{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = The Crew Chiefs | image = Crewchiefs.jpg | alt = | caption = | image_size = 220px | origin = | genre = Jazz, swing, big band | past_members = Bill Conway<br />Murray Kane<br />Gene Steck<br />Steve Steck<br />Artie Malvin<br />Lynn Allison }}
'''The Crew Chiefs''' were a vocal group popular in the 1940s, known for accompanying Tex Beneke, Glenn Miller, and Ray McKinley.<ref name="kloess">{{cite web|last=Kloess|first=Larry |title=Vocalist list|url=http://nfo.net/usa/voc1.html|work="Thrushes", "Canaries", and other Rara Avis|accessdate=8 April 2010}}</ref><ref name="polic">{{cite book|last=Polic|first=Edward F.|title=The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band: Sustineo Alas|year=1989|isbn=978-0-8108-2269-6|volume=2|page=1174|publisher=Scarecrow Press }}</ref> Member Artie Malvin co-wrote the song "I'm Headin' For California" with Glenn Miller in 1944.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JBoEAAAAMBAJ|title = Billboard|last = Inc|first = Nielsen Business Media|date = 1946-03-30|publisher = Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|language = en}}</ref>
==Appearances== The name of the group is an allusion to a crew chief in the U.S. Army Air Force. A Crew Chief is responsible for the day to day condition of the military aircraft assigned to them. The group appeared on the ''I Sustain the Wings'' radio broadcasts with Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra. They also appeared on the V Discs released by the U.S. War Department. After the war, they were part of the Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Tex Beneke.
Their appearances include: * Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra (with Johnny Desmond) – "Moon Dreams" (1944)<ref>Sears, Richard S. (1980). ''V-Discs: A History and Discography''. Greenwood Press; illustrated edition (December 23, 1980) {{ISBN|978-0-313-22207-8}}. "Moon Dreams" was released as V Disc 201A in October, 1944.</ref> * Glenn Miller Orchestra – "Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum?" (1945)<ref name="rcmarch">{{cite web|last=March|first=Richard C.|title=Liner notes|work=The Glenn Miller Service Orchestra in the USA and Europe (Vol II)|year=1983|publisher=The International Glenn Miller Society}}</ref> * Glenn Miller Orchestra (with Ray McKinley) – "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" (1944)<ref name="rcmarch" /> * Glenn Miller Orchestra (with Johnny Desmond) – "The Trolley Song" (1945)<ref name="rcmarch" /> * Glenn Miller Orchestra – "It's Love-Love-Love" (1944)<ref name="chicago">{{cite web|title=Liner notes|work=War Bond Rally Chicago Theatre|year=1983|publisher=Jasmine Records}}</ref> * Glenn Miller Orchestra – "There Are Yanks" (1944)<ref name="chicago" /> * Glenn Miller Orchestra (with Tex Beneke) – "I'm Headin' For California" (1946)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBoEAAAAMBAJ|title=Billboard|date=1946-03-30|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|language=en}}</ref>
==Members== The following singers all had tenure within the group:<ref name="kloess" /><ref name="lost">{{cite web|last=Palmer|first=Hugh|title=Crew Chiefs Singing Group|url=http://www.tarcl.com/palmer/miller/pers.html#line|work=Glenn Miller: The Lost Recordings|accessdate=8 April 2010}}</ref> * Bill Conway * Murray Kane * Gene Steck * Steve Steck * Artie Malvin * Lynn Allison
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== *Butcher, Geoffrey (1997). ''Next to a Letter from Home.'' *Polic, Edward F. (1989). ''The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band: Sustineo Alas 2.'' *Simon, George Thomas. (1974). ''Glenn Miller and His Orchestra.''
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