minnesota
Dance

Friday, August 23 Thursday, August 29, 1946
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Stage Shows

Friday, August 30, 1946
Omaha, Nebraska
Dance

Saturday, August 31, 1946
Kansas City, Missouri
Dance

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Tuesday, September 3, 1946

The band opened at the Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, California.

Tuesday, September 3 Monday, October 7, 1946
Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, California
Southern California Enterprises
6210 Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood 28, California

Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood
CBS Sustaining Broadcast (KNX)
Bill Ewing, announcer
D 9-3-46

B-B27-1, AFRS-773

SC-10-19-1
Dubbed Open
Get Happy arr JG
More Than You Know LL
(Ive Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo TB-LL-CC
Theres A Small Hotel

SC-10-19-2
Texas Tex cm/arr BF
If You Were The Only Girl AM
Evrybody Loves My Baby (My Baby) TB-LL-CC
Come Rain Or Come Shine LL
Dubbed Close

%*
Monday, September 9, 1946
D 9-9-46

B-B6-4, AFRS-591

SC-11-9-1
Dubbed Open
(Ive Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo TB-LL-CC
Falling Leaves arr NL

SC-11-9-2
Oh, Lady Be Good! arr BF
My Love For You LL
What Are You Gonna Do? LL-CC
Sweet Lorraine AM
Lover
Dubbed Close

%"
D 9-10-46

B-B27-2, AFRS-775

SSC-11-2-1
Dubbed Open
It Must Be Jelly
(Cause Jam Dont Shake Like That) Band; arr GW
Night and Day AM
Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider TB; arr BM
Embraceable You

SSC-11-2-2
Tuxedo Junction arr JG
It Couldnt Be True (Or Could it?) TB-LL-CC
Song of the Volga Boatmen arr BF
More Than You Know LL
Lover
Dubbed Close

Wednesday, September 11, 1946, 11:30 p.m.-Midnight
Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood (CBS)
Sustaining Broadcast (KNX)

CBS-510, VJC-1039

Try A Little Tenderness AM
The Woodchuck Song TB-LL-CC; arr NL
Theres A Small Hotel Strings
Blue Skies arr JG
Dont Be A Baby, Baby LL-CC
Troop Movement (Tail End Charlie) cm/arr BF
Moonlight Serenade (close)

%#
TEX BENEKE WITH THE MILLER ORCHESTRA

Thursday, September 12, 1946
RCA Victor Studios, 1016 N. Sycamore Ave., Hollywood

D6-VB-2153-1
STAR DUST
(Mitchell Parish-Hoagy Carmichael)

D6-VC-5627-1A
RCA 1947 Christmas Disc
7

(LP) RCA Camden CAL-316; (CD) BMG DMC-12173
STAR DUST
(Mitchell Parish-Hoagy Carmichael)

D6-VB-2154-1
FALLING LEAVES
(Mack David-Frankie Carle)

7
D6-VC-5627-1A verified by Karl Pearson

%$
Friday, September 13, 1946, 4:40-5:00 p.m. PDT
Erskine Johnson Show
KHJ Studios, Los Angeles, California (Mutual-Don Lee)
Erskine Johnson, host

Johnson interviews Tex Beneke R

Friday, September 13, 1946, 11:15 -11:30 p. m.
Sustaining broadcast (KNX)

CBS-511, VJC-1039

If You Were the Only Girl AM
Juke Box Saturday Night TB-LL-CC; arr BC-JG
Anvil Chorus arr JG

%%
D 9-17-46

B-B27-3, AFRS-774

SC-10-26-1
Dubbed Open
Blue Skies arr JG
If You Were The Only Girl AM
Five Minutes More TB
Embraceable You

SC-10-26-2
The Way The Winds Blow LL
Serenade in Blue AM-LL-CC
Troop Movement (Tail End Charlie) cm/arr BF

Wednesday, September 18, 1946

D6-VB-2161-1
ANYBODYS LOVE SONG
(Al Jacobs-Paul Mann)

D6-VB-2162-1
UNCLE REMUS SAID
(From Walt Disney's "Song of the South")
(Lange-Heath-Daniel)
Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke, Lillian Lane and Vocal Group
8

8
The vocal group for Uncle Remus Said is the Crew Chiefs.

%&


D6-VB-2164-1
9

STORMY WEATHER (KEEPS RAININ ALL THE TIME)
(Ted Koehler-Harold Arlen)
Ralph Wilkinson arrangement

D6-VB-2165-1
HMV AVL-3025 (Argentina)
10

THESE FOOLISH THINGS (REMIND ME OF YOU)
(Link-Marvell-Strachey)
Henry Mancini arrangement

D6-VB-2166-1
8

BODY AND SOUL
(Heyman-Sour-Eaton-Green)

D6-VB-2167-1
11

THE MAN I LOVE
(Ira and George Gershwin)

9
Body and Soul and Stormy Weather carry the artist credit Tex Beneke with the Miller
Orchestra.
10
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) was not issued in the USA.
11
The artist credit on label of The Man I Love was Tex Beneke and his Orchestra. The
recording was not issued until late 1948.

%'
September 1946

AFRS-597

SUR-9-21-2
U 64472

All Through the Day AM
The Woodchuck Song CC; arr NL
Here We Go Again cm/arr JG
Dubbed Close

September 1946

Tex Beneke Message To His Parents

Private Recording R

Tex Beneke recorded a message for his parents on the reverse side of his copy
of the September 3, 1946 Erskine Johnson Show disc, using his personal disc
cutter. The band is at the Palladium and Tex is planning to visit Helen Miller
during the next few days and mentions that Life Magazine is taking photos at the
Palladium for an upcoming spread.

Wednesday-Friday, September 25-27, 1946, Film Recording Sessions

Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra
Directed by Will Cowan

Universal Studios
3900 Lankershim Boulevard
Lankershim (North Hollywood), California

Chattanooga Choo Choo TB-LL-CC
Meadowlands arr JG
Cynthias In Love CC
Little Brown Jug arr BF
Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop TB-Band

%(
Tuesday-Friday, October 1-4, 1946, Film Recording Sessions

Melody Time
Directed by Jack Scholl

RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Studios
780 Gower Street
Los Angeles, California

Moonlight Serenade
In the Mood
Medley:
Londonderry Air
Dont Be That Way
(Borrowed from Benny Goodman)
Serenade in Blue AM-CC
Some Other Time GS
The Woodchuck Song TB-CC; arr NL

%)
Wednesday, October 2, 1946, 11:15 p.m.-11:45 p.m.

CBS-512, VJC-1039

Jeep Jockey Jump cm/arr JG
Anybodys Love Song AM
I Got The Sun In The Morning TB-LL-CC
Come Rain or Come Shine LL
Here We Go Again cm/arr JG

Wednesday, October 2, 1946, 11:45 p.m.-Midnight

CBS-513, VJC-1039

Texas Tex cm/arr BF
Cynthias in Love AM-LL-CC
I Hear You Screamin cm/arr GW-JG

&+
September-October 1946
Palladium-Ballroom Caf, Hollywood
D 10-10-46

B-B6-5, B-B10-1, AFRS-498

SSC 11-16-1
You Are Too Beautiful AM
The Man I Love

SSC 11-16-2
Passe LL
(Ive Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo TB-LL-CC
I Dont Know Why (I Just Do) LL-CC

This program is identified by AFRS as being broadcast October 10. The band
closed at the Hollywood Palladium October 7. This broadcast actually dates from
sometime before October 7.


AFRS-780

SUR 11-1-6
U 69896
D 8439

Blue Skies arr JG
You Are Too Beautiful AM

&*

AFRS-781

SUR 11-25-4
U 71954

Surrender AM
My Melancholy Baby arr BF
Cynthias In Love AM-LL-CC


AFRS-589

SUR 12-2-4
U 72550

Surrender AM

(Incomplete)

Tuesday, October 8 Wednesday, October 8, 1946
Days Off

Thursday, October 10, 1946
Balboa, California
Dance

Friday, October 11 Sunday, October 13, 1946
Mission Beach Ballroom, San Diego, California
Dances

Monday, October 14, 1946
Day Off

Tuesday, October 15, 1946
San Bernardino, California
Dance

&"
Wednesday, October 16 Friday, October 18
Alameda, California Booking Agency
Venues Undetermined
Dances

Saturday, October 19, 1946
Sacramento, California
Dance

Sunday, October 20, 1946
Alameda, California Booking Agency
Venue Undetermined
Dance

Day Off

Tuesday, October 22 Wednesday, October 28, 1946
Million Dollar Theatre, Los Angeles, California
Stage Shows


Kutner & Kutner, Inc., 646 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill.

No details have been located regarding this session.

Day Off

&#


Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Bobby Nichols, Jack Steele, Whitey Thomas, Graham
Young (tp); John Halliburton, Jimmy Priddy, Bob Pring, Paul Tanner (tb); John
Graas (fh); Stanley Aaronson, Vince Carbone (ts); Freddy Guerra (cl/as), Sol
LIbero (cl/as/fl); Manny Thaler (as/bar); Gene Bergen, Phil Cogliano, Earl
Cornwall, Norman Forrest, Stan Harris, Jaspar Hornyak, Joseph Kowalewski,
Stan Kraft, Richard Motylinski, Carl Ottobrino, Gene Shepard, Michael Vislocky
(strings); Henry Mancini (p/arr); Bobby Joe Gibbons (g); Roland Bundock (b);
Jack Sperling (dr); Garry Stevens, the Mello Larks: Tommy Hamm, Jack
Bierman, Bob Smith and Ginny OConnor (voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray,
Norman Leyden (arr)

Stevens (voc) replaces Malvin; The Mello Larks (voc) replace The Crew Chiefs;
Lane (voc) leaves the band and is not replaced. Steele (tp) replaces Steck (tp-
voc).

The Billboard, October 26, 1946

Beneke May Go Air Wax; Ork Changes

New York, Oct. 19 Tex Beneke-Glenn Miller orchestra is cutting an audition
transcription in Hollywood Thursday (24) for a proposed canned half-hour air
show. Nationally known magazine may sponsor the 39-week series. Excuse for
the use of the transcription gimmick is that ork booking schedules would not have
to be shuffled in order to make room for either effort. Don Haynes, bands
manager, is flying to the coast today to supervise the cutting and editing of the
audition disk.

Current Beneke vocal group, Crew Chiefs, will drop out in favor of Mello Larks, a
newly organized three boy and one girl group. Exit of the Crew group means
loss of Artie Malvin and Lillian Lane, who had split vocal chores with Beneke, and
trumpeter Steve Steck, who doubled as part of the vocal group. Garry Stevens,
Spivak vocalist of several years back, coming in to replace Malvin. Jack Steele,
of the Glenn Miller AEF orchestra and recently with Ray McKinley, coming in to
replace Steck, and there will be no replacement for the Lane chirp at the
moment.

&$

The Mello Larks

The Mello Larks were a three male, one female vocal group. The group got
together in Southern California during early 1946 with Tommy Hamm, Jack
Bierman, Bob Smith and girl singer Lee Stayner. Sam Kerner managed them.
Their early bookings were in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. When Stayners
husband was discharged from the Army she opted to drop out of the group. Lee
Joan Loree (Lorry) replaced her.

In early October 1946 Hollywood agent and former Glenn Miller advance man
Bullets Durgom told Kerner that the Crew Chiefs were leaving Tex Beneke.
Bullets asked if the Mello Larks were interested in replacing the Crew Chiefs.
The Mello Larks auditioned, were offered the job and were hired immediately.
Recently hired arranger and pianist Henry Mancini was tasked by Beneke to
rehearse and supervise the new vocal quartet.
12

The Mel-Tones, who were performing with Mel Torme, had just broken up when
Mel Torme decided to become a solo act. The Mel-Tones girl singer, Ginny
OConnor, was available and she joined The Mello Larks after they had joined the
band.
13

12
A Lifetime Spent Doing What I Loved To Do, Thomas L. Hamm, iUniverse, Lincoln,
NE 2008
13
Henry Mancini, Reinventing Film Music, John Capps, Univ. of Illinois Press, 2012

&%
Wednesday, October 30, 1946

The band opened at the RKO Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, California.

Wednesday, October 30 Tuesday, November 5, 1946
RKO Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco, California
Stage Shows

Wednesday, November 6 Thursday, November 7, 1946
Travel from San Francisco to Omaha

Friday, November 8 Thursday, November 14, 1946
Orpheum Theatre, Omaha, Nebraska
Stage Shows

Friday, November 15, 1946
Undetermined Venue
Booked by Eldridge King, New York

Saturday, November 16, 1946
Crystal City, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sunday, November 17, 1946
Day Off

Monday, November 18, 1946
Municipal Auditorium, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Stage Show

Tuesday, November 19, 1946
The Plantation (New Casino, Inc.), Dallas, Texas
Dance

Wednesday, November 20 Thursday, November 21, 1946
Houston, Texas
Dances

Friday, November 22, 1946
Austin, Texas
Dance

Saturday, November 23, 1946
Houston, Texas
Dance

&&

Sunday, November 24, 1946
New Orleans, Louisiana
Dance

Monday, November 25, 1946
Day Off

Tuesday, November 26 Wednesday, November 27, 1946
Matz Hotel, Bluefield, West Virginia

Thursday, November 28, 1946
The Hippodrome, Nashville, Tennessee

Friday, November 29 Saturday, November 30, 1946

Sunday, December 1, 1946
Day Off

Monday, December 2 Thursday, December 5, 1946

Friday, December 6 Saturday, December 7, 1946
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Dances

Sunday, December 8, 1946
Day Off

Monday, December 9, 1946
Norfolk, Virginia
Dance

Tuesday, December 10, 1946
Richmond, Virginia
Dance

Wednesday, December 11, 1946
Baltimore, Maryland
Dance

&'
December 1946, WOR Program Service, Inc.
1440 Broadway, New York
Recording Sessions

Saturday, December 14, 1946

Possibly from one of the WOR Recording Sessions:
1947 March of Dimes Recording
Gordon Frasier, announcer

Matrix YTNY 6712-1
Reverse side is by Walter Pigeon and Basil OConnor

Uncle Remus Said TB-GO-ML
Falling Leaves
Somewhere in the Night GS

Tex Beneke is announced as the National Chairman of the Dance Band Leaders
Division of the March of Dimes (Glenn Miller was National Chairman in 1942).

The disc label is a Columbia Records Blue Electronic Transcription. Two play
dates are handwritten on the label: 1-28-47 and 1-30-47. The label copy reads:

1947 MARCH OF DIMES
Presents
TEX BENEKE and the GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA
Start Outside
Broadcast between Jan. 15-30 Only
Howard J. Landon, Radio Director
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.
(Destroy After Campaign)
Recorded in accordance with N A B Standards
This electronic transcription licensed only for radio broadcasting
RECORDED AND PRESSED BY
COLUMBIA RECORDING CORPORATION
A SUBSIDIARY OF COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC.
NEW YORK BRIDGEPORT HOLLYWOOD - CHICAGO

&(
Thursday, December 12, 1946

The band opened at the 400 Restaurant, New York

RCA Victor Studios, 155 E. 24th St., New York
14

D6-VB-3499-1
SPEAKING OF ANGELS
(Bennie Benjamin-George Weiss)
Vocal refrain by Garry Stevens

D6-VB-3500-1
MY HEART IS A HOBO
(From the Paramount picture "Welcome Stranger")
(Johnny Burke-James Van Heusen)
Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke and The Mello Larks

D6-VB-3501-1
AS LONG AS IM DREAMING
(From the Paramount picture "Welcome Stranger")
(Johnny Burke-James Van Heusen)

D6-VB-3502-1
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A DIFFERENT STORY
(Prince-Rogers-Addy)
Vocal refrain by Garry Stevens and the Mello Larks

14
Possibly recorded at RCA Victor Studio #1.

&)

15

D6-VB-3543-1
HOODLE ADDLE
(Ray McKinley)
Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke and The Mello Larks

D6-VB-3544-1
ANNIVERSARY SONG
(From the Columbia picture The Jolson Story
(Based on a theme by Ivanovici)
(AL Jolson-Saul Chaplin)
Vocal refrain by Garry Stevens and The Mello Larks

15
Possibly recorded at RCA Victor Studio #1.

'+
"The Billboard" December 28, 1946

ON THE STAND - Reviews of Orchestras Playing Hotels, Night Club and
Ballroom Locations and One Nighters

TEX BENEKE

Reviewed at the 400 Restaurant, New York, December 17. Personal
Management, Don W. Haynes, Booked by General Amusement Corporation.

Nat Moss, 400 Restaurant operator, calls the Tex Beneke ork the greatest band
in America today. That may or may not be true, but certainly it is physically the
largest band with its 36 members, musically one of the more meticulous and
commercially one of the hottest outfits in the band biz. Use of the late Glenn
Miller's name in billing also has helped to establish the ork as one of the top
moneymakers of the past year.

Beneke's is a band that impresses before it is heard. He crams a small-sized
symphony onto the bandstand, seating them behind cleverly designed Plexiglas
music stands. The band looks as clean as it plays, and it definitely plays clean.
Playing an evening of music dominated by ballads three-to-one, the band is
gradually moving away from the style that Glenn Miller made the most easily
identifiable sound in the band biz. The new arrangements, especially the ballads,
are scored with a heavy emphasis on the strings, which abet the less frequent
Miller scorings for sax. The clarinet-led section shows on the older Miller
arrangements that still are in the new band's book. The net result of the gradual
switch gives the Beneke arrangements a full, rich sound (editor's note: the
reviewer evidently did not grasp the evolution of the Miller library from 1942
through 1946 and the AAF Orchestra; what he was hearing bore very much
resemblance to the direction GM had taken in uniform). Beneke took a tough
assignment when he was chosen to replace Miller at the front of the band, and
her performs his chores more than adequately. Plays one of the best tenor
saxes in the biz, is a personable singer of novelty and rhythm tunes and mingles
freely with the customers dispensing autographs and chatter.

'*
Beneke review, continued

Everything this band tries reflects the good taste and precision that were Miller
identifications. Choice of material is particularly effective, with heavy
concentration on pretty standards such as "Someone To Watch Over Me,
"Yesterdays, "Sweet Lorraine" and "It Had To Be You, scored for muted brass
and strings. Band plays smart arrangements of today's top plugs and spices the
evening with an occasional light jumper or rhythm novelty featuring the Mello
Larks vocal quartet.

The vocal department is perhaps the strongest commercial attraction. In Garry
Stevens, old-time Spivak crooner, and Beneke, it boasts a rock-ribbed
foundation. Stevens is singing better than he did with Spivak and is particularly
effective against the lush string backgrounds. Mello Larks, three boys and a girl
combination, recently joined the band and have done a phenomenal job of
learning the book, which is loaded with work for the group. Ginny O'Connor,
formerly of Mel Torme's Meltones, comes down front to solo on pop tunes and
tho she still seems on pop uncertain, she sells her songs well. Gal dresses well
and looks same. Except for Beneke's occasional sax spots and an infrequent
Bobby Nichols trumpet solo, the band plays mostly unison section scores. Saxes
boast a fine leader in Freddy Guerra; brass is A-1, especially on muted stuff;
rhythm section keeps well-selected tempos while 13 strings make a terrific
section to work with. Arranger Norman Leyden is responsible for most of the
band's new scores. Pianist Henry Mancini added his contributions top
complement the old Miller and Jerry Gray scores that round out the ork's book.

Band's handling is entitled to the same praise that its music rates. Personal
manager Don Haynes has won innumerable friends among spot operators, which
showed to advantage in the returns for the band's first year of existence. Beneke
is top drawer booking material at General Amusement Corporation and his dates
are carefully selected. Ork's RCA-Victor waxing pact contributes to its box office
value. The only factor that casts doubt over the band's future is its tremendous
$6,000 weekly payroll. Ork has been asking and getting $3,000 for one-nighters,
will not do locations for less than its payroll figure and has been receiving equally
fabulous rates for theatre dates. With today's trend toward smaller more
inexpensive orks beginning to pick up steam throughout the country, one must
wonder if ops will be willing to chance the Beneke kind of money six months from
now. Beneke management says the band will stay at present size and will go for
its current prices for the present. The ork is booked solid into April.

'"
4. 1947 Chronology


Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Marshall Hutchins, Bobby Nichols, Jack Steele, Whitey
Thomas (tp); John Halliburton, Jimmy Priddy, Bob Pring, Paul Tanner (tb); John
Bierman, Bob Smith and Ginny OConnor (voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Norman
Leyden (arr)

Marshall Hutchins (tp) replaces Graham Young

January 1947
400 Restaurant, New York

B-B27-4, B-1352-1, AFRS-790

(SSC 7-8-1)
Pigeon Talk arr HM
This is the Night GS
Hoodle Addle TB-ML
Among My Souvenirs

(SSC 7-8-2)
The Old Lamp-Lighter GS
Uncle Remus Said TB-ML
Anniversary Song GS-ML
Years and Years Ago

'#
Saturday, January 25, 1947, 3:30-3:45 p. m. EST
Treasury Bandstand (CBS) (WCBS)
16

CBS Studios or the Capitol Theatre, New York
George Bryan, announcer
(Partial)

Sonata GS
Years and Years Ago

Saturday, February 1, 1947, 3:30-3:45 p. m. EST
Treasury Bandstand (CBS) (WCBS)
CBS Studios or the Capitol Theatre, New York
George Bryan, announcer
(Partial)

Medley:
Dont Be That Way arr JG
Rhapsody in Blue (blue tune)
Yesterdays

16
The call letters of CBS flagship station WABC, New York (880 kc.) were changed to
WCBS November 2, 1946.

'$

Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Tony Ahnelli, Bobby Nichols, Jack Steele, Whitey
Thomas (tp); Jimmy Priddy, Bob Pring, Ray Wright, Paul Tanner (tb); John
Bierman, Bob Smith and Ginny OConnor (voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Norman
Leyden (arr)

Ahnelli (tp) replaces Hutchins; Wright (tb) replaces Halliburton

Tuesday, February 18, 1947

D7-VB-150-1
THE BLUES OF THE RECORD MAN
17

(Dickinson-Conway-Malvin)
Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke, Bill Conway and The Mello Larks

D7-VB-151-1
WHY DON'T WE SAY WE'RE SORRY?
(Chummy MacGregor-Harry Harris)
Vocal refrain by Garry Stevens, Tex Beneke and The Mello Larks

D7-VB-152-1
THROUGH
(How Can You Say We're Through?)
(Joe McCarthy-Jimmie Monaco)

D7-VB-153-1
MY YOUNG AND FOOLISH HEART
(Lewis-Tobias-Murray)

17
The RCA Victor record label does not credit Bill Conway.

'%

Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Conrad Gozzo, Bobby Nichols, Jack Steele, Whitey
Thomas (tp); Jimmy Priddy, Bob Pring, Paul Tanner, Ray Wright (tb); John Graas
(fh); Vince Carbone, Mike Pitkowitz (ts); Freddy Guerra, Sol LIbero (cl/as);
Manny Thaler (as/bar); Paul Callaci, Phil Cogliano, Earl Cornwall, Norman
Forrest, Stan Harris, Jaspar Hornyak, Joseph Kowalewski, Stan Kraft, Carl
Ottobrino, Gene Shepard, Michael Vislocky (str); Henry Mancini (p/arr); Bobby
Joe Gibbons (g); Roland Bundock (b); Jack Sperling (dr); Garry Stevens, the
Mello Larks: Tommy Hamm, Jack Bierman, Bob Smith and Ginny OConnor
(voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Norman Leyden (arr)

Gozzo (tp) replaces Ahnelli; Pinkowitz (ts) replaces Aaronson; Callaci, Ottobrino
(strings) replace Bergen, Motylinski

Monday, February 24, 1947, 7:00-7:15 EDT and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EST
Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (WNBC)
Ben Grauer, announcer
Marion Hutton, guest host
Tex Beneke, guest
Helen Carroll, The Satisfyers, Lloyd Shaffer Orchestra

The Best Man MH-TS
Old Rockin Chair HC
Hoodle Addle TB
Incidental Music
Commercial
Pity The Poor Lobster MH

Tex Beneke appears solo on this program. Marion Hutton is guest host
substituting for Perry Como for the New York Chesterfield broadcasts for the
period February 24-March 14. Perry Como was on vacation in Florida (many
jokes are made in the programs about Comos golf game). He returned Monday,
March 17 with Hutton as a guest on that program.

Hutton comments that Beneke is appearing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra at the
Adams Theatre in Newark.

The guest for the March 3 program was ex-AAF singer Johnny Desmond.

'&

Monday, March 10, 1947
18

D7-VB-635-1
(P 183-1)
THE SWEETHEART OF SIGMA CHI
(Byron D. Stokes-F. Dudleigh Vernor)

D7-VB-636-1
(P 183-3)
ALMA MATER-Cornell
H. S. Thompson (cm, late 1850s as Annie Lisle); Wilmot M. Smith, Archibald C.
Weeks (lyr, circa 1870)
19

D7-VB-637-1
20

MOONLIGHT SERENADE
(Glenn Miller)

D7-VB-638-1
SUNRISE SERENADE
(Frankie Carle)

18
The probable location for this session is RCA Studio #1.
19
The RCA Victor record label lists the composer credit as Traditional.
20
The reissue of D7-VB-637-1 on RCA Victor 20-2932-B (P 217-2) shows artist credit as
"Tex Beneke and his Orchestra" and the label also notes: "(Tex Beneke's theme song)"
(See Analog Media).

''
Monday, March 10, 1947, 7:00-7:15 EDT and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EST
Ben Grauer, announcer
Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra, guest orchestra

Chesterfield Jingle (A-B-C) (open)
Smoke Dreams (theme) ML
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah MH
Moonlight Serenade (partial)
Medley:
Moonlight Serenade (old)
A Gal In Calico (new) ML
Anniversary Song
(Borrowed from Al Jolson) GS-ML
Blue Skies (blue)
Nora Prentiss (incidental) ML
Commercial
Smoke Dreams (incidental)
Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol Me) TB-MH
Smoke Dreams (close)

Frankie Carle and his orchestra appear with Jo Stafford from Hollywood the
following evening, March 11, 1947. These programs are a preview of the bands
that would replace Perry Como and Jo Stafford for the 13-week 1947 Chesterfield
summer radio season. During this period, Como appeared Monday, Wednesday
and Friday from New York and Stafford appeared Tuesday and Thursday from
Hollywood. The formal decision about the summer replacements was
announced to the press in April 1947 (see following article).

