[78-L] Jack Denny ~Joseph C Smith

[David Lennick]

Hmm..didn't know Teddy Brown was in that orchestra. I've seen him somewhere, 
maybe in "Elstree Calling".

Smith's Canadian Victors (nobody really called them HMVs after 1930) aren't 
that uncommon up here. I probably have some scattered among the various 
miscellaneous dance band piles.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 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
>