Ray Bloch wearing a dark jacket with a baton in the pocket, holding his arms up and looking down at music while conducting a recording session for CBS radio program.
Ray Noble turning to the side and smiling. Noble is wearing a black tuxedo and white bowtie.
Publicity photo of Ray Noble looking forward and smiling in strongly contrasting lighting. Noble is wearing a black tuxedo and white bowtie.
Rudy Vallée and Paul Whiteman sitting at a table and playing with a toy note generator. Vallée is looking down and adjusting the machine while Whiteman holds a hand to his ear and looks up.
Conductor-arranger Russ Case gets set for the downbeat as he and Johnny Desmond make records at the Victor Studios (from photo caption).
Russ Morgan standing in front of an NBC microphone, turning to the side and looking forward with a neutral expression. Morgan is holding a conducting baton in one hand and extending his other hand...
Harry James turning to the side and playing his trumpet in a publicity photo for the film "Kitten on the Keys." James is wearing a dark suit and tie with polka dots.
Headshot of Harry James facing to the side and holding his trumpet in a publicity photo for the film "Kitten on the Keys." James is wearing a dark suit and tie with polka dots.
Harry James looking forward and playing trumpet in a publicity photo for the film "Kitten on the Keys."
Serge Koussevitzky sitting in a large cushioned chair holding his head in one arm and looking to the side. Koussevitzky is wearing a pinstripe suit and holding a book on his lap.
Tex Beneke and Buddy Basch standing in the center of a classroom smiling and surrounded by a group of seated young men and women identified as youth reporters.
Headshot of Tex Beneke looking slightly away from camera, smiling and wearing a dark suit and tie.
Lillian Lane and the Crew Chiefs sing "Happy Birthday" to Tex Beneke (second from left), backed by members of the Glenn Miller band; Karen Lyon, wife of acrobat Ladd Lyon, holds a cake while...
Unidentified assistant theater manager, theater manager Harry Greenman, Tex Beneke, holding a piece of cake, Mrs. Sandra Beneke, Paul Regan, and Beneke's manager Don W. Haynes on Beneke's 31st...
Tex Beneke holding music and looking it over with an unidentified saxophonist two other unidentified musicians are also seated with instruments.
Tex Beneke standing at an angle to camera, wearing a light suit and tie while playing saxophone on stage. An unidentified drummer playing in the background.
Tex Beneke looking down at music and raising his hand to conduct a vocal performance on radio with Lillian Lane and the Crew Chiefs who are standing around a hung microphone.
Victor Young standing next to an ABC microphone near a studio wall, holding one arm up and talking. Young is wearing a light colored button shirt and a black sweater vest.
William Hatch looking up and smiling while holding a conducting baton up and both arms out. Hatch is wearing glasses, a dark, double breasted suit, and patterned tie.
Headshot of Xavier Cugat turning slightly to the side. Cugat is wearing a pinstripe suit and black tie.
Headshot of Xavier Cugat turning slightly to the side and smiling. Cugat is wearing a pinstripe suit and raising one arm up.
Headshot of Zubin Mehta leaning forward and resting on one arm while smiling. Mehta is wearing a dark sweater.
Zubin Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Mehta is holding a conducting baton up in one hand while looking down and smiling.