'(
The Billboard, April 26, 1947

BENEKE, CARLE PACE SUMMER ORK TREK BACK TO AIRWAVES

New York (April 18) Tex Beneke and Frankie Carle orks have been signed as
alternative summer replacements on the daily National Broadcasting Company
Chesterfield 7 O Clock show. Orks will tee off June 9 with Beneke drawing the
Monday, Wednesday and Friday sessions and Carle scheduled for the Tuesday
and Thursday segments. Beneke will do his Monday and Wednesday
broadcasts from New York with the Friday airings due to emanate from wherever
the ork may be booked. Carles shots are scheduled to originate from the west
coast. Pact, negotiated by Tom Rockwell, General Artists Corporation prexy with
the Newell-Emmett Agency, runs for 13 weeks without options.

Further confirmation of earlier stories that summer would return ork names to
commercial air shows had former orkster Woody Herman cutting out from his
part-time disk jockey activities on the Al Jarvis Saturday ayem KLAC airer to
devote full time to his recording activities and his forthcoming air show. Herman
will have a summer replacement air show co-featuring thrush Peggy Lee and
Dave Barbours ork. Package will sub for the Phil Spitalny stanza.

This weeks orkster ether activities may herald the end of a hiatus in which
outside of a handful of bands (Carmen Cavallaro, Sammy Kaye, Vaughn Monroe
and Guy Lombardo) virtually no pop crews have rated sponsored radio airtime.

')
Wednesday, May 14, 1947, 7:00-7:15 EDT and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EST
Norm Brokenshire, announcer
Tex Beneke, guest
Helen Carroll, The Satisfyers, Lloyd Shaffer Orchestra

Chesterfield Jingle (A-B-C) (open)
Smoke Dreams (theme)
Managua, Nicaragua HC-TS
The Whiffenpoof Song (Baa! Baa! Baa!) HC-TS
Tex Beneke-Marion Hutton dialogue
Hoodle Addle TB
The Sidewalks of New York (incidental)
Commercial
Exactly Like You TB, ts

Tex Benekes June 9 date for taking over the program is promoted.

Marion Hutton substituted for Perry Como May 12 and May 14.

Como was ill.

(+

Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Conrad Gozzo, Bobby Nichols, Jack Steele, Whitey
(fh); Vince Carbone, Mike Pitkowitz (ts); Stanley Aaronson, Sol LIbero (cl/as);
Manny Thaler (as/bar); Paul Callaci, Phil Cogliano, Earl Cornwall, Norman
Forrest, Stan Harris, Jaspar Hornyak, Joseph Kowalewski, Stan Kraft, Carl
Ottobrino, Gene Shepard, Michael Vislocky (str); Henry Mancini (p/arr); Bobby
Joe Gibbons (g); Roland Bundock (b); Jack Sperling (dr); Garry Stevens, the
Mello Larks: Tommy Hamm, Jack Bierman, Bob Smith and Ginny OConnor
(voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Norman Leyden (arr)

Aaronson (as) replaces Guerra

Thursday, May 15, 1947, 11:30 p. m. 12:00 a. m. EDT
Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, New York (CBS) (WCBS)
Olin Tynes, announcer (Sustaining)
(Partial)

Mamselle GS
My Heart is A Hobo TB-MS
Yesterdays
Why Dont We Say That Were Sorry? TB-GS-ML
Speaking of Angels GS
Carioca arr PB

Shep Fields had recently purchased the Glen Island Casino.

(*

D7-VB-904-1
(P 183-8)
NOTRE DAME VICTORY MARCH
(Notre Dame University Song)
(John Shea)
Jerry Gray arrangement

D7-VB-905-1
(P 183-7)
ON WISCONSIN!
(University of Wisconsin Song)
(Carl Beck-W. T. Purdy)

D7-VB-906-1
(P 183-2)
WASHINGTON AND LEE SWING
(Allen-Robbins-Sheafe)

("

D7-VB-907-1
21

Unissued
SOONER OR LATER
From the 1946 Walt Disney film Song of the South
(Charles Wolcott-Ray Gilbert)

D7-VB-908-1
19

Unissued
SOME OTHER TIME
From the 1944 RKO Radio film Step Lively
(Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn)

21
The identification of the songs on these unissued sides requires verification from Sony
Music Entertainment as is the designation of Take 1.

(#

D7-VB-909-1
(P 183-6)
ANCHORS AWEIGH
(The Song of The Navy)
(A. H. Miles)

D7-VB-910-1
(P 183-4)
THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU
(John Lang Sinclair)
Vocal refrain by The Moonlight Serenaders with Tex Beneke

D7-VB-911-1
22

Rejected
(IM A) RAMBLING WRECK FROM GEORGIA TECH
(Frank Romen)

D7-VB-912-1
WITHOUT MUSIC
(Eddie DeLange-Louis Alter)
Vocal refrain by The Moonlight Serenaders

22
The designation of Take 1 for D7-VB-911 is pending verification from Sony Music
Entertainment.

($


D7-VB-911-2
23

(P 183-5)
(IM A) RAMBLING WRECK FROM GEORGIA TECH
(Frank Romen)

D7-VB-925-1
24

Unissued (Rejected)
HOW CAN I SAY I LOVE YOU
(Loeb-Harris-Cohen)
Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke, Garry Stevens and The Moonlight Serenaders

D7-VB-926-1
25

Unissued (Rejected)
FEUDIN' AND FIGHTIN'
(Al Dubin-Burton Lane)
Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke and The Moonlight Serenaders

D7-VB-927-1
WHEN THE SUMMER IS GONE
(Monte Whilhite-Charlie Harrison)
Vocal refrain by Garry Stevens and The Moonlight Serenaders

23
Entertainment.
24
Entertainment.
25
Entertainment.

(%


D7-VB-925-2
26

(Loeb-Harris-Cohen)
Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke, Garry Stevens and The Moonlight Serenaders

D7-VB-926-2
27

FEUDIN' AND FIGHTIN'
(Al Dubin-Burton Lane)

26
The designation of Take 2 for D7-VB-925 is pending verification from Sony
Music Entertainment.
27
The designation of Take 2 for D7-VB-926 is pending verification from Sony
Music Entertainment.

(&
The Chesterfield Supper Club

In April 1947 manager Don Haynes and agency chief Tom Rockwell reached an
agreement with the Newell-Emmett advertising agency and Liggett and Myers
Tobacco Company for Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra to appear as a
summer replacement for Perry Como on the NBC Chesterfield Supper Club.
This program was the direct descendant of the Glenn Miller Chesterfield
Moonlight Serenade that aired over CBS from 1939 to 1942. During this period
the Chesterfield Supper Club was broadcast Monday through Friday at 7:00-7:15
p. m. and 11:00-11:15 p.m. p. m. Eastern Time. Como appeared from New York
Monday, Wednesday and Friday with Helen Carroll, the Satisfyers vocal group
and the Lloyd Shaffer Orchestra. Jo Stafford appeared Tuesday and Thursday
from Hollywood with the Starlighters and the Paul Weston Orchestra. The
regular New York announcer was Ben Grauer. He was replaced by Chicago
deejay Eddie Hubbard for the summer. The regular Hollywood announcer was
former WNEW Make Believe Ballroom host Martin Block who remained for the
summer. For 1947, Frankie Carle and his Orchestra were signed as the summer
replacement for Jo Stafford and appeared from Hollywood. Beneke appeared
from New York except Fridays when he was allowed to air the program from on
the road. In this manner Haynes was able to salvage the summer road schedule
while accepting the lucrative (and to this point elusive) network commercial radio
slot. The summer series started Monday, June 9, 1947 and ran to Friday,
September 5, 1947. The 13-week series contained 39 broadcasts. One Monday
program emanated from Detroit. Mich. Tex Beneke commercial dialogue repeats
many of the exact same lines used by Glenn Miller in 1941 and 1942 such as
you know what I always say, everybody who smokes em likes em. This was in
part because Newell-Emmett executive Larry Bruff was again responsible for the
program as he had been for the original Glenn Miller program. On August 15,
1947, the band broadcast from near the Durham, North Carolina home of
Chesterfield Cigarettes. During these programs, the band is clearly identified as
Tex and the GMO and the scripts are all Miller all the time (a heavy emphasis
on the Glenn Miller and Army Air Force lineage of the band). Tex Beneke played
Sunrise Serenade Mondays and Wednesdays as a closing theme and Frankie
Carle likewise played Moonlight Serenade to close his programs Tuesdays and
Thursdays.

The 1947 Chesterfield slogan was A-B-C. On July 2, 1947, the traditional four-
tune old, new, borrowed and blue medleys were trimmed to three A-B-C tunes
for the purposes of the Chesterfield Supper Club broadcasts. Medleys were
broadcast on Wednesday or medley night. The Chesterfield slogans broadcast
by the band included:

--- (A)lways Milder --- (B)etter Tasting --- (C)ooler Smoking
--- (A)lways --- (B)uy --- (C)hesterfields

('
Monday, June 9, 1947, 7:00-7:15 EDT and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT
Eddie Hubbard, announcer

Chesterfield Open
Moonlight Serenade (theme)
The Blues of the Record Man TB-MS
My Buddy
Mamselle GS
Commercial
In The Mood

Your Date with Deb Broadcast

(10 acetate)

Blue Skies arr JG

Wednesday, June 11, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
My Heart Is A Hobo TB-MS
Medley:
In An Eighteenth Century
Drawing Room arr RW
The Man Who Paints The Rainbow
In The Sky GS-MS
Dont Be That Way
Blue Moon arr BF
Commercial
Why Dont We Say Were Sorry? GS-MS
Sunrise Serenade (Carle theme) (close) arr BF

((
Friday, June 13, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT
Frank Daileys Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey

Chesterfield Open (open)
Hoodle Addle TB-MS
At Last GS; arr BF-JG
Commercial
Meadowlands arr JG

Monday, June 16, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
Anniversary Song GS-MS
Senorita arr NL
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Commercial
Sunrise Serenade (full version) (close) arr BF


Chesterfield Open
Linda GS
Medley:
Long, Long Ago
Everybody and His Brother TB
Cherokee (Indian Love Song) arr JG
(Borrowed from Charlie Barnet)
My Blue Heaven
Commercial
Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume TB-Band

()
Friday, June 20, 1947, 7:00-7:15 EDT and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT
The Totem Pole, Norumbega Park
Auburn-on-the-Charles (Newton), Massachusetts
Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (WBZ)

Chesterfield Open
Too Late TB-Band
Serenade in Blue GS-MS
Tosellis Serenade
Commercial
Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin All The Time) arr RW

Monday, June 23, 1947, 7:00-7:15 p. m. and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
Feudin and Fightin TB-MS
As Long As Im Dreaming GS
Commercial
Stella By Starlight

AFRS Supper Club 612

B-B30-2, AFRS-884

Dubbed AFRS Open
Stella By Starlight

)+
Auburndale-on-the-Charles (Newton), Mass.

Chesterfield Open
Gotta Get Me Somebody To Love TB-MS
Medley:
Largo (Goin Home)
My Young And Foolish Heart GS
Things Aint What They Used To Be arr PB
(Borrowed from Duke Ellington)
Wabash Blues arr JG
Commercial
How Can I Say I Love You TB-GS-MS

Friday, June 27, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT
Auburndale-on-the-Charles (Newton), Mass.

Chesterfield Open
Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider TB-Band; arr BM
Its the Same Old Dream GS-MS
Commercial
Star Dust

)*
Monday, June 30, 1947, 7:00-7:15 EDT and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
Midnight Masquerade GS
Commercial
Chattanooga Choo Choo TB-MS
Bagatelle arr HM
Sunrise Serenade (Carle Theme) (close) arr BF

Wednesday, July 2, 1947, 7:00-7:15 EDT and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
I May Be Wrong TB-MS
(But, I Think Youre Wonderful)
Medley (A-B-C format):
Its A Wonderful World
I Wish I Didnt Love You So GS
Bye Bye Blues arr JG
Commercial
Without Music TB-MS
Sunset Serenade (Carle theme) (close)

Friday, July 4, 1947, 7:00-7:15 EDT and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT
Ashbury Park, N. J.

Chesterfield Open
Body and Soul arr RW
In My Merry Oldsmobile TB-MS
Ask Anyone Who Knows GS
Commercial

)"
Monday, July 7, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
Summertime
Old Devil Moon GS
Commercial

Wednesday, July 9, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
Moonlight Serenade (Theme)
Medley:
Peg O My Heart GS
Smoke Rings
Wang-Wang Blues
Commercial
Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume TB-MS

Friday, July 11, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT
Dorney Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Chesterfield Supper Club, (NBC) (WNBC)

Chesterfield Open
Hoodle Addle TB
Adios arr JG
I Had A Wonderful Time In Columbus TB-MS
Commercial
Mamselle GS
Moonlight Serenade (theme) (close)

)#

B-B30-1, AFRS-885

Dubbed AFRS Open
Hoodle Addle TB
Adios arr JG
I Had A Wonderful Time In Columbus TB-MS
Mamselle GS


Chesterfield Open
The Man Who Paints The Rainbow
In The Sky GS-MS
Commercial
(Ive Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo TB-MS
Surprise Symphony arr HM


Chesterfield Open
Too Late TB-Band; arr PB
Medley:
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
My Young And Foolish Heart GS
Farewell Blues
Commercial
Why Dont We Say Were Sorry GS-MS

)$

Probably June 13, 1947

Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (KYW)

Chesterfield Open
The Echo Said No GS-MS
Moonlight Serenade (complete)
Commercial
Holiday for Strings arr JG

)%
Saturday, July 19, 1947, AFRS Recording Session
AFRS Heres To Veterans 53
NBC Studios, Radio City, New York

ND7-MM-6721-2
AD 30 8915 B-1-T-2 DVA 7-19-47

In My Merry Oldsmobile TB
Smoke Dreams (few bars to medley)
Medley:
Long, Long Ago
Everybody and His Brother TB
Cherokee (Indian Love Song)
My Blue Heaven
In The Mood
Moonlight Serenade and Smoke Dreams (close)

Reverse is Alec Templeton (Program 54)
Play date handwritten on the label: WFOX 8/23


Chesterfield Open
Commercial
Carioca arr PB

)&

AFRS-833

SS 8-3-6
D-17419

Dubbed AFRS Open
Carioca arr PB
Serenade In Blue (Dubbed) GS-MS
(Probably 47-06-20)
Dubbed AFRS Close


Chesterfield Open
Tomorrow
Medley:
In The Gloaming
Ivy GS-MS
Blue Rain arr BF
Commercial
Why Dont We Say Were Sorry? GS-MS

Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (WWJ)

Chesterfield Open
Commercial
Sweet Lorraine GS
Cherokee (Indian Love Song) arr JG

)'
Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (WWJ)

Chesterfield Open
If My Heart Had A Window GS
Everybody and His Brother TB-MS
Commercial
Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume


AFRS-829

Dubbed AFRS Open
If My Heart Had a Window GS
Everybody and His Brother TB-MS
Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume
In My Merry Oldsmobile (Dubbed)
Dubbed AFRS Close


Chesterfield Open
On, Wisconsin! arr JG
Medley:
Yesterdays
Dont Tell Me GS
Deep Purple
Commercial
Without Music MS

)(
Friday, August 1, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT
Moonlight Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio
Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (WLW)

Chesterfield and Army Air Forces Open
When Johnny Comes Marching Home TB-MS; arr BF
My Buddy
Commercial
The Army Air Corps GS-MS; arr JG

The program is dedicated to Army Air Forces Day and the 40
th
anniversary of the
Army Air Forces.

Monday, August 4, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You TB-MS
Passing By GS
Commercial
Smoke Dreams MS

Wednesday, August 6, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
Pigeon Talk arr HM
Medley:
Summertime
Blue is the Night arr JG
Commercial

))

B-B30-3, AFRS-881

Dubbed AFRS Open
Pigeon Talk arr HM
Medley:
Summertime arr RW
Blue Is The Night arr JG
How Can I Say I Love You GS-MS
Sunrise Serenade arr BF

Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, New Hampshire

Chesterfield Open
Senorita
The Old Ferris Wheel GS
My Melancholy Baby TB
Commercial

*++

Monday, August 11, 1947

D7-VB-1479-1
I HAVE BUT ONE HEART ('O Marenariello)
(Marty Symes-Johnny Farrow)

D7-VB-1480-1
TOO LATE
(Perry Burgett-Kahn Keene)
Vocal refrain by Tex Beneke and Band
Perry Burgett arrangement


Chesterfield Open
(Im A) Ramblin Wreck from Georgia Tech TB-MS
Thats My Desire GS-MS
Commercial
(Ive Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo TB-MS
(with trick opening)
Stella By Starlight
Sunrise Serenade (Carle theme (close) arr BF

*+*

Chesterfield Open
The Echo Said No GS-MS
Medley:
All The Things You Are
The Heather On The Hill GS
Blue Moon arr BF
Commercial
Without Music GS-MS

Liggett and Myers Tobacco Warehouse, Wilson (Durham) N. C.
Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (WRAL)

Chesterfield Open
Carolina in the Morning
Ivy GS-MS
Commercial
Meadowlands arr JG


B-B30-4, AFRS-882

Dubbed AFRS Open
Carolina in the Morning
Ivy GS-MS
Meadowlands arr JG

*+"

Chesterfield Open
Deep Night
Every So Often GS
Commercial
Juke Box Saturday Night TB-MS; arr BC-JG
Alma Mater-Cornell


B-B30-5, AFRS-883

Dubbed AFRS Open
Every So Often GS
Juke Box Saturday Night TB-MS; arr BC-JG
Alma Mater-Cornell
Sunrise Serenade (Dubbed) arr BF
(Probably 47-06-16)

*+#

Tuesday, August 19, 1947

D7-VB-1505-1
A GIRL THAT I REMEMBER
(Stan Rhodes)

D7-VB-1506-1
SURPRISE SYMPHONY
(Haydn Adapted by Rayburn Wright)


Chesterfield Open
When Summer Is Gone GS-MS
Medley:
Long, Long Ago
If My Heart Had A Window GS
(What Did I Do To Be So)
Black and Blue
Commercial
Tomorrow GS-MS

*+$
Waldermeer Park, Erie, Pennsylvania
Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (WERC)

Chesterfield Open
Peg O My Heart
Commercial
Laura GS


Chesterfield Open
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi GS
Commercial
I Have But One Heart ('O Marenariello) GS-MS


Chesterfield Open
Ask Anyone Who Knows GS
Medley:
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
Lazy Countryside TB
I Get The Blues When It Rains
Commercial
Senorita

*+%
Lewiston, Maine
Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (WCSH)

Chesterfield Open
Dont Be That Way
Commercial

Monday, September 1, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
A Girl That I Remember GS
Washington and Lee Swing
Commercial
Serenade in Blue GS-MS
Hallelujah!

Wednesday, September 3, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT

Chesterfield Open
Casanova Cricket
Medley:
Yesterdays
Dont Tell Me GS
(Im Left with the) Blues In My Heart
Commercial

*+&
Monday, September 5, 1947, 7:00-7:15 and 11:00-11:15 p.m. EDT
Frank Palumbos Click, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (KYW)

Chesterfield Open
Commercial

This is the final Tex Beneke-Glenn Miller Orchestra Supper Club program.
Perry Como returned to the series from New York Monday, September 8.
Jo Stafford returned to the series from Hollywood Tuesday, September 9.

Frank Palumbos Click, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ABC) (WFIL)
Neal Harvey, announcer (Sustaining)

ABC-31

Bagatelle arr HM
I Have But One Heart (O Marenariello) GS-MS
The Echo Said No TB
My Buddy
The Heather On The Hill GS
Carioca arr PB

Wednesday, September 7 to Wednesday, September 14, 1947
Reading Fairgrounds, Reading, Penn.
Stage Shows and Dances


Henry Mancini and Ginny OConnor were married.

*+'

Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc), Pete Candoli, Art Kern, Jack Steele, Whitey Thomas
(tp); Jimmy Priddy, Bob Pring, Paul Tanner, Ray Wright (tb); John Graas (fh);
George Benham, Vince Carbone (ts); Sol Libero, Mike Pitkowitz (cl/as), Manny
Thaler (as/bar); Phil Cogliano, Paul Collace, Earl Cornwall, Stan Harris, Jaspar
Hornyak, Stan Kraft, George Molfese, Richard Motylinski, Carl Ottobrino,
Rudolf Ridolfi, Gene Shepard, Mike Vislocky (strings); Art Wagner (p); Bobby
Gibbons (g); Roland Bundock (b); Jack Sperling (d); Garry Stevens, The
Moonlight Serenaders (voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Henry Mancini, Norman
Leyden (arr)

Candoli, Kern (tp) replace Gozzo, Nichols; Benham (ts) replaces Aaronson
(cl/as), Pitkowitz (ts) to (cl/as); Collace, Molfese and Motylinski replace Callaci,
Forrest and Kowalewski (strings)

RCA Victor Studios, 445 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

D7-VB-1052-1
BUT BEAUTIFUL
(from the Paramount film "The Road to Rio")
(Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen)
Ray Block arrangement

D7-VB-1053-1
(Gotta Get To) OKLAHOMA CITY
(Don Reed-Dan Franklin)

D7-VB-1054-1
DREAMY LULLABY
(Benjamin-Weiss-Carle)

D7-VB-1055-1
YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW THE LANGUAGE
(from the Paramount film "The Road to Rio")
(Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen)

*+(

Aragon Ballroom
Chicago, Illinois

Tex Beneke and The Glenn Miller Orchestra only played a one-night stand at the
Aragon Ballroom in Chicago the evening of Wednesday, October 1, 1947. Buddy
Moreno's orchestra was at the Aragon from September 30 to October 26, 1947;
and Eddy Howard came in on October 28. 1947.

The Chicago Tribune, September 14, 1947, page F4:

" . . . Tex Beneke will play a one nighter there (the Aragon) Oct. 1 . . . " - Will
Davidson, "Busy Week Ahead for City's Night Life Patrons."

The Chicago Tribune, September 26 1947, page E5:

" . . . On Wednesday night (October 1) Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller band
make a single appearance at the Aragon . . . " - Will Davidson, Griff Williams
returns to the Empire Room.

*+)
October 1, 1947
Musically Yours Program 289
Universal Recording Corp. Recording Session
Aragon Ballroom
1106 W. Lawrence Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Jim Gray, announcer

QCD7-MM-14128-1
I Have Bit One Heart GS-MS

Musically Yours was a transcription series sponsored by the Fifth Army. Other
bands featured in the series included Johnny Scat Davis, Orrin Tucker, Buddy
Moreno and Earl Fatha Hines.

The label copy reads:

THE FIFTH ARMY
Presents
Musically Yours
Program No. 289
Start Outside NAB Standard
33 1/3 RPM Lateral Recording
Tex Beneke Orchestra
Music in this show has been cleared at the source.
No further license required in the U. S. A.
Recorded by
Universal Recording Corp., Chicago, Illinois

**+


D7-VB-1102-1
HANKERIN
(from the Warner Brothers film Two Guys from Texas)

D7-VB-1103-1
I DONT CARE IF IT RAINS ALL NIGHT
(from the Warner Brothers film Two Guys from Texas)

D7-VB-1104-1
RCA Victor 20-2584
AN OLD SOMBRERO
(And An Old Spanish Shawl)
(Lew BrownRay Henderson)

D7-VB-1105-1
RCA Victor 20-2566
LONE STAR MOON
(Cliff Friend-Dave Franklin)
Vocal Refrain by Tex Beneke

D7-VB-1106-1
DREAM GIRL
(from the Paramount film Dream Girl)
(Jay Livingston-Ray Evans)

Session continued

***
October 27, 1947, continued

D7-VB-1107-1
MOONLIGHT WHISPERS
(Al J. Neiburg-Frankie Carle)

D7-VB-1108-1
RCA Unissued
SENORITA
(Henri Bourtayre-Maurice Vandair)

October 1947, Undocumented Source Material and Venue

AFRS-836

AUR 10-15-6
U 102659
D 19451

Pigeon Talk arr HM
Night and Day GS
Senorita arr NL
Smoke Dreams MS


AFRS-837

SUR 10-19-1
U 102750
D 19453

The Old Lamp-Lighter GS-MS
Among My Souvenirs
A Gal In Calico TB-MS; arr NL
My Buddy

**"

AFRS-838

SUR 10-29-6
U 103181
D 19579

A Gal in Calico TB-MS; arr NL


Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc), Pete Candoli, Conrad Gozzo, Jack Steele, Whitey
(fh); George Benham, Vince Carbone (ts); Sol Libero, Mike Pitkowitz (cl/as),
Manny Thaler (as/bar); Phil Cogliano, Paul Collace, Earl Cornwall, Stan Harris,
Jaspar Hornyak, Stan Kraft, George Molfese, Richard Motylinski, Carl Ottobrino,
Rudolf Ridolfi, Gene Shepard, Mike Vislocky (strings); Art Wagner (p); Bobby
Gibbons (g); Roland Bundock (b); Jack Sperling (d); Garry Stevens, The
Moonlight Serenaders (voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Henry Mancini, Norman
Leyden (arr)

Gozzo (tp) replaces Kern

**#

Thursday, November 13, 1947

D7-VB-1157-1
POINCIANA (Song of the Tree)
(Nat Simon-Buddy Bernier)
Vocal refrain by Garry Stevens and the Moonlight Serenaders

D7-VB-1158-1
EAST OF THE SUN (And West of the Moon)
(Brooks Bowman)

D7-VB-1159-1
BYE BYE BLUES
(Harm-Bennett-Lown-Gray)

D7-VB-1160-1
BLUE CHAMPAGNE
(Grady Watts-Frank Ryerson)

D7-VB-1161-1
RCA Victor 20-2837
RAMBLIN AROUND
(Don George-Lionel Newman)

**$
December 17, 1947, Film Recording Session

MGM Presents Martin Blocks Musical Merry-Go-Round

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios
10202 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, California

Directed by Jack Scholl

Tex Beneke and his Orchestra with the Moonlight Serenaders and Garry
Stevens, featuring the music of Glenn Miller

Music arrangers Norman Leyden and Perry Burgett

Released April 24, 1948
MPAA No. 12979
Moonlight Serenade
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi GS
Makin Love, Mountain Style TB-MS

Released August 30, 1948
MPAA No. 13330
Somebody Loves Me TB; arr SO

December 1947, Film Recording Session

Tex Beneke

Universal Studios

Moonlight Serenade
Over The Rainbow GS
Too Late TB
(Ive Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo TB-MS

**%

Friday, December 19, 1947

D7-VB-2710-1
BEYOND THE SEA
(From the Sensational European Hit "La Mer")
(Charles Trenet)
(English version by Jack Lawrence)

D7-VB-2711-1
AT THE FLYING "W"
(Allie Wrubel)

D7-VB-2712-1
STRANGE AND SWEET
(Michel-Fenton-Bone)

D7-VB-2713-1
MEADOWLANDS
(Russian Patrol)
(Arranged by Jerry Gray)

D7-VB-2714-1
ENCORE, CHERIE
(Alice D. Simms-J. Fred Coots)

D7-VB-2715-1
A LOVELY RAINY AFTERNOON
(Robertson-Cavanaugh-Weldon)

**&

Session continued

D7-VB-2716-1
A WOMAN ALWAYS UNDERSTANDS
(Roy Alfred-Marvin Fisher)

D7-VB-2717-1
CONGRATULATIONS
(Paul Weston-Sid Robin)

D7-VB-2718-1
ICHABOD
(From Walt Disney's "Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad")
(Don Raye-Gene De Paul)

**'

Tuesday, December 23, 1947

D7-VB-2740-1
LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING
(B. G. DeSylva-Jerome Kern)

D7-VB-2741-1
MAKIN' LOVE MOUNTAIN STYLE
(From the M-G-M film "Martin Block's Musical Merry-Go-Round")
(Herb Moulton-Jack Scholl)

D7-VB-2742-1
ST. LOUIS BLUES MARCH
(W. C. Handy)

**(
December 1947, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood

B-B6-2, AFRS-860

SSC-1-5-1
S Wonderful
So Far GS
Lone Star Moon TB
Golden Earrings
Pigeon Talk arr HM

SSC 1-5-2
Carioca arr PB
Civilization (Bingo Bango Bongo) TB-MS
Hallelujah!
Blue Skies arr JG

Friday, December 26, 1947, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood

AFRS-880

SSC-1-26-1
Blue Skies arr JG
Too Late TB; cm/arr PB
Golden Earrings

SSC 1-26-2
(Gotta Get To) Oklahoma City TB-MS
A Girl That I Remember GS
Carioca arr PB

**)


D7-VB-2751-1
CHEROKEE CANYON
(Chris Story-Dick Charles)

D7-VB-2752-1
SATURDAY DATE
(Jack Brooks)

D7-VB-2753-1
WHIP-POOR-WILL
(From the musical production "Sally")
(B. G. DeSylva-Jerome Kern)

*"+
December 29, 1947, Film Recording Session

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios
10202 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, California

The following are all MGM playback discs. All except for the final disc begin with
the click track (consisting of three clicks) used for synchronization purposes
during the filming process.

