[78-L] Jack Denny, brief bio

[David Lennick]

And I never thought George Simon was a tart, but all sorts of things come out 
after the fact.

Denny's Brunswicks do nothing for me, but recording quality may be a factor.

dl

Harold Aherne wrote:
> Thanks for all this valuable info! Contra George Simon, I've found Denny's band
> to be quite enjoyable, at least in the handful of recordings I've heard. Simon's assessments
> can be interesting, but bands that date from before the mid-30s, or which did their
> best work before then, are not Simon's forte. I liked his chapter on Isham Jones, but
> Jones's band and recordings from the 20s are treated virtually as footnotes. Even
> Jean Goldkette isn't given the credit that he clearly deserves, and Simon and I simply
> have ontologically different views on society bands.
>  
> -Harold
> 
> --- On Thu, 1/22/09, Stephen Davies <SDavies at mtroyal.ca> wrote:
> 
> From: Stephen Davies <SDavies at mtroyal.ca>
> Subject: [78-L] Jack Denny, brief bio
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 12:48 PM
> 
>         I had thought Denny was Canadian because he was mentioned in "The 
> bands Canadians danced to" (19 but I can see now that he was an American.
> 
>         Denny was born in Indiana (1895-sep-25), and retired from the 
> orchestra business c. 1944 to become a piano salesman.  He died in 
> Sawtelle, Calif on 1950-sep-15, a few days shy of his 55th birthday. 
> [courtesy of iMDB.com which lists his appearance in a handful of soundies]
> 
>         The tart George Simon describes his outfits as being "as musical 
> as a submerged submarine", and that "his old fashioned style featured
> an 
> accordion and dull arrangements".[snip]
> 
>   - Stephen D
> Calgary
> 
>