Word: millers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World record: U.S. Jockey Walter Miller's 388 wins...
There were 31 musicians on the stand, and in everybody's mind was the memory of a 32nd: Trombonist Glenn Miller, their former leader, who was killed 2½ years ago in a plane crash over the English Channel. The band still carried around Miller's custom-made trombone. Last week crowds who jammed into the huge casino heard the familiar sweet ballad style-a clear, wan clarinet leading a throaty quartet of saxophones in the melody, backed by a powerhouse of brass-that had once made Glenn Miller the No. 1 jukebox favorite...
...been sweetened with violins, violas, a cello and a French horn, as Miller had planned. Two of the same arrangers were making the band sound the old way (Tex is no good at arranging). It was easy because 19 of Miller's oldtimers were still there. Such jump pieces as Tuxedo Junction and Little Brown Jug, which the band played more to amuse itself than the customers, had changed a little, but the boys still did the corny hat-throwing stunts that had drawn Miller fans around the bandstand. Said Tex: "It's corny, but Glenn...
Changing Name. A year ago the outfit was billed as "The Glenn Miller Band with Tex Beneke"; now it is "Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra"-and contracts specify that Beneke's name must appear twice as large as Miller's. Next year Beneke expects that Miller's name will be dropped altogether...
...Miller fans remembered Tex Beneke best as the whiny-voiced singer of Chattanooga Choo Choo and My Melancholy Baby, or as a hard-riding tenor-sax soloist. Miller helped set up other friends, e.g., Charlie Spivak and Hal Mclntyre, with bands of their own, but Tex didn't want the responsibility. Now, when bands and nightclubs were dropping like overripe apples in a high wind, Tex keeps a payroll of more than 40 busy at a weekly overhead of $9,200. He is making no fortune at it, but a new radio contract with Miller's old sponsor...