[78-L] Jack Denny, brief bio

[Taylor Bowie]

I still hope Harold or Martha or somebody will come up with a "hit list" of 
better Jack Denny cuts for me to check out.  So far almost everyone seems to 
agree that the band was dull as dishwater...

Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Jack Denny, brief bio


> This is interesting..who's Robert Callen? And the change from 60 to 25 
> cycle
> equipment could account for the wobbly sound on those recordings.
>
> Brunswick recorded Quebec artists in Plattsburgh between April 1928 and 
> July
> 1929. Not sure why Rust would list Denny's 1928 sessions as being in 
> Montreal.
> The band presumably travelled to New York for their 1929 and 1930 
> sessions.
> Note that "Goodbye Broadway, Hello Montreal" was one of the Plattsburgh 
> sides.
> I'll have to dig that out..seems to me it's not as dreary as the others, 
> but
> it's been a few years.
>
> dl
>
> martha wrote:
>>   According to Robert Callen,  the first time Brunswick sent him to 
>> Montreal to
>> record, the Canadian Customs officials blocked entry of the recording 
>> equipment.
>> Plattsburgh had only 25-cycle electricity, so the sessions were further 
>> delayed
>> while they rigged their 60-cycle motor-generator set to run at the right 
>> speed.
>> Another delay occurred when drunk musicians arrived from Montreal, 
>> having opened
>> some of the booze they smuggled into the USA for the benefit of the 
>> recording staff.
>>
>>  Whether Denny was part of the above sessions, I don't know.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> The ones recorded in Plattsburg are particularly poor. I collect Denny
>>>> for the vocals by Dick Robertson and Scrappy Lambert, no other reason.
>>>>
>>>>       Julian Vein
>>>>
>>> I seem to remember dreary sound and pitch problems. Brunswick often 
>>> dubbed its
>>> masters in the 20s, unlike other labels..sometimes the sound is fine, 
>>> sometimes
>>> it's blechh. Plattsburg was used as a recording location for many 
>>> Canadian
>>> artists, although you'd think it would have been easier to bring the 
>>> equipment
>>> into Montreal than to move whole orchestras over the border. And per 
>>> Ross
>>> Laird, some sides WERE recorded in Montreal.
>>>
>>> dl
>>
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