TEX BENEKE
Current Episode
SSRH 840
July 11, 2026
TEX BENEKE, 1946-1949, PART 2
CELEBRATING AMERICA 250
Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra
Tex Beneke and his Orchestra
RCA Victor Recording Sessions
July 16, 1946, Chicago
September 18, 1946, Hollywood
September 20, 1946, Hollywood
March 10, 1947, New York
May 21, 1947, New York
August 19, 1947, Chicago
October 1, 1947, Hollywood
December 19, 1947, Hollywood
January 9, 1949, Hollywood
January 29, 1949, Hollywood
February 10, 1949, Hollywood
June 29, 1949, New York
October 2, 1946
11:45 p.m.-Midnight
Hollywood Palladium
(CBS) (KNX) Sustaining Broadcast (Part)
Bill Ewing, announcer
April 2, 1948
10:30-11:00 p.m.
Mutual Longacre Theatre or Loew’s Capitol Theater
New York
On The Beam
AFRS #12
(D 31508/D 31509)
From Mutual #12 (WOR)
Durwood Kirby, announcer
Desi Arnaz, guest
Playlist
(29Jun49) (D9VB-1769-1, RCA Victor 20-3513) Blues In The Night March (16Jul46) (D6VB-1910-1, RCA Victor 20-1951) Passe’ (Lillian Lane, vocal) (D6VB-1909-1, RCA Victor 20-1951) The Woodchuck Song (Tex Beneke and the Crew Chiefs, vocal) (18Sep46) (D6VB-2161-1, RCA Victor 20-2017) Anybody’s Love Song (Artie Malvin, vocal) (D6VB-2162-1, RCA Victor 20-2017) Uncle Remus Said (Tex Beneke, Lillian Lane and the Crew Chiefs, vocal) (20Sep46) (D6VB-2166-1, RCA Victor 20-2374) Body and Soul (2Oct46) Texas Tex (Uncle Tom), I Hear You Screamin’, Moonlight Serenade (closing theme) (10Mar47) (D7VB-637-1, RCA Victor 20-2273) Moonlight Serenade (21May47) (D7VB-906-1, RCA Victor 20-2337) Washington and Lee Swing (19Aug47) (D7VB-1506-1, 20-2497) Surprise Symphony (1Oct47) (D7VB-1052-1, RCA Victor 20-2616) But Beautiful (Garry Stevens, vocal) (19Dec47) (D7VB-2710-1, RCA Victor 20-2691) Beyond The Sea (La Mer) (Garry Stevens, vocal) (D7VB-2711-1, RCA Victor 20-3001) At The Flying “W” (Tex Beneke and the Moonlight Serenaders, vocal) (D7VB-2714-1, RCA Victor 20-2770) Encore, Cherie (Garry Stevens, vocal) (D7VB-2713-1, RCA Victor 20-2898) Meadowlands (2Apr48) Moonlight Serenade (dubbed AFRS open), Sabre Dance, Saturday Date (Tex Beneke, vocal), Encore, Cherie (Ronnie Deauville, vocal), Desi Arnaz dialogue, El Cumbachero (Desi Arnaz and the Band, vocal), What Is There To Say (Strings With Wings conducted by Norman Leyden), The Feathery Feelin’ (Tex Beneke and the Moonlight Serenaders, vocal) (Perry Burgett composition and arrangement), Pianissimo (Ronnie Deauville, vocal), Cuban Pete (Desi Arnaz, vocal), Sterling and Cardinal (Ray Wright and Pete Candoni composition and arrangement), Body and Soul (Ralph Wilkinson arrangement), Moonlight Serenade (dubbed AFRS close) (7Jan49) (D9VB-504-1, RCA Victor 20-3395) Midnight Serenade (D9VB-505-1, RCA Victor 20-3340) Look Up (Tex Beneke and the Moonlight Serenaders, vocal) (29Jan49-10Feb49) (D9VB-923-1/1200-1) (RCA Victor 20-3446) They Can’t Take That Away From Me (Glen Douglas, vocal) (7Jan49) (D9VB-506-1, RCA Victor 20-3340) Mississippi Flyer (Tex Beneke and the Moonlight Serenaders, vocal) (31May47) (D7VB-904-1, RCA Victor 20-2340) Notre Dame Victory March
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