573-M6000

573-MX8000
The Woodchuck Song TB-MS

573
String Interlude
(Four Medley segues separated by pauses)

Prod. S2977; Title 2401
Makin Love, Mountain Style TB-MS

*"*
5. 1948 Chronology

Thursday, January 1, 1948, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood

B-B28-1, AFRS-861

SSC 2-9-1
S Wonderful
But Beautiful GS; arr RB
Do You Ever Think Of Me MS
My Buddy
East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) GS

SSC 2-9-2
September in the Rain
Too Marvelous For Words GS
Carioca arr PB
Loose Like cm/arr RWr

Saturday, January 3, 1948, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood

B-A17-3, B-27-6, AFRS-862

SSC 1-12-1
I May Be Wrong
(But, I Think Youre Wonderful) TB
My Buddy
Golden Earrings

SSC 1-12-2
Take Me In Your Arms MS
The First Time I Kissed You GS
Bagatelle arr HM
S Wonderful (incomplete)

*""
Friday, January 9, 1948, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood

B-B19-1, AFRS-863

SSC 1-19-1
The St. Louis Blues March arr RM-PB-JG
My Melancholy Baby GS; arr BF
Blue Champagne arr JG
You Dont Have To Know The Language TB-MS

SSC 1-19-2
S Wonderful
Carioca arr PB
Hallelujah!

January 1948, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood

B-B6-3, B-B27-5, AFRS-864

SSC 2-2-1
Frustration cm/arr HM
True GS
Bagatelle arr HM

SSC 2-2-2
The Whistler TB-MS
Two Loves Have I GS
Blue Skies arr JG

*"#
Friday, January 15, 1948, 4:00 p. m. and 8:00 p. m. PST
NBC Hollywood
Chesterfield Supper Club (NBC) (KFI)
Jo Stafford, host
Tex Beneke, guest
The Starlighters, Paul Weston Orchestra

Chesterfield Jingle (open)
Smoke Dreams (theme)
Moonlight Serenade (Beneke theme)
(Gotta Get To) Oklahoma City TB-SL
How Soon JST
Commercial
Incidental Music
Chattanooga Choo Choo TB-JST-SL
Begin the Beguine (partial)

During the program Tex Beneke announces that he and his band will be starting
a series for the Air Force called On the Beam.

Begin the Beguine is played at the end of the program to promote a special
Flying Down to Rio or musical trip to South America program promotion
scheduled to air the following Tuesday evening.

*"$

AFRS On The Beam 6
From On The Beam, Mutual (KHJ)
Jerry Colonna and Wilma Rysner, guests

D29215/D 1-23-48
Honky Little Donkey (Jerry Colonna)
Time On My Hands (You In My Arms) (Jerry Colonna)
Golden Earrings

D29216/D 1-23-48
Hallelujah!
I Still Get Jealous (Wilma Rysner)
Strange and Sweet GS
Sure Thing


B-B19-1. AFRS-865

SSC 3-1-1
Bagatelle arr HM
Lone Star Moon TB
Golden Earrings

SSC 3-1-2
True GS
Lovers Leap

*"%
Tuesday, January 27, 1948, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood

B-B28-2, AFRS-866

SSC 3-8-1
So Far GS

SSC 3-8-2
Bagatelle arr HM

Wednesday, January 28, 1948, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood

AFRS-867

SSC 2-25-1
Blue Skies arr JG
Golden Earrings

SSC 2-25-2
Star Dust arr JG
Two Loves Have I GS
S Wonderful (incomplete)

*"&
Thursday, January 29, 1948, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood

AFRS-868

SSC 2-16-1
Passing Fancy GS
Golden Earrings
Poinciana (Song of the Tree) GS-MS; arr JG
S Wonderful

SSC 2-16-2
Two Loves Have I GS
Hallelujah!
My Buddy (incomplete)

AFRS On The Beam 2
From On The Beam (Mutual) (KHJ)
Marion Hutton, guest

B-B21-1, AFRS-509

D27922 /D 1-30-48
Too Late TB-Band; cm/arr PB
Do You Ever Think of Me MS
S Wonderful
He Said, She Said
(The Story of the Newlyweds) MH
So Far GS

D27923/D 1-3-48
It Could Happen To You (Strings With Wings)
My Brooklyn Love Song MH
Golden Earrings
Sure Thing (Strings With Wings)
The St. Louis Blues March (close) arr RM-PB-JG

*"'

B-B28-3, AFRS-869

SSC 3-15-1
Bagatelle arr HM
The Whistler TB-MS

SSC 3-15-2
Lovers Leap
September In The Rain
The St. Louis Blues March (incomplete) arr RM-PB-JG

Saturday, January 31, 1948, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood

AFRS-870

D-
The Song Is You GS
In A Little Book Shop TB-MS
Rhapsody in Blue

D-
An Old Sombrero
(And An Old Spanish Shawl) GS-MS
Two Loves Have I GS
Hallelujah! (incomplete)

*"(
February 1948, McCormack General Hospital, Pasadena, Calif.
Pre-recorded segment
AFRS Jubilee 273
Alex Cooper, AFRS program announcer
Bud Windom, Master of Ceremonies

AFRS-834

D-21109
One Oclock Jump (open)
28

Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller Theme)
September Song JH
29

Meadowlands arr JG

D-21110
Night and Day GS
Sunrise Serenade arr BF
Hallelujah!
One Oclock Jump (close)
28

28
AFRS Orchestra (recorded dub of theme)
29
Jane Harvey, guest vocalist

*")
February 1948, McCormack General Hospital, Pasadena, Calif.
Pre-recorded segment
AFRS Jubilee 275
Alex Cooper, AFRS program announcer
Bud Windom, Master of Ceremonies

B-B10-2, AFRS-835

D-21111
One Oclock Jump (open)
30

Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller Theme)
(Ive Got A Gal in) Kalamazoo TB-MS
Too Marvelous For Words JH
31
Too Late TB-Band; cm/arr PB

D-21112
When I Take My Sugar To Tea
One For My Baby
(And One More For The Road) JH
31

One Oclock Jump (close)
30

30
AFRS Orchestra (recorded dub of theme)
31
Jane Harvey, guest vocalist

*#+
Friday, February 6, 1948, New Armory, Seattle, Wash.
AFRS On The Beam 3
From On The Beam (Mutual) (KVI)
Gil Ross and Marlene Edwards, guests

B-B28-4, AFRS-510

D27178/RL 6975/D 2-6-48
Saturday Date TB
Carioca arr PB
Civilization (Bingo Bango Bongo) (Marlene Edwards)
Dont Call It Love GS

D27179/RL 6976/D 2-6-48
Some Other Time (Strings with Wings)
Theres A Little Cabin in the
Cascade Mountains (Gil Ross solo)
Hallelujah!! (Jack Sperling, drums)
Moonlight Serenade
Put Em In A Box
(Tie Em With A Ribbon And Throw
Em In The Deep Blue Sea) TB-MS

*#*
Friday, February 13, 1948, Riverside Ballroom, Phoenix, Ariz.
AFRS On The Beam 4
From On The Beam (Mutual) (KOOL)
Durward Kirby, announcer
Alice Dowfitz, guest

B-B28-5, AFRS-511

D28654/RL 7542/D 2-13-48
Deep Night
Lone Star Moon TB
Sweet and Lovely (Strings With Wings)

D28655/RL 7543/D 2-13-48
Honeysuckle Rose (Alice Dowfitz)
Ramblin Around TB
Star Dust

Friday, February 20, 1948, Memorial Union, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia.
AFRS On The Beam 7
From On The Beam (Mutual) (KCRG)
Irene Davis, guest

B-B29-1, AFRS-513

D29669/D 2-20-48
Sleepy Time Gal GS-MS
Yesterdays
Bagatelle arr HM
Dream Girl GS

D29670/D 2-20-48
Memories of You (Strings with Wings)
Golden Earrings (Irene Davis)

*#"

Friday, February 27, 1948, Capitol Theatre, Washington, D. C.
AFRS On The Beam 5
From On The Beam (Mutual) (WOL)
Sarah Ann McCabe and June Mower, guests

B-B28-6, AFRS-512

D28654/D 2-27-48
Shooting Star!
Now is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song) GS-MS
Night and Day (June Mower)
The Whistlers Song TB-MS
Cockles and Mussels (Sarah Ann McCabe)
Dont Be That Way

D28655/D 2-27-48
Passing Fancy GS
Over The Rainbow (Strings with Wings) arr NL
He Like It! She Like It! (Sarah Ann McCabe)
The Army Air Corps GS-Band

*##
Friday, March 5, 1948, Hagerstown High School, Hagerstown, N. Y.
AFRS On The Beam 8
From On The Beam (Mutual) (WOR)
Perry Como, Helen Carroll, the Satisfiers, the Lloyd Shaffer Orchestra
and Ruth Holland, guests

B-B29-2, AFRS-514

D29928/D 3-5-48
Sabre Dance
Tell Me A Story (Como, Carroll, Satisfiers,
Shaffer)
You Dont Have to Know the Language TB-MS
Summertime arr RW

D29929/D 3-5-48
Dream Girl GS
My Romance (Strings with Wings)
Beg Your Pardon (Ruth Holland)

Friday, March 12, 1948, Hagerstown High School, Hagerstown, N. Y.
AFRS On The Beam 9
Martha Raye and Joe Caruso (piano), guests

D 30410/D 3-12-48
Hallelujah!
Begin The Beguine
Beyond the Sea (La Mer) GS
(When Your Hearts On Fire)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

D 30411/D 3-12-48
Golden Earrings
Summertime arr RW
On The Sunny Side of the Street (Martha Raye)
Star Dust

*#$
Friday, March 19, 1948, Mutual Longacre Theatre, New York
AFRS On The Beam 10
Dorothy Carless and Johnny Desmond, guests

AFRS-732

D 30725/3-19-48
S Wonderful
Hail! Hail! The Gangs All Here
(What the-Deuce-Do-We Care)
Ill Be Seeing You (Johnny Desmond)

D 30726/3-19-48
Begin the Beguine (Dorothy Carless)
Memories of You (Strings with Wings)
(Conducted by NL)
Because of You (Johnny Desmond)

Personnel

Ronnie Deauville replaces Stevens, vocalist

*#%
Friday, March 26, 1948, Mutual Longacre Theatre, New York
AFRS On The Beam 11
Col. Stoopnagle and Marsha Levine, guests

B-B29-3, AFRS-515

D 30137/D 3-26-48
Its A Day (Marsha Levine)
Colonel Stoopnagle
The Whistlers Song TB-MS
Dreamy Lullaby RD
32

Lone Star Moon TB

D 30138/D 3-26-48
Yesterdays
33

Medley:
In An Eighteenth Century
Drawing Room arr RW
Thoughtless RD
Things Aint What They Used To Be arr PB
Rhapsody in Blue

The character Col. Stoopnagle was played by comedian Frederick Chase Taylor.

32
Ronnie Deauville is introduced as the bands new vocalist from the Ray Anthony
band.
33
This appears to be a composite program because Garry Stevens introduces
Yesterdays. The performance may be from On The Beam 7.

*#&
Friday, April 2, 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
AFRS On The Beam 12
From On The Beam (Mutual) (WIP)
Desi Arnaz, guest

B-B29-4, AFRS-516

D 31508/D 4-2-48
Sabre Dance
Saturday Date TB
Encore, Cherie RD
El Cumbachero (Desi Arnaz and the Band)
What Is There To Say (Strings with Wings) arr RW

D 31509/D 4-2-48
The Feathery Feelin TB-MS; cm/arr PB
Pianissimo RD
Cuban Pete (Desi Arnaz)
Sterling and Cardinal
34
cm/arr RWr-PC

34
Sterling and Cardinal was composed and arranged by Ray Wright and Pete Candoli.
This was the first performance of the tune on the air.

*#'
Friday, April 9, 1948, Undocumented Location
AFRS On The Beam 1
From On The Beam (Mutual)

D 27777/D 4-9-48
Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider TB; arr BM
Dream Girl RD

D 27778/D 4-9-48
Medley:
My Buddy
Passing Fancy RD
Its A Wonderful World
Wabash Blues
(Incomplete)

On The Beam

The Mutual On the Beam series began in January 1948 and aired until
September 1948. AFRS recorded the series but did not begin using it until July
1948. Some of the AFRS programs are out of order with the Mutual series,
such as AFRS 1 and, previously, AFRS 3 and AFRS 6.

There are 29 AFRS issues of the 34 Mutual network programs.

The AFRS series was allocated the code R-70.

Weekly female guests on the program included a college or high school
Sweetheart of the Air Force.

*#(
April 1948, Undocumented Location and Date
AFRS On The Beam 13
Martha Tilton, guest

B-B6-1, AFRS-887

D 31811
I May Be Wrong
(But, I Think Youre Wonderful) TB
Bagatelle arr HM
Haunted Heart (Martha Tilton)
Strange and Sweet RD

D 31812
The Best Things In Life Are Free MS
It Could Happen To You (Strings With Wings)
Thats Gratitude (Martha Tilton)
Sweet and Lovely RD
Star Dust

Friday, May 7, 1948, Undocumented Location
AFRS On The Beam 14
Frankie Carle, guest

D 31997/D 5-7-48
Carioca arr PB
Saturday Date TB
Nature Boy RD
Moonlight Whispers (featuring Frankie Carle)
All Of Me

D 31998/D 5-7-48
You Turned the Tables On Me TB-MS
Dreamy Lullaby RD
Golden Earrings

*#)
Wednesday, May 12, 1948, 11:30 p. m. -12:00 a. m.
Cotton Carnival of 1948 (NBC) (WMC)
Ellis Auditorium
N. Main Street between Poplar and Auction Streets
Memphis, Tennessee

S Wonderful
Encore, Cherie RD
Moonlight Whispers
Saturday Date TB
The Song Is You RD
The Saint Louis Blues March arr RM-PB-JG

Tex Beneke introduces The Saint Louis Blues March as being originally
introduced on V-Disc by the Glenn Miller Air Forces Band. This version
includes scoring for the string section that is not heard on the commercial
recording.

*$+
Friday, May 21, 1948, Undocumented Location
AFRS On The Beam 15
Danny McKenna, guest

D 32328/D 5-21-48
Night and Day RD
One Alone (Danny McKenna)

D 32329/D 5-21-48
Encore, Cherie RD

Friday, May 28, 1948, Meadowbrook Club, Cedar Grove, N. J.
AFRS On The Beam 16
Peggy Mann, guest

B-B29-5, AFRS-517

D 32660/D 5-28-48
Dream Girl RD
Somebody Loves Me (Peggy Mann); arr SO
Cherokee Canyon TB
Beyond the Sea (La Mer) RD

D 32661/D 5-28-48
Hallelujah!
But Beautiful (Peggy Mann) arr RB
(When Your Hearts On Fire)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Strings With Wings)
All The Things You Are arr JG

*$*
Circa June 1, 1948

Master Music Corporation

Master Music Corporation is formed. Tex Beneke now owns a percentage of the
band and receipts with manager Don Haynes. The RCA Victor recording
contract remains with the Glenn Miller Estate and Helen Miller. The Glenn Miller
music library is exclusively licensed from the Glenn Miller Estate and Helen
Miller.

The string section is dropped.


Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc), Bobby Nichols, Chuck Peterson, Whitey Thomas, Buddy
Yeager (tp), Dick Gould, Jimmy Priddy, Bob Pring, Paul Tanner (tb), John Graas
(fh), Buddy Arnold, George Benham (ts), Larry Molineli (as/bar), Sol Libero,
Johnny White (cl/as), Art Wagner (p); Bobby Gibbons (g); Ward Erwin (b); Jack
Sperling (d); Ronnie Deauville, Bob Mitchell, Mary Mayo, The Moonlight
Serenaders (voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Henry Mancini, Norman Leyden (arr)

Thursday, June 3, 1948, Meadowbrook Club, Cedar Grove, N. J.,

B-A17-4, AFRS-871

D28016
Crazy Rhythm
You Turned the Tables On Me TB-MS
East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) RD

D28017
Dont Blame Me arr NL
Cherokee Canyon TB
Dreamy Lullaby RD

*$"
Friday, June 4, 1948, Meadowbrook Club, Cedar Grove, N. J.
AFRS On The Beam 17
Connie Haines, guest

B-B29-6, AFRS-518

D 32945/D 6-4-48
Saturday Date TB
For Every Man Theres A Woman RD
Love Is So Terrific (Ouch! Terrific Thing) (Connie Haines)
Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin All The Time) (Connie Haines) arr RW

D 32946/D 6-4-48
A Lovely Rainy Afternoon RD
Put Em In A Box
Sure Thing (Strings With Wings)

*$#

Friday, June 11, 1948, The Click, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
AFRS On The Beam 18
From On The Beam (Mutual) (WIP)
Louis Armstrong, guest

D 33443/RL 8783/D 6-11-48
Crazy Rhythm
Better Luck Next Time RD
I Went Down To Virginia TB
Muskrat Ramble (Louis Armstrong, trumpet)
When Its Sleepy Time Down South (Louis Armstrong, trumpet/vocal)

D 33344/RL 8784/D 6-11-48
Evry Day I Love You (Just A Little Bit More) TB
Dreamy Lullaby RD

Friday, June 11, 1948, The Click, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

B-B9A-1, AFRS-872

D29196
Crazy Rhythm
Put Em In A Box

D29197
Nature Boy RD
Hallelujah!
East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) RD
Dont Blame Me (incomplete) arr NL

*$$
Friday, June 18, 1948, Mutual Longacre Theatre, New York
AFRS On The Beam 19
Kay Starr, guest

D 33681/RL 8873/D 6-18-48
Ramblin Around TB
S Wonderful
Spring in December (Winter in May) RD
The Best Things In Life Are Free (Kay Starr)
Steppin Out With My Baby TB
Encore, Cherie RD

D 33682/RL 8874/D 6-18-48
Cant Help Lovin Dat Man (Kay Starr)
Long After Tonight

Friday, June 25, 1948, Undocumented Location, N. J. or N. Y.
AFRS On The Beam 29

B-B31-3, AFRS-524

D 36877/RL 10111/D 6-25-48
Dont Be That Way
Serenade in Blue RD-MS
Cherokee Canyon TB
Ali Baba cm/arr NL

D 36878/RL 10112/D 6-25-48
Beyond the Sea {La Mer} RD
Blue Rain arr BF
You Turned the Tables on Me TB-MS
Dreamy Lullaby RD
Moonlight Whispers

*$%
Personnel

As of this date, the Moonlight Serenaders consisted of: Claire Chatwin, Bobby
Swanson, Red Smith and Bob Mitchell

Friday, July 2, 1948, Central Park, Allentown, Pa.
AFRS On The Beam 20
Mindy Carson, guest

AFRS-519

D 33923/D 7-2-48
How High The Moon MS
Dreamy Lullaby RD
You Took Advantage of Me (Mindy Carson)

D 33924/D 7-2-48
Put Em In A Box
Confess (Mindy Carson)

*$&
Friday, July 9, 1948, Undocumented Location
AFRS On The Beam 21
Jose Mallus, guest

D 34560/RL 9158/D 7-9-48
Crazy Rhythm
Nature Boy RD
At The Flying W TB-MS
Cumana (Jose Mallus, piano)

D 34561/RL 9159/D 7-9-48
The Flight of the Bumble Bee
Little White Lies RD
Blue is the Night arr JG
Saturday Date TB
Dreamy Lullaby RD
Rhapsody in Blue

Friday, July 16, 1948, Convention Hall, Ashbury Park, N. J.
AFRS On The Beam 22
Mindy Carson, guest

AFRS-520

D 34741/D 7-16-48
Its So Peaceful In The Country arr NL
Spring In December (Winter in May) RD
Its Magic (Mindy Carson)

D 34742/D 7-16-48
Hallelujah!
Haunted Heart RD
Gypsy in My Soul (Mindy Carson)
Golden Earrings
(Im Left With The) Blues in My Heart arr JG

*$'
Friday, July 23, 1948 (Probable), Undocumented Location
AFRS On The Beam 24
Clark Dennis, guest

D 35694
Crazy Rhythm
Better Luck Next Time RD
Tenderly (Clark Dennis)

D 35695
I Dont Care If It Rains All Night RD-MS
Summertime arr RW
Jealousie (Clark Dennis)
Memories of You

Friday, July 30, 1948 (Probable), Undocumented Location
AFRS On The Beam 23
Sugar Chile Robinson, guest

D 35713/RL 9583
Saturday Date TB
My Buddy
The Whiffenpoof Song (Baa! Baa! Baa!) RD-MS
Sugar Chile Boogie (Sugar Chile Robinson)

D 35714/RL 9584
Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop (Sugar Chile Robinson)
Look For The Silver Lining RD
In A Sentimental Mood arr JG
Prelude To A Kiss
Solitude

*$(
Friday, August 6, 1948, Undocumented Location
AFRS On The Beam 25
Ramona, guest

D 35806R/D 8-6-48
A Gal In Calico TB-MS; arr NL
Ali Baba cm/arr NL
Night and Day RD
You Call Everybody Darling (Ramona, piano and vocal)

D 35807R/D 8-6-48
Hankerin TB-MS
Look For The Silver Lining RD
Baby, Wont You Please Come Home (Ramona, piano and vocal)

The entertainer Ramona was Ramona Davies who was married by this time to
network announcer Al Helfer. Davies originally made her name as a pianist and
vocalist with Paul Whitemans orchestra during the early 1930s.

*$)
Friday, August 13, 1948, The Dells, East Lansing, Mich.
AFRS On The Beam 26
From On The Beam (Mutual) (WILS)

AFRS-521

D 36083/RL 9723/D 8-13-48
Its So Peaceful In The Country arr NL
At The Flying W TB-MS

D 36084/RL 9724/D 8-13-48
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi RD
Ramblin Around TB
I Dont Care If it Rains All Night RD-MS
Blue Skies arr JG

Friday, August 27, 1948, Starlight Ballroom, Wildwood-By-The-Sea, N. J.
AFRS On The Beam 27

B-B31-1, AFRS-522

D 36269/RL 9758/D 8-27-48
Moonlight Cocktail RD-MS; arr JG
Loose Like cm/arr RW
How Come You Do Me Like You Do? (Connie Haines)

D 36270/RL 9759/D 8-27-48
Laura RD
Put Em In A Box
Its Magic (Connie Haines)
Encore, Cherie RD

*%+
Friday, September 3, 1948, Convention Hall, Ashbury Park, N. J.
AFRS On The Beam 28
(Possibly a composite program; see OTB AFRS 12)

B-B31-2, AFRS-523

D-36359/D 9-3-48
Try A Little Tenderness RD
A Women Always Understands RD

D-36360/D 9-3-48
Sterling and Cardinal cm/arr RWr-PC
Saturday Date TB
You Turned The Tables On Me TB-MS

Friday, September 10, 1948, Canobie Lake Park, Salem, N. H.
On The Beam 34 (Mutual) (WNAC)
Carl Caruso, announcer

MBS-45

The Army Air Corps (open)
Ramblin Around TB
You Go To My Head RD
Darktown Strutters Ball (Connie Haines)
Hankerin TB-MS
A Tree In The Meadow (Connie Haines)
The Army Air Corps (close)

*%*
October 12, 1948, Hotel Chase, St. Louis, Mo.
From CBS sustaining broadcast (KMOX)

B-B9A-2, AFRS-873

D-
Out of Nowhere
Haunted Heart MM
Gypsy In My Soul MS
Star Dust
Hallelujah!

