Hank Penny Hollywood Western Swing 1944-47

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Hank Penny: Hollywood Western Swing 1944-47

CD on INTERSTATE RECORDS by Hank Penny - Hollywood Western Swing 1944-47

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Interpret: Hank Penny
Album titlle: Hollywood Western Swing 1944-47
Genre Country
Label INTERSTATE
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0008637602529
weight in Kg 0.1

Penny, Hank - Hollywood Western Swing 1944-47 CD 1
01	Back Up A Little Bit	Hank Penny
02	Sweet Talkin' Mama	Hank Penny
03	When You Cry, You Cry Alone	Hank Penny
04	Texas In My Soul	Hank Penny
05	Hillbilly Jump	Hank Penny
06	Big Fat Papa	Hank Penny
07	I'm Gonna Change Things	Hank Penny
08	Time Will Tell	Hank Penny
09	Wildcat Mama	Hank Penny
10	Steel Guitar Stomp	Hank Penny
11	Hope You're Satisfied	Hank Penny
12	Talkin' 'Bout You	Hank Penny
13	Tearstains On Your Letter	Hank Penny
14	Last Night	Hank Penny
15	Low Down Woman Blues	Hank Penny
16	Why Didn't I Think Of That	Hank Penny
17	My Inlaws Made An Outlaw Of Me	Hank Penny
18	Red Hot Mama An Ice Cold Papa	Hank Penny
19	Boogie Woogie Now	Hank Penny
20	Penny Blows His Top	Hank Penny
21	Missouri	Hank Penny
22	Now Ain't You Glad Dear	Hank Penny
23	I'm Singing The Blues	Hank Penny
24	Get Yourself A Red Head	Hank Penny
25	I'm Counting the Days	Hank Penny
26	You Better Save It For A Rainy Day	Hank Penny

Hank Penny Radio personality, comedian, film actor--Hank Penny wore a lot of show business... more

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"Hank Penny"

Hank Penny

Radio personality, comedian, film actor--Hank Penny wore a lot of show business hats. His chief claim to fame stems from leading an uncommonly innovative Western swing band; Penny was a capable vocalist and hired stellar sidemen. Born August 18, 1918 in Ensley, Alabama, just outside Birmingham, Herbert Clayton Penny learned his way around a guitar from his father before he was eight. He inherited his nickname of Hank from hillbilly bandleader Happy Hal Burns when he hired on at Burns’ WAPI radio show in Birmingham. He was smitten by the Western swing of Bob Wills and Milton Brown in 1936, soon forming his own outfit along the same lines, The Radio Cowboys.

Art Satherley recorded the band in 1938 for Vocalion and again the next year with Noel Boggs on steel guitar and a young Boudleaux Bryant manning a fiddle. After a 1940 session for OKeh, Hank broke up The Radio Cowboys. He moved to Cincinnati in 1942 to perform on WLW radio and in 1945 signed with Syd Nathan’s fledgling King Records, where Penny scored C&W hits in 1946 with Steel Guitar Stomp (waxed in Hollywood with Boggs and guitarist Merle Travis) and the bawdy Get Yourself A Red Head. Bloodshot Eyes, his 1950 hit for King, was covered for the R&B market by labelmate Wynonie Harris. Remington Ride, a tour de force 1950 showcase for Penny’s steel guitarist Herb Remington, also had a second life at King when blues guitarist Freddy King waxed an amazing 1963 version.

Basing his band in Los Angeles, Penny defected to RCA Victor in 1950. He had excellent taste in steel guitarists (Boggs, Remington, Speedy West, and Joaquin Murphy all rolled through Penny’s bands) and female singers, hiring a then-unknown Jaye P. Morgan and later marrying Sue Thompson. Hank hooked up with Decca in 1954. He cut Rock Of Gibraltar, penned by Bakersfield’s own Billy Mize, on April 5, 1956 at Decca’s own studios at 5505 Melrose in Hollywood, adapting easily to newfangled rock and roll (Tennessee Williams was listed as one of the writers on the flip, Southern Fried Chicken).

Penny signed off at Decca in 1957 with the comedy record A Night At The Copa. Apart from a ‘59 LP for NRC and a handful of 45s during the ‘60s, Penny’s recording career petered out, but he was active musically for decades (he’d divorced ex-duet partner Thompson, a star thanks to Sad Movies [Make Me Cry] and Norman, in 1963). A heart attack ended Penny’s life on April 17, 1992.

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