SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Gordon ''Tex'' Beneke, a singer and sax player who took over the Glenn Miller Orchestra after the band leader's death during World War II, died Tuesday of respiratory arrest. He ...
1 Video: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finale During the pre-war years, Tex Beneke's artistry made up one of the outstanding chapters in the Glenn Miller story. You could never mistake his singing ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A tribute to the music of American Jazz Musician Glenn Miller and Tex ...
Challenging is when you’re attempting to play music created by a legend who is familiar to audiences all over the world. Intimidating is when that legend is standing a few feet away every night, ...
The same orchestra had opened in New York’s suburban Glen Island Casino eight years before, but since then it had almost doubled in size. Its leader, husky, shy Gordon Lee (“Tex”) Beneke, had never ...
2000 - Tex Beneke, who took over the Glenn Miller Orchestra after the bandleader's death during World War II, dies at his home in Santa Ana. He is 86. By Billboard Staff 2003 – Mickie Most, one of the ...
Its jazz at its finest when former leader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra Tex Beneke superstar drummer Gene Krupa and clarinetist Jerry Wald join forces for the legendary performance captured here ...
Barbara Edwards DiCicco sang with Tex Beneke, Jimmy Durante, Harry Belafonte, Mike Douglas and other stars. After nearly a lifetime of illnesses, she injured her head in a fall this year. She died Oct ...
Saxophonist Beneke played and sang with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and has carried on the Miller tradition since the bandleader’s death during World War II. Get ready for Ida, Chattanooga Choo Choo, ...
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