[78-L] Jack Denny ~Joseph C Smith

[Taylor Bowie]

Two questions.

I love sweet bands and can listen for hours to stuff which would make a  lot 
of jazz or swing fans scream in agony or from boredom (Orville Knapp, 
George Hamilton, Paul Pendarvis, etc.).  But I just can't get into Jack 
Denny...the records I've played just sound so damn dead.  I have a video 
someplace of him and the band with Paul Small singing and it's just 
horrible...Denny reminds me of some sort of Halloween vampire or something.

Does anyone have a fave or two by Denny which they could mention so I can 
give him another chance?

Also...who knows anyting about those last records in Rust by Joseph C 
Smith,  which were made in Canada?  I've never seen them but I kind of like 
some of his earlier American sides...maybe a little too polite for some 
tastes.

Taylor B