D-
A Woman Always Understands BM
Ali Baba cm/arr NL
Look for the Silver Lining RD
Put Em In A Box

*%"
6. 1949 Chronology


Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc), Pete Candoli, Bobby Nichols, Whitey Thomas, Buddy
Yeager (tp); Dick Gould, Jimmy Priddy, Bob Pring, Paul Tanner (tb); John Graas
(fh); George Benham, Joe Palmer (ts); Walt Milford (as/bar), Wilbur Schwartz
(cl/as); Johnny White, (as); Art Wagner (p); Bobby Gibbons (g); Al Ham (b/arr);
Jack Sperling (d); Moonlight Serenaders: Mary Mayo, Bob Mitchell, Claire
Chatman (voc); Glenn Douglas (Jay Johnson) (voc); Henry Mancini, Norman
Leyden (arr)


B-B11-1, AFRS-875

D-37115
Just You, Just Me
Cherokee Canyon TB
The Man I Love
Saturday Date TB

D-37116
My Buddy
Cant Help Lovin Dat Man CW
A Woman Always Understands BM


Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc), Stan Fishelson, Bobby Nichols, Whitey Thomas, Buddy
Yeager (tp); Dick Gould, Jimmy Priddy, Bob Pring, Paul Tanner (tb); John Graas
(fh); George Benham, Joe Palmer (ts); Walt Milford (as/bar), Sol Libero (cl/as);
Johnny White, (as); Art Wagner (p); Bobby Gibbons (g); Al Ham (b/arr); Jack
Sperling (d); Moonlight Serenaders: Mary Mayo, Bob Mitchell, Claire Chatman
(voc); Glenn Douglas (Jay Johnson) (voc); Henry Mancini, Norman Leyden (arr)

Fishelson (tp) and Libero (cl/as) replace Candoli and Schwartz

*%#

Friday, January 7, 1949

D9-VB-504-1
MIDNIGHT SERENADE
(Peter Tinturin)

D9-VB-505-1
LOOK UP
(Al Rinker-Floyd Huddleston)

D9-VB-506-1
MISSISSIPPI FLYER
(Don Marcotte)

(D9-VB-507- )
RCA Victor Rejected
BLUES IN THE NIGHT MARCH
(My Mama Done Tol Me)
From the 1941 Warner Brothers film Blues in the Night
(Harold Arlen- Johnny Mercer)

Unissued from this date; remade June 29, 1949

*%$

B-B9-1, AFRS-874

D39531
Until MM
The Man I Love
Little Jack Frost Get Lost CW

D39532
My Buddy
East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) BM
At Last BM; arr BF-JG
S Wonderful
A String of Pearls (incomplete) (repeat); cm/arr JG


AFRS-876

RL 12223
Laura BM
Ali Baba cm/arr NL
Until MM
Down Among The Sheltering Palms TB
My Buddy

RL 12224
East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) BM
By The Way MM
S Wonderful
A String of Pearls (incomplete) cm/arr JG

*%%

AFRS-877

D 44445
Just You, Just Me
Senorita BM; arr NL
Cherokee Canyon TB

D 44446
This is the Moment BM

February 1949


Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc), Dale Pierce, Bobby Nichols, Whitey Thomas, Buddy
Yeager (tp); Dick Gould, Jim Harwood, Bob Pring, Paul Tanner (tb); John Graas
(fh); George Benham, Joe Palmer (ts); Manny Thaler (as/bar), Sol Libero (cl/as);
Johnny White, (as); Art Wagner (p); Stan Herman (g); Al Ham (b); Jack Sperling
(d); Moonlight Serenaders: Mary Mayo, Bob Mitchell, Claire Chatman (voc);
Glenn Douglas (Jay Johnson) (voc); Henry Mancini, Norman Leyden, Billy May
(arr)

Pierce (tp) replaces Fishelson; Harwood (tb) replaces Priddy; Thaler (as/bar)
replaces Milford; Herman (g) replaces Gibbons

*%&
May 1949


Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc), Bobby Nichols, Dale Pierce, Whitey Thomas, Buddy
(fh); George Benham, Ed Gerlach (ts); Manny Thaler (as/bar), Sol Libero (cl/as);
Johnny White, (as); Art Wagner (p); Bobby Gibbons (g); Al Ham (b/arr); Jack
(voc); Glenn Douglas (Jay Johnson) (voc); Jerry Gray, Henry Mancini, Norman
Leyden, Fred Norman (arr)

Gerlach (ts) replaces Palmer

Thursday, May 5, 1949, Meadowbrook Club, Cedar Grove, N. J.

AFRS-878

D46314
Serenade to a Schmoo
Again MM
Midnight Serenade

D46315
Tulsa TB
Old Fashioned Song GD-MS
Im in the Mood For Love MM
Mississippi Flyer TB-MS
Loose Like (incomplete) cm/arr RWr

*%'

Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc), Joe Ferante, Bobby Nichols, Whitey Thomas, Buddy
(fh); George Benham, Ed Gerlach (ts); Manny Thaler (as/bar), Sol Libero (cl/as);
Johnny White, (as); Art Wagner (p); Mike Bryan (g); Al Ham (b/arr); Jack

Joe Ferante replaces Pierce (tp); Mike Bryan replaces Herman (g)

Thursday, May 12, 1949, Meadowbrook Club, Cedar Grove, N. J.

AFRS-879

D44947
Im In The Mood For Love MM
Until MM

D44948
Mississippi Flyer TB-MS
Old Fashioned Song GD-MS
By The Way MM
Ali Baba (incomplete) cm/arr NL

*%(
The Lewiston Daily Sun, Lewiston-Auburn Maine
Thursday (Morning Edition), May 26, 1949, Page 2:

Tex Beneke Appears At Local Armory

Tex Beneke, who has taken over the baton of the Glenn Miller Orchestra,
appeared at the Lewiston Armory, Wednesday night, with his entire crew, Glenn
Douglas, Mary Mayo, Buddy Yeager, Bob Mitchell and the Moonlight Serenaders
and Jack Sperling. Beneke, a saxophonist, is also a vocalist, his vocal records
having been sold in the millions, but he still insists that he cant sing. His vocal
numbers also feature the Moonlight Serenaders, two girls and two boys. Buddy
Yeager is the comedy vocalist and is also a trumpet man. He joined the Beneke
Band in 1948 after serving as a navigator in the United States Army Air Corps.
Many of the instrumentalists of the old Miller band are still with Beneke today and
the music is still sweet and swingy. Tex Beneke started his musical career early
in life as Gordon Lee Beneke of Fort Worth, Texas. He organized his own
orchestra at the age of 13. During the war, Beneke served with the Navy as a
Chief Petty Officer.

Meadowbrook Ballroom, Cedar Grove, N. J.

*%)
NBC Thesaurus Transcriptions

In May 1949 Tex Beneke began to record a series of NBC Thesaurus
transcriptions that was titled The Tex Beneke Show.

NBC Thesaurus was the transcription library service of RCA and NBC that
started licensing the music service to local radio stations in 1935. The
transcription discs were generally 16-inch 33-1/3 rpm lateral recordings. During
the late 1950s some 7-inch 45 rpm EPs were released including reissues and in
1960 12-inch microgroove LPs were released of reissued material. Until 1949
the disc labels referenced NBC. During 1949 the RCA logo replaced NBC.

Please note that on the NBC Thesaurus discs, the inscribed date may be the
processing date or the release date and not the recording date. Where a date is
inscribed the discography includes it with a default toward a recording date
pending further confirmation of the stamped date particulars.

NBC Thesaurus 1500 (White Label)

*&+
Monday, May 30, 1949, NBC Thesaurus Recording Session
NBC New York

ND9-MM-8039
Thesaurus 1500
Thesaurus 1836
NBC-391

Star Dust (2:53)
American Patrol (3:20) arr JG
My Buddy (2:40)
(Im Left With The) Blues in My Heart (2:00) arr JG
Chattanooga Choo Choo (2:13) TB-MS

Issues:

SCD-4130 Star Dust, American Patrol, My Buddy
ND9-MM-8040
Thesaurus 1501
NBC-392

In the Mood (3:15)
Bali Hai (3:21) MM
A String of Pearls (2:29) arr JG
They Cant Take That Away From Me (2:34) GD
Hallelujah! (1:55)

Issues:

SCD-4130 In the Mood, A String of Pearls,
They Cant Take That Way from Me

ND9-MM-8041
Thesaurus 1502
NBC-393

At Last (2:25) MM; arr BF-JG
Little Brown Jug (2:57) arr BF
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (3:42) arr BF
Pin-Striped Pants (And Cutaway Coat) (2:30) TB
(Ive Got A Gal in) Kalamazoo (3:00) TB-MS

*&*
ND9-MM-8046
Thesaurus 1499
NBC-390

Inserts for Radio Stations

Moonlight Serenade (open) (0:46) (3 times)
Spoken Introduction By Tex Beneke,
and Moonlight Serenade (0:49) (3 times)
Moonlight Serenade (close) and
Spoken signoff by Tex Beneke (0:50) (3 times)

These tracks are intended for the use of subscribing local radio stations to put
together their own programs using the Beneke Thesaurus material. They used
either the opening and closing with or without voice-overs by Tex Beneke. Later
in the series, there were also generic tune intros spoken by Beneke.

Probably Recorded Monday, May 30, 1949
NBC Thesaurus Recording Session
NBC New York

ND9-MM-8042
Thesaurus 1503
NBC-394

A Wonderful Guy (1:55) CW
Again (2:46) MM
East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) (3:20) GD
Rainbow Rhapsody (3:35) arr BF
Oh, Lady Be Good! (2:45) arr BF

Issues:

SCD-4130 A Wonderful Guy

Session continued

*&"
Session continued

ND9-MM-8043
Thesaurus 1504
NBC-395

The St. Louis Blues March (3:25) arr RM-PB-JG
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (2:55) TB-MS
Blue Champagne (3:10) arr JG
Ill Remember April (2:22) GD
Somebody Loves Me (2:45) TB; arr SO

Issues:

SCD-4130 The St. Louis Blues March, The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful
Bend, Blue Champagne

May-June 1949, NBC Thesaurus Transcription Audition
NBC Hollywood
Tom Hudson, announcer

Audition Recording
ND9-MM-4178
NBC-389

Again MM
At Last MM; arr BF-JG
Hallelujah!

Moonlight Serenade (open-close) is from ND9-MM-8046 (45-05-30)
Oh! Lady be Good is from ND9-MM-8042 (45-05-30)
Again is from ND9-MM-8042 (49-05-30)
At Last is from ND9-MM-8041 (49-05-30)
Chattanooga Choo Choo is from ND9-MM-8039 (49-05-30)
Hallelujah! is from ND9-MM-8040 (45-05-30)

This is a New York recording session and the parts are assembled from May 30,
1949 NBC Thesaurus recordings. This disc was used to show radio stations how
to format and present the syndicated transcription series.

*&#

*&$
June 1949


(fh); Gene Cirpriano, Ed Gerlach (ts); Teddy Lee (as/bar), Sol Libero (cl/as);
Johnny White, (as); Art Wagner (p); Barry Galbraith (g); Al Ham (b); Jack

Gene Cirpriano (ts) and Teddy Lee (as/bar) replace Benham and Thaler; Barry
Galbraith (g) replaces Bryan.

Wednesday, June 1, 1949
Auditorium, Ottawa, Ontario

Featuring Glenn Douglas, Mary Mayo, Bob Mitchell and the Moonlight
Serenaders, Buddy Yeager, and Jack Sperling.

The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ontario, Wednesday, June 1, 1949, p. 23
(Advertisement):

Famous California Orchestra At Auditorium Tonight

In Person The Grandest Band In The Land

Victor Recording Artists

Featuring Glenn Douglas, Mary Mayo, Bob Mitchell and The Moonlight
Serenaders, Buddy Yeager and Jack Sperling

Tex Beneke brings his great Glenn Miller Orchestra to Ottawa for its first local
engagement tonight. Seats are on sale in the Auditorium and at C.W. Lindsays,
Sparks Street.

*&%
The Evening Citizen, Ottawa, Ontario, Thursday, June 2, 1949, p. 15:

Tex Beneke Prefers Music Soft, Sweet

A husky Texan with an easy drawl and smile to match admitted here last night
he wouldnt trade his brand of sweet music for a barrelful of be-bop. Tex Beneke
put that belief into practice before 3,000 fans at the Auditorium as his 17-man
band presented a program, which made it easy to realize why the old Glenn
Miller outfit was rated tops for dancing. The Beneke band had the Miller clarinet
voicing in the reed section, the same smart, well-paced arrangements, the same
blending of vocalists. I like it that way just as Glenn did, Tex said. Well never
be a bop outfit. Tex pointed out that the band would keep some numbers with a
bop flavor in the library numbers like Serenade To A Schmoo, which drew a
good response last night. But, in the main, there would be ballads, he made it
clear. A member of the old Miller band, when it was organized in April, 1938, Tex
stayed in the tenor sax chair and then vocalized with the band until he joined the
U.S. Navy in 1942. After the war, which saw Miller killed in a plane crash
overseas, Tex reorganized the band in the Miller tradition. The band lived up to
the tradition last night with such numbers as At Last, East Of The Sun, Ive Got
A Gal In Kalamazoo, and Rhapsody In Blue. Assisting Tex with the vocals
were Glenn Douglas, Mary Mayo, Bob Mitchell and the Moonlight Serenaders.

The Ottawa engagement was two days after the May 30, 1949, NBC Thesaurus
Transcription recording session in New York.

*&&
Probably Recorded Tuesday, July 12, 1949
NBC Thesaurus Recording Session
NBC New York

ND9-MM-8061
Thesaurus 1506

B-B14-2

Tuxedo Junction (2:22) arr JG
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) (2:10) arr HM
Dont Be That Way (1:46)
S Wonderful (3:46)
Blues in the Night March
(My Mama Done Tol Me) (2:55)

Issues:

SCD-4130 Blues in the Night March (My Mama Done Tol Me)

ND9-MM-8062
Thesaurus 1507

A Kiss and a Rose (2:50) GD
Wishing Star (2:12) GD
The One Who Gets You (2:55) TB-MS
Look For The Silver Lining (2:55) GD
Cherokee (Indian Love Song) (1:39)

*&'

NBC Thesaurus 1507 (Green label)

Tuesday, July 12, 1949, NBC Thesaurus Recording Session
NBC New York

ND9-MM-8063
Thesaurus 1508

You Turned The Tables On Me (2:19) TB-MS
Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider (3:00) TB; arr BM
Ichabod (2:40) TB-MS
Katrina (2:30) GD
Lavender Coffin (2:51) TB-MS

Issues:
SCD-4130 You Turned The Tables On Me, Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider,
Ichabod

*&(
August 1949


(fh); Gene Cirpriano, Ed Gerlach (ts); Teddy Lee (as/bar), Sol Libero (cl/as);
Johnny White, (as); Art Wagner (p); Mike Bryan (g); Cliff Hills (b); Jack Sperling
(d); Moonlight Serenaders: Mary Mayo, Bob Mitchell, Claire Chatman (voc);
Glenn Douglas (Jay Johnson) (voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Henry Mancini,
Norman Leyden (arr)

Cliff Hills (b) replaces Ham; Bryan (g) replaces Galbraith

*&)

The New York Age, Saturday, Aug 6, 1949, p 19:

Paramount Has New Double Bill

Hal Willis Rope Of Sand starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Henried, Claude Rains,
and Peter Lorre, bows at the New York Paramount Wednesday. The film also
introduces in an important role Corinne Calvet. The story has as its background
the diamond mining industry of South Africa and the fury, violence, greet and love
of those who seek adventure against such savage background. In person the
Paramount will present Tex Beneke and his orchestra featuring Music In The
Glenn Miller Mood with Glenn Douglas, Mary Mayo, Buddy Yeager, Bob
Mitchell, The Moonlight Serenaders, and Jack Sperling. Others in person are Cy
Reeves, Hollywoods newest heart-throb, Rudy Cardenas the sensational
Mexican juggler, Vic Damone, singing star of Mercury Records and Saturday
Night Serenade is the extra, added attraction. (The opening date likely
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 1949).

Saturday, September 17, 1949
The Sunset, Altoona, Penn., 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
(Dance)

Tex Beneke featuring Jack Sperling, Mary Mayo, Bob Mitchell, Glenn Douglas,
Buddy Yeager and the Moonlight Serenaders; admission $2.00. (Altoona Mirror,
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1949, p. 19)

*'+
Undocumented Dates, 1949, NBC Thesaurus Recording Session
NBC New York

ND9-MM-8079
Thesaurus 1515

Adios (2:52) arr JG
I Can Dream, Cant I? (2:41) GD
Over Three Hills (3:22) MS
Im The Man With The Dreams (2:58) GD-MS
Crazy Rhythm (2:36)

Issues:

SCD-4310 Adios, I Can Dream, Cant I?, Over Three Hills, Im The Man With
The Dreams, Crazy Rhythm

D9-MM-2419
Thesaurus 1525
Radio Station Inserts

with signoff by Tex Beneke (0:50) (3 times)

D9-MM-1401
Thesaurus 1526

The Hucklebuck (3:11)
Just You, Just Me (3:34)
Without A Song (3:57)
Our Waltz (2:35)
Blue Orchids (1:34)

Issues:

SCD-4130 Our Waltz

*'*
D9-MM-1402
Thesaurus 1527

Ive Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (1:54) GD
That Lucky Old Sun
(Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) (2:32) GD
The Eyes Of Texas Are Upon You (2:17) MS
They Say (3:06) GD
Look Up (2:45) MS

D9-MM-1403
Thesaurus 1539

Night and Day (2:23) GD
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (2:47) BM
Largo (2:36) arr JG
Festivals (2:12)
Elmers Tune (3:17) MS; arr JG

Issues:

SCD-4130 Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, Elmers Tune

D9-MM-1404
Thesaurus 1540

The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero) (1:56)
Things Aint What They Used To Be (1:36) arr PB
Blue Rain (2:01) arr BF
Nobody Knows
(And Nobody Seems To Care) (3:50)
My Ideal (0:55)

Issues:

SCD-4130 The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero)

*'"
November 1949

(fh); Gene Cirpriano, Ed Gerlach (ts); Teddy Lee (as/bar), Hal Tennyson (cl/as);
Johnny White, (as); Art Wagner (p); Bobby Gibbons (g); Cliff Hills (b); Jack
(voc); Glenn Douglas (Jay Johnson) (voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Henry
Mancini, Norman Leyden (arr)

Personnel

Hal Tennyson (cl/as) replaces Libero; Bobby Gibbons (g) replaces Bryan.

*'#

7. 1950 Chronology


Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Joe Ferrante, Bobby Nichols, Whitey Thomas, Buddy
Yeager (tp); Dick Gould, Jim Harwood, Dick Nash, Paul Tanner (tb); Tino Barzie
(cl/as); Gene Cirpriano, Ed Gerlach (ts); Teddy Lee (as/bar), Johnny White (as);
Art Wagner (p); Danny Perri (g); Cliff Hills (b); Jimmy Pratt (d); Moonlight
Serenaders (voc); Glenn Douglas, Bob Shavers (voc); Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray,
Norman Leyden, Henry Mancini (arr)

Nash (tb) replaces Pring; Barzie (cl/as) replaces Harwood; Perri (g) replaces
Gibbons; Pratt (d) replaces Sperling; Grass (fh) dropped; Shavers (voc) added

January 1950, Film Recording Session

Sweet Serenade

Universal-International Studios

Moonlight Serenade
You Turned The Tables On Me TB
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot arr BF
Pin-Striped Pants TB
The Saint Louis Blues March arr RM-PB-JG
Too Late TB

*'$
January-April 1950, NBC Thesaurus Recording Session
NBC New York

E0-MM-610
Thesaurus 1565

Cindy Lou (2:54) GD-MS
Yesterdays Roses (2:29) GD
Wholl Be The Next One (To Cry Over You) (1:47) GD
Its Dark On Observatory Hill (2:59) GD-MS
Serenade in Blue (3:00) GD-MS

E0-MM-612
Thesaurus 1554

Eight tie-ins by:
Glenn Douglas (2)
Tex Beneke (2)
The band (2)
Moonlight Serenaders (2)

Eleven cross-plugs for various artists

*'%
April 1950


Yeager (tp); Dick Gould, Jim Harwood, Dick Nash, Paul Tanner (tb); Billy
Ainsworth, Johnny White (cl/as); Gene Cirpriano, Ed Gerlach (ts); Teddy Lee
(as/bar); Art Wagner (p); Sam Drugan (g); Cliff Hills (b); Jimmy Pratt (d); The
Moonlight Serenaders (voc), Helen Lee, Greg Lawrence (voc), Bill Finegan,
Jerry Gray, Norman Leyden, Henry Mancini (arr)

Ainsworth (cl/as) replaces Barzie; Drugan (g) replaces Perri; add Helen Lee and
Greg Lawrence (voc)

May 1950


Yeager (tp); Dick Gould, Jim Harwood, Dick Nash, Paul Tanner (tb); Billy
Ainsworth, Johnny White (cl/as); Gene Cirpriano, Ed Gerlach (ts); Teddy Lee
(as/bar); Art Wagner (p); Danny Gregus (g); Cliff Hills (b); Maurice Purtill (d);
The Moonlight Serenaders (voc), Helen Lee, Greg Lawrence (voc), Bill Finegan,
Jerry Gray, Norman Leyden, Henry Mancini (arr)

Gregus (g) replaces Drugan; Purtill (d) replaces Pratt

June-October 1950, NBC Thesaurus Recording Sessions
NBC New York

E0-MM-608
Thesaurus 1571

Lazy River (3:20)
Riverboat Shuffle (2:44) arr BM
The Way You Look Tonight (3:05)
La Rosita (2:45)
El Cumbachero (2:16)

Issues:

SCD-4130 El Cumbachero

*'&
E0-MM-609
Thesaurus 1576

Shanghai Calculations (3:22)
Senorita (2:45) arr NL
Georgia On My Mind (3:10)
Blue Is The Night (2:06) arr JG
Sunrise Serenade (3:02) arr BF

Issues:

SCD-4130 Sunrise Serenade

E0-MM-611
Thesaurus 1591

Lazy Bones (3:02) arr JG
Rockin Chair (3:01)
Tulsa (2:01)
Its So Peaceful In The Country (3:25)
Falling Leaves (3:15) arr NL

E0-MM-669
Thesaurus 1593

The Breeze is My Sweetheart (2:25) GL
Dont You Know I Care
(Or Dont You Care To Know) (2:19) GL
CEst Si Bon (Its So Good) (2:21) GL
Tzin-Tzun-Tzan (3:06) GL
(Day After Day) Ill Always Love You
(Querida Mia) (1:56) GL

Issues:

SCD-4130 Tzin-Tzun-Tzan, (Day After Day) Ill Always Love You (Querida Mia)

*''
E0-MM-668
Thesaurus 1597

Always (2:48)
Java Junction (3:17)
Mama Inez (Oh! Mom-E-Nez) (2:35)
Pennsylvania 6-5000 (3:20)
Ive Got A Heart Filled With Love (2:35) TB

Issues:

SCD-4130 Ive Got A Heart Filled With Love

E0-MM-670
Thesaurus 1601

My Destiny (1:48) GL
Tenderly (2:29)
Our Love Story (2:20) GL
I Hear A Rhapsody (2:44) GL
Warm Kisses In The Cool Of The Night (2:00) GL

Thesaurus 1608
E0-MM-671

Perfidia (3:35)
Frenesi (3:06)
Whispering Rain (3:02)
My Melancholy Baby (2:27) TB; arr BF
The Anniversary Waltz (2:30)

*'(
E0-MM-(---)
Thesaurus 1610

Christmas Voice Tracks for 1950 Christmas Cards and Carols
(Jingles and Voice Tracks)

E0-MM-695
Audition Recording
Glenn Riggs, announcer

Hallelujah!

Saturday, July 1, 1950, 7:30-8:00 p. m. CDT
Your Saturday Dance Date (NBC) (WMAQ)
Marine Dining Room
Edgewater Beach Hotel
5555 North Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois
Bill Griskey, announcer

NBC-388

Whispering Rain
Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider TB; arr BM
The Man I Love HL
Ill Always Love You GL
Java Junction
It Isnt Fair HL
Tzin-Tzun-Tzan GL
My Destiny

*')

October 1950
Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Joe Ferrante, Al DeRisi, Whitey Thomas, Buddy Yeager
(tp); Bill Forman, Jim Harwood, Paul Tanner, Freddy Zito (tb); Billy Ainsworth,
Johnny White (cl/as); Gene Cirpriano, Bob Peck (ts); Teddy Lee (bar); Art
Wagner (p); Danny Gregus (g); Don Zito (b); Maurice Purtill (d); Eydie Gorme,
Greg Lawrence (voc), Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Norman Leyden, Henry Mancini
(arr)

DeRisi replaces Nichols (tp), Forman and F. Zito (tb) replace Gould and Nash;
Peck (ts) replaces Gerlach; D. Zito (b) replaces Hills; add Gorme (voc); drop
Moonlight Serenaders (voc)

October 1950
Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Gordon Dooley, Al DeRisi, Bobby Styles, Nick Travis
(tp); Jim Harwood, George Monte, Paul Tanner (tb); Billy Ainsworth, Johnny
White (cl/as), Gene Cirpriano, Bob Peck (ts); Teddy Lee (bar); Shelly Robbins
(p); Danny Gregus (g); Buddy Clark (b); Mel Lewis (d); Gorme, Greg Lawrence
(voc), Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Norman Leyden, Henry Mancini (arr)

Styles, Travis and Dooley (tp) replace Ferrante, Thomas and Yeager; Monte (tb)
replaces Foreman (tb), F. Zito (tb) dropped; Robbins (p) replaces Wagner; Clark
(b) replaces D. Zito; Lewis (d) replaces Purtill

October 1950
Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Art Depew, Al DeRisi, Red Rodney, Eddy Zandy (tp);
Jim Harwood, George Monte, Paul Tanner (tb); Billy Ainsworth, Johnny White
(cl/as), Johnny Hayes, Bob Peck (ts), Teddy Lee (bar); Harry Biss (p); Danny
Gregus (g); Buddy Clark (b); Mel Lewis (d); Gorme, Greg Lawrence (voc), Bill
Finegan, Jerry Gray, Norman Leyden, Henry Mancini (arr)

Zandy, Depew and Rodney (tp) replace Styles, Travis and Dooley; Hayes (ts)
replaces Cirpriano; Biss (p) replaces Robbins

*(+
November 1950

Tex Beneke (ldr/ts/voc); Art Depew, Al DeRisi, Nick Capezuto, Eddy Zandy (tp);
Jim Harwood, George Monte, Paul Tanner (tb); Billy Ainsworth, Johnny White
(cl/as), Johnny Hayes, Bob Peck (ts), Teddy Lee (bar); Harry Biss (p); Danny
Gregus (g); Buddy Clark (b); Mel Lewis (d); Gorme, Greg Lawrence (voc), Bill
Finegan, Jerry Gray, Norman Leyden, Henry Mancini (arr)

Capezuto (tp) replaces Rodney

*(*
From The Billboard, December 16, 1950:
BENEKE - HAYNES - MILLER TEAM HITS BUMPY ROAD
Orkster Wants Mrs. Miller in, But Loses Name, Arrangements, Manager
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 9 - The Tex Beneke-Don Haynes-Mrs. Helen Miller
combine, which posthumously perpetuated the Glenn Miller band has split at the
seams. As a result Beneke has lost all legal right to the Miller name, right to play
Miller arrangements and will no longer be handled by his manager Don Haynes.
Forty-eight Miller arrangements have been pulled from his book leaving the first
of the Miller-styled bands in the peculiar position of being sans the tunes it helped
keep alive. Order to pull the arrangements came from Mrs. Miller after Beneke
and Haynes split.
Beneke and Haynes were 50-50 owners of Master Music Corporation, which
handled the band. Master Music, in turn, paid Mrs. Miller 25 percent of the
band's net earnings. Split came when Beneke informed Music Corporation of
America's (MCA) Larry Barnet that Beneke will henceforth approve all contracts
and receive all monies earned. Heretofore, Master Music collected all coin.
Beneke is currently playing in Salt Lake City and working his way to L. A. via one-
nighter tour.
No action will be taken in settling the matter until Beneke arrives here to open a
stand at the Palladium within a couple of weeks. Haynes will seek to collect 50
percent of the band's take on all dates set by Master Music. Final date set by
Haynes is a $3,000 two-day booking at Clemson College, Clemson, S. C. May 4-
5. Beneke recently backed out of the RCA Victor recording stable over a beef
with the diskery's promotion of the Ralph Flanagan band. Beneke, in remaining
in the band biz will be virtually starting from scratch. He will be sans a record
company affiliation as well as without the Miller book upon which he built his
popularity.
Haynes told "The Billboard" he intends to retire from showbiz. He had handled
the Miller band since 1940 and following the disappearance of the late batoner by
arrangement with Mrs. Miller continued the band with Beneke fronting. Haynes
said the Miller book will be put on the shelf and at least for the immediate future
will not be made available to other batoners. Beneke could not be reached for
comment. Haynes blamed the split on long-brewing personal differences.

