He joined the Ben Young orchestra in 1935, playing one-nighters in the Midwest, and in 1938 he and the band found themselves in Detroit. 12, 1914, Gordon Beneke started playing the saxophone at the age of 9. Beneke's vocals were also heard on Miller hits like ''I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo,'' ''Ida! Sweet as Apple Cider'' and ''Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me).''īorn in Fort Worth, Tex., on Feb. The recording on the Blue Bird label was a million-seller. In 1941 the Miller orchestra introduced the Harry Warren-Mack Gordon song ''Chattanooga Choo Choo'' in the movie musical extravaganza ''Sun Valley Serenade.'' Tex Beneke was joined by Paula Kelly and the Modernaires, and the Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge danced along. The cheerful, sunny voice of the unassuming boy singer from Texas was ubiquitous on the American soundtrack in the early years of World War II. Tex BenekeTex Beneke, the tenor saxophone player and vocalist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra who sang one of its most famous hits, ''Chattanooga Choo Choo,'' and led the band after Miller's plane disappeared in World War II, died on Tuesday at a convalescent home in Costa Mesa, Calif.
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