[78-L] Mart Kenney

[David Lennick]

There was a CD of Kenney Victors done about 10 years ago, remastered by list 
member Graham Newton. It's around here somewhere....on an obscure label, 
possibly still available. Peter Doyle has lots (possibly a complete run 
including the two Dominion 78s). I keep proposing a Kenney disc to various 
folks in touch with the "audience of a certain age" but it's like talking to a 
wall.

Is the old DJ still alive, by the way? He sent me a CD he'd produced but I've 
heard nothing from him since then.

The Nomadic EP had some pretty decent stuff.

By the way, Jason Kenney (Minister of Keeping Controversial People Out of 
Canada) is his grandson.

dl

Stephen Davies wrote:
> Taylor B wrote:
> <<<
> While we're on the subject of Canadian dance orchestras,  I'm always
> interested in any information about Mart Kenney...his 1938 Bluebird of
> There's Honey on the Moon is one of my core faves.
> 
> I know Kenney by reputation only.  I did see him at a Calgary Stampede beer
> garden in the 1980's, but there wasn't anything special about his locally
> hired band.  I can't remember any of his set from that date.
> 
> I have an EP of some airchecks, released by Nomad Records, and a CD of
> songs from the 1960's, but I have hardly ever heard him on the radio.  The
> "Old Disc-Jockey" on Alberta's CKUA didn't play any of Kenney's sides when
> Kenney passed away, a year or so ago.  I asked him why and his blunt answer
> was that RCA Canada didn't give him any good tunes to record.  Yet if
> anyone has a complete set of Kenney's discs, it would be the CKUA library,
> I'm sure.
> 
> I thought at least his theme would have been appropriate, "The west, a nest
> and you".  But even there, that was an old song by the time Kenney recorded
> it, having been written in 1922.
> 
> I'd appreciate any pointers on where to find his music on CD or wax.
> Thanks.
> 
> - Stephen D
> Calgary
>