*("
TEXS SIDE
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 - Spokesmen for Tex Beneke here say that the orkster
terminated his arrangement with Master Music legally as provided for in his
contract with that corporation. "Beneke notified David Mackay, attorney for Mrs.
Miller, that he wishes to continue the arrangements whereby Mrs. Miller shares in
the net profits of the band, the Beneke office stated. They also minimized the
withdrawal of the original Miller book from the library, saying "it became
necessary to rearrange most of the old Miller favorites and only about a dozen of
the original scores remained in the books. The spokesmen went on to say that
"very few old Miller arrangements (were) still active in the library and the removal
of those do not hamper the band's immediate jobs. It is believed here that
Beneke felt that he had not been faring too well under Haynes' management,
having slipped noticeably on records and that he wanted to free himself from
Haynes but continue the association with Mrs. Miller. The latter, however, is
obviously throwing in with Haynes.

From The Billboard, January 27, 1951

On The Stand - Tex Beneke
Reviewed at Palladium, Hollywood, January 10

Tex Beneke is still Tex Beneke despite the loss of the Miller book. The move has
revitalized the men and as a result they are working harder. Split with Mrs. Miller
and Don Haynes has taken away the Glenn Miller crutch that has held the band
since its inception. Beneke came here with practically a new group compared
with his last visit. Since May 14 men have been replaced. Ork, however, shows
no signs of inexperience or lack of coordination and is commercially sound.

Band leans toward standards mixing tempos in a way that makes for good
dancing. Beneke is trying to get away from the Miller tunes but at times is forced
by requests to play songs associated with Miller such as Chattanooga Choo-
Choo, At Last, String of Pearls and Kalamazoo. Band maintains the Miller style
more than other orks in the business. A little variety, such as the addition of a
vocal group, would go a long way toward giving valid presentation. As is the
vocals of Gregg Lawrence (who is leaving the band when they exit here), Eydie
Gorme and Beneke don't pack enough punch to give dancers well-rounded sets.

Palladium crowds during Beneke's run have been good and a tribute to the
orkster who came in here on the heels of his split with the Miller combo. But the
ork has proved it can stand alone and should pick up added sparkle now that it is
truly Tex Beneke's band.

*(#
8. Sources

8.1 Analog Media

Glenn Miller Archive

10 78 rpm

RCA Victor (USA)

20-1834-A Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
20-1834-B Im Headin For California
20-1835-A It Couldnt Be True (Or Could It?)
20-1835-B One More Tomorrow
20-1858-A Strange Love
20-1858-B Cynthias In Love
20-1859-A The Whiffenpoof Song (Ba! Ba! Ba!)
20-1859-B Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
20-1914-A I Know
20-1914-B Evrybody Loves My Baby (My Baby)
20-1922-A Five Minutes More
20-1922-B Texas Tex (Uncle Tom)
20-1951-A The Woodchuck Song
20-1951-B Passe
20-1991-A Oh! But I Do
20-1991-B A Gal In Calico
20-2016-A Falling Leaves
20-2016-B Star Dust
20-2017-A Uncle Remus Said
20-2017-B Anybodys Love Song
20-2374-A Body and Soul
20-2374-B Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin All The Time)
20-3112-B The Man I Love
20-2123-A Speaking of Angels
20-2123-B It Might Have Been a Different Story
20-2016-A Hoodle Addle
20-2016-B Anniversary Song
20-2260-A My Heart is a Hobo
20-2260-B As Long As Im Dreaming
20-2190-A Blues of the Record Man
20-2190-B Why Dont We Say Were Sorry?
20-2234-A Through (How Can You Say Were Through?)
20-2234-B Sunrise Serenade
20-2273-A My Young and Foolish Heart

*($
20-2273-B Moonlight Serenade
20-2313-A Feudin and Fightin
20-2313-B How Can I Say I Love You
20-2337-A The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
20-2337-B Washington and Lee Swing
20-2338-A Alma Mater-Cornell
20-2338-B The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
20-2339-A (Im A) Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech
20-2339-B Anchors Aweigh
20-2340-A On Wisconsin!
20-2340-B The Notre Dame Victory March
20-2341-A When Summer Is Gone
20-2341-B Without Music
20-2424-A I Have But One Heart (O Marenariello)
20-2424-B Too Late
20-2497-A A Girl That I Remember
20-2497-B Surprise Symphony
20-2566-B Oklahoma City
20-2584-B Dreamy Lullaby
20-2616-A But Beautiful
20-2616-B You Dont Have To Know The Language
20-2691-A Beyond the Sea
20-2691-B Strange and Sweet
20-2722-A St. Louis Blues March
20-2722-B Cherokee Canyon
20-2770-A Encore, Cherie
20-2770-B Saturday Date
20-2837-A A Lovely Rainy Afternoon
20-2837-B Ramblin Around
20-2898-A Makin Love Mountain Style
20-2898-B Meadowlands
20-2924-A Whip-Poor-Will
20-2924-B Look for the Silver Lining
20-2932-B Moonlight Serenade
20-3001-A A Woman Always Understands
20-3001-B At the Flying W
20-3112-A Poinciana (Song of the Tree)
20-3112-B The Man I Love
20-3131-A East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
20-3131-B Blue Champagne
20-3237-A Congratulations
20-3237-B Bye Bye Blues
20-3527-B Ichabod

*(%
Unissued (USA)

D6-VB-2165 These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
D7-VB-907 Sooner or Later
D7-VB-908 Some Other Time

Albums

P-183-1
35
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
P-183-2
35
P-183-2
35
Alma Mater-Cornell
P-183-4
35
The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
P-183-5
35
(Im A) Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech
P-183-6
35
Anchors Aweigh
P-183-7
35
On Wisconsin!
P-183-8
35
The Notre Dame Victory March
P-217-2 Moonlight Serenade

HMV (Argentina)

AVL3025 These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)

HMV (England)

BD1198 Sunrise Serenade
BD1198 An Old Sombrero
BD1205 But Beautiful
BD1205 You Dont Have To Know The Language
BD1248 Blue Champagne
BD1248 Tulsa
BD1252 The Whiffenpoof Song (Ba! Ba! Ba!)
BD1252 Pin Striped Pants
BD5946 One More Tomorrow
BD5946 Strange Love
BD5956 Im Headin For California
BD5956 Texas Tex (Uncle Tom)
BD5968 Falling Leaves
BD5968 Star Dust
BD5996 Body and Soul
BD5996 Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin All The Time)
BD6020 The St. Louis Blues March
BD6020 Cherokee Canyon

35
P-183, Smart Set Prom Date album

*(&
BD6038 Poinciana (Song of the Tree)
BD6038 The Man I Love
BD9928 Ichabod
BD9928 Headless Horseman
MH-51 Cynthias In Love
MH-51 A Gal in Calico
MH-76 Makin Love Mountain Style
MH-76 Meadowlands

*('
7 45 rpm

47-2822
36
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
47-2822
36
47-2823
36
Alma Mater-Cornell
47-2823
36
The Eyes of Texas
47-2824
36
Anchors Aweigh
47-2824
36
(Im A) Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech
47-2825
36
The Notre Dame Victory March
47-2825
36
On Wisconsin!
47-2798 Moonlight Serenade
47-2912 They Cant Take That Away From Me
47-2912 The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend
47-2937 Lavender Coffin
47-2937 A Kiss And A Rose
47-2989 Blues In The Night March
47-2989 The One Who Gets You
47-3014 Katrina
47-3014 Ichabod
47-3015 Headless Horseman
47-3015 The Merrily Song
47-3046 I Can Dream, Cant I?
47-3046 Over Three Hills
47-3092 Im The Man With The Dreams
47-3092 They Say
47-3122 Can I Canoe You Up The River
47-3122 Mother Prairie
47-3171 Star Dust (50-01-03)
47-3171 Lazy River
47-3172 Rockin Chair
47-3172 Lazy Bones
47-3173 Georgia On My Mind
47-3173 Riverboat Shuffle
47-3236 Sunshine Cake
47-3254 The St. Louis Blues March
47-3254 Meadowlands
47-3395 Moonlight Serenade
47-3790 Busy Signal
EPA 267 Rockin Chair
EPA 267 Lazy Bones
EPA 267 Star Dust
EPS 267 Lazy River

36
WP-183, Prom Date album

*((
12 33 rpm

Readers Digest (USA)

RD25N Moonlight Serenade (47-03-10)

RCA Camden (USA)

CAL-316 Star Dust (46-09-12), East of the Sun (And West of the
Moon), Bye Bye Blues, Blue Champagne (47-11-13),
Meadowlands (47-12-19), The St. Louis Blues March
(47-12-23), Blues In The Night March (49-06-29),
Georgia On My Mind, Rockin Chair, Lazy Bones,
Riverboat Shuffle (50-01-03)
CAL-491 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (46-02-21), Give Me Five Minutes
More (46-05-28), Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin All The
Time) (46-09-30), Anniversary Song (46-12-30), My
Young and Foolish Heart (47-02-18), Moonlight Serenade,
Sunrise Serenade (47-03-10), Poinciana (47-11-13),
Look For The Silver Lining (47-12-23), They Cant Take That
Away From Me (49-01-29 and 49-02-10)

RCA Victor (USA)

LPM-3007 Moonlight Serenade (47-03-10)

*()
16 33 rpm

Armed Forces Radio Service (USA)

Basic Music Library (Popular Music Series)

BML P-650 Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop, Strange Love, The Whiffenpoof Song
(Ba! Ba! Ba!) (46-03-28), Evrybody Loves My Baby (My
Baby) (46-05-28)
BML P-683 Oh! But I Do (46-07-16), Falling Leaves (46-09-12),
Anybodys Love Song, Uncle Remus Said (46-09-18)
BML P-717 It Might Have Been A Different Story, Speaking of Angels
(46-12-23), Hoodle Addle, Anniversary Song (46-12-30)
BML P-744 Blues of the Record Man, Why Dont We Say Were Sorry
(47-02-18)
BML P-800 My Heart Is A Hobo, As Long As I Am Dreaming (46-12-23),
My Young and Foolish Heart (47-02-18), Moonlight
Serenade (47-03-10)
BML P-811 Without Music (47-05-23), When Summer Is Gone
(47-05-28), How Can I Say I Love You, Feudin and Fightin
(47-05-29)
BML P-851 Body and Soul, Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin All The Time
(46-09-30)
BML P-874 I Have But One Heart (O Marenariello), Too Late (47-08-11),
A Girl That I Remember (47-08-19), Surprise Symphony
(47-08-19)
BML P-914 (Gotta Get To) Oklahoma City (47-10-01), Lone Star Moon
(47-10-27)
BML P-925 But Beautiful, You Dont Have To Know The Language
(47-10-01)
BML P-952 Dreamy Lullaby (47-10-01), Dream Girl, Moonlight Whisper
(47-10-27), Strange and Sweet (47-12-19)
BML P-977 Beyond the Sea (La Mer) (47-12-19), The St. Louis Blues
March (47-12-23), Cherokee Canyon (47-12-27)
BML P-1011 Saturday Date (47-12-27)
BML P-1059 Moonlight Serenade (47-03-10), Meadowlands,
Encore, Cherie (47-12-19), Makin Love Mountain Style
(47-12-23)
BML P-1040 Ramblin Around (47-11-13), Rainy Afternoon (47-12-19)
BML P-1079 Hankerin, I Dont Care If It Rains All Night (47-10-27),
Look For The Silver Lining (47-12-23), Whip-Poor-Will
(47-12-27)

*)+
BML P-1133 The Man I Love (46-09-30), Poinciana, East of the Sun (And
West of the Moon), Blue Champagne (47-11-13),
At The Flying W (47-12-19), A Woman Always
Understands (47-12-19)
BML P-1223 Bye Bye Blues (47-11-13), Congratulations (47-12-19)
BML P-1236 Look Up, Mississippi Flyer (49-01-07)

*)*
National Broadcasting Company, Thesaurus Transcription Division (USA)

NBC Thesaurus Syndicated Radio Station Transcriptions

AUD ND9-MM-4178 Moonlight Serenade, Oh, Lady Be Good!, Again,
Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Hallelujah!, Moonlight
Serenade (Audition) (49-01-00)

1499 ND9-MM-8046 Moonlight Serenade (open), Moonlight Serenade
(open), spoken Introduction By Tex Beneke
and Moonlight Serenade (close), Moonlight Serenade
(close), spoken signoff by Tex Beneke
(Inserts for stations) (49-05-30)

1500 ND9-MM-8039 Star Dust, American Patrol, My Buddy,
Blues in My Heart, Chattanooga Choo-Choo
(49-05-30)

1501 ND9-MM-8040 In The Mood, Bali Hai, A String of Pearls,
They Cant Take That Away From Me, Hallelujah!
(49-05-30)

1502 ND9-MM-8041 At Last, Little Brown Jug, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,
Pinstripe Pants, (Ive Got A Gal in) Kalamazoo
(49-05-30)

1503 ND9-MM-8042 A Wonderful Guy, Again, East of the Sun (And West
of the Moon), Rainbow Rhapsody, Oh, Lady Be Good
(Probably 49-05-30)

1504 ND9-MM-8043 The St. Louis Blues March, The Beautiful Blonde from
Bashful Bend, Blue Champagne, Ill Remember April,
Somebody Loves Me (probably 49-05-30)

1506 ND9-MM-8061 Tuxedo Junction, These Foolish Things (Remind Me
Of You), Dont Be That Way, S Wonderful, Blues in
the Night March
(probably 49-07-12)

1507 ND9-MM-8062 A Kiss and a Rose, Wishing Star, The One Who Gets
You, Look For The Silver Lining, Cherokee
(probably 49-07-12)

*)"

1508 ND9-MM-8063 You Turned The Tables On Me, Ida! Sweet As Apple
Cider, Ichabod, Katrina, Lavender Coffin (49-07-12)

1515 ND9-MM-8079 Adios, I Can Dream, Cant I?, Over Three Hills,
Im The Man With The Dreams, Crazy Rhythm
(49-00-00)

1525 D9-MM-2419 Moonlight Serenade (open), Moonlight Serenade
(close) with signoff by Tex Beneke (inserts)
(49-00-00)

1526 D9-MM-1401 The Huckle Buck, Just You, Just Me, Without A
Song, Our Waltz, Blue Orchids (49-00-00)

1527 D9-MM-1402 Ive Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, That Lucky Old
Sun, The Eyes Of Texas, They Say, Look Up
(49-00-00)

1540 D9-MM-1404 Peanut Vendor, Things Aint What They Used To Be,
Blue Rain, Nobody Knows, My Ideal (49-00-00)

1554 E0-MM-612 Eight tie-ins by Glenn Douglas (2), Tex Beneke (2),
the band (2) and the Moonlight Serenaders (2) and
eleven cross-plugs for various artists (inserts)
(50-00-00)

1565 E0-MM-610 Cindy Lou, Yesterdays Roses, Wholl Be The Next
One to Cry Over You, Its Dark On Observatory Hill,
Serenade in Blue (50-00-00)

1571 E0-MM-608 Lazy River, Riverboat Shuffle, The Way You Look
Tonight, La Rosita, El Cumbanchero (50-00-00)

1576 E0-MM-609 Shanghai Calculations, Senorita, Georgia On My
Mind, Blue Is The Night, Sunrise Serenade (50-00-00)

1591 E0-MM-611 Lazy Bones, Rockin Chair, Tulsa, Its So Peaceful In
The Country, Falling Leaves (50-00-00)

*)#
1593 E0-MM-669 The Breeze is My Sweetheart, Dont You Know I
Care, CEst Si Bon, Tzin Tzun Tzan,
Ill Always Love You (50-00-00)

1597 E0-MM-668 Always, Java Junction, Mama Inez,
Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand,
Ive Got A Heart Filled With Love
(50-00-00)

1601 E0-MM-670 My Destiny, Tenderly, Our Love Story,
I Hear A Rhapsody, Warm Kisses In The Cool
Of The Night (50-00-00)

1608 E0-MM-671 Perfidia, Frenesi, Whispering Rain, My Melancholy
Baby, The Anniversary Waltz (50-00-00)

1610 E0-MM-(---) Christmas Voice Tracks for 1950 Christmas Cards
and Carols (Jingles and Voice Tracks) (50-00-00)

AUD E0-MM-695 Moonlight Serenade (theme), Cherokee,
Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Tuxedo Junction,
Hallelujah!, Moonlight Serenade (theme)
(50-00-00, possibly 49-00-00)

*)$
Reel To Reel Tape Sources

Edward Burke Collection

A17-3 48-01-03 ONS 1557
A17-4 48-06-03 ONS 1711
B6-1 48-04-00 On the Beam 13
B6-2 47-12-00 ONS 1551
B6-3 48-01-00 ONS 1575
B6-4 46-09-09 ONS 1154
B6-5 46-10-00 ONS 1161
B8-1 46-06-04 ONS 1022
B9-1 49-01-31 ONS 1887
B9A-1 48-06-11 ONS 1736
B9A-2 48-10-12 ONS 1808
B10-1 46-10-00 ONS 1161
B10-2 47-02-00 Jubilee 275
B11-1 49-01-04 ONS 1859
B14-2 49-07-12 NBC Thesaurus 1506
B16-1 47-00-00 Voice of America 45
B16A-4 48-00-00 Voice of America 78
B19-1 48-01-09 ONS 1563
B19-2 48-01-23 ONS 1599
B21-1 48-01-30 On The Beam 2
B27-1 46-09-03 ONS 1133
B27-2 46-09-10 ONS 1147
B27-3 46-09-17 ONS 1140
B27-4 47-01-00 ONS 1395
B27-6 48-01-03 ONS 1557
B27-5 48-01-00 ONS 1575
B28-1 48-01-01 ONS 1581
B28-2 48-01-27 ONS 1605
B28-3 48-01-30 ONS 1611
B28-4 48-02-06 On The Beam 3
B28-5 48-02-13 On The Beam 4
B28-6 48-02-27 On the Beam 5
B29-1 49-02-20 On the Beam 7
B29-2 48-03-05 On the Beam 8
B29-3 48-03-26 On the Beam 11
B29-4 48-04-02 On the Beam 12
B29-5 48-05-28 On the Beam 16

*)%
B29-6 48-06-04 On the Beam 17
B30-1 47-07-11 Supper Club 626
B30-2 47-06-23 Supper Club 612
B30-3 47-08-06 Supper Club 642
B30-4 47-08-15 Supper Club 649
B30-5 47-08-18 Supper Club 650
B31-1 48-08-27 On the Beam 27
B31-2 48-09-03 On the Beam 28
B31-3 48-06-25 On the Beam 29
B32-1 46-00-00 Voice of America 1
B32-2 46-00-00 Voice Of America 2
1352-1 47-01-00 ONS 1395

Richard C. March Collection

To be added

*)&
8.2 Digital Media

American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

31 47-09-05 Frank Palumbos Click

Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS)

650 45-06-05 Supper Club 89
498 46-10-00 One Night Stand 1161
589 46-10-00 Magic Carpet 534
590 46-06-00 Magic Carpet 387
591 46-09-09 One Night Stand 1154
597 46-09-00 Magic Carpet 462
716 46-06-05 One Night Stand 1022
773 46-09-03 One Night Stand 1133
774 46-09-17 One Night Stand 1140
775 46-09-10 One Night Stand 1147
780 46-10-00 Magic Carpet 503
781 46-10-00 Magic Carpet 527
790 47-01-00 One Night Stand 1395
884 47-06-23 Supper Club 612
885 47-07-11 Supper Club 626
839 47-07-19 Heres To Veterans 53
833 47-07-21 Supper Club 631
829 47-07-28 Supper Club 636
836 47-10-00 Magic Carpet 838
837 47-10-00 Magic Carpet 841
838 47-10-00 Magic Carpet 850
860 47-12-00 One Night Stand 1551
880 47-12-26 One Night Stand 1569
861 48-01-01 One Night Stand 1581
862 48-01-03 One Night Stand 1557
863 48-01-09 One Night Stand 1563
864 48-01-00 One Night Stand 1575
865 48-01-23 One Night Stand 1599
866 48-01-27 One Night Stand 1605
867 48-01-28 One Night Stand 1593
868 48-01-29 One Night Stand 1587
869 48-01-30 One Night Stand 1611
509 48-01-30 On The Beam 2
870 48-01-31 One Night Stand 1617

*)'
834 48-02-00 Jubilee 273
835 48-02-00 Jubilee 275
510 48-02-06 On The Beam 3
511 48-02-13 On The Beam 4
512 48-02-29 On The Beam 5
513 48-02-20 On The Beam 7
514 48-02-27 On The Beam 8
732 48-03-19 On The Beam 10
515 48-03-26 On The Beam 11
516 48-04-02 On The Beam 12
887 48-04-00 On The Beam 13
517 48-05-28 On The Beam 16
871 48-06-03 One Night Stand 1711
518 48-06-04 On The Beam 17
872 48-06-11 One Night Stand 1736
519 48-07-02 On The Beam 20
520 48-07-16 On The Beam 22
521 48-08-13 On The Beam 26
522 48-08-27 On The Beam 27
523 48-09-03 On The Beam 28
524 48-09-25 On The Beam 29
873 48-10-12 One Night Stand 1808
874 49-01-21 One Night Stand 1887
875 49-01-24 One Night Stand 1859
876 49-01-25 One Night Stand 1926
877 49-01-28 One Night Stand 1956
878 49-05-05 One Night Stand 1986
879 49-05-12 One Night Stand 1967

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

510 46-09-11 Hollywood Palladium (Sustaining)
Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS)

45 48-09-10 On The Beam 34

*)(
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

388 50-07-01 Edgewater Beach
389 49-01-00 NBC Thesaurus Audition
390 49-05-30 NBC Thesaurus 1499
391 49-05-30 NBC Thesaurus 1500
392 49-05-30 NBC Thesaurus 1501
393 49-05-30 NBC Thesaurus 1502
394 49-05-30 NBC Thesaurus 1503
395 49-05-30 NBC Thesaurus 1504
Compact Disc

Public Releases
Glenn Miller Archive Collections

DMC-12173 Collectors Choice-BMG Special Products (USA)
The Best of Tex Beneke
DHDL-134 Halycon (England)
Texas Tex - A Tribute to Tex Beneke
DHDL-141 Halycon (England)
But Beautiful A Memorial
JASMCD 2573 Jasmine (England)
In Glenn Millers Footsteps
JH-3008 Jazz Hour (USA)
1946 Live at the Hollywood Palladium
SCD-4130 Sounds Great (USA)
Tex Beneke and his Music in the Miller Mood
VJC-1039 Vintage Jazz Classics (USA)
Live at the Hollywood Palladium

*))

Gordon Lee Tex Beneke
(William Gottlieb Collection, Library of Congress)

"++
9. Song Titles and Performances

Courtesy of Edward F. Polic

ORGANIZATION

This listing is arranged alphabetically by tune title. If a specific performance has
been issued, one or more of the release numbers is shown in the right hand
column. If a performance is known to still exist but has not been issued, an R
(Recording exists) is shown in the right hand column for that performance.

Dates of performances are shown for the actual dates when the performances
occurred (local time at the site of performance). If a performance took place at
12:30AM on, for example, June 4, 1946, it is shown as 46-06-04 (June 4, 1946),
not as a continuation of 46-06-03 (June 3, 1946).

If a performance is not specifically dated but known to exist in a date range, for
example, June to October 1950, it is listed as 50-06/10.

If a performance is known to be from a month and/or year but is otherwise
undated, for example, January 1948, it is listed as 48-01-00. If only the year is
known, for example, 1949, it is listed as 49-00-00.

ABBREVIATIONS

Please see Key To Abbreviations, page 4

CHESTERFIELD TIMES

The 1947 Chesterfield Supper Club programs were broadcast at 7:00 p.m. and
11:00 p.m. The broadcasts are differentiated by the notations 7P and 11P in
the Song Index.

"+*
ADIOS
Enric Madriguera (cm); Eddie Woods (lyr) 1931

47-07-11 Chesterfield-7p AFRS CSC 626
47-07-11 Chesterfield-11p
49-00-00 Recording ND9-MM-8079
Thesaurus 1515

AGAIN
From the 1948 20
th
Century-Fox film Road House
Lionel Newman (cm); Dorcas Cochran (lyr)

49-01-00 Recording MM ND9-MM-4178
Thesaurus Audition
49-05-05 Meadowbrook MM AFRS ONS 1986
(Probable) Thesaurus 1503

ALI BABA
Norman Leyden composer and arranger

48-10-12 St. Louis AFRS ONS 1808
49-01-25 Palladium AFRS ONS 1926
49-05-12 Meadowbrook AFRS ONS 1967 (incomplete)

ALL OF ME
Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons 1931


"+"
ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE
From the 1939 musical comedy Very Warm for May
Jerome D. Kern (cm); Oscar Hammerstein II (lyr)

48-08-13 Chesterfield-7p Medley
48-05-28 Meadowbrook AFRS On the Beam 16

ALL THROUGH THE DAY
From the 1946 20
th
Century-Fox film Centennial Summer
Jerome Kern (cm); Oscar Hammerstein 2nd

46-09-00 Palladium AM AFRS MC 462

ALMA MATER-Cornell
H. S. Thompson (cm, late 1850s as Annie Lisle); Wilmot M. Smith, Archibald C.
Weeks (lyr, circa 1870)

47-03-10 Recording D7-VB-636-1
RCA Victor P 183 (20-2338), etc.

