Artist: Tex Beneke

Title: The Glenn Miller Formula Part II

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2011

Label: Sounds of Yesteryear

UPC: 5019317080648

Genre: Big Band

Album Tracks

1. Tuxedo Junction
2. These Foolish Things
3. Don't Be That Way
4. 's Wonderful
5. Blues in the Night March
6. A Kiss and a Rose
7. Wishing Star
8. The One Who Gets You
9. Look for the Silver Lining
10. Cherokee
11. You Turned the Tables on Me
12. Ida
13. Ichabod
14. Katrina
15. Lavender Coffin
16. Adios
17. I Can Dream, Can't I?
18. Over Three Hills
19. I'm the Man with the Dreams
20. Crazy Rhythm
21. The Huckle Buck
22. Just You, Just Me
23. Without a Song
24. Our Waltz
25. Blue Orchids
26. Moonlight Serenade

By February 2nd 1949 Glenn Miller's sax man and vocalist, Tex Beneke had been leading the post-war Miller Band for three years, though Tex had dropped the "Glenn Miller Orchestra" billing a year previously ten million records had been sold, however the golden days of the big bands was over and the Beneke - Miller Orchestra was the largest dance band in America at the time. With it's string section and French horn which Tex had inherited from the Miller Army Air Forces Band. To save money, Tex paid off Phil Cogliano and the other string players. When Tex dropped the strings he remarked that the band had become more "Millerish" if that were possible. So on this follow up disc to the original Glenn Miller Formula Cat No (SOY 846), we find find the Tex's interpretation of some of Glenn Miller's greatest hits plus others that Glenn could have played had he survived. This CD represents the Glenn Miller's sound as performed by his legacy band led by the charismatic Tex Beneke.