Who was/is Bob Denton ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Bob Denton
Bobby Denton (who recorded for TUNE and JUDD and eventually fetched up in politics) has no connection with our man Bob Denton. Born Robert F. Bull in Moline, Illinois in 1935, he migrated to California via Phoenix in 1950. At some point, Eddie Cochran asked to sit in while Denton was playing with a country band, the Shamrock Valley Boys, in Bell Gardens. They became close friends. "We were always doing things together," Denton has said. "Hunting, camping, chasing women and a lot of drinking."
Denton's DOT sessions (1957-8) produced a cover of Dean Beard's On My Mind Again (Eddie Cochran played guitar on it), his version of Wayland Chandler's Playboy and the flip, arguably his best rocker, Skinny Minnie. The last two also feature Joe Maphis on guitar and blind pianist Jimmy Pruett, who shared label credits on Jackie Lee Cochran's Mama, Don't You Think I Know. Denton was drafted in 1958, but recorded with Cochran for CREST while on leave (although the record didn't emerge until 1961), and, after Cochran's death, he recorded for CHANCELLOR (1962). None of this enabled him to sustain a career in music, though.
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