ALWAYS
Irving Berlin (Israel Isidore Baline) 1925

50-06/10 Recording E0-MM-668
Thesaurus 1597

"+#
AMERICAN PATROL
F. W. Meacham (cm); Earl Haubrich (lyr)

46-05-25 Meadowbrook R
46-06-05 Meadowbrook AFRS ONS 1022
46-09-00 RKO film Melody Time
46-10-00 Palladium AFRS MC 527
49-09-03 Ashbury Park AFRS On the Beam 28
Thesaurus 1500, 1836

AMONG MY SOUVENIRS
Horatio Nichols (cm); Edgar Leslie (lyr) 1927

47-01-00 400 Restaurant AFRS ONS 1395
47-10-00 AFRS MC 841

ANCHORS AWEIGH
(The Song of the U. S. Navy)
Alfred H. Miles, Royal Lovell, Charles A. Zimmerman 1907

RCA Victor 20-2339, etc.

"+$
ANNIVERSARY SONG
From the 1946 Columbia picture The Jolson Story
Based on Ion Ivanovicis 1880 theme Waves of the Danube
Al Jolson, Saul Chapman

46-12-30 Recording GS-ML D6-VB-3544-1
47-01-00 400 Restaurant GS-ML AFRS ONS 1395
47-03-10 Chesterfield-7p GS-ML R (Borrowed from Al Jolson)
47-07-16 Chesterfield-7p GS-MS

THE ANNIVERSARY WALTZ
Al Dubin, Dave Franklin 1941

Thesaurus 1608

ANVIL CHORUS
From the 1853 opera Il Trovatore
Guiseppe Verdi
Orchestration and partial score published

46-09-13 Palladium Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1039

ANYBODYS LOVE SONG
Paul Mann (cm); Al Jacobs (lyr) 1946

46-09-18 Recording AM D6-VB-2161-1
RCA Victor 20-2017
46-10-02 Palladium AM Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1039

"+%
THE ARMY AIR CORPS
Robert Crawford 1939
Not listed below when used as opening or closing theme.

48-02-27 Capitol Theatre GS-Band AFRS On the Beam 5

AS LONG AS IM DREAMING
From the 1947 Paramount picture Welcome Stranger
James Van Heusen (cm); Johnny Burke (lyr)

46-12-23 Recording GS D6-VB-3501-1
RCA Victor 20-2260
47-05-18 Glen Island Casino GS 12 acetate
47-06-23 Chesterfield-7p GS AFRS CSC 612
47-06-23 Chesterfield-11p GS
47-08-06 Chesterfield-7p GS Medley AFRS CSC 642
47-08-06 Chesterfield-11p GS Medley

ASK ANYONE WHO KNOWS
Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus, Al Kaufman 1947


"+&
AT LAST
From the 1942 20
th
Century-Fox film Orchestra Wives
Harry Warren (Salvatore Anthony Guaragna) (cm);
Mack Gordon (Morris Gittler) (lyr) 1941
Originally written for Sun valley Serenade
Bill Finegan and Jerry Gray (Gray last eight bars only) arrangement

48-01-23 Palladium GS AFRS ONS 1599
49-01-21 Palladium BM AFRS ONS 1887
Thesaurus Audition
Thesaurus 1502

AT THE FLYING W
Allie Wrubel 1947

47-12-19 Recording TB-MS D7-VB-2711
48-07-09 TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 21
48-08-13 East Lansing TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 26

BABY, WONT YOU PLEASE COME HOME
Clarence Williams, Charles Warfeld 1919

48-08-06 Ramona AFRS On the Beam 25

"+'
BAGATELLE
Tex Beneke, Henry Mancini

47-09-05 Click R
48-02-20 Iowa City AFRS On the Beam 7

BALI HAI
From the 1949 musical South Pacific
Richard Rodgers (cm); Oscar Hammerstein 2
nd
(lyr)

Thesaurus 1501

THE BEAUTIFUL BLOND FROM BASHFUL BEND
From the 1948 20
th
Century-Fox film The Beautiful Blond from Bashful Bend
Lionel Newman (cm); Don George (lyr)

49-05-30 Recording TB-MS ND9-MM-8043

BECAUSE OF YOU
Arthur Hammerstein, Dudley Wilkinson 1940

48-03-19 Longacre Theatre JD AFRS On the Beam 10

BEG YOUR PARDON
Francis Craig, Beasley Smith 1947

48-03-05 Hagerstown RH AFRS On the Beam 8

"+(

BEGIN THE BEGUINE
From the 1935 musical comedy Jubilee
Cole Porter

48-03-12 Hagerstown AFRS On the Beam 9
48-03-19 Longacre Theatre DC AFRS On the Beam 10

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE
B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson 1927

48-04-00 MS AFRS On the Beam 13
48-05-12 Cotton Carnival MS R
48-05-21 MS AFRS On the Beam 15
48-06-18 Longacre Theatre KS AFRS On the Beam 19
48-07-16 Ashbury Park MS AFRS On the Beam 22

BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME
From the 1947 M-G-M film Easter Parade
Irving Berlin (Israel Isidore Baline)

48-06-11 The Click RD AFRS On the Beam 18
48-07-23 (probable) RD AFRS On the Beam 24

BEYOND THE SEA (La Mer)
Charles Trenet (cm and French lyric) (1945); Jack Lawrence (English lyr) (1947)

47-12-19 Recording GS D7-VB-2710
48-03-12 Hagerstown GS AFRS On the Beam 9
48-05-28 Meadowbrook RD AFRS On the Beam 16
48-06-03 Meadowbrook RD AFRS ONS 1711
48-06-11 The Click RD AFRS ONS 1736
48-06-25 RD AFRS On the Beam 29
48-08-13 East Lansing RD AFRS On the Beam 26

"+)
(What Did I Do To Be So) BLACK AND BLUE
From the 1929 cabaret revue Hot Chocolates
Thomas (Fats) Waller, Harry Brooks (cm),
Andy Razaf (Andrea Paul Razakeriefo) (lyr)


BLUE CHAMPAGNE
Grady Watts, Frank Ryerson 1941

47-11-13 Recording D7-VB-1160
48-03-19 Longacre Theatre AFRS On the Beam 10

BLUE IS THE NIGHT
From the MGM film Their Own Desire
Fred Fisher 1930

Thesaurus 1576

BLUE MOON
Richard Rogers (cm), Lorenz Hart (Lyr) 1934

47-06-11 Chesterfield-7p Medley Blue tune

"*+
BLUE ORCHIDS
Hoagland (Hoagy) Carmichael (cm) 1939

49-00-00 Recording D9-MM-1401
Thesaurus 1526

BLUE RAIN
Jimmy Van Heusen (cm); Johnny Mercer (lyr) 1939

Thesaurus 1540

BLUE SKIES
From the 1926 musical comedy Betsy

47-03-10 Chesterfield-7p Medley R
47-06-10 Your Date with Deb R
48-08-13 East Lansing AFRS On the Beam 26

"**
(Im Left with the) BLUES IN MY HEART
King Carter [Bennett (Benny) Lester Carter] (cm); Irving Mills (lyr) 1931


BLUES IN THE NIGHT (My Mama Done Tol Me)
Harold Arlen (Chaim Hymie Arluck) (cm); Johnny Mercer (lyr)

47-03-10 Chesterfield-7p MH-TB R

BLUES IN THE NIGHT MARCH (My Mama Done Tol Me)

RCA Victor Unissued

THE BLUES OF THE RECORD MAN
Hal Dickinson, Bill Conway, Artie Malvin 1947

47-02-18 Recording TB-BC-ML D7-VB-150-1
RCA Victor 20-2190
47-06-09 Chesterfield-7p TB-MS

"*"
BODY AND SOUL
From the 1938 revue Threes a Crowd
John (Johnny) W. Green (cm); Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eaton (lyr)

46-09-30 Recording D6-VB-2166-1
48-04-02 Philadelphia AFRS On the Beam 12

THE BREEZE IS MY SWEETHEART
Peter De Rose, Carl Sigman

50-06/10 Recording GL E0-MM-669
Thesaurus 1593

BUSY SIGNAL
Billie Weber, Jimmy MacDonald (cm); Buddy Yeager (lyr)

49-11-18 Recording BY D9-VB-796

BUT BEAUTIFUL
From the 1947 Paramount film The Road to Rio
Ray Block arrangement

48-02-01 McCormack GH GS AFRS Jubilee 275
48-02-13 Phoenix GS AFRS On the Beam 4
48-05-28 Meadowbrook PM AFRS On the Beam 16

"*#
BY THE WAY

49-01-25 Palladium MM AFRS ONS 1926

BYE BYE BLUES
Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett, Bert Lown, Chauncey Gray 1938


CAN I CANOE YOU UP THE RIVER
Marjorie Goetschius, Edna Osser 1949


CANT HELP LOVIN DAT MAN
From the 1927 musical comedy Show Boat)

48-06-18 Longacre Theatre KS AFRS On the Beam 19
49-01-04 Palladium CW AFRS ONS 1859

CARIBBEAN CLIPPER
(Original title Scare Me a Dream)
Jerry Gray (Generoso Graziano) (cm); Sammy Gallop (lyr) 1942
Orchestration, Score, and partial Score published

46-06-00 Meadowbrook AFRS MC 387

"*$
CARIOCA
From the 1933 RKO film Flying Down to Rio
Vincent Youmans (cm); Gus Kahn, Edward Eliscu (lyr)

47-05-15 Glen Island Casino 12 acetate
47-09-05 Click R
48-02-06 Seattle AFRS On the Beam 3

CAROLINA IN THE MORNING
From the 1922 musical revue The Passing Show of 1922
Walter Donaldson (cm); Gus Kahn (lyr)


CASANOVA CRICKET
Hoagland (Hoagy) Carmichael, Larry Markes, Dick Charles 1947


CEST SI BON (Its So Good)
From the 1950 London Casino Revue Latin Quarter
Henry Betti (cm); Andre Hornez (French lyr), Jerry Seelen (English lyr)

Thesaurus 1593

"*%
CHANGO

Fred Norman arrangement

RCA Victor Unissued

CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO
From the 1941 20
th
Century-Fox film Sun Valley Serenade
Mack Gordon (Morris Gittler) (lyr)
Jerry Gray (band), William (Bill) George (nee Gidley) Conway (vocal),
Harold (Hal) Hunt Dickinson, Junior (verse) arrangement

46-01-15 Chesterfield-7p TB-JST-TS TB-guest
46-01-15 Chesterfield-11p TB-JST-TS TB-guest
46-06-01 Meadowbrook TB-LL-CC
46-08-08 Oriental TB-LL-CC
46-09-01 Universal film TB-LL-CC Tex Beneke and the GMO
47-12-17 MGM film TB-MS Musical Merry-Go-Round 1
48-01-15 Chesterfield-7p TB-JST-SL TB-guest
48-01-15 Chesterfield-11p TB-JST-SL TB-guest
48-02-00 McCormack GH TB-MS AFRS Jubilee 273
48-02-20 Iowa City TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 7
Thesaurus Audition
49-05-05 Meadowbrook TB-MS AFRS ONS 1986
50-06/10 Recording TB-MS E0-MM-695
Thesaurus Audition

"*&
CHEROKEE (Indian Love Song)
Ray Noble 1938
Medley borrowed from Charlie Barnet

47-07-19 Medley AFRS HTV 53
Thesaurus Audition

CHEROKEE CANYON
Chris Story, Dick Charles 1947

47-12-27 Recording TB D7-VB-2751
48-05-28 Meadowbrook TB AFRS On the Beam 16
48-06-03 Meadowbrook TB AFRS ONS 1711
48-06-25 TB AFRS On the Beam 29
49-01-04 Palladium TB AFRS ONS 1859

CHESTERFIELD JINGLE (A-B-C)
Opening theme on 1947 Chesterfield Supper Club broadcasts

Christmas Voice Tracks

50-06/10 Recording E0-MM- (Unknown)
Thesaurus 1610

"*'
CINDY LOU

RCA Victor Unissued
50-01/04 Recording GD-MS E0-MM-610
Thesaurus 1565

CIVILIZATION (Bingo Bango Bongo)
Bob Hilliard, Carl Sigman 1947

47-12-00 Palladium TB-MS AFRS ONS 1551
48-02-06 Seattle ME AFRS On the Beam 3

COCKLES AND MUSSELS [aka Mollie Malone]
Irish Folk Song

48-02-27 Capitol Theatre SAMcC AFRS On the Beam 5

COME RAIN OR COME SHINE
From the 1946 musical production St. Louis Woman
Harold Arlen (cm); Johnny Mercer (lyr)

46-09-03 Palladium LL AFRS ONS 1133
46-10-02 Palladium LL Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1039

CONFESS
Bennie Benjamin, George Weiss 1948

48-07-02 Allentown MC AFRS On the Beam 20

CONGRATULATIONS
Paul Weston, Sid Robin

47-12-19 Recording GS-MS D7-VB-2717

"*(
CRAZY RHYTHM
Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn (cm); Irving Caesar (lyr) 1928

48-06-11 The Click AFRS On the Beam 18
48-06-11 The Click AFRS ONS 1736
48-07-23 (Probable) AFRS On the Beam 24
Thesaurus 1515

CUBAN PETE
From the 1946 Universal film Cuban Pete
Jose Norman

48-04-02 Philadelphia DA AFRS On the Beam 12

CUMANA
Barclay Allen 1947

48-07-09 Jose Mallus, piano AFRS On the Beam 21

CYNTHIAS IN LOVE
Earl Gish, Billy White (cm); Jack Owens (lyr) 1942

46-03-28 Recording AM-LL-CC D6-VB-1384-1
RCA Victor 20-1858
46-05-25 Meadowbrook LL-CC R
46-06-00 Meadowbrook CC AFRS MC 387
46-09-00 Universal film CC Tex Beneke and the GMO
46-10-00 Palladium AM-LL-CC AFRS MC 527
46-10-02 Palladium AM-LL-CC Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1039

DARKTOWN STRUTTERS BALL
Shelton Brooks 1917

48-09-10 Salem CH AFRS On the Beam 34

"*)
DEEP NIGHT
Charlie Henderson (cm); Rudy Vallee (lyr) 1929

48-02-13 Phoenix AFRS On the Beam 4

DEEP PURPLE
Peter DeRose (cm), Mitchell Parish (lyr) 1934


DO YOU EVER THINK OF ME
Earl Burtnett (cm); Henry D. Kerr, John Cooper (lyr) 1920

48-01-01 Palladium MS AFRS ONS 1581
48-01-30 Palladium MS AFRS On the Beam 2
48-03-19 Longacre Theatre MS AFRS On the Beam 10
48-05-28 Meadowbrook MS AFRS On the Beam 16

DONT BE A BABY, BABY
Howard Steiner (cm); Buddy Kaye (lyr) 1946

46-09-11 Palladium LL-CC Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1039

""+
DONT BE THAT WAY
Edgar Sampson, Benjamin (Benny) David Goodman (cm);
Mitchell Parish (lyr) 1938
Medley
Borrowed From Benny Goodman

46-09-00 RKO film Melody Time (Medley)
47-02-01 Treasury Bandstand R (Medley)
48-02-27 Capitol Theatre AFRS On the Beam 5

DONT BLAME ME
Jimmy McHugh (cm); Dorothy Fields (lyr) 1933

48-06-11 The Click AFRS ONS 1736 (incomplete)
48-07-02 Allentown AFRS On the Beam 20

DONT CALL IT LOVE
From the 1947 Paramount film I Walk Alone
Allie Wrubel (cm); Ned Washington (lyr)

48-02-06 Seattle GS AFRS On the Beam 3

""*
DONT SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE (With Anyone Else But Me)
From the 1942 Universal film Private Buckaroo
Sam H. Stept (cm); Lew Brown, Charles Tobias (lyr)

45-06-05 Chesterfield-7p TB-MH-PK-TM (guests)
CSC 89
45-06-05 Chesterfield-11p TB-MH-PK-TM (guests)

DONT TELL ME
From the 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Hucksters


DONT YOU KNOW I CARE (Or Dont You Care to Know)
Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington (cm); Mack David (lyr) 1944

Thesaurus 1593

DOWN AMONG THE SHELTERING PALMS
Abe Olman (cm); James Brockman (lyr) 1948


DREAM A LITTLE LONGER

50-02-06 Recording GD-MS E0-VB-3191

"""
DREAM GIRL
From the 1948 Paramount film Dream Girl
Jay Livingston, Ray Evans 1947

48-02-20 Iowa City GS AFRS On the Beam 7
48-03-05 Hagerstown GS AFRS On the Beam 8

DREAMIN IS MY BUSINESS

50-05-22 Recording HL E0-VB-4635

DREAMY LULLABY
Bennie Benjamin, George Weiss, Frankie Carle 1947

48-03-26 Longacre Theatre RD AFRS On the Beam 11
48-06-11 The Click RD AFRS On the Beam 18
48-07-02 Allentown RD AFRS On the Beam 20

DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES
Cornell Mellish (1777-1817) (cm), Ben Johnson (1573-1637) (lyr)


""#
EAST OF THE SUN (And West of the Moon)
From the 1935 musical comedy Stags at Bay
Brooks Bowman

49-05-30 Recording GD ND9-MM-8042

THE ECHO SAID NO
Art Kassell 1947

47-07-18 Chesterfield GS-MS
47-09-05 Click TB R

EL CUMBACHERO
Rafael Hernandez Marin (Spanish music and words) 1943

48-04-02 Philadelphia DA-Band AFRS On the Beam 12
Thesaurus 1571

ELMERS TUNE
Elmer Albrecht, Sammy Gallop, Dick Jurgens 1941

49-00-00 Recording MS D9-MM-1403
Thesaurus 1539

""$
EMBRACEABLE YOU
From the 1930 musical comedy Girl Crazy
George Gershwin (Jacob Gershwine) (cm); Ira Gershwin (Israel
Gerhovitz/Gershwine/ Gershein) (lyr)

46-01-25 Capitol Theatre

ENCORE, CHERIE
J. Fred Coots (cm); Alice D. Simms (lyr) 1947

48-04-02 Philadelphia RD AFRS On the Beam 12
48-05-12 Cotton Carnival RD R
48-08-27 Wildwood RD AFRS On the Beam 27

EVERY SO OFTEN
Harry Warren (Salvatore Anthony Guaragna) (cm); Johnny Mercer (lyr) 1947


EVERYBODY AND HIS BROTHER

47-06-18 Chesterfield-7p TB; Medley
47-06-18 Chesterfield-11p TB; Medley
47-07-19 TB; Medley AFRS HTV 53
47-07-28 Chesterfield-7p TB AFRS CSC 636
47-07-28 Chesterfield-11p TB

""%
EVRY DAY I LOVE YOU (Just a Little Bit More)
From the 1948 Warner Bros. film Two Guys from Texas
Jule Styne (cm); Sammy Cahn (lyr)

48-06-11 The Click TB AFRS On the Beam 18
48-07-16 Ashbury Park TB AFRS On the Beam 22

EVRYBODY LOVES MY BABY (My Baby)
Al Nevins, Morty Nevins, Artie Dunn 1946

46-05-28 Recording TB-CC D6-VB-2226-1
RCA Victor 20-1914
46-08-08 Oriental TB-LL-CC
46-09-03 Palladium TB-LL-CC AFRS ONS 1133
46-10-00 Palladium TB-LL-CC AFRS MC 503

EXACTLY LIKE YOU
From the Lew Leslie 1930 revue International Revue
Jimmy McHugh (cm), Dorothy Fields (lyr)

46-01-15 Chesterfield-7p TB (guest)

THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU
Composition is the American folk song Ive Been Working on the Railroad
First published in 1894; John Lang Sinclair (lyr) 1903

47-05-23 Recording MS-TB D7-VB-910-1
47-08-04 Chesterfield-7p MS-TB
47-08-04 Chesterfield-11p MS-TB
Thesaurus 1527

""&
FALLING LEAVES
Frankie Carle (cm); Mack David (lyr) 1940
Norm Leyden arrangement

46-09-12 Recording D6-VB-2154-1
46-12-00 Recording TB-GO-ML YTNY 6712-1
1947 March of Dimes
Thesaurus 1591

FAREWELL BLUES
Elmer Schoebel, Sam Ehrich, Joseph Leon Rappolo 1923


THE FEATHERY FEELIN
Perry Burgett (cm); Frank Loesser (lyr) 1947

48-04-02 Philadelphia TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 12
48-05-12 Cotton Carnival TB-MS R
48-06-18 Longacre Theatre TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 19

FESTIVALS

Thesaurus 1539

""'
FEUDIN AND FIGHTIN
Burton Lane (cm); Al Dubin, Burton Lane (lyr) 1947

47-05-28 Recording TB-MS D7-VB-926-1
RCA Rejected
47-05-29 Recording TB-MS D7-VB-926-2
47-06-23 Chesterfield-7p TB-MS AFRS CSC 612
47-10-00 TB-MS AFRS MC 838

THE FIRST TIME I KISSED YOU
Harry Warren (Salvatore Anthony Guaragna) (cm); Ralph Blane (lyr) 1947


FIVE MINUTES MORE
Jule Styne (cm); Sammy Cahn (lyr) 1946

46-05-28 Recording TB D6-VB-2227-1
46-09-00 RKO film TB Melody Time (New Tune)
46-12-00 Recording TB YTNY 6712-1
1947 March of Dimes
47-12-29 Recording TB 573-M6000
MGM Disc

""(
FLIGHT
Al Cechvaia arrangement

46-05-25 Meadowbrook R

THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE
From the 1899-1900 opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov


FOR EVERY MAN THERES A WOMAN
Harold Arlen (cm); Leo Robin (lyr) 1948


FRENESI
(Cancion Tropical)
Alberto Dominguez (cm and Spanish lyr); Ray Charles, S. K. Russell (English
lyr); Leonard Whitecap (English version) 1939

Thesaurus 1608

FRUSTRATION
Henry Mancini composer and arranger


"")
A GAL IN CALICO
From the 1946 Warner Bros. picture The Time, The Place and The Girl
Arthur Schwartz (cm); Leo Robin (lyr)

RCA Victor 20-1991
47-03-10 Chesterfield TB-ML R (New Tune)
47-03-10 Chesterfield TB-ML (New Tune)
47-10-00 TB-MS AFRS MC 841
47-10-00 TB AFRS MC 850

GET HAPPY
From the 1938 musical production Nine Fifteen Revue
Harold Arlen (Chaim Hymie Arluck) (cm); Ted Koehler (lyr)


GEORGIA ON MY MIND
Hoagland (Hoagy) Howard Carmichael (cm); Stuart Gorrell (lyr) 1930

50-01-03 Recording E0-VB-3300
Thesaurus 1576

A GIRL THAT I REMEMBER
Stan Rhodes 1947

RCA Victor 20-2497

"#+
GIVE ME THE SIMPLE LIFE
Reuben (Rube) Bloom (cm); Harry Ruby (lyr) 1945

46-08-08 Oriental AM

GOLDEN EARRINGS
From the 1946 Paramount film Golden Earrings
Victor Young (cm); Jay Livingston, Roy Evans (lyr)

48-01-23 Palladium AFRS On the Beam 6
48-02-20 Iowa City ID AFRS On the Beam 7

GONNA GET ME SOMEBODY TO LOVE
From the David O. Selznick United Artists film Duel in the Sun
Allie Wrubel


THE GYPSY
Billy Kidd 1946

46-06-05 Meadowbrook LL AFRS ONS 1022
46-08-08 Oriental LL

"#*
GYPSY IN MY SOUL
From the 1937 Mask and Wig Club production Fifty Fifty
Clay Boland (cm); Moe Jaffe (lyr)

48-07-16 Ashbury Park MC AFRS On the Beam 22
48-10-12 St. Louis MS AFRS ONS 1808

HAIL! HAIL! THE GANGS ALL HERE (What the-Deuce-do-we Care)
Theodore Morse, Arthur Sullivan (cm); D. A. Esrom (lyr) 1917


HALLELUJAH!
From the 1927 musical comedy Hit the Deck
Vincent Youmans (cm); Leo Robin, Clifford Grey (lyr)

48-01-31 Palladium AFRS ONS 1617 (incomplete)
48-02-00 McCormack GH AFRS Jubilee 273
48-02-06 Seattle JS-dr AFRS On the Beam 3
Thesaurus Audition
Thesaurus 1501
Thesaurus Audition

"#"
HANKERIN

48-09-10 Salem TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 34

HAUNTED HEART
From the 1948 musical revue Inside U.S.A.
Arthur Schwartz (cm); Howard Dietz (lyr) 1948

48-04-00 MT AFRS On the Beam 13
48-07-16 Ashbury Park RD AFRS On the Beam 22
48-10-12 St. Louis MM AFRS ONS 1808

HE LIKE IT! SHE LIKE IT!
From the 1946 musical production Latin Quarter
Leo Corday, Leon Carr

48-02-27 Capitol Theatre SAMcC AFRS On the Beam 5

HE SAID - SHE SAID (The Story of the Newlyweds)
Roy Jacobs 1941

48-01-30 Palladium MH AFRS On the Beam 2

HEADLESS HORSEMAN
From the 1949 Disney film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Gene DePaul (cm); Don Raye (Donald Macrae Wilhoite, Jr.) (lyr)


"##
THE HEATHER ON THE HILL
From the 1947 musical play Brigadoon
Frederick Lowe (cm), Alan Jay Lerner (lyr)

47-08-13 Chesterfield-7p GS; Medley
47-09-05 Click GS R

HERE WE GO AGAIN
Jerry Gray (Generoso Graziano) composer and arranger 1941
Orchestration published


HEY! BA-BA-RE-BOP
Lionel Hampton, Curly Hamner 1946

BMG DMC-12173
46-05-25 Meadowbrook TB-Band R
46-06-05 Meadowbrook TB-Band AFRS ONS 1022
46-08-08 Oriental TB
46-09-00 Universal film TB Tex Beneke and the GMO
48-07-30 (Probable) SCR AFRS On the Beam 23

HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS
David Rose (cm), Sammy Gallop (lyr) 1943

46-01-00 Capitol Theatre

"#$
HONEYSUCKLE ROSE
From Load of Coal
Thomas Wright (Fats) Waller (cm);
Andy Razaf (Andrea Paul Razakeriefo) (lyr) 1929

48-02-13 Phoenix AD AFRS On the Beam 4

HONKY LITTLE DONKEY
John Wolfe, Jerry Colonna 1947

48-01-23 Palladium JC AFRS On the Beam 6

HOODLE ADDLE
Ray McKinley 1946

46-12-30 Recording TB-ML D6-VB-3543-1
RCA Victor 20-2126
47-01-00 400 Restaurant TB-ML AFRS ONS 1395

John Jacob Loeb, Lewis Harris, Cy Cohen 1947

47-05-28 Recording TB-GS-MS D7-VB-925-1
RCA Rejected
47-05-29 Recording TB-GS-MS D7-VB-925-2
47-08-06 Chesterfield-7p GS-MS AFRS CSC 642

"#%
HOW COME YOU DO ME LIKE YOU DO?
Gene Austin, Roy Bergere 1924

48-08-27 Wildwood CH AFRS On the Beam 27

HOW HIGH THE MOON
From the 1940 revue Two for the Show
Morgan Lewis (cm); Nancy Hamilton (lyr)

48-07-02 Allentown MS AFRS On the Beam 20
48-07-23 (Probable) MS AFRS On the Beam 24
48-07-30 (Probable) MS AFRS On the Beam 23
48-08-13 East Lansing MS AFRS On the Beam 26

THE HUCKLE BUCK
Andy Gibson (cm); Roy Alfred (lyr) 1948

Thesaurus 1526

I CAN DREAM, CANT I?
Sammy Fain (cm); Irving Kahal (lyr) 1947

49-08-26 Recording GD D9-VB-2158
Thesaurus 1515

I DONT CARE IF IT RAINS ALL NIGHT

48-07-23 (Probable) RD-MS AFRS On the Beam 24
48-08-13 East Lansing RD-MS AFRS On the Beam 26

"#&
I DONT KNOW WHY (I Just Do)
Fred E. Ahlert (cm); Roy Turk (lyr) 1931

46-10-10 Palladium LL-CC AFRS ONS 1161

I GET THE BLUES WHEN IT RAINS
Harry Stoddard (cm), Marcy Klauber (lyr) 1929


I GOT THE SUN IN THE MORNING
From the 1946 musical production Annie Get Your Gun
nd
(lyr)

46-10-02 Palladium TB-LL-CC Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1039

I HAD A WONDERFUL TIME IN COLUMBUS
Kermit Goell, Bee Walker 1946


I HAVE BUT ONE HEART (O Marenariello)
Johnny Farrow (cm); Marty Symes (lyr) 1945

47-08-11 Recording GS-MS D7-VB-1479-1
RCA Victor 20-2424
47-09-05 Click GS-MS R
47-10-00 Recording GS-MS Musically Yours 289
47-12-00 Palladium GS-MS AFRS ONS 1551

"#'
I HEAR A RHAPSODY
George Fragos, Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre 1940

Thesaurus 1601

I HEAR YOU SCREAMIN
George Williams, Jerry Gray (Generoso Graziano)
composers and arrangers 1942


I KNOW
John E. Jennings, Theodore (Ted) Brooks 1946

46-05-28 Recording CC D6-VB-2225-1
RCA Victor 20-1914

I MAY BE WRONG (But, I Think Youre Wonderful)
From the 1929 musical production John Murray Andersons Almanac
Henry Sullivan (cm); Harry Ruskin (lyr)

47-07-02 Chesterfield TB-MS
47-07-02 Chesterfield TB-MS

"#(
I STILL GET JEALOUS
From the 1947 Broadway musical comedy High Button Shoes

48-01-23 Palladium WR AFRS On the Beam 6

I WENT DOWN TO VIRGINIA
Redd Evans, Dave Mann 1948

48-06-11 The Click TB AFRS On the Beam 18

I WISH I DIDNT LOVE YOU SO
From the 1947 Paramount film The Perils of Pauline
Frank Loesser

47-07-02 Chesterfield GS; Medley
47-07-02 Chesterfield GS; Medley
47-07-21 Supper Club GS AFRS CSC 631
(Dubbed from 47-07-18)
47-08-29 Chesterfield GS

ICHABOD

Thesaurus 1508

"#)
IDA! SWEET AS APPLE CIDER
Eddie Munsen (cm); Eddie Leonard (lyr) 1903
Billy May arrangement

49-07-12 Recording TB ND9-MM-8063
Thesaurus 1508
50-07-01 Edgewater Beach TB Your Saturday Dance Date
R

IF MY HEART HAD A WINDOW
Lou Holger (cm), John Jacob Loeb (lyr) 1940

47-07-28 Chesterfiel-11P GS

IF YOU WERE THE ONLY GIRL
Nat D. Ayer (cm); Clifford Grey (lyr) 1916

46-0808 Oriental AM
46-09-03 Palladium AM AFRS ONS 1133

(Day After Day) ILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU (Querida Mia)
From the 1950 Paramount film My Friend Irma Goes West
Jay Livingston, Ray Evans

Thesaurus 1593
50-07-01 Edgewater Beach GL Your Saturday Dance Date
R

"$+
ILL BE SEEING YOU
From the 1938 musical production Right This Way
Sammy Fain (Samuel Feinberg) (cm); Irving Kahal (lyr)

48-03-19 Longacre Theatre JD AFRS On the Beam 10

ILL REMEMBER APRIL
From the 1942 Universal Pictures film Ride Em Cowboy
Gene DePaul (cm); Don Raye (Donald Macrae Wilhoite, Jr.), Patricia Johnston
(lyr) 1941


IM HEADIN FOR CALIFORNIA
Glenn Miller (cm); Arthur Malvin (lyr) Before June 1, 1944

46-02-21 Recording TB-CC D6-VB-1671

IM IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
From the 1935 Paramount film Every Night at Eight
Jimmy McHugh (cm); Dorothy Fields (lyr)


IM THE MAN WITH THE DREAMS
Artie Wayne, E. D. Thomas

49-08-26 Recording GD-MS D9-VB-2159
49-00-00 Recording GD-MS ND9-MM-8079
Thesaurus 1515

"$*
IN A LITTLE BOOK SHOP
Kay Twomey, Al Goodhart, George Meyer 1947

48-02-06 Seattle TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 3
48-03-12 Hagerstown TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 9
48-06-11 The Click TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 18

IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD
Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington (cm); Mannie Kurtz, Irving Mills (lyr) 1936

48-07-30 (probable) AFRS On the Beam 23

IN AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAWING ROOM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Raymond Scott (cm); Jack Lawrence (lyr) 1939
(Medley) Ralph Wilkinson arrangement borrowed from Raymond Scott

46-08-08 Oriental Medley Borrowed Tune (Mozart)
47-06-11 Chesterfield-7p Medley Old Tune

IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE
Gus Edwards (cm); Vincent Bryan (lyr) 1905

47-07-19 TB AFRS HTV 53
47-07-28 Supper Club TB AFRS CSC 636
(Dubbed 47-06-16 or 47-07-04)

IN THE GLOAMING
Annie Fortescue Harrison (cm), Meta Orred (lyr) 1878


"$"
IN THE MOOD
Joe Garland (cm); Andy Razaf (Andrea Paul Razakeriefo) (lyr) 1938
Joe Garland arrangement as suggested by Glenn Miller

46-06-01 Meadowbrook
46-08-08 Oriental
46-09-00 RKO film Melody Time
47-07-18 AFRS HTV 53
Thesaurus 1501

Interview

46-09-13 Erskine Johnson Show Tex Beneke Interview R

IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU
From the 1944 Paramount film And the Angels Sing
Jimmy Van Heusen (cm); John (Johnny) Burke (lyr)

48-01-30 Palladium SWW AFRS On the Beam 2
48-04-00 SWW AFRS On the Beam 13

IT COULDNT BE TRUE (Or Could It?)
Sydney Lippman (cm); Sylvia Dee (lyr) 1946

46-02-21 Recording TB-CC D6-VB-1672
46-05-25 Meadowbrook TB-LL-CC R
46-06-05 Meadowbrook TB-LL-CC AFRS ONS 1022

IT HAD TO BE YOU
Isham Jones (cm); Gustav (Gus) Gerson Kahn (lyr) 1924

46-12-17 400 Restaurant

"$#
IT ISNT FAIR
Richard Himber, Frank Warshauer, Sylvester Springato 1933

50-07-01 Edgewater Beach HL Your Saturday Dance Date
R

IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING
From the 20th Century Fox film State Fair
Richard Rogers (cm); Oscar Hammerstein 2nd (lyr)

46-01-00 Capitol Theatre AM

IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A DIFFERENT STORY
Hughie Prince, Dick Rogers, Mickey J. Addy 1946

46-12-23 Recording GS-ML D6-VB-3502-1
RCA Victor 20-2123

IT MUST BE JELLY (Cause Jam Dont Shake Like That)
John Chalmers (Chummy) MacGregor, George Williams 1942
George Williams arrangement

46-09-10 Palladium Band AFRS ONS 1147

IT WAS LOVELY KNOWING YOU

49-01-26 Recording MM D9-VB-521
RCA Victor Unissued

ITS A DAY

48-03-26 Longacre Theatre MLv AFRS On the Beam 11

"$$
ITS A WONDERFUL WORLD
Jan Savitt, Johnny Watson (cm); Harold Adamson (lyr) 1939
Borrowed from Jan Savitt


ITS DARK ON OBSERVATORY HILL
Harold Spina (cm); Johnny Burke (lyr) 1934

RCA Victor Unissued
Thesaurus 1565

ITS MAGIC
From the 1948 Warner Bros. film Romance on the High Seas

48-07-16 Ashbury Park MC AFRS On the Beam 22
48-08-27 Wildwood CH AFRS On the Beam 27

ITS SO PEACEFUL IN THE COUNTRY
Alec Wilder 1941

Thesaurus 1591

ITS THE SAME OLD DREAM
From the 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film It Happened in Brooklyn


"$%
IVE GOT A HEART FILLED WITH LOVE
Joseph Meyer (cm); Al Jacobs (lyr) 1943

50-04-24 Recording TB E0-VB-3462
50-06/10 Recording TB E0-MM-668
Thesaurus 1597

IVE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM
From the 1937 20
th
Century-Fox film On the Avenue

49-00-00 Recording GD D9-MM-1402
Thesaurus 1527

IVE TOLD EVERY LITTLE STAR
From the 1932 musical production Music in the Air
Jerome Kern (cm); Oscar Hammerstein 2nd (lyr)

47-03-10 Chesterfield R
47-03-10 Chesterfield

IVY
Hoagland (Hoagy) Howard Carmichael 1947

47-07-23 Chesterfield-7p GS-MS; Medley
47-07-23 Chesterfield-11p GS-MS; Medley
47-08-15 Chesterfield-7p GS-MS AFRS CSC 649

JAVA JUNCTION
Harry Warren (Salvatore Anthony Guaragna) 1944

Thesaurus 1597
50-07-01 Edgewater Beach Your Saturday Dance Date
R

"$&

JEALOUSIE (Jealousy) (Tango Tzigane)
Jacob Gade (cm); Winifred May (lyr) 1925

48-07-23 (Probable) CD AFRS On the Beam 24

JEEP JOCKEY JUMP


JUKE BOX SATURDAY NIGHT
From the 1942 musical production Stars on Ice
Paul James McGrane (cm); Albert Stillman (lyr)
William (Bill) George (nee Gidley) Conway (vocal) arrangement
Jerry Gray (band) arrangement


JUST YOU, JUST ME
From the 1929 Cosmopolitan Productions film Marianne
Jesse Greer (cm); Raymond Klages (lyr) 1929

Thesaurus 1526

"$'
(Ive Got a Gal in) KALAMAZOO
From the 20
th

45-06-05 Chestefield-7P TB/MH/PK/TM (guests)
CSC 89
45-06-05 Chesterfield-11p TB/MH/PK/TM (guests)
47-12-00 Universal film TB-MS Tex Beneke
48-02-00 McCormack GH TB-MS AFRS Jubilee 275
48-02-27 Capitol Theatre TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 5
Thesaurus 1502

KATRINA

RCA Victor Rejected
RCA Victor Rejected
Thesaurus 1508

A KISS AND A ROSE
Tommie Connor, Patrick Tooney 1948


"$(
LA ROSITA
Paul Dupont (cm); Allan Stuart (lyr) 1923,
Used to accompany the silent film Rosita

Thesaurus 1571

LARGO (Goin Home)
Adapted by William Arms Fisher in 1922 to Largo from Antonin Dvoraks New
World Symphony

Thesaurus 1539

LAURA
From the 1945 20
th
Century-Fox film Laura
David Raksin (cm); Johnny Mercer (lyr)

48-08-27 Wildwood RD AFRS On the Beam 27

LAVENDER COFFIN
Shirley Albert, Danny Mendelsohn 1949

Thesaurus 1508

"$)
LAZY BONES
(Originally called Snowball before Johnny Mercer added lyrics)
Hoagland (Hoagy) Howard Carmichael (cm); Johnny Mercer (lyr) 1933

Thesaurus 1591

LAZY COUNTRYSIDE
From the 1947 Walt Disney film Fun and Fancy Free
Bobby Worth


LAZY RIVER
From the 1931 musical production The Best Years of Our Lives
Hoagland (Hoagy) Howard Carmichael , Sidney Arodin


LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW!


LINDA
Jack Lawrence 1946


"%+
LITTLE BROWN JUG
R. A. Eastburn pseudonym for Joseph E. Winner 1869
William Finegan arrangement

46-01-25 Capitol Theatre Medley Old Tune
46-09-00 Universal film Tex Beneke and the GMO
47-07-21 Chestefield-11P
Thesaurus 1502
R

LITTLE JACK FROST GET LOST
Al Stillman, Seger Ellis 1947

49-01-21 Palladium CW AFRS ONS 1887

LITTLE WHITE LIES
Walter Donaldson 1930


LONDONDERRY AIR (Danny Boy)
Old Irish air adapted by Fred E. Weatherly, Percy A. Grainger 1913

46-09-00 RKO film Old tune Melody Time

"%*
LONE STAR MOON
Cliff Friend, Dave Franklin 1947

48-02-13 Phoenix TB AFRS On the Beam 4
48-03-26 Longacre Theatre TB AFRS On the Beam 11

LONG AFTER TONIGHT
From the 1947 Enterprise/MGM film Arch of Triumph
Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl, Rudy Polk


LONG, LONG AGO
Thomas Haynes Bayly 1894
Medley old tune

47-07-19 Medley Old Tune; AFRS HTV 53

LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING
From the 1920 musical comedy Sally
Jerome Kern (cm); Bud G. De Sylva (lyr)

48-07-30 (Probable) RD AFRS On the Beam 23
48-10-12 St. Louis RD AFRS ONS 1808

"%"
LOOK UP
Floyd Huddleston, Al Rinker

Thesaurus 1527

LOOSE LIKE
Ray Wright composer and arranger

48-08-27 Wildwood AFRS On the Beam 27
49-05-05 Meadowbrook AFRS ONS 1986 (incomplete)

LOVE IS SO TERRIFIC (Ouch! Terrible Thing)
Sunny Skyler, Aretie Shaftel 1945

48-06-04 Meadowbrook CH AFRS On the Beam 17

A LOVELY RAINY AFTERNOON
Dick Robertson, James Cavanaugh, Frank Weldon 1948


LOVER
From the 1932 film Love Me To-night
Richard Rodgers (cm); Lorenz Hart (lyr)


"%#
LOVERS LEAP


MAKIN LOVE, MOUNTAIN STYLE
From Martin Blocks Musical Merry-Go-Round, an M-G-M Picture
Jack Scholl, Herb Moulton 1947

47-12-17 MGM film TB-MS Martin Blocks Musical
Merry-Go-Round 1
47-12-29 Recording TB-MS Prod. S2977; Title 2401
MGM Disc

MAMA INEZ (Oh! Mom-E-Nez)
(!Ay! Mama-Ines)
Eliseo Grenet (cm); L. Wolfe Gilbert (lyr) 1932

Thesaurus 1597

MAMSELLE
From the 1947 20
th
Century-Fox film The Razors Edge
Edmund Goulding (cm); Mack Gordon (Morris Gittler) (lyr)


"%$
THE MAN I LOVE
From the 1924 musical comedy Lady, Be Good!

46-09-30 Recording D6-VB-2167-1
50-07-01 Edgewater Beach HL Your Saturday Dance Date
R

THE MAN WHO PAINTS THE RAINBOW IN THE SKY
Cy Cohen, Irving Melsher, Larry Stock 1947

47-06-11 Chesterfield-7p GS-MS; Medley (New Tune)
47-06-11 Chesterfield-11p GS-MS; Medley (New Tune)

MEADOWLANDS
(aka The Red Cavalry March (Soviet Army Song), Russian Patrol, Song of
the Plains, Cavalry of the Steppes and Patrol of the Steppes)
Lev Knipper (cm); Victor A. Gusev (lyr); M. L. Kerr; Alice Mattullah
(English version) 1942

46-09-00 Universal film Tex Beneke and the GMO
47-08-15 Chestefield-11P

"%%
MEMORIES OF YOU
Andy Razaf (Andrea Paul Razakeriefo) (lyr), Eubie Blake 1938

48-02-20 Iowa City SWW AFRS On the Beam 7
48-03-19 Longacre Theatre SWW AFRS On the Beam 10

THE MERRILY SONG (Nowhere in Particular)


MIDNIGHT MASQUERADE
Bernard Bierman, Arthur Berman, Jack Manus 1946


MIDNIGHT SERENADE
Peter Tinturin


MISSISSIPPI FLYER
Don Marcotte 1948


"%&
MOONLIGHT COCKTAIL
Originally titled Ripples of the Nile
From the 1942 Paramount film Road to Morocco
Lucky Roberts (cm); John (Johnny) Burke (lyr)

48-08-27 Wildwood RD-MS AFRS On the Beam 27

MOONLIGHT SERENADE
Glenn Miller (cm); Mitchell Parish (lyr) 1935/1939
Glenn Miller arrangement
Not listed below when used as opening or closing theme on live recordings.

46-09-00 RKO Film Melody Time
47-03-10 Chesterfield-7p Medley Old Tune R
47-12-00 Universal Film Tex Beneke
48-01-00 Universal Film Sweet Serenade
49-05-30 Recordings ND9-MM-8046
(4 different tracks) Thesaurus 1499
49-00-00 Recordings D9-MM-2419
(2 different tracks) Thesaurus 1525

MOONLIGHT WHISPERS
Frankie Carle (cm); Al J. Neiberg (lyr) 1944

48-05-07 Frankie Carle, piano AFRS On the Beam 14
48-05-12 Cotton Carnival R

"%'
MORE THAN YOU KNOW
From the 1929 musical comedy Great Day!
Vincent Youmans (cm); Billy Rose (William Samuel Rosenberg),
Edward Eliscu (lyr)


MOTHER PRAIRIE


MUSKRAT RAMBLE
Edward (Kid) Ory (cm) 1926; Ray Gilbert (lyr) 1950

48-06-11 The Click
Louis Armstrong, trumpet AFRS On the Beam 18

MY BLUE HEAVEN
Walter Donaldson (cm); George Whiting (lyr) 1927

47-06-18 Chesterfield-7p Medley Blue Tune
47-06-18 Chesterfield-11p Medley Blue Tune
47-07-19 AFRS HTV 53

MY BROOKLYN LOVE SONG
From the 1947 R.K.O. film If You Knew Susie
George Tibbles, Ramey Idriss

48-01-30 Palladium MH AFRS On the Beam 2

"%(
MY BUDDY
Walter Donaldson (cm); Gustav (Gus) Gerson Kahn (lyr) 1922

47-09-05 Click R
47-10-00 AFRS MC 841
48-04-09 Medley Old Tune AFRS On the Beam 1

MY DESTINY
Jerry Livingston (cm); Mack David (lyr) 1950

Thesaurus 1601
R

"%)
MY HEART IS A HOBO
From the 1947 Paramount picture Welcome Stranger

46-12-23 Recording TB-ML D6-VB-3500-1
RCA Victor 20-2260
47-05-15 Glen Island Casino TB-MS 12 acetate
47-06-30 Chestefield-11P TB-MS
47-07-21 Chestefield-11P TB-MS
47-07-28 Supper Club TB-MS AFRS CSC 636
(Dubbed: 47-06-30/07-21/07-28)

MY IDEAL
From the 1930 Paramount film Playboy of Paris
Newell Chase, Richard A. Whiting (cm); Leo Robin (lyr)

Thesaurus 1540

MY LOVE FOR YOU
Paul Salvatori 1946


"&+
MY MELANCHOLY BABY
(Originally titled Melancholy)
Ernest (Ernie) M. Burnett (cm); George A. Norton, Maybelle E. Watson (lyr) 1911

Thesaurus 1608

MY ROMANCE
From the 1935 musical production Jumbo

48-03-05 Hagerstown SWW AFRS On the Beam 8

MY YOUNG AND FOOLISH HEART
From the 1947 film The Affairs of Vanity Fair
Al Lewis, Charles Tobias, Ted Murray

47-06-25 Chesterfield-7p GS Medley (New Tune)
47-06-25 Chesterfield-11p GS Medley (New Tune)

NATURE BOY
Eden Ahbez 1948


"&*
NIGHT AND DAY
From the 1932 musical production Conversation Piece
Noel Coward

47-10-00 GS AFRS MC 838
48-02-00 McCormack GH GS AFRS Jubilee 273
48-02-27 Capitol Theatre JM AFRS On the Beam 5
Thesaurus 1539

NOBODY KNOWS (And Nobody Seems to Care)

Thesaurus 1540

NOTRE DAME VICTORY MARCH
(Notre Dame University Song)
Rev. Michael J. Shea (cm); John F. Shea (lyr) 1928


NOW IS THE HOUR (Maori Farewell Song)
Maewa Kaihan, Clement Scott, Dorothy Stewart 1946

48-02-27 Capitol Theatre GS-MS AFRS On the Beam 5

OH, BUT I DO
From the 1946 Warner Bros. picture The Time, The Place and The Girl
Arthur Schwartz (cm); Leo Robin (lyr)

RCA Victor 20-1991

"&"
OH, LADY BE GOOD!
From the 1924 musical comedy Lady, Be Good!
George Gershwin (Jacob Gershwine) (cm);
Ira Gershwin (Israel Gerhovitz/Gershwine/ Gershein) (lyr)

47-10-00 AFRS MC 850
Thesaurus Audition

(Gotta Get To) OKLAHOMA CITY
Don Reed, Dan Franklin 1947

48-01-15 Chesterfield-7p TB (guest)/SL
48-01-15 Chesterfield-11p TB (guest)/SL
48-01-23 Palladium TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 6

OLD DEVIL MOON
From the 1946 musical production Finians Rainbow
Burton Lane (lyr), Yipsel (Yip) Harburg (Isidore Hochberg) (lyr)


"&#
OLD FASHIONED SONG
Arthur Berman (cm); Leni Mason (lyr) 1948

49-05-05 Meadowbrook GD-MS AFRS ONS 1986
49-05-12 Meadowbrook GD-MS AFRS ONS 1967

THE OLD FERRIS WHEEL
Nick and Charles Kenny 1947


THE OLD LAMP-LIGHTER
Nat Simon (cm); Charles Tobias (lyr) 1946

47-01-00 400 Restaurant GS AFRS ONS 1395
47-10-00 GS-MS AFRS MC 841

AN OLD SOMBRERO (And an Old Spanish Shawl)
Lew Brown, Ray Henderson 1947


ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
From the Lew Leslies 1930 revue International Revue
Jimmy McHugh (cm); Dorothy Fields (lyr)

48-03-12 Hagerstown MR AFRS On the Beam 9

"&$
ON, WISCONSIN!
William T. Purdy (cm); Carl Beck (lyr) 1909


ONE ALONE
From the 1926 romantic operetta The Desert Song
Sigmund Romberg (cm); Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein 2
nd
(lyr)

48-05-21 DMcK AFRS On the Beam 15

ONE FOR MY BABY (And One More for the Road)
From the 1943 RKO film The Skys the Limit

48-02-00 McCormack GH JH AFRS Jubilee 275

ONE MORE TOMORROW
From the 1945 Warner Bros. picture One More Tomorrow
Ernesto Lecouna, Eddie DeLange, Joseph Myrow

46-02-21 Recording AM D6-VB -1669

THE ONE WHO GETS YOU
Nat Simon (cm); Charles Tobias (lyr)

29Jun49 Recording TB-MS D9-VB-1771
12Jul49 Recording TB-MS ND9-MM-8062

"&%
OUR LOVE STORY
William Harrison, Norman Newell 1949

50-02-06 Recording BS E0-VB-3193
Thesaurus 1601

OUR WALTZ
David Rose (cm); Nat Burton (lyr) 1942

Thesaurus 1526

OUT OF NOWHERE
John W. Green (cm); Edward Heyman (lyr) 1931


OVER THE RAINBOW
From the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz
Harold Arlen (Chaim Hymie Arluck) (cm);
Edgar Yipsel (Yip) Harburg (Isidore Hochberg) (lyr)

47-12-00 Universal film Tex Beneke
48-02-27 Capitol Theatre SWW AFRS On the Beam 5

OVER THREE HILLS
Ernest (Ernie) Benedict, Roy West, Lenny Sanders, Dolly Kendall 1949

49-08-26 Recording MS D9-VB-2160
49-00-00 Recording MS ND9-MM-8079
Thesaurus 1515

"&&
PASSE
French lyrics by Jean Sablon and Jean Geiringer
Eddie DeLange, Carl Sigman, Joseph Meyer 1946

46-07-16 Recording LL D6-VB-1910-1

PASSING BY
John Hess, Paul Misraki (cm), Charles Trenet (French lyr),
Jack Lawrence (American lyr)


PASSING FANCY
Bob Hilliard, Dave Mann 1947

48-02-27 Capitol Theatre GS AFRS On the Beam 5
48-04-09 Medley RD New AFRS On the Beam 1

THE PEANUT VENDOR (El Manicero)
Moises Simons, Marion Sunshine, L. Wolfe Gilbert 1928

1949 Recording D9-MM-1404
Thesaurus 1540

PEG O MY HEART
From the 1913 musical production Ziegfeld Follies of 1913
Fred Fisher (cm), Alfred Bryan (lyr)


"&'
PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000
(Telephone number of the Caf Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania,
New York, New York)
Jerry Gray (Generoso Graziano) (cm); Carl Sigman (lyr) 1940

Thesaurus 1597

PERFIDIA
Alberto Dominguez (cm and Spanish lyr); Milton Leeds (English lyr) 1939

Thesaurus 1608

PERSONALITY
From the 1946 Paramount film The Road to Utopia

46-01-25 Capitol Theatre TB-LL-CC Medley (New Tune)
46-01-00 Capitol Theatre TB-LL-CC Medley (New Tune)

PIANISSIMO

48-04-02 Philadelphia RD AFRS On the Beam 12

PIGEON TALK

47-10-00 AFRS MC 838

"&(
PIN-STRIPED PANTS (And Cutaway Coat)
Ray Gilbert, Bob Russell 1949

Thesaurus 1502
50-01-00 Universal film TB Sweet Serenade

POINCIANA (Song of the Tree)
Nat Simon (cm); Henry (Buddy) Bernier (lyr) 1936


PRELUDE TO A KISS
Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington, Irving Mills, Sid Gordon 1938


PUT EM IN A BOX
(Tie Em with a Ribbon and Throw Em in the Deep Blue Sea)
From the 1948 film Romance on the High Seas

48-02-06 Seattle TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 3
48-06-04 Meadowbrook TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 17
48-06-11 The Click TB-MS AFRS ONS 1736
48-07-02 Allentown TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 20
48-08-27 Wildwood TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 27
48-10-12 St. Louis TB-MS AFRS ONS 1808

"&)

50-01/04 Recordings: E0-MM-612
Glenn Douglas (2) Thesaurus 1554
Tex Beneke (2)
The Band (2)
Moonlight Serenaders (2)

RAINBOW RHAPSODY
Bennett (Benny) Lester Carter (cm); Allan Roberts (lyr) 1942


RAMBLIN AROUND
Don George, Lionel Newman

48-02-13 Phoenix TB AFRS On the Beam 4
48-08-13 East Lansing TB AFRS On the Beam 26
48-09-18 Salem TB AFRS On the Beam 34

(Im a) RAMBLIN WRECK FROM GEORGIA TECH
Composition based on Son of a Gambolier composed by Charles Ives in 1895
Frank Romen

RCA Rejected

"'+
RED SILK STOCKINGS AND GREEN PERFUME
Dick Sanford, Bob Hiliard, Sammy Mysels 1947

47-06-18 Chesterfield-7p TB-Band

RHAPSODY IN BLUE
George Gershwin (Jacob Gershwine) 1924

46-01-25 Capitol Theatre Medley (Blue Tune)
46-01-00 Capitol Theatre Medley (Blue Tune)
46-08-08 Oriental
47-02-01 Treasury Bandstand
Medley (Blue Tune) R

RIVERBOAT SHUFFLE
Dick Voynow, Hoagland (Hoagy) Howard Carmichael, Irving Mills 1925 as Free
Wheeling; Mitchell Parish (lyr 1939)
Billy May arrangement

Thesaurus 1571

ROCKIN CHAIR
Hoagland (Hoagy) Howard Carmichael 1930

Thesaurus 1591

"'*
S WONDERFUL
From the 1927 musical comedy Funny Face


SABRE DANCE
From the 1948 Gayne Ballet
Aram Khachaturian


"'"
THE SAINT LOUIS BLUES MARCH
William Christopher Handy 1914
Ray McKinley, Perry Burgett, and Jerry Gray arrangement

48-09-10 Salem AFRS On the Beam 34
50-01-00 Universal film Sweet Serenade

SATURDAY DATE
Jack Brooks 1947

48-02-06 Seattle TB AFRS On the Beam 3
48-04-02 Philadelphia TB AFRS On the Beam 12
48-05-12 Cotton Carnival TB R
48-07-30 (Probable) TB AFRS On the Beam 23

"'#
SENORITA
Henri Bourtayre (cm), Maurice Vandair (French lyr) 1945

47-10-00 AFRS MC 838
RCA Victor Unissued
Thesaurus 1576

SEPTEMBER IN THE RAIN
From the 1937 Warmer Bros. film Melody for Two
Harry Warren (cm); Al Dubin (lyr)


SEPTEMBER SONG
From the 1938 musical comedy Knickerbocker Holiday
Kurt Weill (cm); Maxwell Anderson (lyr)


"'$
SERENADE IN BLUE
From the 20
th
Billy May introduction, Bill Finegan remainder of arrangement

46-09-17 Palladium AM-LL-CC AFRS ONS 1140
46-09-00 RKO film AM-CC Melody Time (Blue tune)
47-07-21 Supper Club GS-MS AFRS CSC 631
(Dubbed, probably 47-06-20)
48-06-25 RD-MS AFRS On the Beam 29
Thesaurus 1565

SERENADE TO A SCHMOO


SHANGHAI CALCULATIONS

Thesaurus 1576

SHOOTING STAR!
Sidney Torch 1948

48-02-27 Capitol Theatre AFRS On the Beam 5

SLEEPY TIME GAL
Ange Lorenzo, Richard A. Whiting (cm);
Joseph R. Alden, Raymond B. Egan (lyr) 1925

48-02-20 Iowa City GS-MS AFRS On the Beam 7

"'%
SMOKE DREAMS
From the 1936 Paramount film Sing You Sinners
Nacio Herb Brown (cm); Arthur Freed (Arthur Grossman) (lyr)

47-08-04 Chesterfield-7p MS
47-08-04 Chestefield-11P MS
47-10-00 MS AFRS MC 838

(When Your Hearts on Fire) SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
From the 1933 musical comedy Roberta
Jerome D. Kern (cm); Otto Hauerbach (Harbach) (lyr)

48-05-28 Meadowbrook SWW AFRS On the Beam 16

SMOKE RINGS


SO FAR
From the 1947 musical production Allegro
nd
(lyr)

48-01-30 Palladium GS AFRS On the Beam 2

SOLITUDE
Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington (cm); Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills (lyr) 1934


"'&
SOME OTHER TIME
From the 1944 RKO Radio film Step Lively

46-09-00 RKO film GS Melody Time
RCA Unissued
48-02-06 Seattle SWW AFRS On the Beam 3

SOMEBODY LOVES ME
From the 1924 revue George Whites Scandals
Ballard MacDonald, Buddy G. DeSylva (lyr)
Sy Oliver arrangement

47-12-17 MGM film TB Musical Merry-Go-Round 6
48-05-28 Meadowbrook PM AFRS On the Beam 16
48-06-11 The Click TB AFRS ONS 1736
48-07-02 Allentown TB AFRS On the Beam 20
48-08-27 Wildwood TB AFRS On the Beam 27

SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
From the 1926 musical comedy Oh, Kay!


"''
SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT
From the 1946 20th Century Fox film Three Girls in Blue
Josef Myrow (cm), Mack Gordon (Morris Gittler) (lyr)

46-12-00 Recording GS YTNY 6712-1
1947 March of Dimes

SONATA
Alex Alstone (cm); Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl (lyr) 1946

47-01-25 Treasury Bandstand
GS R

THE SONG IS YOU
From the 1932 musical production Music in the Air

48-05-12 Cotton Carnival RD R

SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMEN
In the 1926 film The Volga Boatmen
Russian Folk Song
English version by Edward Bromberg 1917 as Volga Boatmens Song (Barge
Haulers Chant) English version by Sigmond Spaeth, C. Deis 1926
William Finegan arrangement

47-07-28 Chesterfiel-11P

SOONER OR LATER
Charles Wolcott (cm) Ray Gilbert (lyr)

RCA Unissued

"'(
SPEAKING OF ANGELS
George Henry Weiss (cm); Bennie Benjamin (lyr) 1946

RCA Victor 20-2123

SPEAKING OF HEAVEN
Jimmy Van Heusen (cm), Mack Gordon (Morris Gittler) (lyr) 1939


SPRING IN DECEMBER (Winter in May)
Mascheroni (cm); Harold Rome (lyr) 1948


Square Dance Calls

46-05-25 Meadowbrook BAR*/Band R

(* - B. A. Rolfe)

"')
STAR DUST
Hoagland (Hoagy) Howard Carmichael (cm); Mitchell Parish (lyr) 1929

46-09-12 Recording D6-VB-2153-1
RCA Victor 20-2016
46-09-12 Recording D6-VC-5627-1
RCA Camden CAL-316, etc.

STELLA BY STARLIGHT
From the 1944 Paramount film The Uninvited
Victor Young (cm); Ned Washington (lyr)


STEPPIN OUT WITH MY BABY


STERLING AND CARDINAL
Composed and arranged by Ray Wright and Pete Candoli
48-04-02 was first performance on the air

(Dubbed) (probably 48-04-02)

"(+
STICK A NICKEL IN THE JUKE BOX
Murray Kane

46-01-25 Capitol Theatre LL-CC

STOMPIN AT THE SAVOY
Benjamin (Benny) David Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb (cm);
Andy Razaf (Andrea Paul Razakeriefo) (lyr) 1935

46-01-25 Capitol Theatre Medley Borrowed Tune
46-01-00 Capitol Theatre Medley Borrowed Tune

STORMY WEATHER (Keeps Rainin All the Time)
From the 1933 night club revue Cotton Club Parade
Harold Arlen (Chaim Hymie Arluck) (cm); Ted Koehler (lyr)

46-09-30 Recording D6-VB-2164-1
47-10-01 Recording Musically Yours 289
47-10-00 AFRS MC 850
48-06-04 Meadowbrook CH AFRS On the Beam 17
48-08-27 Wildwood AFRS On the Beam 27

"(*
STRANGE AND SWEET
Trudi Michel, Howard Fenton, Gene Bone 1947

48-01-23 Palladium GS AFRS On the Beam 6

STRANGE LOVE
From the 1946 Paramount picture The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Miklos Rozsa (cm); Edward (Eddie) Heyman (lyr)

RCA Victor 20-1858
46-06-05 Meadowbrook AM AFRS ONS 1022
46-06-00 Meadowbrook AM AFRS MC 387

String Interlude
Four Medley segues, separated by pauses

47-12-29 Recording 57; MGM Disc

"("
A STRING OF PEARLS
Jerry Gray (Generoso Graziano) composer and arranger;
Edgar (Eddie) DeLange (lyr) 1941

47-06-10 Your Date with Deb R
48-09-10 Salem AFRS On the Beam 34
Thesaurus 1501

SUGAR CHILE BOOGIE
Sugar Chile Robinson 1947

48-07-30 (Probable) SCR AFRS On the Beam 23

Frank (Frankie) Issac (Sugar Chile) Robinson was a 9 year old pianist in 1947.

"(#
SUMMERTIME
From the 1935 musical production Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin (Jacob Gershwine) (cm); DuBose Hayward (lyr)

47-08-06 Chesterfield-7p Medley AFRS CSC 642

SUN VALLEY JUMP
(Original title Give n Take)

46-06-00 Meadowbrook AFRS MC 387
47-10-00 AFRS MC 850

SUNRISE SERENADE
Frankie Carle (cm); Jack Lawrence (lyr) 1938
Score 187 (217) Partial score published
Not shown below when used as a closing theme

RCA Victor 20-2234
47-08-06 Supper Club AFRS CSC 642
(Probably Dubbed from 06-16/7P)
47-08-18 Supper Club AFRS CSC 650
(Probably Dubbed from 06-16/7P)
Thesaurus 1576

"($

SUNSHINE CAKE
From the 1950 Paramount film Riding High


SURE THING
From the 1944 Columbia film Cover Girl
Jerome D. Kern (cm); Ira Gershwin (Israel Gerhovitz/Gershwine/Gershwin) (lyr)

48-01-30 Palladium SWW AFRS On the Beam 2
48-06-04 Meadowbrook SWW AFRS On the Beam 17

SURPRISE SYMPHONY
Franz Joseph Haydn (Symphony No. 4, 2nd Movement) 1791
Adapted by Rayburn Wright

47-08-19 Recording D7-VB-1506-1
RCA Victor 20-2497
47-09-05 Click R

SURRENDER


"(%
SWEET AND LOVELY
Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias, Jules Lamare 1931

48-02-13 Phoenix SWW AFRS On the Beam 4

SWEET LORRAINE
Cliff Burwell (cm); Mitchell Parish (lyr) 1928

46-12-17 400 Restaurant AM

THE SWEETHEART OF SIGMA CHI
F. Dudleigh Vernor (cm); Byron D. Stokes (lyr) 1911

47-12-17 MGM film GS Musical Merry-Go-Round 1
48-08-13 East Lansing RD AFRS On the Beam 26
49-00-00 Recording BM D9-MM-1403
Thesaurus 1539

SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT
Wallis Willis before 1862
Score 577
Orchestration and partial score published

46-02-21 Recording D6 VB-1670
Thesaurus 1502

"(&
TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS
(Liebe War Es Nie)
Fred Markush (cm); Fritz Rotter (German lyrics) 1932;
Mitchell Parish (American lyrics)

48-02-13 Phoenix MS AFRS On the Beam 4

TELL ME A STORY
Larry Stock (cm); Maurice Sigler (lyr) 1948

48-03-05 Hagerstown PC-HC-
TS-LS* AFRS On the Beam 8

(*) Perry Como, Helen Carroll, The Satisfiers, Lloyd Shaffer Orchestra

TENDERLY
From the 1946 production Torch Song
Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence

48-07-23 (Probable) CD AFRS On the Beam 24
Thesaurus 1601

Tex Beneke message to his parents

46-09-00 (After 46-09-03) R

"('
TEXAS TEX (Originally titled Uncle Tom (Get with It))
Bill Finegan composer and arranger
Score 608 in Folder 641
Orchestration published as Texas Tex

46-05-28 Recording D6-VB-2224-1
RCA Victor 20-1922

THAT LUCKY OLD SUN (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
Beasley Smith (cm); Haven Gillespie (lyr) 1949

Thesaurus 1527

THATS GRATITUDE
Sammy Gallop, Guy Wood, Morty Nevins 1948

48-04-00 MT AFRS On the Beam 13

THATS MY DESIRE
Helmy Kresa (cm), Carroll Loveday (lyr) 1931


THERES A LITTLE CABIN IN THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS

48-02-06 Seattle GR AFRS On the Beam 3

"((
THERES A SMALL HOTEL
From the 1936 musical comedy On Your Toes

46-09-11 Palladium Strings Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1039

THESE FOOLISH THINGS (Remind Me of You)
From the 1935 London revue Spread It Abroad
Jack Strachey, Harry Link (cm); Holt Marvell (lyr)

46-08-08 Oriental
46-09-30 Recording D6-VB -2165-1
RCA (Argentina) AVL-3025

"()
THEY CANT TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME
From the 1937 RKO film Shall We Dance?

RCA Victor Unissued
49-02-10 Recording GD D9-VC-1200
Thesaurus 1501
(Vocal Dubbed on master D9-VB-523)

THEY SAY
Paul Mann, Stephen Weiss (cm); Edward Heyman (lyr) 1938

Thesaurus 1527

THEY SAY ITS WONDERFUL
From the 1946 musical production Annie Get Your Gun

46-05-25 Meadowbrook JL R

THINGS AINT WHAT THEY USED TO BE
Mercer Ellington (cm); Ted Persons (lyr) 1941
Borrowed from Duke Ellington

48-03-26 Longacre Theatre Medley AFRS On the Beam 11
Thesaurus 1540

")+
THIS IS THE MOMENT
From the 1948 20
th
Century-Fox film That Lady in Ermine
Frederick Hollander (cm); Leo Robin (lyr)


THIS IS THE NIGHT
Redd Evans, Lewis Bellin 1946

47-01-00 400 Restaurant GS AFRS ONS 1395

THOUGHTLESS
Carl Lampl (cm); Buddy Kaye (lyr) 1948
Medley new tune


THROUGH (How Can You Say Were Through?)
Jimmie Monaco (cm); Joe McCarthy (lyr) 1929

RCA Victor 29-2234

TIME ON MY HANDS (You in My Arms)
From the 1930 musical comedy Smiles
Vincent Youmans (cm); Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon (Morris Gittler) (lyr

48-01-23 Palladium JC AFRS On the Beam 6

TOMORROW
Gordon Jenkins 1947


")*
TOO LATE
Perry Burgett, Kahn Keene

47-08-11 Recording TB-Band D7-VB-1480-1
RCA Victor 20-2424
47-10-01 Recording TB-Band Musically Yours 289
47-12-00 Universal film TB Tex Beneke
48-01-30 Palladium TB-Band AFRS On the Beam 2
48-02-00 McCormack GH TB-Band AFRS Jubilee 275

TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS
Richard A. Whiting (cm); Johnny Mercer (lyr) 1937


TOSELLIS SERENADE

(See: Years and Years Ago)

A TREE IN THE MEADOW
Billy Reid 1947

48-09-10 Salem CH On the Beam 34 (Mutual)

")"
TROOP MOVEMENT
(Original title Tail End Charlie)
William Finegan composer and arranger


TRUE


TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell, Reg. Connelly 1932


TULSA
From the 1949 Walter Wagner film Tulsa
Allie Wrubel (cm), Mort Greene (lyr)

Thesaurus 1591

THE TUNNEL OF LOVE
James Cavanaugh, Larry Stock, Frank Weldon 1947
RCA Victor record label says Frank Loesser

50-04-24 Recording TB-HL E0-VB-3463

")#
TUXEDO JUNCTION
Erskine Hawkins, William Johnson, Julian Dash (cm);
Buddy Fayne (Bernard Feinstein) (lyr) 1939

Thesaurus Audition

TWO LOVES HAVE I
(Jai Deux Amours)
Vincent Scotto (cm); Geo. Koger, H. Varna (French lyr);
J. P. Murray, Barry Trivers (English lyr) 1947


TZIN-TZUN-TZAN
Carl Sigman (cm); Jack Lawrence (lyr) 1950

50-05-22 Recording GL E0-VB-4634
Thesaurus 1593
50-07-01 Edgewater Beach GL Your Saturday Dance Date
R

")$
UNCLE REMUS SAID
From Walt Disneys 1946 film Song of the South
Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, Eliot Daniel

46-09-18 Recording TB-LL-CC D6-VB-2162-1
46-12-00 Recording TB-GO-ML YTNY 6712-1
1947 March of Dimes
47-01-00 400 Restaurant TB-ML AFRS ONS 1395

UNTIL
Jack Fulton, Bob Crosby, Hunter Kahler 1945


WABASH BLUES
Fred Meinken (cm); Dave Ringle (lyr) 1921

48-04-09 Medley, Blue Tune AFRS On the Beam 1

WANG-WANG BLUES
Gus Mueller, Buster Johnson, Henry Busse (cm); Leo Wood (lyr) 1921


WARM KISSES IN THE COOL OF THE NIGHT
Based on Tchaikovskys 1875 Swan Lake ballet
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (cm); Buddy Kaye (lyr 1950)

Thesaurus 1601

")%
WASHINGTON AND LEE SWING
(Washington and Lee University)
Thornton W. Allen, M. W. Sheate (cm); Thornton W. Allen, C. A. Robbins (lyr)
1910


THE WAY THE WINDS BLOW


THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
From the 1936 RKO film Swing Time
Jerome D. Kern (cm); Dorothy Fields (lyr)

Thesaurus 1571

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?

46-09-09 Palladium LL-CC AFRS ONS 1154

WHAT IS THERE TO SAY
From the 1933 musical production Ziegfeld Follies of 1933
Vernon Duke (Vladimir Dukelsky) (cm); Edgar Yipel (Yip) Harburg (Isidore
Hochberg) (lyr)

48-04-02 Philadelphia SWW AFRS On the Beam 12

WHEN I TAKE MY SUGAR TO TEA
Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman 1931


")&
WHEN ITS SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH
Leon T. and Otis J. Rene, Clarence Muse 1931

48-06-11 The Click LA* AFRS On the Beam 18

(*Louis Armstrong, trumpet/vocal)

WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME
Patrick S. Gilmore (pseudonym, Louis Lambert) (cm) 1863
Harold (Hal) Dickinson, Jr., William (Bill) George (nee Gidley) Conway, William
Finegan (lyr and adaptation)


WHEN SUMMER IS GONE
Monte Wilhite (cm); Charlie Harrison (lyr) 1928

47-05-28 Recording GS-MS D7-VB-927-1
RCA Victor 20-2341

THE WHIFFENPOOF SONG (Baa! Baa! Baa!)
Meade Minnigerode, George S. Pomeroy, Tod B. Galloway 1936
Lyric revision by Rudy Vallee, Special Lyrics by Moss Hart 1944

46-03-28 Recording AM-CC D6-VB-1385-1
RCA Victor 20-1859
46-06-05 Meadowbrook AM-LL-CC AFRS ONS 1022
48-07-30 (Probable) RD-MS AFRS On the Beam 23

")'
WHIP-POOR-WILL
From the 1920 musical production Sally
Jerome Kern (cm); B. G. De Sylva (lyr)


WHISPERING RAIN
Bill Krenz (cm); Sammy Gallop (lyr) 1949

Thesaurus 1608

THE WHISTLER
Suggested by the CBS program The Whistler
Wilbur Hatch (cm); Hal Dickinson (lyr) 1947


THE WHISTLERS SONG
Arthur Pryor (cm); Al Trace (lyr) 1945

48-02-27 Capitol Theatre TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 5

WHOLL BE THE NEXT ONE (To Cry Over You)
Johnny S. Black 1921

50-01/04 Recording GD E0-MM-610
Thesaurus 1565

")(
WHY DONT WE SAY WERE SORRY?
John Chalmers (Chummy) MacGregor, Harry Harris 1947

47-02-18 Recording GS-TB-ML D7-VB-151-1
RCA Victor 20-2190
47-05-15 Glen Island Casino GS-TB-ML 12 acetate

WISHING STAR
Harold Josephs, Harry Shane 1949

Thesaurus 1507

WITHOUT A SONG
Vincent Youmans (cm); William (Billy) Rose, Edward Eliscu (lyr) 1929

Thesaurus 1526

WITHOUT MUSIC
Edgar (Eddie) DeLange, Louis Alter 1947

47-05-23 Recording MS D7-VB-912-1
RCA Victor 20-2341

"))
A WOMAN ALWAYS UNDERSTANDS
Marvin Fisher (cm); Roy Alfred (lyr)

48-10-12 St. Louis BM AFRS ONS 1808

A WONDERFUL GUY
From the 1949 musical South Pacific
nd
(lyr)

49-05-30 Recording CW ND9-MM-8042

THE WOODCHUCK SONG
Paul Mann, Stephan Weiss (cm); Sid Tepper, Roy Brodsky (lyr) 1946

RCA Victor 20-1951
46-09-00 RKO film TB-CC Melody Time
46-09-00 Palladium CC AFRS MC 462

#++
YEARS AND YEARS AGO
Based upon Enrico Tosellis Serenade (Serenata Rimpianto Op. 6 No. 1) 1900
Dewey Bergman, Jack Segal 1923/1946

47-01-25 Treasury Bandstand R
47-06-20 Chesterfield-7p As Tosellis Serenade
47-06-20 Chesterfield-11p As Tosellis Serenade

YESTERDAYS
From the 1933 musical production Roberta
Jerome D. Kern (cm); Otto Hauerbach (Harbach) (lyr)

47-02-01 Treasury Bandstand R
48-03-26 Longacre Theatre (possible) AFRS On the Beam 11
(Dubbed) (Probably 48-02-20)

YESTERDAYS ROSES
Vin Sandry 1929
(Published by Mutual Music Society, Inc.)

50-01/04 Recording GD E0-MM-610
Thesaurus 1565

YOU ARE TOO BEAUTIFUL
From the 1932 musical production Hallelujah!, Im a Bum


#+*
YOU CALL EVERYBODY DARLING
Sam Martin, Ben Trace, Clem Watts 1946

48-08-06 Ramona AFRS On the Beam 25

(Ramona Davies, Mrs. Al Helfer, piano and vocal)

YOU DONT HAVE TO KNOW THE LANGUAGE
From the 1947 Paramount film The Road to Rio
Jimmy Van Heusen (cm); Johnny Burke (lyr)

48-01-30 Palladium TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 2
48-05-04 Hagerstown TB-MS AFRS On the Beam 8

YOU GO TO MY HEAD
J. Fred Coots (cm); Haven Gillespie (lyr) 1938

48-09-10 Salem RD AFRS On the Beam 34

YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME
From the 1928 musical comedy Present Arms!

48-07-02 Allentown MC AFRS On the Beam 20

#+"
YOU TURNED THE TABLES ON ME
From the 1936 20
th
Century-Fox film Sing, Baby, Sing
Louis Alter (cm); Sidney D. Mitchell (lyr)

Thesaurus 1508
50-01-00 Universal film TB Sweet Serenade

YOUR EYES
[Possibly: THE KISS IN YOUR EYES
From the 1947 Paramount film The Emperor Waltz
R. Heuberger (cm) Johnny Burke (lyr) 1947]


ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH
Allie Wrubel (cm), Ray Gilbert (lyr)

47-03-10 Chesterfield-7p MH R
47-03-10 Chesterfield-11p MH

#+#
References


Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company, Newell-Emmett Advertising Agency

Chesterfield Supper Club NBC Scripts:
June 5, 1945, January 15, 1946, March 10, 1947;
June 9, 1947 to September 5, 1947 (inclusive)
(Complete Program Content and Dialogue)

Star-Spangled Radio Hour

Summary of recordings appearing on the KEZW-GMA SSRH radio program
(KEZW, Denver, Studio 1430) (www.kezw.com and www.studio1430.com)

51-2 11-05-14 46-06-04 AFRS ONS 1022, Meadowbrook (CBS)

GMA Library

GMA-1 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
GMA-2 Glenn Miller Army Air Force Orchestra
GMA-3 Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
GMA-4 Harry James and his Music Makers
GMA-5 Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
GMA-6 Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
GMA-7 Armed Forces Radio Service
GMA-8 V-Discs
GMA-9 Network Radio Programs
GMA-10 Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra (public)

#+$
Acknowledgments

Contributors J. E. Knox, Stephen Kramer, Karl Pearson, Ed Polic, Christopher
Popa, Rob Ronzello and Dave Smith for recordings and documentation.

Edward Burke, Garry Stevens and the late Richard C. March for their Collections.

Sony Legacy for their support and assistance.

RCA Victor Tex Beneke-GMO record label scans are available in the Glenn Miller
Archive Discussion Group Tex Beneke-GMO Record Labels photo album
(Courtesy of J. E. Knox).

Prepared by Dennis M. Spragg

Copyright 2013
American Music Research Center
University of Colorado Boulder
All Rights Reserved

No portion of this document can be reproduced without the express permission of
the Glenn Miller Archive, Dr. C. F. Alan Cass, Curator and Dennis M. Spragg.

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